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| | G R A Y A R E A S |
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| | M A G A Z I N E |
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| | by |
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\| --- Nutta Gilbooa --- |
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| Issue #01 January 1995 || `---------------------------.
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| GrayAreas (tm) is a registered || Between right and wrong, |
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| trademark of GrayAreas StINCk. || innocent and guilty, bad |
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| We have lawyers. We will sue. || and good there are lapses |
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`--------------------------------'| in reason, there are: |
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.' Welcome to Issue #01 | G R A Y A R E A $ |
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| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ `------------------------------'
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| This is the 1st edition of Grayareas |
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| in the electronic e-text medium. |
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| Grayareas is scheduled to be released |
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| in this form on a monthly basis. -Ed. |
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.' `.\
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_| In this sm0kin Issue: |__
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| [1] My life as a 60's throwback |
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| By GroinArea | |
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| [2] My Secret Agenda |.'
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| By GroinArea |
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| [3] Invalid Media |
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| - A Portrait in Spooge |
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| By GroinArea |
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| [4] From Tie-Dye to Tied Up |
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| By GroinArea |
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| [5] HoeHoeCon - A review |
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'._____________________________________.`
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^
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`---- Introducing our 1st ever
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RNW (READ N WIPE) Issue!
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Yes, not only is this zine
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elite, when coupled with
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a dot matrix printer and
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some nice soft printer
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paper it can d0uble as
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butt wipe!! Never run
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0ut again! Amaze your
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friends! Yes, made possible
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through our patent RNW (tm)
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techn0logy! You too can have
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a bouncin' and behavin' a$$!
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[INTRODUCTION]
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This is a s0ng I wr0te for someone very dear
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to me:
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MuRkY p00
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~~~~~~~~~
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<ToO bE sUnG 2 ThE tUnE oF 'CaSeY J0nEs'>
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< bY tHe GraTeFuL dEaD >
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m0dDinG tHaT CeLl, sTeaLiNg fr0m bELL
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mUrKy p0o, u BeTtEr kEeP uR lInE kLeAn
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tr0ubLe aHeaD, p0sSe BeHiNd
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aNd u kn0W uR t0lL rek0rds
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jUsT kr0SsEd GaiL's mInD
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'tHis rDisT skRiPt
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gEts r0ot eVeRyTiMe
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aNd iF iT d0nT wUrK
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i'LL trY /bin/tiMe
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chm0d thaT sHeLL
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f0ur-sEveN-fIvE-FiVe
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iT's SeT-U-i-D aNd i'M r0oTiN aGaIn'
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m0DdInG tHaT CeLl, sTeaLiNg fr0m bELL
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mUrKy p0o, u BeTtEr kEeP uR lInE kLeAn
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tr0ubLe aHeaD, p0sSe BeHiNd
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aNd u kn0W uR t0lL rek0rds
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jUsT kr0SsEd GaiL's mInD
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tr0ubLe aHeaD, 0h GaiL iN mY bEd
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taKe mY aDvIcE, u'D bE bEtTeR oFf dEaD
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sWiTcHeD rInG fOr tIp g0T a sH0cK 2 ThA BraIn!
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102 v0lTs, i'Ll nEvEr blOtTo BoX aGaIn
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m0DdInG tHaT CeLl, sTeaLiNg fr0m bELL
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mUrKy p0o, u beTtEr kEeP uR liNe kLeAn
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tr0ubLe aHeaD, p0sSe BeHiNd
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aNd u kn0w uR t0lL rek0rds
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jUsT kr0SsEd GaiL's mInD
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<pHUnKy aZz bi+cHiN bASs G!>
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aNd u kn0w uR t0lL rek0Rds
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jUsT kr0SsEd GaiL's mInd!
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Wurd! Welc0me to the first m0nthly issue of GrayAreas(tm)!
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I'm tHa maC bItCh sHe-GaNgsTa! i'M hErE wiTh tHa pHuNkY
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aSs bEaTs! i'M oN tHe CdC +ip!!@# YeS, iN a deSpuRaTe
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biD FoR reCoGniTioN inVaLiD mEeDeA aNd mE hAvE tEaMeD uP
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tOo fIgHt fOr tHe riTe 2 RocK! sO hErE We aRe kiQiN BiG
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fUqN a$$ G!#@#@! kaLL mE siLly bUt i RuBbEd iNvaLiD's
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gEnItAl's aNd hIs sHaNkeR's sTaR+eD 2 bLeEd!@!@# hIs
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aSs iS a sIgHt 2 BeH0lD leT mE tElL u tHaT!
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| My Life As a 60's Throw Back |
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| oR: ToO MaNy BaD TrIpS |
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| oR: LiFe In ThE CoMmUnE |
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| + A ReTrOsPeCtiVe + |
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| ---- a NuTtA GiLboOa JoiN+ --- |
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|| ,_ _. || Heh heh heh.. | |
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|| _ |_ || These pe0ple are _| =-. |.-. |
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@| (o\_/o) |@ l0sers \ o|/o/ _. |
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\ ( /uuuuu\ ) / \ (/___@) ___~ |
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\ `=====' / ---- Heh huh, |_===~~~.` |
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\ -___- / Fer sur... _______.--~ |
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| | len, Fer sur.. \________ |
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/__| aLl'z |__\ -| NeT$y$ || |
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| || WELL || | || r0x || |
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| || WELL || | / | / /
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<CdC> Gray Areas published an article about the WELL hack. I am curious,
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is Len Rose WELL hacker #1 in the article and is JSZ #2? It's been bothering
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me for quite a long time.
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<grayarea> Well, thanks for holding off the question this long! It is the
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question I am asked most often on #hack. I can't tell. As I told the FBI,
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I promised them anonymity and immunity and I mean that even if cited for
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contempt in court. I didn't tell the hacker I dated who they were and
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I can't tell you either. In fact, one of them does not know who the other
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is and as much as he deserves to know, I haven't been able to tell him either.
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PiMPiN QWiK REFERENCE CHART
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===========================
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Belief-Bia$ Effec+: The improper evaluation of the validity
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of a conclusion on the basis of what is
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believed to exist beyond the known facts.
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<CdC> What do you do on IRC all day? I do a /whois grayarea and you're
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always there.
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<grayarea> Well, at times those haven't been me <grin>. For awhile I got
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impersonated a lot. But, yes I do hang on IRC for up to 19 hours at a time.
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There are some very logical reasons for this. If you are waiting for someone
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to come on, it can take 8 or 10 hours till they show up. Some people I
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like the most live in other countries, or on the West coast, and so they
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come on at 3 a.m. or at 10 a.m. or at 6 p.m. The more you are there, the
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more likely you are to catch everyone you want to see. Since I do work on
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IRC too by talking to readers and potential writers, and since I can be
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working in the background while on, it makes sense I am there a lot since
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I am my own boss.
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The truth is that some people are jealous of how much free time I have
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and so they resent my presence there. It can't be because they are worried
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about what they say publically because 50% of any IRC session is people
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entering and leaving the channel, ops, kicks and bans. Another 25%
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or so is people greeting each other on channel. Only about 25% of what flys
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by my screen is conversation of any kind and on #hack and phreak very little
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is ever said about anyone hacking or phreaking anyway.
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PiMPiN QWiK REFERENCE CHART
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Delu$ion$: False beliefs maintained in the face of no or
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contrary evidence.
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Paranoid Per$onality Di$order: A disorder characterized by an exaggerated
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and unwarranted mistrust and suspicion
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of others. These symptoms are extremely
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rigid and unchangeable, even in the face
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of disconfirming evidence.
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GROiNAREA *SEZ* WHAT ABOUT INVALID MEDIA?!
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Defen$e Mechani$m$: Mental tactics that the ego uses to insulate
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itself from threatening idea's, perceptions,
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emotions, and instincts. see also CdC.
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Exhibitioni$m: The displaying of one's genitalia to a stranger
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in a public place to achieve sexual gratification.
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XYY $yndrome: A genetic disorder in which an individual has
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an extra Y chromosome.
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WuRd! ThaT eNd$ tHe 1St pImP sLaPpiN aRtiKlE. -- GRoiNAREA
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| GRAYAREAS MAGAZINE E-P0SSE |
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| PRESENTS: |
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| MY SEKRET AGENDA |
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| --- A NuTTa GiLBooA jOiN+ --- |
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*** IRC Log Started February 13, 1999 1:30 AM
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*** grayarea (grayarea@bbs.netaxs.com) has joined channel #hack
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#hack @grayarea
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<grayarea> hmm.
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* grayarea wonders where everyone is
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<grayarea> .log on
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<grayarea> oops.
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*** grayarea has changed the topic: I'm all alone!
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<grayarea>
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<grayarea>
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<grayarea> ?
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<grayarea>
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<grayarea> ?!
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<grayarea>
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<grayarea> hi dale, is there a netsplit or something?
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<d_d> why no nutta, noone is left, you turned them all in.
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<grayarea> all of them?
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<d_d> yup.
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<d_d> ops please >8-)
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<grayarea> Are the grateful dead still touring?
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<d_d> yes, they're in Miami I think
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*** signoff: grayarea (dr1v1n that tra1n)
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<d_d> dum bitch
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#hack @d_d
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*** Mode change "+i" on channel #hack by d_d
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<d_d> lamers
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wUrd! tHaT eNd$ tHe 2nD kiKa$$ pUbE pUlLiN rTiKlE G!#! -- GRoiNAREA
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| GRAYAREAS MAGAZINE MAFIA |
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| PRE$ENT$ |
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| I N V A L I D M E D I A |
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Without this I am nothing
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Without this I am nothing
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Without this I am nothing
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Without this I am nothing
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Without this I am nothing
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Without this I am nothing
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My whole existance is borrowed
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My whole existance is borrowed
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My whole existance is borrowed
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Look at me
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FRINGE
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Look at me
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FRINGE
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Look at me
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FRINGE
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Look at me
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I MUST JUST CU$$
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I MUST JUST CU$
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I MUST BE!
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UNDERSTAND
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UNDERSTAND
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Noone leaves the caravan
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Noone leaves the caravan
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Noone leaves the caravan
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Noone leaves the caravan
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YEW PEE TEE?
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YEW PEE TEE?
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no nirvana!
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Kurt Cobain?
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no unplugged!
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nirvana?
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no UPT.
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GROiNAREA *SEZ* NiGGAH$ BE Di$$iN!@#!
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GROiNAREA *SEZ* $P00GE i$ P0WER
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GROiNAREA *SEZ* ENUFF $AiD
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tHaT eNd$ tHe pHuNkiFiAbLe dEf dEfYiNg rTiKlE #3 G!#!@ -- GRoiNAREA
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GROiNAREA *SEZ* AND N0W A QWiK ADVER+i$EMEN+
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`. GRAYAREAS MAGAZINE E-B0AT 0F PHUNN /
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K0MiNG S00N 2 A +HEA+RE NEAR YEW!@#
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S+ARRiNG EMMANUEL LEWi$ AZ INVALID MEDIA
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C0S+ARRiNG $ALLY STRUTHER$ A$ GRAYAREA
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$0UNDTRACK BY $ALLY $TRUTHER$ AND THE IC$ CH0iR B0Y P0$$E
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GR0iNAREA *SEZ* INVALID MEDIA HA$ M0RE $HANKER$ 0N Hi$ A$$ +HAN 1000
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$KANKY H0E'$ Wi+H P$iRIo$i$!@#!@
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HoeHoeCon '94
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December 29, 1994 - January 2, 1995
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Ramada Inn South, Austin, TX
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A Review, released to the Net on 1/25/95
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By Nutta "grayarea" Gilbooa
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I flew to Austin, TX after spending Christmas with some hacker friends.
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I arrived a day early, unsure if the Con was gonna come off and how many
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people would show if it did. HoHoCon had almost been cancelled this year
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after someone called the original hotel and said a bunch of mean, evil
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hackers were gonna descend on the hotel and that several federal agencies
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would be sending feds there to monitor it. If you ask me, some kid's mom
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*** GROiNAREA *SEZ* $KANKY H0E$ BE NARQiN!!#@!@
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said he couldn't go so he decided to try to make sure none of us could
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either. Lame. It also taught me that everyone in this community has
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enemies. Maybe someone just doesn't like Drunkfux. Supposedly, right after
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this phone call the hotel got another, this time from Dateline NBC who
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wanted permission to film the Con. Rumor had it the hotel panicked and
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cancelled. The truth is that a regular client of theirs offered to pay
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higher room rates and the hotel stood to make over $20,000 extra by
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getting rid of us and having them there instead. So they used the phone
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calls as an excuse. I can only imagine the hassles Drunkfux went
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through to find another hotel that was empty on New Year's Eve weekend.
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But Drunkfux came through with flying colors and when I got to the
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*** GROiNAREA *SEZ* dFx IS A RIGHTE0U$ D00D!!@#
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hotel they told me other people had started to arrive. They gave me a
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list of these people to look at, complete with their real names and room
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numbers. It's possible they would even have xeroxed the list if I had
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asked them to. Uncool. Even more uncool, almost shocking, was that the
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hotel had a clipboard on the counter with people's real names, assigned
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room number and credit card number complete with expiration date. It was
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listed in alphabetical order and I was on the top page in the third spot.
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I freaked. I told the woman behind the counter that she must move the
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clipboard as some of the people coming specialized in attacking people's
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credit and that I would surely be a target given my position on the list
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and my all too well-known real name. She said okay but when I returned my
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luggage cart, some twenty minutes later, it was still on the counter. I
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told her again, nastier this time, to move it. An hour later she still had
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not. I then asked to use a phone and was told there was one in my room and
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another down the hall. I explained that I wanted to call right from the
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counter to cancel my credit card and to call the national offices of Ramada
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Inns to have her fired. In a nasty tone she told me she'd move the clipboard.
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*** GROiNAREA *SEZ* PARANOID DELU$iONAL LiE$
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She did. However, the next day they threw the pages in the trash and, of
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course, had the clipboard on the counter again with a new list of the people
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due to check in that day. I argued with them again and they moved it. A few
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hours later (surprise!) their trash was invaded and they went out and bought
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two paper shredders. This was a good investment on their part although it's
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a shame it took us to teach them that. If you intend to stay at a Ramada Inn
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*** GR0iNAREA *SEZ* WOO WOO P0WER 2 TH3 P30PLE!@# UHH HUH!#
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anywhere in the U.S., I would strongly advise you not to prepay with a credit
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card. They can't be trusted with your data. We invite readers who may have
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experienced credit card fraud after staying at Ramada Inns (or other hotels)
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to contact us. It was a sobering lesson in how vulnerable the average person
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is in society.
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I had plans to hook up with Stormbringer and Holy Spirit, two virus
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writers I love talking to. Stormbringer had recently retired from virus
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writing after hearing from someone in Singapore who got infected with
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one of his non-malicious viruses. I had read his retirement text file and
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was anxious to talk to him about it. He assured me on the phone all was well
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and they agreed to meet me at Mr. Wasabi for sushi and I ate more sushi
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than I ever had before in one sitting. Then we walked to a coffee house
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and they drove me back to my hotel around 1 a.m.
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I was invited to Novocain and Particle's room so I headed up there and
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ran into Veggie, Onkel Ditmeyer, Count Zero, Buckaroo, etc. Onkel showed
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me his way cool laptop and I finally got to see what an IBM demo looks
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like. These are programs which demonstrate the sound and graphics
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capabilities of a computer. He copied a few of them on a disk for me along
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with some electronic magazines I had never seen. Onkel is the author of a
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well known phreaking program called Bluebeep. We spoke a lot over the
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weekend and I found him brilliant, honest, charming and not afraid of
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girls who know way less than him. He was one of the coolest people at
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HoHoCon this year.
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At 6 a.m. a few of us went downstairs for free breakfast and the
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conversation turned to the various women who hang out on #hack. There
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was some dissing of one girl who has slept her way around the scene and
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in the past had given a number of hackers herpes without telling them
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first. Eeks. I tried to get out of the guys I was eating with what she
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had that I didn't (besides herpes). I message most of her old lovers on
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IRC but none has ever made a pass at me. We talked about the other girls
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on IRC, who has slept with whom, and how they got treated afterwards. We
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talked about why people might have slept with those particular girls at
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the time they did and I suddenly felt both very lucky and better about
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myself that the one hacker I had slept with was a decent choice. Quality
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might beat quantity. To know for sure, I guess I'd have to ask the girls
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We picked up a bunch of food that was apparently not included in our
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free breakfast coupon. The waitress didn't know how to handle it and
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neither did we. I offered to put the food back and she finally agreed to
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let us eat it. I suggested they put up a sign to warn others and, of
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course, they didn't. Later I heard they let us all eat the bacon and other
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food for the rest of the Con. I never made it back down there again even
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though for American food it was pretty good. I was pretty tired and so
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headed off to sleep when we were done chowing down.
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I woke up Friday afternoon when Particle and Novocain knocked on the
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door. They had a car and took me to a chinese restaurant nearby with a
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killer buffet. When we got back there were many people in the lobby
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listening to a tape of prank phone calls made by Phone Losers of America.
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I wanted the tape bad as it seemed highly appropriate for us to review.
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I was promised a copy which materialized in under an hour. W0rd! For all
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the shit I take for it, there are advantages to being press.
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I felt pretty comfortable with all of the people I was talking to and
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since my room was very close to the lobby I invited everyone there and
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even left the door open for others to enter my room (which almost
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everyone who passed by did). It was kind of odd where they had situated
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me. You could watch my door from the counter where people checked in. I
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had asked for a smoking room but got dealt non-smoking instead. I
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inquired about changing it and was told some crap about all the rooms
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being accounted for already. It crossed my mind at the time that maybe
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some feds had purposely put me there but I discounted my gut feeling and
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people to go ahead and smoke in my room with no ashtray. They did. All
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told about 15 people were in there and one of them pulled out a toy
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to show me. It was a box that hooked up to your telephone which allowed
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you to change your voice into that of a male, female or child. I had seen
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these boxes before in catalogs. They sure work great! I made two calls
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with it, one to a friend and one to my ex-husband. I snickered at how
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surprised they'd be when they heard my message and later regretted not
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telling either or them to save it so I could hear it back. Honestly,
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playing with this legal box was every bit as cool as great drugs or sex.
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I vowed to buy one. Watch out!
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Talk turned to dinner and people started to leave my room. Particle was
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the last one out and he showed me something about how the hotel room locks
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worked. Hackers spend hours trying to figure out how things work and
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although I had little interest in the subject it was clear Particle was
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struck by the techonology and not the idea of breaking into someone's
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room. I started to organize people who were willing to eat sushi. Just as
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we were about to leave Particle and Novocain were gathering everyone into
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a room to tell people to chill their behavior. It later turned out that
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Particle had played with another lock after I made him stop touching
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mine. He had the misfortune to be seen by a member of the Austin Police
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Department who wisely agreed not to arrest him in exchange for Particle's
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agreeing to talk to people in an attempt to curtail the usual HoHoCon
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hotel destruction. I should have attended this talk although I had no
|
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idea at the time why it was being organized. But I was starving and
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the people I took to eat sushi were not those who would consider trashing
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a hotel. Laughing Gas, Thumper27, Slyme, El_Jefe and I checked out Kyoto
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sushi which was good but expensive for what you got. I spent part of dinner
|
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wiping the free space on the hard drive on my laptop. I had never used
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this feature before, but had been told about it at the con and it sounded
|
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like something I should start doing regularly to protect other people's
|
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privacy so that erased E-mail and articles were truly erased. It was a
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good thing I had sushi to eat to keep me busy as it took a good twenty
|
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minutes to do on a Pentium laptop with a 500+ meg hard drive.
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When we got back to the hotel I ran into Drunkfux who had cut his
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hair and dyed it bright red. I hardly recognized him but it looked great.
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It was clear by the police presence in the lobby that the Con had
|
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officially started. We were told that signs hung on room doors (I had
|
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put up a copy of one of the magazine covers with a small piece of scotch
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tape) would be taken down. This made it much harder for us to find each
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other (I'd estimate we had 90% of the hotel's rooms) but so it goes.
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Some people were told specifically that they could not use their modems
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and for hours on Friday night the phone lines were so busy with modem
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usage that there was no way to make an outgoing call or to receive an
|
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expected incoming one. All sorts of security guards appeared. The ones
|
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I spoke with were police officers too. I'd guess there were 1-3 dozen
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around at all times and apparently hotel personnel were told they were
|
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all on duty until we left and none of them were able to go home for the
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rest of the weekend. I wish I could say this was utterly unwarranted.
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But some lamer broke the lock on the door to the hotel's phone system.
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And remember that another person had trashed the hotel's garbage and
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must have made a mess or been spotted.
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The hot party that night was in Erik Bloodaxe's room. Loki, Ice-9
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and Ophie were staying with him and Loki was in charge of the door.
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He made sure to keep me out just as he does when he acts like a bully
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on IRC. I knew in my heart it was Loki's doing not ErikB's, but that
|
|
didn't stop me from getting majorly upset about it anyway. I went
|
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downstairs to be alone and Particle knocked on the door a few minutes
|
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later. I gave him a piece of my mind and then some about how shitty
|
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some of those in the computer underground are. I went on for at least
|
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an hour and drew great comfort from the fact Particle thought I was not
|
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crazy and that things are as awful as they seem sometimes. Finally
|
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he told me that since I kept claiming to love hackers despite all of the
|
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grief, there were dozens of nice ones out there who would be thrilled to
|
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talk to me if I'd only leave my room and go try to have a good time. W0rd.
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I took his advice and had a good time in the lobby with the other rejects
|
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from Bloodaxe's party. The conversation was so good it was hard to tear
|
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away to go to sleep. I went to my room at 4:30 a.m., got under the covers,
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|
thought about sleep for 10 seconds. Then I pulled out my laptop and wrote
|
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a speech to deliver to the crowd the next day.
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The two people I had counted on to wake me up didn't show and it was a
|
|
stroke of luck that made me jump up at 9:45. The speeches were supposed to
|
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start at 10 a.m. and even though they surely wouldn't start till later I
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was selling magazines and was due there pronto to claim my table. It took a
|
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luggage cart to get all those magazines downstairs. I shudder to think what
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my life will be like when I have 30 issues to lug around instead of six.
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The folks from Fringeware were selling books and T-shirts and someone else
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had old Atari game units and cartridges. People came by to say hi and to
|
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buy magazines. I plugged my speech and told people not to dare miss it.
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It was impressive that Drunkfux had gotten so many original speakers
|
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on such short notice. They mostly said what the crowd wanted to hear and
|
|
shared thoughts on digital cash, the regulation of the Internet, recent
|
|
laws, etc. Damien Thorn showed a video clip to the tune of the current
|
|
rock hit "21st Century Digital Boy" which had cellular phones, scanners,
|
|
etc. in it. It's part of an upcoming video that looked awesome. Veggie
|
|
talked about dealing with the media after an old text file of his was
|
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used to harass a BBS sysop who got more than twice Phiber's jail sentence
|
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just for having a file around.
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Someone sent Erik Bloodaxe to talk to me as part of my speech referred
|
|
to him. It was an uncomfortable talk and I was probably correct in feeling
|
|
that half the room was watching us and not whoever was speaking. I told
|
|
him he could pay me back in print or elsewhere but that I was going to
|
|
go ahead with what I planned to say and he surprised me by saying that
|
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what I had written was fine and he even added to it. He also told me
|
|
that Loki had gotten too drunk and had been a pain in the ass to room
|
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with the night before. He assured me that although way too many people
|
|
had been in his room, and way too many had tried to get in after it was
|
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full, it had not been his intention to keep me out. I felt bad that I
|
|
even cared, and that he knew I cared, and that he and I even had to
|
|
discuss it. I was unhapy that he had no intention of staying to hear my
|
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speech or the fight with Loki that he knew was coming but didn't
|
|
mention to me. We left things with the fact that we'd go out for dinner
|
|
or something the next night with Ophie (who also had an early flight)
|
|
after the bulk of the Con was over. It occured to me then it would never
|
|
happen because plans are hard to keep at Cons but I mentioned it in my
|
|
speech anyway.
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My speech went over very well. It was about what's been going on at
|
|
Gray Areas since I spoke at HoHoCon last year. It was also about the
|
|
behavior of certain elements of the community and how that behavior has
|
|
affected me. And it was a stern warning about some busts that are coming
|
|
down. I know a few people got the message. I could tell from the gasps
|
|
and laughter at key points. But perhaps the highlight of the speech was
|
|
the confrontation between Loki and I when he chose to bully me before
|
|
anyone else could ask a question. I answered his accusations and managed
|
|
to do a decent job even with no warning. Whatever he hoped to accomplish
|
|
clearly wasn't working and from somewhere deep inside of me I found the
|
|
courage to ask the entire room to vote on whether or not they really
|
|
never wanted to see me on #hack again. The only vote opposed in a room of
|
|
about 250-300 people was Loki's. Hours later I regretted not thinking to
|
|
ask how many people never wanted to see Loki there again. Four people had
|
|
come up to me and told me they would have voted him out. Loki left the
|
|
room with his tail between his legs and ran to IRC. By the time I got on
|
|
hours later word had spread a story that I picked a fight with him and
|
|
he had won. The proof is in the videotape which will be available soon
|
|
from Drunkfux. It's highly recommended for both friends and foes of mine.
|
|
Drunkfux said demand for this portion of his footage was very high. I
|
|
promised to give him better footage and an even better speech next year.
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|
Later Count Zero wrote this about my speech in Cult of the Dead Cow:
|
|
"Grayarea gets up and begins to read off a pre-prepared speech on her
|
|
laptop. Her speech is too quick for my alcohol-byproduct-sodden synapses
|
|
to register accurately. I keep staring at her dress...bright tie-dye...
|
|
mesmerizing...it's actually quite cool. Suddenly, Loki gets up in the
|
|
audience and the accusations fly back and forth between them. You kicked
|
|
me off IRC. You called my office at work. You are doing this, you are
|
|
doing that. Both are getting into this verbal slugfest in a major way.
|
|
I feel the bad karma in the room hanging heavy like blue-green cigar
|
|
smoke. "Can't we all just get along??" I yell, but noone seems to hear
|
|
me. I don't know who is right or wrong (it's probably somewhere in
|
|
between...the truth's always gray, right?), so I don't hypothesize. All I
|
|
do know is that I'd never want to piss off Grayarea...she's damn strong
|
|
on her convictions and won't take shit from anyone. I think she'd look
|
|
better up there wearing a big ol' leather jacket with studs...terminator
|
|
style. "One tends to assume that people wearing tie-dye gear are quiet,
|
|
meek, very soft spoken, non-confrontational types....it is a camoflage
|
|
that suits her well," I think. Bahaha! I liked your comments, Count Zero.
|
|
And I did hear you yell that.
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|
After the speeches I sold more magazines thanks to Loki who
|
|
inadvertently made way more people interested in me. Bahahaha! Some of
|
|
them said they liked or loved my dress, some of them hugged me and some
|
|
of them signed up for subscriptions and gave me their data. I then
|
|
headed off for dinner at yet another sushi restaurant. Laughing Gas
|
|
and Slyme came again along with Mr. Spock who agreed to lose his sushi
|
|
virginity to me and jokingly said that way he'd get mentioned in my
|
|
review. I thought he was one of the three kewlest people I hung out with
|
|
at the Con. I hope I get to spend more time with him at a Con in the
|
|
future and I'd even be willing to go try his favorite type of food! The
|
|
sushi place we picked was awesome. I was sorry I hadn't found it
|
|
sooner. It's almost too bad HoHoCon will be in another city next year.
|
|
I also wanna mention the elite, Jak_Flack, who drove us to the restaurant
|
|
when cabs were scarce on New Year's Eve. He didn't want any sushi or
|
|
any money. He even got lucky and gave a ride to people who probably
|
|
would have done the same thing for him under the same circumstances.
|
|
Thanks.
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|
After dinner I did what Drunkfux begged us not to do. I spent New
|
|
Year's Eve on IRC. I messaged Mr. Spock, in fact, who was typing from
|
|
the other side of the room. I also messaged some hackers I talk to all
|
|
the time. Some were lonely and glad to see me. I thought a lot about
|
|
loneliness. Some of us prefer to be with computers than people. Some of
|
|
us can open up more easily to people on a computer. And some of us need
|
|
computers around even when we're with other people. I was typing from an
|
|
account at hohocon.org and there were several people in the room having
|
|
fun with their "site" as X and Y tried repeatedly (and succeeded) to get
|
|
root there. I had never seen root before from the position of the person
|
|
protecting it. I should have paid way more attention but I got too caught
|
|
up in having conversations. I should also have paid more attention to the
|
|
people in the room with me. Loq and Fool were there and they seemed really
|
|
kewl but I got too lost in IRC. Oh well, at least I wasn't hopelessly
|
|
drunk. And I wasn't kicked or banned once. People were delicate with each
|
|
other on IRC. They were often drunk, vulnerable and more likely to reveal
|
|
things when conversing. Those who were on were more than willing to talk
|
|
to anyone who showed up. People apparently intend to make public the
|
|
hohocon.org logs. If they include IRC chats it would be very shallow. I
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will never again take the chance and IRC from a Con again. Although I have
|
|
mostly come to terms with the fact that I am a semi-public figure and
|
|
people will always want to see whatever I type on the Net, but it's not
|
|
fair to expose the words of the people I messaged.
|
|
I dragged myself off IRC about 4:30 a.m. and went downstairs to clean
|
|
off one of the beds. Novocain and Particle had checked out of their room
|
|
and were gonna stay in my room for one night. I was thrilled at the idea
|
|
of having company. But when the bed was empty it looked tempting and I
|
|
lay down for the 90 minutes till I was due to meet them at the breakfast
|
|
buffet. Next thing I knew it was Sunday afternoon. Oops! I wondered where
|
|
they had slept. Apparently they hadn't wanted to wake me so they slept
|
|
in another room. I felt bad but at least their stuff had been safe which
|
|
is all you really care about at a Con. SORRY! Next time, guys, wake me.
|
|
I stumbled into the lobby and joined the conversations that were going
|
|
on. A hotel employee asked if we'd mind moving to the conference room and
|
|
we agreed. We figured the room was bugged just as the hotel phone lines
|
|
had been. But we weren't talking about anything secret and a few of the
|
|
hackers answered all of the questions asked by the cop/security guard who
|
|
hung out for about half of the time we were in there. It was a very fun
|
|
time there on the floor chatting with Voyager, Ophie, Onkel Ditmeyer, lgas,
|
|
Deadkat, Drunkfux, etc. There were way more people but I'm drawing a blank
|
|
on specifically who. I went upstairs to get more magazines and ran into
|
|
Bruce Sterling. He was growing facial hair and looked great. He said he
|
|
felt lousy which shows what I know. I hugged him before he said he felt
|
|
lousy. We talked about the book he is working on. Then Ophie and I went
|
|
off to be interviewed about female hackers and the treatment of women by
|
|
hackers. It could have used Cori and Noelle but it made some good points.
|
|
We came downstairs and I saw Drunkfux at work videotaping an interview
|
|
with the guys from TNO in Colorado. This was priceless footage of them
|
|
discussing how a group decides policies and handles politics and how they
|
|
have applied political thought to hacking. I was sorry I had missed half
|
|
of it and sorry I had spent so much time socializing with them that it
|
|
had never occured to me I didn't know much about their group and I should
|
|
have interviewed them too. I hope Drunkfux includes every word of their
|
|
interview in the video.
|
|
Ophie brought up the idea of photos and so I grabbed my camera.
|
|
Everyone there got into it and I got a whole roll of film of people
|
|
hugging and kissing me, looking at porn mags with Ophie and generally
|
|
playing around somehow. They came out great. If you want yours passed
|
|
around or published, let me know. Until then, they're private.
|
|
Slyme and I headed back to Mr. Wasabi for dinner but to our surprise
|
|
it was closed! New Year's day turned out to be a bad day to try to find
|
|
places open to serve food. We should have stayed at the hotel. We finally
|
|
ended up in a bar which served food, ordered hot chocolate and consoled
|
|
ourselves on the lack of sushi. Back at the hotel a bunch of us went
|
|
room hopping and tried to determine who was left. My flight was at 7 a.m.
|
|
and I had no intention of going to sleep and taking a chance I would miss
|
|
it. Several people had flights at 8 and 10 a.m. Others were staying on
|
|
for 3 more days to get better airfare rates. I heard ErikB had left with
|
|
Ophie and he told me later they had asked the hotel and had been told I
|
|
checked out. One room we ended up in had a console copier running. I had
|
|
heard about them but never seen one and was told it was okay if I
|
|
photographed it. I went downstairs for my camera.
|
|
I hadn't been alone once since arriving in Austin. While this wasn't
|
|
always planned, the thought did occur to me that my room might be watched
|
|
and that law enforcement might be interested in any of the many people
|
|
I was seen talking to. I had mentioned a controversial interview we had
|
|
coming up with ILF and although I thought I was being overly paranoid, I
|
|
was still nervous I would be questioned about it. But it was 12:30 a.m.
|
|
or so and I felt too silly asking for someone to run downstairs with me.
|
|
So I went alone. But as I was closing the door and checking it was locked
|
|
I saw someone head down the hall towards me and I knew instantly something
|
|
was about to be up. Hackers are right when they say you can't fully
|
|
understand this until you have lived it. He asked if I was Netta and I
|
|
said yes and then he reached towards his pocket. I knew he was going for
|
|
either a gun or a badge and there was nothing I could do about either.
|
|
It turned out to be a badge and as he got close enough so that I could
|
|
see it read "Austin Police Department" I thought to myself "Kewl, it's
|
|
not the Secret Service." He asked me to accompany him to a room and,
|
|
holding my camera, I did. He told the two "security guards" that we'd be
|
|
leaving the door open. I had asked whether he was the guy who had
|
|
called me last March and he said no that he was his partner. I wondered
|
|
whether I was under investigation or whether they had no one else to ask
|
|
for information or whether they just wanted to meet me after talking to
|
|
me voice. It didn't occur to me to ask. I thought several times about the
|
|
fact I was supposed to be out with Bloodaxe and Ophie and that if I had
|
|
made it a point to leave with them this wouldn't be happening. I wondered
|
|
who else APD had questioned who had not told anyone. I wondered if they had
|
|
even questioned someone about me. I also feared people would come looking
|
|
for me and see me in that room and think I was talking to the police
|
|
voluntarily. That I had sought them out. God forbid they should think I
|
|
was telling the police about the console copier.
|
|
The whole thing only took about 8 minutes and the officer asked me
|
|
nothing I had a problem answering. He treated me with respect and didn't
|
|
press me to say anything I wasn't comfortable saying. I offered to give
|
|
him some of my magazines at the end of the conversation and he walked me
|
|
to my room and was clearly planning to wait outside. I invited him in and
|
|
he watched me pull issues from three suitcases. It was apparent nothing
|
|
illegal had gone on in my room. I'd lay odds it was the cleanest room
|
|
there too. The day before, for example, my trash in the bathroom had
|
|
been dumped at least three times. None were by me or when I was in the
|
|
room. The only thing I couldn't answer, and it was simply from nerves,
|
|
was what I had done on New Year's Eve. The answer came out that I didn't
|
|
remember and since I stammered it, it must have looked like I had seen or
|
|
done something I shouldn't have. But all I did was IRC and eat sushi and
|
|
I do that so often I didn't even remember when asked. New Year's Eve had
|
|
been almost like any other night.
|
|
Anyway, I got the console copier photo (hint: I could use a detailed
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article on how they work to run with it). We then moved on to other rooms
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and I ran into Drunkfux and Damien Thorn. I did a long video interview
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with Drunkfux, who would have made an excellent journalist. He resisted
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the idea of asking me petty questions about who I like and don't like in
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the scene and who I'd sleep with if I could. I would have answered
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anything he asked in the spirit of the HoHoCon video tradition, but
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instead we got into more serious issues and people who think Drunkfux is
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shallow or a less-than-serious dude due to his IRC reputation will be most
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surprised.
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Then Damien did an equally long interview and Drunkfux got eleet footage
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of me closing my eyes when the talk got too technical. I did almost pass
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out as it was 3 a.m. or so and I felt really comfortable being with them
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but I snapped to attention just in the nick of time as Drunkfux had the
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camera aimed on me and Damien was making a joke. Damien took it in stride
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but I think it was the first time anyone had ever had the chance to listen
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to his most eleet technical tips and was bored. I hope he knows I love him,
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like most hackers, for the person he is and not for the skills or trophies
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he has. I was transfixed as he told Drunkfux his beginnings in the computer
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underground and his views on laws, ethics, writing, etc. I just don't lust
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to know what model of phones he respects most or what gadget he's tested
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last. Luckily for you, Drunkfux did the interview, not me, and he did ask
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lots on that sort of stuff. After they were done Damien and I went out to
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some fast food burger joint. It was dirt cheap and tasted like cardboard.
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We had a great chat, as usual, and then went to the airport with Slyme who
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had slept the night away and missed everything. My flight was first and
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they walked me to the gate and made a fuss over me and it was the perfect
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ending.
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I can't believe I now have to wait till June (and go to Georgia, of
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all places) to see some of you again. Oh well. In the meantime, happy
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Valentine's Day to you and whoever you netsex and/or fantasize about.
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Happy April Fool's Day in advance too. Just prank someone else this year,
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okay? <grin>.
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