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| More Computel Sunday March 29, 1986 |
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| The following post was seen on Stronghold East Elite on the above date, |
| concerning Computel. I am reprinting it in Phrack for the sole purpose to |
| spread this important news and to help 2600 Magazine get to the bottom of this |
| mess, and to help everyone get their money back. |
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| People, |
| PLEASE tell us whatever you know about Computel, even if it doesn't seem |
| important. We are charging full speed ahead with our investigation and we've |
| already uncovered some wild things but we can't reveal what we have until we're |
| finished. We also need info on that old magazine called Tel from the 70's. |
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| Yes, we did determine that there was a connection between the two but that's |
| all we can say right now. Any info or even back copies would help. We need |
| people to actually complain about losing money. So far that's been the hardest |
| thing to do. Phone phreaks as a rule don't seem to want to put their name on |
| anything, but if you've lost money, this is the only way we can get it back for |
| you and at the same time, stop this operation. |
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| We need people who live near or in Van Nuys, California. We need those of you |
| with special access to credit information or phone information to get in touch |
| with us. PLEASE DON'T DELAY! Send us E-mail or call (516) 751-2600. |
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| Information posted by 2600 Magazine |
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| Editor's Note: Thomas Covenant added that he had heard that Computel is |
| unregistered and plans on staying that way. Thus the Better |
| Business Bureau can do nothing. |
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| Dr. Who in Trouble Tuesday March 31, 1986 |
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| The following is Lex Luthor's interpretation and information on the Dr. Who |
| story. He also discusses Twilight Zone and Catch 22. It was posted in several |
| places (most notably Stronghold East Elite) and was confirmed in interview with |
| Lex Luthor by Knight Lightning on April 4, 1986. |
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| The Twilight Zone will be back up in 1-2 weeks. Those who Marauder wants on |
| will be contacted with all the new logon info, along with a number to reach it |
| at. He has been doing some mods to the software so the board has been down. |
| Silver Spy, Sysop of Catch-22 has had some phone problems and as soon as the |
| phone company fixes it he will have it back up. Both boards did go down for a |
| few days after the Doctor Who bust, but after we found out why he was busted, |
| the boards went back up. |
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| The Secret Service came to Who's house and took everything, he was not home at |
| the time, but after 1-2 days, they finally got around to questioning him. As |
| you know, the Secret Service has been doing a lot of credit card |
| investigations. Initially Pit Fiend of CA was busted for carding (Editor's |
| Note: See last issue's quick notes as to Pit Fiend) and at the time he was |
| speaking w/Who from time to time, thus some believe Who's bust was a result of |
| P.F. leaking info to the S.S. |
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| LOD/H was not shaken up too much from Who's bust mainly because it was not |
| Phreak/Hack related, merely credit related which LOD/H is not involved in. Who |
| did not card anything, but we believe the S.S.'s motive for busting him was use |
| of TRW. Incidentally, Who had a DNR on his line for 7 months some say it was |
| for over a year, but either way, its a hell of a long time! That's about it, |
| anyone need specific details, or heard anything otherwise let me know. |
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| Lex |
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| Information provided by Lex Luthor |
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| (Editor's Note: Lex Luthor also mentioned that Dr. Who is being sued by AllNet) |
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| 2300 Club Members Busted Cleveland |
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| Two have been caught for fraudulent use of a credit card and one has been |
| arrested for car theft. |
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| The 2300 Club is now being compared and treated as a miniature mafia by local |
| authorities. This is mainly for other crimes including the blowing up of cars. |
| King Blotto was, at one time at least, a member of this group. There is |
| absolutely NO information regarding King Blotto as being busted or as still |
| being a member of the 2300 Club. |
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| New Phreak/Hack Group April, 6 1986 |
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| The Dark Creaper (916), Brew Associates (215), Major Havoc (301), and one other |
| whose handle is unknown to me at the current time are forming a new phreak/hack |
| group. Its name is "The IBM Syndicate". They are currently looking for |
| members to join. Their bulletin boards, which are currently more or less |
| public, will very soon be going private, thus making it harder to become a |
| member. Eventually the group will have 2 bbses and 2 AEs. Mainly for the |
| exchange of files and IBM kracked wares. All of these bbses will be run on of |
| course IBM, and I assume that having an IBM is a requirement to become a |
| member. |
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| Information provided by Dark Creaper through interview by Knight Lightning |
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| Oryan Quest Busted/415 Gets Hit Again April 6, 1986 |
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| On Wednesday, April 2nd 1986, Oryan Quest was arrested on charges of computer |
| invasion. Technically they only had him on one charge but later evidence |
| accounted for the other two. |
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| Oryan Quest was "busted" for hacking AT&T Mail, which is roughly similar to MCI |
| Mail. He had three different accounts, but the San Mateo Police and FBI only |
| had suspicion of one. When they searched his home they found two more written |
| down. |
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| The charges against Oryan Quest were dropped for several reasons: |
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| 1. Illegal Search (they didn't have a warrant) |
| 2. Police Brutality and Harassment (pushed him around and slammed his head into |
| a car) |
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| The authorities searched his house while Oryan Quest was at school, which is |
| where they later arrested him. |
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| What was taken includes the following: |
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| Loads of computer disks |
| All printouts (his entire g-phile library) |
| 10 Meg drive |
| Assorted Boxes (Blue, Red, Green, Silver) |
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| His passwords, bbs numbers, codes, etc were undiscovered. (He believes) |
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| No court date had been set as of yet, and it is believed that the prosecuting |
| attorney will drop the case due to the earlier illegal proceedings by the SMPD. |
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| Prior to his arrest the SMPD had been monitoring his line and had found that he |
| was scanning prefixes. This is however is inadmissible in a court of law |
| because at the time that they were monitoring his line there was not sufficient |
| evidence for such action. |
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| AT&T Mail was accessible through an 800 number, which Oryan Quest did call |
| direct. |
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| Some words from Oryan |
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| "I have no intention of quitting hacking." |
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| "My mistake was calling an 800 number direct and for fucking around with AT&T |
| in the first place." |
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| "I am more of a hacker than a phreak." |
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| (Editor's note: When asked how he felt about what was happening he replied, |
| "I'm not worried about it.") |
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| Some other interesting facts about Oryan was that he held a part time job as a |
| PacTel Operator. He, being 15 years old, had lied about his age (saying he was |
| 16), but now has been fired. |
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| Also SRI has given him a job offer for computer security. He is thinking about |
| it but doesn't plan on accepting it. |
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| Information provided by Oryan Quest through interview by Knight Lightning |
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| Overlord 815 Arrested For Check Fraud |
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| "The only reason I got caught was greed." |
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| That was the Overlord (815)'s first statement to me during an interview on |
| April 6, 1986. He says that originally, a long time ago, he concentrated on |
| Western Union, but then later turned to credit card fraud. As he progressed, |
| he learned that credit card fraud only worked about 5% of the time. He wanted |
| something that worked 100% of the time. He found it...check fraud. |
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| In his home town he acquired around $4,000 worth of equipment from 3 stores. |
| Some of the merchandise consisted of an Apple //e (with every card possible, |
| the best drives, monitors, etc...), a complete Commodore 128 system, and ten |
| packs of disks for good measure. His downfall was going back to one of the same |
| stores the next day to try it again. |
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| He was instantly caught and tricked by the police to reveal more than he would |
| have if he had really known his rights. |
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| Check fraud is a felony crime. Although I myself am uninformed as to how to |
| perform the art of check fraud, it must require a phone because Overlord (815) |
| informs me that the police have labeled his crime as Telefelony. The actual |
| charge however is for "theft by deception". |
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| His home was not searched and he has given all the merchandise back. |
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| He had told me that he plans to stop running his bulletin board Spectre III and |
| sell his computer. This is mainly so he cannot be referred to as a computer |
| hacker. IE: The prosecuting lawyer would ask, "Do you have a computer?!" He |
| can truthfully say NO. |
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| He plans to have the bbs run from the home of The Master (815) and the number |
| would stay the same. |
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| Another account of this story by TWCB Inc, says that Overlord has changed his |
| mind and is not selling his computer or taking down Spectre III. |
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| The court date is set at April 9, 1986, Overlord (815) says that the worst that |
| can happen is probation, a fine, civil service work, or any combination of the |
| three. |
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| Information provided by Overlord (815) during interview with Knight Lightning |
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| TAP: Latest News From TWCB April 8, 1986 |
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| Well, as many of you may have noticed, TWCB Inc. did not fulfill their promise |
| of having TAP Magazine out by April 7, 1986. When asked about this on that |
| date, they replied that they had all the stuff, but it had to be typeset, |
| formatted, printed, and distributed. They estimated that they could have it |
| done in another four days. This secondary deadline was also not achieved. |
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| The writers (according to TWCB) include: |
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| Abbie Hoffman/Ace/Final Impulse/Gary Seven/Knight Lightning/Mark Tabas/ |
| Taran King/Susan Thunder/The Bootleg/The Cracker/The Firelord/The Metallian/TUC |
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| The magazines supporting TAP include: |
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| Mad Mad Magazine/High Times/Bootlegger Magazine/Hacker Magazine |
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| Scan Man dropped himself from the TAP Staff. |
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| By issue #6, TWCB plans to have a 112 page magazine. This is due to the fact |
| that by then they plan to be receiving many more articles and will have several |
| more companies advertising. |
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| The first issue of TAP Magazine will have articles on the following topics: |
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| ISDN: Parts by Taran King and The Bootleg |
| Fiber Optics |
| Cellular Phones |
| Satellite Jamming |
| Moving Satellites |
| The Teltec Bust: Surfer Bill/The Firelord/TWCB Inc/Knight Lightning |
| Dr. Who Bust |
| History of TAP |
| RSTS 8.0 |
| Signalling Systems: Taken from Phrack Inc. Newsletter |
| Introduction to PBXs: by Knight Lightning, taken from Phrack Inc. Newsletter |
| ROLM: By Monty Python, taken from Phrack Inc. Newsletter |
| MCI Overview: by Knight Lightning, taken from Phrack Inc. Newsletter |
| New BBS Laws: by Sally Ride, taken from Bootlegger Magazine |
| Cosmos: by Lex Luthor and the Legion of Hackers, taken from Bootlegger Magazine |
| Private Audience: by Final Impulse, taken from Phrack Inc. Newsletter |
| UNIX: by The Cracker |
| MAX Profile: by Phantom Phreaker, taken from Phrack Inc. Newsletter |
| Crashing Dec 10s: by The Mentor, taken from Phrack Inc. Newsletter |
| Pak Time: by Kerrang Khan |
| Techniques of Tracing |
| ESS: by Mark Tabas |
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| Information provided by TWCB Inc. during interview with Knight Lightning |
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| Quick Notes |
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| On March 23, 1986, The Radio Station BBS in New York celebrated its one year |
| anniversary. It now has one meg of storage online. |
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| The rumor that Taran King was on a talk/news program in New York discussing |
| hacking is completely wrong. Dead Lord started it, but as yet no one knows |
| why. |
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| The Tempest in 805 was burglarized in March. His computer and all other |
| equipment among other things were stolen. This of course explains his absence |
| from the bbs world for a while. |
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| A reasonably new IBM kracking group, which was formally the Imperial Warlords, |
| now known as Five-O, are re-kracking software and claiming it to be original by |
| themselves. Futhermore they are placing insulting messages inside the software |
| towards certain individuals. |
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| The Kidd of 408 got busted for busted for selling codes at his school for five |
| dollars a piece. There was no particular company mentioned. |
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| Video Stalker (408) carded some stuff to the home of Sinbad! Sinbad! told him |
| that he would sign for the stuff, and when he did, he was arrested. No more |
| details available. |
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| The Tunnel, one of Austin, Texas's oldest phreak/hack boards, has come out of |
| the closet. The Tunnel was revealed on the local news to be run by the |
| computer crime division of the Austin Police Department. The two main goals of |
| the board were to A) catch carders and B) catch Mentor and Cisban Evil Priest |
| trying to sell those stolen computers. They were very successful at A. |
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| Stronghold East elite has announced its new advisors. Hack Advisor: Lex Luthor |
| Phreak Advisor: Blue Buccaneer. The soon plan to have a name change due to the |
| fact that Apple Commander of Stronghold North insists they the two boards are |
| affiliated while Slave Driver and Equalizer of Stronghold East feel |
| differently. With instruction from Lex Luthor, SEE has enacted new security |
| measures. |
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| Thanx to 2600 Magazine, Stronghold East Elite now has the complete court |
| transcripts of the bust that took place early last summer, most notably |
| concerning Private Sector and 6 others, online for viewing. |
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| Sigmund Fraud has been discharged as co-sysop of the Radio Station bbs. |
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| Captain Crunch of 512 has stated that an auto-dial program that he wrote and |
| uploaded was copied by TWCB Inc., who then claimed it as their own and signed |
| their name in it. |
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