| ==Phrack Inc.== |
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| Volume One, Issue Four, Phile #1 of 11 |
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| ==Phrack Pro-Phile I== |
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| Written and Created by Taran King |
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| 3/13/86 |
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| Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile I. I started thinking about it and |
| personally had always been interested in people's backgrounds, especially those |
| who are around a lot, have been around for a long time, or are sysops. This |
| new feature of Phrack Inc. will present info about various members of the |
| phreak/hack community ranging from personal to public. This month's |
| interviewee.... |
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| Crimson Death |
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| Crimson Death is the sysop of Hell Phrozen Over, a private phreak/hack |
| bulletin board in Philadelphia, PA. (215). |
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| Personal |
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| Handle: Crimson Death |
| Call him: Robb |
| Past handles: The Sorcerer (before he was a phreak, a pirate handle) |
| Handle origin: AD&D Monster Manual II |
| Date of Birth: February 17, |
| Age at current date: 16 years old |
| Height: 5'3" |
| Weight: 110 lbs |
| Eye color: Brown outlined with green |
| Hair Color: Dark brown |
| Computer: Apple //e with 10 meg hard drive |
| Sysop/Co-Sysop of: Hell Phrozen Over, Missing Link, Skull Kingdom |
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| Crimson Death started out in the BBS world in 1984 with a public |
| board, Spirit World, which was run on an Apple //e, 2 floppies, GBBS, and 300 |
| baud. He had originally gotten his Apple computer in January of 1984. Then, |
| on one memorable day, The Videosmith logged onto his board and they became |
| friends. In February of 1985, he started phreaking. When his 10 meg Sider |
| came, he started Hell Phrozen Over as a private bulletin board system. Death |
| called a few memorable boards, including the Army BBS, Shadowland, The Missing |
| Link, The Labyrinth, as well as his own. His phreak teacher was The |
| Videosmith. |
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| Robb goes to a public school and has skipped a grade, so he is |
| currently one grade ahead of his time. His phreaking is unknown at school |
| except to a few. He considers himself pretty well versed in programming, and |
| from the way his board runs, I would agree. CD's girlfriend is The Silver Fox, |
| (note the word "Fox") that he met on Datanet, and popular opinion says she is |
| REALLY decent looking. |
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| Crimson Death does no hacking right now, but in the future when he |
| gets a bit of free time, he plans on learning about it. Mentioned earlier was |
| his involvement in Phreak Klass 2600. Red Devil has taken it down, and they |
| are looking for a replacement board, Phreak Klass II. Death has met various |
| phreaks, old and new, and those of who really stuck out in his mind were: The |
| Videosmith, Mark Tabas, TUC, Telenet Bob, The Sprinter, and Dr. Who. He listed |
| others too, but he felt that these were the "mentionables". Just thought I'd |
| let a few out there know. Hell Phrozen Over is co-sysoped by Silicon Swindler, |
| and the Phreak Adviser is The Videosmith, a 300/1200 baud, 10 meg system. He |
| was, in the past, in PhD, which stands for Phreak/Hack Destroyers. This |
| eventually evolved into Camorra. PhD was run by The Executioner (301), members |
| included Red Devil, Silver Sabre, and Scorpion among others. |
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| He is quite a comedian also, he wishes for all of you to have his last |
| name, address, and credit card number (heh heh). The following are excerpts |
| from his Death Plan File, Inc. project. I hope you find this phile |
| interesting. |
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| Interests: Krista, Computers (programming my BBS), telecommunications |
| (modeming, phreaking), reading books (Sci-Fi/Fantasy) and |
| magazines (movie mags, Psychology Today, Omni), movies |
| (circa 1930's to present), writing (short stories, raps, |
| poems for my girlfriend), music (listening (rap, rock, |
| jazz, some pop, classical, an occasional love song), playing |
| guitar and keyboard), origins/beliefs of religions (although |
| I am not religious at all), mysteries of the Universe, RPG's |
| (rare these days), the arts (painting/drawing/sketching, |
| music (as mentioned), art museums), trivia, parapsychology, |
| comedy. |
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| Crimson Death's Favorite Things |
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| Women: Krista Denise (I won't say last names) |
| Cars: Black Lamborghini's and 1935 Dusenbergs. |
| Foods: Italian food, Chinese, Chocolates, peaches (when perfectly ripe). |
| Music: Doug E. Fresh, Run-D.M.C., The Fat Boys, Kurtis Blow, UTFO, LL |
| Cool J, RUSH, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Billy Ocean, Newcleus, |
| The Rolling Stones, John Williams (w/ The London Symphony), |
| Authors: Piers Anthony, Stephen King, David Eddings, Arthur C. Clarke, |
| Robert Aspirin, Kahlil Gibrahn, L. Frank Baum. |
| Books: The Tarot Trilogy, The Xanth Series, The Belgariad, Elfquest, |
| The Myth Conceptions Series, 2001, 2010. |
| Performers: Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, Abott & Costello, John Garfield, |
| Stacey Keech, Sean Penn, Eddie Murphy, Sir Lawrence Olivier, |
| Marlon Brando, Gina Davis, David Letterman, Jayne Mansfield, |
| Marilyn Monroe, Scatman Crothers, Pee Wee Herman. |
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| Most Memorable Experiences |
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| My father dying |
| Falling in love |
| Meeting Krista for the first time |
| Getting Leukemia |
| Vomiting in a Hawaiian Punch bottle |
| Tabas with one leg over the balcony at The Palace |
| Being chased by a 6' 8" homo at P-Con IV |
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| Some People to Mention |
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| Schoolgirl (the nicest person on Datanet [Hugs!]) |
| The Heretic (Bizarre, but cool..) |
| The Warlock Lord (although we occasionally have our differences) |
| Dire Wraith (Hm. Not much to say) |
| Tuc (One of the coolest) |
| Capt. Zap (a pretty nice guy) |
| Bit Man (just learn to not talk so much!) |
| Blue Buccaneer (for all he has done (u/l, posts, etc), and being a cool guy) |
| Maxwell Smart & The Baron (just cool people..) |
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| People Crimson Death would like to say a few things to |
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| Krista (the person I hold dearest to my heart, who I love and cherish even |
| more-so than I do myself; and for being herself) |
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| Silicon Swindler (For being my best friend for the past few years. I would |
| like to thank him for sticking with me through A LOT |
| of bad times) |
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| The Videosmith (for introducing me the mystic world of phreaking, being my |
| mentor in this "mystic world", but most of all being a |
| friend) |
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| The Executioner (who can be an egotistical asshole at times, but showed |
| me he really does care at Phreak Con, when a 6' 8" |
| ogre wanted my ass) |
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| Red Devil (who has put up with all of my cut-ups and not kicked the |
| shit out of me, even though he could. Sorry about that) |
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| The People at Data-Tek (who put up Datanet in which without it, I would |
| have never met Krista) |
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| Everyone Else who I didn't mention (for the one's who I know care; and |
| the people who put up with my faults) |
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| *TOTAL LOSERS*: The Sting (Otto) (414), Black Majik, Bloody Sabath. |
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| The above three people have busted on me for having had an illness. In May, of |
| 1983 I was struck with Leukemia, cancer of the blood. Luckily, I was cured |
| of this disease, and now lead a normal life. Yes, I was bald at one period of |
| time, but I am not now. Even so, that is nothing to bust on. I don't care |
| who it is, and what they have done to you, because busting on an illness is |
| is pure idiocy. No one understands...until they or someone they love is |
| struck. |
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| I hope you enjoyed this phile, look forward to more Phrack Pro-Philes coming in |
| the near future. Oh, and one last thing, I'm taking a 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? Crimson Death says "No". Thanks for |
| your time Robb. |
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| TARAN KING |
| SYSOP OF METAL SHOP PRIVATE |
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