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- ==Phrack Inc.==
-
- Volume Two, Issue 24, File 2 of 13
-
- ==Phrack Pro-Phile XXIV==
-
- Created and Written by Taran King
-
- Done on February 3, 1989
-
- 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, I present one of the more rare sights in the
- world of phreaking and hacking...a female! She was vaguely active and had a
- few contacts with people that were largely involved with the community...
-
- Chanda Leir
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- Handle: Chanda Leir
- Call Her: Karen
- Past Handles: None
- Handle Origin: An aunt of hers as a child wanted to use this name is she ever
- became famous.
- Date Of Birth: May 8, 1970
- Current Age: Almost 19
- Height: 5' 6"
- Weight: 125 lbs. (providing Freshman 15 hasn't yet hit)
- Eye Color: Green/Grey
- Hair Color: Blond
- Computers: Her father is a real estate broker, so she began on a TI 700
- terminal (an MLS Terminal)... just a modem and a keyboard and a
- scroll of PAPER)... then it was dad's business computer-- the
- KAYPRO II... Now she uses the Macs and the Sun systems and the
- IBM RT's located at CMU.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Karen started using BBSes in the D.C. area in 1983 (at the ripe age of 13). A
- guy by the name of Hack-Man (she supposes this was the "original" H-M) was
- running a board off of the dead side of the local 678 loop. Her introduction
- to phone "stuff" began when she called the "board" one day and found instead 30
- people on the line instead of a carrier.
-
- She was dumbfounded, and being female, there were 30 guys on the conference
- ready and willing to provide her with information as to origins of loops,
- conferences, boxing, etc. Scott (Hack-Man) later filled her in on the rest,
- gave her more numbers and such and that's where it all began.
-
- The memorable phreakers or hackers that Karen has met include Cheshire Cat,
- Tuc, Bioc Agent 003 and anyone else who was at the TAP meeting during
- Thanksgiving of 1984.
-
- She gained her experience by asking a LOT of questions to a lot of hard-up guys
- who were willing to give her all kinds of info since she was a girl. She
- attributes her information mostly to just taking in and remembering all of the
- information that people gave her.
-
- The two boards that Karen listed as memorable were both in Falls Church, VA.
- which were Mobius Strip and Xevious II.
-
- Currently she's a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (or as
- she likes to call it, COMPUTER U.). Her major is probably "Policy &
- Management."
-
- Her major accomplishment is that she was probably the youngest girl ever to
- attend a TAP meeting (at the age of 14) and probably one of the only people to
- attend one with Mom, Dad, and Aunt Linda (how embarrassing).
-
- One of the reasons she quit the phreak/hack world was because of a visit from
- the Secret Service in February 1985... although they didn't really come for
- her... A "friend" wanted for credit card fraud called her while his line was
- hooked to a pin register.
-
- The same weekend he called Karen, was Inauguration Weekend and she and her
- brother called the 456 (White House) loop something like 21 times in the 4-day
- weekend period... In any case the SS wanted to catch Eric and when her number
- showed up in two places, they decided to investigate. Freaked out her parents!
-
- The real reason she quit the phreak/hack world was because she transferred high
- schools in 1985 and became one of the "popular" kids and gained a social life,
- thus losing time and interest for the computer.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Chanda Lier's Interests Include: MUSIC... specifically harDCore... (that would
- be punk rock from Washington, DC). Most of
- her friends are or were in DC bands... The
- Untouchables, Teen Idles, Minor Threat, Youth
- Brigade (DC), Grey Matter, Government Issue,
- etc.
-
- HORROR... novels, movies, comics.... Clive
- Barker, Arcane Comix (of which her friend
- Steve is publisher of), Peter Straub, Dean
- Koontz, Whitely Streiber etc... that whole
- genre...
- And Flannery O'Connor rules...
-
- Her most memorable experiences include the following:
-
- Her parents used to "make" her start conferences for them whenever it was
- a relative's birthday. They would get the whole family on the line and chat
- and stuff. Everyone thought it was really cool....
- Other fun times were when her dad would pull out his DoD (Department of
- Defense) phonebook and they would hack around for modem lines....
- Tuc coming to her grandmother's house in April 1985 and then going to see
- "Desperately Seeking Susan"...
-
- Some People to Mention:
- "I guess, just Taran King, for this interview, and Knight Lightning...both
- of whom contacted me here at CMU.... and TUC... and ...?"
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- And of course...that regular closing to the Phrack Pro-Phile... Are most of
- the phreaks and hackers that you've met computer geeks? "YES... no doubt."
-
- Thanks for your time, Karen.
-
- Taran King
-
-