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- ==Phrack Inc.==
-
- Volume Two, Issue Eleven, Phile #2 of 12
-
- ==Phrack Pro-Phile VIII==
-
- Written and Created by Taran King
-
- 2/17/87
-
- Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile VIII. 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 one of the older and high profile phreaks
- of the past...
-
- Wizard of Arpanet
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Wizard of Arpanet is one of the older of the phreak/hack generation.
- His main accomplishments include running Inner Circle and Secret Service BBS.
-
- Handle: Wizard of Arpanet
- Call him: Eric
- Past handles: The Hacker and The Priest
- Handle Origin: A real programmer on Arpanet was called The
- Wizard and Eric took his handle from him.
- Date of Birth: 02/26/69
- Age in 9 days of this writing: 18 years old
- Height: 6'1"
- Weight: 150 lbs
- Eye color: Blue
- Hair color: Dishwaterish blond
- Computers: Atari 400, Commodore 64
- Sysop/Co-sysop of: Secret Service
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Wizard of Arpanet started as your average BBS caller. He eventually
- called Central Processing Unit (a local board to him), and there were these
- funny numbers on the board. He called and tried to connect with his modem,
- but they turned out to be Sprint dial-ups. The CPU Sysop informed him of what
- to do and he started calling national BBSs. Boards that helped him to advance
- include the Twilight Zone (the sysop was the guy that wrote T-Net), OSUNY,
- Dragon's Lair, and Delta BBS. Wizard organized various groups which included
- (from earliest to most recent): PHA (Phreakers and Hackers of America) -
- (included Deep Throat, Phreak King, and Psycho Killer), The Inner Circle (1st
- one) (included Shockwave Rider, and Satan Knight aka Redrum), and The 2nd
- Inner Circle (included The Cracker, Mr. America, Napoleon Bonapart, Stainless
- Steal Rat, Big Brother, Mr. Xerox, Bootleg, Maxwell Wilke, Mandrake The
- Magician, and Zaphod Beeblebrox).
-
- Eric got the number to Arpanet from Dark Dante, and got on the MIT
- Research System from looking through TAC News. One night he got like 50-60
- accounts on the Unix and changed all of the passwords to WIZARD.
-
- Stainless Steal Rat, the Sysop of Delta BBS, and The Myth were all up
- from NJ one weekend, and they were staying the weekend at John Maxfield's
- house. They went to John's office. Wizard asked Maxfield if he could use his
- computer to print out some things he had with him and he printed out some
- stuff from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence address list for Arpanet.
- John was amazed. "Wow," he said, "I have prime evidence on you." (TK: This
- may not for sure be an exact quote). He then proceeded to bust our friend,
- Eric, the next week. He also had a lot of stuff from AUTOVON from some fellow
- in Washington and started playing with the FTS lines (Federal Telephone
- System) which he found from, none other than, John Maxfield. They had found
- the default passwords for TeleMail too, and got the administrator accounts and
- set up their own BBS on Nassau and Coca-Cola systems plus anywhere else
- possible. And all of a sudden, it all came down when Mandrake decided to
- crash parts of TeleMail. Enter, Federal Bureau of Investigations. They had
- been monitoring Eric for 6 months looking for some evidence to get him on.
- And thus, they got it. Nothing really happened, but he had to get a lawyer
- and he got some publicity in the paper. After 90 days, everything they had
- taken, with the exception of a few documents, was sent back. During those 90
- days, Eric worked as a computer security consultant at a bank making $200 an
- hour (2 hours...).
-
- The only "phreaks" he's met are Stainless Steal Rat and Cable Pair.
-
- Eric has been mentioned on local TV/News, in newspapers, USA Today,
- NY Times, Washington Post, Books, and Britannica Encyclopedia (look under
- Hacker).
-
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-
- Interests: Music (preferably jazz, reggae, new wave), Eastern
- philosophy (Zen Buddhism), reading Jack Kerouac books (a
- great beatnik writer), driving aimlessly, slowly becoming
- a social recluse, physics, and Greek mathematicians.
-
- Eric's Favorite Things
- ----------------------
-
- Women: The pursuit thereof (Karen Wilder).
- Foods: Chinese.
- Cars: BMW 320-I.
- Artist: Salvador Dali.
- Plans for next few months: Next year and a half - travelling to Montreal in
- April for a week of leisure, then jetting back to
- beautiful Detroit and continuing his studies at
- Eisenhower High School.
-
- Most Memorable Experiences
- --------------------------
-
- Realizing all at once that everything you did 3 years ago was stupid.
- Growing into a new person.
- Gaining morals and new ideas and a new outlook.
-
- Some People to Mention
- ----------------------
-
- Tuc (For telling him about boxing).
- Tom Tone (For calling him on his first conference).
- Magnetic Surfer (Talking to him for the first time after Sherwood Forest went
- down voice).
- John Maxfield (Meeting him).
- Stainless Steal Rat (Meeting him...with John Maxfield).
- Dark Dante (One of the legends phreakdom).
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Always follow your instinct and not your desire for you will be
- sorry because you will be lying to yourself.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 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? No, says Eric, he considers them a new
- breed of intellect. Thanks for your time, Eric.
-
- Taran King
- Sysop of Metal Shop Private
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