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- .oO Phrack 50 Oo.
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- Volume Seven, Issue Fifty
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- 4 of 16
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- -:[ Phrack Pro-Phile ]:-
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- Aleph One
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- Personal
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- Handle: Aleph One
- Call him: Aleph
- Past handles: None
- Handle origin: Transfinite Math
- ("Infinity and the Mind" by Rudy Rucker)
- Date of Birth: 1974
- Height: 6 feet
- Weight: No idea.
- Eye color: Olive
- Hair Color: Dark Brown
- Computers: Two
- Admin of: Underground.Org, and BugTraq
- Sites Frequented: None. I got better things to do with my time.
- URLs: http://www.disinfo.com/
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- Favorite Things
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- Women: Intelligent, sexy with beautiful eyes and class.
- Cars: None. They are a pain. Ride a motorcycle.
- Foods: Exotic. Sushi (Anago), Arab, Chinese, Vietnamese,
- Thai, Indian, Ethiopian. Seafood. Meat. Anything on
- a grill. Anything flambĪ. Wine: Chianti.
- Music: Techno: Leftfield, Orbital, Underworld, Electric
- Skychurch, Prodigy, Juno Reacto,
- Chemical Brothers, Ambient, GOA Trace.
- Rock: Tool, Marylin Mason, Beck, Garbage, NIN.
- Classical: Bach, Baroque
- Soundtracks: Natural Born Killers, The Piano, Braveheart,
- RobRoy.
- Books: "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- "Infinity and the Mind" by Rudy Rucker
- "100 Years of Solitude" (in Spanish)
- by Gabriel Garcia Marques
- "Metamorphosis" by Kafka
- Turn Ons: Intelligence. Class. Pierced belly buttons.
- Tasteful tattoos. Long hair.
- Turn Offs: Ignorance. Attitude. Bad tattoos.
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- Other passions, interests, loves:
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- Painting - Went to a painting/drawing class for 3 years. Did
- everything from pencil, pastels, up to watercolors. I stopped going
- when I started working with oils. I haven't painted in almost 7 years.
- Too bad, I enjoyed it.
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- Math - For some reason I always liked math. I hated doing exercises,
- but always liked the theory. Guess that's why my grades were not
- better. I was intending to do a minor in math but I quit school
- before that ever happened...
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- Reading - One of the things I value the most are my books. I really enjoy
- reading. Sadly, lately, all I read are technical books. I need to
- start reading other stuff again.
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- AI - When I started fooling around with computers I wanted to go into AI,
- but the lack of material at my disposition at the time kept me from
- delving into it too much.
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- Most memorable experiences:
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- Death - It marks your life for ever.
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- Burning Man '95 - One of the most intense experiences of my life.
- Nothing can compare to the creation and expression of this community
- that grows and dies in one of the most inhospitable, yet more
- beautiful, places on earth.
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- Some people to mention:
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- Annaliza (for all the rides from work, all the adventures, always being
- there, and the hot cocoa)
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- Luis (for all the good times, the bad times, and begin one fucking
- crazy Spanish cosaco)
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- Mr. Upsetter, Buckaroo Banzai, Dan, Rod & Rika, Sir Dystic, Freqout,
- White Knight & Loren (for being good friends)
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- Intrepid Traveller (for giving me the number to Lunatic Labs)
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- Noid, Pappy, Phax, Elvis Smurf, Ming of Mongo, TRW, Clockwork, and the
- rest of the old LA 2600 crew (for being themselves)
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- Veggie (for being larger than life)
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- Mycroft (who would have thought?)
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- r00t (for being elite)
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- A few things you would like to say:
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- Knowledge come from within.
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- The New Security Threat: Disinformation
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- Statistics show that network break-ins are on the rise. Entities
- connecting to the Net expect to be broken into. They know it's only
- a matter of time before some random hacker targets their machines using
- the latest warez to bypass their firewall and break into their machine.
- They have seen it happen over and over. The CIA, DOJ, NASA, MGM/UA, etc.
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- The modus operandi is always the same: Deface the web page, or trash the
- machines. For this occurrence they have prepared. Backups are in place, and
- ready to be used. Hacked web pages hardly stay up more than half and hour
- before they are taken down. What ever message the hackers wanted to deliver
- was probably only seen by a handful of people. There no longer is any
- incentive to hack a web site that no one will see.
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- So what is next? Disinformation.
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- The Internet as a medium facilitates the free flow of information. Single
- individuals can reach large, as yet before unreachable audiences. Information
- that before would have been relegated to some obscure corner, now travels at
- the speed of light and is disseminated all over the world. Everyday the Net
- is becoming a more important source of leads and information for the standard
- news media. It usually only takes a few hours before some information such
- as a new product, or some new bug, published on the Net appears on TV or
- some newspaper's web site. And as more companies publish information online
- our dependence on the Net as a source of information will only increase.
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- But the medium does not attempt to validate or even authenticate this
- information in most cases. A anonymous tip on some newsgroup or web site
- can cause a company a lot of headaches. Even the worst are half-truths.
- Just look at the damage control that corporations such as Microsoft and Intel
- had to do in the past. But this is only the beginning.
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- What if that motivated hacker decides that instead of replacing the
- company's web site with some obscene language and graphics that will be
- taken down almost immediately we will add a small officially worded press
- release to the web site. How long until someone notices? How long until
- they realize it's a fake. Maybe we should also email the press release to
- some media contacts. What are the chances that it will be catch before it
- makes it into the news? Or that it will catch before it's discussed on some
- newsgroup with a large audience?
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- The amount of damage control a well placed piece of information coming
- from a seemingly reputable source is incredible. This, I believe, is where
- future attacks lay.
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- EOF
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