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DEAD SMOKING PUNX
:PRESENTS:
DSP MINIMAG Issue 7
A 'Major Busts' History of the USSS
By: Johnny Rotten
1988
November, The internet worm runs wild across many of the nations
computer networks. Shutting down an estimated 6,600 systems,
and costing an estimated $40 to $90 million dollars. The code,
written by Robert Morris Jr. was intended to go around to every node,
and record, creating a map of the net, and report back in. But
due to faulty code, it ends up reproducing itself at a phenomenal
clip. Eating all the cyberspace in its path and closing many systems.
CRACKING 911
December, 1988, Legion of Doom member "The Prophet" downloads a
Bell South document, on the administration of E-911 systems, and
then posts it around BBS's such as Jolnet, it reaches night
lightening, (Craig Neidorf. Knight posts it in his Publication
"Phrack"..
CRACKING APPLE
June, 1989: A group calling itself NuPrometheus Leauge releases
bits and pieces of apple source code: The software equivilent of
Macintosh DNA. NuPrometheus Promises More to come. Apple has
the proverbial cow.
STRUTTING IN HARPERS
December 1989: Harper's Magazine, hosts a virtual hackers conferance
on 'The Well' a bbs whose members include a number of computer and
communications industry pioneers. Hackers and cyberpunks of all
stripes attend, the event is published as a Magazine Cover Story.
THE PHONE SYSTEM CRASHES
January 15, 1990: AT&T has a spontaneous near-death experiance in
the form of a nationwide system crash. Somehow, a rumor circulates
that a coven of hackers, cast the deadly spell. Though AT&T denies
it.
THE BUSTS
January 24, 1990: Secret Service agents raid Acid Phreak, and
Phiber Optik (suspected participants of the above mentioned
Harpers magazine Conference) Holding a gun to the head of
Acid Phreak's 12 year old sister, and confiscating all of his
electrical equipment, including CD'S and a telephone answering
machine. Though no charges are filed, Phreak & Phiber are
interrogated under suspision of causing the AT&T crash and of
being Key members of the Legion of Doom.
Feburary 2, 1990: Secret Service agents raid Len Rose, aka Terminus.
Rose, his wife, and child are interrogated at gunpoint, denied food,
and use of the bathroom. Calls to lawyers are denied, computers and
property are confiscated.
Feburary 7, 1990: In the by-now-familiar gestapo style, the SS raids
Robert Riggs (The Prophet) and Franklin Darden (The Leftist) and
Adam Grant (Necron 99) This time, an indictment charges various
fedral felonies, including fraud and conspiracy, including taking
copies of proprietary software and unauthorized entry into bell
south computer systems, and specificly mentions Legion of Doom.
Feburary 15, 1990: Craig Neidorf, publisher of the electic Mag,
Phrack is raided, charged (among other things) with publishing the
Bell south E-911 documents. His computers, the electonic printing
presses for his magazine, were taken, putting Phrack, out of
business. Bell south claims that the e-911 doc was worth over
$79,000
Late Feburary, 1990: Rich Andrews, operator of Jolnet, is visited
by the secret service. Abdrew's crime? Just to be on the safe
side, he'd informed AT&T of the document that had been uploaded onto
his system, his reward, the USSS siezed all of his computers
and related hardware.
March 1, 1990: The SS Raids Steve Jacson Games and its employees.
Jackson is the second largest game publisher (after milton bradley)
and has published numerous fantasy role playing games. They were
in the process of creating the new GURPS Cyberpunk RPG. The SS
confiscates computers at The business, and employees homes.
MORRIS GETS WHATS COMING TO HIM
May 4, 1990: Robert Morris Jr. is sentanced to a $10,000 fine,
and four hundred hours of community service for unleashing the
internet virus.
THE USSS GETS?
Nothing, they are still running rampang, a plauge.