Phrackster

Written by x2600
The Phrackster focus of this issue of CAZine is a ludicrous lamer that has been a burden to society (not to mention his parents) and a headache to webmasters everywhere since the days of Fortran and the year of the goat. Ladies and Gents, Hackers and Crackers, Skaters and Haters (etc…) I give you… ManDevil!

X2600 – ManDevil, Thanks for the interview, man, especially on such short notice.

ManDevil – No problem.

X2600 – Alright, where to begin? Okay, When did you begin to develop an interest in computer hacking?

ManDevil – Uhm… *counts fingers and smirks* Seventh grade about.. yeah, it was seventh grade.

X2600 – What!? I was playing Nintendo’s super mario brothers and watching Transformers in seventh grade. *laughs* How? What sparked your interest in hacking when you were that young?

ManDevil – Yeah, my uncle actually got me interested in hacking. He told me a story when I was younger about a time he was on IRC talking to a hacker. The hacker bet my uncle that he could trash his system through IRC. My uncle was like, “Yeah right.” Then the hacker trashed his system. I was like “WHOA! I wanna do that stuff.” I’ve been obsessed ever since then.

X2600 – Okay cool, What have you done since then?

ManDevil – Uh… been hacking.

X2600 – No… REALLY?! *sarcasticly laughs* Hacking what? What is one of your most memorable hacks? Keep it legit, nothing too nefarious now.

ManDevil – Good Question… Uhm

X2600 – *Waits*…*Waits more*

X2600 – Dang man, don’t pop a blood vessel thinking too hard.

ManDevil – Haha, Screw you. Nah, actually there was this one time (not at band camp) in the nineth grade that I pulled a pretty nasty prank.

X2600 – Wait… You pulled a prank at school or at about that time in your life?

ManDevil – It was at school.

X2600 – Sweetness! What did you do? I want details.

ManDevil – I was in a Creative Writing class at the end of the day. Now, in my high school every student and faculty member had their own user account to access the school computers. Back then, the school ran winblows 98 on all of their machines.

X2600 – Niice… I think I see where this is going. PWL files?

ManDevil – Yeah, I knew that windows9x stored account passwords in PWL files. I also knew that those PWL files could be cracked using a program called Cain&Abel. So… I decided to see how many account passwords I could crack during that class, which was about one hour and fourty five minutes long.

X2600 – How many were you able to crack during the class?

ManDevil – All of them, which was about 600 student accounts and 20 faculty accounts.

X2600 – *laughs* What the heck did you do with 600+ cracked accounts?

ManDevil – I did what any hacker at that time would have done. I printed them out and posted them on the school bulletin board.

X2600 – *continues laughing* Did you get caught for your phrackster-like deed?

ManDevil – Nah, the teachers approached me about the incident, but I never admitted to anything. Plus, the bell rang in the middle of the interrogation, so I got away with it mostly. They just banned me from the computers for a few weeks.

X2600 – Lucky… Did you ever use any of the faculty passwords to change your grades or play other pranks?

ManDevil – Nah… wasn’t interested.

X2600 – That could have been fun. Ah well. Thanks again for the interview. Great Story

ManDevil – No problem

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