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| Extasyy Revisited |
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| This is a continuation of the article that appeared in Phrack World News Issue |
| Number One, about the breakup of Extasyy Elite. |
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| The following are statements were told to Phrack by The Mentor: |
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| 1) I am NOT an FBI Agent. |
| 2) The Poltergeist turned in all of Extasyy. I have copies of the statements |
| he made in Fort Worth to the FBI and to the Fort Worth Police Department to |
| get me busted. I do not know if he gave them Bit Blitz's information or |
| not. |
| 3) Yes, I made Bit Blitz return a computer. Bit Blitz promised me a 212 |
| AppleCat in exchange for an Apple //e. Then he failed to deliver the modem |
| after I gave him the system. This can be verified. |
| 4) Crustaceo Mutoid is in the Racketeers, which Apple Rebel reassembled. Former |
| Racketeers members who are now regrouped include: Hot Rod, Warezird, and The |
| Micron. |
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| The above information should be considered as direct quotes from The Mentor. |
| The Apple //e referred to is one of the many stolen Apple //es talked about in |
| the story below. |
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| A little background on Extasyy. |
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| Extasyy hung out on Hack Net BBS and FWSO, a bbs in Colorado. Poltergeist was |
| always bragging about how he was a master computer thief. |
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| The Mentor wanted to try his luck as well. In his case, a not very wise idea. |
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| He and two others went to a high school computer room in Hayes County, Texas. |
| The room was separate from the rest of the building and one of the windows was |
| unlocked. |
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| One of the other two people that went was a student at the school. |
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| It took three car trips to transport all the computers, most of them were kept |
| in friend's apartments. The Mentor gave many of the computers away to friends |
| of his, which helped his popularity greatly. He also gave two monitors to |
| Poltergeist. However he neglected to scratch the serial numbers off them. A |
| more or less fatal mistake. |
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| Each of the apartment owners were allowed to keep one computer, as well as the |
| other two accomplices. Gradually the people with the apartments began to hide |
| or give away some of the computers themselves. |
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| The Mentor finally took all the rest of the computers to a storage warehouse |
| and then gave away or sold what was left of them. |
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| One month later... |
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| In Fort Worth, Texas, The Poltergeist was busted, mainly for credit card fraud, |
| but there were many other charges as well. He talked all about Extasyy and its |
| members and when the police found the Mentor's phone number, Poltergeist talked |
| some more. Among his confiscated equipment were two monitors. The serial |
| numbers were checked and this led the police and FBI to the now one month old |
| computer theft in Hayes County. |
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| Meanwhile, one of the apartment owners was trying to sell off one of his |
| computers to an ex-girl friend. Unfortunately she knew they were "hot" and |
| told the police. (Advice here guys don't try to sell "hot" items to ex-girl |
| friends). |
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| Soon after the police took him in and were going to press charges on him as |
| being the mastermind thief. Until he told them the truth about where he got |
| the merchandise, implicating The Mentor and the others. |
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| Soon after, the police and FBI had The Mentor, and even though he no longer had |
| any of the stolen equipment, a warrant and search turned up many other |
| interesting illegal items. His family being prominent in his town, his dad |
| wanted him to cooperate fully with the authorities. |
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| Phreaking was basically unheard of by the police in 512 and they wanted to know |
| how everyone was doing it. The Mentor's response was "Blue Boxing". His town |
| is now equipped with 2600 Hertz detectors on the phone lines. Too bad for |
| Southwestern Bell that Mentor lied about blue boxing. |
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| Mentor's dad always had something against The Protestor, if for no other |
| reason than the fact that he was the one who got Mentor started into phreaking. |
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| The police were interested in the phreak boards, so Mentor's dad suggested they |
| call Protestor's Shack, where The Mentor was a remote sysop. |
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| About this time Mentor had to use the bathroom, or so he told the police. On |
| his way to his restroom he stopped in the kitchen and called The Protestor. |
| He kept it very brief with the one way conversation consisting of roughly these |
| words, 'Get all the illegal shit off your board now! I'll explain later, just |
| do it!' |
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| Never the less, they called Protestor's Shack, only to discover that it was |
| busy. |
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| Protestor's Shack went down on February 24, 1986. At first it was thought that |
| Kleptic Wizard, a former Extasyy member, would take over the board in 314 |
| (St.Louis, MO). However, Protestor later decided that maybe it was time that |
| the board died. He did add however that he may release his board program as a |
| ware sometime in the near future. Most likely to be found on Kleptic Palace AE |
| first. He also does plan to one day return to the pirate/phreak/hack world. |
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| The above information was provided by The Protestor |
| with some parts by The Mentor |
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| The Radio Station BBS |
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| Where once stood the famous bulletin board "The Broadway Show", now stands The |
| Radio Station. When Broadway Hacker thought he was moving to Washington D.C. he |
| took down the Broadway Show and gave the line, 718/615-0580, to another who |
| would run this new bbs. Since then however Broadway Hacker under the handle |
| of Program Director is once again running the board, but the remote sysop |
| Sigmund Fraud is now in total charge. He validates, he hires the subboard |
| sysops. |
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| Sysop: Program Director |
| Remote Sysop: Sigmund Fraud <-- Runs the board |
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| Subboard Sysops: |
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| General: Pirate Pete |
| Sports/Entertainment: White Lotus |
| Computer Discussion Forum: Lotus |
| Pirate/Trading: No one (The Cheetah was fired) |
| Anarchy: No one (The Merc was fired) |
| Chemical & Explosives: The Wild Phreak (Gray Mouser was fired) |
| Advanced Hacking and Phreaking: No one (Iron Soldier was fired) |
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| If you wish to become a subboard sysop, please leave mail or feedback to |
| Sigmund Fraud. |
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| The Radio Station is where many LOD members and other old elites hang out. Its |
| also among the first to receive new LOD G-Philes. |
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| The Radio Station receives about 15-20 new posts a day. Their general board is |
| among the most popular for real world controversial topics. |
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| Program Director has put more time and effort into the debugging and upkeep of |
| his board than ANY other sysop I've ever known. Some of the nice features on |
| his board are the message responses which can keep a particular subject going |
| without interfering with other related subjects. |
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| The Radio Station is a strong supporter of Phrack Newsletter. Give it a call! |
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| 718/615-0580 300/1200 Baud |
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| Phoenix Phortress Stings 7 415 Under Siege |
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| On March 5, 1986, the following seven phreaks were arrested in what has come to |
| be known as the first computer crime "sting" operation. |
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| Captain Hacker |
| Doctor Bob |
| Lasertech |
| The Adventurer |
| The Highwayman |
| The Punisher |
| The Warden |
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| Many of them or other members of Phoenix Phortress belonged to these groups: |
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| High Mountain Hackers |
| Kaos Inc. |
| Shadow Brotherhood |
| The Nihilist Order (Based in Fremont and Sunnyvale) |
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| Of the seven, three were 15 years old; two were 16; one was 17; and one, 19. |
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| Their charges include: |
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| Several misdemeanors |
| Trafficking in stolen long distance service codes |
| Trafficking in stolen credit card numbers |
| Possession of stolen property |
| Possession of dangerous weapons (a martial arts weapon) |
| Charging mail-order merchandise to stolen credit card numbers |
| Selling stolen property |
| Charging calls internationally to telephone service numbers |
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| Conviction would mean forfeiture of their computer equipment. |
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| Other phreak boards mentioned include: |
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| Bank Vault (Mainly for credit card numbers and tips on credit card scams) |
| Phreakers Phortress (Mainly of course for phreak codes and other information) |
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| After serving search warrants early Wednesday morning on the seven Fremont |
| residences where the young men live with their parents, police confiscated at |
| least $12,000 worth of equipment such as computers, modems, monitors, floppy |
| disks, and manuals, which contained information ranging from how to make a |
| bomb, to the access codes for the Merrill Lynch and Dean Witter Financial |
| Services Firm's corporate computers. |
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| The sysop of Phoenix Phortress was The Revenger, who was supposedly Wally |
| Richards, a 25 year-old Hayward man who "phreaked back east a little" in New |
| Jersey. He took the phone number under the name of Al Davis. However he was |
| really Sgt. Daniel Pasquale of the Fremont Police Department. |
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| When he introduced his board to other computer users, he called it the "newest, |
| coolest, phreak board in town." (Editor's note: The word for today is |
| ENTRAPMENT!). |
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| Pasquale said he got the idea for the sting operation after a 16-year old |
| arrested last summer for possession of stolen property "rolled them over |
| (narced) He told us all about their operation." |
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| Pasquale used a police department Apple //e computer and equipment, with access |
| codes and information provided by eight corporations, including Wells Fargo |
| Bank, Sprint, and MCI. |
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| Pasquale said he received more than 2,500 calls from about 130 regular users |
| around the country. The police started to make their first case three days |
| after the board went up. |
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| "We had taken the unlisted phone number under the name Al Davis," Pasquale |
| said. "In six days, these kids had the name on the bulletin board. I would |
| have needed a search warrant to get that information." |
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| The arrests were made after five months of investigation by Dan Pasquale. |
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| Originally compiled by Maxwell's Demon of The Dange Gang, recompiled by Knight |
| Lightning. This file contains parts of articles found in the following |
| newspapers: |
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| ** The Mercury News |
| ** The Palo Alto Times-Tribune |
| ** The Daily Review |
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