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You're missing the context. Susan Thunder is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Headley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Headley. She was a prostitute. She
by akira2501 12y ago
You're missing the context.
Susan Thunder is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Headley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Headley. She was a prostitute. She was an adversarial figure in the phreaking scene at the time.
I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but this is a small slice of a much larger scene.
- SwellJoe 12y agoInteresting. But, still, the threats of violence and general dehumanization of her by several people is pretty horrible (someone has suggested she got someone arrested, but I don't see confirmation of that or an explanation for why...if they threatened violence against her, as several messages in the archive do, I wouldn't begrudge her for reporting those threats to police, for example).
- akira2501 12y agoReally it's a bunch of people trying to impress and out-do each other. "Dave Starr", "Susan Thunder", and "Roscoe Dupran" tangled with each other through almost any format available to them. Here's more old-school sources of all this rivalry: http://www.flyingsnail.com/missingbbs/ http://www.flyingsnail.com/missingbbs/ http://phrack.org/issues/10/2.html http://phrack.org/issues/10/2.html
- SwellJoe 12y agoIt takes a truly epic troll to span decades...impressive, in a way. Embarrassing, too.
- walterbell 12y agoCould be reusable handle(s) in an extended psychology experiment. One person could use multiple handles, or one handle could be used by multiple people.
- digi_owl 12y agohttp://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=5370 http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=5370 A recent-ish example of someone using multiple handles...
- at-fates-hands 12y agoShe was also one hell of a social engineering hacker. One of the last chapters in Cyberpunk, she's in an office of some big corporate big wigs and asked to demonstrate her hacking skills. Within ten minutes she had the system passwords for their network.