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- ==Phrack Inc.==
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- Volume Four, Issue Thirty-Eight, File 3 of 15
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- ==Phrack Pro-Phile==
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- Written by Dispater
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- Created by Taran King (1986)
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- Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile. 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 the original of the controversial New TAP Magazine.
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- Aristotle
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- Personal
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- Handle: Aristotle
- Call him: Kevin
- Past handles: Ed, Bob, Bill, and a multitude of other lame handles.
- Handle origin: Humanities class in high school.
- Date of Birth: April 12, 1970
- Age at current date: 22
- Height: 5'10"
- Weight: 145 lbs.
- Eye color: Blue
- Hair Color: Red
- Computer: IBM-PS/2 55SX
- Sysop/Co-Sysop of: ALL PAST: Digital Underground, Blitzkreig, some board on
- a major packet switching network, a board on MIT's FSF
- machines, and a bazillion other lame boards that I don't
- care to mention.
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- I was one of those people that played with phones for as long as I can
- remember. I guess you could say I started phreaking a few years before
- WARGAMES came out. After the movie, I found out that other people were
- interested in phones too. Due to the influx of "elite hackers" after the
- movie, information became extrememly available. This lead to my existence in
- the real world of hack/phreak.
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- Eventually I ended up writing articles for both 2600 and TAP. In the late
- 80s I restarted TAP with help from some friends and we started to revive one
- of the first hack/phreak magzines that ever existed.
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- Having TAP helped us gain a special insight on how the system really
- works. Some of our issues were cool enough to actually be censored at certain
- institutions where avid censorship still exists. Also, we were allowed to see
- how far you could go in expressing your opinion until some bigshot noticed.
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- Believe it or not though, running a periodical without any income is a
- major pain. It was well worth it though as I got to meet a lot of cool people
- and also was able to do something for the computer underground scene. If you
- currently don't support magazines like 2600, etc., please do. They are doing a
- lot of work for the community and without them, there would be a major gap in
- the press regarding the truth about our community.
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- I exited the hack/phreak world when things got a bit hairy and Craig
- (Knight Lightning) got nailed. I simply decided that a hobby is not worth
- going to jail for and that it did not pay the bills either. Anyways, most old
- hacks eventually reach the point where everything they see seems old and
- boring. This is where I currently am.
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- Today I am employed at a computer lab at a large university where I am
- working on a degree.
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- Aristotle's Favorite Things
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- Women: Karen (To be married soon)
- Cars: REAL Cars: '86 Mustang GT, '86 VW Golf, various Porsches.
- Foods: Anything that you cannot get at a drive-thru.
- Music: Metallica, Bach, Danzig, Anthrax.
- Authors: All the posters of Alt.Sex
- Books: The Art of War
- Outdoor fun: Snowboarding
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- Most Memorable Experiences
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- o Getting engaged
- o My first blue box call
- o Watching some guy die after wrecking his car
- o Being interviewed by the FBI for something I did not do and then pissing
- them off by allowing them to prove that they were wrong.
- o All of the SummerCons and other assorted h/p meetings.
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- Some People to Mention
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- o Bill from RNOC : Getting us kicked out of the museum at the Arch.
- o Cheshire Catalyst : Help with restarting TAP.
- o Slave Driver : For his hospitality and the infamous "Guess who/what died in
- the couch" game.
- o The Mentor : For the BBS and his non-snobbish attitude.
- o J.R. "Bob" Dobbs : All the cool blue box info.
- o The Not : All the help with Unix
- o Taran King : For being an exception to the "Hackers are all geeks" rule.
- o Knight Lightning : For sending back the pictures and generally being a cool
- guy.
- o Dispater : For having the no-bullshit attitude and actually getting the job
- done.
- o Nite Ranger : For helping me realize that lamers will always exist (not you
- though).
- o Predat0r : All the experiences.
- o All the Legion of d0oDs : For adding to the entertainment at PartyCon.
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- Of the general population of phreaks you have met, would you consider most
- phreaks, if any, to be computer geeks?
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- Of the general population, I would consider about 89.9% to be nerds. I
- would also consider 65% of the entire population nerds and/or strange. Phreaks
- may be geeks but each usually has his/her cool qualities as everyone does.
- Most are socially lacking though. Keep in mind that a hacker/phreak is ALWAYS
- better than the average GIF viewing geek.
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