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Subject: What is LOD and Phrack?
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Date: 18 Mar 90 09:46:32 GMT
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Sorry to sound misinformed but I guess this is the best place to find
out.
     
1) I have been reading about hacking groups called LOD and PHRACK,
what exactly did they do that warrants the sentence of 31 years?
     
I mainly want to sound objective, but if these 'kids' could do it,
then outside malevolent forces I am sure could do it.  I think people
are going to have to learn that kids are a lot smarter than they
think.  I am under the impression that these groups did nothing that
threatened the integrity of the systems they explored.

Also I'd like to add that with the growing amount of control
communications services afford thru information dissemination, not
only will this incident prove to be a rallying point around the hacker
ethic for the next generation of hackers but it could make these young
geniuses into martyrs.  I think the phone company is best erved by
listening to them instead of persecuting them.  If they (PH. and LOD)
did do this for profit, I am sure they would have been in different
position.


ins_bac@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu

[Moderator's Note: The 'hackers group' is called Legion of Doom, or
LoD for short. Phrack is the official publication of the Legion.
Phrack was distrbuted via the Internet, among other electronic
networks, and it was the contents of Phrack, among other things, which
got the LoD in trouble recently and caused at least a few computer
sites to be closed by the government and/or (in the case of attctc) by
its owner. They have not received any punishment yet because they have
not been found guilty yet. For further information, I refer you to the
Telecom-Archives (ftp lcs.mit.edu - cd telecom-archives) and the file
there entitled 'jolnet'.   PT]