Re: What evil things have you done in the past?

["Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com>]

Funny. I just did a google search for "jon fether" and found this...

http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1993/10/msg01444.html

The guy that posted the message was the friend that uploaded the file to my 
BBS as "Fether Bait".


"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:44fb9bfc$0$19631$88260bb3@free.teranews.com...
> The hacker handle thread is pretty interesting. But what evil things has 
> anyone done? I can tell you about a couple of mine...
>
> Back in the BBS days, I ran The BoycoT BBS in southern california. There 
> was this one user, named Fether. His real name was Jon Fether. He was a 
> childish flamer. All he did was cause hate and discontent and bashed my 
> BBS saying how it sucked and all my users sucked.  I banned him, deleted 
> his account, but he kept calling back and re-registering using different 
> user names.  I knew he had a GS so one day I took my merlin assembler and 
> wrote a small program that set his text to black, his background & border 
> to black, turned the sound off, set his boot port to slot 3.  I had a 
> friend of mine upload the little gem to my BBS and say it was a cool new 
> utility that did such-n-such. Then I sat back and waited for Fether to 
> call. When other people called, I chatted with them and told them not to 
> download the file. But when Fether called and did a new file scan, this 
> little proggy showed up. He immediately downloaded it, posted another 
> flame about how my BBS sucked, then logged off.
>
> Nobody heard from him for about 3 weeks.  I thought maybe he was gone for 
> good.  Evidently he didn't know about the 3-finger salute that would reset 
> the GS back to factory defaults, or he didn't try. When he finally came 
> back, he whined about how it just cost him $150 to have his GS repaired. 
> He told everyone that he downloaded a file from my BBS that had a "virus" 
> that "wiped out his motherboard".
>
> That was worth laughing about for quite a while...
>
>
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