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- Title: The IBM bust of 612
- Date: 2/2/87
- Time: 4:06 pm
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- / % The IBM bust of 612 %
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- / % By Professor Falken %
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- | / Ex-Sysop of The Alliance /
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- | / Completed January 29, 1988 /
- |/_______________________________________/
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- Everything in this article comes from what I have heard second hand,
- and thus it cannot be totally 100% correct, however this article is the
- about the most error-free story at the present moment. More facts may come up
- later and I encourage them to be written in at the end of the file.
-
- First off I'll give ya the main people involved and affected in this bust...
-
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- MAGNUS GREEL- Sysop Fone Conspiracy I
- THE TYRANT- Sysop Fone Conspiracy II
- THE FEDZ- The evil driving force in this story
- THE BOSS- The H0M0sexual ass-kissing man at ONTRACK SYSTEMS
- VECTOR_ONE- The AIDS infected asshole who ratted on Magnus
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The whole thing started one day when Magnus got a new user by the name of
- Vector_One. Magnus gave him access and Vector looked at the utilties. Well
- it so happens that Vector was a software writer for ONTRACK SYSTEMS or
- something. Well it so happens that Magnus had DISK MANAGER that was written
- by ONTRACK SYSTEMS. Well Vector told Magnus to take that ware down! Becuz it
- was his companies ware. Well as any decent sysop would he told Vector to suck
- wally. So Vector told his boss that Magnus had their software online. Well
- after the boss gave Vector a long blowjob he called the feds & obtained a
- search warrant. Time now elapsed, it was now January 04, 1988.
- Magnus was working on his fathers database program, when suddenly like a burst
- of lightning no other than the county sheriff and the EVIL president of ONTRACK
- SYSTEMS & THE FEDZ. Well Magnus told them to hold on while he closed the
- database, so he did and he was given his rights. After reading him his rights
- the FEDZ made 4 backup copies of his HARDDRIVE and such. Yes, that means that
- they have all yer ALIAS's and FONE NUMBERS ( Of Course they were wrong numbers,
- right? Let's hope so. ) Well after doing this assorted bullshit they found
- OS/2 ( the new operating system from MicroSoft for the PS/2's ) THE FEDZ were
- interested in that becuz as always on a pirate board it was not out yet and
- still a beta copy. Well after this assorted bullshit went on for a while
- they decided to leave and pay thier respects of shitting on his face. Well
- that about did it, except now the feds got a hold of every IBM Pirate board in
- the 612 area. Then THE FEDZ went to The Tyrant's house and asked him
- miscellaneous bullshit questions, then left him alone. Well by this time the
- word has gotten out to the rest of the IBM boards, and holy shit you do not
- know how slow it takes to format a HD. I swear it took 10 hours, but really it
- only took 30 mins. but hell time goes slowly when you have a load in your
- pants. Well now that everyone has cleaned thier computer and thier pants of
- shit everything is down, and not expected to be up for PIRATE downloads for a
- LONG WHILE. I suspect at this moment THE FEDZ are monitoring every sysop line
- here in 612, so at the moment my phreaking career is at a standstill. With an
- exception of FORTRESS FONES. Well that's my story and I hope that this has
- enlighted you, just remember you can never trust anyone in this world get as
- many references as possible and hopefully you won't have to go through what
- Mags did. If your under 18 and have a 100 megger and are willing to be a c00l
- sysop then hell do it... See ya in Hell,
-
- Personal note: Qualified users will be notified of their contined existance.
- Whatever that means...
-
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- Illegally Distributed Courtesy of Playdo Land
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- Title: The IBM bust of 612 Update #1
- Date: 2/15/88
- Time: 5:45 pm to 7:35 pm
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- Authored by Magnus Greel
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- To repeat, the persons involved are:
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- DICK WALDIE - FBI Special agent in charge of the bust
- MAGNUS GREEL - Sysop Fone Conspiracy I
- THE APTOLCATER - Oh just sorta along for the ride.
- THE BOSS - [Mike Rodgers] The H0M0sexual ass-kissing owner of
- ONTRACK SYSTEMS
- THE BOYZ - [Feds] Consisted of three men and a female. The evil driving
- force in this story
- THE SHERIFF - Has really nothing to do with the story.
- U. N. OWEN - Sysop Fone Conspiracy II
- UNNAMED - The person who ratted to Mike Rodgers about FCP..
- We have your name and number..
- VECTOR_ONE - Maybe The AIDS infected asshole who ratted on Magnus
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- First off, I'd like to say that Vector_One may or may not be the culprit for
- turning me in to his boss who in turn turned the Boyz on me.. Let me relate
- the correct story..
-
- It's January 11, 1988 at 7:15 in the morning, and I'm in the bathroom getting
- ready for school.. Dad goes outside to start the car warming up when all of a
- sudden, two cars swoop in and block the end of the driveway. Richard [DICK]
- Waldie leaps out of the car and asks Dad, "Are you Mr. Clifford K.?" Of
- course he replied yes.. Dick told him to "Assemble your family in the living
- room." At that point, my mom comes in the bathroom and states "The FBI is
- here." [Quivery voice].. So my sister, myself, mom and dad all go sit in the
- downstairs family room.. Then Dick talked to mom and dad for about 45 minutes
- while I was sitting downstairs just looking at four feds.. Then it was my turn
- to talk to Dick and some other dude that just sat their and nodded his head..
- We chatted about how the board started, if I had received any donations, and
- in particular where I had received OS/2.. Also the common do you phreak-hack-
- card questions.. And so on and so forth.. At this point, they were ready to
- go down and disassemble the computer.. My dad is a bowling league secretary,
- and had all his bowling records in the computer.. For some reason, they let
- us copy them off onto a floppy.. Oh well.. After that, I started disassembling
- the computer stuff for them.. He was sorta perterbed when he found about 25
- 5 digit numbers [that sorta look like MCI codes] on a scratch sheet.. But
- other than that, nothing really incriminating.. After they had everything
- packed up, they carried the boxes out to the car and left.. Now the time was
- 11:15, and I figured U. N. Owen should know, so I grabbed the car and flew
- to school.. Needless to say, he was clean about 45 minutes after he got home
- from school.. Aptolcater finds out later that night, and cleans up also.. A
- little note, Aptolcater had borrowed me an ATI EGA wonder and a Hayes 2400
- External modem for testing two-node FCP.. I hope we get them back..
-
- That basically covers the story.. About noon, my dad called our real estate
- attourney, who related us to a criminal attourney in his office.. That guy
- was only familiar with state cases, not federal, so he passed us on to another
- dude.. Then about two days after the bust, Dick calls and sorta tries to get
- my dad perterbed by telling him "Your son is much more involved than what he
- has told us.. Such as carding, phreaking, hacking, etc.." [Scare tactics]..
- Then he says "We would like to talk to you and your son as soon as possible.."
- And when dad mentioned that we had an appointment to talk to a new attourney,
- Dick said "Well I guess we will change our strategy.." Heh.. Since then, we
- have talked to the attourney a couple times.. He has talked to the assistant
- attourney general of the state of Minnesota and Dick Waldie.. From what he's
- said, Dick Waldie thinks he has his hands on a master criminal.. He said that
- Dick started talking about some different types of conspiracies that I may
- have been involved in, and the attourney just rolled his eyes.. Heh.. He said
- that the asst. attourney general was a rather nice person.. So we'll see what
- goes down.. Another note, I was asked what information I could provide to get
- myself out a little bit.. Which means Infoforms, and "uploaded by" records..
- They appear not to have found them.. [You will see why in U. N. Owen's note..]
- Well whatever, I trust this enlightens many of you, and if you wish to talk,
- I do keep my 612/636-9046 line free for Voice updates.. If you see my accounts
- anywhere, please remove them or ask for them to be removed.. And a slight note
- for those of you waiting for FCP/Emulex 3.0, we may change names, and move on
- to Microsoft C, but it will still look the same.. Definitely faster, and
- should help people who wish to run two nodes [MSC allows overlaying.. We were
- thinking maybe a 32k window would be nice..].. I think that wraps everything
- up..
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- Title: The IBM bust of 612 Update #2
- Date: 2/15/88
- Time: 5:45 pm to 7:35 pm
-
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- Authored by U. N. Owen
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-
- Well after that long haul I'll try to keep this to a short blerp. Needless
- to say when Magnus pulled me out of ADVANCED Physics 200 class I was taken
- a little off guard. I listened to his 5 minute blerb about the day's events
- and just think it was only 11:30. Well I immediately made plans for a quick
- return home. Well let's just say I made it home in record time. It's good to
- have teachers that are real friends and know enough not to ask questions when
- you tell them you just have to skip their class and go home.
-
- When I got home I really didn't have much to do because I had been weeding out
- my hard drive for a while. Mostly it was just formatting my blank floppy box
- (which is what takes forever), and running compress on the hard drive with
- the "clear free clusters" action. The rest of the day went uneventful.
-
- The next day I told my parents about Magnus. They took it rather lightly till
- I told them chances are they would want to talk to me...hehe. A couple of
- days later DICK Waldie calls...I answered the call...
-
- (Me) "Hello.."
-
- (Him) "This is special agent Richard Waldie of the FBI..."
-
- (Me) {Cutting him off} "Yes, I know who you are."
-
- (Him) "So you were expecting my call?" <-- From here on maybe not exact
-
- (Me) "Yes."
-
- (Him) "We would like to ask you some questions."
-
- (Me) "Sure!" {Thinking he was going to ask them over the fone.}
-
- (Him) "When would be a good time for you to come down?" {Down where??}
-
- (Me) "What time would be convenient for you?" {Why I said that I dunno.}
-
- (Him) "How bout' right now?"
-
- {My dad was home from work early so to make a long story short my dad got the
- FBI's address and we cruzed on down. It was about 2:30.}
-
- To make them look good they gave my dad the wrong address so it took us awhile
- to find it. Well we found their building and entered. We really didn't say
- much after entering the building because I think we both thought they had the
- whole building bugged. We took the elevator up to I think the third floor.
- Dick's office was down the hall.
-
- { During this time I was very impress with security. In other words I saw
- none. Only to learn later why this was so. }
-
- When we got to his office there was this lady behind this thick piece of
- glass. Well she kept on working at whatever until we hit the little intercom
- button and told her we were here to see Dick Waldie. She paged him and a
- short time later (Not too short, I had time to check out all the plaques on
- the walls.) I heard this buzzing sound as he opened up the door. We had
- formal intro's and went on to bigger and better things.
-
- We all went in this 10 X 10 room with Dick sitting behind the only desk. We
- sat in very uncomfortable chairs and waited for this guy that just sat there
- and noded his head the whole time. Being the clever dood that I am I left my
- wallet in the car. So when he asked me for my drivers license I told him I
- didn't have it.
-
- Then came the questions...
-
- He asked me the standard stuff (Name, Address, etc.) then he asked me how tall
- I was, how much I weighed, and a bunch of real bogus questions.
-
- I told him I was getting tired and asked if we could get on to the real
- questions. He said that was a good idea and promptly pulled out a big yellow
- pad to take notes on. I was kinda thrown off guard (I didn't show it tho.)
- because I forgot to bring mine.
-
- Alot of the questions were just standard phreak-hack-card-pirate questions
- to which I told him I don't do that stuff.
-
- Since I was in psychology class I knew this dood was Psychotic. With
- dillusions of grandeur, total lack of contact with reality, and many other
- symptoms. This was very evident in his examples he used for let's say carding.
-
- "You see, (talking to my dad who seems to be falling asleep from the bogus
- questions from above..) let's say a lady get's mugged in Chicago, the
- perpetrator grabs (could have been take) her credit cards and post it on a
- bulletin board system. Someone downloads that message and commits a crime
- with the information. A number of crimes have been commited.." and he goes
- on to rattle off some laws and some other junk that I didn't hear because I
- was looking around the room for some hidden camera.
-
- The questions were real dumb like what back up program Magnus was using.
- I guess they had a little trouble figuring out that one sector per track
- compressed data needs to be restored using the same program.
-
- You know they didn't know much when they made a big deal about telling me
- Mag's had his two hard drives linked together with V-feature.
-
- Then they wanted to know about the board. They asked if there was anyway to
- list all users and their passwords. I just sat there. Then Dick has the
- nerve to say "We know how to use the percent command!" Well after a comment
- like that I just crumbled under the pressure they put on. I just had to tell
- them they had to user edit everyone to find out their password. Oh, I think
- it was here they asked about the who upload what file bit. I told them they
- had to download every file to see who upload it. I'm sorry...I just had to
- tell them the truth after they couldn't follow the "Hit question mark for
- help." comment I threw at them.
-
- One thing that really sticks in my mind tho is at the end he is telling me
- I'm responsible for what was on the board because I had co-sysop access.
- This is where my dad woke up and said some comment about "Just because you
- know drug deals are going on downtown does not make you responsible for them."
- Then he drops his 50-50 blaim for a 90-10 ratio. I still just laught at this
- idea.
-
- Overall I think I stayed on Dick's good side cause' at the end he said
- something about telling the attorney general that I willingly came in and
- answered some questions and generaly was a good boy. Overall it took only
- two hours...it could have went on a bit longer but it was five o'clock and
- I'm sure they wanted to go home.
-
- His leaving comment was "We'll be speaking to you again." so I'm still
- waiting for his next call. Oh, one last thing...I GOT a business card that
- has his name on it. If you would like a copy of it you can send me one
- dollar to cover copying and postage expenses.
-
- Ops that was more than a blerp.
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- Title: Closing Commentaries / General Rumors
- Date: 2/15/88
- Time: 7:35 pm to 7:45 pm
-
-
- Authored by Magnus Greel
-
- Oh God, not another few paragraphs..
-
- According to general rumor, and a supposed inside source at the FBI, my
- computer is in Washington state being analyzed for something.. I have also
- heard that this is the first in a series of nation-wide busts [starting with
- Minnesota for some reason] of pirate BBS's.. This bust was supposed to be a
- test-case to see if it was worth-while to go after every pirate board.. Who
- knows.. I have also heard that there was a local meeting with MCI, some
- Microsoft reps, and the Boyz.. No news of the outcome as of yet.. Oh well, not
- too much else along the lines of gossip.. There were a pair of busts in the
- Chicago area of First National Bank and another board, of which are of no
- relation to me [I think.. Who were the Sysops?] Oh well.. Any other
- information can be left on Playdo Land in feedback to the Sysop, in E-Mail to
- myself, or to U. N. Owen..
-
- Well whatever.. I suppose I am out of the LD calling forever [says the parents
- and I agree.. There's always PCP..] But FCP will go on.. I want to keep FCP
- going, and possibly market it later on.. And/or develop multiuser systems for
- big business.. [Dream possibly..] Well as I stated before, I will keep my
- line at 612 636 9046 free for voice communications, questions on FCP or
- anything, etc.. Hopefully this thing will blow over soon and I will be back
- in business [programming business, that is..] Heh.. Whatever..
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- [K] KopyLeft 1988 FCP/Emulex Development No Rights Reserved
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- P.S. Just a quick word to Falken and the sysop of The Hotel, when I was being
- questioned they asked me what boards I was on. When I mentioned
- Alliance // Dick got all excited and started stating "Alliance! Your on
- Alliance!?" Well needless to say I made the deaf man hear. "I said
- Alliance //!!!" Well take that at what you will. And after that he
- asked me several times (Just like a broken record) if I was on the
- Hotel. So...I guess I'll have to find out just what's so good about it.
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- -= U. N. Owen
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