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	Extasyy Revisited
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	This is a continuation of the article that appeared in Phrack World News Issue
	Number One, about the breakup of Extasyy Elite.

	The following are statements were told to Phrack by The Mentor:

	1) I am NOT an FBI Agent.
	2) The Poltergeist turned in all of Extasyy. I have copies of the statements
	he made in Fort Worth to the FBI and to the Fort Worth Police Department to
	get me busted. I do not know if he gave them Bit Blitz's information or
	not.
	3) Yes, I made Bit Blitz return a computer. Bit Blitz promised me a 212
	AppleCat in exchange for an Apple //e. Then he failed to deliver the modem
	after I gave him the system. This can be verified.
	4) Crustaceo Mutoid is in the Racketeers, which Apple Rebel reassembled. Former
	Racketeers members who are now regrouped include: Hot Rod, Warezird, and The
	Micron.
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	The above information should be considered as direct quotes from The Mentor.
	The Apple //e referred to is one of the many stolen Apple //es talked about in
	the story below.
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	A little background on Extasyy.

	Extasyy hung out on Hack Net BBS and FWSO, a bbs in Colorado. Poltergeist was
	always bragging about how he was a master computer thief.

	The Mentor wanted to try his luck as well. In his case, a not very wise idea.
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	He and two others went to a high school computer room in Hayes County, Texas.
	The room was separate from the rest of the building and one of the windows was
	unlocked.

	One of the other two people that went was a student at the school.

	It took three car trips to transport all the computers, most of them were kept
	in friend's apartments. The Mentor gave many of the computers away to friends
	of his, which helped his popularity greatly. He also gave two monitors to
	Poltergeist. However he neglected to scratch the serial numbers off them. A
	more or less fatal mistake.

	Each of the apartment owners were allowed to keep one computer, as well as the
	other two accomplices. Gradually the people with the apartments began to hide
	or give away some of the computers themselves.

	The Mentor finally took all the rest of the computers to a storage warehouse
	and then gave away or sold what was left of them.

	One month later...

	In Fort Worth, Texas, The Poltergeist was busted, mainly for credit card fraud,
	but there were many other charges as well. He talked all about Extasyy and its
	members and when the police found the Mentor's phone number, Poltergeist talked
	some more. Among his confiscated equipment were two monitors. The serial
	numbers were checked and this led the police and FBI to the now one month old
	computer theft in Hayes County.

	Meanwhile, one of the apartment owners was trying to sell off one of his
	computers to an ex-girl friend. Unfortunately she knew they were "hot" and
	told the police. (Advice here guys don't try to sell "hot" items to ex-girl
	friends).

	Soon after the police took him in and were going to press charges on him as
	being the mastermind thief. Until he told them the truth about where he got
	the merchandise, implicating The Mentor and the others.

	Soon after, the police and FBI had The Mentor, and even though he no longer had
	any of the stolen equipment, a warrant and search turned up many other
	interesting illegal items. His family being prominent in his town, his dad
	wanted him to cooperate fully with the authorities.

	Phreaking was basically unheard of by the police in 512 and they wanted to know
	how everyone was doing it. The Mentor's response was "Blue Boxing". His town
	is now equipped with 2600 Hertz detectors on the phone lines. Too bad for
	Southwestern Bell that Mentor lied about blue boxing.

	Mentor's dad always had something against The Protestor, if for no other
	reason than the fact that he was the one who got Mentor started into phreaking.

	The police were interested in the phreak boards, so Mentor's dad suggested they
	call Protestor's Shack, where The Mentor was a remote sysop.

	About this time Mentor had to use the bathroom, or so he told the police. On
	his way to his restroom he stopped in the kitchen and called The Protestor.
	He kept it very brief with the one way conversation consisting of roughly these
	words, 'Get all the illegal shit off your board now! I'll explain later, just
	do it!'

	Never the less, they called Protestor's Shack, only to discover that it was
	busy.

	Protestor's Shack went down on February 24, 1986. At first it was thought that
	Kleptic Wizard, a former Extasyy member, would take over the board in 314
	(St.Louis, MO). However, Protestor later decided that maybe it was time that
	the board died. He did add however that he may release his board program as a
	ware sometime in the near future. Most likely to be found on Kleptic Palace AE
	first. He also does plan to one day return to the pirate/phreak/hack world.

	The above information was provided by The Protestor
	with some parts by The Mentor
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	The Radio Station BBS
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	Where once stood the famous bulletin board "The Broadway Show", now stands The
	Radio Station. When Broadway Hacker thought he was moving to Washington D.C. he
	took down the Broadway Show and gave the line, 718/615-0580, to another who
	would run this new bbs. Since then however Broadway Hacker under the handle
	of Program Director is once again running the board, but the remote sysop
	Sigmund Fraud is now in total charge. He validates, he hires the subboard
	sysops.
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	Sysop: Program Director
	Remote Sysop: Sigmund Fraud <-- Runs the board

	Subboard Sysops:

	General: Pirate Pete
	Sports/Entertainment: White Lotus
	Computer Discussion Forum: Lotus
	Pirate/Trading: No one (The Cheetah was fired)
	Anarchy: No one (The Merc was fired)
	Chemical & Explosives: The Wild Phreak (Gray Mouser was fired)
	Advanced Hacking and Phreaking: No one (Iron Soldier was fired)
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	If you wish to become a subboard sysop, please leave mail or feedback to
	Sigmund Fraud.

	The Radio Station is where many LOD members and other old elites hang out. Its
	also among the first to receive new LOD G-Philes.

	The Radio Station receives about 15-20 new posts a day. Their general board is
	among the most popular for real world controversial topics.

	Program Director has put more time and effort into the debugging and upkeep of
	his board than ANY other sysop I've ever known. Some of the nice features on
	his board are the message responses which can keep a particular subject going
	without interfering with other related subjects.

	The Radio Station is a strong supporter of Phrack Newsletter. Give it a call!

	718/615-0580 300/1200 Baud
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	Phoenix Phortress Stings 7 415 Under Siege
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	On March 5, 1986, the following seven phreaks were arrested in what has come to
	be known as the first computer crime "sting" operation.

	Captain Hacker
	Doctor Bob
	Lasertech
	The Adventurer
	The Highwayman
	The Punisher
	The Warden

	Many of them or other members of Phoenix Phortress belonged to these groups:

	High Mountain Hackers
	Kaos Inc.
	Shadow Brotherhood
	The Nihilist Order (Based in Fremont and Sunnyvale)

	Of the seven, three were 15 years old; two were 16; one was 17; and one, 19.

	Their charges include:

	Several misdemeanors
	Trafficking in stolen long distance service codes
	Trafficking in stolen credit card numbers
	Possession of stolen property
	Possession of dangerous weapons (a martial arts weapon)
	Charging mail-order merchandise to stolen credit card numbers
	Selling stolen property
	Charging calls internationally to telephone service numbers

	Conviction would mean forfeiture of their computer equipment.

	Other phreak boards mentioned include:

	Bank Vault (Mainly for credit card numbers and tips on credit card scams)
	Phreakers Phortress (Mainly of course for phreak codes and other information)
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	After serving search warrants early Wednesday morning on the seven Fremont
	residences where the young men live with their parents, police confiscated at
	least $12,000 worth of equipment such as computers, modems, monitors, floppy
	disks, and manuals, which contained information ranging from how to make a
	bomb, to the access codes for the Merrill Lynch and Dean Witter Financial
	Services Firm's corporate computers.

	The sysop of Phoenix Phortress was The Revenger, who was supposedly Wally
	Richards, a 25 year-old Hayward man who "phreaked back east a little" in New
	Jersey. He took the phone number under the name of Al Davis. However he was
	really Sgt. Daniel Pasquale of the Fremont Police Department.

	When he introduced his board to other computer users, he called it the "newest,
	coolest, phreak board in town." (Editor's note: The word for today is
	ENTRAPMENT!).

	Pasquale said he got the idea for the sting operation after a 16-year old
	arrested last summer for possession of stolen property "rolled them over
	(narced) He told us all about their operation."

	Pasquale used a police department Apple //e computer and equipment, with access
	codes and information provided by eight corporations, including Wells Fargo
	Bank, Sprint, and MCI.

	Pasquale said he received more than 2,500 calls from about 130 regular users
	around the country. The police started to make their first case three days
	after the board went up.

	"We had taken the unlisted phone number under the name Al Davis," Pasquale
	said. "In six days, these kids had the name on the bulletin board. I would
	have needed a search warrant to get that information."

	The arrests were made after five months of investigation by Dan Pasquale.
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	Originally compiled by Maxwell's Demon of The Dange Gang, recompiled by Knight
	Lightning. This file contains parts of articles found in the following
	newspapers:

	** The Mercury News
	** The Palo Alto Times-Tribune
	** The Daily Review
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