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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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Zany Fedz!
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Those zany feds. This is just a small file that insults our lovely
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government, and in paticular, the secret service. And to be more precise,
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the SS that deal with computers, investigating piracy, and fraud, and
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whatnot. The more you look at them, and the more you hear about them, the
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more you have to question them.
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First, I live in Lubbock. Texas, for those of you that have never
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heard of it. This is a town of 250,000 or so people. The BBSing scene here
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is pretty big considering the amount of people, and the intelligence around
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here. We have a federal building with a SS office, with 4 agents employed
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and working there. Their job, is to investigate many things, and among them
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local BBSs. Second, the BBSing scene here is really layed back. Almost all
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boards use handles, don't require real info(many tell you not to use real
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info), and almost none do voice validation. Quite different from most other
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towns/cities. Third, many of the BBSers around here know each other. They
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are often times friends, have met, chat on subs or whatever. There are around
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30 boards at any given time, and despite the numbers, most people that BBS
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frequently will know/recognize other handles. If a new handle pops up, then
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it is quite obvious that it is a new person. Each month the BBSers meet at
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a local place and have lunch, introduce themselves, and chat. (that is for
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later reference)
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Enough background. Ok. So the SS here decide they will stick their
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nose in the BBS scene. Quietly at first. A handle pops up on a board, doesn't
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post a message, doesn't mail anyone except the sysop. Through friends, the
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sysop finds out this is a SS agent. The handle itself is a slight giveaway,
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a nickname of a federal agent in a movie. No big deal, and most people don't
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know all this anyway. Next, the feds decide to set up a BBS. A BBS comes
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up. The sysop, and co-sysop are unknown to the BBSing community. The board
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had a 9600 baud modem(rare at the time), a CD Rom(Real rare at the time),
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a perfectly modded and registered BBS package, 8 registred doors, and
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various other little stuff that clued people in. They had the ANTIFED.TXT
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as a disclaimer in their newuser login sequence. Any mail regarding warez,
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asking about them, who they were, etc, were not answered. Any mail sent on
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friday night, would not get answered to Monday morning usually(federal hours)
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and on each monday, the sysop posted an excuse explaining why mail didn't
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get answered. A few of the local BBSers decided to find out who these people
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were, so they checked all the local boards, and did some other stuff.
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Basically, the sysop was only on one other board, and that account had not
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been active for months, the number was unlisted, and when checked, was found
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to be registered to a kid known to have had trouble with the law. At the
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monthly BBS lunch, two kids show up a little late and one says "We're from
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Zog" (the name of the board was Planet Zog). They didn't introduce themselves
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individually like everyone else. They left early and weren't seen again. So
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people thought about it, and came to the conclusion this was a fed board. So
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all the people that called(very few) started posting things like "fedz suck"
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and other stuff like that. They posted ads for boards with "2 gigs of warez"
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and "more codez than you can shake a stick at". The whole time, the sysops
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never played the games, never posted, and barely answered mail about
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anything. Mail was sent to them saying "I can get you warez" and other such
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stuff and that mail was ignored. They didn't say "sure" or "not interested"
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but just ignored it.
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The point of it you ask? What the hell is their problem? I mean,
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you have a group of people that are not very knowledgable about computers
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(will tell more about that later), that come into town, and expect to bust
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people that easy? There are people here that have been BBSing for 8+ years,
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copying "warez", exchaning k0d3z, etc. They know computers, networks, modems,
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phones, and everything else relating to it, a hellavu lot better than the
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feds do. In the last two or so years, the fedz have busted 3 people for
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BBS related stuff, and the only reason they got them was a) one was careless
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b) one accidentaly led to the other two c) blind luck.
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I have talked with a few people about the bust, one of the guys that
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got busted, and other people that are involved. When the SS busted the three,
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they handled the whole bust with a severe lack of thinking. The story is
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too long to tell details, and hopefully that will be a future file, written
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by one of the guys who went down. While being questioned for the weeks after
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the bust, one of the guys was asked several questions that showed the lack
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of knowledge they had. The SS didn't even know about the pirate boards in
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town, didn't know who all was involved, didn't know about many of the boards
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until they got their hands on a list of them put out by one of the local
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BBSers. Their knowledge of equipment and techinical know-how regarding
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computers and BBSs were severely lacking(once again, this is based on
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questions put to one of the guys who got busted.)
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It all boils down to this. Why are they here? Shouldn't they be
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getting some much needed training? Why are my tax dollars paying for them
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to sit in an office and investigate something they have no clue about?
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I am the last one who wants boards to go down, but I am one of the first
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that wants his/her tax dollars to go to a GOOD use. Since the bust about 6
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months ago, the only thing they have managed to do, is scare a few boards
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into getting rid of adult GIF files. They made a point to scare a lot of
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the locals into getting rid of GIFs with young "models" and making sure they
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were not accessible to under age users. And it takes 4 agents to do all this?
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The underground scene is mutating quite rapidly, and the users seem to keep
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up with it barely, and the fedz expect to keep up with it just as well?
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For example, the agent in charge didn't know a certain board went down until
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a week later when he questioned one of the guys about it. Not knowing if a
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board is up or down?!? All it takes is a simple voice call to verify it, and
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they don't even do that? Bah. Get some better trained monkeys.
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Even though it may diminish the underground scene, it would almost
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definitely keep it higher quality, and prevent lamers from ruining it. It
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could present more jobs, or whatever, but what is the point? You stop one
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person, and his friends, and two more boards pop up to take its place.
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I don't know where all this is leading, but if the SS are that undertrained
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to take on the job of busting pirates and "k0d3z d00ds" then how bout the
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rest of our government? What do they do? Are they trained better and prepared
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to take on their job? I think not.
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Dam
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PS- "Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny" - Apply that to the above discussion.
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= Questions, comments, bitches, ideas, etc : z3mar@ttacs.ttu.edu : FUCK =
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= Official F.U.C.K. Distribution sites and information =
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= Board Number Other =
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= at z3mar@ttacs.ttu.edu or on Immortal Hate. Knowledge is power... =
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