Richard was a
normal looking kid, he did a lot of the same things that the other kids did,
hung out with friends and talked his way out of the occasional trouble he got
in, much like a lot of guys his age.
Richard went to Dolton public high school and just about everyone knew
him by name. He did a mediocre job and
was often content with getting good grades on tests and paying no attention
whatsoever to homework. Although
everyone in school thought they knew just about everything thing about the life
of Rich, they where seriously mistaken.
There was a very important aspect of Rich's life that many people had no
idea existed, because he was afraid to tell people thinking that they would not
understand even if he did. What is this
mysterious characteristic you ask?, almost every day when Rich finished with
the tyranny of
school he went home to practice the main ceremony to this
"secret life." He would get
comfortable turn on the TV or radio and become an instant celebrity around the
world. Rich was a computer
"hacker." Known to all those
brave souls who dared the "information highway" as Hax0r, Rich would
penetrate computer systems locally and around the world. Never malicious in his endeavors he sat back
and explored what seemed to be another dimension to the every day
"lamer." Rich was not alone on
his journey's though. He had four
friends from school that accompanied him. These friends where just about the
only people that knew about his Internet secrets and every day these four met
on a chat service called IRC that stood for Internet Relay Chat. Always the same nicknames, always the same
chat channel. The stage was set for the
most fun anyone in the world could have, or so though Rich and his buddies. In
the channel of friends course there was Richard the master of hacking access to
a place. When on the Internet Rich used
the nickname Hax0r. Also included in the
gang was also the man with the fastest computer Chris, who used the nickname
|-Rage-| Chris's specialty was in the art of Warez, or getting software for the
gang for free. Then there was Brian, who
probably the most all around handy with computers, he used nickname Number9. Another inclusion in the gang was the ever
studious Mike who's nickname was Phaser, Mike was a really good asset to the
team when it came to scanning images, and helping with the occasional hardware
problem they would run into. The very
newest addition to the group, Tyler, used Z3r0 as his nickname Tyler was a
pretty 0good programmer and also knew his way around a UNIX system.
One seemingly
normal day as they all sat back at the terminals each almost simultaneously
popping open a "Jolt Cola," something very abnormal happened. Suddenly they all read the same message at
the same time on their computers "Connection to host lost, account
terminated." Being as hyped up on
caffeine as they where they quickly reacted by calling each other. Since they all had call waiting they all got
through. After a little
"bitching" about what just happened they came to the conclusion that
they must call the System administrator of the Internet service provide to
which they all subscribed. After
"bitching" once more about who would make the important call they all
decided that Rich would do it. So Rich
picked up the phone and dialed the service phone number to Link Net. After about three rings the women who owned
Link Net, Mich, picked up the phone.
"Yes can I help you" said Mich. "Ya how ya doing this is Rich Doom calling
about service failure". So Rich
explained what happened to Mich and she in turn explained that the service to
the boys was cut off because they took over the Chat channel that belonged to
Mich. Along with that ludicrous reason
was also given the fact that they had used "explicit" language while
talking "privately" with each other on their own channel. But it didn't end there, about three days
later the boys all came home from school only to find a VERY angered parent
waiting. Mich had send four notices to
their parents explaining the situation as of course she saw it. The letter also included nice mention of the
specific language in which the boys allegedly used. It doesn't really have to be explained how
infuriated the boys where when they learned they where all grounded from 1-2
1/2 MONTHS!! Along with the fact that
because the company Link.Net was going through a transition of ownership the
main office would be closed for as long as that took which proved to be a
further burden to the guys. The big
revenge was already set, the wheels where in motion towards what would be the
downfall of Link.Net. The discussions
at the lunch table in which all four boys sat everyday where totally replaced
by the plans for revenge. This kind of
thing went on for one month until the parents of all four boys talked to each
other on the phone and decided to suspend the punishment. That along with the early completion of the
transition stage of Link.Net led the boys to believe that NOW was the time to
strike the still vulnerable computer network.
Their parents signed agreements with the new administration that
promised that no further activities of the kind they had gotten in trouble for
before would persist. The very same day
they where back on the Internet and ready for revenge. They met just as they had before all with the
same nicks all at the same time, and all with the same soft drink. The plan was first to get acquainted about
the new structure of Link.Net. This took
Rich and the guys about a week, constantly reading the manuals they had
collected over the years. They where
looking for anything relating to the operating system that Link.Net was now
using. Then Number9, it so happens
stumbled upon just the thing they where looking for a "BACK DOOR", a
second way to get into the system without having to use an administrator
password. Then Rich, who was the virus
professional of the gang made a virus that would later go down in history as
one of the fastest spreading, in the "home made" category. The final stage of the plan was set and for
extra flair they thought they would add a few bonus points. On Monday November the 25 it started. Every terminal on the Link.Net system Read
"HAVE A NICE DAY... NOW ITS TIME TO PAY!" (that was the bonus point)
and at that time they all stopped. Every
bit of data on the system was corrupted beyond repair. Not even the neatly stacked backup tapes that
the old owner Mich had left for the new owner Eric would save them from the
crash. Not only was all of the information
held on the Link.Net sever bad but all of the information that passed through
it was. So every person who downloaded
anything from the Internet and used the Link.Net server was infected. This amounted to about seventy five computers
losing all of their information.
Link.Net suffered such an economicle loss that they where forsed to sell
out all the UNIX computers as a suplimentary server to America Online. The boys where never questioned because the
virus had signature trademarks of another hacker squad the boys had rivaled
with a time before their suspension. As
luck would have it for the boys this same gang did hack Link.Net before (in
attempts to get at their mail) which left other evidence in the system logs
that the FBI linked with the current case.
So ended the saga of the Richard Doom and his hacker buddies.
<based on a
true story>
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