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========= C00LeS WaReZ UNiON * HiSToRiCaL mEmOiRZ * cHApTeR #0x27 =========
DaTE: 1995-02-25 aT aBoUt 12:00
LoCATi0N: sECrET RoOm, LieTeVeDEn yLAeAsTe, LiEtEvEdEN KuNTA, FiNLAND
PrESeNT: mR.mEgAsTuFf / C00LeS WaReZ UNiON
dArK sTuFfEr / C00LeS WaReZ UNiON
WoRLD HeR0 / C00LeS WaReZ UNiON
pHASERhAWK / CULT OF POWER
dRAGONcROW / CULT OF POWER
mINDeAGLE / CULT OF POWER===========================================================================
mR.mEgAsTuFf: WHATTA HELL, WHO'S THERE? WHERE... WHERE AM I?
pHASERhAWK: It's just us here... were you still sleeping?
mR.mEgAsTuFf: I had one helluva nightmare...
dArK sTuFfEr: Hullo there, Mega.
WoRLD HeR0: Hm.
mINDeAGLE: Greetings to you, mR.mEgAsTuFf.
dRAGONcROW: Greetings.
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Yeah, hi...
MMR: Is da door shut already?
pHASERhAWK: Yeah, it is.
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Did it look like there's a police operation underway already?
dArK sTuFfEr: Whatta hell, are there cops after as too?
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Based on what I know 'bout Reijo, ya can't exaggerate any precautions in this! 'Coz he can call da cops for real...
dArK sTuFfEr: I hain't heard any gossips.
WoRLD HeR0: At least I saw a police car on the way here, heading towards Hautataipale..
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Yeah, let's be extra careful now with this.
mINDeAGLE: The all-seeing eye of cULT oF pOWER has marked the willingness of C00LeS WaReZ UNiON members to plan ahead and make sacrifices.
mINDeAGLE: This shall improve your reputation in the eyes of cULT oF pOWER.
dArK sTuFfEr: By the way Mega, did that one chick call yer board?
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Ya mean NiNUZKi? Yeah, she did... just last night..
dArK sTuFfEr: Did it go well?
mR.mEgAsTuFf: It did in da start, yeah, but then I guess I revealed some wrong stuff and freaked her out, 'coz she hangupped and never called back again.
pHASERhAWK: Did you mention her that you were gonna run away?
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Yeah... and also told I've been studying pick-up techniques...
dRAGONcROW: You should never reveal you have studied pick-up techniques!
mINDeAGLE: A magician should never reveal their real powers to anyone - especially their targets. I assume you've learned the lesson for the next time.
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Yeah...
mINDeAGLE: One must keep an illusion of mundaneness for mundane people. Their kind frightens up very easily, if something is about to break their view of reality.
mR.mEgAsTuFf: How yar supposed to chat to them anyway, if ya wanna minimize da phone bills?
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Most IRC girls don't agree to call anywhere else with a modem if just asked to, and some of them don't even fuckin' know how to call somewhere else with a modem, or what a board even is!!
mR.mEgAsTuFf: And it's also getting harder and harder to get to da secret node of Kuopio Polytechnic, so it's not a given to get in da IRC in da whole night, and da chixx would wait on da channels in vain...
dRAGONcROW: I assume you have no IRC automation in use?
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Ya mean what...?
mINDeAGLE: During the years, cULT oF pOWER has gathered a wide network of bots it uses to keep thousands of IRC users in control without them realizing it.
mINDeAGLE: There are tens of bots in the network, pretending to be human users.
mINDeAGLE: With this network, cULT oF pOWER monitors IRC users and chooses the best of them for various purposes.
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Ya mean ya've got some helluva CoNTROL CeNTER there, where ya see like, yeah there's that and that kind of pussy on-line and we could use this and that technique for pickin' it up...?
dRAGONcROW: Yes, cULT oF pOWER has been using the network for this as well.
pHASERhAWK: Most of the time, the bots are running on their own on the servers, redirecting messages from a user to another and gathering logs...
pHASERhAWK: We mostly need to just download the new logs every now and then and adjust the botnet programming.
pHASERhAWK: And sometimes we need to chat with the victim directly as well, but the software manages most of the common situations on its own.
dArK sTuFfEr: I mean WOW, so totally mind-blowing chances to control people!!
dArK sTuFfEr: And ye can also reprogram people with all kind of manipulative hacks and what else...
dArK sTuFfEr: Ye could like get the whole world in control, like literally WORLD DOMINATION!!
mINDeAGLE: But you should indeed remember that special powers must not be revealed!
mINDeAGLE: The one who, wanting to brag, reveals their real power, shall probably lose it soon. Rumours start spreading, and the holes the power is based on get patched.
pHASERhAWK: You should be indirect in just about everything...
mINDeAGLE: That is right. One should never control too much and too directly.
mINDeAGLE: The strongest is not the one who pushes the progress as strongly as possible towards their desired direction, but the one who detects flows and gives just the right kind of adjustment when encountering a right kind of wave.
WoRLD HeR0: How does that work in practice? Where are the bots, and -
dRAGONcROW: We have accounts to servers where the bots run under Screen.
pHASERhAWK: D'y'all boys have Unix accounts to anywhere?
mR.mEgAsTuFf: I don't think so... dunno if WoRLD HeR0 has...
WoRLD HeR0: No, I haven't...
dRAGONcROW: You should get one if you want power in the Internet world.
dRAGONcROW: The one without a Unix account is like the lowest class of the Internet, or in a sense disabled, with insufficient abilities.
dRAGONcROW: You probably understand what the word "lame" originally means...
mR.mEgAsTuFf: But whaddya mean, "run under Screen"?
pHASERhAWK: Screen is a software running on Unix servers, allowing you to run any software under it, like IRC clients and such...
pHASERhAWK: And they will resume running even if you disconnect the modem from the Unix!
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Woww, that's gonna save us a lot in phone bills now!!
mR.mEgAsTuFf: And we'd be getting such a fuckin' elite 24H Internet headquarters for us... that's so unbelievable...
WoRLD HeR0: Don't you get those accounts even for free from many places?
pHASERhAWK: Yeah... at least if you've got contacts... but most of them have no modem nodes so you need the dialup site anyway.
showroom
dRAGONcROW:Picture Planet
mR.mEgAsTuFf:
dRAGONcROW:
pHASERhAWK: tECHNOeAGLE, the sysop of Picture Planet, is also a C.O.P. member. He's got the server at his home in Kuopio, with a fixed optic cable.
pHASERhAWK: He can monitor our botnet like all the time from his home, and the server alerts him live if there's something going on that needs human attention.
pHASERhAWK: And if he's away, it'll call his GSM phone.
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Ain't those optic cables and GSM phones like fuckin' expensive? How -
pHASERhAWK: That's why he sells the accounts, to afford the costs... and he's got other work too, them GSM phones don't cost so much if you've got a job.
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Does he also trade warez with that cable?
pHASERhAWK: Yeah, he does...
mR.mEgAsTuFf: And he still doesn't show in PC-top?
pHASERhAWK: Heheh, PC-top... It's just a child's play list for some PC modem lamers! For them who know nothing about the Internet.
pHASERhAWK: The real elite is totally elsewhere!
mR.mEgAsTuFf: But I mean wow... in the future even CWU might have that kinda mighty systems!!!
mR.mEgAsTuFf: But I still fink boardz are elite enuff that ya've gotta stay in them as well... we just lost a couple of boardz just some days ago...
dRAGONcROW: So, y'all got the bills?
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Yeah... Most of us fuckin' put their boardz up just a week ago after our meeting, and now dA dArK WaNKeR's and WaRe FuCKeR's boardz are already down as they got the bills from the start-of-year calls!
mR.mEgAsTuFf: WaRe FuCKeR had been using IRC so much that he's gonna lose his home's phone line for a while! And dA dArK WaNKeR just got normally banned from using modem for anything.
mR.mEgAsTuFf: We three still have our boardz left. But I believe quite strongly that my board will also go down once the Pirinens have returned from Tahko.
mR.mEgAsTuFf: And I won't even get to check it out locally anymore! I guess Reijo has arranged some cop patrols 'round our home road and ordered someone to put traps in our yard and change da locks...
WoRLD HeR0: I'm just feeling sad about that we lost our local messages.
dRAGONcROW: Dinna ya reckon aboot netting up yer boardz so they wouldna depend on just one site?
mR.mEgAsTuFf: We were in GateNet and some others, but we saved all the tuffest messaging to our local areas. 'Coz there are too much all kindsa suspicious guys on da nets!
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Some damn fights going all da time, when da lamerz there are praising that PC and OS/2 and Windows and don't get any rational talks at all!
dArK sTuFfEr: And then there's that fuckin' insane Christian lamer who drivels aboot that there Bible all the time, whenever others try to talk aboot some science or parapsycholoy or such...
dRAGONcROW: So, y'all hain't yer own net?
mR.mEgAsTuFf: No, not yet...
WoRLD HeR0: But we had been planning about establishing a kind of CWUnet, so we wouldn't be so dependent on the local areas.
mINDeAGLE: You should never be dependent on the continuity of a singular headquarters!
dRAGONcROW: Yeah, ye should always put everthing ye can in a network!
dRAGONcROW: We C.O.P. guys have also had our harsh moments of life, that our systems wouldna have stayed up without proper decentralization...
dRAGONcROW: So, get to building them there nets now, while y'all still can!
mINDeAGLE: But do not go yet, since there are many important issues today you need to learn.
pHASERhAWK: Yeah, it'd make sense to tell them here right in the first session.
mINDeAGLE: I hereby declare, representing cULT oF pOWER, the education session to begin.
mINDeAGLE: Let us start with history: cULT oF pOWER was not born from nothingness, but there was a long continuum before us.
mINDeAGLE: Before our crew, the school was being controlled by a crew called Commodore Glux Krew.
mINDeAGLE: It was preceded by a crew called Computer Foundation, which was the first computer-centered crew controlling the school.
mINDeAGLE: The groups preceding it were ones focusing on electronics and radio.
mINDeAGLE: You probably already know OH7MO, who was the leader of a club that deeply affected all the subsequent groups.
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Whatta fuck, ya mean Uncle Osmo had somehow shaped what yar crew ended up like?
mINDeAGLE: Yes.
mR.mEgAsTuFf: My appreciation towards Osmo now rose to totally new spheres! I guess I should have a lot more dealings with Osmo from now on.
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Da whole CWU could maybe visit Osmo some evening...
mINDeAGLE: The story still continues.
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Oh, yeah, right, sorry.
mINDeAGLE: The continuum stems from an age called the Oldschool era.
mINDeAGLE: It predated the first actual school of Lietevesi that was built in the 19th century.
mINDeAGLE: At that time, Lietevesi still had powerful sages, especially in the families of Koljonen and Vornanen.
mINDeAGLE: I myself belong to the Koljonen family, and very many Newschool groups have had members of either family.
dArK sTuFfEr: Ain't that tuff...
dArK sTuFfEr: But what happened to them there sages? Did the Christians kill them all out?
mINDeAGLE: When Oldschool had given way to Newschool everywhere in Finland, the understanding of the sages was already regarded as meaningless superstition.
mINDeAGLE: But their heritage lived on in the schools. Many schools have already lost it, but Lietevesi junior high still holds it in some form.
mINDeAGLE: The new technologies of the 20th century also provided sages with new ways to keep their actions secret from the mundane people.
dArK sTuFfEr: Darkie, I mean dA dArK WaNKeR, would be so fascinated 'bout this 'cause he's so damn interested 'bout the history of Lietevesi.
mINDeAGLE: The all-seeing eye of cULT oF pOWER is certain that many CWU members also have Koljonen or Vornanen blood in their veins.
pHASERhAWK: Shh! I heard a clank! ... ...
dRAGONcROW: ... (Guess it's just the janitor... gonna switch the heating off, I reckon.)
dRAGONcROW: I guess the cops would've come with a totally different noise...)
pHASERhAWK: (We should prepare for the possibility that the cops would strike here at some point, if they've got those bloodhounds for real...)
dRAGONcROW: (And the night's gonna be cold anyway...)
pHASERhAWK: ... Now he left, I guess... are you gonna still stay here, Mega?
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Where else would I be safe from da cops?
pHASERhAWK: Right, now that we've gotten you here this would be the best place for you, apart from the scent trail you left...
pHASERhAWK: And there's a bigger bet there. I mean if they can find you here with their bloodhounds, then they'll also get to know that we've got the keys to here and we may lose the place.
dRAGONcROW: In principle ye could hide at our place as well, 'cause the rest of the family is on a skiing holiday trip and I'm home alone.
dRAGONcROW: We've just gotta get them there scent trails out of ye, so that the cops won't get to our place.
pHASERhAWK: Yeah, get to the shower next to the sports hall and then put on some new clothes some of us brings to you...
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Yeah, I guess that might be da best if we - I mean you - could keep the place.
dRAGONcROW: I guess ye should go there right now, now that they turned off the boilers. I mean, if you don't want an ice-cold shower...
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Yeah.
dRAGONcROW: So, let's get going like right now then.
dRAGONcROW: pHASERhAWK and mINDeAGLE could maybe assist ye while I visit home and bring some pants and a hoodie for you, so ye get to hide yer face...
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Yeah, we could like hide my current clothes in like some closet in the dressing room or something!
dArK sTuFfEr: We could also put some piece of paper there saying like GETTA FUCK OFF Y'ALL COPS DAMMIT...
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Yeah, a good idea! Ya got paper and pencil...?
dRAGONcROW: I guess we'll be walking near a few rooms that have pens and papers to spare...
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Oh, right, this is a school we're at, bwahah!
mINDeAGLE: I would recommend you to abstain from unnecessary provocations. And your old clothes should preferrably be hidden somewhere else than the school.
mR.mEgAsTuFf: Allright, fuckin' okay then! I might consider it...
WoRLD HeR0: Will this still go on?
dRAGONcROW: Yeah, it will, let's then get to us and continue the event there!
pHASERhAWK: But let's not walk in a group, so that none of them watchers notices us...
mINDeAGLE: So much to teach, so little time!
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