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As stated in the past, The Roving Eavesdropper is an occasional column we
present to you here at ATI to describe reality, or, other unusual aspects
of existence that you might not normally encounter. In this column, we bring
you a ragging session from a Commodore 64 "warez" BBS. Enjoy!
BAT LOSERS
Post the Names of the BIGGEST
Losers you know..
Bat Losers
> #62 - bat losers
Who: OZZY (#19)
Day: THURS., 1/11 3:53 pm
Why: The Groover
This dudes an Asshole he thinks
he can come on a board and pass judgement like he7s God or somethin'!!!!!!
later
the ozz
> #65 - bat losers
Who: THE GROOVER (#57)
Day: FRI., 1/12 10:11 pm
Why: Ozzy
PASS JUDGEMENT ON WHAT?
I said I like T-Rex. Big fuckin' deal. What, you had a homosexual
experience with Marc Bolan or something? And nice handle. I wish
I'd thought to name myself after a strung out old loser metal garbage man
like Ozzy Osbourne.
Somebody please, take out the trash.
(Why don't we all just listen to the beatles like back in '68?)
> #66 - bat losers
Who: THE MAD MIDGET (#1)
Day: SAT., 1/13 6:28 pm
Why: back in 68?
you were still in yer fathers nutsack back in 68...
> #67 - bat losers
Who: SUG! (#28)
Day: SAT., 1/13 7:48 pm
Why:
i see a fight coming!
another one will bite the dust.
sug!
> #68 - bat losers
Who: OZZY (#19)
Day: SUN., 1/14 12:35 am
Why: GRovER
Are you nuts!!!!!!!
I wish you were back in 68 so you can take some brown acid and die on a
bad trip!!!!!
T.Rex HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
you have the balls to say such a thing!!!!!!!!!
Tribute a double live $14.00 album went platnum in 8 days!!!
T.Rex ever go platnum......didn't think so!!!!!!!!!
Go Fuck a hole in the Wall!!!
> #69 - bat losers
Who: THE GROOVER (#57)
Day: SUN., 1/14 2:13 pm
Why: (grin)
Ever hear of 'Electric Warrior'? Platinum about 9x over, dick.
tG
> #70 - bat losers
Who: OZZY (#19)
Day: SUN., 1/14 4:57 pm
Why: (laughing)
over a ten year period world wide!
you fuckin peace of dog shit that someone stepped in.
> #71 - bat losers
Who: THE CREEP (#3)
Day: WED., 1/17 6:44 pm
Why: not to mention
scraped off! Ill tell you why we all dont go an listen to the beatles
in 68' groovie, its because were in 1990!! you shit faced limp dick!
Creep
> #72 - bat losers
Who: THE GROOVER (#57)
Day: THURS., 1/18 2:12 pm
Why: HAHAHAHA
okay...
Pump up the jam pump it up while...
is this better, ya fug'n bunch of guido/metalhead/fuckin' geeks!
What're ya gonna do now, ask mommy for a 2400 baud modem so you can
shut me out? I SHALL NOT GO QUIETLY
Fuck you all (my buffer sez hi)
THEMUTHERFUKKINGROOVER
> #73 - bat losers
Who: THE CREEP (#3)
Day: THURS., 1/18 3:11 pm
Why: hahaha
ooh boy groovie you really got a way with words dontcha, your probably
one a those fuckin bushy haired pot heads who listens to freedom rock
all the damn day.... right MAN? bahahaha what a loser! take your
dad's balls outta your ass and see the light shithead.
> #74 - bat losers
Who: THE MAD MIDGET (#1)
Day: THURS., 1/18 6:36 pm
Why: he signed his handle
the mother fucking groover?
please dont bring yer house activities to this bbs .. good for you that
you punmp yer mother.. please just dont let us normal people know about
yer sexual activities with yer mother. PUMP UP THE JAM? more like
PUMP UP MOM! pump her up YOH PUMP HER! isnt that what you and yer brother
sing when yer alone with yer hairy mom?
> #75 - bat losers
Who: OZZY (#19)
Day: THURS., 1/18 10:51 pm
Why: GROOVER
now you shouldn't make fun of Groover because when he was 11 he walked
into his parents room while they had sex and he decided to start to
pull his pudd he like it SOOOOO MUCH that he began to Pull His DAD'S!!!
(groover loves slippin old grandma the tounge when she kisses him)
> #76 - bat losers
Who: XYNAMAX (#35)
Day: SUN., 1/28 12:53 pm
Why: Batlooser
Ya want a bat loser?
GROOVER!
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(Taken from The Batcave BBS... 201-779-3924)
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Now, for some miscellaneous stuff from The Mentor's old BBS, The Phoenix
Project...I hope you enjoy this blast from the past!
Taken from The National Enquirer, June 11, 1985 edition, p.28
'BEWARE- Computer Crooks Can Phone Long Distance - At Your Expense'
Watch out! Crooks are using computers to steal long-distance phone service
code numbers- and if you use a long-distance service, check your phone bills
carefully.
"It's absolutely frightening," declared John Maxfield, an expert who works
for private industry tracking down computerized thieves.
There are millions of Americans who subscribe to long-distance phone
services- such as Sprint, MCI, Teltec for Transcall America.
Subscribers are given a personal code number, which they dial to gain
access to the computer that makes the long-distance calls.
An ENQUIRER investigation has turned up some shocking examples of what can
happen when a crook discovers your long-distance code number:
o A New York woman was stunned to open her phone bill and find it
totalled $175,000. Her access number had been traded among several thieves.
o Prisoners at Atlanta's Fulton County Jail bought someone's Transcall
America number- and ran up a whopping bill of more than $12,000 before they
were discovered.
o A Florida woman received a $175 phone bill listing dozens of long-
distance calls- and after protesting, she learned that her Teltec number
had been stolen and sold to a jail inmate.
Many thieves discover valid long-distance codes by programming their
computers to find sets of numbers that work, explained Donn Parker, an
expert on computerized crooks who works for a California research and
consulting firm.
"A kid can turn on his computer before he goes to school in the morning
and run it all day long.
"He comes home- and there on the printer is a list of valid numbers that
the computer has turned out."
Incredibly, it's practically impossible to stop these thieves, the
experts agree- and about the only way you can protect yourself is to go
over your phone bills with a fine-tooth comb.
"The customer should report any suspicions they have," said Joe Rudd,
former security chief for Transcall America.
"Otherwise you may end up holding the bag on a big phone bill, because in
many states, a telephone company is not responsible after 30 days.
"If we establish that a code has been stolen and calls made by a crook,
we'll give the customer credit."
-David Wright
Discussion Questions:
1) Has anyone ever heard of Transcall America? Or how about Teltec?
2) Why does the Enquirer rely on the words "Expert","crook" and "thieves"
so much?
3) Since when do inmates use access codes?
4) Have you ever "Turned on your computer in the morning" and run it all
day long?
5) Why do they ask the FORMER security chief of Transcall America? (I'll
answer that one, nobody else wanted to talk to them!)
6) How the fuck could anybody ever run up $175,000 phone bill in a 30 day
billing period?
7) Do you 'program' your computer to find 'sets' of numbers? I personally
just type "BRUN CAT HACKER 3.71"
Recommendations:
1) Hack Transcall America and Teltec. Since nobody has ever heard of them,
they will be poor and they can't afford a tracing system.
2) Assume that all ENQUIRER sources are a little 4'2" old lady in the
corner
of their office building.
3) Enquirer investigations are trash.
4) the Enquirer is trash.
5) They should be sued for telling the entire reading population how to
hack numbers.
Please Distribute.
>>Racal Vadic<<
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89/100: virus writers
Name: Gordon Meyer #57
Date: 4:48 pm Sun Nov 06, 1988
Watching CNN on Friday I noticed that they somehow decieded this national
UNIX virus was the work of the hackers (shudder,gasp). Wonder if they gave
a
second thought to pointing fingers after they found out it was some "bored
grad student" that released it?
-=->G<-=-
90/100: The media
Name: Lord North #197
Date: 1:11 pm Mon Nov 07, 1988
don't ever make any distinction.
91/100: ...
Name: Epsilon #12
Date: 2:40 pm Mon Nov 07, 1988
Whenever the slightest little thing happens involving computer security,
or the breach thereof, the media goes fucking bat shit and points all their
fingers at us 'nasty hackers'.
They're so damned ignorant it's sick. And that radio show. That guy was a
fucking moronic fool. How dare he make stereotypes of hackers, and say
we're all a bunch of geeks who lack physical and social exposure because
we're always in our rooms. Fine, if he wants to play with stereotypes, we
can just say that he's a bored, middle-aged, undersexed pervert who
watches porno flicks while his fat wife is asleep, and takes out his
sexual aggression on children. It's so amazing. And they wonder why
certain individuals resort to pulling their credit and harassing the shit
out of them. They deserve it.
Epsilon
92/100: Notice...
Name: The Prophet #91
Date: 12:04 pm Tue Nov 08, 1988
How sympathetic the media was with the culprit after it was discovered that
he was a bored Cornell grad and the son of a respected scientist.
-TP
LOD/H
93/100: Hackers Ethichs
Name: Red Knight #48
Date: 3:58 pm Tue Nov 08, 1988
Two days ago I was on CIS. There while in one of the band.I saw this alias
Mr. Hacker(USA)...I couldn't resist but to ask him "Why the handle like
that" And basically we started talking about all and how it start.Then we
proceeded on to boards.He told me that he was a part of sherwood forest 2,3.
But refused to tell me his real handle. Anyway some jerk out of nowhere
while we were talking about systems intereptedus and started giving us the
third degree.I tried to as much as I could to tell him that Hackers were
actaully not bad people but are only trying to educate themselves.He was
not even ready to listen our side of the story, but said that Hackers were
just a bunch of nonsense people trying to reck systems etc.This really got
me PISSED off.And soon I was getting in the mood for the offensive side.
But later on as the conversation proceed (Negatively) three other people
got into it.They were completly opposed to us.I could feel it that we were
out numbered but we still stood but their ignorance never allowed them to
understand what we were trying to say. So we just decided to bag it and let
the jerks say what they want and decided to go (/TALK). Mr. Hacker(USA)
turned out be quite knowledgeable and new alot about Computer Security
and also inside out about DMS100. Never knew who this person was.Anybody
have a clue?
Anyway what I am also trying to say is that SAVANT hackers who go around
destroying systems they Hack is totaly pathetic and has given a bad
name to the so called "Educational Hackers"..and basically there no way to
stop these pigs.
One very pissed
Red Knight
P/HUN
TSAN
94/100: media
Name: Professor Falken #16
Date: 4:48 pm Tue Nov 08, 1988
As stated in the above posts whenever the media happens upon anything that
invloves malicious computer use its the "HACKERS". The word is a catch
phrase it makes mom drop the dishes and watch the TV. They use the word
becuase not only they don't really know the meaning but they have lack of
a word to describe the perpatrator. Thats why hacker has such a bad name,
its always associated with evil things and such. Well I thik I agree with
Arcane Heirophant it is a nice evil word
to describe ourselves.
- Falken
95/100: Hackers and media
Name: The Mci Sprinter #105
Date: 5:11 pm Tue Nov 08, 1988
I never seen a phreaker called a phreaker when caught and he's printed
in the newspaper. You always see them "Hacker caught in telephone fraud".
"Hacker defrauds old man with phone calling card".. What someone should do
is tell the fucken media to get it straight.
-TMS
96/100: They don't want to get it
Name: Lord North #197
Date: 1:17 pm Wed Nov 09, 1988
straight, they want catch-phrases to maintain interest and sell copy.
97/100: names
Name: Mr. Icom #205
Date: 9:14 pm Wed Nov 09, 1988
Certain security publications use the term "Computer Phreak" to indicate a
person who "penetrates" computer systems. Their reasoning is that
Hacker means a knowledgible computer user, and doesn't imply illegal usage,
while a phreak is someone who illegaly uses the phone system. (sic).
Personally I think it's a bunch of bullshit, and why not use the term
"hacker", it does have a nice sinister ring to it.
98/100: HUMPH!
Name: Doc Cypher #155
Date: 9:33 pm Wed Nov 09, 1988
I dont think you seem to notice half of the misconceptions being taken
out on the 'Electronic Underground'.. I read in a paper last year about a
man who sold children and made a diary about the sexual encounters he had
with the children and put it on disk... Got busted, and the headline,
NO SHIT, was : 'Child Pervert Hacker Arrested in Florida case'...
If people would try to clear up the misconceptions with some of these
officials, possibly our name wouldn't get thrown around so much...
Doctor Cypher
be - ell - co -ree
99/100: The Child Pervert Hacker
Name: The Prophet #91
Date: 9:17 am Thu Nov 10, 1988
That enormous misconception was used by one particularly ambitious
politician as a vote-grabber a few years back. He wanted to place BBS's
under _very_strict_ federal control to prevent pedophiles from keeping
on-line databases of easy victims. Ridiculous, but many people bought that
bullshit. By the way, good old John Maxfield of Boardscan, Inc., was once
arrested (and convicted!) of child molestion.
-TP
100/100: wheee...
Name: The Mentor #1
Date: 9:07 pm Thu Nov 10, 1988
Well, this is a first... in addition to scads of security personel, we now
have someone's Mom on... Actually, that worries me more than anything...
all I need is for some parent to freak out and begin a massive campaign to
get me in trouble.
Anyway, I gave her access. We'll see how it goes. I'm holding my breath...
let's hope her offspring has enough sense not to try and make TNT in the
kitchen or any of the other boneheaded things that some of the early Phracks
recommended doing...
The Mentor
