FAKEMAIL Mail intended to trick the recipient into believing that it was sent by a person other than the actual sender. Very, very easy FANCHER, BRUCE see DEAD LORD FARGO 4A One of the earliest phreak groups, a sort of precursor to LOD. Membership included BIOC Agent 003, Tuc, Big Brother, Quasi-Moto, Video Warhead and the Wizard of ARPANET. [Name comes from a city in North Dakota they re-routed calls to; incidentally, the same town was used for the name of the 1996 drama _Fargo_, though most of the movie takes place in Minnesota and it has virtually nothing to do with the town, though it begins there.] FEDWORLD The largest BBS in the world. Huge board with government info, operated by the United States government FERNANDEZ, JULIO see OUTLAW FEYD RAUTHA see SHADOWHAWK 1 FIERY, DENNIS see THE KNIGHTMARE _FIREWALLS AND INTERNET SECURITY: REPELLING THE WILY HACKER_ Security book outlining Net security; haven’t read it yet, but plan to buy it 5ESS The fifth-generation electronic switching station currently used by telcos _40HEX_ Virus zine that contains source code for many virii and interviews with prominent virus writers. It is mostly staffed by members of Phalcon/Skism, and was first edited by Hellraiser, then by DecimatoR, and then sort of by nobody. I believe the magazine has become defunct; the web page no longer exists. [I don't really know what the name comes from because I'm not particularly advanced in my virus knowledge; the "hex" part comes from hexadecimal (as in hex dump), which is base sixteen, but I don’t know why the number "40" is there in particular.] 414 GANG Hacker group formed on the 414 Private BBS that gained notoriety in 1982 for intrusions on Los Alamos military bases and the Sloan-Kettering Memorial Institute. [I assume the name comes from the area code of the BBS, a common practice.] FRACTAL Supposedly a symbol for cyberpunk (though I don’t buy it-- does cyberpunk have to have a symbol, when it is concerned with outlaws and undefinable fringe elements?). A part of chaos theory, proposed by mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot in the 1960s FRANK DRAKE Handle of Steven G. Steinberg. Hacker and former correspondent for _Phrack_. Currently one of the section editors for _Wired_ FREED, BARRY see HOFFMAN, ABBIE FRY GUY Hacker, buddy of some guys in LOD, and Motley Crue (sorry, I can’t make the little dots in a plain text file) fan. Busted in 1989 by the universally despised Tim Foley. He was, however, a carder and he offered to testify against LOD, things that are not really exemplary. See also TINA [Name comes from manipulations he did in the McDonald’s computer system.]