| ==Phrack Inc.== |
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| Volume Two, Issue 20, File 2 of 12 |
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| ==Phrack Pro-Phile XX== |
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| Written and Created by Taran King |
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| 1/5/88 |
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| Welcome to the Phrack Pro-Phile XX. Phrack Pro-Phile was created |
| to bring info to you, the users, about old or highly important/controversial |
| people. This month, I bring to you someone who you all have seen and heard |
| of... |
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| Taran King |
| ~~~~~~~~~~ |
| (me!) |
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| Taran King (I) was the sysop of Metal Shop Private, a private |
| exchange for telecommunications enthusiasts (phone phreaks and hackers) as |
| well as being the home-base of Phrack Inc. which I ran. I also had a hand in |
| the organization of SummerCon '87 and PartyCon '87. |
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| Personal |
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| Handle: Taran King |
| Call him: Randy, Randster, Randall, whatever (real name is Rand) |
| Past handles: None |
| Handle origin: The main character in The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd |
| Alexander |
| Date of Birth: 7/11/69 |
| Age at current date: 19 years old |
| Height: 5'10" or so (give or take an inch) |
| Weight: 135-140 lbs. (I hate fat people) |
| Eye color: Brown |
| Hair Color: Brown |
| Computers: IBM PC, later with a hard drive added. |
| Sysop/Co-Sysop of: Metal Shop Private, The Brewery, Quick Shop/Metal Shop |
| AE, Whackoland, The Dark Tower, Digital ITS (proud of |
| that one) and probably a few more I've forgotten about. |
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| I started out in the BBS world in September of 1983 when a friend |
| gave me numbers to different modems which included things to hack on as well |
| as bulletin boards. I actually got my computer in late June of that year, but |
| didn't understand the concept of the modem until that point. I got involved |
| with David Lightman (314)'s board before it went up by beta-testing it for him |
| at times and when he put it up, I ended up being user 2 and then soon after, |
| co-sysop of The Dark Tower. It was there that my local notariety became |
| strong and a few people from the nation started calling in. His board was |
| very good with what he had and the little advertising that it got, but it |
| eventually went down. It was at that point when I started getting around |
| nationally and was able to make connections of my own. I put up Metal Shop: |
| The Dark Tower Phase II a bit after because St. Louis totally lacked bulletin |
| boards that dealt with hacking or phreaking. I advertised around the country |
| and drew in quite a crowd. The board excelled with time to the point of |
| having around 500 users when it got to be a security risk in my eyes and we |
| put in the general password system (made by Cheap Shades, of course). |
| Eventually, that crowd got weeded down to a lot fewer people and some time |
| after that, I was hospitalized. After my release from the hospital, Cheap |
| Shades and I (me on the ideas and Shades on the programming) created a |
| modified version of WWIV BBS program to suit my wants/needs and it resembled |
| the old Shop set-up. As time went on, it became a name of its own through the |
| crowd that hung out on it as well as having Phrack Inc. as being based there. |
| For more detailed explainations of how things came about and about a few |
| things mentioned above, see the big history file in this issue of Phrack Inc. |
| I've met a few members of the phreak/hack world including the following: |
| Knight Lightning, Cheap Shades, Forest Ranger, The W(hack)o Cracko Bros., Dr. |
| Forbin, Data Line, and Reverend Enge (all local to me), as well as Jester |
| Sluggo, Blue Buccaneer, Phantom Phreaker, Doom Prophet, Bill from RNOC, Tuc, |
| Dan The Operator, Lex Luthor, The Leftist, Sir Francis Drake, Loki, Disk |
| Jockey, Control C, Synthetic Slug, Lucifer 666, Mad Hatter, Cutthroat, The Mad |
| Hacker (219), Sir William, Dr. Cypher, Hatchet Molly, Bad Subscript, The |
| Mentor, Cisban Evil Priest, Phrozen Ghost, Surfer Bob, Crimson Death (618), The |
| Dictator, Doc Holiday (901), and The Ur-Vile. Some of the memorable phreak |
| boards I was on (besides my own) included The Dark Tower, The Pipeline, |
| Broadway Show, Zyolog, Stronghold East Elite, Stronghold North, Hell Phrozen |
| Over, Private Sector, Pirate-80, Stalag 13, Lunatic Labs UnLtd., Quick Shop, |
| Metal Shop Brewery, NetSys, The Private Connection, ShadowSpawn, RACS III, The |
| Pearly Gates, Brainstorm Elite, Metalland North, The Alliance, Intergalactic |
| Dismantling, Inc. (IDI), DUNE, Speed Demon Elite, The Abyss, MetroMedia/Danger |
| Zone Private, The Matrix, Thieve's World, FreeWorld II, Flying Circus, Twilight |
| Zone, Septic Tank, The Lost City of Atlantis, Phantasie Realm, CHAMAS, and |
| probably a few others I forgot that were important. Certain knowledge I've |
| gained over the years is attributed to various boards forementioned as well as |
| people like Bill from RNOC, Phantom Phreaker, Doom Prophet, The Videosmith, and |
| many others not to mention reading (a key part to learning technical things) |
| and social engineering. |
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| I utterly hate working with computers for anything other than |
| communicating with friends and occasionally word processing. Programming on |
| them is the most repugnant thought in the world to me (no offense Shades!). |
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| I've really never been much for hacking at all, although I did gain a |
| bit of an interest through the legitimate accounts I gained on systems such as |
| NetSys run by Terminus in Maryland. Hacking was never really much for me |
| (besides looking at things on dull systems that were totally useless) when I |
| first got the modem. Now that I'm at college and have access to it, I'm |
| learning VM/CMS a bit so that I can use Bitnet and work through/with it. |
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| I attended and had a part in organizing both SummerCon '87 and |
| PartyCon '87 (very much in SummerCon and very little in PartyCon). I also |
| attended SummerCon '88 for a little while on each of the days except Sunday. I |
| was supposed to be on the NEW TAP staff, run by the W(hack)o Cracko Bros. as |
| well as being on the staff of Telecomputist (which sponsored SummerCon '87) and |
| doing all but writing articles for Phrack Inc. Other than that, I'm not |
| terribly involved with phreaker/hacker media. |
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| The only group I was ever in was The 2600 Club! which later revised |
| into The NEW 2600 Club! which was just as ignorant with more interesting names |
| but about an equal participation in anything. I learned I was able to advance |
| through the phreak world without the booster of a club besides using my board |
| as a reference. I didn't need to rely on the work of others. |
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| Interests: Telecommunications (basically phreaking knowledge-wise |
| now), music (heavy metal of all sorts plus so much more |
| and playing electric guitar), fraternity life (party), women |
| (white ones, blond, with blue eyes, and NO FAT CHICKS! |
| Namely, Kimberly), driving (and one day, I'll drive that |
| fucking DeLorean!) |
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| Taran's Favorite Things |
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| Women: Kimberly (see above...I went all out!) |
| Cars: Lamborghini Contachs, DeLoreans, Lotuses, Vectors, etc. |
| Foods: NO VEGETABLES! |
| Music: Heavy metal, Pink Floyd, classic rock. |
| Leisure: Partying, playing guitar, spending time with the woman. |
| Alcoholic fun: Tequila shots, Rum & Coke, good beer (pretty much anything), |
| Long Island Tea, and those funky teas you find at college |
| parties in garbage cans lined with garbage bags (hmm!) |
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| Most Memorable Experiences |
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| Forest Ranger's conferences (what would YOU do for a Klondike Bar at 3am?). |
| Car accident with Jester Sluggo as well as almost a 2nd time afterwards (keep |
| drinking!). |
| Bell Shock Force conferences (yes ma'am, I'm sorry but you'll just have to cut |
| those wires) |
| Getting busted in late May '87 (don't try it, it ain't fun). |
| SummerCon '87 (a better party than PartyCon '87, met a lot of great people). |
| PartyCon '87 (a lot of fun, but too unorganized although I met a few more |
| people that I had wanted to). |
| SummerCon '88 (wait, did I attend that???). |
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| Some People to Mention |
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| Knight Lightning (my right hand man; although he wasn't terribly |
| knowledgeable, he was always there and trying to help out and still |
| is!|) |
| David Lightman 314 (for allowing me to use his program to start what turned |
| out to be Metal Shop Private) |
| Man-Tooth (my original 2nd co-sysop next to KL who drove me down to David |
| Lightman's house in South-fucking-County St. Louis for 30 minutes) |
| Dr. Forbin/Mr. Modem (for re-transferring the original program after something |
| got fucked after the ride to South-fucking-County) |
| Forest Ranger (wild man, can't say much about him without getting hurt|) |
| Phantom Phreaker (we found ya for 2600 Club and you excelled far beyond any of |
| the rest of us in the club did, plus you helped my board immensely) |
| Barbie Doll (for suggesting the idea of Phrack Inc. in different words even if |
| nobody knows what or who you were or where you were from) |
| The W(hack)o Cracko Bros. (what a couple of idiots) |
| Oryan Quest (never has there been as bad a pest as this man, but he turned out |
| to be human Mexican, but human| after we were both busted, |
| interestingly enough) |
| Lex Luthor (for freaking me out when he first called my board and contributing |
| a bit here and there) |
| Capt. Hook (taught me a bit about social engineering here and there and |
| introduced me to a few people as well as helping out a couple of |
| times) |
| Cheap Shades (what would Metal Shop have been without the programming mastery |
| of this individual; my left hand man and great friend as well) |
| Tuc (generally a good friend and historical reference as well as creating the |
| Pro-Phile that I based the rest of them on) |
| Bill from RNOC (another one of my best friends who is the smartest person |
| potentially, and definitely the smartest when it comes to phreaking |
| and hacking put together; a great source of information, and one of |
| the most hilarious people I know) |
| Olorin The White (if this guy puts me in his group one more time, I'm gonna |
| kill him!) |
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| Inside Jokes |
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| Mary likes corn. Are you stupid (corn, cheese, free)? Supervisors at Pizza |
| Hut? Essscuse me Mr. Corley, but I was juss lookin' fo sum bonez...I'm Bosco. |
| What's the worse that could happen? Smoke. Raggy! Raggy! HeeheeHEEHeeheehee |
| hee. KS-KS-KS <Gulp!>. Do you know any phreaks who carry around their own |
| trunks. IIIII Like Chi-Nese! Listing for Dalkon Shields please. I know |
| that's a blue box! Hello, security? Do we have a trace? We do. Good. |
| <LAUGHTER!>. AMD. We make display. We're hopping on a plane now and coming |
| to Maryland to kick your ass! For $20 I'll sell you 5 lbs. of baking soda. |
| Doesn't he look like The Fly? You almost just hit the car again! Keep |
| drinking! It was the other side of the car this time! Keep drinking! Do you |
| know what your aunt would do to you if you got in another accident? Keep |
| drinking! I hate it when your dick hits the water in the bottom of the |
| urinal, don't you? But what do you think about it? But what do you think |
| about it? But what do you think about it? And a complimentary beer comes |
| with the room. Domino's dude! Ya wanna get paid? Run to me boys. Guess |
| where I'm calling from? NO! NO! COCKSUCKER! I'mLuckyI'mLuckyI'mLucky! But |
| first off, do you have Karl Marx's phone number? Dude. NAA. Dude. NAA. |
| Dude. NAA. The meat was SOOOO tender, it just slid off the bones. Chicken. |
| Hey, you know like you have a little piece of wire hanging down from your |
| nose? Jolly Green Faggot. That made me pucker my lips. Sweet. Baksketball |
| Jones. HAHAHAHAHA<fart>HAHAHAHA. You Bonehead. I would have reached my hand |
| in but I had just finished deficating. Dan, you're too thin for your voice. |
| You can almost hear the dogs across the street barking. I only want to know |
| two things: 1) How do you blue box off of CCIS and 2) how do you remotely take |
| total control of LMOS? NO! I'M BIOC! <STAMP> BIOC <STAMP> BIOC <STAMP> |
| BIOC. "BIOC Agent 003 was arrested today for stamping his name on his RA's |
| forehead." |
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| I'm against pretty much all forms of fraud now that I've spent the |
| night in jail, the summer of '87 in pain and waiting, and will spend the next 3 |
| years of my life on probation. I'm not informing to anyone about anything if |
| you have thoughts about that statement, but I have no part in anything |
| fraudulent. I've always thought that carding was the most stupid crime |
| connected with computers and that it's too risky to be worth it in the end. I |
| hope that the future phreaks and hackers keep around and retain what's been |
| built up over the many years since long before I'd heard of phreaking or |
| hacking. |
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| I hope you enjoyed this file. Although I had at one time intended on this |
| being my last Pro-Phile, it's actually the first of many to come...And now |
| for the regularly taken poll from all interviewees. |
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| Of the general population of phreaks you have met, would you consider most |
| phreaks, if any, to be computer geeks? Generally, the cool ones aren't, but |
| of course, in every large group of people, you'll probably find a few geeks |
| here and there. Thanks for your time, Randy. No problem, Randy. |
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| Taran King |
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