]]> jessica biel bikini mishap]]> ]]> hard to pronounce "aarchy."]AOHELL- Most famous program for hacking America Online; first coded in 1994 and contains a full suite of utilities. AOL's attempts at shutting down its distribution haven't worked very well. AOL [America Online]- see AMERICA ONLINEAPPLE COMPUTER. INCORPORATED- Very large computer corporation whose main product is the Macintosh and its associated system software the Mac OS. Founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (incidentally former phone phreaks) and created the Apple IIe in 1979 which became the standard personal computer. In 1984 they released the Macintosh ("and you'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984"). While Apple is the second largest computer manufacturer in the world the Mac OS continues to lose market share currently down around five percent. APPLEGATE. CHRISTINA- Former model and actress notably on the television show _Married With Children_. Rumors were spread that Erik Bloodaxe dated her or went to high school with her (he says they aren't true) and her credit report was pulled by MOD. AREA CODE- The prefix in a phone number based on location to add to the number of possible phone numbers. When two or more hackers have the same handle and it is in dispute as to who had it first or who deserves it it is used to differentiate or at least it was in the 1980s. (This is used in this file as well as with the two Knightmares and Dr. Who.) You're billed a lot more when you call a telephone in a different area code for reasons unclear to everyone but profiteering gluttons. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [AI]- The part of a program which governs how "smart" a program is; how much it can accomplish without user commands. Also used to refer to system software that can reason like a human being. The best examples of this are the insane AIs in _Neuromancer_ and HAL 9000 in _2001: A Space Odyssey_. ARTIFICIAL LIFE [AL]- Living programs or robots; viruses are primitive forms of artificial life. Maxis makes programs using relatively advanced artificial life (notably _SimLife_). The author/scientist Rudy Rucker deals with AL a lot. In theory better programs could be developed if software was designed in a somewhat biological manner in a lot of different versions and the versions "survived" based on which did their job the best until a very good evolved program was left after "natural" selection. THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS PHIBER- see PHIBER OPTIKASCII ART- Art done in plain text. This is fairly difficult. Portraits of people done in ASCII art usually only work if the person has some major distinguishing characteristics; for instance while my friend Einsteinium might come across fairly recognizable because he has long hair and glasses; I would not be at all distinguishable because I have contact lenses and fairly normal length hair and my only really distinguishing feature is my red hair which cannot be shown in ASCII because it can't support colors. [From American Standard Code for Information Interchange the set of bits created in the 1980s to represent characters.]AT&T [American Telephone and Telegraph]- Originally American Bell Telephone the company that started the telephone. It was bought and under the tutelage of another huge company became a monopolous phone provider. The Microsoft of the Seventies and early Eighties. It was broken up by the justice department in 1982 which created lots of little baby RBOCS. In 1990 their phone network crashed temporarily which got them into a lot of trouble but since then they've been doing pretty well. THE ATLANTA THREE- Urvile. Leftist and Prophet members of the Atlanta chapter of LOD that were thrown in jail during the Hacker Crackdown of 1990 for events involving the theft of the E911 document. AUTOMATED COIN TOLL SYSTEM- see ACTSAVATAR- An icon which represents a user in a virtual reality/Internet setting currently attempted with varying success. The term is adopted from Neal Stephenson; another word used for the same concept is Rudy Rucker's term "tuxedo." [First used from an Internet perspective in 1992 in _Snow Crash_ by Neal Stephenson in one of those self-fulfilling SF prophecies. Stephenson got the name from the Hindu concept of avatars which are the personification of various deities or entities.]AXE- To reformat a disk or delete a file. BABBAGE. [Professor] CHARLES- Professor of mathematics at Cambridge who designed the Analytical Engine a huge grinding steam-driven machine to do mathematical calculations in the 1830s. _The Difference Engine_ by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling takes place in an alternate 1855 where the Analytical Engine was advanced nearly as far as our personal computers. BABY- (1) Any program that is less than full-blown. A baby word processor would be a program that does just the bare essentials. (Apple's SimpleText is a baby word processor.)(2) A hardware device that is smaller than normal. BANG- (1) To lose your temper usually in a very violent manner. In the extreme destruction of hardware may result. [From banging something or hitting it; also from the onomotopeotic word for a loud noise.](2) Lots of exclamation points to add emphasis. Sometimes other weird characters are used as bangs. Also used to pronounce exclamation points; for instance. "Go to hell!!!!" would be pronounced "go to hell bang bang bang bang."BANK- Cache memory; a section of memory not normally used that is utilized for high speed operations in certain programs. [From "databank;" I think this word has been replaced by the term "cache."]BARLOW. JOHN PERRY- Grateful Dead lyricist from 1970 until the band broke up in 1995; ex-cattle rancher. Co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; civil libertarian. "cognitive dissident," buddy of a lot of members of MOD. (After that little misunderstanding with Phiber when Barlow called Phiber a punk and compared him to a skateboarder and Phiber ILFed Barlow's TRW credit report. Good hack that.) Also wrote the essay "Crime and Puzzlement," as well as a declaration of the independence of cyberspace and a _Time_ essay (notable for using the word "shit" for the first time in _Time_ without quotes around it. Barlow later said it felt like a revolutionary act.) Also he's one of the few people I've met over the Net who I've also actually met in person and the only real description I can give is that he looks exactly the way you'd think that he would knowing that he's a civil libertarian from Wyoming. Currently lecturer. EFF operative and contributing writer for _Wired_. BASE- (1) Contraction for the word "database."(2) In most programming languages a pointer; a set of memory locations that point to the start of an array (another memory location). The pointer is the "base" from which the array starts. BASIC [Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code]- Not very powerful programming language for beginners. Used a lot in the Eighties. Currently there is Visual Basic which is a more powerful version of the same language. BAUD [rate]- Obsolete measurement of the speed of a modem; sometimes erroneously used to refer to bits per second because at low rates they are equivalent. It really means "the number of signal events per second occuring on a communications channel." (That's what my modem's manual says.) [Named in honor of Emile Baudot. "telecommunications pioneer."]BBS [Bulletin Board System]- A computer that is set up to act as a system where other people call in using phone lines to post messages; sometimes software is traded and usually archives are kept of software on the board. The first board worthy of the name was Ward Christensen and Randy Suess's board in 1978. BEDBUG- A virus type program that another programmer inserts into an existing program with the intention of causing havoc. Usually not serious-- it is coded so the results look like a software bug not a true virus. Sometimes makes copies of itself. BEGINNER'S ALL-PURPOSE SYMBOLIC INSTRUCTION CODE- see BASICBELL. [Professor] ALEXANDER GRAHAM- The guy who invented the telephone in 1876. The man who created cyberspace in its early pathetic stage when no one thought it would be anything. BELLSOUTH- Atlanta RBOC that was supposedly very easy to hack; some rumors claim they eventually spent two million dollars on security. BERNIE S.- Handle of Edward "Ed" Cummings. Phreak put in an uncomfortable and unConstitutional imprisonment for possession of computer programs that "could be used for fraud" by the United States Secret Service. This essentially happened because Bernie had info on the USSS including their names and pictures that was an embarassment to the USSS despite its legality. 2600 posted his info on their web site to emphasize the fact that it was legal and harmless; he's since been released. Bernie S can be emailed at bernies@2600 com. BIG BLUE- Slang for IBM from their blue logo. BIG BROTHER (1)- Name for a police state government that spies on every aspect of a citizen's life and commandeers their very thoughts. The NSA's not so secret wish. [From the name of the non-existent leader of the evil state of Oceania in George Orwell's _1984_-- in the book posters are placed almost everywhere with his face and the words "Big Brother is Watching You."]BIG BROTHER (2)- The handle of a sysop who ran Varnet International BBS (c.1986 - c.1993) a long time favorite H/P/A BBS in area code 617 (Massachusetts). Currently sysops the L0phT BBS. Also a former member of Fargo 4A. (Submitted by Space Rogue)BILLY IDOL- Stage name of William Broad a punk singer who was a success in the 1970s and Eighties; former member of Generation X. Supposedly he used to be cool but everything I've ever seen him do after Generation X was pretty lame. Jumped on the "cyber" bandwagon with his album _Cyberpunk_ which was a total failure as far as I can figure. You can reach him at idol@phantom com. BINARY DIGIT- see BITBIT [Binary Digit]- Contraction of binary digit. Smallest unit of measurement in cyberspace. A 1 or 0; representing on or off true or false to a computer. BITS PER SECOND- see BPSTHE BLACK BARON- Handle of Christopher Pile. British virus author who was sentenced to a jail term under the Computer Misuse Act for writing the viruses Pathogen and Queeg which included an engine called SMEG. Also apparently a fan of the science fiction/comedy series _Red Dwarf_. BLACK WIDOW- A Java applet capable of sinister acts including uploading files to the victim's hard drive and consuming RAM and CPU cycles._BLADE RUNNER_- 1982 movie directed by Ridley Scott that many cyberpunks just love to death. It has a great re-creation of Los Angeles in 2019 that William Gibson has said mirrors his vision of the Sprawl in _Neuromancer_; just about every film using a dystopian urban environment has been inspired at least in part by the one in _Blade Runner_. The plot concerns a former bounty hunter/cop that hunts replicants androids designed for off-world colonies. A sequel was also written (_Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human_ by K. W. Jeter followed by the sequel to that. _Replicant Night_) recently (don't waste your money on it) and Ridley Scott says he is going to make a follow-up film tentatively titled _Metropolis_. [Loosely based on Phillip K. Dick's _Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep_; title comes from the name of a totally unrelated William S. Burroughs novel about black market surgeons which was itself based on a story by Alan E. Nourse.]BLANKENSHIP. LOYD- see THE MENTORBLESSED FOLDER- Slang for the System Folder on Macintosh computers. Comes from the fact that everything is run by that folder and you mess with at your own risk. BLIND FAITH- see DREW. DALEBLUE BOX- Infamous box that pretty much no longer works (though it still does in certain areas) but kicked ass in the 1960s. Seventies and Eighties. It is a device that plays a sound at a frequency of 2600 hertz which allows a phreak to control a phone trunk and make free world-wide phone calls. (Entry modified with help from Space Rogue)BOB HARDY- see EMMANUEL GOLDSTEINBOT- (1) A benevolent search bot such as an infobot or knowbot.(2) A bot which hacks IRC giving the user special abilities on a channel he is not authorized to have. Many servers will boot you if you attempt to use a bot. [Short for "robot."]BOX- A hardware device that allows abnormal telephone operation like free calls or anti-tracing used by phreaks. The ultimate box is the rainbow box which combines the blue box red box green box and black box. There are also a lot of weird variant boxes. Boxes though the most pure form of phreaking are rarely used now because of the phone company's changes to stop it both on purpose and as a serendipitious result of the digitization of the phone system. BPS [Bits Per Second]- Measurement of the speed of a modem based on the number of binary digits that can be transferred by the modem under ideal circumstances in one second. More frequently referred to as kbps (kilobits per second) because of the high speeds now available. BRAND. STEWART- Editor of the _Whole Earth Catalog_ and contributing writer for _Wired_; one of the hippies that decided cyberspace was pretty cool. Described cyberpunk as "technology with an attitude."BRIDGE- A hack into the phone company's PBX often used so that many phreaks can talk in a huge conference. This was a much more common practice in the 1980s when massive party lines were held people occasionally dropping out to go to work or school and someone else taking their place. BROAD. WILLIAM- see BILLY IDOLBRUTE FORCE ATTACK- A classic hacking technique; guessing an exhaustive number of passwords to try and enter a system. This does not work as much anymore because even idiot sysadmins don't use quite so simple passwords. It was very successful about ten years ago though. BRZEZINSKI. DIRK-OTTO- see DOBBUG- A mistake in programming or hardware design that results in unfavorable results. Microsoft Word 6.0 was notorious for this. [Original origin unknown; the term has been used in design since the nineteenth century.]BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM [BBS]- see BBSBUM- The act of rewriting a program or section of a program to run in a smaller memory area. May also mean changing the code to remove unused sections and try to improve running speed. [From an old MIT hacker term.]BURKE [. Carter J.]- A total asshole who causes more trouble than he's worth. [From the name of a treacherous company man in the film _Aliens_.]BURROUGHS. WILLIAM SEWARD (1914-1997)- Famous proto-cyberpunk writer. Author of _Junky_. _Queer_. _The Naked Lunch_. _The Soft Machine_. _Nova Express_. _The Wild Boys_. _The Ticket That Exploded_ and _The Blade Runner_. Burroughs began as one of the original Beat Generation writers along with Jack Kerouac. Allen Ginsburg. Neal Cassady. Gregory Corso and Lawrence Ferlinghetti and eventually outlived all of them despite the fact that he was older and more obviously self-destructive then any of them. His novel _The Naked Lunch_ made him famous because it was involved in the last case of overt government censorship of books; name given by Jack Kerouac written shortly after Burroughs accidentally killed his wife and while he was addicted to heroin. Good reading. The book also may or may not have coined the term "heavy metal." Burroughs went on to be heavily involved in music and has influenced or collaborated with artists as diverse as Patti Smith. Ministry. Kurt Cobain. R. E. M and U2. BYTE- A sequence of adjacent bits operated on as a unit by a computer. Very small unit of virtual measurement. On most personal computers a byte is made up of eight bits; however on the Internet a byte is transferred as seven bits which can fuck everything up. [Comes from an alteration and blend of the words bit a binary digit and bite meaning to grab something with one's teeth; I have no idea why computer guys decided to blend those words.]CAFFEINE- Natural "smart drug;" enough of it makes you hyperactive. Present in chocolate soft drinks and coffee. A gateway drug. CALEA [Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act]- Bill which concerns the development of a government wiretapping infrastracture; notably bans possession of "hardware or software used for altering or modifying telecommunications instruments to obtain unauthorized access to telecommunications services;" used to prosecute Bernie S. This legislation also makes most of the people reading this document criminals as most of us have a modem or even (gasp) a cracking program of some sort. Yeah right like most of us hackers aren't criminals anyway this just gives them license to lock us up for no provable reason. I wonder if CALEA is what they got Joseph K on in _The Trial_ . . CANDYMAN- Archiver of forbidden information; administrator of CandyLand (was rather; it was recently shut down). Computer science student. His stuff is often cited by Congress and the like as examples of why we should make the Net a police state. CAP'N CRUNCH- see DRAPER. JOHNCAPTAIN BEYOND- see SHADOWHAWK 1CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT- A Dallas. Texas hacker who in 1986 cracked an HBO presentation of _The Falcon and the Snowman_ with a message decrying HBO's practice of encrypting transmissions so that they could not be picked up with a satellite dish. According to an unsubstantiated report he later used this to ask his girlfriend to marry him and was eventually caught. [Probably from the 1930s radio show character.]CARBON [or carbon dioxide] CHIP- The 80486 or 65C02 CPU chip. The "carbon" comes from the "C," as in "CO2," (one carbon molecule two oxygen molecules) which is the chemical formula for carbon dioxide. CARDING- Using illicit credit card numbers. The underground is divided as far as the ethics of this; most think it is common thievery and does not follow the freedom of information ethic that drives other hacking. CASE [. Henry Dorsett]- Anti-hero of _Neuromancer_ the William Gibson SF book; one of his few characters that only appeared in one book. Adopted as a hero by some and an allegory for the hacker; a ueberhacker who stole from his employees has his nerves damaged so that he can not go back to cyberspace but takes a deal with an AI to get them fixed. CASE. THOMAS- see MITNICK. KEVIN DAVIDCCC [Chaos Computer Club]- see CHAOS COMPUTER CLUB [CCC]CCIS [Common Channel Interoffice Signalling]- Fairly new form of trunk for high-volume phone lines; a direct connect line to an ESS switch usually at about 1.2 kbps. Blue boxes do not work on CCIS. CDA [Communications Decency Act]- see COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT [CDA]cDc [cult of the Dead cow]- see THE CULT OF THE DEAD COW [cDc]CELINE. HAGBARD- see HAGBARD CELINECERT [Computer Emergency Response Team]- see COMPUTER EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMCFP [Computers. Freedom and Privacy conference]- see COMPUTERS. FREEDOM AND PRIVACY CONFERENCECHAOS COMPUTER CLUB [CCC]- Infamous West German hacking group founded in 1984 that is now trying to be kind of sort of legit. Members have included Wau Holland (leader). Steffen Wernery. Christian Wolf. Pengo. Obelix. Dob. Zombie and Hagbard Celine. Can be reached at ccc@ccc de. CHASIN. SCOTT- see DOC HOLLIDAYCHERNOFF. ANTON- see MITNICK. KEVIN DAVIDCHICAGO COMPUTER FRAUD AND ABUSE TASK FORCE- Possibly the first hacker tracker team formed in 1987 by William J. Cook. A major part of the Hacker Crackdown of 1990. CHIP- Shorthand for microprocessor. The hardware that runs the machine. The PowerPC and the Pentium are examples of chips. CHRP [Common Hardware Reference Platform]- Temporarily known as PowerPC Microprocessor Common Reference Platform or PPCP (for "PowerPC Platform.") Initiative by Apple. IBM and Motorola that was supposedly finalised in 1995 but mired in problems; the idea is/was a new type of hardware that would run virtually all powerful OS's and be the next generation of hardware. This initiative has taken a very long time and has been altered and changed in scope. It was originally meant to run Mac OS. OS/2. Windows NT and Unix (IBM's AIX flavor) but has since been changed to BeOS. Mac OS and all forms of Unix. Supposedly. CHRP systems will become available Fall 1997 from such vendors as Motorola. Power Computing. Tatung RISC Systems and UMAX. (Often referred to as "the Power Computer" in semi-lucid rants in 1994 issues of Phrack Magazine.)CLASS TEN TOOLS- Really nasty programs that can thouroughly trash a system-- if information war is coming these would be the Stealth bombers and atom bombs. Tsutomu Shimomura built many of these which is one of the reasons why the SDSC is such a huge target for hackers. [Term coined by Brosl Haslacher.]CLINT EASTWOOD- see EMMANUEL GOLDSTEINCLIPPER CHIP- Encryption plan endorsed by the Clinton-Gore administration begun in 1990 by the NSA currently in its third incarnation (the current proposal is sometimes mockingly known as Clipper 3.1.1). The way it's supposed to work is that we stick this cool thing called the Clipper chip in every computer and fax machine and communications tool ever made which would save us from commies and those evil hackers. Of course our benevolent Big Brother the Government of the United States of America would keep the keys to these chips so in case anyone did anything the government designated to be illegal (or someone did something a government employee wanted to find out) the government could look at all our files and every email we ever sent. Of course the government would never abuse this would it? Phillip Zimmermann created PGP 1.0 in response to this. COCOT [Customer Owned Customer Operated Telephone]- A payphone which does not use ACTS usually maintained at a restaurant or other private location. C0DEZ D00DZ [sometimes K0DEZ D00DZ]- The phreak equivalent of a pirate. Someone who finds out phone codes and distributes them to the electronic underground. There is also a derogatory term. "c0dez kidz."COGNITIVE DISSIDENTS- The name of a "chill," or bar where people hang out in _Virtual Light_. John Perry Barlow and some other people have taken to calling themselves "cognitive dissidents," I believe inspired by _VL_. [The name is obviously a play on the phrase "cognitive dissonance."]COMMODORE- A computer company which eventually bought Amiga; popular in the 1980s. People who used their computers were often berated by people with the superior (but still awful by today's standards) Apple IIe. However according to _The Cyberpunk Handbook (The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook)_. Phiber Optik used a Commodore. That's sort of like turning stone to bread or feeding ten thousand people with one fish. [From the Naval wartime rank above a captain and below a rear admiral. I assume.]COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANCE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT ACT [CALEA]- see CALEA [Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act]COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT [CDA]- A poorly written and fascist law passed as part of the Telecommunications Bill of 1996 making indecent speech and information illegal in cyberspace in the United States which AOL. Microsoft and CompuServe (never thought I'd be on their side) as well as the EFF and ACLU and numerous other plaintiffs recently overturned in the Supreme Court case ACLU et al v. Reno. 7-2. It sparked a day of protest on the Internet (Black Thursday) when many major sites draped their pages in black. COMPUSERVE- Very old online service that is the second biggest in America; founded in 1979 and currently owned by H & R Block. It is very conspicuous because edresses are set up with annoying numbers like 76543.1700. They created an uproar when they banned many sexually explicit newsgroups because a German user said they violated Germany obscenity laws and threatened to sue. Its days are essentially numbered. [Name obviously comes from combination of "computer" and "serve."]COMPUTER EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM [CERT]- Anti-hacking group which sets up security and tracks people; managed by Dain Gary. Reachable at cert@cert org. COMPUTER MISUSE ACT- British law on the books since 1990 among other things outlawing virus writing. The Black Baron was prosecuted with this law. COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY [CPSR]- Group that is what it says it is; notable for vocal opposition to the "Star Wars" defense project on the grounds that it is putting too much trust in computers; and for filing suit with the US government in the 2600 case. COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR MAINFRAME OPERATIONS [COSMOS]- see COSMOS [COmputer System for Mainframe OperationS]COMPUTERS. FREEDOM AND PRIVACY CONFERENCE [CFP]- Annual security/privacy con; in 1994 the FBI arrested Brian Merrill an innocent man because it was also an alias of Kevin Mitnick there. COMPUTERVREDEBREUK- Dutch word for hackers; literally computer peace disturbance. Kind of a cool word. COMSEC [Computer Security]- Network security firm founded by the remnants of LOD; went out of business in 1994. Replaced by the ISP LOD Communications. Inc. CON- A convention; in this context a hacker convention. Begun in the mid-1980s by such groups as LOD. Recent high-profile Cons included Hacking at the End of the Universe and HOPE and most recently. Beyond HOPE. Notable annual cons also include SummerCon and HoHoCon. THE CONDOR- see MITNICK. KEVIN DAVID"THE CONSCIENCE OF A HACKER"- A legendary manifesto written by the Mentor shortly after his arrest in 1986 published in _Phrack Inc._ magazine volume one issue seven. It was later reprinted in _Phrack_ again and in _Teleconnect Magazine_. _The Hacker Crackdown_. _Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge_ the film _Hackers_. T-shirts worn at Cons and numerous ftp sites web pages and BBS's as well as numerous other places. CONSOLE COWBOY- A hacker. From SF novels. This term has remained relatively unmolested by the media. CONTROL C- Infamous hacker and member of LOD who was busted by Michigan Bell and actually did get a security job from them. Also known as Phase Jitter. Master of Impact. Dual Capstan. Richo Sloppy. Cosmos Dumpster Driver. Poster Boy and Whacky Wally. Disciple of Bill From RNOC. COOKBOOK- A detailed document on exactly what to do when hacking a certain type of system written by piecing together computer manuals and personal experience. [From the type of book giving detailed instructions on cooking.]COOPERATING FULLY- When hackers tell every illegal act and the names of all of their cohorts because they think it will save them. While this occasionally works to many law enforcement officers. "cooperating fully" generally means you bend over. CORLEY. ERIC- see EMMANUEL GOLDSTEINCORRUPT (1971-Present)- Handle of John Lee. Member of MOD; former member of a New York gang called the Decepticons. VAXEN expert. [Handle obviously comes from the adjective for being morally bankrupt.]COSMOS [COmputer System for Mainframe OperationS]- Database program used by telcos to store information; staple of the elite phreaker; or at least it was. COSMOS DUMPSTER DRIVER- see CONTROL CCOUNT ZERO- The handle of several hackers. I know of several; one who wrote an article for _Phrack_ about a lecture by John Markoff; one who said "Information yearns to be free" (quoted at Space Rogue's Whacked Mac Archives a while back before he changed the quotes); the guy who defined k-rad as "a thousand points of rad" (quoted in _The Cyberpunk Handbook (The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook)_); the member of cDc; the member of Phalcon/Skism mentioned in some issues of _40Hex_; and the writer for _2600_. (Some of which may be the same person.) [All handles come from the name of the protagonist of William Gibson's second novel also titled _Count Zero_ who also appeared in _Mona Lisa Overdrive_. The character is a cyberspace hacker with the handle Count Zero Interrupt whose birth name is Bobby Newmark. According to the book this comes from an old programmer term (probably related to the opening line about returning the marker to zero); however. I am not blessed with this knowledge. Wow that's scary. Gibson knows something about computers that I don't.]COWBOY- One of the legendary figures hackers tend to latch on to as role-models. Spawned the term "console cowboy." As a result many hackers tend to give themselves gunfighter-type names (i e. Datastream Cowboy. Doc Holliday). CPSR [Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility]- see COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITYCRACK [sometimes "krack"]- (1) To remove the copy protection from a commercial program so that the resultant program (or file) is "cracked." Also covers modifying any program illegally such as when Netscape Navigator 2.0b4 was cracked when the expiration date was surgically removed a while back.(2) To crack a password using a cracking program and a dictionary. Involves using crypt-and-compare; the program encrypts various words and compares the encrypted form of the words to the encrypted password. On UNIX the most commonly used crack program is Crack on DOS it is CrackerJack and on Mac it is MacKrak. CRACKER- Term given to so-called "malicious" hackers by the original MIT hackers hoping the media would leave the name "hacker" alone and not damage the original hackers' pristine snow-white reputation. Never really got picked up probably because it sounds a lot like a wheat consumable or a derogatory term for a white hick. While (I think at least) this is a really lame word it is occasionally used by those wishing to seem knowledgable. (Apologies to the editors of the alt cyberpunk FAQ. No offense.) [Comes from "cracking" into systems.]CRASHER- Someone who not only hacks systems he crashes them. Not very widely used."CRIME AND PUZZLEMENT: THE LAW COMES TO THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER"- Essay by John Perry Barlow about LOD and hackers and his relationship with Phiber Optik and Acid Phreak. Also touches on the Apple/NuPrometheus League debacle. [Name obviously inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's _Crime and Punishment_.]CRIMSON DEATH (1970-Present)- Also known as the Sorceror. Hacker/phreak who was editor of _Phrack_ for a short time. He was the sysop of Hell Phrozen Over. Missing Link. Skull Kingdom the Forgotten Realm and CyberWaste and a disciple of the Videosmith. He was also known for having a nose ring back when that was really shocking and cool. [Handle comes from _Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual II_.]CRUNCH- (1) The act of using a program such as PKZip or StuffIt to compress another program into a smaller disk space.(2) The act of re-writing sections of a program to run in a smaller memory space. CRYP- Used by Rudy Rucker to refer to illegal hackers who do it for money or power in some of his science fiction. (Not derogatory; Rucker is one of the real scientist hackers who thankfully doesn't look down on us obnoxious punks.) [I'm not sure where this came from but I'd guess it comes from "Crips," as in the violent street gang in an amalgram with "cryp[t]," as in cryptography.]_THE CUCKOO'S EGG: TRACKING A SPY THROUGH THE MAZE OF COMPUTER ESPIONAGE_- Novel by Clifford Stoll about his tracking down of renegade members of the Chaos Computer Club. Disliked by many in the electronic underground because of his constant black-or-white approach to computer ethics painting hackers as totally evil. He is kind of a jerk that way but it's a fairly interesting book. [The name comes from a type of program the first hacker that cracked Stoll's system used that lets the system give priveleges to it; named after the cuckoo bird who lays eggs in other birds' nests and lets them raise them.]THE CULT OF THE DEAD COW [cDc]- Anarchist occult goth hacker group that writes a lot of weird text files with a lot of profanity and ASCII art. Have their own USENET newsgroup dedicated to them- alt fan cult-dead-cow as well as an irc channel. #cdc and a web page. Members have included Swamp Ratte (current leader). Count Zero. Deth Vegetable. The Nightstalker. Red Knight. Tweety Fish. Iskra and Mudge. CUMMINGS. EDWARD [Ed]- see BERNIE S. CYBER-CHRIST- see ERIK BLOODAXECYBERDECK- In cyberpunk fiction notably Gibson (though I don't know where it appeared first; the term has also been used in the works of Rudy Rucker and cyberpunk role-playing games) the futuristic modem that allows characters to run through cyberspace. Though descriptions vary it is usually described as being keyboard sized and sometimes has a plug that inserts into the character's head (jacking in)._CYBERIA: LIFE IN THE TRENCHS OF HYPERSPACE_- Novel by Douglas Rushkoff about ravers and hackers and stuff. It was berated by many in the electronic underground and Erik Bloodaxe said "Imagine a book about drugs written by someone who's never inhaled. Imagine a book about raves written by someone saw a flyer once [sic]. Imagine a book about computers written by someone who thinks a mac is complex [...] and there you have Cyberia by Douglas Rushkoff. This book should have been called 'Everything I Needed to Know About Cyber-Culture I Learned in Mondo-2000.'" Brutal but accurate. CYBERNETICS- The study of the feedback loop that informs any control system of the results of its actions; communication theory. Coined by Norbert Weiner of MIT in the 1940s when he was working on anti-aircraft guns. Often erroneously used now to refer to bionic parts. Supposedly (I got this from _The Hacker and the Ants_ by Rudy Rucker) it has meant "bullshit" from the beginning; Weiner was trying to think of what to call his paper and a colleague suggested "cybernetics" because it didn't mean anything and would intimidate people. [From kybernetes. Greek for "helmsman."]CYBERPUNK- 1) A literary term referring to a certain subgenre of science fiction. Specifically the term often refers to the works of the so-called "Mirrorshades Group," particularly in the 1980s-- Bruce Sterling. William Gibson. Rudy Rucker. John Shirley. Tom Maddox. Pat Cadigan. Greg Bear. Lewis Shiner and others. Cyberpunk fiction is (or was if you agree with Norman Sprinrad that cyberpunk is dead) concerned with a realistic (sometimes surrealistic) usually pessimistic future where technology is incredibly enhanced and humans are controlled by a System-- huge zaibatus or a fundamentalist religion. These are all generalizations; one cyberpunk novel took place in 1855. There hasn't really been a "classic" cyberpunk novel since 1987 with Gibson's _Mona Lisa Overdrive_; the most recent notable cyberpunk work was Neal Stephenson's really weird theological technological comedy _Snow Crash_ in 1992 in addition to Gibson. Sterling. Shirley and Rucker's most recent offerings. [From Gardner Dozois who coined the term to refer to science fiction while working at _Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine_ probably inspired by the title of a short story by Bruce Bethke who has since proclaimed himself an "anti-cyberpunk," whatever the fuck that means.](2) A noun for a hacker. This was used just because the media thought it sounded like a good name for a computer criminal though it is now used by hackers themselves journalists and law enforcement officials.(3) A member of the "cyberpunk social movement." Specific people thought to be part of the subculture are hackers phreaks cypherpunks and ravers. Gareth Branwyn's description of a cyberpunk worldview is as follows:A. The future has imploded onto the present. There was no nuclear Armaggeddon. There's too much real estate to lose. The new battlefield is people's minds. B. The megacorps _are_ the new governments. C. The U. S is a big bully with lackluster economic power. D. The world is splintering into a trillion subcultures and designer cults with their own languages codes and lifestyles. E. Computer generated info-domains are the next frontiers. F. There _is_ better living through chemistry. G. Small groups or individual "console cowboys" can wield tremendous power over governments corporations etc. H. The coalescence of a computer "culture" is expressed in self-aware computer music art virtual communities and a hacker/street tech subculture. The computer nerd image is passe and people are not ashamed anymore about the role the computer has in this subculture. The computer is a cool tool a friend important human augmentation. I. We're becoming cyborgs. Our tech is getting smaller closer to us and it will soon merge with us. J. Some attitudes that seem to be related [a number of which are inspired by Steven Levy's Hacker Ethic]:Information wants to be free. Access to computer and anything which may teach you something about how the world works should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the hands-on imperative. Mistrust Authority. Promote Decentralization. Do It Yourself. Fight the Power. Feed the noise back into the system. Surf the Edges. No one really calls themself a cyberpunk anymore because it sounds stupid and invites people to spit on you like the trendy out-of-it loser you are._CYBERPUNK_ [2020]- The first cyberpunk role-playing game created in 1989 by R. Talsorian Games. Originally called just _Cyberpunk_ but that had the possibility of violating copyrights so the second edition was called _Cyberpunk version 2.0.2.0_ or _Cyberpunk 2020_. [From the literary and social movements described in detail in the rest of this document.]CYBERPUNK BUST- Mocking term used in the science fiction community for the raid on Steve Jackson Games where _GURPS Cyberpunk_ was seized._CYBERPUNK: OUTLAWS AND HACKERS ON THE COMPUTER FRONTIER_- Novel by Katie Hafner and John Markoff about hackers specifically three case studies: Kevin Mitnick. Pengo and Robert Morris. Much better than I'd thought it would be._CYBERPUNK VERSION 2.0.2.0_- see _CYBERPUNK_ [2020]CYBERSPACE- The Internet or a virtual reality system; often (and most correctly in my opinion) to refer to all digital entities that can be entered including the Internet and BBS's. Overused but still kind of cool. Popularized by John Perry Barlow around 1990. [Invented by William Gibson in the short story "Burning Chrome;" from "cybernetic" (the science of communication and control theory) and "space" (you know what "space" is. I hope.) He got the idea from watching kids play video games.]CYBERSPACE SERIES- see SPRAWL SERIESCYBORG- A cybernetic organism; an android or human with machine or computer parts. The term is also metaphorically used to refer to the modern state of technologically advanced mankind which has figuratively if not literally fused with machinery. [From "cybernetic organism," a term coined by Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline in 1960; actually a redundancy because actually all organisms are by definition cybernetic but we get the point.]_CYBORGASM_- Really stupid CD. There are others like it but this is the most popular. It is a recording of a bunch of people making sounds while having sex. In the words of a reviewer for _Mondo 2000_ in one of their more witty moments. "There is nothing cyber about this. It's a fucking CD. _Literally_."CYPHERPUNK- Someone who thinks that encryption should be used by all and advocates the removal of all laws restricting cryptographic technology. They are sometimes called crypto-anarchists because their ideal of free encryption would likely destroy the effectiveness of government. [From "cyberpunk," as in a member of the electronic underground and "cypher," a code made up of symbols.]DAEMON9 (1973-Present)- Also known as Route and Infinity. Member of the Guild. One of the current co-editors of _Phrack Magazine_. Owner of Information Nexus (infonexus com). Can be reached at route@infonexus com. DANCE- The art of typing very rapidly without errors. DARDEN. FRANKLIN- see THE LEFTISTDARK AVENGER- Bulgarian virus writer who has achieved cult hero status. His most famous virus is Eddie. AKA Dark Avenger (named after the author). He is a major heavy metal person and many of his virii contain references to Iron Maiden. DARK DANTE- see POULSEN. KEVIN LEEDARK PHIBER [ninja techwood org]- Internet community grown out of a BBS created in 1991 by the White Ninja and Wild Child and shut down (temporarily) in 1994. Currently administered by Decius 6i5 and Musashi. [From a deliberate misspelling of "dark fiber," the term for fiber optic lines in place but not in use.]DARK TANGENT- Handle of Jeffery Moss. Organizer of many hacker cons including DefCon. Also occasionally writes for _Wired_. DATACOPS- Any agency in charge of keeping information expensive. Notable datacops include the NSA. FBI and the Secret Service as well as independant agencies such as CERT. [From "data," meaning information and "cops," a slang term coming from the acronym "constable on patrol."]DATASTREAM COWBOY- British hacker noted for hacking the Royal Air Force; he was tracked when the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) hacked the systems he was entering the RAF systems from. Currently the Phrack World News correspondent for _Phrack Magazine_. DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD [DES]- see DES [Data Encryption Standard]DEAD ADDICT- Formerly known as Sugar Addict. Ex-phreaker. Def Con speaker and Seattle resident. Currently known for his web page. Underground Propaganda. DEAD LORD- Handle of Bruce Fancher. Also known as the Infiltrator. Executive Hacker [?] and Sharp Razor. Good friend of Lord Digital and co-administrator of MindVox; former member of the Chief Executive Officers and supposedly the Legion of Doom. Though many press reports say he was in LOD as well as he himself in a Phrack pro-phile he is not listed in the official lists distributed in _Phrack_ and _LOD/H TJ_ and a file in an early issue of _Phrack_ quotes a file he supposedly wrote which insults LOD. However that was in a rag file and I haven't read the file it refers to so I'm unsure of the accuracy. Can be reached at bruce@phantom com. DEATH STAR- Term referring to AT&T. [From the post-breakup AT&T logo which resembles the evil Death Star from _Star Wars_.]DEMON DIALER- see WAR DIALERDENNING. [Doctor] DOROTHY ELIZABETH [1945-Present]- Computer security academic and author of _Cryptography and Data Security_. In 1990 wrote a paper ("Concerning Hackers Who Break into Computers") which gained a fair amount of notoriety defending hackers and suggesting that they be worked with closely to understand their motives. She then went and spoke with some security professionals and immediately changed her mind and decided hackers were evil after all if not the ones she'd spoken to then the vast majority. She became further villified by the Hacker Nation when she began supporting the Clipper initiative which to this day she defends in the face of extreme criticism. DE PAYNE. LEWIS- Alias Sam Holliday also known as Roscoe also known as Lewcifer. Phreaker buddy of Kevin Mitnick interviewed in _Cyberpunk_. Can be reached at lewiz@netcom com. DES [Data Encryption Standard]- The current encryption used by the United States Government designed by IBM and the NSA. Becoming more and more obsolete and has numerous security weaknesses possibly designed by the NSA for their own use. THE DESTROYER- see REDRAGONDETH VEGETABLE [sometimes shortened as Deth Veggie]- Handle of Eric Skoog. Member of the Cult of the Dead Cow. Wrote a number of anarchy files when he was 15. Interviewed by the television news program _Dateline NBC_ in 1995. DETH VEGGIE- see DETH VEGETABLEDeWITT. PHILIP-ELMER- Writer for _TIME_ magazine who writes virtually all of their stories about computers. Wrote cover stories on cyberpunks cyberspace and cyberporn. Actually. I don't recall him writing about anything that didn't have the prefix "cyber." Also occasionally works as a correspondent for the _MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour_. DIALED NUMBER RECORDER [DNR]- see DNR [Dialed Number Recorder]DICE- To separate a program into two or more files to allow loading under the OS. [From cooking slang meaning to chop.]DiCOCCO. LEONARD MITCHELL (1965-Present)- Ex-friend of Kevin Mitnick eventually narked him to the FBI. Former employee of Voluntary Plan Administers (VPA). THE DICTATOR- see DREW. DALE_DIE HARD 2_ [Die Harder]- 1990 Bruce Willlis action movie that included hacker/terrorists taking over an airport. Notable because Congress held a hearing on it and its possible realism just as they did almost ten years prior for _WarGames_._DIET PHRACK_- see _PHRACK MAGAZINE_DIGITAL ANARCHISTS- Group of British hackers notable for hacking the websites of several British politicians' sites notably the Labour Party. DISK OPERATING SYSTEM [DOS]- see DOS [Disk Operating System]DIVERTING- Hacking corporate PBXs and dialing out of them for free. DNR [Dialed Number Recorder]- Device that cops use to know who you call so they know who to question. Not to be confused with the TCP/IP component DNR for Domain Name Resolver. DOB (1960-Present)- Handle of Dirk-Otto Brzezinski. Former member of the Chaos Computer Club. One of the renegade members who hacked for the KGB. DOC- Contraction for documentation or document. A file that contains information on how to use a program. Usually a plain text file but may be in a specific proprietary word processor format. Also the DOS suffix for a word processing file usually Microsoft Word. DOC HOLLIDAY- Handle of Scott Chasin. Former member of LOD and good friend of Erik Bloodaxe. [From the nickname of the dentist/gunfighter.]DOCTOR CRASH- Minor figure in the underground who notably wrote "The Techno-Revolution," a manifesto that appeared in _Phrack Inc._ volume one issue six that predated the Mentor's. It is differentiated by an even greater examination of political motives and justification of anarchy and carding. DOCTOR DISK- see REDRAGONDOCTOR WHO [413] (1967-Present)- Also known as Skinny Puppy and Saint Cloud. Former member of the Legion of Doom. Currently maintains the RadioPhone archives at Can be reached at drwho@l0pht com. [From the character on the British 1970s TV show of the same name.]DOS [Disk Operating System]- Usually used to refer to MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System which got to version 6.22 before Microsoft recently abandoned it in favor of Windows 95. Other DOS's exist or existed; besides the OS's that have long since gone away like Apple DOS and Commodore's DOS there are the unofficial versions of MS-DOS such as DOS 7.0 and DOS Shell. DOWNLOAD- To transmit via modem a program or file from a BBS or network to a computer. DR. CRASH- see DOCTOR CRASHDR. DISK- see REDRAGONDR. WHO- see DOCTOR WHODRAKE. FRANK- see FRANK DRAKEDRAPER. JOHN- Birth name of Cap'n Crunch. Also known as the Pirate also known as the Crunchmeister. One of the very early phreakers; got his handle because he once used a whistle that came with Cap'n Crunch cereal to hack the phone system. He currently writes custom Mac applications but spends most of his time raving. Can be reached at crunch@well com. DREW. DALE- Also known as the Dictator and Blind Faith. Paid Secret Service informant who turned in Knight Lightning and videotaped "SummerCon '88," the hacker's conference even though it turned out no illegal activity occurred. He has remained an unrepentant bastard. DRUNKFUX- Organizer of HoHoCon and hacker. Member of an international rock band and an alternate on the 1992(?) US Olympic Soccer team. (Entry modified by Space Rogue)DUAL CAPSTAN- see CONTROL CDUB- The act of making a backup copy of a program (or disk) in the event the original copy becomes unusable. [From sound and video editing slang.]D00D- A person a guy. "Dude" in warez speak. Not used as much as it once was. E- see ECSTASYTHE EAVESDROPPER- see THE PROPHETECSTASY [AKA "X," among other names]- Drug that's very popular with ravers somewhat like acid without the hallucinations and often mixed with speed or other amphetamines. It was made illegal in 1987. However. "Herbal Ecstasy," an organic mixture with similar effects is still legal. This is really the only drug I'm discussing in this document because drugs aren't really my thing and they aren't really part of the scope of this document. If you want to know about the various types of smart drugs and psychedelics and the like. I recommend _Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge_. _Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace_ and numerous other somewhat trendy semi-cyber books. Or Timothy Leary's books those are good. On the other hand for a very good anti-drug argument. I recommend reading Burroughs' _The Naked Lunch_ particularly the afterword in which he analyzes all of the drugs available at that time and how dangerous they are. Personally. I'd recommend staying away from just about any drug mother nature didn't explicitly give us. Especially cocaine and heroin. Bad ideas. Even synthetic hallucinogens have some pretty nasty risks. [Technical name: MDMA- don't ask me what it stands for.]EDDRESS- Email address. Eddresses are usually in the format username@domain type country. EFF [Electronic Frontier Foundation]- see ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION [EFF]EIGHT LEGGED GROOVE MACHINE [8lgm]- see 8lgm8lgm- English hacker group that currently runs a security mailing list. Busted in 1994. It stands for alternately Eight Legged Groove Machine and Eight Little Green Men (the latter is unproven but I've heard it used). The members were two hackers named Pad and Gandalf. EIGHT LITTLE GREEN MEN [8lgm]- see 8lgmELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION [EFF]- A civil liberties group created in response to the unConstitutional actions of the United States Secret Service during the Hacker Crackdown of 1990. They have a newsletter the _EFFector_. Some of the more notable or influential members include Mitch Kapor. John Perry Barlow. Michael Godwin. John Gilmore (early employee of Sun). Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple) and Bruce Sterling. THE ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER [EPIC]- Net civil libertarian group who handled the 2600 case for the CPSR; also vocal opposition to the Clipper chip proposal. THE ELECTRONIC UNDERGROUND- see THE UNDERGROUNDELITE [or elyte or 3L33T or eleet or a million other spellings]- Adjective (over)used to describe the best hackers because something has to separate the truly good ones from the mediocre ones. EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN (1961-Present)- Handle of Eric Corley. Also known as Howard Tripod. Sidney Schreiber. Bob Hardy. Gary Wilson. Clint Eastwood and 110. The editor-in-chief of and writer for _2600: The Hacker Quarterly_ host of the New York phreaking radio show "Off the Hook," and relentless advocate of the computer underground. Often shows up at meetings of computer companies just to unnerve people. In his honor the film _Hackers_ had the character Cereal Killer's real name be "Emmanuel Goldstein." [Handle came from the name of the hated probably non-existent rebel in Orwell's _1984_.]ENCRYPTION- The practice of encoding data into an unreadable form which can only be converted with the same code. Recently. Netscape Communications built fairly strong encryption into their browser though security errors have been discovered several times. PGP is perhaps the most populous encryption type using the DSA algorithm now (rather than the RSA.) RSA is still frequently used. DES is the government's choice and while it's not like I could crack it in a weekend or anything it's not as strong as the NSA would like. ENGRESSIA. JOSEPH [Joe]- Blind phreak who could whistle the 2600 tone; eventually got a job at a Denver RBOC. EPIC [Electronic Privacy Information Center]- see THE ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER [EPIC]E911 DOCUMENT [Official name: "Control Office Administration of Enhanced 911 Services for Special Services and Account Centers"]- Document written in 1988; liberated by the Prophet and contributed to _Phrack_. Originally written by Richard Helms and the Society of Inpenetrable Prose. Knight Lightning almost got sent to jail for it seeing as how the telco valued it at over $72,000. (I'm sure Knight Lightning enjoyed himself flipping through his illicitly gained thousands of telco money...) The case was dropped when it was proven that the same info could be bought for about $13. EPHEDRINE- Psychoactive drug sometimes used by ravers. Among other things it is one of the ingredients in herbal Ecstasy crank and so-called "Mormon tea" and (in obviously small dosages) non-prescription medicines like Nyquil. ERIK BLOODAXE (1969-Present)- Handle of Chris Goggans. Also known as Cyber-Christ. Former member of the Legion of Doom and The Punk Mafia. Former editor of _Phrack Magazine_. Former employee of Dell Computers. When he took over _Phrack_ it gained more purpose and seemed to pull together more than it had since the departure of Knight Lightning and Taran King; he left after several issues because of lack of time and desire. He's also got a bad reputation as a nark. [Handle came from the name of a Viking king of Denmark in the 10th century; revealed to Goggans in a book entitled _Vikings_.]EXON. [Senator] JAMES- Recently retired Democrat Senator who is obsessed with techno-indecency. Sponsored the CDA. EXPERIAN- Known as TRW until late 1996 (they changed their name to get away from the negative PR surrounding their activities). Experian is an evil megacorporation that is favorite target of hackers including MOD in one of the more publicized incidents. It is a target in large part due to the fact that their job includes catologing the credit history of private citizens and selling it to other corporations; thus both a tempting target for malicious hackers out to pull credit histories and a target that most ethical hackers have no problem subverting. Supposedly sets up Tiger Teams for the government. Recently Experian offered the ability to view your credit report over the Net though they swiftly removed that feature pending better security for obvious reasons. EXTASYY ELITE- Short-lived phreak group destroyed when Poltergeist turned in everybody after he was busted for carding. Its membership included Bit Blitz. Cisban. Evil Priest. Crustaceo Mutoid. Kleptic Wizard the Mentor (the only guy who went on to do anything with his life hacking-wis]]> ]]> development and law school green on campus?oy got this as werby's reply via JH on the HMNH development job:"Thanks for the head's up about your interest in the position. We'll bein touch if we'd like to discuss your application further."I doubt they will - they;ve been so bad and crude about it all in the past. and a no thank you as well:Requisition: 35042Title: Staff Assistant IISchool/Unit: University AdministrationDepartment: Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for EthicsLocation: CambridgeFull or Part Time: Full-TimeSalary Grade: 051Date Posted: 08/27/2008Date Removed from consideration: 10/08/2008-------------------------------see previous entries on bok's choice for the HU ethics head quyitting. and by the way - Julia Hutcghinson is blowing smoke - for everyone there knows of my interest in this postion no head's up is needed on their part (they'll just pull it like they do all the others). and I've got a product man is cooking lots and lots of garlic hmmmm. ah - that ol' italian mob thing again for why in over three months here has he not coocked such before?and given HU hR et al's delay tactics overall. why wait to hear? I e-mailed back:"Thank you. Julia -I e-mailed Hilton and Julie Stanley on this earlier today as well. I really cannot imagine a candidate more deserving of an interview (I've the development background necessary for this opportunity plus a quick to learn skill set and almost 1,200 volunteer hours on the floor) - as I e-mailed Hilton. I wish I could put the thousands of museum visitors I've helped exlpore the visible collection in touch with him as references. And given the current and looming economic crisis such grass-roots one-on-one service to museum members and visitors can only help retain membership in a soon-to-be difficult membership and fundraising atmosphere. Not to mention the membership sell I could add to my time on the floor as a Gallery Guide. How often can visitors to a place signing up get to meet the person overseeing the procesisng and caretaking of their membership and donation dollars (not to mention the person they'd speak to if they ever had to call the museum). Win win for the museum this is in my book. Anyway thank again. Be well --"====================ofg course because i called to ask to make copies at my sister's the HUMF was rteady as i walked about town. .2507 HR right off the bat and then CI S100. 2/5/07 - the Summer Lampoon Hoax the PASS tracking of hte firefighters (ah the homeless biotracking); the MIT professor and the hunger strike (oy); and MIT Bio-Engineering. and the false wikipedia thing on kagan as HU prez and MIT's lincoln labs as satellite surface trackers. and 1979 gould video - north carolina time perhaps that;s a referral to the side computer at the library yeserday - a book about host and parasire and this after journal of evolutionary biology cell biology and development on the free table outside oy. .5506 PH then passed this was the Ms. Park thing form the Pusel Archives - and King Kong - and JFK's inherit the wind see previous entries. and thebn 37E T37 as in the 2003 hls lab house experiments on me. and GJC 9099 (PA) went by latyer to pass me again form the mansfield bank hmmmmm and 1615 EW. 76 liz werby? oy. .86X L52 then went by add the numbers: 147 (robohuman) experiment live (a vivisection!) - and then a maine plate went by and I walked up the street a bit to dind it (passing a woman with a lighthouse DVD - ah and the rockland police department in the lightshouse museu,m building - the Jr. Pease who could not even look me in the eye - and recall huis conenctions with the oft crazed MEJUVIE2 see previous entries. hmmmm. more black bull references and those to bad cops in maine. .- ah: the gal at hte library yeserday on the left with JP on the right. ) walking up the street to find hte ME plate. 394 MEO (homelessness for medica experiment operations?) backed out of a drive way and then backed back in - it was parked next to a hood up RS86CE research subject eight-sixed control experiment?oy. the maine plate wqas 355 ABF (ME) oy see previous entries. a truck passed: 9966 VI and 3868 AG the latter was something - the 2004 sharking of me form MA to ME approved by the atty general? and tghis. what because ofthe court invbolvement in 6/8? see previous entries for 168 KHO then passed again - the harvard operation on me to 6/8 and the red pickup then passed: 24237 counter terror robohumans!the ME plate was then 77R A77 (as in chirch committee evasive reseqarch autoomatons - of courtse) and YWB 7185 (PA) with 3020 AC behind. 8807 AC then passed. 8/8/07 - WIFI eaves dropping (ah. Ed and 11 Franklin - affirmed by the sis's computers and recall the maine mansfield cop connections - and the house labs - 91 Pleasant and hte Millhaus - see previous entries) and a struggle for HU faculty diversity - ah the posting the other day and the funkies on the TV in maine - just like the HLS lab house (see previous entries) and the wild fibers/23 everett HUPD cop entry. and th4e beginning of the gore notes:and then 704 HXB (FL) passed from july of 2004 the time i went into ME exile a harvard experim,ent biological. .? and form FL? that's HLS and neurobiology - with judges permission and prot4ection - just like 6/8 (as in 6/8/2006 bostonherald front page!) leaving sisters - 7725 passed. as in church committee evasive the twenty-five year thing? see previous entries (mark and antoine at the southern campsite - 6/2006 to 1/2007). and 27MV50 passed a man on a phone a chuch committee evasive medical vivisection!or medical victim for hat is what i am. andthen 7409 GY passed as in the government upload project's gonna clean me? see previous entries explains Jodice's garlic eh?192907 (RI) then passed now as 19x2 = 38 (the harvard's robonark in bok's back yard) and 907 is the juels year of 1997 what am i to thing - explains ari juels swank digs by 124 Mt. Auburn. MVentures (mccoy) and the HLS alumni office. see previous entries. as always: It is best to read this journal from the beginning. <http://theurbanhermit livejournal com/2006/02/08/> it makes more sense then. ... or just explore the journal at: ----------- and then 477 CA4 was parked for church committee evasion the CA(org) - hu medical affiliated meeting experiment recruitment (BEFORE 9/11!) so its hushed - of course it is. there are probably hundreds of victims out there and another maine plate : 6410 MS mike shore of CA(org?) . 7786 XM ending the church committee evasive experimental homelss/medicine program?provbe it!and IC 53BA and US30ER as in from the depths of hte personal spiral as US Government research project? see preivous entries on why hte newly in recovery are best fdor such mind control things as always: It is best to read this journal from the beginning. <http://theurbanhermit livejournal com/2006/02/08/> it makes more sense then. ... or just explore the journal at: ----------- 5744 LH - the robohuman child of hte state (denied!) live harvard ands 774 DX4. . so - church committee evasion for defense experiment? of course. US 77 TS - the us has church commiottee evaded me as a t3est subject and 33W H25 the robohum,an hypersurveillence workshop - 25 years harvard - for that would put it back to 1983 the year of hte founding of the HU program on the developing chuild - next to hymans mind brain and behavior on church street )(anmd former home of spherion!) and right across the street form where dara juesl used to work hmmmm. and FW411B./ fculty workshop information biological/blanton?see pevious entries. 574 LOS (from Colorado!) and DJJOEY passed ah the radio kid! see previous entries. 70C A86 (CT) again! and 77H C32 church committee evasive harvard the control experiment sonce 1998 - see previous etnries. CC 411 then passed - the colleen corey information? the valeria plame lookalike and hte bad address? ah- and today I was urged to falsify info to get a job - nope even on the apps i dropped today when asked about getting fored i was honest with hte NEAq dismissal form 1996 and i will be more honest if asked about it the experiments since then. and thenb A 5997 went by automaton from the dfara juels time of may. 1997 - for we celebrated my borthday then and 257 J and 18T W01 and 977 KGO. see previosu entrie on them then 1479 DH - as in the one for robohuman defense harvard? and 417 DD8 (as in robohuman department of defense eight years - or dunkin donuts. DHS connected - see previous entries) . 5577 JY then passed ah the birthday church committee evasivce program again - and this with teh lure of the HMHH development postoing again (oy sop freaking sad) see entries form early may 2008- and right after 5577 JY was 57W R32 the robohuman workshop research (victim) form 1998 - the first year of hte HUMF hypersurveillance in the CA(org) lab house - and again rosie's place and then BUDK passed the BU Defense trial - for that's kupferman and clark abt and. . oh so much as always: It is best to read this journal from the beginning. <http://theurbanhermit livejournal com/2006/02/08/> it makes more sense then. ... or just explore the journal at: ----------- IA 972 (RI) then passed and I would hope and pray that the 1997 juels thing et al were sent to internal affairs and i would hope those invesigating had the honesty and integrity to see this through. for then 7608 MX than passed free form the 08 wexperiments? ugh-uh the EAR RINGING has been debilitating today and i'm fighting the headache it causes with tylenol. and given the ME references and the black bull stuff tossed my way - even lookalikes here (and don;t foeget he shocking resemblance to hte two sunday's ago homeless man at hte museu,m and the twin electronics guy here at the millhaus - get the video of both places to see for yourself!) well the 7/6/2008 entry is something:July 6th. 2008 3800 [Jul. 6th. 2008|09:48 pm] Three tmnes on SAturday and Sunda I did the ten mile or so hike I oft do - see preivous entries. . Heaps nad heaps of notes and if I take them as admissions it's quite something - but there are too many to relate; hence. I must cull. 8018 PE and 5538 PH are hypertech'd. . see previous entries - watchers perhaps 8018 PE has taken over fro 23601 (especially based at Auto Zone) which has not been around a while and 5538 PH went overboard especially on Saturday. . If I read this right there's a wish for me to Pony for people at harvard or amongst the richer folks here in maine. Not what I'm into. Mom hit me this AM with crap and stated that she would not accept my "tresspassing" when I held my ground seems I;m to be put down for even holding eye contact. Oy. The HUMNF in Maine seems to be pointing a finger at CO of HLS too but I must reassess the notes to see what they;re trying to say - peple vehicles plates oy. Woulda been a lot better had he spoke for himself - the closes was most likely his wife with Mary Duggan in the volunteer lounge at the museum.. .. Today I finally saw the seaguls eating the urching a harbor porpoise and two deer the latter seemed kinda fake - and I still wonder about the animatronics security thing (see previous entries) . But I'm too tired to go on tonight. More. I am sure later ======================================== -----------hmmmmm. . people speaking for themselves was referenced in the 7/6/08 entry and when he did - the rtemp thing - and the e-mail form "therightthing" (see previous entries) what was determined to bne the right thing for HU and Randstad was bad record keeping - a deliberate falsity losing records not updating them a la MKULTRa paperwqork for CIA and akin to the church committee evasive practoces - for example - see the entry involving my first payched this year form spherion had i not dfoublechecked i would not have gootten paid (just like Chris Soucy of Lesley U ere be hecame a progeram manager for FAS HR oy. ))as always: It is best to read this journal from the beginning. <http://theurbanhermit livejournal com/2006/02/08/> it makes more sense then. ... or just explore the journal at: -----------not good not good. . IA 907 (RI) then passed again - and again. I do hope someone;s looking into this!when i crossed the street to drop off an application at hte mansfield rite aid. RS 7043 (RI) pulled into the lot (and cut through back to the post office wher escience mike RW77NV was the other day - see previous entries). RS 7043 research subnject church committee evasion!and this at rite aid - and see previous entries on rite aid in maine!the mayor! up there! and oh so much. leaving rite aid to drop off other apps. 317 XHZ passed. 38 (the robonarek sharking) experiment harvard zexckhausre/omega? see previous ent4ries. and then 6307 HS went by. June 3. 2007 that was shortly after the home counselling interview in maine (see previous entries. ) and there were no entries on the third of june last year the loss of hte home counselling opportunity (which like so many at HU was posted for again and again later) abt associates/IRSI and the alberto gonzales justice department ah - the NBC live journal comment with the "to catch a predator" as if the HUMF were luring me - see previous entries. the wilsion dara spams here's a taste:from 6/4/2007 ( at ):June 4th. 2007 [Jun. 4th. 2007|09:26 am] I was informed by Christa (sp?) that Susan McIntyre had made an offer to someone else regarding the Home Counsellors Inc. Youth Aide position. This after passing Mr. Henshaw (HLS educated) on the street. . An interesting note from the Farnsworth/Wyeth application here:"The following statement applies in Maryland and Massachusetts (fill in name of state). It is unlawful in the State of __________ to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continues employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability."I recall the interview I had in 2004 - same thing: office receptionist. I did not hear back form that one either. Given the similarities between the two. I do wonder that Harvard seeks to curcumvent Massachusetts employment laws as it does the 5th Amendment only using CoxBok country to do so. . More later link post comment [Jun. 4th. 2007|10:32 am] Ah - the HUMF continues target spam (bulk):Psychology School Earn a degree in Psychology. Mon Jun 04. 2007 5k Drug Rehab Cutting Edge Detox Methods Mon Jun 04. 2007 5k Sunglasses Find great sunglasses at great prices. Sun Jun 03. 2007 5k As if this is an acceptible cover?Also --Wendell Gonzalez Creative Suite 3 Design Premium Tue May 29. 2007 14k Smooth Shaving Clean shaven men are voted more sexy Tue May 29. 2007 4k Sunglasses Sunglass Deals Tue May 29. 2007 5k SEROQUEL Lawsuit Info Have You Taken SEROQUEL? Important Lawsuit Information Tue May 29. 2007 4k Jordan Heller CREATIVE SUITE 3 READY TO DOWNLOAD $269.90 ONLY! Sun May 27. 2007 14k ---------------------------------Wendell Gonzales. Wendell Knox and Alberto Gonzales. . Smooth shaving - see Fred K from HMNH entries identity hiding. sunglasses = glasses/bfid/nanotech. seroquel = the drug allowed in the sheltersjordan heller = harmon jordan (tufts/abt) and heller school of management at brandeis. see previous entries almost admissions here. insincere. some items saved. from mainecoastnow com:Inmate claims prison retaliated for speaking out(Created: Thursday. May 24. 2007 7:13 PM EDT) BANGOR — A local man serving 59 years in prison for a series of robberies in the Midcoast has filed a federal lawsuit claiming his free speech rights have been violated for speaking to the media about conditions within the prison. The lawsuit on behalf of Deane Brown was filed May 8 in U. S. District Court in Bangor. Named as defendants are Maine Corrections Commissioner Martin Magnusson. Warden Jeffrey Merrill and several other prison officials. Brown. 43 is represented by civil rights attorney Lynne Williams of Bar Harbor. Williams is formerly from Rockland. Williams said Brown is an acknowledged whistleblower and a key informant for at least two investigative reporters. Lance Tapley of the Portland Phoenix and Ron Huber of WRFR-LP in Rockland. The attorney said Brown became aware of various human rights abuses taking place in the Maine State Prison in Warren where he was incarcerated. He contacted Tapley and shared information that Tapley used to write a series of articles during 2006 that explored various abuses that were occurring at the prison she maintained. Brown also communicated with Huber and on multiple occasions he was a guest via telephone on Huber’s radio show. She said those abuses included refusing prisoners their psychiatric medications keeping prisoners in inhumane conditions and even allegations that a guard goaded a prisoner into committing suicide. In October 2006. Warden Merrill informed Brown that he was not permitted to communicate with the press and if he continued to do so he would be disciplined the attorney said. Brown has been incarcerated since being arrested in May 1995 for a series of burglaries and robberies in the Midcoast. The crimes included home invasions where residents were tied up by the intruders. One of the robberies occurred at the Littlefield Memorial Baptist Church in Rockland in which the caretaker was tied up while the group tried to break into a safe. The lawsuit filed by Brown claims that the Department of Corrections retaliated against Brown based on his exercise of his First and Eighth Amendment rights. The Corrections Department not only denied him access to the media a violation of his free speech rights but also repeatedly placed him in administrative segregation for purely punitive reasons she said. On Nov. 13. Brown was transferred to the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center in Baltimore under the pretext that he was involved in an October 2006 escape plot. Williams stated. However no credible evidence whatsoever was presented to substantiate this allegation and Brown has not been charged with attempted escape his attorney said. This case has been assigned to Federal Court Judge John Woodcock and the defendants’ answers to the complaint will be due in early June. The eight defendants are Corrections Commissioner Martin Magnusson. Warden Jeffrey Merrill. Deputy Warden James O’Farrell. Deputy Warden Nelson Riley. Captain David Cutler. Sgt. Troy Ross and Unit Managers Douglas Starbird and Russell Worcester. Jr. The complaint seeks compensatory and punitive damages and declaratory relief in the form of a finding that the defendants’ actions violated the U. S. Constitution and federal state and regulatory laws.-----------------------wilson dara TYLER/PLEASE REPLY BACK TO ME Fri May 25. 2007 5k an obvious bait (and tempting via dissuasive temptors) - see previous entries sparrows again (and FAS/OEB). boston com:Scandal puts spotlight on Christian law schoolGrads influential in Justice Dept. By Charlie Savage. Globe Staff | April 8. 2007VIRGINIA BEACH. Va. -- The title of the course was Constitutional Law but the subject was sin. Before any casebooks were opened a student led his classmates in a 10-minute devotional talk completed with "amens," about the need to preserve their Christian values."Sin is so appealing because it's easy and because it's fun," the law student warned. Regent University School of Law founded by televangelist Pat Robertson to provide "Christian leadership to change the world," has worked hard in its two-decade history to upgrade its reputation fighting past years when a majority of its graduates couldn't pass the bar exam and leading up to recent victories over Ivy League teams in national law student competitions. But even in its darker days. Regent has had no better friend than the Bush administration. Graduates of the law school have been among the most influential of the more than 150 Regent University alumni hired to federal government positions since President Bush took office in 2001 according to a university website. One of those graduates is Monica Goodling the former top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who is at the center of the storm over the firing of US attorneys. Goodling who resigned on Friday has become the face of Regent overnight -- and drawn a harsh spotlight to the administration's hiring of officials educated at smaller conservative schools with sometimes marginal academic reputations. Documents show that Goodling who has asserted her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid testifying before Congress was one of a handful of officials overseeing the firings. She helped install Timothy Griffin the Karl Rove aide and her former boss at the Republican National Committee as a replacement US attorney in Arkansas. Because Goodling graduated from Regent in 1999 and has scant prosecutorial experience her qualifications to evaluate the performance of US attorneys have come under fire. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. Democrat of Rhode Island asked at a hearing: "Should we be concerned with the experience level of the people who are making these highly significant decisions?"And across the political blogosphere critics have held up Goodling who declined to be interviewed as a prime example of the Bush administration subordinating ability to politics in hiring decisions."It used to be that high-level DOJ jobs were generally reserved for the best of the legal profession," wrote a contributor to The New Republic website. ". That a recent graduate of one of the very worst (and sketchiest) law schools with virtually no relevant experience could ascend to this position is a sure sign that there is something seriously wrong at the DOJ."The Regent law school was founded in 1986 when Oral Roberts University shut down its ailing law school and sent its library to Robertson's Bible-based college in Virginia. It was initially called "CBN University School of Law" after the televangelist's Christian Broadcasting Network whose studios share the campus and which provided much of the funding for the law school. (The Coors Foundation is also a donor to the university.) The American Bar Association accredited Regent 's law school in 1996. Not long ago it was rare for Regent graduates to join the federal government. But in 2001 the Bush administration picked the dean of Regent's government school. Kay Coles James to be the director of the Office of Personnel Management -- essentially the head of human resources for the executive branch. The doors of opportunity for government jobs were thrown open to Regent alumni."We've had great placement," said Jay Sekulow who heads a non profit law firm based at Regent that files lawsuits aimed at lowering barriers between church and state. "We've had a lot of people in key positions."Many of those who have Regent law degrees including Goodling joined the Department of Justice. Their path to employment was further eased in late 2002 when John Ashcroft then attorney general changed longstanding rules for hiring lawyers to fill vacancies in the career ranks. Previously veteran civil servants screened applicants and recommended whom to hire usually picking top students from elite schools. In a recent Regent law school newsletter a 2004 graduate described being interviewed for a job as a trial attorney at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division in October 2003. Asked to name the Supreme Court decision from the past 20 years with which he most disagreed he cited Lawrence v. Texas the ruling striking down a law against sodomy because it violated gay people's civil rights."When one of the interviewers agreed and said that decision in Lawrence was 'maddening,' I knew I correctly answered the question," wrote the Regent graduate. The administration hired him for the Civil Rights Division's housing section -- the only employment offer he received after graduation he said. The graduate from Regent -- which is ranked a "tier four" school by US News & World Report the lowest score and essentially a tie for 136th place -- was not the only lawyer with modest credentials to be hired by the Civil Rights Division after the administration imposed greater political control over career hiring. The changes resulted in a sometimes dramatic alteration to the profile of new hires beginning in 2003 as the Globe reported last year after obtaining resumes from 2001-2006 to three sections in the civil rights division. Conservative credentials rose while prior experience in civil rights law and the average ranking of the law school attended by the applicant dropped. As the dean of a lower-ranked law school that benefited from the Bush administration's hiring practices. Jeffrey Brauch of Regent made no apologies in a recent interview for training students to understand what the law is today and also to understand how legal rules should be changed to better reflect "eternal principles of justice," from divorce laws to abortion rights."We anticipate that many of our graduates are going to go and be change agents in society," Brauch said. Still. Brauch said the recent criticism of the law school triggered by Goodling's involvement in the US attorney firings has missed the mark in one respect: the quality of the lawyers now being turned out by the school he argued is far better than its image. Seven years ago. 60 percent of the class of 1999 -- Goodling's class -- failed the bar exam on the first attempt. (Goodling's performance was not available though she is admitted to the bar in Virginia.) The dismal numbers prompted the school to overhaul its curriculum and tighten admissions standards. It has also spent more heavily to recruit better-qualified law students. This year it will spend $2.8 million on scholarships a million more than what it was spending four years ago. The makeover is working. The bar exam passage rate of Regent alumni according to the Princeton Review rose to 67 percent last year. Brauch said it is now up to 71 percent and that half of the students admitted in the late 1990s would not be accepted today. The school has also recently won moot-court and negotiation competitions beating out teams from top-ranked law schools. Adding to Regent's prominence its course on "Human Rights. Civil Liberties and National Security" is co taught by one of its newest professors: Ashcroft. Even a prominent critic of the school's mission of integrating the Bible with public policy vouches for Regent's improvements. Barry Lynn the head of the liberal Americans United for the Separation of Church and State said Regent is churning out an increasingly well-trained legal army for the conservative Christian movement."You can't underestimate the quality of a lot of the people that are there," said Lynn who has guest-lectured at Regent and debated professors on its campus. In light of Regent's rapid evolution some current law students say it is frustrating to be judged in light of Regent alumni from the school's more troubled era -- including Goodling. One third-year student. Chamie Riley said she rejected the idea that any government official who invokes her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination could be a good representative of Regent. As Christians she said. Regent students know "you should be morally upright. You should not be in a situation where you have to plead the Fifth." ------------See previous entries. boston com:Medical experiments may not have patient consentUS to launch 5-year projectBy Rob Stein. Washington Post | May 28. 2007WASHINGTON -- The federal government is undertaking the most ambitious set of studies ever mounted under a controversial arrangement that allows researchers to conduct some kinds of medical experiments without first getting the patient's permission. The $50 million five-year project will involve more than 20,000 patients in 11 sites in the United States and Canada and is designed to improve treatment after accidents shootings cardiac arrest and other emergencies. The three studies organizers say offer an unprecedented opportunity to find better ways to resuscitate people whose hearts suddenly stop to stabilize patients who go into shock and to minimize damage from head injuries. Because such patients are usually unconscious at a time when every minute counts it is often impossible to get consent from them or their families the organizers say. Many trauma specialists and some bioethicists have endorsed the project but others question it. The harshest critics say the research violates fundamental ethical principles. The organizers said the studies are going forward only after an exhaustive scientific and ethical review by the National Institutes of Health which authorized the funding in 2004 and the Food and Drug Administration which approved the first phase about a year ago and the second phase six months ago. The studies are being conducted by the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium with medical centers in Seattle. Portland. San Diego. Dallas. Birmingham. Pittsburgh. Milwaukee. Toronto. Ottawa and in Iowa and British Columbia. The first experiments involving nearly 6,000 patients involve patients who are in shock or have suffered head injuries from a crash fall or some other trauma. About 40,000 such patients show up at hospitals each year and the standard practice is to give them saline infusions to stabilize their blood pressure. For the study emergency medical workers are randomly infusing some patients with solutions containing much higher levels of sodium with or without a drug called dextran. Animal research and small studies involving people have indicated that hypertonic solutions could save more lives and minimize brain damage. The next experiment which will involve about 15,000 patients is designed to determine how best to revive patients whose hearts suddenly stop beating. About 180,000 Americans suffer these sudden cardiac arrests each year."We will never know the best way to treat people unless we do this research. And the only way we can do this research since the person is unconscious is without consent," said Myron Weisfeldt of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who is overseeing the project. Before starting the research at each site researchers complete a "community consultation" process. Anyone who objects can get a bracelet to alert medical workers that they refuse to participate."This just seems like lazy investigators not wanting to try to get informed consent in situations where it is difficult to get it so they say it is impossible," said George J. Annas a bioethicist at Boston University. "I don't think we should use people like this."Others are concerned patients might be getting experimental therapies that could turn out to be inferior to standard treatments. --------See previous entries this is not the type of experiment I'm talking about (but mnore on the hiding of that later). from the crimson com (I still don;t get the e-mails I send to myself from this media outlet anymore:):OpinionDangerous RecordsPublished On 5/25/2007 1:40:30 AMBy RACHEL M SINGHNoneWhenever anyone begins volunteering at the Philips Brooks House Association (PBHA) one of the first forms you have to complete is a Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) request form. PBHA and other volunteer organizations and employers use CORIs to screen applicants to protect the populations which they serve from potentially dangerous criminals. Although CORIs may seem logical (why wouldn’t we want to protect middle school students from criminal offenders?) the composition abuse and widespread access to CORI by private employers have created serious racial and penal injustices. When CORI was created in the 1970s as a database for criminal records it was intended to improve both the efficiency of the criminal justice system and “to safeguard the privacy of the CORI subjects so that this obviously embarrassing and damaging information about them would get into the hands of only people with a clear need to know the information,” according to a report by Ernest Winsor of the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute. Over the past decade however employers in all sectors of the job market have used CORIs to indiscriminately deny jobs both to former criminals and the accused (persons who are acquitted of charges still have those charges added to CORI). Record holders are also denied public housing loans and spots in colleges. The widespread abuse of CORIs makes the re-entry of former criminals into society nearly impossible perpetuates the “revolving door” in prisons and leads to blind discrimination and glaring injustice. This issue concerns the whole state; 2.8 million of 6.5 million Massachusetts residents have CORIs and all workers and volunteers must undergo background checks before they can work with “sensitive” populations i e children the elderly and the ill. Yet CORIs are practically unintelligble both to employers and the people who have them because they are full of recondite abbreviations. This becomes a problem when employers use them to screen applicants as CORIs are typically used. People with CORIs cannot ascertain the accuracy of their records and employers use them as an indiscriminate way to weed out applicants; they order CORIs for all job applicants and dismiss applicants if they have a CORI often without bothering to determine what the charges were or distinguish between guilty and innocent convicted or released. All this ignorance and misunderstanding violate the implicit trust employers are granted when the government allows them to see this sensitive information. CORIs are necessary and relevant but not to the degree at which they are currently abused. A 2003 University of Chicago study showed that criminal records are disproportionately more damaging to black applicants. White applicants to entry level jobs with criminal records were called back by employers 17 percent of the time while only 5 percent of black applicants of similar age gender education personal presentation and work experience were called back. “People are using CORIs as a proxy for their own racist hiring practices,” says Jamila R. Martin ’07 a member of Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) which is advocating for CORI reform. CORIs contribute to a cycle of unemployment and crime which pervades our cities. A convicted felon who wants to reform and become a productive member of society will have a hard time proving this to a potential employer or college. For example six of the top ten employers in Boston are hospitals with blanket no-CORI hiring practices even in their janitorial or food services staff. With CORIs inhibiting most legitimate options for making a living former convicts return to crime as their only way to survive. If America really wants to fix its obscene crime and incarceration rates it has to examine the causes one of which is a high rate of recidivism. People return to crime for a number of reasons but without question one is that they face a lack of alternatives. Discrimination against CORI-holders particularly when the record is irrelevant to the job for which someone is applying leads to higher rates of recidivism which hovered at nearly 70 percent in the 1990s. People with CORIs are highly concentrated in specific urban areas so that the issue of CORI reform also becomes one of community. The cycle of unemployment continues when youth start getting records after police round-ups. Martin says. “If it’s clear that jobs and college are not attainable then why would you put the effort into school? Better to drop out and make money on the street. Of course as soon as you do that you get picked up by the cops and then you have a CORI and all you can ever do is make money on the street.” The blanket use of CORIs not only perpetuates the cycle of crime by encouraging recidivism but also hurts innocent individuals who have committed no crimes at all. The CORI system must be reorganized for clarity and accuracy. Further access to the records should be restricted to only those who have a legitimate need for this sensitive information. To prevent discrimination employers should be able to prove the relevance of an applicant’s record if they deny him a job. The egregious faults with the current CORI system significantly damage the lives of innocent civilians and former convicts alike. If we require our politicians to be “tough on crime,” we must also demand that our courts and bureaucracy administer justice fairly to those who have served time in prison and those who have been acquitted. Rachel M. Singh ’10 a Crimson editorial editor lives in Matthews Hall. -----------------------See previous entries re: PBHA and the use of its shelters for these experiments. boston com:US jury awards $2.5 million in Roche Accutane trialBy Jon Hurdle. Reuters | May 29. 2007ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. (Reuters) - A New Jersey jury Tuesday found that Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG failed to adequately warn a patient of the bowel disease risks associated with its potent acne medicine Accutane and awarded him $2.5 million in damages. The jury during its third day of deliberations also found that the failure to warn was a major contributing cause of his contracting the bowel disease and awarded the plaintiff an additional $119,000 to cover medical expenses. The trial was the first of about 400 U. S lawsuits involving Accutane which has been on the market since 1982. Roche which runs its U. S operation out of Nutley. New Jersey said it believes it has significant grounds to appeal the verdict and intends to pursue them."Notwithstanding the verdict the cause of inflammatory bowel disease remains unknown and there is no reliable scientific evidence that Accutane causes inflammatory bowel disease," the company said in a statement adding that the medicine's label has contained a bowel disease warning for more than 20 years. In considering New Jersey state consumer fraud charges the jury in New Jersey Superior Court found for Roche saying the company did not misrepresent or conceal Accutane's bowel risks prior to June 1995. Andrew McCarrell a 36-year-old computer manager from Alabama said he had undergone multiple surgeries including having his colon removed after taking the drug in 1995. His symptoms included chronic diarrhea and incontinence according to court documents."It's a huge result for the broader litigation," McCarrell's attorney David Buchanan said. "It bodes well for the 400 other Accutane cases."McCarrell who has three children ages 10 months to 7 years old said after the verdict that he will now be able to afford better medical treatment and to take time off from work unpaid if necessary to deal with his condition."I'm ecstatic," he told reporters. "I hope this means (other plaintiffs) will finally get some justice. They deserve it just as much as I do."Hopefully this will just be the start of getting them some relief," McCarrell said. Jurors interviewed following the verdict said they believed Roche should have done more testing of the drug after it was on the market and before McCarrell began using the medicine."We would like to send a message to Roche to clearly do further testing and evaluation," said Cynthia Spivey a 45-year-old casino worker. "They should have done way more testing in 11 years," she said. Mark Schoettler. 48 said the jury had agreed there was no consumer fraud because there did not seem to be a deliberate attempt by the company to deceive or conceal the nature of the product. "It was benign neglect not malice," he said. Roche shares were down 0.35 percent in Europe. REUTERS ----------------------Same old crap it'll never end: too much money to be made and too many cowered to spill the Veritas. ================================== and then 8411 NR (a man in a party shirt - like Bill Shay of PED_ETC ere he went to UCLA - see pevious entries) exited after i dropped off an app at bertucci's right yrears information - neurobiological research?again ,i hope internal affairs is looking into it!why? recall the NBC - perverted justice comments a while ago:from 6/4/2007 (before i began numbering hte entries):See previous entries. .4 journal comments to the UH address:LiveJournal Comment Re: Dateline producer sued NBC & heavily... May 29 18KB LiveJournal Comment Dateline producer sued NBC & heavily chal... May 29 116KB LiveJournal Comment Hola yenge May 25 106KB LiveJournal Comment Uma Turman was killed May 24 119KB ----------------------on the 29th ones:Subject: Dateline producer sued NBC & heavily challenges ethics of Perverted-Justice com Dateline producer sued NBC & heavily challenges ethics of Perverted-Justice com 11. The manner in which NBC has come to conduct these sting operations for its Predator series violates many of NBC's own policies and guidelines as well as numerous journalistic ethical standards including but not limited to the following:a) Perverted Justice (a shadowy organization with ill fitting purposes) is a paid participant in and is intensely involved in each of the stories. In some instances. Perverted Justice personnel have been deputized as part of the sting operation b) Contrary to NBC Policies and Guidelines the identities of Perverted Justice's 50 plus volunteers working at Dateline's behest were kept secret additional producer. Marsha Bartel. When she inquired she was told Dateline checked only a couple of them c) Prior to receiving payment from NBC. Perverted Justice was described in its Dateline scripts as a vigilante organization. However. NBC's description of Perverted Justice was later changed to that of a watch dog organization. In addition when Ms. Bartel raised concerns about controversial comments made by the founder and head of Perverted Justice. Dateline Executive Producer David Corvo told her. " We all know they're (Perverted Justice) nuts."d) Contrary to NBC Polices and Guidelines as a paid contributor (freelance or otherwise). Perverted Justice founder and it's volunteers conducted numerous activities in both their professional and personal lives which demonstrate a conflict of interest e) Contrary to NBC Policies and Guidelines. NBC unethically pays Perverted Justice to troll for and lure targets into its sting thereby giving it a financial incentive to lie to and trick targets of its sting f) Dateline host. Chris Hansen has falsely claimed in radio television and newspaper interviews that NBC is conducting a "parallel investigation" with law enforcement. According to host. Chris Hansen. Perverted Justice acts as a type of "wall" with law enforcement. That is simply a ruse to give the public the impression that NBC is conducting itself within ethical standards of the news industry g) NBC unethically provides local law enforcement with video equipment and video tapes that is then used for arrest and prosecution of individuals invited to the Dateline sting house. In return for this favor. NBC receives dramatically staged arrest scenarios and video taped police interrogations to capture audience attention increasing ratings and ultimately revenues for NBC.---------------------------------------- --------------------------See previous entries. . This =was sent to me ere I saw the article online the hUMF baits. . And the guilty (those protecting their right to abuse power) are still in place. . More. I am sure later. .=====================122 QAA then went by - recall the Q of HU/MIT social science research (oft a target of hte purges) and then 4818 ALJ (GA) went by - again see the fulton cvounty connections - atlanta. GA) and V 380 (RI) vivisect or victim of a robo(nark)human operation - the insula tweaking - so tested for in the HLS lab house and so asked for before it began by blanton in 2002 (which was months were thew wellbutrin of hte very bad harvard stop smoking class - hence that was cover for the mind probe uploads already in placer not good not good. as always: It is best to read this journal from the beginning. <http://theurbanhermit livejournal com/2006/02/08/> it makes more sense then. ... or just explore the journal at: ----------- 1597 TK then went by (one robohuman and my initials) and 133 AA8 (as in one biotracked robohuman - and an addictive research sunject- without consent and knowledge - and again this is why the HUMF preys on addicts in erly recovery for they oft are so confused andf God smacked that they are not aware of what's happening to them. !)'' 193 BMO passed and that's something (a new twqist) . . for 19x3 = 57 robohuman! a bad medicine operation (or by the yaffe whistling - a bad or biological homeless operation) and given the 5506 runup - the ms park thing - see rpevious etnries. well was not peter lorre in "M" hunted fore murder? and as well dod not Amy McCoy work at MVentures - behind ari juels swank Chapman Arms place near harvard development and HLS alumni afdfairs?as always: It is best to read this journal from the beginning. <http://theurbanhermit livejournal com/2006/02/08/> it makes more sense then. ... or just explore the journal at: ----------- ands then 55K T42 went by - add them. 97 (as in 1997 - the juels thing) and my initials and again i must stress that numerous members of cocaine anonymous expressed interest in the relationshup dara juels provided (or was paid to provide for) and this was in contradistinction to hte traditionas and recoommendations of hte program. the CA(org) priest and the somerville housing inspector to name two of hte pertinents and the latter a connection with the FASOEB Zombie. hmmmm. 4327 FT pulled off a side street by the place wher ethe fruit bag was no longer for the robohuman a full time opportunity?oy - then and 397 BHX from march of 1997 (dara juels again) a biological harvard experiment - again then esp[ecially atop the NBC live jurnal comment - a sex experiment. See - that just don;t cut it with me - and i;ve explained this all along - especially noting hte sex offers (via pimps actually - the providers. ). . i;d rather a life of my own! my life!wher ethe good persopn i am is of bebefit to many (like hte HMNH development thing) and not only for sickos hiding behind institutions - like law enforcement the bench the dias ert al spam to the generic yahoo account:Mr Kelvin Richards Hello 5:42 PM 6KB a pruidential insurance spam - when i was in the personal spiral - i let go of a $25/season insurance policy the mom unit had on me since i was a kid - see previous entris on the personal spiral. given the pre-9/11 HUMF hypersurveillance in 50-52 Irving Street - well. the HUNMF needs to try to keep me as the sick person i was then. and Reunion com Updates See Your 1 NEW Profile View. Kevin! 6:30 PM 42KB --------no interest. Mr Kelvin Richards Hello‏ 5:42 PM 5 KB --------and to the UH account (same time!):Mr Kelvin Richards Hello‏ 5:42 PM 5 KB intersting - for only hte museum has both and kelvin is close to the names of hte court officert that introduced me to 6/8 and richards ah: van kirk of the late 1970s just after north carolina oy. so tghat's it celtics first preseason game tonight and the rest of hte local apps for mansfield and more apps tomorrow. friday i'll go in and see what job postings the HUF is keeping fom the general public more i am sure later as always: It is best to read this journal from the beginning. <http://theurbanhermit livejournal com/2006/02/08/> it makes more sense then. ... or just explore the journal at: -----------You see - the whole pred thing not true and supposed to have worked as a psy-op on me because of hte bottom pulled out of me after i left harvard law school temping because it would lead to nogthing (and this in spite of hal scott talking through wendy whittaker - we'll pay for a class for you stay and we can protect you) and again i ask - what did harvard law faculty know of that i need protection from?abnd curious - fpr the hell of it i looked up dara in the HU dorectory:Dr Dara D. Brodsky Harvard Medical School --Appointment Title: Instructor in Pediatrics Dara Joy Glasser Law School Dara Hope Granoff Faculty of Arts and Sciences -- Appointment Title: Admissions and Financial Aid Officer (86 brattle - the cronkhite center! harvard admissions!)Dara Greenhouse Faculty of Arts and Sciences -- Appointment Title: Senior Reporting and Data Analyst Dara S Manoach Harvard Medical School -- Appointment Title: Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry Dara Beth Olmsted University Operations Services -- Appointment Title: Coordinator. Green Offices; Tutor in Mather House Dara Makeda Wilson Harvard College glasser in holmes - in the church committee evasive numbner - ah but also refer3ncing the 1997 juels thing hmmmm oh - this is too rich. . Name: Dara S Manoach Appointment Title: Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry Department: HMS^Psychiatry-MGH Office Phone: +1 617 667 8702 BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MED CT University Mailing Address: Massachusetts General HospitalPsychiatric Neuroimaging. Room 2608149 13th StreetCharlestown MA 02129 Unit: Harvard Medical School --------------room to 6/8? addictive insula tweaking!and the olmsted - claudia marr loved olmsted! note hte phoone:46 Blackstone Street 4 th Fl vblackstone - as in the vcal;ley of the circle CG Farm vernon doyle thing!thius - mroe and more affirmations of church committee prograsmming and experimentation through the harvard system. and why not - let's look u0p ari (as in juels):Ari Lorin Bloom Grad School of Business Admin Ari David Brettman Harvard Medical School Ari Anne Caramanica Harvard College Dr Ari Johann Fried Harvard Medical School Ari Michael Gordon Divinity School Ari Jeremy Kriegel Harvard College Ari Silber Medoff Kennedy School of Government Ari Carlos Pena Harvard College Ari Jacob Peskoe Law School Ari Wertheimer University Operations Services -------all are students but for Fried!Name: Dr Ari Johann Fried Appointment Title: Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics Department: HMS^Pediatrics-CH University Mailing Address: Childrens HospitalKarp 1021. Immunology300 Longwood AveBoston MA 02115 Unit: Harvard Medical School -----any relation to charles fried? and if so - is there a kid tracking thing involved? forthe charles of HLS did have the marr/rossborough address see previous entris oy. hmmm. curius atom's number at the museum - it translates as the robohuman sharking form MA to ME for the one month notice I gave leaving the CA(org) lab house hmmmm. as if then - if one does not wish to agree to be vioctimized her ein the harvard affiliated meetings one is to be tagged to be sent away see previous entris. not good not good. as always: It is best to read this journal from the beginning. <http://theurbanhermit livejournal com/2006/02/08/> it makes more sense then. ... or just explore the journal at:

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