LADOPOULOS, ELIAS see ACID PHREAK LAMER A jerk idiot loser. That pretty much sums it up. [From "lame," weak.] LASS [Local Area Signalling Services] Special numbers, preceded by a *, which allow special operations such, which usually cost a small amount of money. Includes such services as trace (*57), callback (*69) and caller ID disable (*70) L.A. SYNDROME Lamer behavior. Means the person doesn't support the group. Usually associated with BBS's and posting thereupon. [From a user named the L.A. Raider and his activities on several Ohio boards.] THE LAUGHING SKULL CLAN [LSC] Recently formed (1997) group that was created by myself after the retirement of LOA, my previous group. The Laughing Skull Clan follows an anarchistic rule based on previous, successful groups such as LOD, MOD, L0pht and GkOS, and a philosophy that is equally inspired by the Mentor and the Cult of the Dead Cow, if you can imagine that combination. Current members include Logik Bomb, Hyper Viper, the Loath, Omega X, Kwantam Pozeetron, Rusky, Technics, KoDiaK, visual trinity, the Professor, Hack-and-Slay, Cpt. Nemo and Nemesis Enforcer. We maintain a web page at <http://www.hackers.com/hacking/> [Name comes from the name of a traitorous Orcish clan in Blizzard Software's _WarCraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal Expansion Set_.] LAW ENFORCEMENT ACCESS FIELD [LEAF] see LEAF [Law Enforcement Access Field] LEACH Someone who copies a large amount of software and doesn't return the favor. Used by BBS's and users, but also applies to those who physically copy software. [From "leach," the disgusting creature that sucks your blood.] LEAF [Law Enforcement Access Field] Major part of the encryption in Clipper. A scrambled group of numbers including the chip’s serial number, a session key number and a checksum number; allows government agencies to bypass Clipper encryption LEARY, TIMOTHY (1920-1996) Ex-Harvard professor and West Point-graduate who turned hippy in the 1960s and encouraged students to "turn on, tune in, drop out." Popularized LSD, and was eventually imprisoned for almost ten years for marijuana possession. He became a cyberpunk about fifteen years after his dropping out, and his new sound bite became "the PC is the LSD of the 1980's." (He later updated that to the 1990s when he discovered that computers now make the Apple IIes, 386s, Mac 512ks and Commodores of the 1980s look like abacuses.) He became one of the editors of _Mondo 2000_. In 1992, he discovered that he had prostate cancer. Being the weird guy that he was, he thought this was great news because he was going to die; after toying with the idea of somehow killing himself over the Internet and coming up with elaborate suicide plans, he succumbed to cancer on May 30, 1996 LEE, JOHN see CORRUPT THE LEGION OF DOOM [LOD] [Full name: "The Fraternal Order of the Legion of Doom (Lambda Omega Delta)"] Legendary hacking group that existed from 1984-1990, created on a board called PLOVERNET, founded by Lex Luthor, a former member of the Knights of Shadow. Also inspired the short-lived groups "Farmers of Doom" and "Justice League of America." It subsumed the membership of a group called the Tribunal of Knowledge. Began as a phreaking group, and when it later gained more members who were more proficient with computers, it became LOD/H (Legion of Doom/Hackers). When many members dropped out, the "H" migrated from the name, but their newfound ability with computers stayed. Its official membership included, at various times: Lex Luthor, Karl Marx, Mark Tabas, Agrajag the Prolonged, King Blotto, Blue Archer, The Dragyn, Unknown Soldier, Sharp Razor, Doctor Who 413, Erik Bloodaxe, Sir Francis Drake, Paul Muad’Dib, Phucked Agent 04, X-Man, Randy Smith, Steve Dahl, The Warlock, Silver Spy, Terminal Man, Videosmith, Kerrang Khan, Gary Seven, Marauder, Bill from RNOC, Leftist, Urvile, Phantom Phreaker, Doom Prophet, Jester Sluggo, Carrier Culprit, Thomas Covenant, Mentor, Control C, Prime Suspect, Prophet, Professor Falken and Phiber Optik. Some members were busted by Operation Sundevil, others created a security firm called ComSec (which went bankrupt, and eventually was reincarnated as LOD Communications, Inc), and many just disappeared. Also, in the early 1990s, a "new" Legion of Doom was created, because since the group was defunct, logically anybody could use the name; it was, however, pretty much looked down upon and was eventually forcefully disbanded by members of the original LOD. (Doesn’t that sound creepy? Like Mark Tabas and Erik Bloodaxe had them killed or something.) [The group’s name came from the _Superfriends_ cartoon series (using characters from Superman/Justice League comic books), where the villains were the Legion of Doom.] THE LEGION OF DOOM/HACKERS see THE LEGION OF DOOM [LOD] THE LEGION OF THE APOCALYPSE [LOA] Florida-based hacker group of which I was a member; existed from about 1995 to 1997. Its members included, at various times; Revelation, Phreaked Out, Electric Jaguar, Hack Attack, Logik Bomb, Silicon Toad, Phreak Show, Phuck Phish and Fallout. No relation to the more infamous Legion of Doom. Its retirement led to the creation of the Laughing Skull Clan LEVY, STEVEN Writer and journalist; one of the original 1960s MIT hackers who is disdainful of us latter-day hackers. Author of _Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution_, among other things. Currently contributing writer for _Wired_ and _Newsweek_ LEWCIFER see DE PAYNE, LEWIS LEX LUTHOR Legendary hacker/pheaker and founder of LOD. [Handle came from the comic book villain who was Superman’s arch-enemy; the hacker Lex got it from the 1979 movie version with Gene Hackman.] LOA see THE LEGION OF THE APOCALYPSE [LOA] LOCKED (1) When a computer system shuts down and stops operation, usually without the operator wanting it to happen. (2) A protected program. (3) A file that has been changed by the OS so that it cannot be changed or deleted; often very easy to unlock. (4) A floppy disk which has been physically locked to prevent accidental alteration or to prevent stupid people from modifying the contents LOD see THE LEGION OF DOOM [LOD] LOD/H see THE LEGION OF DOOM [LOD] _LOD/H TECHNICAL JOURNALS_ [LOD/H TJ] Hacking philes written by the Legion of Doom/Hackers, beginning in 1986. Four issues were made. The form and content owed something to what was then called _Phrack Inc._. [Name is a parody of _AT&T Technical Journals_.] LOD/H TJ see _LOD/H TECHNICAL JOURNALS_ [LOD/H TJ] LOGIC BOMB A program that performs a certain action when certain conditions are met, such as deleting all files on Christmas eve, although it is not necessarily malevolent. Though it is not technically a virus, it is often grouped that way. There is some speculation that the turn of the millenium will set off tons of logic bombs that lie dormant in computers LOOMPANICS Publishing company (in)famous for publishing such "questionable" information as bomb plans and guerrilla techniques; also published _Secrets of a Super Hacker_, though according to everyone I’ve heard from the subject, it’s pretty worthless THE LONE GUNMEN An group of three fictious hackers (Byers, Frohike and Langly) on _The X-Files_; first appeared in the episode "E.B.E" in 1992. Editors of a paranoid publication called _The Lone Gunmen_. An honorary Lone Gunman was a hacker named the Thinker who eventually got killed by the government because he uncovered information on the existence of extra-terrestrials. Apparently the government keeps its files on the existence of extra-terrestrials unencrypted on an Internet connected network. [Name comes from the oxymoronic flipside of the "lone gunman" theory in the Kennedy assassination, which is that Oswald acted alone.] LOOPS Phone numbers used by the telco for testing. Can be manipulated to make free calls, which are billed to the telco L0PHT A Boston-based group of hackers interested in free information distribution and finding alternatives to the Internet. Their web site houses the archives of the Whacked Mac Archives, Black Crawling Systems, Dr. Who's Radiophone, the Cult of the Dead Cow, and others. Current membership includes Dr. Mudge, Space Rogue, Brian Oblivion, Kingpin, Weld, Tan, Stephan Wolfenstein and Megan A. Haquer. (Entry suggested by Space Rogue.) LORD DIGITAL Handle of Patrick K. Kroupa. Former member of the Apple Mafia, the Knights of Shadow and the Legion of Doom. (Like Dead Lord, he claims he was officially inducted in 1987, but he is not listed in any of the official lists.) Good friend of Dead Lord and co-administrator of MindVox. Can be reached at digital@phantom.com LSC [Laughing Skull Clan] see LAUGHING SKULL CLAN