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Rev Fredric L. Rice

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Nov 24, 2000, 1:49:15 PM11/24/00
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http://www.newsbytes.com/news/00/158317.html

ID Fraud Book Goes Too Far - Mitnick

People here will recognize the guy's name.

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Anonymous

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fr...@skepicNOEATSPAMtank.org (Rev Fredric L. Rice) wrote:
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>
> http://www.newsbytes.com/news/00/158317.html
>
> ID Fraud Book Goes Too Far - Mitnick
>
> People here will recognize the guy's name.

Okay, I'll be the one to bite, who's Scott French? I assume that's
the name you're referring to.

You don't mean Mitnick, do you? I'd be genuinely surprised to
discover that he has anything to do with the topic of ARS.

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Mirele

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Nov 25, 2000, 12:03:23 AM11/25/00
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nob...@remailer.ch (Anonymous) wrote in
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>You don't mean Mitnick, do you? I'd be genuinely surprised to
>discover that he has anything to do with the topic of ARS.

Actually he does. His compatriot Lewis (Lewiz) de Payne used to post some
really weird stuff on the newsgroup.

Deana
mir...@xmission.com

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From: mir...@xmission.com (Mirele).
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Wrote on the subject: Re: Kevin Mitnick -- superhacker -- back in the
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Hmm, what ID did he use in his From header? Makes it easier to search
the CD archive for the weird stuff, if I knew that.

Sten-Arne

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On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 06:06:22 +0100, ©Anti-Cult® -
www.users.wineasy.se/noname/ <The.Galacti...@ThePentagon.com> wrote
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>On 25 Nov 2000 00:03:23 -0500.
>In Message-ID: <8FF6E64E3mire...@205.232.34.12>
>From: mir...@xmission.com (Mirele).
>Organization: Knights of Xenu, Intermountain Chapter.
>Wrote on the subject: Re: Kevin Mitnick -- superhacker -- back in the
>news:
>
>>nob...@remailer.ch (Anonymous) wrote in
>><06c4dd4b88064b57...@remailer.ch>:
>>
>>>You don't mean Mitnick, do you? I'd be genuinely surprised to
>>>discover that he has anything to do with the topic of ARS.
>>
>>Actually he does. His compatriot Lewis (Lewiz) de Payne used to post some
>>really weird stuff on the newsgroup.
>>
>>Deana
>>mir...@xmission.com
>
>Hmm, what ID did he use in his From header? Makes it easier to search
>the CD archive for the weird stuff, if I knew that.

He used le...@netcom.com. ARS wasn't so quick to spot the trolls back
then. As a troll extraordinaire, he won the "Hook, Line, and Sinker" Award
on alt.usenet.kooks, around about the same time he posted here. Here's an
example:

Xref: netcom.com alt.religion.scientology:81986 alt.fan.lewiz:321
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology,alt.fan.lewiz
Path: netcom.com!lewiz
From: le...@netcom.com (Lewis De Payne)
Subject: Give $$ to the Church
Message-ID: <lewizDA...@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM Public Offering -- The Ship Sinketh
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1]
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:32:29 GMT
Lines: 36
Sender: le...@netcom2.netcom.com

I have just finished reading my first issue of "Freedom" magazine
(Vol. 27,Issue 4) which is published by the Church of Scientology.
It has some very interesting articles regarding the internet, and
I find it to be a very well-produced publication. I am immediately
writing a check to the Church in the amount of $75 for a 60 issue
subscription (5 years). In addition, I am going to visit their
Hollywood Boulevard location and volunteer my assistance.

What Dennis Erlich has done to his wife and step-daughter is simply
horrible, and his beating his pregnant wife is without equal. I am
glad that the Church was able to step in, due to unrelated circum-
stances, and bring this out into the open. Mr. Erlich's picture
appears on page twenty. There are two pictures on page twenty; one
captioned "Child Pornographers" and the other "Copyright Terrorist".
I belive Mr. Erlich is the latter.

On page twenty one is a picture of Helena K. Kobrin, Esq. She appears
much more professional than Mr. Erlich (who is in some jacket and tee
shirt), has a decisive smile of confidence shining through her very
beautiful lips, and is wearing a distinctive ring on her right hand.
I would be very much honored to meet Mz. Kobrin some day.

I am not sure why a portion of page twenty one discusses Justin Tanner
Peterson [sic], aka "Agent Steal," since in his earlier days Petersen
actually helped the Church indirectly through Michaels International,
a private detective agency. However, it is interesting to see how the
tide turns, and the Church outs those who fail to maintain a high
moral standard.

I wish the best to the victims of Mr. Erlich, his ex-wife and daughter.
It is a pity that he saw fit to control their lives and otherwise preach
his deviant behaviour upon them. God bless the Church.

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roger gonnet

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Nov 25, 2000, 2:28:32 AM11/25/00
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Rev Fredric L. Rice <fr...@skepicNOEATSPAMtank.org> a écrit dans le message
: t1tb3m6...@corp.supernews.com...

>
> http://www.newsbytes.com/news/00/158317.html
>
> ID Fraud Book Goes Too Far - Mitnick
>
> People here will recognize the guy's name.

well, if it's exact, I believe it could be forbidden in France, as one can't
recommend criminal activities lightly. (I'm not sure, but some law exists at
least to forbid some texts recommending suicide, by instance)

roger


ptsc

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Nov 25, 2000, 3:00:00 AM11/25/00
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And the author of the Mitnick article is Kevin Poulsen, a former associate of
Justin Tanner Petersen, who was an agent for Scientology and wiretapped the
Aznarans illegally.

Poulsen has since left the dark side and made a successful transition to
journalism. He's an excellent writer, and wrote the ZDnet article on the
sporgeries.

(Poulsen, Petersen and Mitnick, incidentally, were all used in a DA pack in
Freedom magazine, which neglected to mention that Petersen was formerly one of
their agents. The article was called "A Crime by Any Other Name" in the
"Internet" issue of Freedom, and existed solely to put Dennis Erlich on the same
list as Mitnick; the article is still online at the Freedom magazine site, but
all mention of Dennis Erlich has been removed, making it rather non sequitur.)

ptsc

ptsc

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Nov 25, 2000, 3:00:00 AM11/25/00
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On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 06:06:22 +0100, ©Anti-Cult® - www.users.wineasy.se/noname/
<The.Galacti...@ThePentagon.com> wrote:

>Hmm, what ID did he use in his From header? Makes it easier to search
>the CD archive for the weird stuff, if I knew that.

le...@netcom.com though there may have been others.

The articles were very funny trolls and I believe de Payne won a Hook, Line &
Sinker award for trolls over in alt.usenet.kooks for this series of astounding
trolls.

(He pretended to have a crush on Helena Kobrin and to support Scientology;
even after being unmasked as a troll people continued responding to him as if he
were serious for months.)

ptsc

Rev Fredric L. Rice

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>fr...@skepicNOEATSPAMtank.org (Rev Fredric L. Rice) wrote:

>> http://www.newsbytes.com/news/00/158317.html
>> ID Fraud Book Goes Too Far - Mitnick
>> People here will recognize the guy's name.

> Okay, I'll be the one to bite, who's Scott French?
> I assume that's the name you're referring to.

Nope.

> You don't mean Mitnick, do you?

Yep.

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From: ethercat <ethe...@arscc-atl.com>.
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>On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 06:06:22 +0100, ŠAnti-CultŽ -

Thanks. Yeah I've found a couple from him.... :-)

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In Message-ID: <knev1to93sdob080n...@4ax.com>
From: ptsc <pt...@my-deja.com>.
Organization: ARS: Perhaps The Most Malignant Newsgroup on Usenet.

Wrote on the subject: Re: Kevin Mitnick -- superhacker -- back in the
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>On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 06:06:22 +0100, ©Anti-Cult® - www.users.wineasy.se/noname/
><The.Galacti...@ThePentagon.com> wrote:
>
>>Hmm, what ID did he use in his From header? Makes it easier to search
>>the CD archive for the weird stuff, if I knew that.
>

>le...@netcom.com though there may have been others.
>
>The articles were very funny trolls and I believe de Payne won a Hook, Line &
>Sinker award for trolls over in alt.usenet.kooks for this series of astounding
>trolls.
>
>(He pretended to have a crush on Helena Kobrin and to support Scientology;
>even after being unmasked as a troll people continued responding to him as if he
>were serious for months.)
>
>ptsc

Thanks. Yeah I found a couple from him, but since my ARS archive really
starts in July of 1995, it doesn't have all of them....

mimus

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Nov 30, 2000, 12:29:57 AM11/30/00
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ethercat <ethe...@arscc-atl.com> posted:

Ummm . . . wait . . . .

>I am not sure why a portion of page twenty one discusses Justin Tanner
>Peterson [sic], aka "Agent Steal," since in his earlier days Petersen
>actually helped the Church indirectly through Michaels International,
>a private detective agency. However, it is interesting to see how the
>tide turns, and the Church outs those who fail to maintain a high
>moral standard.

Errr . . . wait again . . . .

>I wish the best to the victims of Mr. Erlich, his ex-wife and daughter.
>It is a pity that he saw fit to control their lives and otherwise preach
>his deviant behaviour upon them. God bless the Church.
>
>

>Congratulations to Kem...@shell.portal.com (Ken Sandberg)
>for winning the alt.usenet.kooks KOOK OF THE MONTH contest.
>
>

>"I think, therefore I'm free" - Lewis De Payne | Finger your girlfriend
>Nonpolitical activist and general troublemaker | for my PGP key...
>
>-------------------------------------- end original post

This would've had my T-meter flashing--although hardly conclusive,
considering wot idiots some undoubted clam posters are.

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many people
reduced to
incoherent babbling,
stripping off clothes,
crawling around on the ground,
banging heads, limbs and other body parts
against furniture and walls,
barking,
losing all sense of one's identity
and intense and persistent suicidal ideation.

--Declaration of Andre Tabayoyon

I'm an OT.--Lisa McPherson

If you imagine 40-50 Scientologists
posting on the Internet every few days,
we'll just run the SP's right off the system.
It will be quite simple, actually.

--Elaine Siegel, OSA INT (1996)

Case 5/BTLA/SP1/BAD

Terra Xenu

roger gonnet

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> >
> >I have just finished reading my first issue of "Freedom" magazine
> >(Vol. 27,Issue 4) which is published by the Church of Scientology.
> >It has some very interesting articles regarding the internet, and
> >I find it to be a very well-produced publication. I am immediately
> >writing a check to the Church in the amount of $75 for a 60 issue
> >subscription (5 years).

Would be more senseful to ask them to write you a check ;-))

roger


Chris Leithiser

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> In article <t1tb3m6...@corp.supernews.com>
> fr...@skepicNOEATSPAMtank.org (Rev Fredric L. Rice) wrote:
> >
> >
> > http://www.newsbytes.com/news/00/158317.html
> >
> > ID Fraud Book Goes Too Far - Mitnick
> >
> > People here will recognize the guy's name.
>
> Okay, I'll be the one to bite, who's Scott French? I assume that's
> the name you're referring to.
>
> You don't mean Mitnick, do you? I'd be genuinely surprised to
> discover that he has anything to do with the topic of ARS.
>

Well, there's one tangential connection: eBay has just pulled auctions
of some of his stuff, on the same sorts of specious arguments that they
used in pulling e-meter sales.

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