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- ==Phrack Inc.==
-
- Volume Two, Issue 22, File 2 of 12
-
- ==Phrack Pro-Phile XXII==
-
- Created By Taran King
-
- Brought To You By Taran King and Knight Lightning
-
- Done on October 8, 1988
-
- Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile XXII. Phrack Pro-Phile was created to
- bring information to you, the community, about retired or highly important/
- controversial people. This issue, we bring to you a name from the past and
- a user of highly respected rankings in the history of the phreak/hack world...
-
- Karl Marx
- ~~~~~~~~~
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- Personal
- ~~~~~~~~
- Handle: Karl Marx
- Call Him: James Salsman
- Past Handles: None
- Handle Origin: Bloom County (Something about Capitalists and Humor)
- Date Of Birth: 12/2/67
- Height: 6"0'
- Weight: 155 lbs
- Eye Color: Blue
- Hair Color: Dark Brown
- Shoe Size: 10 1/2
- Computers: Nondeterministic turing machines
- Sysop/Co-Sysop Of: Farmers of Doom
-
- Origins In Phreak/Hack World:
- Manufacturing Explosives -- He wanted to blow up his High School.
-
- Origins In Phreak/Hack BBSes: Plovernet!
-
- People In The Phreak/Hack World Met:
-
- The Buccaneer, Mark Tabas, Shadow Master, and a few other Colorado types.
- He also actually made it to a TAP meeting a while ago [TelePub '86], but he
- slept through it. All he remembers is that it was in New York and Scan Man
- was there in a baseball cap. He thinks it was in a "Days Inn" or
- something.
-
-
- Experience Gained In The Following Ways:
-
- Spending long hours pouring over Bell System Tech Journals from
- 1970-Present. He suggests to anyone who wants to learn non-trivial, but
- useful things -- or who just wants to get some really *powerful*
- vocabulary for social engineering -- try using your local college or large
- public library.
-
-
- Knowledge Attributed To:
-
- Nearly everyone who he's ever talked to -- if you let people bullshit you
- long enough, you learn quite a bit just by figuring out why they are wrong.
-
-
- Memorable Phreak/Hack BBSes: Plovernet, Legion of Doom, Shadowland, and of
- course the invisible 3rd level of FOD.
-
-
- Work/Schooling (Major):
-
- Carnegie Mellon University. He dropped out as soon as they let him work on
- interesting Cognitive Science and AI projects. He currently works at
- Expert Technologies -- the company has an expert system for putting
- together various Yellow Pages for client phone companies that he is not
- supposed to name (there's no point in naming them, 'cause by now they do
- every fucking Yellow Pages in the country -- ACK!) But that's just what
- makes the company money. He's working on user interfaces based on speech
- recogniton.
-
-
- Conventions/Involvements Outside Of Phone Calls:
-
- He thinks he went to that TAP [Telepub '86] meeting, but he doesn't
- remember much more than Scan Man's cap. He was INTENSELY tired and his
- girlfreind was complaining that everyone was a geek and that they had to
- find a way to get back in Pittsburgh in four hours.
-
-
- Accomplishments:
-
- He wrote somthing about Nitroglycerin. He probably killed a lot of
- aspiring phreaks on Plovernet by not putting in enough warnings like
- "Remember, DON'T make more than a few grams or you will be found dead and
- identified as Dinty Morre Beef Stew." He also came up with the "RESCOC --
- Remote Satellite Course Correction System" file. It was PURE bullshit, but
- with headings like "How to manuver a satelite to crash it into cities (like
- Moscow)" it was a big hit with the "Hacker-Hype" media. AT&T denied
- everything.
-
-
- Phreak/Hack Groups: He got a lot of mail saying somthing like;
-
- "Congratulations! You MAY ALREADY HAVE WON membership into the NEW GROUP...
-
- ----- THE CAPTAINS OF CODES -----
-
- It's the best new phreak/hack group since MIT! Just tell us everything you
- know and tell everyone else what a great group we are -- AND WE WILL LET
- YOU BE A MEMBER OF... ----- THE CAPTAINS OF CODES -----"
- He usually ignored these "memberships." He believes Tabas understood the
- problem when he created the parody-group "Farmers of Doom."
-
-
- Interests:
-
- His main interest is AI. His particular application domains focus on
- Cognitive Science and Pattern recognition. He thinks he might have been
- interested in the telephone system -- but those days are over. He doesn't
- even remember the codes to do trunk selection on an RTA distribution point.
- And if the ROCs security folks think he still does that sort of thing they
- are going to have to prove it. :-)
-
-
- Favorite Things;
-
- Thinking: Problem Solving
- Conversation: Exchange of information
- Love: Emotional fulfillment
- Sex: Physical fulfillment
- Drugs: Introspection
- Poetry: Metaphor, Imagery
- Involvement: Sense of Self-Worth
- Music: Rhythm, Harmonics
- Food: Flavor, Satisfaction
- Breathing: Inhalation of Oxygen
-
-
- Most Memorable Experience:
-
- The funniest thing that ever happened to him was the time he was arrested.
- The Secret Service had bugged this hotel room and surprised them (always
- remember, SECRET service and ROOM service are not *that* different.) They
- took them to a Denver Police holding tank that was filled with non-sober
- hooligans.
-
- Unfortunately, he was in a business suit (having just returned from handing
- a $5,000,000.00 "certified" check to Charles Schwab in Sacramento). So
- there were all these drunk people asking me, "Ahre yha my lawer???"
-
- Of course, Mark Tabas had it easy in his Hawaiian print shirt, but he had
- to deal with "Whatcha here fur?" Jim told them that he was being held for
- "Fraud." That explanation didn't seem to satisfy them -- "Har, har, har!
- Fraud! The kid's in here for fraud! Let me tell you what I'm in for!
- What do you think I'm here for??"
-
- He didn't have the heart to tell the gentlemen that he really didn't care
- why they shared such a predicament so he responded with a blank stare.
- They then went on to describe crimes so horrible that he could hardly
- believe them, if it wasn't for the fact that most of them were at least two
- thirds covered in blood. That sort of gave them the advantage, so he went
- on to tell them that he must have been put in the wrong cell and that he
- was sure that the jailer would transfer him in just a few hours. They all
- seemed to accept that, and went on to insulting each other.
-
-
- Some People To Mention:
-
- o "I'd like to thank Who-Bob and T-Bob for their long hours they spent
- discussing new and innovative ESS social engineering techniques.
-
- o I am forever indebted to Mark Tabas for his courage and demeanor in the
- face of adversity -- which is to say that getting busted didn't bother him
- as much as disk space problems did.
-
- o There's this guy named "Chuck" in the 303 T5 center who I'd like to mention
- because he set up a RTA routing code for me that switched incoming toll
- trunks to BLV trunks -- if only everyone were that stupid!"
-
-
- Inside Jokes: "Sorry, sir, we were just trying to find some wire for our
- science fair project, but as there appears to be nothing here
- but coffee grounds and cigarette ashes, we had better get going.
- Have a nice day!"
-
-
- Serious Section: He's very strongly against geting busted.
-
-
- Are Phreaks/Hackers You've Met Generally Computer Geeks?
-
- He hopes not! Most of the people that used to be computer geeks around CMU
- now wear suits and ties and have six digit salaries. What a horrible
- thing! He wouldn't wish that on his worst enemy!
-
-
- Busted For: He was busted for being in a hotel room with Steve Dahl. He was
- convicted of the law that says, in effect "it's illegal to lie to
- somebody more powerful than you." He stopped phreaking because he
- was on probation and didn't want to go to prison. He is NOT
- planning a comeback.
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- Thanks for your time James.
-
- Taran King and Knight Lightning
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