*********************************************** ** Sykotic ** ** Times ** ** Issue # 7 ** ** April 1999 ** ** http://www.deathsdoor.com/syko ** *********************************************** DISCLAIMER ********** This zine is for shit purposes only. I don't give a shit if you break the law because it's YOUR ass that is going to get raped in jail. If you do any of this shit (and get caught) YOU fucked up. it ain't muh fault so fuck off! I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU ARE A SHIT HEAD!! (I realise that most of this shit isn't illegal but I just think that I should warn you) The Shit ******** 1. Editorial by: Syko416 2. Censorship by: Syko416 3. The Caramilk Secret by: Syko416 4. Excuse me Ma'am by: Syko416 5. Fucked up websites by: Syko416 6. How to Get Free Disks by: Syko416 7. Crisis At Womat: Part 1 by: Syko416 8. News by: Syko416 9. Jokes by: Syko416 10. Top Ten by: Syko416 11. Left Over Shit by: Syko416 ^^^^^^^^^^^ Look the name of the writer :P --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Editorial ************ whaddup G? It's april!! Do you know what that mean? niether do I. anyways in this issue, there's a bunch of shit, I am lieing, it's all shit, seriously thought, most of the articles are serious.(for once) Anyways, Enjoy the issue. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Censorship ************* Censorship has been an issue of discussion ever since, well, forever. I have just watched "Too Much 4 Much" on tv, which is basically a discussion forum held in the much music environment and talking about "extreme" music videos. The videos that they talked about were Metallica's "Turn the Page" and Marilyn Manson's "I don't like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)" I'll start with the Metallica video. In it, you see a mother of about 40 years of age, supporting her daughter, who is around 9 years old, by stripping and turning tricks. Now, they want to censor this video because it shows the life of a stripper/hooker and it does include nudity (which is censored anyway). They want to censor the video because glorifies stripping and prostitution. In the Marilyn Manson video, (it's hard to explain but I'll try) you see Manson running from some cops without head, he runs into a hospital of some sort, and gets his arm amputated (no blood). Some how the cops find him and keep chasing him. Manson them climbs up an oil container, and jumps off, and when he lands, you see is body in several television screens, but where the head is, it is all static. Now, they want to censor this video because it glorifies suicide and it encourages young kids to cut off their arms. Personally, I think that by having a discussion about these videos, you are helping most people to see it. If the videos ran on the air every once and a while and if no one made any big deal about them, then less people would know about it. The videos are like 4-5 minutes, so for someone to see the video, they must tune in within those 5 minutes but by making a one hour discussion, if you tune in at any time during the discussion, you will be exposed to the video. If you ask me, I think that much music should air the video anyway (uncensored) and MAYBE put a warning before the video (if it's really needed) and caution people about it but leave the choice up to us. Like the whole Howard Stern thing. Howard Stern is on the radio every weekday morning all over North America and if you don't like it, don't listen to it! There is nothing you can do. You can complain to the radio station, you can boycott the sponsors, but he will stay on the air. If you don't like it don't listen to it, but don't deprive the people that like it (like me). These videos are just reflections of the world around us. If you look at the news, you will ALWAYS find stuff about deaths. It could be a bomb exploding or an accident, or suicide, but it's there. If you go into any major city, you will find strip clubs, and sometimes hookers. Do you know how easy it is to get porn on the net? Go to any search engine and search for sex, or XXX, or porn, and you'll find millions of hits. Does this mean we have to censor the net? No, we have to educate the people that go on the net. Educate your children. Don't hide anything. Be up front. If you hide something, your kids will want to see it even more. If I tell you not to look at a magazine and I leave a copy of that magazine on the table and there's no one around, I bet that most people will look at it, just to see what is so bad about it. You can censor out the world around us. If you see lots of blood and gore in the movies and on TV, you will have less of a shock when/if you see it in real life. If you have never seen blood (even fake blood) and one day you see someone getting shot or hit by a car, you will be traumatized. Everything in the world can be twisted around to have some bad meaning. Take Romeo & Juliet, you can say that it sends that message that if your girlfriend leaves you, you should kill yourself, but that isn't true. In closing, i am just saying that if it's something that people have the choice to see (like on TV or on the radio) I don't think you should censor it. You should let us make our choices. If you don't like something, Don't watch it. It's the world around us that is fucked up, and therefore everything based on the world is going to be fucked up. "How am I supposed to write shit positive if I don't see shit positive?" - Eminem -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. The Caramilk Secret ********************** THE SECRET OF HOW WE GET THE CARAMEL INSIDE THE CARAMILK BAR IS... ´ÄÉ´©¾ÆÉ¡@Æ&%!!¥5¥¤©Ï¨·@$*_()^$58D%@+ WHAT THE HELL???? DAMN LINE NOISE!! JEEEZ, NO WONDER THIS IS STILL A SECRET! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Excuse Me Ma'am| ---------------- This is a very easy scam to do to get money. The only problem is that you won't get much money at a time. Maybe $4 or $5. What you do is TRY not to look like a homeless bum and go in a busy place like a plaza downtown and ask some one for bus fare. It's more complicated than you think. Here's what you do: You: Excuse me. Sucker: Yes? U: My mother dropped me and my brother off downtown and she forgot to give us bus fare to go back home. So I was wondering if you could give me some money for bus fare, please. S: Sure, how much do you need? U: $4 S: I don't have change so keep the change. U: Thank you very much, good bye. S: bye. See how easy that is? You have to remember a few things: 1. ALWAYS be polite. If you are rude they won't give you any money. If they aren't going to give you money, then you can be rude. 2. Don't ask for too much money. If they ask you how much you need, don't tell them you need like $20 for bus fare (huh..... I have 10 brothers) say something like $4 or $6 dollars (In Toronto, it's $2 for an adult ticket) 3. Don't do this at the same place more than 2 or 3 times. I know this sounds dumb but if you do it at a place a lot of times, you might run in to the same people, and you'll have alot of explaining to do (or running, it's your choice) I know it's kind of stupid but it works. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Fucked Up Websites ********************* During my many hours of surfing the web I have noticed some REALLY fucked up websites. Now, I am going to share them with you. Remember, just cuz the sites are fucked up, doesn't mean they suck (well, with the exception of the last one) ENJOY! Virtual Groper (http://www.cyderspace.com/grope/) This site is kind of funny. the name explains the site. Basicly you press your "bits" against the screen (don't act like you've never done that before ;) Check it out for a laugh. Metaspy (http://www.metaspy.com/) I originally heard about this site in 2600 magazine. Basicly, this site let's you see what people are searching for in Metacrawler. If you go to the uncensored version, beware, it's mostly sick porno (like fucking animals) Telephone Sex (http://www.telephonesex.net/) When I first went to this site, I thought it would be some site advertising 1-900 numbers. Boy, was I surprized (that's not exactly a bad thing) I don't want to tell you what is there cause the element of surprize is the key. If you know what is there, you'd proably wouldn't go there. Check it out, you'll be surprized Afro Squad (http://www.afrosquad.com/) This is the funniest Pimpin' website I have ever seen. It has everything from Movie posters to t-shirts. This is a cool site. A Must see, why? cuz Pimpin' ain't easy (I know that doesn't make much sence but I wanted to say it) Stomp The Chicken? (http://users.southeast.net/~jelloboy/chicken/chicken.htm) You get to choose if you want to stomp a little chicken or save the chicken. More people have chosen to stomp the chicken (you heartless bastards), but watch what happens when you save it.... Virtual Cowtipping (http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9317/meowcow.html) the graphics on this page suck, but hey, that makes it even funnier. Go there if you feel like tipping a Cow. There's also a text version avaible (believe it or not) at: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9317/cowmeow.html I think the text looks better than the graphics but that's just me. The Porn-O-Matic (http://www.maddogproductions.com/pornomatic.htm) At this site you can create your own porn story (like there's not enough porn shit out there). The Virtual Vibrator (http://fathom.org/opalcat/vibrator.html) Why the fuck would you make a site like this? I mean, do you get up in the morning and just decide that you want to make a site with a virtual vibrator? I've got to admit, it is original (that's cuz no one is retarded enough to do something like this) All the Fucking scratch and sniff webpages out there why? cuz you can't smell anything! (or maybe that's just my computer) For a list of these sites goto: http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Humor__Jokes__and_Fun/Useless_Pages/Scratch_and_Sniff/ I know it's a very big url but who cares, i don't think you'd go to the site anyways. :P ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. How to Get Free Disks ************************ Yeah, I know, you know how to get free disks and this article is pretty much pointless but I don't care. In this article I am going to tell you how to get free disks. ISPs are good to get free disks. Services like Compuserve, Sympathico, and AOL. They usually take 7 to 10 days to arrive at you house. The best place to get free disks is AOL. Since AOL is a very large company, the give away billions of disks each year. In every AOL commerical or ad, there is a 1-800 for you too call and get free software. Also sometimes AOL gives away disks in computer papers that are free (like "We Compute" or "Toronto Computes") Basicly, all you have to do is call the number and ask for a disk, or wait until the disks come the newspapers. Another good place to get free disks is UPS or Puralator. They give away free shipping software. Again, all you have to do is call and ask for the disks. You can also get software from Major banks like CIBC, Royal Bank, etc. They have free banking software. Sometimes if you go into the bank, and look around the area that all the bank papers are (ads for RRSPs, etc.) and look for one about online banking. Now, For all you idiots that don't know how to order the disks, here's a sample conversation. AOL person: Hello, AOL Canada, How many I help you? Syko: Hey, I called about the free software. A: Yes, and what is your name? S: Jimmy Poonwacker A: And what's your address? S: 69 Analhole Ave. A: And what's your city, and province? S: Toronto, Ontario A: And what's your postal code? S: M9C 6X9 A: Would you like a CD or a disk? S: A disk please. A: Ok, which OS do you have? S: Win 98. A: Ok, your free trial software will arrive in 7 to 10 days. S: Thank you. A: Good bye. "My CD-rom drive is broken" or "I don't have a CD-rom drive" are good excuses to get them to send you disks. You can also tell them that they sent you PC software and you have a mac so you need them to send you come more disks. Here's a list of toll free numbers that you can call to get free disks. (800) 232-7638 Fasttrack Schedule for Windows & Mac demo (800) 373-3676 Microsoft Network (1-800-FREE-MSN) (800) 395-8425 Earthlink Network (800) 487-4838 CompuServe (800) 453-3972 Datatrack (ask for Windows Atlas Equipment Manager demo) (800) 554-4008 Discovery Channel (3 free disks for internet software) (800) 638-2661 Netcom (press 2) (800) 648-4452 Labelworks for Windows (free demo software) (800) 742-5877 UPS (ask for their shipping software) (800) 773-4638 Global Serve (800) 776-3449 Prodigy (800) 777-9638 Sprynet (Gives you two disks) (800) 786-7638 SunSoft (Free 30-day evaluation disk - press 1) (800) 827-6364 America Online (800) 973-1335 Suretrack (ask for Suretrack demo disk) (888) 265-4357 America Online Canada (888) 288-1233 AT&T Internet Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Crisis At Womat: Part 1 ************************** I thought today was going to be a normal day like any other, boy was I wrong. It started in French class..... It was around 2 pm and my teacher Mr. Billiam (Or Mr. Billy for short) was talking about some crap, I really wasn’t paying any attention.. Me and my friends, Shane and Vanessa, were talking. Vanessa was upset because her now ex-boyfriend, Andy, was spreading some rumors about her (which are 100% untrue). "What did he say?" Shane asked "Well, he said that we had sex but that he didn’t really want to have sex, and the only reason he had sex with me was because I really wanted to and because I offered him $20" Vanessa said. " And you let him get away with that? If I was you I would have bitch slapped him" I replied. Vanessa and Shane laughed. "Seriously though, don’t think about him" I said. "Yeah, he’s an asshole" Shane agreed. "Shane, do you have something you want to share with the class?" Mr. Billy said. "No" Shane said. "Then shut up. You can tell I get along good with kids" Mr. Billy said. The class laughed. "Ok class, this is called pointless busy work to keep you quiet" Mr. Billy said as he handed out some papers. Meanwhile, Lowland Creek Bank was being robbed. The robber, a white male in his mid twenties, had just jumped into his brown 1984 Chevy with several bags of money. He hears the sound of approaching Sirens. He looks in he’s rear view mirror and sees 3 police cars coming down the road. "Oh, shit" the robber mumbles as he hits the gas and the car takes off down the road. With the police still on his tail, he approaches an intersection and sees that the police have set up a road block. Thinking quickly, he turns and cuts through a mall parking lot and nearly runs over 2 innocent shoppers. He soon makes it back on to a main road. He is flying down the street, ignoring red lights and stop signs. He is desperately trying to lose the police that are still following him. Soon, he sees another road block ahead. He tries to make a turn on to a side street be he’s going too fast. The car skids out of control and passenger side of the car smashed into Womat High school. Panic stricken, the robber grabs the money and his gun, and stumbles into the school. Back in Mr. Billy’s class, we were all looking out of the window, wondering what cause that crash that we heard and why there were a bunch of police cars in front of the school. Since we were up on the third floor, we couldn’t see the robber’s car. Suddenly, the door swung open and there stood the robber with the money in one hand and his gun in the other. To be continued......... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.News ******* Hacking Legend's Sign-Off By GREG MILLER, Los Angeles Times March 18, 1999 Kevin Mitnick plagued the world of computers for two decades and led the FBI on a two-year-long chase. Now his saga is about to end. Four years after FBI agents burst into a North Carolina apartment and captured the nation's most notorious computer hacker, the saga of the man they hunted down--Kevin David Mitnick--seems finally to be nearing a conclusion. Mitnick and federal prosecutors signed a plea agreement this week that sources said will keep the accused hacker in prison for roughly one more year. In addition, Mitnick will likely be barred from ever profiting from his story, and restricted from so much as touching a computer for at least three years after his eventual release. The agreement, which still requires the approval of a federal judge and comes just weeks before his trial was to begin, brings the curtain down on an era. More than even Mitnick seems able to comprehend, he has come to personify both the golden age of hacking and the intense public paranoia that accompanied the dawn of the personal computer revolution. Mitnick's heyday as a hacker is over, but he remains the ultimate digital boogeyman. The San Fernando Valley native's dubious career spans two decades, and by the early 1990s he had become a hacker legend by swiping computer secrets from big corporations and leading the FBI on a two-year chase. Since then, others have made millions of dollars telling his story while he spent the past four years penniless in jail. A movie about his capture is due out this year. And legions of modern hackers have made him a misunderstood martyr, tearing down prominent Web sites to erect profanity-laced protests in his name. "The Mitnick case is the last vestige of hacker hysteria from the late 1980s and early 1990s," said Mike Godwin, longtime general counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Internet civil liberties group. "It's not that there won't be more hackers. It's just that cops and the media have moved on. They're more worried about gambling and porn sites and domain name registrations. But Mitnick was demonized in that era, and there's still a lot of people who want to take a piece of him." Southland Was Hotbed of Hacking Mitnick, now 35, has never seen the shopping, chatting, humming mecca that is today's Internet. His days are ruled by the routines of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, where he has been held without bail on a 25-count indictment that includes 14 counts of wire fraud and eight counts of illegal possession of computer files and passwords stolen from such companies as Motorola Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. He trades adult magazines and other jailhouse currency for other inmates' phone time so he can spend hours talking with supporters, and also keeps in close touch with his parents, who divorced when he was 3. His father is a general contractor who still works in the San Fernando Valley. His mother, who raised him almost single-handedly, is now a waitress at a casino in Las Vegas. Mitnick grew up in Southern California at a time when the region was emerging as the stage for a handful of hackers whose collective notoriety has not been rivaled since. There was Kevin Poulsen, who, along with fellow hacker Ron Austin, tied up phone lines at radio stations during call-in contests. By improving the odds that they would be the lucky caller, the two collected prizes ranging from a pair of Porsches to Hawaiian vacations. There was Justin Petersen, a hacker playboy who raided phone company offices and pleaded guilty of trying to transfer $150,000 out of a Southern California bank. He is best known, however, for pursuing his illicit hacking habit even while he was working as an FBI informant, gathering evidence against Mitnick and others. And then there's Mitnick. A high school dropout, he was not the most technically gifted but was a master of "social engineering," or using guile and disguise to talk others into lowering their electronic defenses. "All hackers are like locksmiths," said Poulsen, who himself spent five years in prison and now writes about technology for ZDTV Online and Wired magazine. "They know how to install a lock, how to take apart a lock and how to put together a lock. But Mitnick was also very good at getting someone on the other side of a door to simply open the lock." At first, Mitnick's hacks were little more than juvenile pranks. He set up celebrities' home phones so that they were asked to deposit a coin whenever they tried to make a call, for instance. But his habit escalated, until he became primarily interested in pilfering hacking tools--mostly software and cell phone equipment--from big companies and computer experts. He was known for studying a company's organizational chart, mastering its employees' lingo, then posing as a field technician calling the home office for a needed access code. Between 1981 and 1988, he was arrested for hacking at least four times, culminating in a one-year prison sentence for stealing software from Digital Equipment Corp. While on supervised release from that sentence, Mitnick took a job with a private investigations firm in Los Angeles. Suspicious that Mitnick's new employer was taking advantage of his hacking skills, the FBI launched an investigation in 1992. True to form, Mitnick was onto the Feds almost as quickly as they were onto him. He put together his own private dossier on the agents, conning information out of their families and, colleagues say, even eavesdropping on the agents' phone conversations. On Christmas Eve in 1992, Mitnick tried to trick employees at the state Department of Motor Vehicles to fax driver's license photos of the agents to a Kinko's copy center on Sepulveda Boulevard. Suspicious of the request for what computer records flagged as undercover ID photos, the DMV set a trap. Instead of sending photos of the agents, DMV faxed back a photo of "Annie Driver," a fictional character the agency uses for instructional purposes. Shirley Lessiak, a DMV special investigator, was assigned to stake out the Kinko's store to see who would come to collect the pictures. Hours later, Mitnick strolled in, picked up the envelope, looked at its contents and shuddered. Suspecting he was being followed, Mitnick headed toward the back door of the Kinko's, then back toward the front, and kept reversing course in an effort to flush out his pursuer. Lessiak nearly stumbled into him, but pretended to be a customer. Mitnick finally left through the back door, grabbed a pay phone and watched Lessiak approach. "He tossed the papers at me," said Lessiak, who didn't learn until later that she was face-to-face with a notorious hacker. "I grabbed for them and that gave him a second or two head start. He ran, and he ran faster than I did." Mitnick kept running for the next two years. He Never Tired of the Thrill Hackers tend to romanticize themselves and are fond of describing their efforts as "the pursuit of knowledge" in its purest form. But that often means engaging in electronic trespassing, or "hacking," through a system's defensive barriers. A typical goal is to get "root" on a computer system, meaning access at such a basic level that the hacker can move about the system unrestricted. Mitnick was known for using such access to swipe software and snoop on others' e-mail. He seemed never to have tired of the thrill this gave him. For most hackers, "it's like any other thrilling sport--after a while it becomes old hat and boring," said Lewis DePayne, Mitnick's longtime hacking colleague. "But for Kevin, it never became boring or old hat." For Mitnick and others, hacking was an all-consuming endeavor, a laborious and often tedious process of gathering tips from others, sifting through phone company trash bins in search of discarded manuals, and sneaking into campus computer rooms for precious time on the mysterious machines. These days, hacking is being overrun by a generation derisively dubbed the "script kiddies." Almost every suburban kid has an online connection, and the Internet has eliminated the drudgery--some would say the discipline--of the hacking craft. Thousands of paint-by-number hacking programs, or "scripts," are available free on dozens of Web sites. Many of these programs can be aimed at thousands of computer systems simultaneously, virtual search engines for security vulnerabilities. Predictably, the number of security breaches reported has soared, according to the Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie Mellon University. A CERT official said there were more than 2,500 incidents reported in 1998, compared to just hundreds in the late 1980s. Even so, hacker hysteria is waning. The crippling electronic blow that once seemed so imminent has never materialized. Experts say this probably has less to do with improvements in computer security than the fact that hacking is by and large a juvenile pursuit, and few among its ranks have both the skill and inclination to be destructive. More than ever, hacking is a hobby populated by the likes of a pair of teenagers in Cloverdale, Calif., who--using scripts from various Web sites--recently broke into Pentagon computers and bumbled around low-security files before getting caught. "It's getting to the point that anybody can be a hacker," said Dane Jasper, chief executive of a Santa Rosa, Calif.-based Internet service provider who helped catch the teenagers. "Kevin Mitnick was far more talented than these joy riders." But Mitnick, like the Cloverdale teens, was caught. And who knowswhat deterrent effect that has had. Security Expert Joins the Hunt Mitnick had been on the run for almost two years when, on Christmas Day in 1994, someone hacked into the computer system of Tsutomu Shimomura, a security expert at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Convinced that Mitnick was the culprit--which remains unproven Shimomura set out to help the FBI catch him. Using an array of high-tech surveillance equipment, Shimomura and FBI agents traced Mitnick's online activities first to a cellular phone "cell" in North Carolina. From there, they zeroed in on the apartment complex where, even with the FBI closing in on him, Mitnick continued to dial into computer networks through his modem. When the FBI barged in on Mitnick's apartment just after midnigh on Feb. 15., he is said to have vomited. In his apartment, authorities say, agents seized cell phone equipment, computers with thousands of illicit files, as well as phony IDs, resumes and job applications. A friend of Shimomura, New York Times technology writer John Markoff, got exclusives on both the chase and the capture. "A Most Wanted Cyberthief," the paper proclaimed in a front-page headline, was finally behind bars. The story touched off a media frenzy. Newspapers and television news crews flocked to the scene. Shimomura was hailed as the ultimate cybersleuth. And soon, he and Markoff were splitting a book deal and movie rights reportedly worth more than a million dollars. Mitnick never physically harmed anyone, and he appears never to have profited from his hacking. In fact, officials from some companies Mitnick allegedly targeted say he was mainly a nuisance. "The real damage was loss of productivity and hassles," said Phil Karn, a senior engineer at Qualcomm Inc., a San Diego-based cellular phone manufacturer. "I don't want to condone what Mitnick did, but he's really not public enemy No. 1." Nevertheless, Mitnick was soon being portrayed in ads for Markoff and Shimomura's book as a hacker who "could have crippled the world." Predictably, enmity toward Markoff is intense in the Mitnick camp. Mitnick's father says Markoff has "made a monster" of his son, whom he believes would be in far less trouble if Markoff hadn't sensationalized the case. Late last year, a group of hackers shut down the New York Times Web site, temporarily replacing it with a profane anti-Markoff rant. Case Centers on Theft of Software Markoff today says he has a certain amount of sympathy for Mitnick, "but I don't think what he did was benign. He was stealing information. I think he did a tremendous amount of damage to the Internet community." For all the drama of the Mitnick-Shimomura face-off, it has proven to be inconsequential in terms of his case. Mitnick has not been charged with many of the allegations that topped Markoff's stories, including Mitnick's alleged possession of 20,000 credit card numbers. Indeed, he has not even been charged with hacking Shimomura. Instead, the government's case centers on allegations that Mitnick stole millions of dollars worth of cell phone and computer software--mostly tools for reprogramming phones and other hacking endeavors--while he was on the run from the FBI. Their evidence consists mainly of seized files and taped telephone calls. The plea agreement, filed under seal in federal court in Los Angeles on Tuesday, would impose approximately a five-year sentence. With 35 months in jail that would be credited toward that sentence, and assuming good behavior, he could be out within a year, sources said. But for years beyond his release, he will remain separated from the world of computers that has often seemed more indispensible to him than even family or friends. If he is caught using a computer, he could be sent back to prison. In a recent court appearance, Mitnick looked trim, although his puffy face belied his lifelong weight problem. His dark, bushy hair was brushed back. He wore metal-framed glasses and a wrinkled blue pinstriped suit. Under some circumstances, Mitnick can seem almost meek. He has a soft, passive manner that many--including, evidently, his victims--find disarming. But he can also be petty, manipulative and obsessive. Once, when a friend refused to allow Mitnick to use an employer's computers for his hacking habit, Mitnick took revenge in typical fashion. Posing as an IRS agent, Mitnick phoned the friend's employer to tell him that the friend was in serious tax trouble. The friend, Lenny DiCicco, later returned the favor by telling the FBI about Mitnick's forays into the computer systems of Digital Equipment. Hacking was such an addiction for Mitnick that he couldn't even give it up to save a brief marriage to a woman named Bonnie Vitello in the 1980s. Even as that relationship was crumbling, Mitnick was known for sneaking away to hotel rooms for hacking binges. Since his capture, Mitnick has transferred that obsessiveness to his legal plight. Most defendants will read important legal documents three or four times,one advisor said, but Mitnick pores over the same document 40 or 50 times. "He doesn't compute things the way you and I do," the advisor said. "He is immersed in minutiae, can't theorize and is linear to the extreme." Backers Keep the Legend Alive Mitnick's closest companion for nearly 20 years, Lewis DePayne, also describes their relationship as one-dimensional: "It wasn't a close relationship. I wouldn't go on vacation with him or anything because he was always focused on computers." DePayne is a co-defendant in the Mitnick case on lesser charges. Asked if they had shared any happy times together, DePayne said, "Yeah, there were great times, but nothing I'd want published." Kevin Mitnick, who declined requests for interviews, has been missing from the computer underground for years. But in many ways, he casts a bigger shadow across Cyberspace now than he ever did. His backers pass out "Free Kevin" virtual stickers, post transcripts of every court appearance, and track his time served down to the second in a ticker at http://www.kevinmitnick.com. Nor was Mitnick forgotten when his Southern California peers recently staged something of a reunion. Petersen, the informant other hackers love to hate, skipped out on his probation late last year. Within days, Austin was giddily spreading the news on a Web site that mocks Agent Steal--Petersen's self-proclaimed moniker--as "Agent Squeal." And Poulsen began filing reports from the Sunset Boulevard bars and clubs that Petersen frequents. Before he was recaptured, Petersen posted his own online updates on a Web site he operates, and fired off e-mail missives to a Mitnick mailing list, taunting the jailed hacker he was once hired to help catch. "Yeah, I got tired of my probation officer's B.S.," he wrote. "So in the meantime, let the U.S. Marshals look for me. I'm not really trying to hide. I just won't be using a cell phone and pissing off Shimomura. hahahahaha." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Jokes ********* Making A Sandwich ***************** This guy is nearing the end of his senior year in high school. Unfortunately he still has to share a room with his younger brother who is about 9 years old. One night, he decides to bring his girlfriend home for a little fun. They have bunk beds and the guy notices that his little brother is already asleep on the lower bunk, so he and his gal climb up to the top bunk. As you might expect things start to heat up. The guy remembers that his little brother is sleeping below so he tells his girlfriend to whisper, "lettuce" if she wants it harder and "tomato" if she wants a new position. "Lettuce, tomato, lettuce, tomato, lettuce, pull it out," She screams out... Then the little brother chimes in, "Hey, would you guys stop making sandwiches up there, you're getting mayonnaise all over me. Mmmm.... Mars Bar ***************** Doctor came out of cubicle and says to other doctor, "There's a girl in there with a clitoris like a Mars Bar." 2nd doctor goes in and when he returns, says "It looks like a perfectly normal clitoris to me." but then the first doctor says, "Yes, but have you tasted it?" The Little Sailor Doesn't Salute ******************************** The wife in an older couple is distraught because her aging husband's um ... little sailor doesn't salute anymore. She goes to her doctor and explains the situation.The doctor thinks for a bit and says, "I wouldn't usually prescribe this, but since your husband won't live that much longer anyway...Here's a prescription. Give him three drops in a glass of milk before he goes to bed." The wife leaves, thanking the doctor profusely. Two weeks later, the woman shows up at the doctor's office and he asks her how it went. The lady blushes and says, "Well, I squirted thirty drops in his milk by accident, and ummmm, well,...now we need an antidote so we can close the coffin!" Type A Letter ************* Mark and Sharon decide they don't want to discuss sex in front of their 4 and 6 year old children, so they decide to talk in code. One day Mark is feeling a little bit horny and says to Katie, "Tell your mother I would really like to type a letter." Katie runs off to find her mom. " Mommy, mommy", shouts Katie, "Daddy would like to type a letter." Sharon replies slightly sheepishly, "Katie, go and tell your daddy that he can't type a letter today as there is a red ribbon on the typewriter." Katie tears off to her father and says, "Daddy, daddy, mommy says you can't type a letter today as there is a red ribbon on the typewriter." A few days later Sharon remembers that Mark was a little bit keen on a bit of nookie and she called Katie, "Katie, tell your daddy that he can type that letter today." Katie went off to look for her father and told him, "Daddy, mommy says you can type the letter today." "Thats OK, Katie", Mark says, "You can tell your mother that I don't need the typewriter any more, I wrote the letter by hand." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. Top Ten ************ Top Ten Movies I want to see 10. General Horny Hospital (it's a classic) 9. Debbie Does Dallas (another classic) 8. Passenager 69 7. What Dreams May Cum (not staring Robin Williams) 6. There's something up Mary's..... 5. American History XXX 4. Buffy: The Vampire Layer 3. I know who you did last summer 2. Shaving Private Ryan (Staring Jeri Ryan) 1. Saving Ryan's Privates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11. Left Over Shit ****************** Is there anything wrost then shit? yeah, left over shit, sucka! So here it is: Want be come famous? Write for Sykotic Times! Send your articles to: syko416@hotmail.com I put anything/everything in here. Visit : http://www.deathsdoor.com/syko IRC Hang outs: Efnet - #chax, #fosc Undernet - #hackcanada Shout outs to: ch4x, and Hack Canada. Description of human sexual organs: Male: Untidy but simple Female: Neat but complicated 2000 Women surveyed : and were ask "Would you ever have Sex with Clinton" 97% responded "Never again" In next issue: um.... sumthin' Street date: April 15/99