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couple of cards to plug into the MUX to put me on the air.
A 2 wire E&M card goes for bout $319, and I'd need two. Ilook around
the state, and find one bad one in Rochester.... I'm on my way that afternoon
via motorcycle. The card is mine, and the only thing I can find wrong is a
bad voltage regulator. I stop by the Rockwell office in suburban Rochester
and exchange the card, while I'm there, I buy a second one (Yeah, on my card)
and drive home.... by 9pm that night the circuit is up, and we are on the air.
Results- Very good line, no noise, can be converted with another card
for a modest fee if I want the bandwidth. So that's the story of how the
board went to a "friendly foreign country."
The Mad Phone-Man
#### PHRACK PRESENTS ISSUE 16 ####
^*^*^*^Phrack World News, Part 4^*^*^*^
**** File 11 of 12 ****
Shadow Hawk Busted Again
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As many of you know, Shadow Hawk (a/k/a Shadow Hawk 1) had his home
searched by agents of the FBI, Secret Service, and the Defense Criminal
Investigative Services and had some of his property confiscated by them on
September 4th. We're not going to reprint the Washington Post article as it's
available through other sources. Instead, a summary:
In early July, SH bought an AT&T 3B1 ("Unix PC") with a 67MB drive for
a dirt-cheap $525. He got Sys V 3.5 for another $200 but was dissatisfied
with much of the software they gave him (e.g. they gave him uucp version 1.1).
When he was tagged by the feds, he had been downloading software (in
the form of C sources) from various AT&T systems. According to reports, these
included the Bell Labs installations at Naperville, Illinois and Murray Hill,
New Jersey. Prosecutors said he also gained entry to (and downloaded software
from) AT&T systems at a NATO installation in Burlington, North Carolina and
Robins AFB in Georgia. AT&T claims he stole $1 million worth of software.
Some of it was unreleased software taken from the Bell Labs systems that was
given hypothetical price tags by Bell Labs spokespersons. Agents took his
3B1, two Atari STs he had in his room, and several diskettes.
SH is 17 and apparently will be treated as a minor. At the time of
this writing, he will either be subject to federal prosecution for 'computer
theft' or will be subject to prosecution only by the State of Illinois.
SH's lawyer, Karen Plant, was quoted as saying that SH "categorically
denies doing anything that he should not have been doing" and that he "had
absolutely no sinister motives in terms of stealing property." As we said, he
was just collecting software for his new Unix PC. When I talked to Ms. Plant
on September 25th, she told me that she had no idea if or when the U.S.
Attorney would prosecute. Karen Plant can be reached at (312) 263-1355. Her
address is 134 North LaSalle, #306, Chicago, Illinois.
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On July 9th SH wrote:
So you see, I'm screwed. Oh yeah, even worse! In my infinite (wisdom
|| stupidity, take your pick 8-)) I set up a local AT&T owned 7300 to call me
up and send me their uucp files (my uucp works ok for receive) and guess what.
I don't think I've to elaborate further on THAT one... (holding my breath, so
to type)
(_>Sh<_
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#### PHRACK PRESENTS ISSUE 16 ####
^*^*^*^Phrack World News, Part 5^*^*^*^
**** File 12 of 12 ****
"Phone Companies Across U.S. Want Coins Box Thief's Number"
From the Tribune - Thursday, Nov. 5, 1987
SAN FRANCISCO - Seven telephone companies across the country, including
Pacific Bell, are so frazzled by a coin box thief that they are offering a
reward of $25,000 to catch him.
He's very clever, telephone officials say, and is the only known suspect in
the country that is able to pick the locks on coin boxes in telephone
booths with relative ease.
He is believed responsible for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from
coin boxes in the Bay Area and Sacramento this year.
The suspect has been identified by authorities as James Clark, 47, of
Pennisula, Ohio, a machinist and tool-and-die maker, who is believed
responsible for coin box thefts in 24 other states.
Other companies sharing in the reward are Ohio Bell, Southern Bell, South
Carolina Bell, South Central Bell, Southwestern Bell, Bell Telephone of
Pennsylvania and U.S. West.
Clark allegedly hit pay phones that are near freeways and other major
thoroughfares. Clark, described as 5 feet 9 inches tall, with shoulder
length brown hair and gold-rimmed glasses, is reported to be driving a new
Chevrolet Astro van painted a dark metallic blue.
He was recently in Arizona but is believed to be back in California.