SOURCE00.001 - Local News: Trinity Gets Busted!
The first 'bust' happened with 2 members, and a wanna-be hacker. The situation took place sometime in January of 1993. This wanna-be hacker, which I'll call 'Jeremy', asked another hacker for a code to use, to dial an alliance. That hacker decided to give Jeremy a code to use (Why? I don't know, probably because they're friends). So, he decides to call up the alliance, and dial the home numbers of Misguided Youth and Flatliner.
As a general rule, we always had thought that alliances are safe to have someone call your number, because your only picking up the phone, and could just say that you did not know that the call was an illegal call. I might add that Flatliner had Jeremy call some of his out-of-state friends through the alliance. I was away on vacation when this whole thing took place, so I had nothing to do with it.
After about a few months, Flatliner received a call on his line, with some guy trying to get his name, and address. When he told me about it, and about the alliance, I thought nothing of it, that it's just merely some lamer trying to pull something, but when this guy called back with all of Flatliners info, he got a little worried. The same thing happened to Misguided Youth.
In both cases, the caller said he was an owner of the alliance, and that someone illegally used a code to call it, so that they wouldn't get billed, and they (FL & MY) were among the list of people the 'hacker' had called through a telephone service (code). Then, a bill was sent to Misguided Youth for $20, and to Flatliner for $150 (For his calls to his friends). (* HTC's Note: At this point, when they both tell me this, I'm on the floor laughing my ass off! They weren't so - enthused *) Flatliner showed it to his mom, and she was kinda, shall we say - pissed off - at him for being apart of this whole disarray of events. Needless to say, neither one of them (FL & MY) ever even thought of paying for the bill, and nothing else happened about that incident.
Tragic Flaw: None, except ever doing ANYTHING with 'Jeremy'.
Ending Point: Laughter (FL Lightened up, after a while) and experience.
Result: Nothing COULD happened to them, here's why:
What did they do that was illegal, answer the phone? If that is wrong, then we all have something to worry about. Just a word of caution; Some alliances do tape all conversations, so be careful about what you say on there. You never know who's listening.
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The second bust was actually a real bust, and it did NOT turn out so hilarious. Terminal Silicosis was scanning one day (a part of our 6 or so recent scans of the area) and when he was done commenting them, he dialed up a DEC Server that he found. It was un-passworded, and even had dialout capabilities! He dialed a local number, and found out that it worked. After this, he gave it to the other members. Luckily for me, the number was long distance, and so I never called it. It was fine for a while, except for the 20,000 lamers asking about it, so we gave it to them. Little did we know, because of all the lamers sitting on there for four hours straight while connected to Florida, it alerted the administrator, and s/he had a trace put on the line. Terminal Silicosis still was using this number, while the rest of us, for some reason, had not called it back. I must mention that TS was a month away from turning 18 when the trace was put on. When we all got pissed off at the lamers leaving 10+ messages a day on our voice mail's, we made up a story that the DEC Server had a trace on it, and TS was in deep trouble. Nothing like foreshadowing, eh? When the administrator called up TS, and he was brought down to the local police station, After being interrogated for many hours he said that he gave the number out to the lamers, AND some of the group members. I have to mention here, that we all made an agreement that if either one of us got in trouble with the law, we'd keep the blame on ourselves, and save the group. Terminal Siliconvict came up with that one. But why did he tell them that he gave it to some of us, and not just the lamers? I don't have a definite answer to that one.
Tragic Flaw: Giving the number to the lamers, and for TS - telling the cops that he gave the number to some of us.
Ending Point: A trial yet to be had, and TS leaving Trinity (Group decision)
Result: TS is fucked, and some of us are laying low for a while.
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The third incident happened just to me, and I don't think anything big will happen to me, if anything at all. I'm changing the name of the company, and other related info, because they're still investigating the issue, and if they know I'm a hacker, they'll try to bust me, instead of dropping the case because I DIDN'T FUCKING DO IT!
One day, when I came home from school, my brother confronted me about something that I might have done. I told him I didn't do it, and he showed me the number of the accusee. I called this loser up, to get the company name, and when she/he/it (I couldn't tell) answered, I just hung up. My dad came home a little while later, and I told him about it. He called him up, and the dork explained it to him. What was the accusation? He said that I called up his - 800 - number, and hacked into it, while deleting his hard drive on some Saturday morning. (He did give me the date, but ...)
When my dad got off the phone, I was kinda worried, because I thought the guy was referring to my 800 voice mail that I 'borrowed', oh ok, fine, so I stole the fucking thing, ok? I then did a DA on the company, and the number was NOT a number that I ever called before (I have a photographic memory, so I KNOW I didn't call the bastard).
This would be impossible for me to hack into it anyway, because my parents took my computer away, and the have theirs in their room, and if I even open up the door, my mom would awake (she's a LIGHT sleeper). It also would be very stupid, as all 800 numbers have your number on the bill, so if he had the time (which he did) he would know who called. This case is still pending further investigation, so I will keep you updated.
Tragic Flaw: None, I DIDN'T DO IT!
Ending Point: Hasn't happened yet.
Result: N/A
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Lamer report! During the last few weeks, some lamer has been scanning an exchange in Wethersfield Conneticut, and came across a Sign Control Station. He 'hacked' into it via the help command, and changed the highway signs to Anti-Weicker (Our governor) sayings. It would have been ok, but when the local boys found out, they put a trace on the line hoping that the guy would call back. He did, thus being busted.
Another person, thinking he could get away with it, pulled the same stunt, and HE got busted too. IF YOU HACK INTO A COMPUTER, AND THERE IS THE SLIGHTEST CHANCE OF BEING BUSTED, DON'T CALL BACK!!! The lamers at the (govmt) computer couldn't even figure out how to fix the signs (They checked the manual, and eventually they fixed it).
Tragic Flaw: Calling Back!
Ending Point: 2 Dorks in Jail
Result: This article, and a few good laughs (Not worth the trouble)
- Havoc
