| #### PHRACK PRESENTS ISSUE 17 #### | |
| ^*^*^*^ Phrack World News, Part 1 ^*^*^*^ | |
| **** File 10 of 12 **** | |
| - P H R A C K W O R L D N E W S - | |
| (Mainly Compiled By Sir Francis Drake) | |
| 2/1/88 | |
| BUST UPDATE | |
| =========== | |
| All the people busted by the Secret Service last July were contacted in | |
| September and asked if they "wanted to talk." No one but Solid State heard | |
| from the S.S. after this. Solid State was prosecuted and got one year | |
| probation plus some required community service. The rest: Ninja NYC, Bill | |
| >From RNOC, Oryan QUEST, etc. are still waiting to hear. Some rumors have gone | |
| around that Oryan QUEST has cooperated extensively with the feds but I have no | |
| idea about the validity of this. The following is a short interview with | |
| Oryan QUEST. Remember that QUEST has a habit of lying. | |
| PHRACK: Did you hear from the SS in September? It seems everybody else has. | |
| QUEST: No. I haven't heard from them since I was busted. Maybe they forgot | |
| me. | |
| P: What's your lawyer think of your case? | |
| Q: He says lay low. He says it's no problem because of my age. | |
| P: What do your parents think? | |
| Q: They were REALLY pissed for about a week but then they relaxed. I mean I | |
| think my parents knew I went through enough... I mean I felt like shit. | |
| P: Do you plan to keep involved in Telecom legit or otherwise? | |
| Q: Uhh, I wanna call boards... I mean I can understand why a sysop wouldn't | |
| give me an access but... I'm thinking of putting a board up, a secure | |
| board just to stay in touch ya know? Cause I had a lot of fun I mean I | |
| just don't want to get busted again. | |
| P: Any further words of wisdom? | |
| Q: No matter what anyone says I'm *ELITE*. NOOOO don't put that. | |
| P: Yes I am. | |
| Q: No I don't want people to think I'm a dick. | |
| P: Well... | |
| Q: You're a dick. | |
| - On a completely different note, Taran King who as some of you know was | |
| busted, is going to be writing a file for Phrack about what happened real | |
| soon now. | |
| MEDIA | |
| ===== | |
| The big media thing has been scare stories about computer viruses, | |
| culminating in a one page Newsweek article written by good old Sandza and | |
| friends. John Markoff of the San Francisco Examiner wrote articles on | |
| viruses, hacking voice mailboxes, and one that should come out soon about the | |
| July Busts (centering on Oryan QUEST). A small scoop: He may be leaving for | |
| the New York Times or the San Jose Mercury. | |
| Phreak media wise things have been going downhill. Besides PHRACK (which | |
| had a bad period but hopefully we're back for good) there is 2600, and | |
| Syndicate Report. Syndicate Report is dead, although their voice mail system | |
| is up. Sometimes. 2600 has gone from a monthly magazine to a quarterly one | |
| because they were losing so much money. One dead and 2 wounded. | |
| MISCELLANEOUS | |
| ============= | |
| Taran King and Knight Lightning are having a fun time in their fraternity | |
| at University of Missouri. Their respective GPA's are 2.1 and 2.7 | |
| approximately.... Phantom Phreaker and Doom Prophet are in a (punk/metal) | |
| band... Lex Luthor is alive and writing long articles for 2600... Sir Francis | |
| Drake sold out and wrote phreak articles for Thrasher... Jester Sluggo has | |
| become vaguely active again... | |
| CONCLUSION | |
| ========== | |
| Less and less people are phreaking, the world is in sorry shape, and I'm going | |
| to bed. Hail Eris. | |
| sfd | |