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- ==Phrack Inc.=
-
- Volume Two, Issue 10, Phile #2 of 9
-
- ==Phrack Pro-Phile 7==
-
- Written and Created by Taran King
-
- 12/15/86
-
- Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile 7. Phrack Pro-Phile is created to bring info to
- you, the users, about old or highly important/controversial people. This
- month, I bring to you a user from the golden years of hacking and phreaking...
-
- Dave Starr
- ~~~~ ~~~~~
-
- Dave is one of the old phreakers and hackers that accomplished so much
- through voice phreaking and literal hacking rather than reading others'
- findings to learn. A master engineer, voice phreaking is one unto itself.
- Dave has a PhD in B.S.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Personal
- ~~~~~~~~
- Handle: Dave Starr
- Call him: Dave Starr
- Past handles: Micronet Phantom and Big Brother
- Handle origin: Micronet Phantom came from working with The Source
- computer and Big Brother, of course, came from George
- Orwell's 1984.
- Date of Birth: 5/6/62
- Age at current date: 24
- Height: 6' 0"
- Weight: 170 lbs.
- Eye color: Brown
- Hair Color: Light Brown
- Computers: TRS-80 (4k version), Apple ][, ][+, ][e
- Sysop/Co-Sysop of: Starcom Network
-
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- Dave started out on The Source, and stuck with them for 6 to 8 months hacking
- around the system because the system was so slow security-wise, and of course,
- from there, he got involved with hacking Primes. One of the security agents
- named Paul from Dialcom got in contact with Dave and discussed Dave's hacking
- on The Source (his system). After talking, they found they had common
- interests, which included hacking and phreaking. Paul gave Dave his first code
- to a local dial-up for Sprint. He also led him in the direction of 8BBS, which
- brought him to meet the best of the nation's phreakers and hackers at the time,
- which included Susan Thunder, Roscoe DuPran, and Kevin Mitnick. Susan and
- Roscoe were strong friends of Dave that he personally met as well as Kevin, but
- he never met Kevin. He met Susan in the L.A. County Courthouse testifying
- against her, with Susan and Roscoe using these handles as real names on the
- charges of harassment. The phreak/hack BBS's that were most memorable for Dave
- were 8BBS and his own, Starcom Network, which had hidden commands for accessing
- the phreak section. Starcom Network was a nationally networked system that
- Dave created and operated. This was a virtual copy of The Source, for which he
- went to court over. They claimed it was their system, but he supressed them
- with a threat of publicity. Modem Over Manhattan was another memorable board
- on a TRS-80. He attributes his phreak knowledge to Paul from Dialcom and to
- The Source for his hacking ability as well as Susan Thunder for information on
- RSTS.
-
- Dave Starr does intelligence and counter-intelligence work for anyone who has
- money and who is not against the United States or the views of the United
- States.
-
- Dave has always operated independently, never being a member of a club or
- group, and has hand-picked his partners.
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-
- Interests: Telecomputing (phreaking and hacking), movies, a
- fascination with the match-making systems (Dial-Your-Match
- type systems), fun, video components.
-
- Dave's Favorite Things
- ----------------------
-
- Women: A quiet evening with the girlfriends (NOTE: Plural).
- Cars: Mercedes 450-SL (his girlfriend's).
- Foods: Italian.
- Music: Anything excluding acid rock/heavy metal.
- Leisure: Smoking, but he hates cigarettes.
-
- Most Memorable Experiences
- --------------------------
-
- Bringing The Source's system to their knees.
- The Source hackers made demands of a rate of reduction to a minimum of a 33%
- decrease, which was sent with the comment, "I am in business so I understand
- the money, but you are becoming too fucking greedy." Also, an article in
- Source-World magazine was demanded, bigger than the one in the last issue
- which was to contain the following: how long they'd been on the Source, why
- they were doing this, The Source's demented point of view, their correct
- point of view, how long they have been terrorizing the Source, and an apology
- for lying to all the users that the rate increase was necessary, AND an open
- apology to The Pirate and Micronet Phantom saying sorry for all the trouble
- The Source had caused them in their quest for fair and free Sourcing. They
- wanted 2 seclev 4 accounts (normal is 3). They assured The Source that they
- could get them here for free, and low-and-behold, they could create anything,
- but they didn't want the harassment. If they did get harassed, they would
- immediately log in under seclev 7 and kill the system. The threatened that
- various accounts would be killed (all with seclev 4 and up). The Source
- person wrote, "Was this ever answered?". They then went on to say that they
- wouldn't do any more terrorizing provided that it was responded to their
- acct. within 20 minutes.
-
- For deleting an account, he sent back a message saying, "Fuck you". He
- explained how they were powerless against The Pirate and Micronet Phantom,
- and how The Source shouldn't even try to catch them. They were to continue
- to attack "The Empire" (The Source) until it was fair for the users.
- Numerous other letters that played to the same tune.
-
- Some People to Mention
- ----------------------
-
- TCA Vic of The Source - Customer Service Manager/Gestapo Police
- (Who he dearly hated and always has thought of
- sticking a broomstick up his ass)
- Paul of Dialcom (Introduced him to phreaking and put his paranoia to rest)
- Susan Thunder (For teaching him RSTS and other things)
- Bruce Patton (On his rag list due to a disagreement. He received a
- electricity shut-down and a phone system shut-down of his law
- office as well as forwarding all calls to the 8BBS)
- Roscoe DuPran (For having him go to court with him and meeting Susan in
- person and for many other things [unmentionable here])
- The Pirate of Las Vegas (For his helpful continual harassment of The Source)
- Kevin Metnick (For his infrequent but helpful service)
- Larry of Modem Over Manhattan (For being there and his BBS being there)
- Bernard of 8BBS (For being there and his BBS being there)
-
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-
- I hope you enjoyed this file, look forward to more Phrack Pro-Philes coming in
- the near future. ...And now for the regularly taken poll from all interviewees.
-
- Of the general population of phreaks you have met, would you consider most
- phreaks, if any, to be computer geeks? Only The Pirate, a 13 year old, fit
- this description. Thank you for your time, Dave.
-
- Taran King
- Sysop of Metal Shop Private
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