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³ ÚÄÄÙ ³ ÚÄÄ ³ Phone Losers of America Issue #035 ÚÄÄÙ ³ ÚÄÄ ³ ³
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³ ÄÙ ÄÄÄÙ ÄÙ ÄÙ ÄÙ ÄÄÄÙ ÄÙ ÄÙ ³
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³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³
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³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄTABLE OF CONTENTS:ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³
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³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³ ³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³
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³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³1. Introduction - RBCP ³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³
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³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³2. Review of DefCon III - by Apok0lyps ³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³
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³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³3. Review of DefCon III - by Roy ³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³
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³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³4. Follow-up on the 618 Scene - RBCP ³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³
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³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³5. The Birth of "Cactus" - RBCP ³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³
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³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³6. Dealing With False Classified Ads - RBCP ³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³
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³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³7. This Issue's Featured Support Sites ³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³
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³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³8. Police Log ³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³
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³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³
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³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³
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³ Completed On September 10, 1995 ³
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ÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÛÛÛÛÛÜ ÜÜÜÛÛÛÜÜÜ
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ÜÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÜÜ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÜÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ
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ÜÛÛÛÛßß ßÛÛÛÛÝ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝ ÞÛÛÛÛÛßßßÛÛÛÛÛ
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ÞÛÛÛÛ ÞÛÛÛ ÞÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝ ÞÛÛÛÛÛ ÞÛÛÛÛÝ
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ÛÛÛÝ ÛÛÛÝ ÞÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝ ÞÛÛÛÛÛÝ ÛÛÛÛÝ
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ÞÛÛÛÝ ÜÛÛÛÛ ÞÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝ ÞÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÝ
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ÛÛÛÛÜÜÛÛÛÛÛÛß ÞÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝ ÞÛÛÛÛÛÛÜ ÜÛÛÛÛÝ
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ÞÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛß ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÞÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝ
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ÞÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝerfectly ÞÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛame ÞÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛß ÞÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝss-
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ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝholes
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ÞÞÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ßÛßÛÛÛÛÛÝÛÛÝÛÛÛßÛß ÞÞÛÛÛÛÛÛß ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ
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ÞÛßÛÛÛßßÝ ßß Ý ßß Ýßß ß ÛÛÛÛß ÞÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ
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ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
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³ Introduction - RedBoxChiliPepper ³
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ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
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Well, here it is, issue thirty-five, the final issue of PLA. It's been fun
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but unless someone else decides to take over, which is doubtful, this will be
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the last issue ever. Thanks goes out to everybody. Oh, wait, I'm just kidding,
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PLA's not really shutting down. I bet I got your attention, didn't I?
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*FREE DISKS!* *FREE DISKS!* *FREE DISKS!* *FREE DISKS!* *FREE DISKS!*
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There's a great company out there that's giving people FREE 3 1/2" computer
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disks with absolutely no cost or obligation and no salesman will call! And
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what's even better is that the company provides a toll free number to call in
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and get your free disks with. The only catch is that you can only get one disk
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at a time. You may have heard of the company, it's called Amerika On-Line!
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(stop ralphing!) You can order a few disks a day by calling 1-800-827-6364 and
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expressing an extreme interest in becomming an AOHell subscriber. Stop paying
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for those computer disks, they can be free, dammit!
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I finally got around to reading Masters of Deception by Michelle Slatalla
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and Joshua Quittner. Good book, funny, informative, who cares if the story was
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really accurate, it was good reading. There's just two parts in it that I can't
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help bringing up. One quote was, "One kid might know how to make a wicked blue
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box, a device cobbled together from top-secret Radio Shack parts that
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simulated the tones of coins dropping into a pay phone..." and the other part
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tells about one of the guys playing with a phone in a book store and finally
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gets to make a free phone call by using his tone dialer to dial the number he
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wants. Easy to do, but the author describes, "The device he uses is a tone
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dialer, which emits a noise that simulates the sound a pay phone would
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recognize as coins dropping into a slot." Guess they should have done a little
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more research before they released the book. Other than that, good reading.
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Go out and shoplift your copy from Waldenbooks today!
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Me & Colleen Card are in the process of relocating from the stinky town of
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Corpus Christi, Texas to someplace less smelly. We still haven't decided
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exactly where but hopefully it'll be someplace where more people speak English.
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If you're one of the few who use our post office box, you can still write to
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that address and mail will be diverted for us to pick up. By the next issue we
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should be moved. (As of this writing we're vacationing in Illinois, ya-hoo.)
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Oh, this also means that my bbs, Whombat Communications went down but I backed
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everything up on disk so I'll most likely put it back up in a few months so
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don't throw away your passwords yet!
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This issue features reviews of Defcon, the meaning of "cactus" and a follow-
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up on the 618 scene from the last issue. A reporter was actually desperate
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enough for material to run a story on the PLA. He's probably out of a job by
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now, poor sob. So sit back and enjoy the issue. Better yet, just delete it,
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it's not worth reading. Who am I trying to fool?
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ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
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³ Review of DefCon ]I[ - Apok0lyps ³
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Friday Aug. 04 aprox. 12:00: We arrive at the Tropicana Hotel. Check in took
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FOREVER as we had to stand in a really long line and get checked in. They made
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us pay a $50.00 damage deposit on the room. We complained, but oh well.
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13:00: We get the room, put our shit away, and head on down to the con room.
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Not too many people had shown up yet, only about 250 reg'ed at that point.
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Paid the $40.00 and got da 0day ID badge. werd.
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13:40: I head to the Tropics Bar (one closest to the con room) and begin to
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order beer. Sat and drank like two and met Alex Deluge. He was pretty cool.
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About seven beers later, El_Jefe (Zak) shows up with Xn4rk. He was also pretty
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cool. We started to mess around with the video poker machines. Xn4rk has this
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idea that chaos theory has something to do with the winnings. We proceed to
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drink and conduct "experiments" to the tune of about $12.00 & no one won shit.
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Started to get loaded.
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15:00: I depart the bar and head back to the con room. Looked around for a
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while and got the latest 2600 mag. Pretty good, pick it up. Milled around and
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met Novocain.
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16:00: Got some food, got some sleep.
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By now the time thing is kinda blurry, so here's the rest in a nutshell (or
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nut case) Hacker Jeopardy started at Midnight and was loads of fun. I would
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dare to say the best event of the whole con. Questions ranged from stupid to
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elite, but the beer flowed and free stuff abounded. Round one was a riot as we
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watched little kids fight for t-shirts and beers. This event hosted by Winn
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Schwartau, lasted till like 3am. The con closed for the night and me and some
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people went to hack KU.
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Here are MY awards picks for best things at DefCon ]I[:
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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Best Speaker: Robert Steele (ex-CIA) Topic: Hackers are the country's biggest
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asset. Kept me very intrested. I'm gonna try to get a copy of his notes from
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him.
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Most Entertaining Speaker: Deth Vegetable (cDc) Topic: The Media Sucks Made me
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laugh, Also took questions about Mr. T!!
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Most Informative Speaker: Koresh Topic: Hacking a Job. I went away with a lot
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of good info on that one.
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Lamest Speaker: Stephen Cobb Topic: Why Hacking Sucks.
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Best Event of DefCon ]I[: Hacker Jeopardy. Free Beer, free stuff, and El_jefe
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managed to win a lot of shit.
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Worst Event of DefCon ]I[: Susan Thunder's Mitnick Party. I didn't go, but I
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think only three people did.
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Best Quote: (not sure who said this) "If you were a woman and had a plastic
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penis, I would touch your nose."
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Most Commonly used words by Dark Tangent: "Awwwwwwww Yeah!"
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Most Commonly used words by everyone else: "Throw it!!"
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Friendliest People: Alex Deluge, Xn4rk, Magsusa (hope I spelled that right)
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Dead Addict and Novocain.
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Best Hotel Employee: Thomas. (Offical PLA bartender)
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Most Creative Outfit: Whoever was dressed like Chun Li.
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Other Quotes:
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"Here, have one of those beer things." - El_jefe
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"Alex Deluge: I LOVE those beer things!!" -Alex Deluge
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"Whoever's got floor space, I'll give them k0dez!" -Capt. Hook
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"Ok, ticket number 317 wins Dark Tangent." -Death Vegetable
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"Throw him!!!" -Crowd
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Greets go out to: DHATE (see ya at H0H0), Alex Deluge, Drew from SGI for
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getting us the Holy Cow (moo), Thomas, RBCP and Colleen Card (see ya at H0H0
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as well) and that's it for me!
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ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
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³ Review of DefCon III - by Roy ³
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ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
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Hi, my name's Roy, and last week I went to that DefCon3 thing that was in
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Las Vegas. I heard about all the wicked things and the sinners there so I
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made sure to bring my bible. I packed everything in my Ford Motherfucker
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sometime around January so I would be there on time. I got to the Tropicana
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Hotel around 1pm on Friday afternoon, and got my room so me and my gerbils
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could get a little privacy over the weekend.
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When I went to the convention room I about fell over when I saw the carpet,
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it was this beautiful tropical floral pattern with lots of pretty colors! I
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LIKE pink and greeny things. Someone was going around trying to give me a copy
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of a Hustler disguised as a 2600 magazine, so I had to mace him just like they
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taught me down at the YMCA.
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That silly man, Dark Tangent made my gerbil pay to get in even though he
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would just sit in my pocket until I found a cardboard tube. I read that cute
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little program thing and it said something about hackers playing Wheel of
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Fortune. Since Pat Sajak is my favorite person in the world I went, but I
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wondered why he would play Wheel of Fortune at midnight. He must be crazy
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nuts! I think they should have called the police about this game. Some crazy
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young man was throwing things at the audience and trying to hurt us for some
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reason! He was throwing beers to people without making them throw ID back up
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so he could see if they were 32.
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I drank half of one of those beer things and I went wild! I don't know what
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happened then but I remeber passing out on that beautiful hotel carpet, and
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waking up in my room with a broken gerbil next to me. I guess I'd have to visit
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the pet store later. I tried to get the bartender to quit selling beer and even
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showed him the bible, but he just threw ice cubes at me. I know SOMEONE who's
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going to hell.
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I bought some beef jerky and went to the convention room. I noticed some guy
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talking into a microphone but got totally distracted by the beautiful curtains
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outside! Between the curtains and the wallpaper, I had to go back to my room
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and change my pants. I felt so awful about doing that, that I had to order some
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butter and chives from room service and rub them all over myself and everything
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else in the room before things got better.
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Me and my gerbil went into the convention room the next day and someone was
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talking about something but I didn't care, I had to go to the toilet so bad,
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it just wasn't funny anymore. I found the nearest bathroom and barred the door
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shut for aboout three hours, and the whole time I was in there I danced all
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over the toilets. When I came out, a guard was waiting for me and he beat me
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sensless with his billy club, and that was kind of fun too! Finally, he just
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gave me a shoe in the ass and sent me back to the convention room where I hid
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in the curtains for the rest of the evening.
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The toilets at the hotel were so pretty! I wish I could have taken one of
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them home with me and mounted it on my 1986 Ford Motherfucker. About that time
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I realized I had to go back home to New Mexico and feed my gerbils and check
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to make sure that those kids didn't take my bubble mower or change the greeting
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on my answering machine like last weekend. I went home and the neighbors told
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me I was crazy nuts with piss in my pants for going to such a sinful town as
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Las Vegas, but I brought all my shoes and glasses so it was ok.
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ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
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³ Follow-up on the 618 scene ³
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ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
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If anyone actually bothered to read all of PLA034 you probably remember us
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leaving the 618 area code in total disarray and confusion. Well, a few more
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developments have happened since that issue and here they are. First, we bring
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you Scott The Believer's post shortly after PLA034 came out. This was posted
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in the Sysop Announcements Sub (Wed Aug 09, 1995):
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Well, It is true. We are shutting Chatterbox dowm Permanently, we are pulling
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the plug on the Computer at Midnight this Saturday night (8-12-95). I really
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hate to do this, Mostly it has been fun and a joy to run this BBS. Chatty has
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done an excellent job for a newbi sysop to keep things running well, and the
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board interesting and entertaining. AND most of the users here have been really
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good, posted a lot, played games, had a good time in general. Why then must we
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shut it down then? I hear all you good users out there asking yourself that
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question. Well, along with the good users, there have also been a few "Not so
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good users" out there. They are the ones to spoil it for the rest of you. We
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have had so many problems in the past few weeks, it is not even funny! We have
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had users that thought it would be great fun to "STEAL" the users list from
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here with everyones passwords, phone numbers, address's, ETC and then upload it
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to other boards. We have had users that would call us voice here at all hours
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of the night with harrassing calls. We have had a user upset over giving out
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his phone number to another user (Eventho everybody has our users list by now).
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We had users ASK to be deleted, then keep trying to log back in as new. We have
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deleted users who refused to conform to our NO CUSSING rule here, then they got
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mad at us too. It has just turned into way TOO much hasstle lately. It used to
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be fun to run this board, but lately it has turned into a BIG headach taking
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up too much of my time trying to keep users happy, that we have decided to just
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turn it off, PERMANENTLY! It becomes effective this Saturday night (8-12-95) at
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Midnight. Chatterbox will no longer be around.
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For you good users, we are really sorry it has come to this. We appreciate all
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that you have done to help make this a fun BBS. I am sorry the situation has
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come to this. And I want to thank all of you good users for your participation
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in all that this board has to offer. If you could, please post on other boards
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that Chatterbox has permanently gone down, to rise no more, ok? Just to inform
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any users that don't log on and read this by Saturday what happened. Thanks.
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Scott The Believer
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PS- any replys (Posts or E-mail) is welcome, and Chatty will probably follow
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this with her own post about the situation.
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[And before that post, Apok0lyps had gotten the following private mail...]
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Name: Scott The Believer #2
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Date: Wed Aug 09 06:19:24 1995
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I am unpopular in the area? Never had any problem before, and I have BBSing for
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about 6 years now. I always got along pretty good with most everyone, never had
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a fight with anyone, except 1 sysop who I asked to be deleted from their system
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and they balked about removing my name from their system. I have had
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discussions about abortion with a few, but NO real fights. So I sure didn't
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know that I was unpopular around here. The only people I have had unpopular
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dealings with are the users of this board, namely Martini, Zak, Zensless1, and
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a few others I have deleted from here. The way I see it the whole problem
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started here with this board, and it is gonna end here and now with this board.
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I thought Amanda was doing a good job making a decent entertaining BBS, when I
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Dark Requim, I thought we really had a better board than they did. We sure got
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a lot of calls, 30-35 a day average. I really thought Amanda was doing an
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excelent job as a newbi sysop. BUT The buck stops here! I too am depressed
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about this whole incident, it IS boring. But I can stop it at any time. AND
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Amanda's Mother and I have made the decision, we will NOT put up with all these
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hasstles anymore. So we are shutting Chatterbox down, Permanently! Midnight
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this Saturday night is the day and time we pull the plug on Chatterbox. I am
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sorry to have to do this to Amanda, she really enjoyed runnning a board, but I
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have had enough midnight-3am calls, new users trying to call in saying OBSENE
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things in the LOG about Amanda as passwords. I am just sick of this whole month
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LONG incident that just won't stop. RBCP putting my Apology in one of his PLA
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text's is the capper, I am sick of him, his childish pranks, and putting my
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Apology in there was WHAT finally made me decide to do it. So as of Midnight
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this Saturday night, Chatterbox is History, Permanently. Don't bother calling
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anymore, it will not be amswering anymore after Saturday....End of discussion.
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[Needless to say, everyone at Cocktail Lounge and Roy's Place thought this
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to be really hilarious and everyone counted down the minutes until they
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went down. Apok0lyps actually managed to get himself deleted about a half
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hour before the bbs went down but I forget why. Lighten up, Scotty! :) Mr.
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Hack is still running his amazing phreeeekers' bbs. Here's a chat session
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submitted to me by Scorpion (with Mr. Hack, using a false account):
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HACK: i am the god dam exile!
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SCOR: oh ok why do you let people bash you?
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HACK: because they r just lamerz who got kiked out of their sisters ass!!
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SCOR: What I was wondering is why do you have so many enimies?
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HACK: BECAUSE WE ARE THE ELITE AND THEY ARE NOT AS GOOD AS US SO THEN THEY
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TAKE PROPER ACTION OF JEALOUSLY AND SAY THAT WE DONT KNOW ANYTHING SO
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DONT FUK WITH US..........NOT NECCESSARILY MEANING U!!
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SCOR: Whats that pol group?
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HACK: PAL? [PLA, of course]
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SCOR: something like that I always see them bashing you?
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HACK: THAts just BECAUSE THEY R JEALOUS!
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SCOR: Oh so there not really a cool group?
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HACK: FUK NO!
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SCOR: oh what group were you starting?
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HACK: OUR PRIVATE GROUP IS THE BRANCH OF THE n.O.c WHICH WUZ ALSO CREATED BY
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US ALSO! R SPECIAL GROUP IS CALLED D.e.k!
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SCOR: Are you a really good hacker?
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HACK: sORRY DUDE, GOTSTA GO TO SOME CHIKZ HOUZE. L8z!
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SCOR: ok btw is it true the Deter gives it to you up the ass?
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[After that, Mr. Hack hung up on him. (Can't imagine why) But PLA is
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taking donations so that we can help our friend, Mr. Hack buy a new
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keyboard. His CAPS lock seems to be stuck or something.
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And Greg Carson? He's not had a good month and he no longer posts on
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bbses at all, just calls them up and does new message scans to see if
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we're still talking about him. Here's a couple of posts by Zak that I
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found slightly hilarious:]
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Name: Zak #21 @6851
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Date: Wed Aug 09 00:51:39 1995 [To me...]
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You're lame or something. Hey I got an idea, fly up here and live here again,
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and get plastic surgery to look like Greg Carson and we'll kidnap him and you
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can go to work as him and say "I am Greg Carson and I think you are a poo poo
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head" Then we'll ruin his life. You can rob banks as him and call people and
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hang up. Then we can beat up his skanky hillbilly wife.
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Name: Zak #4
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Date: Thu Aug 10 05:47:52 1995
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I went into the hotel to sleep as it was very very late (about 2pm!) and greg
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pulled out a baloney sandwich and beat the shit out of me with it. I'm so
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scared of lunchmeat now.
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[And here's a piece of private mail I got from him. I forget what we were
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talking about.]
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Name: The Hit Man #370 @6851
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Date: Mon Aug 28 22:10:34 1995
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Use your mind and what would you say in my situation? I know nothing about you
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nor does anyone else (your real name even!) You move around alot it seems and
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I know when I ask questions that I will get no true answer, like your going
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to screw up and give me that information, but what should I say? WEll RBCP I
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guess I will talk to you later. well I guess I should say you suck or something
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but I dont want to start anything else between us. WEll bye-Dont worry I know
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you dont like me but at least we can talk like adults, right?
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Go ahead capture it and show the world what a dumbass I am.
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[I wasn't going to publish that e-mail but since he asked me to, I
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thought I'd give him a break since he's such a nice guy. But wait,
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that's not it...Greg, sick of a life of hell (not that I had anything
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to do with THAT) decided that since the police wouldn't help him,
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maybe the newspaper would so he called a reporter from the Belleville
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News Democrat in Belleville, Illinois and I started getting calls to
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my bbs in Texas from a guy named Grey Mouser. Here's some captures...]
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Date: 3:32 pm Wed Aug 16, 1995
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From: Grey Mouser
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To : Redboxchilipepper
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Hi this is grey mouset im a membe
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Hi my name is grey mouser im a user at roys place. I want membership now :)
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Date: 6:21 pm Wed Aug 16, 1995
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From: Grey Mouser
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To : Redboxchilipepper
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Hey, Im a reporter and I want to talk to you about Cactus. my number is
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618-234-8420 Call me tonight the story is running saturday and has to be filed
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tommorrow afternoon. My real name as im sure you know Is Brian. I want to talk
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to you about the cactus of Hitman, I want to get your side of things to make
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it a fair story.
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[Considering his spelling & grammar, of course I was skeptical...]
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Date: 6:35 pm Wed Aug 16, 1995
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From: Redboxchilipepper
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To : Grey Mouser
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Get lost, Greg. If you want to hear my side of it, read PLA34.ZIP.
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Date: 6:42 pm Wed Aug 16, 1995
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From: Grey Mouser
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To : Redboxchilipepper
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You know for being a supposed Phreaker your not very bright, Im a reporternot
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greg, I have talked with greg and I am wwriting a story about him that will be
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running in Sunday's paper, my work number is 1-618-234-1000 extension 626,
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give it a try it starts with the newspapers name. Im here right now if you
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want to talk.
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[At this point during his mail, I broke in for chat...]
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ME: What paper.
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GM: The news Democrat in Belleville Illinois
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ME: I'm not interested. Read pla034, okay?
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GM: Well Ive read 0-32 but Im more interested in a interview, Im sure the
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other reporters were as well hooked as I am, I belong to elite/pirate and
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phreak boards all over the country.
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ME: Why are you calling my 618 node then?
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GM: Im not Im calling your 512-883-7543 number from 618
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ME: Nope, the local 618 node is busy, I'm afraid and you're wasting my time.
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Whatever you have to offer doesn't interest me.
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GM: What do you mean the local node, do you mean a call to or from a 618
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number?
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ME: You figure it out, you're wasting my time. If you want to download pla034
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I'll let you stay on here, otherwise, goodbye.
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[Then I dropped out of chat. His letter was resumed so he continued...]
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Ok but dont blame me if the article seems slanted I have talked with three
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poeple who have been catused by the pla, I have tlkaed with the FBI, the
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corpus christi police and the local phone comapny. Im also talking to internet
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hackers at #hack and #virus. Ill just say you refused comment. But dont think
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this is greg, bk iit isnt.
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[Cactused?? I guess he's trying to relate with us. After toddling
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around my bbs like a first grader, looking at files, reading
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|
messages and making the same stupid mistakes over and over he
|
|
logged off. Anyway, I called up Roy's Place and checked out his
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account there and his validation feedback and here it is...]
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To: Zak #1 @1
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Name: Grey Mouser #59 @1
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Date: Wed Aug 16 12:24:22 1995
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RE: Validation Feedback (141 slots left)
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Hey, I want elite/pirate access damnit :)
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Anyway im new to the area and Im joioning all of the boardz aroud. I have
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elite access i boards all over the country, more specifically oregon, maryland
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and Illinois and of course the net on #hack and #virus.
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GM
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[Well, it finally turns out that he is, in fact, a real reporter and has
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|
been going crazy nuts calling up everyone in the 618 scene asking what
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|
they knew. He also got ahold of a copy of PLA007.TXT and called every-
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|
one on the loser list and tried to interview them all. Colleen Card, Zak
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|
and Martini finally ended up on a four-way call with him and had a long
|
|
conversation with him. Below is a copy of the article that appeared on
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|
the front page of the Belleville News-Democrat on Sunday, September 3rd,
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|
1995. Next to the article was a color copy of PLAGIF04.GIF (the altered
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|
phone logos and Calvin in an LOD shirt). I put my comments on the story
|
|
throughout the article in brackets...]
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Metro-east Families Face Harassment By Hackers - by Brian D. Crecente
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Seven metro-east families have been harassed by obscene and threatening phone
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|
calls, pranks and false telephone charges after running afoul of a computer
|
|
hackers group. The victims are listed in a computer file distributed by a
|
|
group called the Phone Losers of America. The victims believe they're on the
|
|
list because at one time they may have angered one of two members of the group
|
|
who have ties to the metro-east.
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|
One of them is a leader of the group who used to live in Madison County and
|
|
now lives in Texas and goes by the nickname "RedBoxChiliPepper." He appears to
|
|
be the writer of the phone list and other computer files that deal with
|
|
harassment or "cactusing," as hackers call it. Computer users can access the
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|
list simply by calling up a local information service called a bulletin board.
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|
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|
[By the time the article came out, I'd moved out of Texas and was actually
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|
visiting the 618 area when the article came out. I seriously doubt that
|
|
anyone you meet in #hack would say, "Y0, d00d, 3Y3 ju$+ c4ctus3d this
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|
4ssh0|3 |n my c|4ss!" The whole cactusing thing was just a stupid joke
|
|
that we're doing our best to run into the ground. And when in the hell
|
|
did PLA become a hackers group??? I'll do a semi-detailed explanation
|
|
of cactus in the next section of this issue.]
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RedBoxChiliPepper gives the following instructions: "Please keep in mind
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|
that this isn't a list of places to cactus...just list of numbers for you to
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|
call when you're bored or have some time to blow. Harassment is optional," he
|
|
wrote. "Included are pay phones, businesses, people who need to have the hell
|
|
bugged out of them, weirdos, phreaks, dweebies, sluts, security personel, etc.
|
|
If you have any other numbers to add to this list, please contact me and I
|
|
might just add the number to the list. Have fun!"
|
|
Greg and Carolyn Carson of Fairview Heights are among seven local familes on
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|
the list. "We have been having big problems," Carson said. "Two weeks ago, I
|
|
came home from work and had 20 calls on my answering machine." Greg Carson, an
|
|
active computer user, said he engaged in a war of words with the group on one
|
|
of the local computer bulletin boards. "They ordered five pizzas to my work in
|
|
Fairview Heights," he said. "They called all of the local papers and placed
|
|
ads in my name with my home number, saying I have houses for rent, computers
|
|
for sale or that I'm giving away my Rottweiler."
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|
|
|
[The list of course, was PLA007.TXT. War of words, my ass. He insulted
|
|
every user on a bbs and dared us to do something horrible to him.]
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|
After a month of this, Carson paid Ameritech $50 for an unpublished number.
|
|
That solution lasted a week. "The ad came out today," Carolyn Carson said
|
|
recently. "It was a computer ad with our unpublished number listed." The
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|
Carsons are frustrated. "The police can't do anything. Ameritech can't help.
|
|
So what are you supposed to do, not have a phone?" she said.
|
|
A spokesman for the FBI in Fairview Heights said the bureau will investigate
|
|
only if the calls become overt threats. He would not confirm whether the FBI
|
|
is investigating the Phone Losers. RedBoxChiliPepper responded to attempts by
|
|
the Belleville News Democrat to reach him through a computer bulletin board by
|
|
stating, "No comment."
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|
|
|
[A week? Funny, I remember calling Ameritech Assignment and getting the
|
|
new phone number the next morning. "No Comment" was sort of an under-
|
|
statement. It went more like this... I called Brian (the reporter) at
|
|
his home and said, "Hi, this is RBCP." and he said, "Oh, hi, how ya
|
|
doing?" and I screamed as loud as I could, "NO COMMENT!" and slammed
|
|
down the phone. Hey, we thought it was hysterical, okay?
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|
|
|
Almeda Lahr-Well of Glen Carbon said she was harassed in 1994 after she
|
|
expelled the other local group member from a private school she owns and
|
|
operates. She said she was having problems with the student, who lives in
|
|
Granite City and goes by the nickname Zak. Lahr-Well and her family received a
|
|
series of harassing phone calls - mostly hang-up calls. One of the last calls
|
|
was a bomb threat about the school. The calls stopped for a few months but
|
|
have resumed within the past three weeks, she said.
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|
|
|
[Zak was expelled from there for being a major pain in the ass. He was
|
|
actually responsible for causing a rule that stated no one was allowed
|
|
to say the word "cactus" during class time. He never really did explain
|
|
to me exactly how that happened. The bomb threat wasn't by us, but by
|
|
another student there named Jason Crews who was trying to frame us.
|
|
|
|
Daniel Tomkinson of Granite City said the harassment he has experienced began
|
|
after he allowed a teenage girl who was a friend of his son Chris to stay at
|
|
their house for a month after she had been kicked out by her former boyfriend.
|
|
The boyfriend, it turned out, was RedBoxChiliPepper. "Almost immediately after
|
|
she started living here, someone listed our house for sale, for rent, ordered
|
|
pizzas to our house," Tomkinson said.
|
|
"We started getting calls at all times of the night threatening my 9-year-
|
|
old daughter, saying he was going to kidnap and rape her." A long-distance
|
|
calling card in Chris Tomkinson's name was then distributed around the country,
|
|
netting thousands of dollars in false charges. Someone began renting video
|
|
tapes in Daniel Tomkinson's name without returning them. Someone also called
|
|
in a false drug tip to police about Chris' friends. "This really ruined Chris'
|
|
social life," Tomkinson said. "All I did was display a little kindness to a
|
|
young lady from Texas."
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|
|
|
[First of all, Daniel Tomkinson has never lived in Granite City, he lives
|
|
in Rosewood Heights and always has. (You were only off by about 25 miles,
|
|
Brian!) The girlfriend in question wasn't kicked out, but left me because
|
|
she was sick of my shenanagens, I guess. And the problems with Chris were
|
|
never related to this girl, he just assumed they were. Threatening a nine
|
|
year-old kid doesn't really sound like something I do a lot of. These
|
|
people have to remember, they're on the Loser List which is distributed
|
|
nationally. Anyone could have called them.
|
|
Although renting video tapes under Chris Tomkinson's name sounds really
|
|
appealing, it never happened. What actually happened was that I was
|
|
sitting in a bus station in Indiana talking on a pay phone talking to
|
|
Zak. (As usual) He decides to call Chris up at home to annoy him. Chris
|
|
answers and Zak goes into a long conversation with him basically saying,
|
|
"I'm Dave from Very Video here in Wood River and we're just wondering
|
|
when in the hell you're going to return your videos...what, you don't
|
|
have a video card here? Well that's funny, I show on my computer here
|
|
that you checked out three copies of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and an
|
|
old Stooges movie...Yes, we have your signature right here and you've
|
|
had these tapes since last week...Well, we have closed circuit cameras
|
|
in here and our security tapes go back one month. Would you like to
|
|
come in and we can see for ourselves that you're telling the truth?"
|
|
Chris is more than happy to come in because he says he knows exactly
|
|
who's responsible for doing this and he can easily identify RBCP on
|
|
the security tapes and he says he'll be there in 15 minutes.
|
|
The funny thing is, Zak was just trying to be stupid and didn't even
|
|
sound convincing, yet Chris still believed him. So after that call we
|
|
phoned the video store and I said, "Yeah, my name's Chris Tomkinson
|
|
and I rented a tape there and it was totally fucked and I'm PISSED
|
|
OFF! I'm going to come in there and kick your fucking ass right now!
|
|
I'll be there in 15 minutes mother fucker! When you hear me tell you
|
|
that I'm Chris Tomkinson, you'd better run because I'm going to start
|
|
throwing the punches at you! You got that!?!?" We never did get to see
|
|
the end results on that one...]
|
|
|
|
Richard Ahler of Granite City was the leader of a Boy Scout troop that
|
|
included the student kicked out of Lahr-Well's school. Some problems led to a
|
|
confrontation between Ahler and Zak, and the student was kicked out of the Boy
|
|
Scout troop as well. Ahler and his family began receiving harassing phone
|
|
calls. "For a while, the calls were obscene. Now they are just a nuisance,"
|
|
said Ahler's wife, Linda. "We had lots of pizzas sent to our house. We received
|
|
telephone books from Texas that we didn't order, and in the beginning, they
|
|
tried to get us to pay for phone service we didn't order." The harassment died
|
|
down but resumed about two weeks ago when someone in Sweeden tried 19 times
|
|
to make collect calls to the family.
|
|
|
|
[Zak got kicked out of the Boy Scouts?? News to us. The only person we
|
|
know from Sweeden would be Demon Phreaker from OC, so we assume he's
|
|
responsible for the nineteen collect calls, although I wasn't able to
|
|
get in touch with him to find out for sure. He was a member on my bbs
|
|
and probably got their number from the Loser List... Good job, DP!]
|
|
|
|
Sometimes obscene messages are sent through a special phone service provided
|
|
for hearing-impaired people called a TDD Relay Service. In that systen, a
|
|
hearing-impared caller -or in this case a hacker- types a message on a TDD
|
|
machine that a phone operator must read to the recipient of the call."On one
|
|
obscene call we received from a relay service, the operator was sobbing and
|
|
crying while she tried to read the message," Ahler said. Another victim,
|
|
Elizabeth Colwell of Granite City, lives near the expelled student. She said
|
|
the youth called to harass her once and she asked him why she was chosen. "He
|
|
said he doesn't have a life," she said. The harassment ended with a bomb
|
|
threat, this time to a Hardee's restaurant where Colwell's son used to work.
|
|
|
|
[Neither me or Zak could remember making a TDD operator cry so if someone
|
|
out there reading this is responsible for this one, drop me a note. I'd
|
|
really like to know what it takes to make an operator sob! I don't know
|
|
why everyone thinks we're terrorists who make bomb threats everywhere.
|
|
I'm a civil enough person to not cause the fire department to run around
|
|
town looking for non-existant bombs. I did hear that Colwell's son, Danny,
|
|
was fired from Hardees because some heartless hooligans were calling him
|
|
constantly at work and being mean to his manager. Who could that be...]
|
|
|
|
The other local harassment victims declined to discuss the matter openly for
|
|
fear of retaliation. All the victims made one common claim - that police and
|
|
telephone companies have been unable to stop the harassment. Ameritech spokes-
|
|
man Mike Brand said the telephone company has specialists who handle phone
|
|
harassment complaints. Customers should avoid giving their phone number to
|
|
strangers, he added. "You want to zealously guard your number," he said. "The
|
|
telephone is a tremendous convenience, but people choose to use it as an
|
|
instrument of torture at times."
|
|
Who are the Phone Losers of America? The group considers itself an electronic
|
|
magazine dedicated to freedom of information. Local victims of telephone
|
|
harassment believe it has more to do with revenge and kicks. The group has
|
|
issued 36 computer text files that deal with harassment or "phreaking," which
|
|
generally means raiding phone company computers to steal services and
|
|
manipulate records. The files include tiles such as "Getting Revenge the
|
|
Phreakers Way," "Information Gathering on Anyone," and "A List of Number to
|
|
Call When You're Really Bored."
|
|
|
|
[Guard your number, Mike? It's not the customers who are at fault there,
|
|
the Ameritech employees are the idiots who will give you unlisted and
|
|
confidential information just because you claim to work for them. Better
|
|
advice would probably be "don't go on a private bbs system and dare
|
|
people to harass you." PLA has issued 36 computer text files? Funny,
|
|
when this article came out we were only up to 34. I guess he's counting
|
|
the index and Summer '95 Fone Directory.]
|
|
|
|
The latter file features the group's list of people to harass, which includes
|
|
36 residential phone numbers, 95 business numbers and other assorted numbers
|
|
for pay phones and computer bulletin boards nationwide.
|
|
Another file explains how to build a "red box," which allows users to make
|
|
free calls from pay phones. Another explains how to break into computer
|
|
systems, and another gives details on how to steal services from telephone
|
|
company service boxes located outside of homes and businesses. The text files
|
|
are distributed to 23 computer bulletin boards in the U.S. and one in Canada,
|
|
known as PLA distribution sites. A leader of the group, who used to live in
|
|
the metro-east and goes by the name RedBoxChiliPepper, claims to have written
|
|
much of the material.
|
|
|
|
[A few things that Zak tried to stress during their short phone interview
|
|
was that we're not a group, it's a damn text file publication and that
|
|
we're not computer hackers nor do we pretend to be but I guess none of
|
|
that sank into Brian's head when he wrote the article. Hey, I guess if
|
|
it sells the paper it's okay...
|
|
I'm not the "leader" of this "group" I just happen to write practically
|
|
everything that goes in each issue. I guess Brian is the leader of the
|
|
Belleville News-Democrat since he wrote this story. At the time of this
|
|
writing we had well over 60 published distro sites on Earth, not 23.
|
|
And I didn't talk to this guy, let alone "claim to have written much of
|
|
the material" as he said. Oh well, despite all my griping about how
|
|
misleading the article was, everyone seemed to enjoy it, including
|
|
myself. We're still debating on whether or not to add Brian to the
|
|
infamous Loser List. Then someone could write a story about him! One
|
|
last thing is Quinbus's rebuttal concerning the article. Quinbus is a
|
|
local bbser who wrote the following and sent it in to the newspaper.
|
|
|
|
In my opinion, the article mentioned above is possibly the best example
|
|
of 'yellow journalism' that I have ever seen in my life. Not only did Mr.
|
|
Crecente fail to present a balanced, non-biased article, but he also failed to
|
|
get the facts which he presented correct.
|
|
Mr. Crecente states that local residents are being harassed by a group
|
|
of local 'hackers' who call themselves the Phone Losers of America (PLA).
|
|
But, if he had done any research at all, he would know that computer hackers
|
|
are people who penetrate computer systems for the purpose of exploring it,
|
|
and gathering knowledge and information. Hence, the PLA are not hackers at
|
|
all. They are in fact a small group of 'phreakers' who started distributing
|
|
informational text files a short while ago. A 'phreaker' is best described
|
|
as someone who exploits flaws in the telephone systems to their advantage.
|
|
Also, he refers to the PLA's version of harassment as "cactusing," which in
|
|
all honesty is the most ignorant statement I have heard in a while, but I
|
|
guess it fits in with all the other nonsense in the article. It's true that
|
|
some members of the PLA like to use the word 'cactus' more than most people,
|
|
but they usually just throw it in sentences where most people would 'a','the',
|
|
or any other common words. The bottom line is that there is no such thing as
|
|
cactusing, and that it is just another piece of information fabricated by
|
|
the reporter.
|
|
Although it may be true that the PLA is or has been harassing certain
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local residents, it is done only in retaliation. Harassment is defined as
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"disturbing or irritating persistently." If this is true, then the PLA is
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only rewarding harassment with counter-harassment. For instance, the case of
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Greg Carson is particularly relevant. Mr. Carson - mentioned in the article
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sited above - is known in the local computer BBS scene as The Hit Man. Aside
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from the obvious implications drawn from his alias, Greg has seemingly only
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had one purpose since I saw him appear in the scene a few weeks ago. This
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purpose being to cause trouble. He repeatedly made instigating remarks,
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threats, and other immature ramblings in public areas of at least one local
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BBS. And when he made such comments to the PLA, they took action. So why
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is it so bad that this group took such action and counter-harass someone who
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harassed them?
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As I said before, the PLA does distribute informational text files. And
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in the article, it discussed how one local family reported that someone from
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Sweden was trying to bill telephone calls to them. The PLA can't be held
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responsible for other people's stupidity. The files are to inform the public
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only, they are not commanding anyone to do anything for them. If someone
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from Sweden is trying to do these things, they should go to Sweden and find
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them, not bother the PLA. I sincerely believe that if it weren't for people
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like the members of the PLA and other phreakers around the world, who have
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learned enough about the phone systems and their flaws, the telephone
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companies of the world would not be able to make advances in technology and
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security for the consumer. Let's face it, if there aren't enough people
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doing something that hurts their company's profit, they will not spend the
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money to develop new systems. Telephone companies have spent large sums of
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money trying to make the phone systems as secure as possible because of people
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like the PLA, but the systems are much better because of it.
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As for the other major allegations made in the article, they were thrown
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in to make the story just that much more interesting. I think with all the
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hype of the Internet and the public's newfound knowledge of the computer
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underground, Mr. Crecente was trying to make his story just that much better
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by turning simple phone phreaks into sex crazed, bomb happy psychos. The
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allegations that members of the PLA called and threatened to kidnap and rape
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a 9 year old girl are horrendous. Not to mention implying that the PLA is
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responsible for not one, but two bomb threats. I believe that in all, this
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reporter used the public's suspicions of the newly discovered computer
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underground as a canvas to paint a very distorted picture of the situation at
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hand.
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I agree that the public should be aware that there are certain bad aspects
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in the online community. I do not, however, believe that they should be made
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to feel that just because they go online, that they are going to be harassed.
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Just like the real world, if you harass or threaten someone online, you run
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the risk that they will retaliate. In general, everywhere in life, the old
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Golden Rule "Do unto others, as you would have done unto you" applies. If
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these local residents would not have done something harassing to the PLA, the
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PLA would not have harassed them in return.
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In conclusion, if Mr. Crecente would have done more research into this
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story, he would have found that there wasn't much of a story at all. Perhaps
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only the headline "Telephone Geniuses Get Even." Instead, he ran a story
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which was filled with half-truths, and worse yet, complete lies.
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-quinbus-flestrin-
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ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
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³ Just What In The Hell Does "Cactus" MEAN?? - RBCP ³
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ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
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Every once in awhile I get e-mail from people wanting to know what cactus
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means and where it came from and why we're so obsessed with it. The original
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meaning of cactus was just to call up a person at random and say absolutely
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nothing to them except "cactus". For some reason, this really gets to people
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so it can be fun if you're bored enough.
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I first heard some get cactused when a friend of mine, Amigados (618) came
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to my house about four years ago and he started calling people and cactusing
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them. So I decided to give him a call and ask him about the origin of cactus.
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In a phone interview, here's what was said...
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"Me and some friends of mine were sitting around a friend's room and bored
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out of our minds. We picked up the phone and were pranking this girl that
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Steve used to like and she blew him off. At the time we were playing a game
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called Hero's Quest, but we were playing a really screwed up version that they
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invented one night when they were tripin' and there were cactuses sprouting up
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out of the ground because they were making up really stupid creatures.
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"I called her right as my character was enveloped by a cactus so I said to
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her, 'cactus?' and she said, 'who?' and I said, 'oh, cactus.' and that's how
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it started. After that we kept calling her back and saying cactus because it
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seemed to really get on her nerves. All night we picked random numbers out of
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the phone book and cactused people and we did it for days and the next thing
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you know it just became a way of life."
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That's the story, Brian Crecente, you shouldn't have tried to base all your
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knowledge of the computer underground on a couple of PLA files. Just go into
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#hack and ask tr1be about us and you'll hear, "They know nothing! They are
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lame!" Try reading Phrack next time.
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A few more things about Amigados, he used to drive around in car that had a
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big cactus drawn on the front side of it along with the word, "cactus" and he
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told me that they went around stealing those gigantic real estate magnets off
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the side of cars (those huge advertising magnets, you know?), took them home
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and cut them out in the shapes of cactuses to stick on their own cars.
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"To live the cactus is to live like no man." -Amigados, 1995
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ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
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³ Dealing With Evil Hackers Cactusing You With A Classified Ad - RBCP ³
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ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
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We all learned from Brian Crecente's informative newspaper article that
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those evil hackers that hang out on the information superhighway's #hack and
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#virus can do horrible, nasty things to you, known to everyone in the under-
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ground world as "cactusing!" One of these things would be to put an ad in the
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paper (or several papers) causing your phone to ring non-stop with people
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wanting to buy your house, car or rotweiler named Carolyn.
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Well, our friend Greg Carson finally decided that the only thing to do was
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to fight back with our own methods and place a few ads in some papers with
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Zak's home voice number. One was a car for sale and one was a house. What Greg
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didn't know, is that we routinely put ads in the paper ourselves, giving our
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own phone numbers so that we can answer the phone and freak out the people
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that call. (Sort of reverse prank calling. Too lazy to dial numbers? Make the
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people call you!) Greg's ads made for an interesting weekend at Zak's house
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and everyone there fought to be the first to answer the phone. Here are a few
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clips of transcripts:
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CUSTOMER: I'm calling about the car for sale.
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ZAK: Oh, I'm glad you called! I slipped on a jar of mustard and I'm trapped
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here under the shelf. Can you come over and rescue me?
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CUSTOMER: Oh, my goodness!
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[The lady ended up calling 911 to help Zak and 911 called Zak's house to
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find out what the problem was.]
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CUSTOMER: Yes, is Zak there? I'm calling about the apartment.
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COLLEEN CARD: That's my dad, he's in the bathroom taking a shit.
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CUSTOMER: Oh, well, I'll just call back later then.
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COLLEEN: Yeah, it's a big, gross brown one, I believe...
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CUSTOMER: That's not really necessary. <click!>
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A half-hour later I got his number from the caller I.D. and called him back,
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yelling in a hick accent.
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RBCP: Yeah, this is Zak! You called about the apartment!?
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CUSTOMER: Uhhh...
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RBCP: I'm takin' a major shit right now but my daughter brought the cordless
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phone to me so you go ahead and ask your questions! It's a big, brown,
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stinky shit! What do you need to know!?
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CUSTOMER: <click!>
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CUSTOMER: Hi, I'm calling about the apartment for rent.
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RBCP: Well, it's funny, a wrecking crew was supposed to knock down the house
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next door but they got the address mixed up and knocked down my house
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instead so I can't really rent it anymore.
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CUSTOMER: You serious?
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RBCP: Yup.
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CUSTOMER: Boy, that's crazy. You know, I'm a carpenter and once I was doing
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some work for a fellow up in O'Fallon, roofing some houses and I
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went to the wrong house, pulled up a roof and re-shingled the
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damn thing. And you know what? It was-
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RBCP: (inturrupting) Yeah, yeah, yeah, like I really give a shit about your
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life, pal. Quit babbling to me. <click!>
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ZAK: The apartment? Well, see, a misguided ICBM missle accidentally crashed
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into it and the whole block was nuked. I've still got a nice pile of
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rubble to rent out if you want. I'll give you a discount.
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ZAK: Oh, the apartment? The funniest thing happened, an airplane crashed into
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the house.
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CUSTOMER: An airplane? You're kidding!
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ZAK: No, I got there this morning and there was the tail of an airplane
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sticking out of my house...
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So you see, harassment isn't so bad if you have a sense of humor. I remember
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one ad we placed a few years ago using my own phone number and I kept
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convincing people that I wasn't home but they could go look at the house by
|
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themselves and just look in the windows to see what it's like. Then I gave them
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the address of some guy who lived close by and was always home and probably
|
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wouldn't be too happy with people peering into his windows. So the next time
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you're singled out and can't get any sleep because your phone rings non-stop,
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don't get mad, get creative and have fun. Do it again, Greg!
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³ This Issue's Featured Support Sites ³
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Not a whole lot of new sites this issue. Hope I didn't leave anyone out, I've
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³ ³ ³
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³ A Seattle man was arrested Tuesday ³ Kenneth Milner from the 63rd block of ³
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³ after finding the home addresses ³ Lincoln was mugged early this morning ³
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³ of six AT&T employees and killing ³ by two white males. He was hit over ³
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³ them and their families and their ³ the head with a balogny sandwich and ³
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³ dogs. Alex Carbon, age 304, is ³ they made off with seven dollars in ³
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³ If you can solve either of these crimes of the week, please call Crime- ³
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³ Stoppers today at 618-398-7124. And help take a bite out of crime! ³
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³ 512-703-8910.................................PLA Voicemail System (RBCP) ³
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³ 314-995-1261..................................PLA Voicemail System (Zak) ³
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³ 618-797-2339.............................................Roy's Place BBS ³
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³ FTP.FC.NET.....................................pub/deadkat/phreaking/PLA ³
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³ ETEXT.ARCHIVE.UMICH.EDU............................pub/Zines/PhoneLosers ³
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³ rbcp@big12.metrobbs.com...............................RedBoxChiliPepper) ³
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³ cactus@basenet.net....................................Zak a.k.a. el_jefe ³
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³ collcard@big12.metrobbs.com......................To contact Colleen Card ³
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