514 DEAR HACKER

514 DEAR HACKER

inspiration for all this? It’s all very interesting but most people probably want to know when exactly you landed on our planet.

Dear 2600:

I just wanted to inform you that you’ve got wrong guy. I am talking about Phiber Optik. He doesn’t deserve that name. I am the true Phiber Optik. I thought of the name and asked someone on IRC if they liked it. He must have seen. You are a big fake! All that stuff in your “MOD” book was bull. You can’t do any of that crap you did in the book. I can, so watch it, you fake. I want my name back, and you’re gonna give it to me. Or else, and you can try to do anything to me cause I know your a fake, and I’m gonna tell the world. I am elite. Your knowledge of computers is a speck of dirt compared to mine. Don’t get me wrong 2600 is OK but you guys are kind of dumb. Your mag is full of crap. Anyone who has anything to do with 2600 is a geek. Even if your dumb enough to read it.

Here’s my info I am sure you are bull so try to convince me losers. NG

New Jersey You’re either a real cocky ninth grader or the guy whose name, address, phone

number, and school you posted is a ninth grader you’ve had a falling out with. Either way we will investigate your claim and an adjuster will be in touch soon.

Dear 2600:

I do not have Caller ID, and I am not paranoid as some of your read- ers may be. I am about as clean and law abiding as they come. I just like to understand these technologies. Well, not 20 minutes after I set 2600 down, I got a phone call where there was silence and no one re- sponding. So I hung up and dialed *69. I got the three octave tone that

STRANGE RAMBLINGS

this call could not be called back. This tells me one of two things: the phone call was originated from Bell South, or Bell South authorized

a government agency to do this. Can anyone tell me what they are looking for or if it could be a really sophisticated phreak? Procell

You read our magazine, get a phone call, immediately believe the government is behind it, and consider yourself not paranoid?

Dear 2600:

I was wanting some advice, needing a hacker who could hack into my brain and get my mother out of there. Although the experience has been the trip of a lifetime, it’s caused me to lose the things most precious to me. I wouldn’t necessarily suggest it for the future. Any advice on how to get it to stop would be great! I’m not the only person this has happened to. Be careful who you talk to about what. That’s my suggestion!

Head-aches in Arlington Well, we’re sure glad you chose to talk to us about this. Maybe now your mother

will stop calling us.

Dear 2600: