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- ==Diet Phrack==
-
- Volume Three, Issue Thirty-Six, File 3 of 11
-
- I n L i v i n g C o m p u t e r
- >>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
- "Knight Lightning meets... The Man"
-
- Adapted from "In Living Color" on Fox Television Network
-
- Starring Knight Lightning
-
- Featuring:
- __________________________________
- | |
- | KL = Knight Lightning |
- | SP = Judge Dredd |
- | CD = Crimson Death |
- | DP = Dispater |
- | |
- | JD = Jerome Dalton (Bellcore) |
- | DB = David Bauer (AT&T) |
- | TM = The Man... you'll see! |
- |__________________________________|
-
-
- + Picture the scene...
-
- A computer conference in Chicago, Illinois.
-
- KL is speaking with several members of the computer underground...
-
- KL: "The whole concept is based on freedom of information. People should
- share information, because sharing benefits everyone."
-
- CD: "That is what my board, Free Speech, is all about. Want some c0dez?"
-
- SP: "Hey Knight Lightning! Do you want to write for my *elite* newsletter,
- NIA!?"
-
- KL: "I don't think so... KL don't play that!" (At this point KL whips out a
- large two-by-four and clunks Judge Dredd and Crimson Death on the head for
- daring to suggest something so ridiculous). Bop! Bop!
-
- Meanwhile, watching closely from a short distance stood two men in dark suits
- and dark glasses. It was Jerome Dalton and David Bauer from AT&T Security.
-
- DB: "See over there, that's KL. He would be perfect."
-
- JD: "Yes I see. Perhaps we can persuade him to come aboard."
-
- A few minutes later as Knight Lightning nears the exit, he is approached by
- Bauer and Dalton.
-
- JD: "Excuse me a moment KL... we'd like to discuss some business with you."
-
- KL: "What the hell do *you* want?"
-
- DB: "Well KL, with all of these hackers acting like they have civil rights, we
- need some help over at AT&T Security to really bust them. We want you to
- come work for us."
-
- KL: (Gripping his two-by-four tightly and tensing to swing)
- "KL don't pl..."
-
- JD: "The job pays $1,000,000 a year!"
-
- KL: "...have a problem with that." ($ $ $ $ $ $)
-
- DB: "Congratulations KL and welcome aboard. You made the right decision."
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- + One week later...
-
- Dispater of Phrack Newsletter spots Knight Lightning, Jerome Dalton, and David
- Bauer coming out of a security meeting with the Secret Service.
-
- DP: "KL! Hey, what are you doing with those guys? Look I need to get some
- advice about running Phrack."
-
- JD: "Oh no you don't! KL don't play that no more!"
-
- The three of them walk past Dispater...
-
- DP: "You're not KL the hacker..." (tears in his eyes) "You're KL the FED!"
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- Did Knight Lightning SELL OUT the hacking community for money!? Has he become
- a "FED"? To find out the answers to these questions and more, keep reading!
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- + The scene is Cherry Hill, New Jersey... AT&T Headquarters, where the entire
- country and the United States government are secretly run by "The Man."
-
- DB: "We're very glad to have you here. Without your presence in the hacking
- community, they'll fall apart any day now. That's why we had our friends
- at Bellsouth single you out and falsify the costs and nature of that E911
- document."
-
- JD: "Right. But none of that is important now that you are here with us. I
- guess you finally realized that since we at AT&T run the entire country,
- it was futile to continue opposing us."
-
- KL: "Yeah. It was the only decision that made sense at this point. So when
- do I get to meet 'The Man'?"
-
- DB: "In time KL, in time."
-
- JD: "You don't get to meet 'The Man' until we're sure you are a total
- sellout."
-
- KL: "Oh. Well AT&T is the greatest corporation in the world."
-
- DB: "C'mon KL, you can do better than that... most of America is already
- brainwashed into believing that..."
-
- KL: "All computer hackers are scum and don't deserve any civil rights, we
- should seize all their computers and lock them up for ten years each."
-
- JD: "and..."
-
- KL: "and... Bill Cook is a great humanitarian, an honest man who never was
- malicious, everything he did to me and many others was totally reasonable
- and necessary."
-
- WHOOOOOOOOOSH! (A giant door at the other end of the room swings open.)
-
- DB: "You did it KL! You have totally sold out!"
-
- JD: "Its time for you to meet 'The Man.'"
-
- After a short round of applause and a high-five, Knight Lightning walks towards
- the door and enters the room. He stares across a great desk where a large
- chair is turned so that its occupant is facing the other direction.
-
- TM: "Come in KL. Its time that we met."
-
- KL: (Steps closer to the desk)
-
- TM: (Swinging around to face KL) "Well, well, well Knight Lightning."
-
- KL: "Well, well, well, The Man; Robert Allen, Mr. Establishment himself."
-
- TM: "That's enough KL. I have BIG plans for you!"
-
- KL: "Well, I really like what you did to Len Rose."
-
- TM: "That is just the beginning! What I have in mind is for you to get us
- information on every hacker in America. Then we'll fabricate some more
- dollar figures, like on that E911 text file and login C, and create some
- logs that show them breaking in to some of our systems. Maybe we'll even
- let a few service outages happen just so we can blame it on them (we screw
- up enough times by ourselves anyway). Then we'll use our massive
- influence over the government to make sure the prosecutors find every
- potential law they can to use against them and the next thing you know,
- all these hackers will be behind bars where they belong."
-
- "What do you think of all that, KL?"
-
- KL: "I'm listening..."
-
- TM: "Now before you can become an official member of the AT&T Security
- Establishment, it is customary to drop your pants and bend over in front
- of The Man."
-
- KL: "Drop my pants and bend over?"
-
- TM: "Yes... every person at AT&T and Bellcore security has undergone this
- ritual."
-
- KL: "Well Bob, I'll tell you what I think... here is a new ritual for you to
- consider..."
-
- (A sudden and exhilarating display of ninja-like maneuvers with the magic
- two-by-four was followed by the loud and all too familiar sounds!):
-
- "*BOP!* *BOP!* *BOP!*"
-
- (KL had slammed Robert Allen for plotting such injustices).
-
- "KL don't play that!"
-
- "You thought you had me working for you, but really I was just playing
- along as part of my secret plan to *BOP!* The Man. You stink!"
-
- TM: "You fool, you don't know what you've done. You've just made the biggest
- mistake of your life!"
-
- KL: "Yeah, maybe, but I hold my principles higher than your money can ever
- buy. What you do here is criminal and if the government won't crawl out
- from under its rock and say something then I will!"
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- + A few days later at the next 2600 meeting in New York City...
-
- DP: "I knew you would never really sell out, KL."
-
- KL: "Yes, you see I had to pretend so I could get to The Man."
-
- SP: "Oh, so does that mean that you'll come back and write for NIA now?"
-
- CD: "If money is not so important let me have that $1,000,000 they gave you."
-
- KL: "KL don't play that!"
-
- (Again KL whips out a large two-by-four and clunks the foolish Judge Dredd
- on the head for daring to suggest something so ridiculous.
-
- He missed clobbering the frightened and cowering Crimson Death again,
- because in a moment of panic, CD chose to retire from the community and
- instantaneously disappeared, leaving only his nose-ring behind.)
-
- *BOP!*
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