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Æ Çràçkérs Støry
1996 - 2ØØ1
In 1996 , summer around july I was just getting into the feel of
being single for the first time in
two & a ½ years. I can't really recall what made me want a pc
at the time. Knowing that I was going
to college full time & working three jobs I could well afford it to
an extent. I was living in a well
classified joint known as Mad River Appartments in Centerville
Ohio. $600 month for rent was not cheap.
I know a lot in the passing I will jump from time to time, But not
some fucking journalist, that's for
sure. Anyways I'm just now writing this on July 22, 2003. hehe
To better off this story I didn't start drinking beer till I was
almost 21, I'm 27 now. So let's get on
with this shit. I asked my mother if I could used her credit card
to buy a pc. She let me take her card
to Suns department store....Grant it was a mistake maybe &
maybe not, But a 133mhz with the works was the
shit back then. I told her I could/would be spending approx.
$1300 on a new pc, grant it I racked up $3300.
Looking at the pc sit in the corner now makes me wish I was in
jail. I bought the shit home that day & left
it set till the following day cause I had to work that night. To
better fit the needs & not knowing shit about how this shit
works & getting everything set up not to mention
I had no clue about what the hell an isp was.. When I first
installed aol (america online) version 2.1 I believe,
The signup process asked for a CC# (credit card number) I
was speechless, knowing I just ran up 3300 on my moms shit
I couldn't ask her for another number or the same. It had just
come to my mind that I would look at the reciept &
holy shit,, yeah the one I got from the department store. Had
the expiration date & the cc# right on the paper that
would make me who I am today as far as expirence.I used the
# & I was granted access. Back in those days aol was ran by
forum host, within minutes I was booted for calling
someone a dickhead. So I had looked through my disk &
found a compuserve version 1.3.1, joined up doing what I did
with aol & bing I had online once again & for free. Knowing
this shit was gonna come back to my mother I just shrugged
like it's some
3rd party ordeal, which it really was. She would just have to fill
out a form saying it was fraud I guess & send it
to the card company & they would change her number.By the
time I fell deeply inlove with a brilliant young lady I was just
getting started & she was learning something
I didn't think she would want me doing. After I had to eventally
move back home cause that $600 month rent & I couldn't
really afford the shit to begin with....tis another story on
that....well anyways I began getting into my moms cards &
recalling the #'s to the cards & rotating the last four digits of
each card. back then the online security was horse shit & I'm
glad I didn't run any sites back then. Sometimes I would
use aol's signup area to validate a card number. I had already
known that that signup forum for compuserve would take
any valid # with any expiration date, name, address,phone etc..
So all around it was a waste of time but back in those
days on compuserve you could actually download shareware
from SWREG & they would bill the account. Grant that I took
advantage of the resources & downloaded stuff from screen
savers to software & also midi's from the archive forum.

I was so eager to getting software I went & got Screen Saver
Studio Pro which was $189 at the time. I did get an email
from them after they already sent the program via mail that the
address didn't math the card holder etc..Bleh, I never
replied back to the email. There was so many security flaws
back in the day to even count. I remember having my first
homepage on tripod (lol) but we all start somewhere
right...anyways I went into a cracked xxx site from which I was
a big fan of <s>passwordhq.com</s>
back then, but went into a paysite & started reading code,
looking for loopholes to which
I had a few voyeur cams of toilets, Don't ask why..maybe just
cause I could.
This all really sums it up till 1997 when I found a recipt I've
never used in the cabinet & decided to signup with netcom.
It was approx month & a half a detective left a card at my door
asking me to call him. I'm trippin out about now, So I called
down to the station & he asked if I could come in & talk with
him, I agreed to that day. So I went down & sat in a lil cubilce
& he started asking me about credit cards , If I was using
someone elses that wasn't mine & shit like that. Ofcoarse I
denied
everything...Till....He said, well , How about we get a warrant
& take your pc to be check out. I said ok, I did it, I used
the card that wasn't mine etc...But I only charged bleh $35. So
then I had to get my mug shot & finger printed etc..
After that I was allowed to go home & listen to my mother
bitch (as always). I was givin a court date & went to all that
bullshit,
I had to re-appear cause I pleaded no contest, but the judge
ruled that I get a public defender, So I had to go downtown
& see about some lawyer that probably was breast fed all his
life. So about 2 weeks past & I was back in court. My Public
D asked me about what I told the cops etc..I told him I did do
it (I'll never forget the words he said)
"Why would you confess to this crime, Believe it or not, There
was little or no evidence you even did this crime. This crime
itself is just like a murder case except a lesser charge & it's
hard to prove. (From that day on I was in heaven) So at the
end of my hearing the final results were mis-use of a credit card
& had to pay back a whole $35 for the charge. And I got 
NO PROBATIONEverything else was dropped, Note
that now a days if ya try this of what I type & get caught it
might be worse. keys....never leave a trail, no one can get in
your head unless your let them Here it was 1998 , I was
working at a gas station, credit cards being used hourly. One
lady didn't have her debtit
card on her so I asked her to leave her drivers license with me
until she come back with money or the card (worse
mistake a person could do) while she was gone I wrote all her
driver shit down, name/address/ss# etc... when she returned
I gave her shit back & gave her the license back & scanned her
card, she gets a copy & so did I. I now have full access
to online spending with the debit card, grant it I had free online
access & much more. From when I started to when I
stopped I breeched over ($ ammount removed) in isp
access, software, hosting, domain names etc..
One thing I have to say to you scared fuckers..If ya that scared
don't get online, For you smart ones....Do not keep
any information online that to don't want exploited, cause it only
takes one that's like me to get it & conquer it.please don't try to
use these resources to better yourself as a criminal, but maybe
to better educate yourself
on becoming a better person at securing your network, For
example. Use common sense like emails/passwords, Don't use
the same password to signup with a message board etc..mailing
list etc.. as you have your own email as, most people don't print
out their forums they get in an email, but will save it to a folder ,
If you do this you are leaving yourself to be ass raped. I say it
cause I care about peoples security, Maybe not back then, But
I'm a new me now ;¬þ:·