| From: | Allen Landsidel all@******.net |
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| Subject: | Top 10 ways to stay safe as a decker. |
| Date: | Sat, 04 Dec 1999 15:00:56 -0500 |
(internet/matrix/whatever) without much fear of being caught, if you're
careful.. so here are some of the ways I've avoided capture, or been
prepared to use, myself IRL when doing things that others frown upon on the
'net.
1) If you must pay for your access, pay in the equivilent of cash. Use a
fake name and address. Get an off shore account to pay out of, if they
insist on some kind of e-billing.
2) Go to the ugly green box, crack it open, and hook up.
3) Go to the side of someones house, crack open the smaller ugly green box,
and hook up.
4) ABUSE "free trials" of 'net services. I doubt those will go away. Sign
up for the free service with a bogus account, move on to another in a month
or whenever the free trial expires.
5) Steal. Steal cellphones, steal credit cards (credsticks). Steal
thumbs/eyes if you need an ID. ;)
6) Blackmail. You can't blackmail Acme Matrix Services almost for sure,
but you could blackmail just one of their admins into adding an account for
you with just a small amount of the right information.
7) Know people. (Fixers are your best friend as a Decker)
8) Stay informed. Before you go after the big glowing pyramid in
matrixspace, hack some less secure stuff nearby, like police dispatching,
so you can keep an ear out when they come after you.
9) Stay mobile. Very important to how you use information from #8.
10) Never, ever, EVER tell anyone who you are, where you are, what you're
doing, unless you absoloutly must. Your fixers shouldn't even know your
real name.
-A
"There comes a time when the operation of a machine becomes so odious,
makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; not even tacitly take
part, and you have to throw yourself on all the gears and all the levers
and you have to make it stop."
-Mario Savio, founder of the free speech movement.
Commandment XI: Thou shalt not inflict upon me thy useless prattlings, for
I thy God am a busy God.
-Joe Thompsonn
