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	The Prisoner: Phiber Optik Goes Directly to Jail
		Phiber Optik is going to prison this week and if you ask me and a whole lot of other people, that's just a goddamn shame.
		And I'm tempted, therefore, to close with a rousing celebration of Phiber Optik as the symbol of a spirit of anarchic resistance to the corporate Haussmannization of our increasingly information-based lives, and to cheer Phiber's hero status in places like ECHO as a sign that that spirit is thriving.
		Phiber Optik has suffered enough for having become a symbol, and in any case his symbolic power will always be available to us, no matter where he is. Right now, though, the man himself is going away for far too long, and like I said, that's nothing but a goddamn shame.
	www.juliandibbell.com /texts/phiber.html (1152 words)

	BugTraq.Ru: Phiber Optik: повелитель телефонных сетей
		Phiber обожал находить о людях тщательно скрываемые вещи и вываливать их перед ними, любуясь реакцией.
		Несмотря на то, что Phiber Optik официально считался создателем группы, он никогда не принимал активное участие в ее жизни.
		Дело Phiber Optik'а описывалось во всех центровых СМИ.
	www.bugtraq.ru /library/underground/optik.html (747 words)

	Switch\|Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The first impression of Phiber Optik is one of a huge, dark robot-like motorcycle being that is not rider and machine, but a unified entity.
		Phiber Optik is an ominous vision, a stationary motorcycle rider alive with digital activity, a visual representation of the attitude and antics of one of the first teenage on-line hackers, Mark Abene.
		The work by Paik describes Phiber Optik, an entity that Mark created in an intangible world, but one that Paik portrays in the material world in simple, understandable Our society connects power and sex with the machine -- what we drive is an expression of who we are.
	switch.sjsu.edu /nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php?artc=169 (1355 words)

	Bruce Sterling - The Hacker Crackdown
		A devotee of the 2600 circle and stalwart of the New York hackers' group "Masters of Deception," Phiber Optik was a splendid exemplar of the computer intruder as committed dissident.
		Phiber had lost his machinery in the raid, but there were no charges filed against him for over a year.
		Phiber Optik pled guilty to the misdemeanor charge, and was sentenced to 35 hours of community service.
	www.chriswaltrip.com /sterling/crack4c.html (2057 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		THE PRISONER Phiber Optik Goes Directly to Jail By Julian Dibbell (julian@panix.com) (Originally published in The Village Voice, January 11, 1994) Phiber Optik is going to prison this week and if you ask me and a whole lot of other people, that's just a goddamn shame.
		But the sentiment throughout was unmistakably heartfelt, and when Phiber Optik finally checked in, his brief response was even more so: ``I just finished reading all this and...I'm speechless.
		More frustratingly, he also didn't go into much detail as to what it was that Phiber Optik was to stand as a symbol _of_.
	gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70 /0/Publications/authors/dibbell/phiber (1090 words)

	La Taberna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		Phiber Optik's favorite food: mashed potatoes from Kentucky Fried Chicken.
	www.emik.cl /optik.html (167 words)

	Mark Abene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Phiber Optik was a high-profile hacker in the early 1990s, appearing in The New York Times, Harper's, Esquire, in debates and on television.
		Phiber Optik is an important figure in the 1995 non-fiction book Masters of Deception — The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace (ISBN 0-06-092694-5).
		, Phiber Optik and fellow MOD members Elias Ladopoulos ("Acid Phreak") and Paul Stira ("Scorpion"), were interrogated under the suspicion of causing the ATandT crash.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phiber_Optik (1803 words)

	Hijacking on the Infobahn - New York Times
		The work of the technology reporters Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner, "Masters of Deception" tells the marvelous story of the Legion of Doom (LOD), a group of Texas-based teen-agers who during the late 1980's broke into the giant computers of corporate America to study their complex innards.
		Phiber and his pals used the phone system as their personal Exploratorium to plunge into a data network called Tymnet, repository of many of the nation's defense secrets.
		Phiber Optik is "the smartest, coolest dude in cyberspace," who seems to subsist largely on Coca-Cola and cuts his own hair with Sassoon-like precision.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE4DA1238F931A15752C0A963958260&sec=&pagewanted=all (702 words)

	Phiber Optik
		Mark Abene, conocido como Phiber Optik, a la edad de 17 años se convirtió en un genio de la computación y de la tecnología telefónica.
		Como miembro fundador del grupo Masters of Deception, Phiber Optik inspiró a miles de adolescentes alrededor de los Estados Unidos, a "estudiar" los mecanismos internos de los sistemas telefónicos de todo el país.
		Un juez federal intentó "enviar un mensaje" a otros hackers al sentenciarlo a un año de prisión, pero el mensaje fue desatendido: cientos de adherentes organizaron una fiesta de bienvenida en honor a Abene, en un club de primera clase en la ciudad de Manhattan.
	hackmanuales.iespana.es /hackmanuales/histo/phiber.htm (452 words)

	Hack Canada - 2600 - Off the Hook Search Engine
		Phiber is forced to send books back from prison, Emmanuel\'s frustration trying to visit Scorpion, report from the CFP conference in Chicago which wound up being "raided" by the FBI in an unsuccessful search for Kevin Mitnick and Justin Peterson.
		Phiber causes a panic on the net and CERT drops the ball, new problems with Metrocard, Emmanuel tries to arrange a Fedex pickup through the web, AT&T poses as a consumer group, experiments with Frontier Long Distance and third number billing.
		Emmanuel calls Phiber using a prepaid calling card sent in by a listener, the SAFE bill is analyzed, Porkchop discusses the upcoming live Realaudio setup, Emmanuel talks about his headlight ticket snafu, HR 2369 is discussed, more talk of Omnipoint bypassing privacy, the affect of radio waves on health.
	www.hackcanada.com /cyb0rg/asm/searchoth/sitesearch.html (10427 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Phiber was equally amused at the "cleaning service" he found so diligently working in his bedroom.
		The group's popularity soared in such a short period of time, but many hackers disagreed with the MOD style much in the same way Phiber Optik had enjoyed humiliating those "in the know" publically.
		These include: Acid Phreak (r) HAC Scorpion (r) The Wing (v) Supernigger Nynex Phreak (r) Phiber Optik (r) Crazy Eddie (r) Seeker ZOD (r) Outlaw Corrupt The Plague Red Knight (v) signifies person was visited but nothing taken (r) means either raided or retired, it's a pickem..
	www.textfiles.com /hacking/modbook3.txt (722 words)

	Wired 2.12: Gang War in Cyberspace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		If Phiber Optik graces a bulletin board with comments about this or that phone company secret, then other hackers spread the word: Phiber's on.
		Phiber seems to revel in belittling blustery hackers who post misinformation.
		It's the talk of the hacker élite: Phiber Optik got into a feud with Erik Bloodaxe, and to hear Erik Bloodaxe tell it, Phiber Optik lost.
	www.wired.com /wired/2.12/hacker.html?pg=4&topic= (740 words)

	Conheça o hacker Phiber Optik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		O comando deveria enviar para a caixa postal de Phiber uma mensagem de e-mail contendo todas as senhas.
		Depois do incidente, Phiber Optik tinha como invadir computadores de dezenas de empresas e até da Marinha da Austrália.
		Phiber Optik acabou condenado a um ano e um dia de prisão.
	www.olaboratorio.hpg.ig.com.br /Conheca_o_hacker_Phiber_Optik.htm (648 words)

	CRIME AND PUZZLEMENT
		Typing !finger optik yielded results of similar insufficiency, including the claim that someone, somewhere in the real world, was walking around calling himself Phiber Optik.
		Optik had hacked the core of TRW, an institution which has made my business (and yours) their business, extracting from it an abbreviated (and incorrect) version of my personal financial life.
		The terrifying poses which Optik and Acid had been striking on screen were a media-amplified example of a human adaptation I'd seen before: One becomes as he is beheld.
	www.sjgames.com /SS/crimpuzz.html (9491 words)

	2.04: Electric Word
		Abene, better known by the hacker handle of Phiber Optik, was on his way to start serving a twelve-month sentence for computer crimes; his friends had tagged along in hopes of postponing their goodbyes till the last possible moment.
		But at the prison entrance, guards whisked Phiber Optik inside before anyone could give him so much as a farewell slap on the back.
		Phiber's address: Mark Abene, FPC/Schuylkill, PO Box 670, Minersville, PA 17954.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/2.04/eword.html?pg=5 (452 words)

	TIME.com: Hacker Homecoming -- Jan. 23, 1995 -- Page 1
		Phiber Optik, 23, is decidedly not a soft drink -- and probably not a sex aid.
		Phiber had a gift: computers yielded their secrets to his prying fingers like jewels to a safecracker.
		Although Phiber claims he never joined MOD, he was happy to share his knowledge with them.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,982254,00.html (728 words)

	No Time For Goodbyes - Phiber Optik's Journey to Prison
		Because of the weather, attendance was less than usual but the people that showed up were enthusiastic and glad to meet Phiber Optik as he passed by on his way up the river.
		Emmanuel Goldstein's sensitive description of Phiber Optik's last day of freedom underscores the need to rethink contemporary prison philosophy: The punitive ethos emphasizing the "lock-'em-up" agenda has failed.
		Phiber will likely spend less than 10 months in prison, much less if placed in an alternative program such as community corrections.
	www-swiss.ai.mit.edu /6095/assorted-short-pieces/goldstein-phiber-prison.html (3970 words)

	[No title]
		New York Times January 14, 1995 REPROGRAMMING A CONVICTED HACKER: TO HIS ON-LINE FRIENDS, PHIBER OPTIK IS A VIRTUAL HERO By TRIP GABRIEL Three years ago, Mark Abene was a computer cowboy who roamed cyberspace when it was an unfenced frontier.
		A computer geek who was "wired" long before the term was coined, he considered the Internet too easy and looked for a bigger challenge.
		"Phiber reached out and touched them, and was exiled to Pennsylvania." Andrew Johnston, 26, a computer graphics designer for an advertising agency, said: "I grew up with computers like many in my generation, and I always had lots of respect for the hacker community.
	www.swiss.ai.mit.edu /6095/articles/computer-crime/abene-1-14-95.txt (1250 words)

	Abene - Ghana - GeoSeven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Phiber Optik is an important character in the 1995 non-fiction book Masters of Deception — The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace (ISBN 0-06-092694-5).
		AtStake jilts Phiber Optik Retrieved September 4, 2004.
		No Time For Goodbyes — Phiber Optik's Journey to Prison — Emmanuel Goldstein's story of Abenes last day before the prison sentence.
	www.geoseven.com /locen/Abene/2306405 (1790 words)

	NYU/Impacts of Technology
		In it a small essay by Julian Dibbell called "The Prisoner: Phiber Optik goes diretly to jail" examines what happened to Phiber Optik who was sentenced to 12 months in jail for his participation in the Legion Of Doom.
		At the time of his sentence, Optik was 21, a highschool dropout from Queens, working as resident techie at ECHO, and East Coast version of the WELL.
		And he concludes: And I'm tempted, therefore, to close with a rousing celebration of Phiber Optik as the symbol of a spirit of anarchic resistance to the corporate [control] of our increasingly information-based lives...
	lrw.net /impacts/session6/lecture.html (3354 words)

	S. G. R. MacMillan: For the defence of serious criminal cases
		Eli's never met him in person (but then, who has?), but Eli knows enough about Phiber Optik to know that he's the man with the answers.
		Eli says that if Phiber Optik got into the Legion of Doom, then Phiber Optik must be good.
		He switched handles from Il Duce to Phiber Optik, an homage to that most capacious of information conduits, fiber-optic cable.
	www.sgrm.com /art18.htm (7294 words)

	Phiber Optik pleads guilty
		========================================================================== Phiber Optik Pleads Guilty 07/06/93 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1993 JUL 6 (NB) -- Mark Abene, better known throughout the computer world by the hacker handle "Phiber Optik," plead guilty on July 2 in Federal Court to felony charges of conspiracy and unauthorized access to computers.
		He wants to use his considerable computer talents in manners that will be productive to society." Fishbein told Newsbytes, "The government is satisfied with the successful end to an important case.
		Friends and fellow netters: I regret to inform you all that after much stress and anxiety, I decided the risk of loss to be too great, and have accepted a guilty plea in my case.
	cypherpunks.venona.com /date/1993/07/msg00153.html (810 words)

	Computer underground Digest Sat July 11, 1992 Volume 4 : Issue 30 Editors: Jim Thomas and
		Phiber Optik, perhaps the best-known of the group, Scorpion, and Acid Phreak were raided by federal agents in January, 1990.
		Felony charges against Phiber Optik were dropped in January, 1991, when he pled guilty to misdemeanor offenses.
		The indictment, which was filed today, alleges that Julio Fernandez, a/k/a "Outlaw," John Lee, a/k/a "Corrupt," Mark Abene, a/k/a "Phiber Optik," Elias Ladopoulos, a/k/a "Acid Phreak," and Paul Stira, a/k/a "Scorpion," infiltrated a wide variety of computer systems, including systems operated by telephone companies, credit reporting services, and educational institutions.
	www.skepticfiles.org /hacker/cud430.htm (4131 words)

	[No title]
		The one that I know the best, Phiber Optik, has participated in panels with myself and law enforcement officials discussing issues relating to so-called "hacker" crime.
		I have found Phiber's presence extremely valuable in these discussions both for the content and for the fact that his very presence attracts an audience that might never otherwise get to hear the voices of Donald Delaney, Mike Godwin, Dorothy Denning and others addressing these issues from quite different vantage points.
		While my impressions of Phiber or any of the others are certainly not a guarantee of innocence on these charges, they should be taken as my personal statement that we are not dealing with a ring of hardened criminals that one would fear on a dark knight.
	venus.soci.niu.edu /~cudigest/CUDS4/cud431.txt (4239 words)

	Echo Anniversary: Phiber Optik Going Away Party December 16 1993
		So I always count March as when we began.
		Phiber Optik Going Away Party December 16 1993
		These pictures are from the going away party we had for Phiber Optik at the North River Bar in Tribeca.
	www.echonyc.com /~horn/anniversary/000053.html (100 words)

	optik on The Skateboard Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		1994 * by Julian Dibbell "The Prisoner: Phiber Optik Goes Directly to Jail" relating public concern for phiber Optik and sadness over his pending jail...
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	skateboarddirectory.com /srch/?qt=optik (500 words)

	Part Four - The Civil Libertarians
		Warp to section one, section two, section three, section four, section five, section six, section seven, section eight or section nine.
		The eighteen-year-old Optik, a high-school dropout and part-time computer repairman, was young, smart, and ruthlessly obsessive, a sharp-dressing, sharp-talking digital dude who was utterly and airily contemptuous of anyone's rules but his own.
		Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this publication provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.
	members.tripod.com /~hackdown/civil1.html (12345 words)

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