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- ==Phrack Inc.==
-
- Volume One, Issue 7, Phile #2 of 10
-
- ==Phrack Pro-Phile IV==
-
- Written and Created by Taran King
-
- 6/28/86
-
- Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile IV. 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 one of the most influential users of our times and
- of days of old...
-
- Scan Man
- ~~~~~~~~
-
- Scan Man is the sysop of Pirate 80 (P-80), a telcom enthusiasts'
- bulletin board in Charleston, West Virginia (304).
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Personal
- ~~~~~~~~
- Handle: Scan Man
- Call him: Scan Man
- Past handles: None
- Handle origin: Thought it up while writing a scanning program.
- Date of Birth: 8/30/53
- Age at current date: 32 years old
- Height: 6'1
- Weight: About 225 lbs.
- Eye color: Green
- Hair Color: Dark Blond to Light Brown
- Computers: 2 TRS Model I's (one of which the BBS is run on), Tandy
- Model 1000 (IBM Compatible), a 132 Column Dot Matrix, a
- 132 Column Daisy Wheel, a Model 100 Portable, a TRS Color
- Computer, and a backup 80 Column Dot Matrix Printer.
- Sysop/Co-Sysop of: Pirate 80 (P-80)
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Scan Man started out in the BBS world about 7 years ago when he first
- got his modem, a 300 Baud Auto-Answer/Auto-Dial Micro-Connection Modem (made
- by Micro Peripheral Corp.) with tape input and output. Pirate 80 went up 4
- years ago this Halloween, which consisted of a TRS Model 1, 3 40 track, single
- sided, double density floppies, and a 300 baud modem (which held up until 6
- months ago). At the time of arising, the board was put up for interests in
- phreaking, hacking, as well as pirating. Within the first 6 months to now,
- Scan Man had gone through 6 BBS programs, and is quite satisfied with the
- current one. First, he started with a pirated version of TBBS 1.2, then an
- upgrade to 1.3, pirated again (occurred and at the same time a hard drive was
- added after a number of disk drive changes and modifications). Scan Man,
- through his BBS (which was in the first 5 all phreak/hack BBS's to ever go up,
- and is the oldest phreak board in the country), has met or talked to what he
- considers "anybody who is anybody". At 11 years old, he found a few old
- phones, took them apart, and got them working, which was when his interest in
- telecom arose. He was led into the phreak world when he became aware that he
- could phreak (articles he read such as blue box articles). At the time, BBS's
- and personal computers did not exist at this time. The first board he called
- that involved phreaking was the old Pirate's Harbor. An anonymous message
- posted there had a few alternate long distance service codes posted. He was
- very excited that he had stumbled upon this thrill and he spent the first year
- or so calling around finding exactly what everyone was into and from there
- forward he started manufacturing various devices with the Researcher. They
- worked together and learned together. Because so much information posted was
- inaccurate, they did this to make it accurate and found out what was the real
- stories. The more memorable phreak boards that he was on included Plovernet,
- (and all pre-Plovernet), L.O.D., AT&T Phone Center, Pirates of Puget Sound, as
- well as a few others which he couldn't remember offhand because it was so long
- ago.
-
-
- Scan Man's work is as a computer consultant (systems analyst). He
- checks security as well as enhancements, improvements, and debugging. He's
- been doing this for about a year now.
-
- Scan Man's hack and phreak interests are unknown to his employers.
- He
- has attended various things including sneaking into a seminar on the DMS-250
- Digital Switching System, and before that, TelePub '86, and he's sneaked into
- other various telcom/computer security seminars. He starts one project at a
- time and does things step by step. He's very concentrated in his projects.
-
- Scan Man frowns upon groups and says, "If you're any damn good at
- all,
- you're going to get a reputation whether you like it or not."
-
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-
- Interests: Telecommunications (modeming, phreaking, hacking,
- satellite scanning), white water rafting, snow skiing,
- dancing (he used to be a roller skating dance/disco
- instructor), and boating.
-
- Scan Man's Favorite Things
- --------------------------
-
- Foods: Junk food, or an expensive restaurant once a week or so.
- Movies: He's a movie buff, and goes regularly, by himself even.
- Animals: He's an animal lover.
- Pyrotechnics: They manufacture various fireworks as a hobby.
-
-
- Most Memorable Experiences
- --------------------------
-
- The Newsweek Incident with Richard Sandza.
- Last year's New Years' Phreak Party.
-
-
- Some People to Mention
- ----------------------
-
- The Researcher (for helping him out in starting out with phreak/hacking.)
- The Coco Wizard (helped a lot with the BBS and the hardware on the computer.)
- King Blotto, Mr. Gucci, and The Scanner (people he could do without.)
-
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-
- Scan Man dislikes the bickering and fighting between the phone
- phreaks
- of modern day because they're just fighting to climb the social ladder. He
- dislikes the current phone phreaks because they're not in it to learn, and are
- only in it to gain a big reputation. The old phreaks were those that wanted to
- be there because they were a student of the network and had a true desire to
- learn. It's become an ego/power-trip of the modern teenage America. They're
- only in it to impress other people, and write philes just to get the
- reputation, rather than to write it for the information in it, and collect them
- only to say their collection is sizable. He feels that credit cards are voodoo
- because it seems to be what people and sysops get busted for the most.
-
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-
- 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? 90% of the phreaks, yes. 10% or less
- are in it to learn. He respects that small percentage.. Thank you for your
- time, Scan Man.
-
- TARAN KING
- SYSOP OF METAL SHOP PRIVATE
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