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	Computer Bulletin Boards January 8, 1986
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	By The KTVI Channel 2 News Staff in St. Louis

	Please keep in mind that Karen and Russ are anchor persons at KTVI.
	All comments in []s are by me.-KL
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	Karen: If Santa Claus brought you a computer for Christmas, beware of seeing
	a few things you may not have bargained for. Computer bulletin boards
	have spread by the thousands over the past few years and now some
	people are concerned that the electronic messages may have gotten a
	bit out of hand.

	Russ: In its simplest definition, a computer bulletin board is a program or
	message that can be accessed by other computers via telephone lines.
	Anyone who has a home computer and a modem can receive and transmit to
	computer bulletin boards. There are thousands of them nationwide, but
	some are causing quite a stink [What a profound statement Russ].

	[Flash to a picture of a geeky looking teenager]

	Meet Jason Rebbe, he is a 16 year old computer whiz who a few months
	ago accidentally tapped into a bulletin board called Dr. Doom's Castle.
	[Sorry to break in here Russ, but why is this guy a computer whiz?
	Just because he has a computer? Hey Russ, look a little closer, isn't
	Jason sitting in front of a Commodore-64? I thought so. Oh yeah one
	other thing, this BBS Dr. Doom's Castle has no known relation to Dr.
	Doom (512) or Danger Zone Private.] Dr. Doom gives instructions on how
	to build bombs and guns [Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!]. Jason
	found the recipe for smoke bombs and tried to make one in his kitchen,
	it didn't work. [Ba ha ha].

	Jason: I heard an explosion in the basement first and that's when I knew
	something was wrong. I thought it would be really neat to just set it
	off someday when there was a lot of people around, just as a joke or a
	prank. [Yeah, that would be K-Rad d00d!]. I didn't expect it to blow
	up my house.

	Russ: Jason wasn't hurt, but it cost about 2 grand [that's $2,000 to you and
	me] to repair the kitchen. Jason's dad didn't take it well.

	Bob Holloway: Mad wasn't the word for it. I, I was, I was past mad.

	Russ: Mr. Holloway called Southwestern Bell and AT&T to see what could be
	done about bulletin boards like Dr. Doom's Castle. The answer was
	nothing. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms said the same
	thing.

	Daniel Hoggart (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms): There is no
	violation in publishing the information. The violation only
	occurs when someone actually follows through on the
	instructions and actually constructs a bomb.

	Russ: Another bulletin board that is becoming more and more prevalent these
	days is the Aryian Nation. This one [bulletin board] in Chicago says,
	"If you are an anti-Communist you have made the right connection...on
	the other hand, if you are consumed with such myths as
	Judeo-Christianity, you most definitely dialed the wrong number."

	Stan Anderman (Anti-Defamation League): Some of this really extreme hatred
	is an attempt to create an environment where violence becomes
	acceptable.

	Russ: Like most computer bulletin boards the Aryian Nation message is legal
	and falls under free speech laws. However, a bill is scheduled to go
	to congress this session outlawing the kinds of bulletin boards we saw
	here tonight.

	But, for the moment, hackers should not be too surprised if something
	unusual pops up on their computer terminal. [Ahem, Russ, you did it
	again. All computer users are NOT hackers.]

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	MIT Unix: Victim or Aggressor? January 23 - February 2, 1987
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	Is the MIT system an innocent victim of hacker oppression or simply another
	trap to capture unsuspecting hackers in the act?

	It all started like this...

	[Some posts have been slightly edited to be relevant to the topic]

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	MIT
	Name: Druidic Death
	Date: 12:49 am Mon Jan 20, 1986

	Lately I've been messing around on MIT's VAX in there Physics Department.

	Recently some one else got on there and did some damage to files. However MIT
	told me that they'll still trust us to call them. The number is:

	617-253-XXXX

	We have to agree to the following or we will be kicked off, they will create a
	"hacker" account for us.

	<1> Use only GUEST, RODNEY, and GAMES. No other accounts until the
	hacker one is made. There are no passwords on these accounts.

	<2> Make sure we log off properly. Control-D. This is a UNIX system.

	<3> Not to call between 9 AM and 5 PM Eastern Standard Time. This
	is to avoid tying up the system.

	<4> Leave mail to GEORGE only with UNIX questions (or C). And leave our
	handles so he'll know who we are.

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	Unix
	Name: Celtic Phrost
	Date: 4:16 pm Mon Jan 20, 1986

	Thanks Death for the MIT computer, I've been working on getting into them for
	weeks. Here's another you can play around with:

	617/258-XXXX
	login:GUEST

	Or use a WHO command at the logon to see other accounts, it has been a long
	time since I played with that system, so I am unsure if the GUEST account
	still works, but if you use the WHO command you should see the GUEST account
	needed for applying for your own account.

	-Phrost
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	Unix
	Name: Celtic Phrost
	Date: 5:35 pm Mon Jan 20, 1986

	Ok, sorry, but I just remembered the application account, its: OPEN
	Gawd, I am glad I got that off my chest!

	-(A relieved)Celtic Phrost.

	Also on that MIT computer Death listed, some other default accounts are:

	LONG MIKE GREG NEIL DAN

	Get the rest yourself, and please people, LEAVE THEM UNPASSWORDED!

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	MIT
	Name: Druidic Death #12
	Date: 1:16 am Fri Jan 23, 1987

	MIT is pretty cool. If you haven't called yet, try it out. Just PLEASE make
	sure you follow the little rules they asked us about! If someone doesn't do
	something right the sysop leaves the gripe mail to me. Check out my directory
	under the guest account just type "cd Dru". Read the first file.

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	MIT
	Name: Ctrl C
	Date: 12:56 pm Sat Jan 24, 1987

	MIT Un-Passworded Unix Accounts: 617-253-XXXX

	ALEX BILL GAMES DAVE GUEST DAN GREG MIKE LONG NEIL TOM TED
	BRIAN RODNEY VRET GENTILE ROCKY SPIKE KEVIN KRIS TIM

	And PLEASE don't change the Passwords....

	-=>Ctrl C<=-
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	MIT Again
	Name: Druidic Death
	Date: 1:00 pm Wed Jan 28, 1987

	Ok people, MIT is pissed, someone hasn't been keeping the bargain and they
	aren't too thrilled about it. There were only three things they asked us to
	do, and they were reasonable too. All they wanted was for us to not
	compromise the security much more than we had already, logoff properly, not
	leave any processes going, and call only during non-business hours, and we
	would be able to use the GUEST accounts as much as we like.

	Someone got real nice and added themselves to the "daemon" group which is
	superusers only, the name was "celtic". Gee, I wonder who that could have
	been? I'm not pissed at anyone, but I'd like to keep on using MIT's
	computers, and they'd love for us to be on, but they're getting paranoid.
	Whoever is calling besides me, be cool ok? They even gave me a voice phone to
	chat with their sysops with. How often do you see this happen?

	a little perturbed but not pissed...

	DRU'
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	Tsk, Celtic.
	Name: Evil Jay
	Date: 9:39 am Thu Jan 29, 1987

	Well, personally I don't know why anyone would want to be a superuser on the
	system in question. Once you've been on once, there is really nothing that
	interesting to look at...but anyway.

	-EJ
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	In trouble again...
	Name: Celtic Phrost
	Date: 2:35 pm Fri Jan 30, 1987

	...I was framed!! I did not add myself to any "daemon" group on any MIT UNIX.
	I did call once, and I must admit I did hang up without logging off, but this
	was due to a faulty program that would NOT allow me to break out of it, no
	matter what I tried. I am sure that I didn't cause any damage by that.

	-Phrost
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	Major Problems
	Name: Druidic Death
	Date: 12:20 pm Sat Jan 31, 1987

	OK, major stuff going down. Some unidentified individual logged into the
	Physics Dept's PDP11/34 at 617-253-XXXX and was drastically violating the
	"agreement" we had reached. I was the one that made the "deal" with them.
	And they even gave me a voice line to talk to them with.

	Well, one day I called the other Physics computer, the office AT and
	discovered that someone created an account in the superuser DAEMON group
	called "celtic". Well, I was contacted by Brian through a chat and he told me
	to call him. Then he proceeded to nicely inform me that "due to unauthorized
	abuse of the system, the deal is off".

	He was cool about it and said he wished he didn't have to do that. Then I
	called George, the guy that made the deal and he said that someone who said he
	was "Celtic Phrost" went on to the system and deleted nearly a year's worth of
	artificial intelligence data from the nuclear fission research base.

	Needless to say I was shocked. I said that he can't believe that it was one
	of us, that as far as I knew everyone was keeping the deal. Then he (quite
	pissed off) said that he wanted all of our names so he can report us to the
	FBI. He called us fags, and all sorts of stuff, he was VERY!! [underline
	twice] PISSED! I don't blame him. Actually I'm not blaming Celtic Phrost, it
	very easily could have been a frame up.

	But another thing is George thinks that Celtic Phrost and Druidic Death are
	one and the same, in other words, he thinks that I stabbed him in the back.
	Basically he just doesn't understand the way the hacker community operates.

	Well, the deal is off, they plan to prosecute whoever they can catch. Since
	George is my best friend's brother I have not only lost a friend, but I'm
	likely to see some legal problems soon. Also, I can forget about doing my
	graduate work at MIT. Whoever did this damage to them, I hope you're happy.
	You really messed things up real nice for a lot of people.

	Celtic, I don't have any reason to believe you messed with them. I also have
	no reason to think you didn't. I'm not making an accusation against you, but
	WHOEVER did this, deserves to be shot as far as I'm concerned. Until this
	data was lost, they were on the verge of harnessing a laser-lithium produced
	form of nuclear fission that would have been more efficient than using the
	standard hydrogen. Well, back to the drawing board now.

	I realize that it's hard to believe that they would have data like this on
	this system. But they were quite stupid in many other areas too. Leaving the
	superuser account with no password?? Think about it.

	It's also possible that they were exaggerating. But regardless, damage seems
	to have been done.

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	MIT
	Name: Phreakenstein
	Date: 1:31 am Sun Feb 01, 1987

	Heck! I dunno, but whoever it was, I think, should let himself (the s00per
	K-rad elyte d00d he is) be known.

	I wasn't on MIT, but it was pretty dumb of MIT to even let Hackers on. I
	wouldn't really worry though, they did let you on, and all you have to prove
	is that you had no reason to do it.

	----Phreak
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	I wonder...
	Name: Ax Murderer #15
	Date: 6:43 pm Sun Feb 01, 1987

	I highly doubt that is was someone on this system. Since this is an elite
	board, I think all the users are pretty decent and know right and wrong things
	to do. Could be that one of the users on this system called another system
	and gave it out!?? Nahh...shooting the asshole is not enough, let's think of
	something better.

	Ax Murderer
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	It was stupid
	Name: Druidic Death #12
	Date: 9:21 pm Sun Feb 01, 1987

	It seems to me, or, what I gathered, they felt that there were going to be
	hackers on the system to begin with and that this way they could keep
	themselves basically safe.

	I doubt that it was Celtic Phrost, I don't think he'd be an asshole like that.
	But I can't say. When I posted, I was pretty pissed about the whole deal.
	I've calmed down now. Psychic Warlord said something to me voice the other
	day that made me stop and think. What if this was a set up right from the
	start? I mean, MIT won't give me specifics on just what supposedly happened,
	Celtic Phrost denies everything, and the biggest part of it is what George
	said to me.

	"We can forgive you for what you did to us if you'll promise to go straight
	and never do this again and just tell us who all of your friends are that are
	on the system".

	I didn't pay much attention to that remark at first, now I'm beginning to
	wonder...

	I, of course, didn't narc on anyone. (Who do I know??? hehe)

	DRU'
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	Well
	Name: Solid State
	Date: 11:40 pm Sun Feb 01, 1987

	Well if they were serious about the FBI, I wouldn't take this too lightly.
	Lately at Stanford there has been a lot of investigators that I've pinpointed
	running around. This is mainly due to the number of break-ins this summer.

	Anyways, if a large college like MIT says they may call in the FBI, be wary,
	but don't over-react.

	SOLID STATE
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	Comments...
	Name: Delta-Master
	Date: 7:15 am Mon Feb 02, 1987

	It wouldn't surprise me if it was some kind of setup, it's been done before.

	Delta-Master
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	Oh well...
	Name: Evil Jay
	Date: 8:56 am Mon Feb 02, 1987

	I think your all wrong. The MIT lines have been around for a long time and
	are widely known among the rodents. Anyone with a g-file could hack out a
	password on the system so it looks to me like someone just messed around and
	just happened to use Phrost as a flunkie. Oh well...

	-EJ
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	Phortune 500: Phreakdom's Newest Organization February 16, 1987
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	For those of you who are in the least bit interested, Phortune 500 is a group
	of telecommunication hobbyists who's goal is to spread information as well as
	further their own knowledge in the world of telecommunications. This new
	group was formed by:

	Brew Associates/Handsomest One/Lord Lawless/The Renegade Chemist
	Quinton J. Miranda/Striker/The Mad Hacker/The Spiker

	These eight members are also known as Board Of Directors (BOD). They don't
	claim to be Elite in the sense that they are they world's greatest hackers,
	but they ARE somewhat picky about their members. They prefer someone who
	knows a bit about everything and has talents exclusive to him/herself.

	One of the projects that Phortune 500 has completed is an individual password
	AE type system. It's called TransPhor. It was written and created by Brew
	Associates. It has been Beta tested on The Undergraduate Lounge (Sysoped by
	Quinton J. Miranda). It is due to be released to the public throughout the
	next few months.

	Phortune 500 has been in operation for about 4 months, and has released two
	newsletters of their own. The Phortune 500 Newsletter is quite like the
	"People" of contemporary magazines. While some magazines cover the deep
	technical aspects of the world in which we communicate, their newsletter tries
	to cover the lighter side while throwing in information that they feel is "of
	technical nature." The third issue is due to be released by the end of this
	month.
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	Note: The following information is of a totally confidential nature. The
	reason you may find this so lengthy and in depth is for our knowledge
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	prospective members well before we allow them into our organization.
	Pending the answers you supply us, you will be admitted to Phortune 500
	as a charter member. Please answer the following completely...
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	Please answer each question to the best of your ability and then return to any
	Phortune 500 Board of Directors Member Or a Phortune 500 BBS:

	The Private Connection (Limited Membership) 219-322-7266
	The Undergraduate AE (Private Files Only) 602-990-1573

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	PWN Quicknote
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	At the University of Rhode Island there is supposed to be some undercover
	agent for Bay Bell. Supposedly he hangs out at the library and watches for
	people checking out the Bell Technical Journals. Then he asks questions like,
	'What do you want those for?' 'Do you know what 2600Hz is?' and other similar
	questions. He isn't registered at the school and of course has no classes.
	[Sounds bogus to me...oh well-KL]. Information by Asmodeus Rex (1/21/87)
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