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- ==Phrack Inc.==
-
- Volume Two, Issue 12, Phile #2 of 11
-
- ==Phrack Pro-Phile IX==
-
- Written and Created by Taran King
-
- 3/17/87
-
- Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile V. 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 name from the past...
-
- Agrajag The Prolonged
- =====================
-
- Agrajag was popular on many boards and hung out with many of the
- stronger names in the phreak/hack community.
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Personal
- ========
- Handle: Agrajag The Prolonged
- Call him: Keith
- Past handles: None
- Handle origin: Fictional character in Hitchhiker Trilogy
- Date of Birth: 6/14/67
- Age at current date: 19 years old
- Height: 6'2"
- Weight: 139 lbs.
- Eye color: Brown
- Hair Color: Depends on the day (Orange, Brown, Black, Hot Pink, etc.)
- Computers: TRS Model III, worked his way up to a TVI 950 Dumb
- Terminal
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Agrajag started phreaking and hacking in about 1979 through the help
- of some friends of his. He originally started hacking (programming) on a
- Vector 8080 in 4th grade. His instructor then is now one of the top 5
- computer instructors. Phreaking began with, of course, codes but he was very
- interested in how the phone system worked. He had read some books on the
- phone company and their evils in their earlier days and he was very interested
- in the very idea of becoming an operator. Members of the elite world which he
- has met include Tuc, BIOC Agent 003, Broadway Hacker (negative), and Cheshire
- Catalyst, all at a Tap meeting he attended. On regular BBSes, there were
- listings for other BBSes which turned out to eventually be phreak BBSes. Some
- of the memorable phreak boards he was on included WOPR, OSUNY, Plovernet, and
- Pirate 80. His phreaking and hacking knowledge came about with the group of
- people including Tuc, BIOC, and Karl Marx.
-
- Agrajag was a video game programmer for the last American owned video
- game manufacturer, Cinematronix, Inc. (of Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, World
- Series, and Danger Zone fame, of which he helped with World Series and a big
- part of Danger Zone) which went bankrupt a bit over a month ago.
-
- Agrajag takes interviews for magazines (such as this) which keeps up
- his phreak/hack activity. He (and a bunch of others) were written up in a USA
- Today article as well as being interviewed by a local paper when The Cracker
- (Bill Landreth) got busted (they took pictures of the back of his head in
- front of his computer).
-
- Agrajag was never in any major phreak groups except for The
- Hitchhikers (Bring your towel!) which was just a group of local friends.
-
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-
- Interests: Telecommunications (modeming, phreaking, hacking,
- programming), music, concerts, club hopping, and video
- games.
-
- Agrajag's Favorite Thing
- ------------------------
-
- Club/Bar hopping: Tijuanna (TJ)
-
- Most Memorable Experiences
- --------------------------
-
- Going officing. Tuc, BIOC, and he were let into a local CO and they used
- their copying machine to make copies of their manuals. They
- replaced the paper [over 2 reams] later and didn't steal anything
- major besides the paper and a few NY Bell signs.
- Called supervisors saying that they had witnessed some trunks red-lighting and
- there would be severe problems if they didn't contact this guy,
- Abbot Went, in San Francisco. There were about 10 supervisors in
- mass hysteria (on Thanksgiving) wondering what to do. Later, they
- called up Abbot again saying they were the White House switch and
- said some kids were fooling around.
- Breaking into his school's computer in his senior year mid-semester. He had
- scanned it out on a school prefix and the login and password was the
- name of his school. It was a TOPS-20 system and he was well enough
- versed in TOPS-20 to know what to do. The next day, he told the
- vice-principal that he had broken into the computer and that they
- had some major security problems. They said he was bullshitting and
- he told them to read their mail. Then, later, he brought in his
- equipment and showed them with the principal there. He was
- threatened by the principal with police, etc. but he told them to go
- to hell. He was later offered a job helping the security on the
- system but instead, he told them how they could solve the security
- problem and didn't take the job.
- Agrajag's teacher asking him to do a credit check on someone illegally. He
- eventually did part of it, but the teacher was an asshole so he
- didn't give all the information to him.
- Getting flown to the Tap meeting by a friend.
-
- Some People to Mention
- ----------------------
-
- Tuc
- BIOC Agent 003
- Karl Marx
- Automatic Jack
-
- All for being friends and all around good people and phreaks.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Agrajag is out and out against the idea of the destruction of data.
- He hated a person intensely because they posted private lines with
- instructions on how to maim a system owned by someone who was already hated.
- He deleted the message (he was co-sysop) and it became a bit controversial.
- He hated that then and still has no respect for anyone who does this. Where
- have all the good times gone?
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- I hope you enjoyed this phile, 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? The general populus, yes, but good
- phreaks, no. Thank you for your time, Agrajag.
-
- Taran King
- Sysop of Metal Shop Private
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