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- <> Modernz 18 a new change <>
- <> written by Tal Meta <>
- <> re-edited by Digital-demon <>
- <> (C)opyright December 28, 1991 <>
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- Title : modernz vs tanj
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- This message is to announce that henceforth and forevermore, Digital-demon is
- the sole caretaker & owner of the "modern??.???" textfiles. Phoenix Modernz is
- no longer using this title,and since Digital-demon has written the bulk of
- these files,it is in recognition of his contributions that I give the filename
- to him.
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- Modernz publications will,in the future,use a title of "tanj.???", which means
- "There Ain't No Justice". The first of these files will be in the directories
- of this & hopefully many other bbs's by morning's light.
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- MATRIX BBS - Modernz HQ
- SySops: Wintermute & Digital-demon
- (908) 905-6691
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- There Ain't No Such Thing As a Free Lunch - TANJ HQ
- SySop: Tal Meta
- (908) 830-7960
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- SySop: Red
- (908) 495-3926
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- -How to host a bust-
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- Hiya... now, alot of you have probably never heard of me, or the
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- organization I founded back in 1989. Panther Modernz started out as a small H/P
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- group, mostly commodore users in the central Jersey area. As time went by, we
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- either dropped out, or eventually went IBM. None of this has anything to do with
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- the main thrust of this file, except to say that we were there.
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- In any case,back on May 30, 1991, I was busted. Now, I guess everyone in
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- their own mind has visions of how it will come to pass, but I must admit, I was
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- disappointed. I was just sitting at home, and had FINALLY gotten some offline
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- mail utility configured for my BBS, when there is this knock on the door....
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- I go answer it, thinking nothing out of the ordinary. Three suits and a half
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- dozen uniforms are outside the door. (Still no alarms going off inside, proving
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- my own hypothesis that only the stupid get caught). They push their way in,
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- handing me a warrant and explaining that they are here to search my apartment
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- for computers & telephone equipment. Now, at this point, my brain is in a
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- whirl... "Oh god," I am thinking, "now what the fuck am I gonna do?".
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- The suits identify themselves as Mr. (unintelligible) from US Sprint and
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- a pair of local detectives, which causes me to sigh a bit... local cops means
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- no major investigation. Anyway, the uniforms split up, searching such highly
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- obvious places as my bathroom and my jacket pockets for computers. The same
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- geniuses search my room tooth and nail, failing to find any of the 4 disks
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- scattered in plain view, nor the old radio shack tone dialer that was in a
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- drawer that they dumped out on my bed. They DID find a small bag of catnip,
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- which they advised me to dispose of before I got into more trouble than I
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- already was. I told them that it was catnip, and that they were welcome to
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- take it and have it analyzed. One of the detectives took it and threw it
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- away for me. How nice.
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- Next came the best part... the part where the cops disassemble and label
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- all the parts of your computer system. They were doing okay until they hit my
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- commodore 128D setup, and I literally had to stand over them to insure that
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- they A) Didn't break anything or B) got the names of everything right. The
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- total ignorance of the police when it comes to computers is astonishing
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- enough, but their "expert" from US Sprint was even worse. He tried labelling
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- my TurboCPU as a modem, and thought my external HardDrive was a floppy.
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- They even took the VCR I had hooked up to the Commodore's monitor simply
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- because it was connected to something the computer was connected to. I guess
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- they're busy watching porn tapes on it now...
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- Now, as far as hosting a bust goes, here are some basic tips. If anyone
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- of the officers who come to visit smoke, ask them NICELY to extinguish their
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- cigarettes or step outside with them. (If you have police in your house, you
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- are in enough shit without obviously trying to antagonize them!). When they
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- were disassembling my IBM setup, they also unplugged the air conditioner. I
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- saw no need to plug it back in. Let the fuckers sweat. I also got myself
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- something to drink, and made it obvious that they were welcome to go back to
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- the donut shop if they got thirsty. Cops are a nervous lot, so if you can,
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- try to stand over them, supervising their every move, and make absolutely
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- sure they mark everything down right. And don't answer questions about
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- ANYTHING! And don't lead them to anything, either. The idiots who searched
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- my place left so much shit behind that I almost did start believeing there
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- was a god, after all...
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- The police also tend to underestimate the time it will take them to
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- figure out what it is that you might have done. The detectives who visited me
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- told me they'd be back to me the next day to process me. When it finally came
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- to pass, it was five months later that they finally did book me. Its now three
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- months later and I still don't have a court date.
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- Some things to think of: the US Sprint guy who visited me considered
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- my printout of Internet sites to be a piece of classified material. He seemed
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- genuinely happy to find such an incriminating document. He also read every
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- piece of online mail I had on my system. Online mail has been afforded the
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- same rights as US Postal mail in many states... so he might well have
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- committed a felony right before my eyes. The 4th amendment guarentees the
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- rights of citizens against UNREASONABLE search and seizure. I don't dispute
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- their right to search, but for what they were lookimg for, copies of my
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- software would have been sufficient. Taking it may well be decided in court
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- to be a violation of my rights. The 1st amendment guarentees the rights of
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- all citizens to assemble. By taking the two computers I was running BBS's on,
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- the cops may well be found to have placed a prior restriction to free speech
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- on my users. This too may be a useful argument in court.
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- Another thing of note is that the terms you and I take for granted are
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- all the same to the gendarmes. I was asked what program I used to "hack" with.
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- Now, I don't know about you, but I don't "hack" via any program more complicated
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- than procomm. I deduced that he meant wardialling, and tried to educate him
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- on the difference, but it was useless. When dealing with the authorities, you
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- are often going to find yourself wondering if they can really be this stupid.
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- This is my first file in ages. TANJ is a new direction for me, and I am
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- hoping to go beyond "just" telecom oriented textfiles. Look for future releases later
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- in 1992.
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