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Scan Man

Biography: 

According to his phrack profile, he started out in the BBS world in 1979 when he first got his
modem, a 300 Baud Auto-Answer/Auto-Dial Micro-Connection Modem (made by Micro Peripheral Corp.) with tape input and output.

First, he started with a pirated version of TBBS 1.2, then an upgrade to 1.3, pirated again (occurred and at the same time a hard drive was added after a number of disk drive changes and modifications). Scan Man, through his BBS (which was in the first 5 all phreak/hack BBS's to ever go up, and is the oldest phreak board in the country), has met or talked to what he considers "anybody who is anybody".

At 11 years old, he found a few old phones, took them apart, and got them working, which was when his interest in telecom arose. He was led into the phreak world when he became aware that he could phreak (articles he read such as blue box articles). At the time, BBS's and personal computers did not exist at this time.

Facts

He was the sysop of Pirate 80 (P-80), a telcom enthusiasts' bulletin board in Charleston, West Virginia (304).

He feels that credit cards are voodoo because it seems to be what people and sysops get busted for the most.

The first board he called that involved phreaking was the old Pirate's Harbor.

He has attended various things including sneaking into a seminar on the DMS-250 Digital Switching System, and before that, TelePub'86, and he's sneaked into other various telcom/computer security seminars.

Rumors

Was a snitch.

References

http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=7&id=2#article