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- ==Phrack Inc.==
-
- Volume One, Issue Nine, Phile #2 of 10
-
- ==Phrack Pro-Phile VI==
-
- Written and Created by Taran King
-
- 9/28/86
-
- Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile VI. 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 a particularly influential user from days of old...
-
- The Nightstalker
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- The Nightstalker was involved with Tap and 8080B, the first home
- computer which he helped build for NY Telephone.
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- Personal
- ~~~~~~~~
- Handle: The Nightstalker
- Past handles: Stainless Steel Rat, The Old Wazoo, C.T.
- Handle origin: TV movie and series called "The Nightstalker"
- Date of Birth: 12/51
- Age at current date: 34 years old
- Height: 6'+
- Weight: 200+ lbs.
- Eye color: Blue-Green
- Hair Color: Brownish-Black
- Computers: ALTAIR 8080B, Apple IIe, Commodore 64
-
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- The Nightstalker started in the phreak world in 1971 due to the
- Esquire article on blue boxes and YIPL magazine. He obtained his first blue
- box by January, 1972. He started hacking in 1975 after obtaining a TI Silent
- 700 Series, Model 700 exceedingly dumb terminal. He stumbled upon ARPAnet in
- Massachusetts, the bridge at MIT...1 hour later, he figured out how to get
- on. He toyed with the MIT exchange and found the MULTICS system and their
- artificial intelligence system. They were just beginning to use a language
- called LISP at the time. He also helped with the building of the ALTAIR
- 8080B, holding 22 slots for cards 4 inches thick, 18 of which were used to get
- 16K on the computer. He helped out NY Telephone with "Let's Get Together", a
- game at fairs which utilized Area Codes for answers. He also was involved
- with the standard old phone phreak tricks like a loop around the world from
- one phone booth to the one next to it. His first computer was a Commodore 64
- due to the cost to him (free) and it was easier to upgrade than the Apple IIe
- (pick up a brochure on Commodore and see how many voices it has as well as the
- tone range...I'm sure that it covers 2600 hz quite nicely).
-
- Members of the telecom world which he has met include Cheshire Catalyst,
- Captain Crunch, Steve Wozniak, and Bill Gates (head of Microsoft). He has met
- many phone phreaks at science fiction conventions, but doesn't know them by
- name or handle.
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- Interests: Telecommunications (modeming, phreaking, hacking),
- telecomputing, science fiction, short wave radio, scanner
- listening, classic music, and shooting.
-
- The Nightstalker's Favorite Things
- ----------------------------------
-
- Women: Goes without saying; preferably ones involved in science
- fiction as an interest or a hobby.
- Sci-Fi Cons: He attends many and has met many phreaks through them.
- Short wave radio: As previously mentioned, scanning.
- Hack: A classic hack (scam), participating in or hearing of.
- Anarchy: Confusing people with authoritative positions.
- Shooting: Target shooting or machine guns.
- Space programs: Obsessed since Sputnik program.
-
- Most Memorable Experiences
- --------------------------
-
- Machine gun gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. Lots of fun!
- First time he hacked his way into a trade show.
- Boxing a call to AUTOVON and to Lebanon during U.S. occupancy and billed the
- call to the local KKK member.
-
- Some People to Mention
- ----------------------
-
- Ron Rosenbaum (wrote the Esquire article on Blue Boxes [all his fault]).
- Various science fiction authors.
- Wozniak and Jobs (for inventing the Apple).
- MIT (for inventing the Altair computer).
- Marx Brothers (for his anarchial views towards bureaucracy).
- Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (wrote Illuminatus Trilogy [recommended]).
- John Draper (for showing us all how it was done).
- Original MIT Hackers (for showing us the light).
- AT&T (for providing us with this wonderful Network).
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-
- The Nightstalker is not fond of the current society that claims themselves as
- hackers or phreakers but don't learn the systems themselves. These aren't the
- real hackers that sit down and literally hack away at a system. Pirates
- aren't hackers. Just because you have a computer doesn't mean you're a
- hacker. Another thing he's displeased about is the term "hacker" used by the
- media as anyone owning a computer. He considers the people that destroy
- systems criminals and fiends, not hackers. Those that find the back doors and
- something unknown about a system non-malevolently or without profit in mind
- are true hackers and phreakers.
-
- About computers, The Nightstalker has strong feelings about the symbolisms of
- the brand names as status symbols in society. He feels, rather than buying
- the computer because it's the most expensive, the neatest looking, or what
- everyone else has, you should buy it for it's capabilities which can help you
- rather than hypothetical situations many computer advertising agencies use.
-
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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? He feels that the term, "computer
- geek" or closer, "geek" is too relative to be able to generalize. There have
- been people that he's met, though, that he'd not wish to exist on the same
- planet with. Thanks for your time, Mr. Nightstalker.
-
- Taran King
- Sysop of Metal Shop Private
-
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