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- ==Phrack Inc.==
-
- Volume One, Issue Eight, Phile #2 of 9
-
- ==Phrack Pro-Phile V==
-
- Written and Created by Taran King
-
- 6/25/86
-
- Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile V. 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...
-
- TUC
- ~~~
-
- Tuc is the sysop of RACS III (TUCBBS), a telecom enthusiasts'
- bulletin board in Stony Point, N.Y. (914).
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- Personal
- ~~~~~~~~
- Handle: Tuc
- Call him: Scott Jeffrey Ellentuch
- Past handles: None
- Handle origin: Nickname in high school derived from teachers calling him
- EllenTOUCH, EllenTOOK, and his corrections were phrased
- "TUCK!"
- Date of Birth: 10/10/65
- Age at current date: 20-1/2 years old
- Height: 6'3-1/2"
- Weight: About 195 lbs.
- Eye color: Brown
- Hair Color: Black
- Computers: TRS Model I, then, 2 Atari 800's, then, countless Apple
- II+'s, then, finally, 1 IBM PC.
- Sysop/Co-Sysop of: RACS III (TUCBBS), Phreak Advisor: Sherwood Forest II
-
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- Tuc started out in the BBS world in July 1980 when he first got his
- modem, a Novation Acoustic. In August of 1981, Connection-80 of Stony Point,
- his first bulletin board, was launched into the BBS world. It started on a
- TRS-80 Model I, Epson MX-80 printer, 2 single density disk drives, a Novation
- Acoustic modem, and a home built auto-answer module. At the time, he didn't
- even know what phreaking was, so it was a general public board. A software
- switch to RACS III occurred on January 10, 1982, running until January 10,
- 1985. The hard drive arrived a few months ago to build it to the board that it
- currently is. Members of the elite world which he has met include King Blotto,
- Lex Luthor, Dr. Who, Crimson Death, The Videosmith, Jester Sluggo, The
- Sprinter, Mark Tabas, BIOC Agent 003, Agrajag, Telenet Bob, Big Brother,
- Cheshire Catalyst, Egyptian Lover, Magnetic Surfer, Paul Muad'Dib, Lord
- Digital, Sir Knight, 2600 Editor (Emanuelle Goldstein [sp.]), Susan Thunder,
- Modem Rider, Sharp Razor, Hertz Tone, The Flying Avocado, and The Ace. His
- phreak experience began in March of 1982 through the new board's software
- having a section called "Phreak-80". People started calling and paying
- attention to it, including one caller by the name of Susan Thunder, which is
- how he personally began to phreak. She lead him around the scene which
- included the infamous 8 BBS and to other people such as Larry Kelly. Some of
- the memorable phreak boards he was on included 8 BBS, MOM, OSUNY, The Private
- 414 Board (as in THE 414's), Blottoland, The Connection, L.O.D., Plovernet,
- Pirate 80, Sherwood Forest I, II, and III, WOPR, IROC, Pirate Trek, Pirate's
- I/O, Datanet, Stalag 13, A.I. Labs, and Hell Phrozen Over. He gives credit
- for his phreak knowledge to Susan Thunder and the people that she put him in
- touch with.
-
- Tuc's work is as a computer and communications security freelance
- consultant. He's done lots of programming in basic for the TRS-80, and
- assembly language for the IBM 370.
-
- Tuc does hack and phreak, but with his employer's consent. Tuc
- attends the Tap meetings in New York occasionally, but in the past he was a
- regular. He's attended all Phreak-Con's, he was an assistant editor of the
- original Tap, and was a pioneer in the phreak world before blue boxing and
- Alliance Teleconferencing was common knowledge. Besides that, he was the one
- on West 57th Street labeled "Scott Jeffrey Ellentuch". He was hard to find on
- that particular program.
-
- Tuc has been involved with various groups in his lifetime including
- (in the order that he joined them) The Warelords, The Knights of Shadow, Apple
- Mafia, and, at the same time as Apple Mafia, Fargo 4A.
-
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-
- Interests: Telecommunications (modeming, phreaking, hacking), martial
- arts (weaponry), radio controlled cars and airplanes, and
- video games.
-
- Tuc's Favorite Things
- ---------------------
-
- Women: A quiet evening with the girlfriend.
- Cars: MG-TD Kit Car.
- Foods: Anything vegetarian.
- Music: The Hooters, and any band he worked for.
- Leisure: Having just a "good old time".
-
- Most Memorable Experiences
- --------------------------
-
- Car ride with 8 phreaks in Tuc's VW Super Beetle at a Phreak Con.
- The Fargo 4A stunt (getting all Fargo, N.D. DA's to go home).
-
- Some People to Mention
- ----------------------
-
- Susan Thunder (for getting him started)
- All those that helped him while he was coming up in the world (too many to
- mention)
-
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-
- Tuc is 150% against credit carding. He thinks that is out and out
- criminal activity, something that is totally against the code of ethics of
- phreaking and hacking. He also doesn't appreciate the fighting between phreaks
- that occurs so often in the phreak world today. He thinks the modern community
- is crumbling.
-
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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? No names mentioned, but yes, a few of
- the ones he has met are computer geeks. Thank you for your time, Tuc.
-
- Taran King
- Sysop of Metal Shop Private
-
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