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- #### PHRACK PRESENTS ISSUE 16 ####
- ^*^*^*^Phrack World News, Part 2^*^*^*^
- **** File 9 of 12 ****
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- [Ed's Note: CertainThings in the article have been blanked (XXXXX) at the
- request of the author]
-
- The Story of the Feds on XXXXXXX BBS
- By The Mad Phone Man
-
- Returninghome one afternoon with a friend, I knew something wasn't
- right when I walked into the computer room. I see a "Newuser" on the board...
- and the language he's using is... well "Intimidating"...
-
- "I want you all to know I'm with the OCC task force and we know who you are...
- we are going to have a little get-together and 'talk' to you all."
-
- Hmmm... a loser?... I go into chat mode... "Hey dude, what's up?" I ask.
- "Your number asshole" he says.... Well, fine way to log on to a board if I do
- say.... "Hey, you know I talked to you and I know who you are.." "Oh
- yeah...Who am I?." he hesitates and says... "Well uh.. you used to work for
- Sprint didn't you?"
- I say, "No, you've got me confused with someone else I think, I'm a junior
- in high school."
- "Ohyeah?.. You got some pretty big words for a high school kid," he
- says....
- "Well, in case you didn't know, they teach English as a major these
- days...."
- He says... "Do you really want to know which LD company I'm with?"
- I say "NO, but if it will make you happy, tell me."
- He says MCI. (Whew! I don't use them)... "Well you're outta luck
- asshole, I pay for my calls, and I don't use MCI." He's dumbfounded.
- I wish him the worst as he asks me to leave his rather threatening
- post up on my board and we hang up on him.
-
- Now, I'm half paralyzed... hmmm.... Check his info-form... he left a
- number in 303... Denver.... I grab the phone and call it.. It's the Stromberg
- Telephone company... Bingo.. I've got him.
- I search my user files and come up with a user called "Cocheese" from
- there, and I voice validated him, and he said he worked for a small telco
- called Stromberg... I'm onto him now.
- Later in the week, I'm in a telco office in a nearby major city, I
- happen to see a book, marked "Confidential Employee Numbers for AT&T." I
- thumb thru and lo and behold, an R.F. Stromberg works at an office of AT&T in
- Denver, and I can't cross reference him to an office. (A sure sign he's in
- security). Well, not to be out-done by this loser... I dial up NCIC and check
- for a group search for a driver's licence for him... Bingo. Licence number,
- cars he owns, his SS number, and a cross reference of the licence files finds
- his wife, two kids and a boat registered to him.
- I've never called him back, but If I do have any trouble with him, I'm
- gonna pay a little visit to Colorado....
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