| ==Phrack Inc.== | |
| Volume Two, Issue 24, File 2 of 13 | |
| ==Phrack Pro-Phile XXIV== | |
| Created and Written by Taran King | |
| Done on February 3, 1989 | |
| Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile XXII. Phrack Pro-Phile was created to | |
| bring information to you, the community, about retired or highly important/ | |
| controversial people. This issue, I present one of the more rare sights in the | |
| world of phreaking and hacking...a female! She was vaguely active and had a | |
| few contacts with people that were largely involved with the community... | |
| Chanda Leir | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| Handle: Chanda Leir | |
| Call Her: Karen | |
| Past Handles: None | |
| Handle Origin: An aunt of hers as a child wanted to use this name is she ever | |
| became famous. | |
| Date Of Birth: May 8, 1970 | |
| Current Age: Almost 19 | |
| Height: 5' 6" | |
| Weight: 125 lbs. (providing Freshman 15 hasn't yet hit) | |
| Eye Color: Green/Grey | |
| Hair Color: Blond | |
| Computers: Her father is a real estate broker, so she began on a TI 700 | |
| terminal (an MLS Terminal)... just a modem and a keyboard and a | |
| scroll of PAPER)... then it was dad's business computer-- the | |
| KAYPRO II... Now she uses the Macs and the Sun systems and the | |
| IBM RT's located at CMU. | |
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| Karen started using BBSes in the D.C. area in 1983 (at the ripe age of 13). A | |
| guy by the name of Hack-Man (she supposes this was the "original" H-M) was | |
| running a board off of the dead side of the local 678 loop. Her introduction | |
| to phone "stuff" began when she called the "board" one day and found instead 30 | |
| people on the line instead of a carrier. | |
| She was dumbfounded, and being female, there were 30 guys on the conference | |
| ready and willing to provide her with information as to origins of loops, | |
| conferences, boxing, etc. Scott (Hack-Man) later filled her in on the rest, | |
| gave her more numbers and such and that's where it all began. | |
| The memorable phreakers or hackers that Karen has met include Cheshire Cat, | |
| Tuc, Bioc Agent 003 and anyone else who was at the TAP meeting during | |
| Thanksgiving of 1984. | |
| She gained her experience by asking a LOT of questions to a lot of hard-up guys | |
| who were willing to give her all kinds of info since she was a girl. She | |
| attributes her information mostly to just taking in and remembering all of the | |
| information that people gave her. | |
| The two boards that Karen listed as memorable were both in Falls Church, VA. | |
| which were Mobius Strip and Xevious II. | |
| Currently she's a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (or as | |
| she likes to call it, COMPUTER U.). Her major is probably "Policy & | |
| Management." | |
| Her major accomplishment is that she was probably the youngest girl ever to | |
| attend a TAP meeting (at the age of 14) and probably one of the only people to | |
| attend one with Mom, Dad, and Aunt Linda (how embarrassing). | |
| One of the reasons she quit the phreak/hack world was because of a visit from | |
| the Secret Service in February 1985... although they didn't really come for | |
| her... A "friend" wanted for credit card fraud called her while his line was | |
| hooked to a pin register. | |
| The same weekend he called Karen, was Inauguration Weekend and she and her | |
| brother called the 456 (White House) loop something like 21 times in the 4-day | |
| weekend period... In any case the SS wanted to catch Eric and when her number | |
| showed up in two places, they decided to investigate. Freaked out her parents! | |
| The real reason she quit the phreak/hack world was because she transferred high | |
| schools in 1985 and became one of the "popular" kids and gained a social life, | |
| thus losing time and interest for the computer. | |
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| Chanda Lier's Interests Include: MUSIC... specifically harDCore... (that would | |
| be punk rock from Washington, DC). Most of | |
| her friends are or were in DC bands... The | |
| Untouchables, Teen Idles, Minor Threat, Youth | |
| Brigade (DC), Grey Matter, Government Issue, | |
| etc. | |
| HORROR... novels, movies, comics.... Clive | |
| Barker, Arcane Comix (of which her friend | |
| Steve is publisher of), Peter Straub, Dean | |
| Koontz, Whitely Streiber etc... that whole | |
| genre... | |
| And Flannery O'Connor rules... | |
| Her most memorable experiences include the following: | |
| Her parents used to "make" her start conferences for them whenever it was | |
| a relative's birthday. They would get the whole family on the line and chat | |
| and stuff. Everyone thought it was really cool.... | |
| Other fun times were when her dad would pull out his DoD (Department of | |
| Defense) phonebook and they would hack around for modem lines.... | |
| Tuc coming to her grandmother's house in April 1985 and then going to see | |
| "Desperately Seeking Susan"... | |
| Some People to Mention: | |
| "I guess, just Taran King, for this interview, and Knight Lightning...both | |
| of whom contacted me here at CMU.... and TUC... and ...?" | |
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| And of course...that regular closing to the Phrack Pro-Phile... Are most of | |
| the phreaks and hackers that you've met computer geeks? "YES... no doubt." | |
| Thanks for your time, Karen. | |
| Taran King | |