| ==Phrack Inc.== | |
| Volume One, Issue Five, Phile #2 of 12 | |
| ==Phrack Pro-Phile II== | |
| Written and Created by Taran King | |
| 4/5/86 | |
| Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile II. 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 one of the most controversial users of our times and | |
| of days of old... | |
| Broadway Hacker | |
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| Broadway Hacker is the sysop of The Radio Station, a phreak/hack | |
| bulletin board in Brooklyn, N.Y. (718). | |
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| Personal | |
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| Handle: Broadway Hacker | |
| Call him: Mike | |
| Past handles: None (except his sysop handle, "The Program Director") | |
| Handle origin: Thought it up while on Compu-Serve | |
| Date of Birth: April 22, 1965 | |
| Age at current date: 20 years old | |
| Height: 6'2" | |
| Weight: About 150 lbs. | |
| Eye color: Green/Hazel | |
| Hair Color: Brown | |
| Computer: Commodore 64 with 3 disk drives and 300/1200 baud modem | |
| Sysop/Co-Sysop of: The Radio Station, The Night Stalker | |
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| Broadway Hacker started out in the BBS world in late 1983 when he | |
| first got his modem. On March 23, 1985, The Broadway Show, his first bulletin | |
| board, was launched into the BBS world. It started on 1 disk drive at 300 baud | |
| and has upgraded incredibly. It was originally a phreak board as it currently | |
| is also. He had originally gotten his C-64 computer in early 1985. Various | |
| members of the elite world including King Blotto, Lex Luthor, and Dr. Who got | |
| on his board to make it the memorable board that it was before the format | |
| change. His phreak experience began in 1981 through CB radios when a CB'er | |
| gave him a code over the line. Some of the memorable phreak boards he was on | |
| included Blottoland, The AT&T Phone Center of 312, and Dark Side of the Moon of | |
| 818. He gives credit for his phreak knowledge to conferences mostly. The Radio | |
| Mike works at a very large radio station. His phreaking is unknown at | |
| work. He's not particularly interested in programming beyond modifying The | |
| Radio Station. | |
| Broadway Hacker hasn't the time for hacking now. Broadway attends the | |
| Tap meetings in New York occasionally, but in the past he was a regular. He | |
| attended the 1986 TelePub meeting in New York which was to decide the fate of | |
| Tap magazine. Broadway has met various phreaks in person including BIOC Agent | |
| 003, Lex Luthor, Dr. Who, King Blotto, Cheshire Catalyst, The Sprinter, The | |
| Saint, Micro Ghoul, 2600 Magazine People, Paul Muad'Dib, and TUC. There were | |
| others, but he couldn't remember at 9:00 AM EST. He has made it a point to not | |
| become a member of groups, but he has been, in the past, invited to many. | |
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| Interests: Traveling, radio, telecommunications (modeming, phreaking), | |
| trashing, meeting other phreaks, BBS'ing, and running The | |
| Radio Station. | |
| Broadway Hacker's Favorite Things | |
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| Women: No names mentioned but yes... | |
| Cars: Fieros | |
| Foods: Ray's Pizza (West 11th and 6th Ave.), Steve's Ice Cream | |
| Music: Any top 40 groups in general. | |
| Most Memorable Experiences | |
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| Getting almost kidnapped by a gay bellhop in Denver | |
| Getting stranded in California | |
| Some People to Mention | |
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| Sigmund Fraud (an up-and-coming phreak who has learned a lot in a short time) | |
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| Broadway Hacker wishes you all to know that he does not conference at | |
| all any more because conferencing has depreciated from the old days and that | |
| they have become mostly a place to gather for gossip. | |
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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? For the most part, Broadway says, "No". | |
| Thanks for your time Mike. | |
| TARAN KING | |
| SYSOP OF METAL SHOP PRIVATE | |