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*-* TTTTTTTTTT AAAAAA NNNN N J *-*
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*-* T A A N N N J *-*
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*-* T AAAAAAAAAA N N N J *-*
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*-* T A A N N N J J *-*
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*-* T A A N NNNN JJJJJ *-*
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*-* There Ain't No Justice *-*
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*-* #01 *-*
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*-* Phoenix Modernz Inc. 908/830-7960 *-*
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-How to Host a Bust-
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Hiya... now, alot of you have probably never heard of me, or the organization I
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founded back in 1989. Panther Modernz started out as a small H/P group, mostly
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commodore users in the central Jersey area. As time went by, we either dropped
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out, or eventually went IBM. None of this has anything to do with the main
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thrust of this file, except to say that we were there.
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In any case,back on May 30, 1991, I was busted. Now, I guess everyone in their
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own mind has visions of how it will come to pass, but I must admit, I was
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disappointed. I was just sitting at home, and had FINALLY gotten some offline
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mail utility configured for my BBS, when there is this knock on the door....
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I go answer it, thinking nothing out of the ordinary. Three suits and a half
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dozen uniforms are outside the door. (Still no alarms going off inside, proving
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my own hypothesis that only the stupid get caught). They push their way in,
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handing me a warrant and explaining that they are here to search my apartment
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for computers & telephone equipment. Now, at this point, my brain is in a
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whirl... "Oh god," I am thinking, "now what the fuck am I gonna do?".
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The suits identify themselves as Mr. (unintelligible) from US Sprint and a
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pair of local detectives, which causes me to sigh a bit... local cops means
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no major investigation. Anyway, the uniforms split up, searching such highly
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obvious places as my bathroom and my jacket pockets for computers. The same
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geniuses search my room tooth and nail, failing to find any of the 4 disks
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scattered in plain view, nor the old radio shack tone dialer that was in a
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drawer that they dumped out on my bed. They DID find a small bag of catnip,
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which they advised me to dispose of before I got into more trouble than I
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already was. I told them that it was catnip, and that they were welcome to
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take it and have it analyzed. One of the detectives took it and threw it
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away for me. How nice.
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Next came the best part... the part where the cops disassemble and label all
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the parts of your computer system. They were doing okay until they hit my
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commodore 128D setup, and I literally had to stand over them to insure that
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they A) Didn't break anything or B) got the names of everything right. The
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total ignorance of the police when it comes to computers is astonishing
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enough, but their "expert" from US Sprint was even worse. He tried labelling
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my TurboCPU as a modem, and thought my external HardDrive was a floppy.
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They even took the VCR I had hooked up to the Commodore's monitor simply
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because it was connected to something the computer was connected to. I guess
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they're busy watching porn tapes on it now...
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Now, as far as hosting a bust goes, here are some basic tips. If anyone of the
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officers who come to visit smoke, ask them NICELY to extinguish their
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cigarettes or step outside with them. (If you have police in your house, you
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are in enough shit without obviously trying to antagonize them!). When they
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were disassembling my IBM setup, they also unplugged the air conditioner. I
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saw no need to plug it back in. Let the fuckers sweat. I also got myself
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something to drink, and made it obvious that they were welcome to go back to
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the donut shop if they got thirsty. Cops are a nervous lot, so if you can,
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try to stand over them, supervising their every move, and make absolutely
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sure they mark everything down right. And don't answer questions about
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ANYTHING! And don't lead them to anything, either. The idiots who searched
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my place left so much shit behind that I almost did start believeing there
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was a god, after all...
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The police also tend to underestimate the time it will take them to figure out
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what it is that you might have done. The detectives who visited me told me
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they'd be back to me the next day to process me. When it finally came to pass,
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it was five months later that they finally did book me. Its now three months
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later and I still don't have a court date.
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Some things to think of: the US Sprint guy who visited me considered my
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printout of Internet sites to be a piece of classified material. He seemed
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genuinely happy to find such an incriminating document. He also read every
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piece of online mail I had on my system. Online mail has been afforded the
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same rights as US Postal mail in many states... so he might well have
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committed a felony right before my eyes. The 4th amendment guarentees the
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rights of citizens against UNREASONABLE search and seizure. I don't dispute
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their right to search, but for what they were lookimg for, copies of my
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software would have been sufficient. Taking it may well be decided in court
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to be a violation of my rights. The 1st amendment guarentees the rights of
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all citizens to assemble. By taking the two computers I was running BBS's on,
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the cops may well be found to have placed a prior restriction to free speech
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on my users. This too may be a useful argument in court.
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Another thing of note is that the terms you and I take for granted are all the
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same to the gendarmes. I was asked what program I used to "hack" with. Now,
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I don't know about you, but I don't "hack" via any program more complicated
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than procomm. I deduced that he meant wardialling, and tried to educate him
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on the difference, but it was useless. When dealing with the authorities, you
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are often going to find yourself wondering if they can really be this stupid.
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This is my first file in ages. TANJ is a new direction for me, and I am hoping
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to go beyond "just" telecom oriented textfiles. Look for future releases later
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in 1992.
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*-* Phoenix Modernz Inc. TANSTAAFL BBS:908/830-7960 *-*
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*-* Modern Textfiles Inc. The Matrix BBS:908/905-6691 *-*
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*-* The Lawless Society Inc. The Syndicate BBS:908/506-6651 *-*
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