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	Mark Abene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mark Abene, who was a minor at the time, pleaded "not guilty" to the first two offenses and guilty to the misdemeanor and was sentenced to 35 hours of community service.
		Abene and four other members of the Masters of Deception were arrested again in December 1991 and indicted by a Manhattan federal grand jury on July 8, 1992 on an 11-count charge.
		Despite the fact that Abene was a minor at the time the crimes were allegedly committed, was only involved in a small fraction of the sub-charges, and often in a passive way, a plea arrangement resulted in by far the harshest sentence: 12 months imprisonment, three years probation and 600 hours of community service.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_Abene (1783 words)

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		Abene, who is also known by the computer handle "Phiber Optik", is charged with felony counts of Computer Tampering, First Degree and Computer Trespass and a misdemeanor charge of theft of services.
		The arrest of Abene was said to have been the result of the year-long study of these materials in conjunction with materials received from various telephone companies.
		Abene, had he been charged under federal statues, would have been considered a minor at the time of the alleged acts; under New York state regulation, he is classified as an adult and is being charged as such.
	www.phreak.org /archives/The_Hacker_Chronicles_II/cud3/cud305c.txt (450 words)

	Mark Abene, Phone Hacker
		Mark Abene was one of the most notorious phone hackers.
		Mark was a member of the Legion of Doom hacker group, and then founded the hacker group Masters of Deception (MOD).
		In December 1991, Abene was raided again, and later indicted and served ten months in Pennsylvania's Schuylkill Prison for his phone hacking exploits with Southwestern Bell, New York Telephone, Pacific Bell, US West, and Martin Marietta Electronics Information and Missile Group.
	www.livinginternet.com /i/ia_hackers_abene.htm (140 words)

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		Abene, a thin young man with a wispy goatee, epitomized the hacker credo that access to information should be free, not monopolized by big scorporations, although they were quick to acknowledge that they didn't want anyone breaking into their own computers to peek at their hard drives.
		Abene and many of his admirers are at pains to distinguish his actions from what they consider the more serious crimes of other MOD members.
		Abene was being lionized for his outlaw deeds, but rather, for his contributions to Echo.
	www-swiss.ai.mit.edu /classes/6.805/articles/computer-crime/abene-1-14-95.txt (1250 words)

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		Mark was a pioneer in one of the first of these on-line "brotherhoods," one of the first computer hackers that "broke the code" and entered a world where he gained respect as a hero in a community of like-minded, intelligent teenagers riding the information superhighway for a thrill.
		To Mark's parents, his seemingly innocent computer activities kept him out of trouble, and they were shocked when Mark was arrested and went to jail.
		Like Mark Abene, many are self-taught, and their efforts are repaid not with jail, but by becoming mainstreamed into the part-time workforce.
	switch.sjsu.edu /nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php?artc=169 (1355 words)

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		We knew Mark's curiosity had been piqued as well, though not to the point of outweighing the dread of the unknown and the emotional drain of losing a year of life with friends, family, and technology.
		Mark was particularly good with obscure African nations of years past while I was the only one who knew what had become of Burma.
		Since Mark smokes Camel Lights (he had managed to quit but all of the stress of the past year has gotten him right back into it), and since he had never heard of the wide version, I figured he'd like to compare the two, so I bought him a pack.
	web.textfiles.com /ezines/MWP/mwp2-8 (3306 words)

	Computer underground Digest Wed Nov 17 1993 Volume 5 : Issue 87 ISSN 1004-042X Editors: Ji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Mark's passion for computer exploration, including the exploration of others' computers, led him to both a philosophy and a conduct of which you and I must perforce disapprove.
		And Mark, by admitting his own guilt and choosing to accept punishment for his actions, has sent a message to the world of would-be hackers: this kind of conduct is wrong, and it will be prosecuted.
		The message I hope you send, with your sentencing of Mark, is that this is the kind of defendant who deserves an appropriately measured punishment, grounded in the recognition that, while he broke the law, he neither intended harm nor knowingly did harm.
	www.skepticfiles.org /hacker/cud587.htm (4321 words)

	Newsbytes News Network: 'Phiber Optik' sentenced - computer hacker Mark Abene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Abene was arrested on February 5th by New York State Police and charged with felony counts of computer tampering and computer trespass and a misdemeanor charge of theft of services.
		Abene recently attended the "Fourth Annual Computer Virus & Security Conference" in New York and the "First Conference on Computer, Freedom & Privacy" in San Francisco and has attempted to put forth a "hacker's" viewpoint on computer and communications topics.
		Abene told Newsbytes that he would donate time at a local hospital to fulfill the community service requirement.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_1991_April_8/ai_10574534 (344 words)

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		Abene, one of the world's best-known computer hackers, recently found his e-mail box stuffed with thousands of Internet users' secret passwords.
		Abene -- whose nom de hacking was Phiber Optik -- spent nearly a year in jail after he and his cohorts in the so-called Masters of Deception gang were convicted of breaking into telephone networks.
		Abene's job may sound as strange as a bank hiring Willie Sutton, the notorious robber, to count gold bars, corporations often find their best hope for testing and fixing Internet software is to hire the very people who have breached these complicated systems.
	www-swiss.ai.mit.edu /6805/articles/computer-crime/accidental-hacker-wsj-7-11-97.txt (592 words)

	The Happy Hacker -- Busted! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		September 1, 2000 5:12 AM PT When Mark Abene found himself being wooed last month by security services firm @stake, he didn't expect his hacker past from seven years earlier to come back to haunt him.
		So Abene was surprised when the company, which was apparently ignorant of his history when asking him to join its budding New York office, abruptly withdrew its offer in the final phases of hiring.
		As Abene describes it, the @stake recruiter tiptoed gingerly around the reason for the company's change of heart, before she finally explained in a voice dripping with contempt and finality, "We ran a background check."
	www.happyhacker.org /crime/bustedsept.shtml (167 words)

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		Mark Dorkenski Network Operations ---- End of incident report Hey, it's human nature to be careless and lazy.
		The additional facility ``mark'' has a message at priority LOG_INFO sent to it every 20 minutes (this may be changed with the -m flag).
		The ``mark'' facility is not enabled by a facility field containing an asterisk.
	www.phrack.org /phrack/43/P43-14 (3056 words)

	mark abene
		Mark Abene, also known as Phiber Optik, is another hacker who many in the hacker community consider to be a hero.
		Abene first encountered a computer at the age of 10 or 11.
		Between 1989 and 1990, Abene's membership changed from the Legion of Doom to a group called MOD or masters of deception.
	supernaturalminds.com /MarkAbene.html (333 words)

	Phiber Optik pleads guilty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Abene responded by admitting that he had conspired with others to gain access to various computer systems, including those belonging NYNEX, BellSouth and Southwestern Bell; he had intercepted data on networks belonging to British Telcom and Tymnet; and that he had misrepresented himself to employees of phone companies to gain access to their systems.
		He asked Abene's attorney, Paul Ruskin, to insure that he do everything possible to cooperate with the probation staff in its development of a background of Abene for the sentencing procedure.
		Abene, together with Elias Ladopoulpos, a/k/a "Acid Phreak;" Paul Stira, "Scorpion;" John Lee, "Corrupt;" and Julio Fernandez, "Outlaw," were indicted on July 8, 1992.
	cypherpunks.venona.com /date/1993/07/msg00153.html (810 words)

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		Mark: One's experiences as a hacker-type are what make one a truly great computer security professional -- which is to say [that] it's one thing to be book smart or school taught and quite another to have years of hands-on experience defeating security systems.
		Mark: We always try to sell our clients on the largest scope possible, because we believe that a penetration greatly diminishes in value the more restrictions and off-limits areas are declared.
		Mark: One of the luxuries of running your own company is that you get to write your own reports.
	www.insecure.org /nmap/press/sunworld_hackers_toolchest.txt (2457 words)

	Online Crime - Opinion Column by Darren James Stott on The Worlds Favourite Literary Website
		Another is Mark Abene, also known online by his hacker ‘handle’ Phiber Optik, who was imprisoned on 7 January 1994 for targeting telephone companies’ central computers.
		Another, slightly childish, Abene trick involved ‘wiring’ home phones in the UK to pay phones in the US so that a computerized voice demanded ten cents every time the receiver was picked up.
		Abene was particularly vocal about his exploits, even broadcasting his techniques on a weekly New York radio show.
	www.writers-voice.com /ABCDE/D/Darren_James_Stott_online_crime.htm (1526 words)

	AtStake jilts Phiber Optik
		Unlike Abene, and notwithstanding their underground image, none of the L0pht's members are known to have committed a computer crime.
		Abene, on the other hand, was renown for his unauthorized romps through telephone systems and packet-switched networks in the years before the Internet blossomed.
		In the years since Mark Abene last used his handle, he's worked doing penetration tests for an accounting firm, and now heads a three-man computer security consultancy in New York called Crossbar Security, named for a type of vintage telephone switch.
	www.securityfocus.com /news/79 (964 words)

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		As a founding member of the Masters of Deception, Phiber Optik inspired thousands of teenagers around the country to "study" the internal workings of our nation's phone system.
		A federal judge attempted to "send a message" to other hackers by sentencing Phiber to a year in federal prison, but the message got garbled: Hundreds of well-wishers attended a welcome-home party in Abene's honor at an elite Manhattan Club.
		Abene used the receiver so frequently that it had to be bandaged with fl electrical tape to keep its guts from falling out.
	www.mjag.sulinet.hu /~fricike/hackers/optik.html (167 words)

	2.12: Gang War in Cyberspace
		Tonight, there's a hole where Mark used to be, a spot by the pay phones where he liked to stand patiently while a group of respectful protégés would gather to ask him highly technical questions.
		The sentencing judge said that Mark, by his actions, chose to be a messenger for the hacking community.
		Mark is so beloved among Echo's computer users for his smooth and efficient troubleshooting that the Echoids set up a fund while he is in jail so they can buy him a new laptop after he gets out.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/2.12/hacker_pr.html (7314 words)

	CNN.com - Technology - Techniques and tools of the hacker - May 10, 2000
		Mark's teenage curiosity with phone networks prompted a federal judge to sentence him to a year in jail.
		While the experience deterred Mark from illegal hacking, time has proved that it wasn't much of a deterrence to others.
		Mark: Professionally for over five years, but I first started penetrating systems when I was about 12.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/TECH/computing/05/10/hacker.tips.idg (1419 words)

	Wired 2.12: Gang War in Cyberspace
		There are wannabe cyber gangs, and then there are real cyber gangs, whose members crow and scrawl their proud graffiti over electronic bulletin boards.
		Gang members on the electronic frontier don't live in the same state, wouldn't recognize each other if they were standing shoulder to shoulder on the bus.
		Here's how Mark Abene got into the Legion of Doom in the first place.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/2.12/hacker.html?pg=3&topic= (773 words)

	NYTimes
		Among the Masters of Deception, as the gang is called, there is Paul Stira, nicknamed Scorpion, who as a child learned to program a computer even before he had his hands on one and went on to master the art of cracking computer-game copy-protection codes.
		Mark Abene, a k a Phiber Optik, was so driven to understand how machines work that he explored and mastered the most sophisticated of the telephone company's computers.
		Abene, the last to complete his sentence, was released in the fall of last year.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/99/01/03/specials/slatalla-masters.html (763 words)

	interface NYC \| Mark Abene
		Mark Abene, AKA Phiber Optik, is a self-taught computer systems expert, and self-described hacker.
		In 1994 he served a one-year sentence in federal prison, the result of his second conviction for breaking into computer and telephone systems.
		Mark Abene's story is chronicled in Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace by Michelle Slatella and Josh Quittner.
	www.exhibitresearch.com /kevin/nyc/abene (4283 words)

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		Abene, Fernandez and Lee, through their attorneys, agreed to the bond as stipulated while the attorneys for Ladopoulos and Stira requested no bail or bond for their clients, citing the fact that their clients have been available, when requested by authorities, for over a year.
		Stira and two others described as MOD members -- 20-year-old Mark Abene (Phiber Optik), and 22-year-old Elias Ladopoulos (Acid Phreak), both of Queens -- were charged with crimes including computer tampering, computer and wire fraud, illegal wiretapping and conspiracy.
		Abene, had become targets of raids by the Secret Service, and MOD members believed the Texans were responsible, a contention the Texans respond to with "no comment." But the sparring took on racial overtones as well.
	artofhacking.com /files/phrack/phrack40/P40-13.TXT (5150 words)

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