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- ==Phrack Inc.==
-
- Volume Four, Issue Thirty-Nine, File 3 of 13
-
- ==Phrack Pro-Phile==
-
- Written by Dispater
-
- Created by Taran King (1986)
-
-
- 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 one of the earlier hackers to make headlines and
- legal journals due to computer hacking...
-
- (_>Shadow Hawk 1<_)
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- Personal
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- Handle: (_>Shadow Hawk 1<_)
- Call me: Herb
- Past handles: Feyd Rautha, Captain Beyond, Mental Cancer
- Handle origin: Stolen from the name of an 8-bit Atari 800 game that
- seemed to be written in the language RGL (anyone got it
- for the IBM? ;-) ).
- Date of Birth: August 6, 1970
- Age at current date: 21
- Height: 6'2"
- Weight: 190 lbs.
- Eye color: Gray
- Hair color: Brown
- Computer: 386/Linux
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- I started working with computers in the 6th grade with an Atari 800 and
- a cassette drive. I added a modem and a disk drive and started researching
- other computer systems [checking out other hacker's conquests ;-) ].
- Eventually, I decided that UNIX was to be the OS of choice.
-
- As a child, I was always curious about stuff in my own reality, so
- naturally, when computers became available...
-
- I first owned an Atari 800, then an Atari ST 1040, followed by a short-
- lived Unix-PC 3B1, and a lame 20MHz 386. Currently, I have a 33MHz 386. Most
- of my hacking-type knowledge came from a text file that listed a few Unix
- defaults; I used those to go and learn more on my own. Other OSes, I just
- hacked at random 8-).
-
- I started out with systems that had already been penetrated and I built up
- my own database of systems from there. I wasn't too clever in the beginning,
- though, and lost a few systems to perceptive sys-admins.
-
- I specialized in Unix, though I enjoyed toying with obscure systems
- (RSX-11, Sorbus Realtime Basic, etc.)
-
- In the hack/phreak world, I used to hang out with The Prophet, The Serpent
- (Chicago), The Warrior, and others for short periods of time, who shall remain
- nameless.
-
- As far as what were memorable hack/phreak BBSes, I'd have to say none...
- Not that there weren't any, but I have just forgotten them all.
-
- My accomplishments in the phreak/hack world include writing a few text
- files, typing in a few books, getting in lots of systems, and learning a bit
- about the Unix OS. Other than that, absolutely nothing; my life is computers!
- (NOT!)
-
- I _was_ associated with the J-Men a few years back, but that's the only
- hack/phreak group that I ever had anything to do with.
-
- I was busted for overzealousness in penetrating AT&T computer networks and
- systems. I stupidly made calls from my unprotected home phone. I got caught
- trying to snag Unix SysV 3.5 68K kernel source.
-
- I had already given up the practice of sharing information when I realized
- how quickly systems went away after their numbers and logins were posted 8-).
- After I got busted, I decided it might be best to limit my hacking to those
- strata of reality on which it is not (yet) prohibited to hack ;-) .
-
- In real life, I originally was going to be an EE/CS major in school, but
- now, I'm leaning towards math/modeling/nonlinear dynamics. Work when necessary
- 8-|.
-
- I'm into making music, drawing strange pictures, and exploring the nether
- regions of physical reality. Occasionally I am seen at sci-fi conventions in
- various forms and personages.
-
- I feel seriously against taking things too seriously. If you can master
- that, you've got it all beat!
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- (_>Shadow Hawk 1<_)'s Favorite Things
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- Work: Nihilist Ontologist.
- Cars: Fast & Loud.
- Foods: I like a little of every cuisine, except those involving large
- amounts of horseradish, beets, raw tomatoes, etc.
- Music: Ecumenical.
- Authors: R.A. Wilson is good for kicks; other than that I haven't read
- much fiction lately. Lots of non-fiction.
- Books: Illuminatus, Stranger in a Strange Land, Man or Matter, Godel
- Escher and Bach, The Book of the SubGenius.
- Performers: The people at NASA, the U.S. government beings at Washington,
- the nightly news.
- Sex: Yes.
-
- Most Memorable Experience
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- Coming home to a house full of Secret Service, FBI, NSA, DIA, and AT&T agents
- after getting really stoned with some neighborhood friends, and then having
- them take everything electronic that didn't appear to be a household appliance
- EXCEPT the obviously stolen/dangerous items: a digital power meter, a He-Ne
- laser, and jars of chemicals for making bombs. HUMOR AT ITS FINEST!
-
- Some People to Mention
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- o Thanks to Bill Cook for leaving no stone unturned in my personal life!
- o Thanks to "my" lawyer, Karen Plant, for leaving MANY stones unturned in
- helping to decide my fate!
- o Thanks to the U.S. Federal Justice System for sentencing me to a 9 months
- in a "juvenile facility" (as well as confiscating thousands of dollars of
- stuff, some legal & some not) while allowing burglars, politicians, and
- virus-authors to go free with a slap on the wrist!
- o Thanks for Operation Sun-Devil, without which, the venerable Ripco BBS
- would still be in its first incarnation!
-
- A Few Other Things
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- I'd like to thank all the great beings at Lunatic Labs for not removing my
- account while I was sight-seeing in South Dakota. HI! to all my TRUE friends
- (you know who you are) and all the FALSE ones too! Where would I be now
- without you? Thanks to all those who love me enough to want to control my
- mind. And, of course, THANKS to the hack/phreak community in general for not
- only becoming, as most countercultures do, decadent and passe, but also for
- still bugging me after all these years!
-
- The Future: well, if reality doesn't cave itself in TOO badly with all of the
- virtuality that's on its way, it should be a great time for all to play with
- the "net!"
-
- Inside jokes: HALOHALOHALOHALOHALOHALOHALOHALOHALOSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSK
- eaerlyeaerlyeaerlyeaerlyeaerlyeaerly... the gwampismobile shall ride again!
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-
- Of the general population of phreaks you have met, would you consider most
- phreaks, if any, to be computer geeks?
-
- Well, as far as geeking goes, all are free to pursue their interests. It
- is important to remember that social evolution and mental evolution do not
- necessarily occur simultaneously, or instantaneously (usually).
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