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==Phrack Inc.==
Volume Two, Issue 22, File 2 of 12
==Phrack Pro-Phile XXII==
Created By Taran King
Brought To You By Taran King and Knight Lightning
Done on October 8, 1988
Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile XXII. Phrack Pro-Phile was created to
bring information to you, the community, about retired or highly important/
controversial people. This issue, we bring to you a name from the past and
a user of highly respected rankings in the history of the phreak/hack world...
Karl Marx
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Personal
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Handle: Karl Marx
Call Him: James Salsman
Past Handles: None
Handle Origin: Bloom County (Something about Capitalists and Humor)
Date Of Birth: 12/2/67
Height: 6"0'
Weight: 155 lbs
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Shoe Size: 10 1/2
Computers: Nondeterministic turing machines
Sysop/Co-Sysop Of: Farmers of Doom
Origins In Phreak/Hack World:
Manufacturing Explosives -- He wanted to blow up his High School.
Origins In Phreak/Hack BBSes: Plovernet!
People In The Phreak/Hack World Met:
The Buccaneer, Mark Tabas, Shadow Master, and a few other Colorado types.
He also actually made it to a TAP meeting a while ago [TelePub '86], but he
slept through it. All he remembers is that it was in New York and Scan Man
was there in a baseball cap. He thinks it was in a "Days Inn" or
something.
Experience Gained In The Following Ways:
Spending long hours pouring over Bell System Tech Journals from
1970-Present. He suggests to anyone who wants to learn non-trivial, but
useful things -- or who just wants to get some really *powerful*
vocabulary for social engineering -- try using your local college or large
public library.
Knowledge Attributed To:
Nearly everyone who he's ever talked to -- if you let people bullshit you
long enough, you learn quite a bit just by figuring out why they are wrong.
Memorable Phreak/Hack BBSes: Plovernet, Legion of Doom, Shadowland, and of
course the invisible 3rd level of FOD.
Work/Schooling (Major):
Carnegie Mellon University. He dropped out as soon as they let him work on
interesting Cognitive Science and AI projects. He currently works at
Expert Technologies -- the company has an expert system for putting
together various Yellow Pages for client phone companies that he is not
supposed to name (there's no point in naming them, 'cause by now they do
every fucking Yellow Pages in the country -- ACK!) But that's just what
makes the company money. He's working on user interfaces based on speech
recogniton.
Conventions/Involvements Outside Of Phone Calls:
He thinks he went to that TAP [Telepub '86] meeting, but he doesn't
remember much more than Scan Man's cap. He was INTENSELY tired and his
girlfreind was complaining that everyone was a geek and that they had to
find a way to get back in Pittsburgh in four hours.
Accomplishments:
He wrote somthing about Nitroglycerin. He probably killed a lot of
aspiring phreaks on Plovernet by not putting in enough warnings like
"Remember, DON'T make more than a few grams or you will be found dead and
identified as Dinty Morre Beef Stew." He also came up with the "RESCOC --
Remote Satellite Course Correction System" file. It was PURE bullshit, but
with headings like "How to manuver a satelite to crash it into cities (like
Moscow)" it was a big hit with the "Hacker-Hype" media. AT&T denied
everything.
Phreak/Hack Groups: He got a lot of mail saying somthing like;
"Congratulations! You MAY ALREADY HAVE WON membership into the NEW GROUP...
----- THE CAPTAINS OF CODES -----
It's the best new phreak/hack group since MIT! Just tell us everything you
know and tell everyone else what a great group we are -- AND WE WILL LET
YOU BE A MEMBER OF... ----- THE CAPTAINS OF CODES -----"
He usually ignored these "memberships." He believes Tabas understood the
problem when he created the parody-group "Farmers of Doom."
Interests:
His main interest is AI. His particular application domains focus on
Cognitive Science and Pattern recognition. He thinks he might have been
interested in the telephone system -- but those days are over. He doesn't
even remember the codes to do trunk selection on an RTA distribution point.
And if the ROCs security folks think he still does that sort of thing they
are going to have to prove it. :-)
Favorite Things;
Thinking: Problem Solving
Conversation: Exchange of information
Love: Emotional fulfillment
Sex: Physical fulfillment
Drugs: Introspection
Poetry: Metaphor, Imagery
Involvement: Sense of Self-Worth
Music: Rhythm, Harmonics
Food: Flavor, Satisfaction
Breathing: Inhalation of Oxygen
Most Memorable Experience:
The funniest thing that ever happened to him was the time he was arrested.
The Secret Service had bugged this hotel room and surprised them (always
remember, SECRET service and ROOM service are not *that* different.) They
took them to a Denver Police holding tank that was filled with non-sober
hooligans.
Unfortunately, he was in a business suit (having just returned from handing
a $5,000,000.00 "certified" check to Charles Schwab in Sacramento). So
there were all these drunk people asking me, "Ahre yha my lawer???"
Of course, Mark Tabas had it easy in his Hawaiian print shirt, but he had
to deal with "Whatcha here fur?" Jim told them that he was being held for
"Fraud." That explanation didn't seem to satisfy them -- "Har, har, har!
Fraud! The kid's in here for fraud! Let me tell you what I'm in for!
What do you think I'm here for??"
He didn't have the heart to tell the gentlemen that he really didn't care
why they shared such a predicament so he responded with a blank stare.
They then went on to describe crimes so horrible that he could hardly
believe them, if it wasn't for the fact that most of them were at least two
thirds covered in blood. That sort of gave them the advantage, so he went
on to tell them that he must have been put in the wrong cell and that he
was sure that the jailer would transfer him in just a few hours. They all
seemed to accept that, and went on to insulting each other.
Some People To Mention:
o "I'd like to thank Who-Bob and T-Bob for their long hours they spent
discussing new and innovative ESS social engineering techniques.
o I am forever indebted to Mark Tabas for his courage and demeanor in the
face of adversity -- which is to say that getting busted didn't bother him
as much as disk space problems did.
o There's this guy named "Chuck" in the 303 T5 center who I'd like to mention
because he set up a RTA routing code for me that switched incoming toll
trunks to BLV trunks -- if only everyone were that stupid!"
Inside Jokes: "Sorry, sir, we were just trying to find some wire for our
science fair project, but as there appears to be nothing here
but coffee grounds and cigarette ashes, we had better get going.
Have a nice day!"
Serious Section: He's very strongly against geting busted.
Are Phreaks/Hackers You've Met Generally Computer Geeks?
He hopes not! Most of the people that used to be computer geeks around CMU
now wear suits and ties and have six digit salaries. What a horrible
thing! He wouldn't wish that on his worst enemy!
Busted For: He was busted for being in a hotel room with Steve Dahl. He was
convicted of the law that says, in effect "it's illegal to lie to
somebody more powerful than you." He stopped phreaking because he
was on probation and didn't want to go to prison. He is NOT
planning a comeback.
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Thanks for your time James.
Taran King and Knight Lightning
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