| ==Phrack Inc.== |
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| Volume Two, Issue 23, File 2 of 12 |
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| ==Phrack Pro-Phile XXIII== |
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| Created and Written by Taran King |
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| Done on January 18, 1989 |
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| Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile XXII. Phrack Pro-Phile was created to |
| bring information to you, the community, about retired or highly important/ |
| controversial people. This issue, we bring you a user and sysop having great |
| contributions through his boards, articles published, and general phreak/hack |
| activity... |
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| The Mentor |
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| Handle: The Mentor |
| Call Him: Loyd |
| Past Handles: An article for Phrack written as The Neuromancer for (then |
| present) security reasons. |
| Handle Origin: The Grey Lensman series by E.E. 'Doc' Smith |
| Date Of Birth: 1965 |
| Current Age: 23 |
| Height: 5' 10" |
| Weight: 200 lbs. |
| Eye Color: Brown |
| Hair Color: Brown |
| Computers: (In order of owning...) TRS-80, Apple //e, Amiga 1000, PC/AT |
| Sysop: The Phoenix Project (512-441-3088) |
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| Origins in Phreak/Hack World: When he was 13, a friend's father who was a |
| professor at a local university gave him accounts to use on one of the PDP |
| 11/70s at the school. This was his first introduction to mainframes, and |
| he was hooked. He continued to use the University's equipment through junior |
| high and high school, upgrading to a DEC-10 and then finally a VAX 8600. |
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| Needless to say, since he wasn't a student, acquiring accounts to use was |
| sometimes tricky, so he began to write fake front ends, trojan horses, and |
| other hacker utilities. Loyd's interest in hacking grew from this to the point |
| where he wanted to get into *everything* instead of just his local systems. |
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| Origins in Phreak/Hack BBSes: He was involved in the pirate boards from about |
| 1982 on, during which time many of them doubled as phreak boards. From some |
| of these, he got the number for Sherwood Forest and P-80, at which point he |
| started calling out. |
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| People in the Phreak/Hack World Met: ANI Failure, Android Pope, Bad Subscript, |
| Control C, Crimson Death, The Dictator, Doom Prophet, Erik Bloodaxe, Ferrod |
| Sensor, Forest Ranger, Hatchet Molly, Knight Lightning, The Leftist, Lone |
| Wolf, Lucifer 666, Phantom Phreaker, Phase Jitter, Phlash Gordon, Phrozen |
| Ghost, The Protestor, Surfer Bob, Taran King, Terminal Technocrat, Tuc, |
| The Ubiquitous Hacker, The Urvile/Necron 99. |
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| Experience Gained in the Following Ways: Hacking. You can read all the gfiles |
| in the world, but unless you actually go out and hack, you're going to remain |
| a novice. Getting in systems snowballs. It may take you a while to get in |
| that first one, but after that it becomes easier and easier. |
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| Knowledge Attributed To: All the people who were willing to help him when he |
| was starting out plus actual hands-on experience. |
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| Memorable Phreak/Hack BBSes: Sherwood Forest, The Protestor's Shack, Metal |
| Shop (when it first went private), Stalag-13, Catch-22, Hacker's Hideout, |
| Arisia, The Phoenix Project, Tuc's Board - RACS III (LOGONIT) |
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| Work/Schooling (Major): BS in Computer Science, work as a graphics programmer. |
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| Conventions/Involvements Outside of Phone Calls: Nationally ranked saber |
| fencer in 1985 & 1986, serious science-fiction collector & role-playing gamer, |
| play guitar, bass, and keys in various bands. |
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| Accomplishments (Newsletters/Files/Etc.): He's written at least half a dozen |
| files for Phrack, and has had articles in the LOD/H Technical Journal, P/HUN |
| newsletter, and has written the always-popular Hackin' Off column in Thrasher |
| on a few occasions. |
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| Phreak/Hack Groups: Currently an active member of the Legion of Doom/Legion |
| of Hackers, formerly a member of the PhoneLine Phantoms, The Racketeers, |
| and Extasyy Elite (gag.) |
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| Busts: Being busted led to his retirement for around one year. He thinks |
| everyone ought to take some time off: It helps put all this in perspective. |
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| Interests: VAX computers, packet switched nets, and computer graphics. |
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| Favorite Things: His wife, my cat, Chinese food, the blues, jazz, high-prived |
| UUCP accounts, unpassworded accounts, DCL, Modula-2, double-buffering, Stevie |
| Ray Vaughn |
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| Most Memorable Experiences: Getting married (6 months now!), getting pulled |
| out of a political science class and dragged down to jail, dragging Control C |
| away from drawing LMOS diagrams for a bunch of drunk high school girls, |
| SummerCon in general, Knight Lightning jumping up on a bed and yelling |
| "Teletrial!," carrying on a 45 minute conversation on blue boxing & phreaking |
| in general with a guy at the gym where he works out, then finding out he's in |
| charge of security for my local telco, trojaning the Star Trek program on his |
| college's DEC-10 so that everyone who ran it executed my fake front end program |
| next time they logged in... |
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| Some People to Mention: Android Pope- He's got to have *someone* to get into |
| trouble with! |
| Erik Bloodaxe- see above. |
| Compuphreak- For helping him get started & |
| answering a lot of dumb questions (ok, |
| explain this diverter thingy to me |
| again...) |
| The Maelstrom- see above. |
| The Urvile- d00d. |
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| INSIDE JOKES: "Do you think it's a good idea to do this before we get on the |
| plane?", "Gosh, I wish people would find somewhere else to dispose of their |
| phlegm.", "Hi, you must be Dan. Take these.", "If I get busted, I'm going to |
| burn down your house with you and your entire family inside.", "Trust me. You |
| need another beer.", "This hall seems like it goes on forever!", "It was nice |
| of them to box this stuff up for us!", "All of you! Out! Now!", "Surely you |
| aren't going to touch that girl?", "If they stop us, we shoot them and drive to |
| New York and change identities. It's foolproof.", "You really want to talk |
| phones?", "I can't believe you made him cry. That's sad.", "Mr. Letterman?", |
| "Do you speak DCL?", "No you idiot, GERMANY!!!!", "Now see, you do this, then |
| type this, and boom! Codes for days.", "Ma'm, I'm sorry to tell you this, but |
| your son is a computer criminal.", "How much for the rocket launcher? Is that |
| with or without ammo?", "By now you've guessed, you've been had.", "Well, if |
| you're going to be working at the jail, maybe you can help them out with their |
| computers.", "No, she really wants us both!", "What's in the briefcase?", "It's |
| my older brother's gun, officer.", "Bell Communications Research presents...", |
| "I'll pay you $500 for the last four digits of his phone number. Just give me |
| a hint." |
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| Are Phreaks/Hackers you've met generally computer geeks? Strangely enough, |
| the better ones he's met aren't, but a lot of the posers are. |
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| Thanks for your time Loyd... |
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| TARAN KING |
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