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- ==Phrack Inc.==
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- Volume Two, Issue 13, Phile #8 of 10
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- * Computerists Underground News-Tabloid *
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- Welcome to the first issue of Computerist's Underground News-Tabloid. Now,
- I am sure you are thinking, "aren't 'news' and tabloid basically synonymous?
- Isn't that a bit redundant?". Hell, YES! It is! But "we" don't care. Names
- don't mean a DAMNED thing to us! Hell, NO! What we care about it NEEEEWS! Hard-
- core, FACTUAL news. That's why we tell it like it is. All Bullsh-t aside. You
- don't like what you're seeing? Don't read it! These are the "Bob"-damned facts,
- buddy. This is a tough world we live in. Things aren't always as pretty as we'd
- like them to be. It's a Dog-Eat-Dog world. If you can't take it, you won't make
- it, and it's as simple as that. So read and learn! It's OUR world, and only WE
- can change it, so keep informed!
-
- Editor-in-Chief
- Crimson Death
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- DREADFUL DIGITAL DILEMA
-
- "IT'S TRUE!", say top scientists at South Hampton Institute of Technology,
- "Within three years, the world will face its worst dilema in ages." A new
- strain of virus called C-AIDS (Computer/Artifical Intelligence Deficiency
- System) will begin attacking micro-chips around the globe.
- Where is it coming from? Scientists aren't quite sure, but believe it to
- be a combination of many industrial waste products that float around in the
- air, and human virus! How can this be? Well, that is uncertain right now.
- Dr. Harry Koch claims, "We just don't know, but it's comming!" Religious
- groups claim it's a sign from God to "slow down". Our resident psychic believes
- it's a plague sent down by aliens to hinder us in catching up to their
- technology.
- Just what will this mean? The downfall of many businesses, government
- problems, stock market crash, media troubles! You name it! Almost everything is
- run by computers these days. The world will be in shambles. Barbarian times
- will set in! People will start using their minds! Something needs to be
- done, and QUICK!
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- QUICK QUOTES
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- "IT'S TRUE," says:
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- Line Breaker, "I ran a Commodore 64 BBS with 100 megabytes of storage!"
- American Telephone and Telegraph, "Our rates really ARE the cheapest!"
- The Traveller, "My Jackin Box plans work! You just play with the little lever
- until it pops up!"
- Cheshire Catalyst, "I did play Shaggy on Scooby Doo...but, hey, that's all in
- the past now!"
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- ROBOT CLONE SEEKS PHREAKS AND TRACKS HACKS
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- "IT'S TRUE!", say our inside sources, "Bell Telephone Labs is currently
- working on a high tech robot to seek out Phone Phreaks and Hackers. I have seen
- one...they're almost life like, and it's scary!"
- Right now, there are only a few, but BTL plans to soon put them into mass
- production. This means Bulletin Board Systems throughout the U.S. will be
- teeming with these undercover agents. Two known NERD's (Neurologically
- Enhanced Robotic Detectives) are John Maxfield, a Detroit based android running
- a business called Board Scan; and Daniel Pasquale, a former officer of the law,
- located in California.
- How can we protect ourselves? Well, we're not quite sure, but our
- resident scientists are working on it now!
- More on this topic as it unfolds.
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- Latest news on Robot Clones: Rumor has it that N.E.R.D., John Maxfield
- has contracted a premature case of C-AIDS. If asked, he only denies, but an
- inside agent of ours at BTL said that he has been coming there for treatments.
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- FAMED PHREAK FATHERED BY FUZZIES
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- "IT'S TRUE!", says a close friend of Scott Ellentuch (better known as
- Tuc) the sysop of RACS-III BBS, and former co-editor of Tap Magazine. "He
- doesn't like to talk about it, but he was infact raised by a pack of male
- Guinea Pigs!"
- At the tender age of three months old, the sibling Tuc was abandoned on
- a doorstep in Manhattan. Unfortunately for the tot, the owner of the house was
- an old druken man, who threw the poor baby into the trash before his wife got
- home and found it. Luckily, a pack of wandering Guinea Pigs were on the hunt
- for food, an happened upon the child. They then took him to their nesting in
- Central Park, and raised him like one of their own.
- One day, at the age of 10, Tuc was apprehended by the police after being
- caught shopplifting a bag of cedar chips at a local pet shop. It was decided
- in court that he was a not a criminal, but just misguided because of his fate.
- He was then put in an adoption home until taken in by the Ellentuch's.
- A crack reporter of ours decided to seek out these kindly rodents, and
- ask about any grievances they may have about little "Zippy" (the name given
- to him by his furry brothers). When questioned, they only replied with a
- squeek, and left a few dung pellets. I suppose that's their way of saying,
- "Come on back, Zip, we miss ya..."
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- NEW PHREAK KLASS CO-SYSOPED BY DEMON FROM HELL
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- "IT'S TRUE!", says respected Demonologist, Dr. Jack Goff, from Hawaii
- State University, founder of the Academy of Supernatural Studies. "A modem
- user, who dons the handle 'The Executioner' has been possessed by an evil
- demon from the netherworld!"
- The Executioner, of New Jersey State, co-sysop of the revived Phreak
- Klass 2600 (ran by The Egyptian Lover), and the 'Leader' of the also-revived
- PhoneLine Phantoms, was "once a nice person", according to many of his old
- friends. What caused his plunge into the sadistic-egotistical world he now
- lives in? Black magick!
- His mother spoke with us. "Ever since he ate that bad can of Spaghettios,
- you know...the ones with the sliced franks, he hasn't been the same.
- Day-by-day, he gets worse-and-worse. It's like living with...a...a...monster!"
- At that point, the poor woman broke into tears. But, she couldn't have been
- more on the money if she were sitting on it! The truth is, while eating a plate
- of those Spaghettios (you know, the one's with the sliced franks in them),
- he was reading out of a book he bought the week before called "101 Ways to
- Summon a Demon". Thinking it was all a bunch of nonsense, he read one of the
- 'prayers' aloud. From then on, the poor boy has been inhabited by the demon,
- Isuzu.
- Sorry to say, Dr. Goff claims this demon is a "one of a kind". So far,
- there are no known ways to Ex-orcise (pun intended) the dreaded Isuzu. "It's
- a shame for the lad...I guess we will have to put up with his sadistic, ego-
- tistical, obnoxious, rude, loud, ragging posts and attitudes for awhile."
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- SCIENTIFIC STUDIES SHOW...
-
- If you put an infinate number of Taran King's in a room for an infinate
- number of years, you probably still couldn't get Metal Shop Private to stay up
- for over 30 days.
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- LOD/H MEMBER DISMEMBERS MEMBERS
-
- "IT'S TRUE!" says an anonymous member of the 'Modem World', "Until now,
- it has been all hush-hush, but in reality, there are only a couple LOD/H
- members alive today...it's frightening, and it's hard to believe, yet it
- happened."
- Just what did happen you ask? What is the truth behind the drop-out of
- many LODers? How come the group has dwindled to a petty few? Murder! Yes, cold-
- blooded throat-slashing MURDER! "Who? How? Why? ", you say? Well, that's what I
- am here for, and that's what you're going to find out.
- In December of '86, an LOD/H meeting was held at The Mariott, in
- Philadelphia, in which all of the members had attended. During a discussion on
- the current MCI cracked-down, someone said, "Hey, let's pause this conver-
- sation for 30 minutes, 'Punky Brewster' is coming on." It was at this point
- that everyone in the room quieted, and The Videosmith stood up and threw a
- glass of Pink Lemonade at the TV. He then ran out of the room yelling "Fuck
- this shit! It all makes my balls itch!" Moments later he returned with a 17
- inch machete, and a can of Raid. He had shaved his head, and was wearing a
- shirt that said, "Buckwheat say 'Drugs NOT O-Tay!'" He was obviously deranged.
- He proceded to spray everyone's hair with raid, until the can finally
- ran out. As the group stood in awe, he slashed all of them into tiny bite-
- size pieces...one by one. He then sat down, and watched the rest of Punky
- Brewster, and to this day, has no recollection of what had happened. Only
- those few, who had been at Denny's at the time, remained.
- Following this massacre, he was treated at the Jason Voorhees Institute
- for the Criminaly Insane, and is no longer a member of LOD/H.
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- Well, that about raps it up for the first issue of the Tabloid. There may
- be a few more in the future, I am not sure at this point right now. I hope you
- all enjoyed it, and that only AT&T, The Traveller, and Line Breaker were of-
- fended.
- I'd like to have some comments on how you felt about it, so let me know.
- Also, let me know if you figured out all of the puns and acronyms.
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