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==Phrack Inc.==
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Volume Two, Issue 12, Phile #11 of 11
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PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN
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PWN PWN
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PWN >>>>>=-*{ Phrack World News }*-=<<<<< PWN
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PWN Issue XII/2 PWN
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PWN PWN
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PWN Created, Compiled, and Written PWN
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PWN by Knight Lightning PWN
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PWN PWN
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PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN
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Toll-Free Woes January 26, 1987
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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>From Time Magazine; reprinted in the February 1987 Issue of CO Magazine
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While Oral Roberts struggles with budgets, fundamentalist preacher Jerry
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Falwell faces a different kind of money pinch. The Lynchburg, VA,
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televangelist has long used toll-free phone numbers to assist viewers seeking
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spiritual help.
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For many months Falwell foes, aware that each phone-in cost $1, have purposely
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clogged his lines. An Atlantan programmed his computer to dial Falwell every
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30 seconds. Before Southern Bell stepped in, the stunt cost Falwell $750,000.
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Late last year, the Daily Cardinal student newspaper at the University of
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Wisconsin -- Madison ran a column advocating "telephone terrorism" and listed
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several targets, including Falwell.
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The TV preacher estimates that annoyance calls cost him more than $1 million
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last year, not counting lost donations. Falwell, who is considering legal
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action, regards the calls as "unlawful activities" that do "injury to the
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cause of Christ."
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[Well now...isn't that special? And just where did all these people get the
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idea to do "injury to the cause of Christ?" From me, Knight Lightning? No, I
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don't think so. From oh maybe Phantom Phreaker? No, I don't think so.
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Possibly Lucifer 666, but the big question is... Could it be... SATAN!!!?]
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Typed For PWN by Knight Lightning
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______________________________________________________________________________
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Voice numbers: Are They Really Necessary? March 5, 1987
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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A recent series of events on ShadowSpawn BBS has attracted much attention in
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the hack/phreak community. It seems that the sysop, The Psychic Warlord,
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denied access to Lex Luthor, Kerrang Khan, and Silver Spy because of their
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failure to leave valid voice phone numbers. The following messages have been
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taken from ShadowSpawn BBS. [Some posts have been re-formatted].
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32/50: This board...
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Name: The Psychic Warlord #1
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Date: 6:36 pm Thu Feb 26, 1987
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Alright goddamn it, I'm so fucking pissed off that I'm just about ready to
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say Fuck It and take down the board for good. Why? Seems that few people are
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happy with the way I run this board. No, not really with the way I run it,
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but more like the way I choose to validate my users. Ok, fine... You don't
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like it then get the fuck out and quit complaining.
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I set certain rules that people have to abide by to get access to this
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board. Very simple fucking rules. And now I'm finding out that people don't
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want to abide by these rules, and basically tell me I'm fucked in the head for
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having and going by them. What rules? For one thing, and this is the major
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bitch-point here, new users (no matter WHO THE FUCK they are) are *REQUIRED*
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to leave a valid voice number where I or Ctrl can reach them at for
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validation. No big fucking deal... Just a goddamn phone number.
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"Oh, but I can't give you my voice number. I'm a hacker, and I do untold
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amounts of illegal things and I can't risk my number getting out." Riiight.
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Like I'm really some fucking Fed who's gonna bust yer ass, or some geek who
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gives out peoples phone numbers to any-fucking-body who asks. BULLSHIT!
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I'm the Sysop of a (hopefully) respected BBS, and along with that goes a
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certain responsibility. I'm not about to go passing out peoples numbers. *I*
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have respect for other hackers privacy, unlike some people who choose to
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invade mine just for the fucking hell of it. I require that new users leave
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their voice numbers for a number of GOOD reasons:
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1) Trust -- If they can trust me with their voice numbers, then I can trust
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them with access to my board. I need that kind of trust between
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me and my users. If they feel that they can't trust me enough to
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give me a lousy phone number, then how in God's name am I supposed
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to be expected to trust them at all?? My ass is on the line just
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as much (if not more) than any user of this board!
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2) Security -- Ok... So how do I know if someone is really a Fed or not? I
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don't! I go by instinct. Having a person's voice number let's
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me call them for validation and get to know them a helluva lot
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better than I could through e-mail. Plus, if suspicion ever
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arose about a user of my board being a Fed or not, how could I
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check this out? If I don't have their voice number, I have no
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leads as to where to find or who the fuck this person really
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is. Now I don't go checking everyone on the board via the
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numbers they give me. I have NEVER had to do that for ANY
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user, but the possibility is there. And rather than throw a
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possibly innocent person off the board merely on a hunch, we
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might be able to prove whether or not it's true. This is
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extremely hypothetical, but like I said... the possibility is
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there.
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Ok, so why the hell should I have to require that established people, like
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Lex Luthor and Silver Spy, leave valid voice numbers? Is it fair to the other
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users? Hell no. If I required only certain people to give me their numbers,
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then what does that do to their trust in me?? It's like me saying, "Well, I
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don't trust you... I don't know you that well. You have to sacrifice more
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than these guys to get access." That's BULLSHIT, and I'm not about to do it.
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If one person is required to give a valid voice number, then every damn user
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is required to!
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I've been getting a lot of shit the past couple days because I've denied
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access to some very well known and respected people in the hack/phreak world.
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Namely Lex Luthor, Silver Spy, and Kerrang Khan. I denied all of them access
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because they all refused to leave a voice number. Fine. Then they don't get
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access. Ctrl [Ctrl-C is a cosysop on ShadowSpawn] said I was crazy. Taran
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said pretty much the same. Taran also tried to get me to change my mind...
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to condescend, or go against what I believe in and how I believe this board
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should be run. He (Taran) said that by my denying Lex and the others access
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that I would be hurting this board more than helping it. ***I DON'T GIVE A
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DAMN***
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I'm not impressed in the least with any of those peoples reputations. I
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never have been a "groupie" and I'm not about to start now. Whether or not
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they are good or not isn't the issue here, and some people don't seem to
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realize that. Yes, Lex is good. He's well known. He's even a nice guy...
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I've talked to him before and personally I like him. But I don't play
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favorites for anyone. Not Lex, not Silver Spy, and not Kerrang Khan. Nobody.
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What really pissed me off, and I should have told Taran that I resented it
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at the time, is that TK said that apparently this board is "elite". That I
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consider this board to be too good. Personally I think this fucking board is
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overrated, and yes Taran... I resented that remark. I can't remember exactly
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what he said, but it was something like, "In your logon message you have
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'We're not ELITE, we're just cool as hell,' but apparently you ARE elite."
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This board isn't "elite" and if I come off seeing that way sometimes, it's
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only because people are getting half the picture of what I'm doing.
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Ok, so I deny Lex Luthor access to this board. That's all you people seem
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to think about. The actual denying of access. You think, "How can he do
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that?! What gall! He must be a real egotistic bastard to think that Lex
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Luthor isn't good enough to be on this board!" If you think that, and most of
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you have thought only that, then you're fucked in the head.
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Yes, I realize who these people are! Yes I know their reputations and how
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they are renowned for their skills as hackers and phreakers... But like I
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said before, that's not the issue. It never was. I *KNOW* how good these
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people are. I *KNOW* about their reputations and I respect them for it, but I
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don't care. That's not why they've been denied access!
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When I deny someone access to this board it's usually for one of two
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reasons;
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1) They left a false voice number or
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2) They either blew off or left really crappy answers to the filter.
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Personally I'd be thrilled to have Lex or Silver Spy on the board... and
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any of a number of people. But these people can't find it in themselves to
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trust me. If they can't trust me, then I can't trust them. It's as simple as
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that.
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I'm not about to let anyone on this board that I can't trust. It's not
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fair to the other users, and it's damn stupid of me. I run this board the
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best way I know how. I do what I do in respect to new user validations
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because it's the best way, through trial and error, that I have found to
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handle it. If people can't respect the way in which I choose to run my board
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then I'd appreciate it if they never called. And when regular users of my
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board start questioning the way I do thing, and telling me that I'm WRONG for
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doing things the way I believe they should be done, then I really start to
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wonder what the fuck I'm doing it for at all. I'm not a quitter, and I don't
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like the idea of giving up and taking down the board. I'm going to run this
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board the way I think is best, and I'm not about to conform to what other
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people think I should do.
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I've probably stepped on some toes and offended some people with this, but
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that's just too damn bad. I hate fighting the topic but I'll fight it if I
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have to.
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--==The Psychic Warlord==--
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37/50: Take a fucking valium
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Name: Taran King #45
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Date: 9:02 am Sat Feb 28, 1987
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You're known for an explosive temper, PW as well as sometimes being extremely
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irrational. My policy is to let people on the my board with voice numbers
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only. Through the history, I've made maybe 5 exceptions. Some of 'em include
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Lex, Spy (at first), Tabas, Videosmith, and Phucked Agent 04. Now, I never
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got anything out of PA04 because he got a "call" soon after he got on the
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board, but the rest of the members have contributed extremely well to the
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board. I just made sure I knew it was really them by referencing and cross
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referencing.
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If your morals are that unbendable, PW, then you need to relook at the purpose
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of this board. If it's to spread phreak/hack knowledge as you said on the
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phone, then to have those people on with the experience that they have would
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hardly hinder the board. I seriously doubt anyone would feel offended if any
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of the forementioned people got on here without leaving a valid voice number,
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being that they're not on any other board with a voice number.
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I know that Lex is not giving out his number to even the best of his
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friends. Spy is really careful about it these days. Not so sure about
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Kerrang but he's travelling about now so he's not in one place for too long
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nowadays. It's your board and I was trying to give you some constructive
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criticism, but you took it the wrong way. You don't have to claim you're
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ELITE to be elite. Elite merely means that you've got the respected members
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of the community on board. Well, you've got 'em. If you don't like it, I
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suggest you go through and purge the log like a big dog. Actually, fuck it.
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I'm tired of getting into arguments for trying to help someone. Feel free to
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delete my account if you feel that I've not contributed enough information to
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the board, or if you've rethought the purpose and decide that it's not for
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what I've contributed, dump me. Fuck dis
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-TK
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44/50: Well...
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Name: The Psychic Warlord #1
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Date: 4:57 pm Sun Mar 01, 1987
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I'm glad that some people agree with me on this. I can understand Lex's
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point of view, too. I can also remember a time when I myself refrained from
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giving my number to any sysops. But... I've changed my point of view
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considerably after living the Sysop life for well over 1.5 years. Now if I
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ever wanted access to a board, and the Sysop of that board asked for my voice
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number, I'd give it to him.
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I've given Lex access to this message base for a short period of time so
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that he can check out the discussion. He called me voice the other day and we
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talked for a while about this whole biz. I'd like him, and Spy, on the board,
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and possibly they'll change their minds. If not, that's cool. I'm just going
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to let the whole thing kind of slide from here on out. If they change their
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minds, great... Well, Adios.
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--==The Psychic Warlord==--
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Kerrang Khan, when notified that he must leave a voice number, said "there is
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no reason Psychic Warlord would need any user's phone number." He also stated
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that the fact that PW insisted on voice numbers was very "suspicious."
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Silver Spy, when notified that he must leave a voice number, never bothered
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calling again.
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Lex understood the whole situation and remained cool. He said he could see
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why a sysop would need voice numbers of his users. Lex was worried about the
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board he left it on getting busted and the authorities getting his number. So
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PW, in response to this deleted all users phone numbers from the board and
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encrypted them in a hidden sub-directory. Now the numbers are there only and
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are totally hidden.
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Information Provided By
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Lucifer 666/Psychic Warlord/ShadowSpawn BBS/Taran King
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