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- -=> VOLUME 1, ISSUE 5, APRIL, 1990 <=-
- (File 1 of 11)
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- **** WELCOME ****
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- To the fifth issue of -=* PIRATE *=-!
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- >> SPECIAL ISSUE ON LEGION OF DOOM BUSTS <<
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- Special thanks for getting this issue out go to:
- Chris Robin
- Ellis Dea
- Hatchet Molly
- Jedi
- Jim Richards
- Pru Dohn
- Several anonymous (by choice) contributors
- Sherlock Ohms
- The Legion of Doom
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- Any comments, or if you want to contribute, most of us can
- be reached at one of the following boards:
- BOOTLEGGER'S >>> PIRATE HOME BOARD
- RIPCO (Illinois)
- SYCAMORE ELITE (815-895-5573)
- EURO-AM CONNECTION (Illinois)
- COMPANY OF WOLVES (301-791-1595)
- THE ROACH MOTEL (California)
- PACIFIC ALLIANCE (818-280-5710)
- THE CHIMERAN CONSPIRACY (Minneapolist/St. Paul)
- THE LIGHTNING SYSTEM (414-363-4282)
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- Dedicated to sharing knowledge, gossip, information, and tips
- for warez hobbyists.
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- ** CONTENTS THIS ISSUE **
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- File 1. Introduction
- File 2. Commentary (by Ellis Dea)
- File 3. Proscutor Press Release of LoD indictment
- File 4. Federal Indictment of LoD bust
- File 5. What pheds did to The Mentor
- File 6. Pheds Hassle Employers
- File 7. Jolnet Story (part 1)
- File 8. Jolnet Story (part 2)
- File 9. E-Mail Counter suit
- File 10. Hackers Strike Back
- File 11. Phreaks and Hackers as Post-Modernists
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- ** ABOUT THIS ISSUE **
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- On February 6, 1990, a federal indictment came down in Chicago charging The
- Prophet and Knight Lightning (co-editor of PHRACK) with interstate
- transportation of stolen property, wire fraud, and violations of the federal
- Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (See Title 18, United States Code,
- Section 1343, and Title 18, United States Code, Section 1030(a)(6)(A).
- Although the indictment specifies no hard information other than inuendo and
- rather spurious leaps of logic for the charges of attempted fraud and
- conspiracy, it does claim that E911 documents (a training manual) was taken
- from BellSouth's computer system. The Prophet is charged with obtaining the
- documents, and Knight Lightning is charged with receiving them and editing
- them for PHRACK. It seems KL's only "crime" is exercising his first amendment
- right to freedom of the press, because the indictment indicates that
- publishing information intended to sharpen certain types of computer skills
- should be considered a federal crime.
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- In addition to TP and KL, other LoD members have been busted, harrassed, and
- have had their equipment, and the equipment of their employers confiscated,
- despite reliable information that no evidence of wrong-doing existed!
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- The Legion of Doom (LoD) busts have implications for every body, even those
- who do not use computers. At stake are Constitutional rights of privacy and
- first amendment rights of free speech, publishing, and information sharing.
- The attempt to purge the world from those nasty computer underground
- participants has led to arrests, "investigations," seizure of property for
- evidence, and other "crimes" by law enforcement agents against computer owners
- and users whether implicated in an offence or not. We find this trend to
- frightening that we devote this issue of PIRATE to the Legion of Doom busts
- and try to raise some of the issues that we see as important for
- **EVERYBODY**!
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- What action can you take? Be careful not to violate the law, but DON'T BE
- AFRAID TO EXPRESS YOUR RIGHTS TO SHARE INFORMATION! The "chilling effect" of
- supressing freedom of speech has led some sysops to avoid posting anything
- controversial. Even PIRATE has been deleted from some boards because the
- sysops are afraid of reprisals by the pheds, which can include confiscation of
- equipment and possible loss of income. You can help by uploading news
- articles, stories, or any other info to as many boards as possible to spread
- information and to let the sysops (and the pheds) know that there are still
- people who believe we have a Constitution. Second, you can write your
- congressional representatives and others who have made (and continue to make)
- laws restricting information flow. Let them know you are concerned about
- criminalizing non-harmful behaviors (such as posting PIRATE, PHRACK, or
- articles related to the computer underground), and that you find the penalties
- and the confiscation of equipment without hearing totally undemocratic.
- Finally, talk about this stuff with friends and get your own viewpoint known.
- Repression occurs in a vacuum, and we lose our freedoms not by some major
- revolution, but slowly, gradually, a bit at a time while nobody is paying
- attention.
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