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DEAD SMOKING PUNX
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:PRESENTS:
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DSP MINIMAG Issue 7
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A 'Major Busts' History of the USSS
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By: Johnny Rotten
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1988
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November, The internet worm runs wild across many of the nations
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computer networks. Shutting down an estimated 6,600 systems,
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and costing an estimated $40 to $90 million dollars. The code,
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written by Robert Morris Jr. was intended to go around to every node,
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and record, creating a map of the net, and report back in. But
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due to faulty code, it ends up reproducing itself at a phenomenal
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clip. Eating all the cyberspace in its path and closing many systems.
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CRACKING 911
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December, 1988, Legion of Doom member "The Prophet" downloads a
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Bell South document, on the administration of E-911 systems, and
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then posts it around BBS's such as Jolnet, it reaches night
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lightening, (Craig Neidorf. Knight posts it in his Publication
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"Phrack"..
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CRACKING APPLE
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June, 1989: A group calling itself NuPrometheus Leauge releases
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bits and pieces of apple source code: The software equivilent of
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Macintosh DNA. NuPrometheus Promises More to come. Apple has
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the proverbial cow.
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STRUTTING IN HARPERS
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December 1989: Harper's Magazine, hosts a virtual hackers conferance
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on 'The Well' a bbs whose members include a number of computer and
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communications industry pioneers. Hackers and cyberpunks of all
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stripes attend, the event is published as a Magazine Cover Story.
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THE PHONE SYSTEM CRASHES
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January 15, 1990: AT&T has a spontaneous near-death experiance in
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the form of a nationwide system crash. Somehow, a rumor circulates
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that a coven of hackers, cast the deadly spell. Though AT&T denies
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it.
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THE BUSTS
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January 24, 1990: Secret Service agents raid Acid Phreak, and
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Phiber Optik (suspected participants of the above mentioned
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Harpers magazine Conference) Holding a gun to the head of
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Acid Phreak's 12 year old sister, and confiscating all of his
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electrical equipment, including CD'S and a telephone answering
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machine. Though no charges are filed, Phreak & Phiber are
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interrogated under suspision of causing the AT&T crash and of
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being Key members of the Legion of Doom.
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Feburary 2, 1990: Secret Service agents raid Len Rose, aka Terminus.
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Rose, his wife, and child are interrogated at gunpoint, denied food,
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and use of the bathroom. Calls to lawyers are denied, computers and
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property are confiscated.
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Feburary 7, 1990: In the by-now-familiar gestapo style, the SS raids
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Robert Riggs (The Prophet) and Franklin Darden (The Leftist) and
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Adam Grant (Necron 99) This time, an indictment charges various
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fedral felonies, including fraud and conspiracy, including taking
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copies of proprietary software and unauthorized entry into bell
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south computer systems, and specificly mentions Legion of Doom.
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Feburary 15, 1990: Craig Neidorf, publisher of the electic Mag,
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Phrack is raided, charged (among other things) with publishing the
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Bell south E-911 documents. His computers, the electonic printing
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presses for his magazine, were taken, putting Phrack, out of
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business. Bell south claims that the e-911 doc was worth over
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$79,000
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Late Feburary, 1990: Rich Andrews, operator of Jolnet, is visited
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by the secret service. Abdrew's crime? Just to be on the safe
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side, he'd informed AT&T of the document that had been uploaded onto
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his system, his reward, the USSS siezed all of his computers
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and related hardware.
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March 1, 1990: The SS Raids Steve Jacson Games and its employees.
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Jackson is the second largest game publisher (after milton bradley)
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and has published numerous fantasy role playing games. They were
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in the process of creating the new GURPS Cyberpunk RPG. The SS
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confiscates computers at The business, and employees homes.
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MORRIS GETS WHATS COMING TO HIM
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May 4, 1990: Robert Morris Jr. is sentanced to a $10,000 fine,
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and four hundred hours of community service for unleashing the
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internet virus.
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THE USSS GETS?
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Nothing, they are still running rampang, a plauge.
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