| ==Phrack Inc.== | |
| Volume Two, Issue 12, Phile #2 of 11 | |
| ==Phrack Pro-Phile IX== | |
| Written and Created by Taran King | |
| 3/17/87 | |
| Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile V. 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 a name from the past... | |
| Agrajag The Prolonged | |
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| Agrajag was popular on many boards and hung out with many of the | |
| stronger names in the phreak/hack community. | |
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| Personal | |
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| Handle: Agrajag The Prolonged | |
| Call him: Keith | |
| Past handles: None | |
| Handle origin: Fictional character in Hitchhiker Trilogy | |
| Date of Birth: 6/14/67 | |
| Age at current date: 19 years old | |
| Height: 6'2" | |
| Weight: 139 lbs. | |
| Eye color: Brown | |
| Hair Color: Depends on the day (Orange, Brown, Black, Hot Pink, etc.) | |
| Computers: TRS Model III, worked his way up to a TVI 950 Dumb | |
| Terminal | |
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| Agrajag started phreaking and hacking in about 1979 through the help | |
| of some friends of his. He originally started hacking (programming) on a | |
| Vector 8080 in 4th grade. His instructor then is now one of the top 5 | |
| computer instructors. Phreaking began with, of course, codes but he was very | |
| interested in how the phone system worked. He had read some books on the | |
| phone company and their evils in their earlier days and he was very interested | |
| in the very idea of becoming an operator. Members of the elite world which he | |
| has met include Tuc, BIOC Agent 003, Broadway Hacker (negative), and Cheshire | |
| Catalyst, all at a Tap meeting he attended. On regular BBSes, there were | |
| listings for other BBSes which turned out to eventually be phreak BBSes. Some | |
| of the memorable phreak boards he was on included WOPR, OSUNY, Plovernet, and | |
| Pirate 80. His phreaking and hacking knowledge came about with the group of | |
| people including Tuc, BIOC, and Karl Marx. | |
| Agrajag was a video game programmer for the last American owned video | |
| game manufacturer, Cinematronix, Inc. (of Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, World | |
| Series, and Danger Zone fame, of which he helped with World Series and a big | |
| part of Danger Zone) which went bankrupt a bit over a month ago. | |
| Agrajag takes interviews for magazines (such as this) which keeps up | |
| his phreak/hack activity. He (and a bunch of others) were written up in a USA | |
| Today article as well as being interviewed by a local paper when The Cracker | |
| (Bill Landreth) got busted (they took pictures of the back of his head in | |
| front of his computer). | |
| Agrajag was never in any major phreak groups except for The | |
| Hitchhikers (Bring your towel!) which was just a group of local friends. | |
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| Interests: Telecommunications (modeming, phreaking, hacking, | |
| programming), music, concerts, club hopping, and video | |
| games. | |
| Agrajag's Favorite Thing | |
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| Club/Bar hopping: Tijuanna (TJ) | |
| Most Memorable Experiences | |
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| Going officing. Tuc, BIOC, and he were let into a local CO and they used | |
| their copying machine to make copies of their manuals. They | |
| replaced the paper [over 2 reams] later and didn't steal anything | |
| major besides the paper and a few NY Bell signs. | |
| Called supervisors saying that they had witnessed some trunks red-lighting and | |
| there would be severe problems if they didn't contact this guy, | |
| Abbot Went, in San Francisco. There were about 10 supervisors in | |
| mass hysteria (on Thanksgiving) wondering what to do. Later, they | |
| called up Abbot again saying they were the White House switch and | |
| said some kids were fooling around. | |
| Breaking into his school's computer in his senior year mid-semester. He had | |
| scanned it out on a school prefix and the login and password was the | |
| name of his school. It was a TOPS-20 system and he was well enough | |
| versed in TOPS-20 to know what to do. The next day, he told the | |
| vice-principal that he had broken into the computer and that they | |
| had some major security problems. They said he was bullshitting and | |
| he told them to read their mail. Then, later, he brought in his | |
| equipment and showed them with the principal there. He was | |
| threatened by the principal with police, etc. but he told them to go | |
| to hell. He was later offered a job helping the security on the | |
| system but instead, he told them how they could solve the security | |
| problem and didn't take the job. | |
| Agrajag's teacher asking him to do a credit check on someone illegally. He | |
| eventually did part of it, but the teacher was an asshole so he | |
| didn't give all the information to him. | |
| Getting flown to the Tap meeting by a friend. | |
| Some People to Mention | |
| ---------------------- | |
| Tuc | |
| BIOC Agent 003 | |
| Karl Marx | |
| Automatic Jack | |
| All for being friends and all around good people and phreaks. | |
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| Agrajag is out and out against the idea of the destruction of data. | |
| He hated a person intensely because they posted private lines with | |
| instructions on how to maim a system owned by someone who was already hated. | |
| He deleted the message (he was co-sysop) and it became a bit controversial. | |
| He hated that then and still has no respect for anyone who does this. Where | |
| have all the good times gone? | |
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| I hope you enjoyed this phile, look forward to more Phrack Pro-Philes coming | |
| in the near future. ...And now for the regularly taken poll from all | |
| interviewees. | |
| Of the general population of phreaks you have met, would you consider most | |
| phreaks, if any, to be computer geeks? The general populus, yes, but good | |
| phreaks, no. Thank you for your time, Agrajag. | |
| Taran King | |
| Sysop of Metal Shop Private | |