This is the textfile that created so much Havoc on AOL during the first Devil's night Attack. It was DOS'd to practically every port on every node, posted to every section, every chatroom, You get the idea. There were a LOT of people doing this. Boom used my text in their magazine, as you can see below. Please note that the version that BOOM used has been slightly altered, probably by the hacker who posted it, and is about 5% different from the text that I wrote. It has an incorrect date, and a few smaller differences...ENJOY!! -Archangel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOM Issue 11 - Part 6 - BOOM Revolts Our revolution will be a forcible, pervasive, and violent change in the "socio-political" structure, if you will, of cyberspace. Revolution of course is the most extreme option of our dissenting group, and we have taken this course because people are sitting back and watching the BBS community fall apart. The moderate attempts to achieve recognition and reform have failed. Revolutions occur only through careful planning, and this has been taking care of. The success of a revolution depends on crucial timing: and the time is NOW. Revolutions depend on popular support, and a central power: a governing nucleus. The hierarchy has been formed, and we are looking for the support of you, the BBS community. This revolution will awaken and test the BBS community. A revolution is nothing more than a significant historical transformation. We are looking to change the system. Why a revolution? This action was designed because of what is going on in the 617 area code/Metro Boston area of Massachusetts. Being centered around a metropolitan area, there are many bulletin board systems. Some commercial, some underground, some public domain, most corrupt. Rather than make this applicable to our area only I will try to universalize our cause. "Knowledge is power". This revolution is one of the knowledgeable versus the ignorant. No longer are BBS's tightly woven 'communities' of people with a sincere interest in computing or a hobby, but they are being intruded on by ignorant, uneducated, computer-illiterate dolts. There will always be new users. I was one in early 1994. I didn't know much about computers. But I was willing to learn and I learned. I spent most of my time that summer on the computer, learning, reading, programming. Now am I not only knowledgable with operating systems, but I can program in Qbasic, Pascal, C++, and FCL: I'm a sysop on 15 area boards, and certainly know my way around BBS software. I've created complex programs that have made me money. I've taken part in in depth conversations on the internet or a local board about a hobby, or religion, or an aspect of computers. But now everyone has a modem. The ones who are uneducated are the ones who must be purged: weeded out, destroyed. The ones who all they know is the world of online services and "Online America" rather than America Online. You know the type. The kid or adult down the street, who just got a Pentium-100 with 32 MBs of RAM and a 1.4 gigabyte hard drive, 17" Sony Trinitron flatscreen monitor and quad speed CD ROM drive (a very expensive, high end system at the time I am writing this). They have all that. But they don't know how to use DOS. To copy or edit a file. Or how to make icons appear in windows. These are the people who are undeserving. You walk into a store in the mall and hear people saying either "oh I got your email last night..." or "he has email now..". How can someone "have email?" they dont know what they're talking about. They refer to it as "America's Information Superhighway". There is no superhighway. Under construction, perhaps. But as the country moves onto the net and computers, they talk of one in every home, and everyone hooking up to the net, an online service, or a BBS, you find these are ignorant people. They don't belong, they don't deserve. Some do. But the ones who don't bother to learn, to read a book on computers, to take part in anything, those are the ones we're after. These people want "anerchy" (yes, some dolts spell it with an e) text files that are 15 years old, and megs of XXX GIFs. You hear of legislation by Congress to put a ban on the freedom of communication, assembly, and information. If they do, they can't stop us. We'll go underground. But even so... computer related, modem related at least, things are in the media all the time. And you hear "Send your opinions on todays show to Prime Time Live, P.O. Box 19239, Los Angeles, Cali..." but then, then the evil thing... "or email us ONLINE at PrimeTime@aol.com..." or "We're now Prime Time ONLINE". Does having an email address make you "online"? Having an email address is no longer for convenience, fun, or neccessity. It is cool, or "in" now to have an email address. It's the latest fad. Everybodys doing it. Everybodys on the net. Everybodys invading our home. Now some of you might say, what's wrong with this? It's great that everyone's getting into computers. But just like society has it's bad people the BBS community does too: it has it's criminals, it's leaders, it's followers, the people in between. But the people who are in on all this to be "cool", the people who are unwilling to learn, and be educated, must "go down". We need to educate people first: and if they don't accept, then they must be weeded out of our 'community'. SOCIAL DARWINISM. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. But now the question is how do we do it. By now hopefully you see my point. The BBS society is being invaded by "lamers", ignorant people unwilling to learn, who decided to touch their modem on daddy's computer not to learn or because of a sincere interest to EXPLORE, to DISCOVER, to LEARN, but because they want to be "cool". They think they're cool too. Act like they know it all. You know the type. And I'd like to say also at this point, I am not an elitist, a racist, or trying to impress an opinion on you. Just showing you my opinion, and letting you decide for yourself. The time for change is now. It's time to take back cyberspace, which is entirely abstract bits of magnetic data and phone line noise, for ourselves, before it is invaded, regulated, corrupted, and destroyed. How do we do it? You all know the board in your area that thinks it's elite. It may be the pompous users. If it is a gathering place in particular for these users, then it must go. But the gathering places of intelligent intellectuals will be our havens. Rather than attempts to post ANSI drawings and one line replies to never ending message threads, we prefer INTELIGENT DISCUSSIONS and conversations. You see everyone runs the same software. Around here it's Renegade, by Cott Lang. A fine program, except everyone runs it. It's so easy to setup that there's no variety. Anyway, what we've concluded, the team of revolutionaries, or whatever we call ourselves, is that the problem is the sysops. GO FOR THE BOARDS WITH THE IGNORANT SYSOPS. AND TAKE THEM OUT. He thinks he knows everything. If he admits he's inexperienced, then the board stays. If he's willing to learn, don't touch it. BUT IF HE IS INEXPERIENCED, UNWILLING TO LEARN, AND IGNORANT, AND DOESNT KNOW WHAT HE'S DOING, HE SHOULDNT HAVE A BOARD IN THE FIRST PLACE. So you take it out. You hack it crash it, destory it by whatever means possible. Steal the user dat file, get some passwords and log on as ignorant users (don't touch the cool ones.. if they're willing to learn, take them under your wing. That PRINT "hello" line in basic is just the first step...), and take control of boards and accounts. We don't want the wanton destruction of boards and data and information here. We want to make our point. To have our revolution. To change the system, to reform, to leave our mark, and share the power and enlightenment. BBSing, and the revolution, is all about education, and information. We believe that the people with a sincere interest in computing are the ones who deserve to BBS, to run systems, not the ignorant and unexperienced ones who are unwilling to learn and doing it to be "cool". EVERYONE IS JUMPING ON THE MODEM BANDWAGON. SAVE YOURSELF. "Do not underestimate the power of information. Information is the most powerful thing in the world. To control the flow of information means even more power. In the future, those who control the flow of information, will control the world." ...the revolution has begun. - Archangel