E see ECSTASY THE EAVESDROPPER see THE PROPHET ECSTASY [AKA "X," among other names] Drug that’s very popular with ravers, like acid without the hallucinations. It was made illegal in 1987. However, "Herbal Ecstasy," an organic version, is still legal. [Technical name: MDMA- don’t ask me what it stands for.] See also EPHEDRINE EDDRESS Email address. Eddresses are usually in the format username@domain.type.country EFF [Electronic Frontier Foundation] see ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION [EFF] EIGHT LEGGED GROOVE MACHINE [8lgm] see 8lgm 8lgm English hacker group that currently runs a security mailing list. Busted in 1994. It stands for alternately Eight Legged Groove Machine and Eight Little Green Men (the latter is unproven, but I’ve heard it used). The members were two hackers named Pad and Gandalf EIGHT LITTLE GREEN MEN [8lgm] see 8lgm ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION [EFF] A civil liberties group created in response to the unConstitutional actions of the United States Secret Service during the Hacker Crackdown of 1990. They have a newsletter, the _EFFector_. Some of the more notable or influential members include Bruce Sterling, Mitch Kapor, John Perry Barlow, John Gilmore (early employee of Sun) and Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple) THE ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER [EPIC] Net civil libertarian group who handled the 2600 case for the CPSR; also vocal opposition to the Clipper chip proposal THE ELECTRONIC UNDERGROUND see THE UNDERGROUND ELH see THE ELITE LEGION OF HACKERS [ELH] ELITE [or elyte or 3L33T or eleet or a million other spellings] Adjective (over)used to describe the best hackers, because something has to separate the truly good ones from the mediocre ones THE ELITE LEGION OF HACKERS [ELH] The Elite Legion of Hackers is a second-tier group founded by Lord Nemesis in 1996. The group's current membership is made up of Lord Nemesis, Death Vegetable, Panik, Brain Freeze, Zophar, Digital Ignition, Kwantam Pozeetron, od|phreak and Cyber Toast. The group has also spawned an elite "strike team" led by Kwantam Pozeetron, made up of the best members, called the Black Angels EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN (1961-Present) Handle of Eric Corley. Also known as Howard Tripod, Sidney Schreiber, Bob Hardy, Gary Wilson, Clint Eastwood and 110. The editor-in-chief of and writer for _2600: The Hacker Quarterly_, host of the New York phreaking radio show "Off the Hook," and relentless advocate of the computer underground. Often shows up at meetings of computer companies just to unnerve people. In his honor, the film _Hackers_ had the character Cereal Killer’s real name be "Emmanuel Goldstein." [Handle came from the name of the hated, possibly non-existent rebel in Orwell’s _1984_.] ENCRYPTION The practice of encoding data into an unreadable form, which can only be converted with the same code. Recently, Netscape Communications built fairly strong encryption into their browser, though security errors have been discovered several times ENGRESSIA, JOSEPH [Joe] Blind phreak who could whistle the 2600 tone; eventually got a job at a Denver RBOC EPIC [Electronic Privacy Information Center] see THE ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER [EPIC] E911 DOCUMENT [Official name: "Control Office Administration of Enhanced 911 Services for Special Services and Account Centers"] Document written in 1988; liberated by the Prophet and contributed to _Phrack_. Originally written by Richard Helms and the Society of Inpenetrable Prose. Knight Lightning almost got sent to jail for it, seeing as how the telco valued it at over $72,000. (I’m sure Knight Lightning enjoyed himself flipping through his illicitly gained thousands of telco money...) The case was dropped when it was proven that the same info could be bought for about $13 EPHEDRINE Psychoactive drug sometimes used by ravers. Among other things, it is one of the ingredients in herbal Ecstasy and crank and (in obviously small dosages) non-prescription medicines like Nyquil ERIK BLOODAXE (1969-Present) Handle of Chris Goggans. Also known as Cyber-Christ. Former member of the Legion of Doom and The Punk Mafia. Former editor of _Phrack Magazine_. Former employee of Dell Computers. When he took over _Phrack_, it gained more purpose and seemed to pull together more than it had since the departure of Knight Lightning and Taran King; he left after a few issues because of lack of time and desire. He’s also got a bad reputation as a nark. [Handle came from the name of a Viking king of Denmark in the 10th century; revealed to Goggans in a book entitled _Vikings_.] EXON, [Senator] JAMES Democrat Senator who is freaking obsessed with techno-indecency. Sponsored the CDA EXPERIAN Known as TRW until late 1996 (they changed their name to get away from the negative PR surrounding their activities), Experian is an evil megacorporation that is favorite target of hackers, including MOD, in one of the more publicized incidents. It is a target in large part due to the fact that their job includes catologing the credit history of private citizens and selling it to other corporations; thus, both a tempting target for malicious hackers out to pull credit histories, and a target that most ethical hackers have no problem subverting. Supposedly sets up Tiger Teams for the government EXTASYY ELITE Short-lived phreak group destroyed when Poltergeist turned in everybody after he was busted for carding. Its membership included Bit Blitz, Cisban, Evil Priest, Crustaceo Mutoid, Kleptic Wizard, the Mentor (the only guy who went on to do anything with his life, hacking-wise), the Poltergeist and the Protestor