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How to Regulate the Phone Company in Your Home MENTIONS California Penal Code 502.7
The episode connects the article's suppression to California Penal Code 502.7, which prohibited selling or distributing plans for defrauding the phone company.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 168 Details
“they found a rule in the law, California penal code 502.7”
Hackers MENTIONS Hacker Manifesto
The Hacker Manifesto appeared in the movie Hackers.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 168 Details
“it actually appeared in the movie Hackers”
Phrack MENTIONS Legion of Doom
Phrack described the formation of the Legion of Doom by nine hackers during the summer of 1984.
Attributed Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 168 Details
“From out of this chaos came a need for learned instructors to help pass on their store of information to new throngs. The need was met by nine hackers who formed a group called the Legion of Doom”
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act PART_OF Comprehensive Crime Control Act
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was an amendment to the Comprehensive Crime Control Act.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 168 Details
“President Ronald Reagan signed into law an amendment to the CCCA, that computer crime law I talked about earlier. The amendment was called The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act”
Legion of Doom USES bulletin board system
Legion of Doom shared its technical journals through bulletin board systems and operated an LoD BBS.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 168 Details
“they would type it up and share it on their LoD BBS for others to see”
Legion of Doom USES honey pot
Legion of Doom members helped Bellcore lure Wasp into a honey pot to log his activity.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 168 Details
“the LoD members helped Bellcore’s security team lure Wasp into a honey pot”
Legion of Doom USES trashing
Legion of Doom members used trashing to obtain phone-company manuals, phone numbers, and other technical information.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Phiber Optik EP 168 Details
“information primarily that was found trashing at Telco’s central offices”
Paul Stira USES War dialing
Paul Stira used war dialing to call phone numbers looking for computers that answered.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 168 Details
“What Paul liked doing was war dialing. He’d just dial phone number after phone number to see if there was a computer on the other end that would pick up.”
The Prophet USES The E911 file
The Prophet copied the E911 document from a Bell South computer and shared it with Craig Neidorf.
Explicit Direction flagged Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 168 Details
“The Prophet then shared this E911 manual with Craig Neidorf”
AT&T outage of 1990 ATTRIBUTED_TO Masters of Deception
The episode raises, but does not establish, the possibility that the Masters of Deception were involved in the AT&T outage; the later account attributes it to AT&T's software bug.
Uncertain Confidence 93% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“but maybe this new group MoD had something to do with it too, right?”
AT&T outage of 1990 ATTRIBUTED_TO Legion of Doom
The Legion of Doom was an initial suspect in the AT&T outage, but the episode later says the outage was caused by AT&T's own software bug.
Uncertain Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“LoD was their initial suspect”
Stewart Brand AUTHORED Whole Earth Catalog
Stewart Brand created the Whole Earth Catalog.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Steve Jobs EP 169 Details
“It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand”
John Perry Barlow AUTHORED Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace
John Perry Barlow published the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“He did, in fact, go and publish a Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace.”
The WELL DEVELOPED_BY Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand created and operated a BBS called the WELL, meaning Whole Earth Electronic Link.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“He spun up his own BBS called the WELL, which stood for Whole Earth Electronic Link.”
Electronic Frontier Foundation DEVELOPED_BY John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow helped start the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“together — the two of them got together and said, let’s do something here, and they started the EFF”
Comsec Data Security DEVELOPED_BY Erik Bloodaxe
Erik Bloodaxe started Comsec Data Security as a hacking-advisory business.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“Bloodaxe started a company called Comsec Data Security.”
Electronic Frontier Foundation DEVELOPED_BY Mitch Kapor
Mitch Kapor helped start the Electronic Frontier Foundation with John Perry Barlow.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“He met with Mitch Kapor. This guy was on the WELL, too, and Kapor was known for inventing the spreadsheet program called Lotus 1-2-3. They both lived in San Francisco, which is where the WELL was hosted, too, and together — the two of them got together and said, let’s do something here, and they started the EFF”
AT&T outage of 1990 INVOLVES Software bug
The AT&T outage was caused by a bug in AT&T's own software, specifically a misplaced 'break' statement.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“AT&T admitted very publicly that the outage was caused by a bug in their own software.”
“One of their programmers put in the word ‘break’ in a wrong part of the code”
Mark Abene MEMBER_OF Masters of Deception
Mark was one of the founders and members of the Masters of Deception.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“There was Mark, AKA Phiber Optik, Eli, which was going by Acid Freak, Paul, who was Scorpion, John Lee, who was Corrupt, and Julio, who called himself Outlaw.”
John Lee MEMBER_OF Masters of Deception
John Lee, known as Corrupt, was a member of the Masters of Deception.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“John Lee, who was Corrupt, and Julio, who called himself Outlaw.”
Fred Staples MEMBER_OF New York Telephone Company
Fred Staples worked for the New York Telephone Company and engineered its phone network infrastructure.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“There were two guys who worked there that were in charge of securing the system, Tom Keiser and Fred Staples.”
Paul MEMBER_OF Masters of Deception
Paul, known as Scorpion, was a member and co-founder of the Masters of Deception.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“Paul, who was Scorpion, John Lee, who was Corrupt, and Julio, who called himself Outlaw.”
Julio MEMBER_OF Masters of Deception
Julio, known as Outlaw, was a member of the Masters of Deception.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“John Lee, who was Corrupt, and Julio, who called himself Outlaw.”
Tom Keiser MEMBER_OF New York Telephone Company
Tom Keiser worked for the New York Telephone Company and oversaw its phone network security operations.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“There were two guys who worked there that were in charge of securing the system, Tom Keiser and Fred Staples.”
Eli MEMBER_OF Masters of Deception
Eli, known as Acid Freak, was a member and co-founder of the Masters of Deception.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“There was Mark, AKA Phiber Optik, Eli, which was going by Acid Freak, Paul, who was Scorpion”