| ==Phrack Inc.== | |
| Volume Four, Issue Thirty-Eight, File 3 of 15 | |
| ==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 original of the controversial New TAP Magazine. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | |
| Some People to Mention | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 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? | |
| 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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