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- LEEJAN ENTERPRISES
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- South Australia. 5159.
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- The Computer Purity Test
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- This test is designed to be an approximation of the popular series of
- "Purity Tests" that have circulated for some time, but instead of dealing
- with sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll, it deals with various things of or
- involving computers, particularly those which are illegal, unethical,
- or offensive. Currently, there are 128 questions. Eventually, this number
- may rise, as in the case of other Purity Tests.
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- As you answer the questions, keep track of how many "YES" answers you have.
- All questions are numbered in hexidecimal (of course!), with explanations
- offered where the creator thought them necessary.
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- I. Hacking and such. Hacking: In this sense, the unauthorized use of any
- computer account or priviledge not legitimately belonging to yourself. In
- most civilized countries, more than mildly illegal.
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- 1) Have you ever had a hacked account, or hacked an account?
- 2) Have you ever had more than 5 such accounts?
- 3) Have you ever had accounts in 2 or more states, at least
- one of which was hacked? (If this gets distributed
- internationally, for those of you who don't have states, use
- provinces, counties, precepts, whatever)
- 4) Have you ever had accounts in 2 or more countries, at least
- one of which was hacked?
- 5) Have you ever had accounts on 2 or more continents, at least
- one of which was hacked?
- 6) Have you ever hacked an account on a corporate computer?
- (This doesn't have to be the corporation that MADE the computer,
- mind you. Burger King counts)
- 7) Have you ever hacked an account on a government computer?
- (Federal or state preferred, county or township acceptable,
- school districts and such don't count.)
- 8) Have you ever hacked a root, operator, or administrative
- account?
- 9) Have you ever created your own illegitimate account? (Note:
- this is a whole heck of a lot easier to do if you answered
- yes to the last question)
- A) Have you ever been mistaken for a legitimate user by fellow
- users? (The fellow users had to be legitimate users themselves,
- if ten people hack the same computer, you'll all be assuming
- that the other guy is legit, anyway)
- B) Have you ever been mistaken for a legitimate user by the
- operator? (Considering that most operators are never at the
- console, this basically means not getting deleted, being able
- to send mail asking questions just like anyone else, etc.)
- C) Have you ever been mistaken for a legitimate user by the
- system administrator? (Same as the operator, only this guy is
- theoretically in the know about who everyone really is
- D) Have you ever convinced users that you were an operator? (Once
- again, the users convinced must be legitimate users)
- E) Have you ever convinced an operator that you were also an
- operator? (Generally, this works best if you are trying to
- convince him that you are the operator on another computer, NOT
- on his own)
- F) Have you ever convinced an operator that you were the system
- administrator? (Believe me, I've met some operators you could
- score this one with)
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- II. Pirating and such (copying software, or if you're good, hardware, that
- someone else holds the copyright on, and distributing it, or receiving it.
- This does NOT entail removing copy protection, that's Cracking, which is
- covered later in the test.) This is, naturally, illegal.
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- 10) Have you ever pirated a game?
- 11) Have you pirated more than 10 games? (10 DIFFERENT ones)
- 12) Have you pirated more than 100 games?
- 13) Have you ever pirated an application? (Desktop, Windows, etc)
- 14) Have you pirated more than 10 applications?
- 15) Have you ever pirated a utility? (Word processor,
- spreadsheet...)
- 16) Have you pirated more than 10 utilities?
- 17) Have you ever pirated an operating system? (CP/M, MS-DOS,
- SunOS-4)
- 18) Have you pirated more than 10 operating systems?
- 19) Have you pirated programs for more than 1 computer? (These must
- be computers that are not compatible)
- 1A) Have you ever pirated a program that retailed for more than
- $500.00?
- 1B) Have you ever pirated a program for a computer that retailed
- for more than $500,000.00? (IBM 3090, Cray, etc)
- 1C) Have you ever copied a cartridge to disk?
- 1D) Have you ever copied a chip? (EPROM burning)
- 1E) Have you ever run a 'Pirate' BBS? (If you had one with a 'Pirate'
- file transfer area among legal ones, it counts)
- 1F) Have you ever had law enforcement personnel on your 'Pirate'
- BBS, without being caught? (K-mart security guard who lives down
- the street and calls in does NOT count. Has to be someone who
- could actually DO something to you for pirating)
- 20) Have you ever pirated across state lines? (Once again, for those
- who don't have states, use whatever regional areas your nation
- is divided into)
- 21) Have you ever pirated across national boundaries?
- 22) Have you ever pirated with connections on another continent?
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- III. Phreaking. In this category, "used" translates to "used illegally to
- lower or annihilate your communications expenses." This is not only
- illegal, it tends to be prosecuted quite frequently. Phone company security
- people are less friendly than FBI people, even.
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- 23) Have you ever used someone else's calling card? (This means using
- it without their knowledge, permission, or, hopefully,
- acquaintance)
- 24) Have you ever used a Dimension, or any other PBX? (Private Branch
- Exchange, found in corporations, governments, schools, and other
- places needing many many phone lines.)
- 25) Have you ever used an Aspen, or any other VMB? (Voice MailBox,
- found in places needing a super-duper multi-function answering
- machine. Also found on "party lines")
- 26) Have you ever used a divertor? (A number that when you call it,
- rings another number further down the line, thus theoretically
- decreasing cost to the owners by making 2 short calls instead of
- one long one)
- 27) Have you ever used conferencing? (Alliance, et al.)
- 28) Have you ever used a loop?
- 29) Have you ever used a box of any sort or colour?
- 2A) Have you ever defeated "Caller I.D."?
- 2B) Have you ever made a collect call TO a pay phone?
- 2C) Have you ever convinced others you were a phone worker? (Others
- include friends, family, neighbours, telephone customers, and
- religious officiaries above the bishop)
- 2D) Have you ever convinced the operator you were a phone worker?
- 2E) Have you called long-distance for free more than 5 times? (Note,
- this does not include calling free numbers, you must be making
- a call that you would, under normal circumstances, be billed
- for)
- 2F) Have you called out-of-state for free more than 5 times?
- 30) Have you called international for free more than 5 times?
- 31) Have you called inter-continental for free more than 5 times?
- 32) Have you ever called around the world, with at least 5 "stops"?
- (This entails getting friends in foreign lands, all of them with
- 3-way calling or similar capabilities, and making a circle.)
- 33) Have you had more than 10 people on-line at once? (Conferencing,
- or using 3-way, or such)
- 34) Have you had more than 10 people on-line, in more than one
- country?
- 35) Have you had more than 10 people on-line, on more than one
- continent?
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- IV. Carding. Using plastic to get things that you would otherwise be forced
- to do without, such as '386 systems, subscriptions to magazines, and, of
- course, all those phreaked calls to phone-sex numbers. This is illegal.
- This is VERY illegal. This gets into the department of "federal offense"
- quite easily. This is the kind of stuff that the FBI taps your phone if
- your FRIENDS are doing it.
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- 36) Have you ever had cards? (Must be of people who are not
- acquaintances or relatives.)
- 37) More than 10 at once?
- 38) More than 100 at once?
- 39) More than 5 kinds at once? (5 kinds, not 5 banks. Having VISA
- from 5 banks doesn't count. Having VISA, MasterCard, AmEx,
- Discover, and AT&T does. AmEx and AmEx Gold don't count as two
- separate kinds.)
- 3A) Have you ever carded successfully? (You got what you wanted, and
- didn't get caught, and no one noticed.)
- 3B) Have you ever carded more than $500.00 at one time?
- 3C) Have you ever carded more than $5000.00 at one time?
- 3D) Have you ever conspired with others to pull off an act of
- carding? (Example given: One has the cards, one makes the call,
- one picks up the order at the drop site)
- 3E) Have you ever held a job solely to acquire cards? (Mail-order
- operator, retail sales, bank, etc.)
- 3F) Have you ever had access to TRW or any other means of validating
- cards? (You call their computer, give it the card number, and it
- tells you all about the owner of the card, thus making it oodles
- easier to impersonate said owner)
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- V. Cracking. This is the act of actually removing copy protection of any
- sort from software. Without cracking, pirating would be a dead art. This
- is not explicitly illegal, if you don't give the cracked software to anyone
- else. Cracking can be done just so you can make a backup for personal use.
- Of course, that's rarely the case....
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- 40) Have you ever cracked a game?
- 41) Have you ever cracked an application?
- 42) Have you ever cracked a utility?
- 43) Have you ever cracked an operating system?
- 44) Have you ever written an intro or demo screen? (Nice little
- screen put on cracked game to identify the cracker to the
- pirating community, thus gaining infamy and respect)
- 45) Have you ever written music for an intro? (They're much nicer
- with music.)
- 46) Have you ever written a music/graphic intro?
- 47) Have you ever been nationally known as a cracker?
- 48) Have you ever been intercontinentally known as a cracker?
- 49) Have you cracked more than 10 programs?
- 4A) Have you cracked more than 100 programs?
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- VI. Trashing. The fine art of trash-picking things far more interesting
- than old sofas and broken televisions. Also known as dumpster-diving. Also
- known as tresspassing. Slightly illegal.
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- 4B) Have you ever trashed? (You must have actually retrieved
- something from the trash, not just looked)
- 4C) Have you ever trashed a retail store? (Cards, etc)
- 4D) Have you ever trashed an academic or research site? (Student
- or employee ID's and information, etc.)
- 4E) Have you ever trashed a technological corporate site? (Inside
- information, etc)
- 4F) Have you ever trashed a communications corporate site? (Phreaking
- information, phone componentry, etc.)
- 50) Have you ever trashed a technological manufacturing site? (Bits
- and pieces of computers, etc)
- 51) Have you ever trashed a government site? (Treason, etc)
- 52) Have you ever re-assembled shredded or destroyed documents?
- 53) Have you ever had documents clearly marked "proprietary",
- "restricted", "classified", or such? (In est, things that weren't
- supposed to EVER get thrown out in the first place)
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- VII. Intelligence/Espionage, et cetera. This is the stuff you can get taken
- away and shot for... treason is nestled nicely in this category.
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- 54) Have you ever traded documents? (This must be over a computer.
- Sending the stealth-fighter plans in a manila envelope doesn't
- count. Sending them in MacPaint format does)
- 55) Have you ever traded copyrighted documents?
- 56) Have you ever traded classified documents?
- 57) Have you ever traded documents across state lines?
- 58) Have you ever traded documents across national boundaries?
- 59) Have you ever traded documents intercontinentally?
- 5A) Have you ever sent documents to persons in countries not allied
- to, or hostile to, your own? (For the US, Turkey counts)
- 5B) Have you ever intercepted any transmission of documents?
- 5C) Have you ever eavesdropped electronically?
- 5D) Have you ever bugged a phone? (not your own)
- 5E) Have you ever used a radio device for eavesdropping?
- 5F) Have you ever used a communications satellite for purposes other
- than those which its operators intended? (Cable pirating,
- sending pirated games across the ocean, et cetera)
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- VIII. Compusex and such. Where this test meets the other purity tests.
- Things you can do even if you can't convince anyone to get near you in the
- real world, and some things that few people would ever admit.
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- 60) Have you ever done compusex? (Being sexually explicit on the
- computer, in communication with another person, for purposes of
- arousal of one or more of the parties involved)
- 61) Have you done compusex across state lines?
- 62) Have you done compusex across national boundaries?
- 63) Have you done compusex intercontinentally?
- 64) Have you ever participated in a compusex orgy? (more than 2
- people doing compusex)
- 65) Have you done compusex while posing as a member of the opposite
- sex? (popular past-time on networks)
- 66) Have you ever had any X-rated images? (GIF, RLE, MacPaint, etc,
- must be on a computer, not on hardcopy)
- 67) Have you ever created an X-rated image? (Drawn with MacPaint or
- similar software, or digitized)
- 68) Have you ever posed for an X-rated image?
- 69) If so, was it distributed? (Uploaded to a BBS or network, etc)
- 6A) Have you ever had any X-rated animation? (An image that moves)
- 6B) Have you ever created an X-rated animation?
- 6C) Have you ever posed for an X-rated animation?
- 6D) If so, was it distributed?
- 6E) Have you ever had any X-rated game? (Text, Graphics,
- Text/graphics, must be on a computer)
- 6F) Have you ever written one?
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- IX. Virii and such. Fun little things that damage other computers. Note:
- No points will be given for being stupid enough to let your OWN computer get
- the virus/trojan/worm. This stuff is fun, but illegal, for those who missed
- the Robert Morris trial.
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- 70) Have you ever written a successful trojan? (It looks like a
- constructive program, but isn't)
- 71) Have you ever written a successful virus? (It's just plain
- destructive, and hides in other files)
- 72) Have you ever written a successful worm? (It runs through the
- system, generally through multiple systems on a network, either
- destroying data, tying up power, or both)
- 73) Have you ever set one of the above free, and distributed it?
- (Either through BBSes or networks or both)
- 74) Did it work as well as or better than you had expected?
- 75) Did you ever destroy anything on a network? (This doesn't mean
- deleting a file. This means knocking out a link, disabling a
- remote system, etc)
- 76) Have you ever killed an entire network or sub-network? (At least
- 5 machines involved here)
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- X. Basic sickness, dementia, and such. Most of this isn't illegal, but
- answering yes to these might show that you're a little out-of-date,
- out-of-touch, or out of your mind.
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- 77) Have you ever owned more than 2 computers simultaneously? (Once
- again, incompatible ones.)
- 78) Have you ever owned a computer requiring coolant, raised floors,
- or air-conditioning?
- 79) Have you ever owned a computer worth more than your means of
- transportation?
- 7A) Have you ever owned a computer worth more than your place of
- residence?
- 7B) Have you ever computed in lieu of or during sexual activity?
- 7C) Have you ever had a computer which was any of the following:
- 10 or more years old?
- 1 or more generation out-of-date in CPU?
- serial number 100 or less?
- not compatible with anything within 50 miles?
- 7D) Have you ever been on a computer for more than 24 hours straight?
- (If you fell asleep, that doesn't count)
- 7E) Have you ever built a computer? (This means more than just
- plugging the peripherals in. You must have done some assembly
- inside the computer itself, such as installing the motherboard,
- adding capabilities, altering the configuration, etc)
- 7F) Have you ever introduced someone to computers and thus caused
- them to neglect other responsibilities and/or hygenic activities
- for extended periods of time? (eating, sleeping, work, showers,
- classes, and such)
- 80) Do you have a computer at all?
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- Scoring: Take the number of questions you answered YES to. Let that number
- equal X. Subtract X from 128. Let the answer equal Y. Divide Y by
- 128 and multiply by 100 to get your percentage score. Essentially,
- for those of you who want to use your computer to work this out, the
- formula is as follows:
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- Score = 100((128-Yes_Answers)/128)
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- This test was created by someone, using a hacked account.
- If it doesn't make sense, who gives a s**t !!
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- From the
- JOKIN' AROUND DISK
- by
- LEEJAN ENTERPRISES
- P.O. Box 66. Happy Valley.
- South Australia. 5159.
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