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"HACKER'S STORY: Two days on long distance"
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SOURCE: Toronto Computes! June '91
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ENTERED BY: Anarchy Tech
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[ This is a typical example of someone that "became" (Hahahahaha) a "hacker"
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(as he calls himself) for all the wrong reasons, and turned into an even lower
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life-form when he was caught. It is this kind of moron that gives the REAL
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hackers a bad name in society. ] -AT
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**NOTE** entries surrounded by square brackets "[]" are injection by me (AT).
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John Medica has been cured [Hahahaha] of his addiction to hacking. He was
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cured by a police bust and a theft conviction that landed him two years'
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probation and 100 hours of community service.
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Now the 22 year old Toronto man [mouse] wants to warn companies that
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hackers are out to get them. [ What a CROCK this is! Since when was HACKING
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(in it's most purest form) truely destructive!? ] And he wants to warn hackers
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that they can't always evade detection. [No shit, sherlock.]
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"If you get into it you're taking a risk. I thought I might get away with
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murder. If they don't listen then it's not my fault. Down the road they'll
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be in the same situation as me."
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He says many companies are very vulnerable to hacking.
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"There's a problem out there. I know a lot of people hacking on UNIX."
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[whistle, whistle] UNIX is a high-end operating system used by many government
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departments.
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"Down the road you could see federal systems going down," Medica warns.
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Medica says he became a hacker for fun and for braggin rights on computer
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bulletin boards.
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"You feel you have to try it. It's just like WarGames." [Ah Ha! There it is!]
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Once he'd broken into a system, he'd spread the news to his computer buddies
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connected to a special bulletin board for hackers. He says participating on
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the bulletin board was just like hanging out with a crowd. "It was competition,
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braggin."
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Last year Medica and some computer friends aquireda Bell Canada credit card
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from a hacker bulletin board. They used the number to embark on a long-distance
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phone binge that lasted two days. [Well, THERE'S A SMART MOVE.] They phoned
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British Columbia, California, London, and Sidney, Australia.
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The call to Sidney lasted two hours and included ording an Australian pizza
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from Pizza Hut. Calls to Brian Mulroney's office in Ottawa and the KGB in
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Moscow were unsuccessful.
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Medica says he also got access codes for a local company called Video 1,
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allowing him to call commercial party lines on the 976 exchange at the
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company's expense. He says that unlike other hackers, he never sold the access
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codes.
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"I wasn't into it that seriously." [Obviously, you got caught, didn't you.]
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The access codes were available to all participants of the hackers boards, he
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says. He found out about the hacker board through pirate boards which
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distribute illegally obtained software. He learned about pirate boards through
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friends. There are about 100 pirate boards in the Toronto area, says Medica.
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[ 100 eh? Hmmm, I wonder if that's as high as he can count? He forgot the
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other 300+ that he couldn't get on.
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BUT! I am being very critical. Personally, it could all be a front for the
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press. It's what I might do.. Actually, I wouldn't talk to the press at all.
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If this is not a front, which is highly likely, then this guy must be crazy.
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Using codes that were made public on a Hacker (or any other type of) BBS is
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totally insane. Never distribute your codes to anyone but your immediate
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group members (or friends) and don't accept codes from anyone but them.
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I stay away from codes all-together. They are easy to trace, and you don't
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learn anything from using them. Hack your own codes, and crack your own
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systems. Don't abuse someone else's efforts. ]
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