| ==Phrack Inc.== |
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| Volume Four, Issue Thirty-Nine, File 3 of 13 |
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| ==Phrack Pro-Phile== |
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| Written by Dispater |
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| Created by Taran King (1986) |
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| Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile. Phrack Pro-Phile is created to bring info to |
| you, the users, about old or highly important/controversial people. This |
| month, I bring to you the one of the earlier hackers to make headlines and |
| legal journals due to computer hacking... |
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| (_>Shadow Hawk 1<_) |
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| Personal |
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| Handle: (_>Shadow Hawk 1<_) |
| Call me: Herb |
| Past handles: Feyd Rautha, Captain Beyond, Mental Cancer |
| Handle origin: Stolen from the name of an 8-bit Atari 800 game that |
| seemed to be written in the language RGL (anyone got it |
| for the IBM? ;-) ). |
| Date of Birth: August 6, 1970 |
| Age at current date: 21 |
| Height: 6'2" |
| Weight: 190 lbs. |
| Eye color: Gray |
| Hair color: Brown |
| Computer: 386/Linux |
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| I started working with computers in the 6th grade with an Atari 800 and |
| a cassette drive. I added a modem and a disk drive and started researching |
| other computer systems [checking out other hacker's conquests ;-) ]. |
| Eventually, I decided that UNIX was to be the OS of choice. |
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| As a child, I was always curious about stuff in my own reality, so |
| naturally, when computers became available... |
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| I first owned an Atari 800, then an Atari ST 1040, followed by a short- |
| lived Unix-PC 3B1, and a lame 20MHz 386. Currently, I have a 33MHz 386. Most |
| of my hacking-type knowledge came from a text file that listed a few Unix |
| defaults; I used those to go and learn more on my own. Other OSes, I just |
| hacked at random 8-). |
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| I started out with systems that had already been penetrated and I built up |
| my own database of systems from there. I wasn't too clever in the beginning, |
| though, and lost a few systems to perceptive sys-admins. |
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| I specialized in Unix, though I enjoyed toying with obscure systems |
| (RSX-11, Sorbus Realtime Basic, etc.) |
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| In the hack/phreak world, I used to hang out with The Prophet, The Serpent |
| (Chicago), The Warrior, and others for short periods of time, who shall remain |
| nameless. |
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| As far as what were memorable hack/phreak BBSes, I'd have to say none... |
| Not that there weren't any, but I have just forgotten them all. |
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| My accomplishments in the phreak/hack world include writing a few text |
| files, typing in a few books, getting in lots of systems, and learning a bit |
| about the Unix OS. Other than that, absolutely nothing; my life is computers! |
| (NOT!) |
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| I _was_ associated with the J-Men a few years back, but that's the only |
| hack/phreak group that I ever had anything to do with. |
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| I was busted for overzealousness in penetrating AT&T computer networks and |
| systems. I stupidly made calls from my unprotected home phone. I got caught |
| trying to snag Unix SysV 3.5 68K kernel source. |
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| I had already given up the practice of sharing information when I realized |
| how quickly systems went away after their numbers and logins were posted 8-). |
| After I got busted, I decided it might be best to limit my hacking to those |
| strata of reality on which it is not (yet) prohibited to hack ;-) . |
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| In real life, I originally was going to be an EE/CS major in school, but |
| now, I'm leaning towards math/modeling/nonlinear dynamics. Work when necessary |
| 8-|. |
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| I'm into making music, drawing strange pictures, and exploring the nether |
| regions of physical reality. Occasionally I am seen at sci-fi conventions in |
| various forms and personages. |
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| I feel seriously against taking things too seriously. If you can master |
| that, you've got it all beat! |
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| (_>Shadow Hawk 1<_)'s Favorite Things |
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| Work: Nihilist Ontologist. |
| Cars: Fast & Loud. |
| Foods: I like a little of every cuisine, except those involving large |
| amounts of horseradish, beets, raw tomatoes, etc. |
| Music: Ecumenical. |
| Authors: R.A. Wilson is good for kicks; other than that I haven't read |
| much fiction lately. Lots of non-fiction. |
| Books: Illuminatus, Stranger in a Strange Land, Man or Matter, Godel |
| Escher and Bach, The Book of the SubGenius. |
| Performers: The people at NASA, the U.S. government beings at Washington, |
| the nightly news. |
| Sex: Yes. |
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| Most Memorable Experience |
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| Coming home to a house full of Secret Service, FBI, NSA, DIA, and AT&T agents |
| after getting really stoned with some neighborhood friends, and then having |
| them take everything electronic that didn't appear to be a household appliance |
| EXCEPT the obviously stolen/dangerous items: a digital power meter, a He-Ne |
| laser, and jars of chemicals for making bombs. HUMOR AT ITS FINEST! |
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| Some People to Mention |
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| o Thanks to Bill Cook for leaving no stone unturned in my personal life! |
| o Thanks to "my" lawyer, Karen Plant, for leaving MANY stones unturned in |
| helping to decide my fate! |
| o Thanks to the U.S. Federal Justice System for sentencing me to a 9 months |
| in a "juvenile facility" (as well as confiscating thousands of dollars of |
| stuff, some legal & some not) while allowing burglars, politicians, and |
| virus-authors to go free with a slap on the wrist! |
| o Thanks for Operation Sun-Devil, without which, the venerable Ripco BBS |
| would still be in its first incarnation! |
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| A Few Other Things |
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| I'd like to thank all the great beings at Lunatic Labs for not removing my |
| account while I was sight-seeing in South Dakota. HI! to all my TRUE friends |
| (you know who you are) and all the FALSE ones too! Where would I be now |
| without you? Thanks to all those who love me enough to want to control my |
| mind. And, of course, THANKS to the hack/phreak community in general for not |
| only becoming, as most countercultures do, decadent and passe, but also for |
| still bugging me after all these years! |
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| The Future: well, if reality doesn't cave itself in TOO badly with all of the |
| virtuality that's on its way, it should be a great time for all to play with |
| the "net!" |
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| Inside jokes: HALOHALOHALOHALOHALOHALOHALOHALOHALOSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSK |
| eaerlyeaerlyeaerlyeaerlyeaerlyeaerly... the gwampismobile shall ride again! |
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| Of the general population of phreaks you have met, would you consider most |
| phreaks, if any, to be computer geeks? |
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| Well, as far as geeking goes, all are free to pursue their interests. It |
| is important to remember that social evolution and mental evolution do not |
| necessarily occur simultaneously, or instantaneously (usually). |
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