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An incredibly complicated tale of mystery and intrigue:
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Former NuKE virus-programmer Talon, of Brisbane, Australia,
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makes it into Fictual Facts this month for making life just
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a little more brutish than it ought to be.
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"Confusion to your enemies" could be TaLon's motto and
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you'll agree after reading this whopper. Originally,
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the writer of the PuKE/Harry McBungus viruses, Talon created
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Harry McBungus and Terminator-Z as electronic beards for a
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group predominatly interested in optimizing virus code and
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poking fun of the NuKE virus-programming group. But, fate took a
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hand and made the PuKE virus famous down under when it infected
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a company and the event was publicized in a newspaper. Talon,
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according to sources, saw the article, called the newspaper and
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gave them an interview, perhaps thinking editors would keep his
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name secret. They didn't.
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Editors passed his name along to the Fraud Squad, a branch of
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the Australian national crime-fighting force which focuses on
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computer crime. Agents from the Fraud Squad promptly rounded
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up Talon and here's where the story gets tricky. Talon, by
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adroitly using the aliases of Harry McBungus and Terminator-Z,
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was able to sufficiently confuse the investigation by pushing
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authorship of the PuKE virus onto people, who essentially, didn't
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exit.
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At this point, TaLon applied for membership to NuKE and submitted
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the Daeman virus. Shortly therafter, the Daeman virus infected
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a PC network belonging to Australian Telecom, sufficiently
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inconveniencing the company so that it summoned the Fraud Squad.
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It was "round up the usual suspects" time and Talon again went
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into the bag. This time, he shifted suspicion onto two other
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Australian hackers and NuKE members, Phrozen Doberman and Screaming
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Radish. NuKE promptly terminated TaLon's membership for this
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graceless cybersocial faux pas, but did publish the Daeman source
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code in its InfoJournal #7 before wishing him luck with Australian
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authorities.
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TaLon promptly uploaded a fakeware archive called VCL20.ZIP
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into some US virus exchange bulletin board systems. Advertised
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as the Virus Creation Laboratory v. 2.0, the archive was
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"password protected" with the phrase "Nowhere Man Sucks."
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It was a hoax.
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