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 act of typing very rapidly without errors DARK 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 LEE DARK 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 OSI hacked the systems he was entering the RAF systems from. Currently the Phrack World News correspondent for _Phrack_ 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 <http://www.metrix.net/daddict> 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 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-- heh, DL probably thought no one had so little of a life they’d actually use FindText to scan for references to him in _Phrack_ and read the files. 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 DIALER DENNING, [Doctor] DOROTHY ELIZABETH DAVIS [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. Becoming more and more obsolete THE DESTROYER see REDRAGON DETH 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 _Dateline_ DETH VEGGIE see DETH VEGETABLE DeWITT, 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_ 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 DISK see REDRAGON DOCTOR WHO [413] (1967-Present) Also known as Skinny Puppy and Saint Cloud. Former member of the Legion of Doom. [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. See also UPLOAD, TRANSFER, XFER DR. DISK see REDRAGON DR. WHO see DOCTOR WHO DRAKE, FRANK see FRANK DRAKE DRAPER, 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 Major Con organizer and hacker. Don’t know much about him other than that DUAL CAPSTAN see CONTROL C DUB 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.