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- | There Ain't No Justice |
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- | #83 |
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- DON'T FUCK WITH MISOGYNIST UNIX HACKERS
- ---------------------------------------
- by Frank Oz
-
- The following is not entirely fictional... it just goes to show that
- not all hackers are `Q00l elEEt d00dz'. If you don't find it
- interesting because it doesn't feature beleagured hackers fighting
- against the injustice of the System... too bad. Life isn't like that
- all the time.
-
-
- THERE'S THIS guy... let's call him Alvin. He's your standard Unix
- hacker; tall, gangly, socially retarded, lives for his machines; very
- intelligent. Still, as Larry Niven said: `Intelligence is a
- goal-seeking tool, and goals aren't always chosen intelligently'.
-
- Heh.
-
- Alvin had a goal: he wanted to propagate his genetic pattern. He
- wanted to reproduce himself. Since humanity's cloning facilities
- aren't exactly set up for `The Boys From Brazil'-style replication,
- this procedure would require the cooperation of a female. We'll call
- her Jenny.
-
- Alvin seduced Jenny away from her previous attachment (who wasn't too
- pleased about it, i can tell you) and got her pregnant, despite the
- fact that she was only sixteen years old at the time. So, come her
- seventeenth birthday, she had an extra present; a baby boy. We'll
- call him Max.
-
- Alvin was still hacking, full time; he'd spend all night breaking
- into American computer systems, and all day sleeping. It was up to
- Jenny to keep them fed, wash the clothes, make sure that their
- AusStudy money kept coming in, AND take care of the baby all along.
- Not much fun, but who cares what she thinks? She's only a girl, after
- all. It's her place. It should seem natural.
-
- She's concerned that Alvin's late-night hacking activities will bring
- down the wrath of the Federal Police. Alvin denies this vigorously;
- he's far too smart to get caught, isn't he? Damn straight. She wants
- to leave and take Max with her, but there's no way in hell he's going
- to allow that. In fact, he's so paranoid that she's going to run out
- on him, he stops her from going out alone. He stops her from talking
- to other people on the phone. One day - when he'd decided to drop
- into the TAFE campus and put in an appearance - he'd rung home and
- the phone had been engaged. When he got home, he picked up the phone,
- pressed `redial' and found that she'd been talking to a friend. He
- had to slap her around with a telephone book (doesn't leave marks,
- you know) a bit, just so she wouldn't get any ideas. Now, don't get
- him wrong; he wasn't keeping her as a slave because of who she was;
- she was only there to take care of his son.
-
- Still, a short time later, she managed to get away,and, surprise,
- surprise! The federal police raided his house! They took EVERYTHING
- (except the floppy disks hidden up the chimney)... he had to do a lot
- of fast talking, had to cut some pretty hairy deals with the Feds
- before they'd let him go. He didn't mind that; he had no intention of
- complying with them. He was willing to say, sign or do anything
- required to get away from them.
-
- So, he was free again. Where was that bitch, Jenny? After shopping
- him to the Feds (it had to have been her, obviously; he never would
- have been caught otherwise), she'd run off with Max and was living
- with some sleazy bastard (we'll call him Emerson). How dare she? Just
- who did she think she was? Alvin believed himself quite within his
- rights to break into her house when they were out and hide in the
- closet with a knife, waiting for them to come back. Boy, would they
- be surprised. And they were. He sure as hell put the fear of God into
- her that evening. So what if she'd got a restraining order from the
- Family Court to keep him away? Those laws didn't apply to him;
- anyway, he knew what was right and wrong.
-
- She had his son. His offspring, the living embodiment of his DNA. His
- PROPERTY. Alvin began his carefully plotted campaign of harassment;
- he'd need evidence if he was going to sucessfully regain custody of
- what was rightfully his. He broke into Jenny's unit on several
- occasions; he'd sift through the garbage for pieces of paper she
- might have thrown out, collected poetry, diaries, anything which
- could be used to prove her `instability'.
-
- After a few weeks of this kind of treatment, Emerson had had enough.
- He left, and Jenny took up with a strange guy we'll call Frank. Now,
- Frank was what you'd call `unorthodox'; he was into submissive s&m
- for one thing, and boy, was Alvin pleased when he found this out!
- That sort of thing would look great in the Family Court when it came
- to proving what a `terrible mother' Jenny was, and Alvin made the
- most of it; breaking into the unit when they were out, breaking open
- their `toy-box', spreading their s&m `toys' out on the bed. It made a
- wonderful photograph.
-
- They were, all of them, active in the BBS world; after hacking Unix
- boxes, BBSes were a piece of cake. Alvin captured some very
- interesting conversations on the local chat boards, and if they
- weren't exactly what he wanted, well, he could always edit them. The
- Family Court judges wouldn't know, would they? Most of them were so
- computer-illiterate, they wouldn't know a capture-file from a
- CAT-scan. The piece de resistance was when he broke into Jenny's unit
- and made a copy of the phonebook file from Frank's terminal program.
- Among other things, it had all of his passwords; this allowed Alvin
- to call the systems Frank frequented and read his mail. Some of it
- was quite interesting...
-
- All this s&m stuff was fine, but he needed something more. Alvin
- looked around... what was the current media whipping-boy? Child
- sexual assault, of course! Frank was into s&m, he's probably into
- child abuse as well! Little Max is only two years old, so he can't
- tell anyone the -terrible- things they're doing to him, can he?
-
- Step one: Frank has a job, which could present a problem... he might
- be able to afford decent legal representation. Easy, ring up his
- boss, good morning, sir, yes, were you aware, sir, that an employee
- of yours is a paedophile? Yes, and he's into intravenous drugs, too.
- And I have it on good authority that he has AIDS. Yep. Scratch one
- employee. Frank, this is the dole queue. Dole queue, this is Frank.
-
- The plan proceeds. Next, Alvin has to isolate Jenny.
-
- Alvin still has access to little Max one day out of seven... well,
- Max is obviously in danger here, so one day, Alvin simply waltzes off
- with him and refuses to return the child until Jenny gets a family
- court order keeping that dangerous pervert Frank away from His Son.
- What can she do? Max needs her, he's still breast-feeding. The order
- is signed. Bye, bye, Frank. He still tries to see Jenny, although he
- isn't allowed to be there when she has Max, and if he's there too
- often, the police receive a phone call from some concerned soul and
- they zip around there to make sure the court order is being enforced.
- Git along, Frank, and don't come back or Alvin will go to Community
- Services and play those tapes of little Max describing the awful
- things Frank did to him. Never mind that the kid's two and a half
- years old and has half the vocabulary of the Cookie Monster.
-
- There's an interesting point that Alvin was well aware of; the Family
- Court don't care how evidence was obtained. It doesn't matter if it
- was obtained illegally; it's all admissible. Obviously, if Jenny and
- Frank had known this, they would have been a bit more careful about
- the things they did in bed...
-
- Anyway, Frank's out of the way now. Time passes; the case comes to
- the Family Court. Jenny, being the sort of girl who can be brow-
- beaten into having this guy's baby in the first place, is a pushover
- for Alvin's wolverine-like lawyer. He takes her to pieces, and when
- the dust settles, she's lucky if she gets to see Max at all.
- Supervised access once a week.
-
- Still, this isn't enough. The NERVE of this woman! She goes back to
- court, trying to get some access back (after all, Max is her child as
- well!)! Can't have any of that. Let's see what else we can dig up,
- thinks Alvin.
-
- That child pornography bit was a good scam, wasn't it? Well, let's
- track down Frank and see if we can't implicate him again, and, by
- association, Jenny. He owns a VCR and lots of tapes... a few words in
- the right ears, and the police pay Frank a visit, turn his flat
- upside down, take his VCR and all of his tapes. Frank is
- bewildered... he hasn't seen Jenny for well over a year! Why now?
-
- Six months later, the police have finished going through the tapes.
- They didn't find anything untoward, just your standard porn and lots
- of Star Trek and Red Dwarf. Still, if it comes down to it, Alvin can
- point out that Frank was under -suspicion- of owning child
- pornography, can't he? I mean, there must have been something in the
- accusation, or the police wouldn't have bothered searching the guy's
- place, right? Right. And in the Family Court, that's just as good as
- saying the guy was guilty.
-
- Meanwhile, Jenny has met another guy. Let's call him Simon. Together,
- they move from house to house, and Alvin finds them each time,
- breaking in and stealing anything that looks like a diary. Finally,
- she manages to escape him and find a place where she and Simon can
- raise their own child.
-
-
- This story isn't over yet, people. We'll keep you posted.
-
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