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To: bob who wrote (1940)	1/13/1998 9:57:00 AM
From: Josef Svejk	Respond to of 4295

Humbly report, Bob, hard for me to comprehend that the cracker's still at it! Imagine what he/she could accomplish by concentrationg on something positive. Which reminds me: Hellraiser Unplugged Our February 1995 issue ("Viruses Are Good for You." page 126) painted him as the consummate computer terrorist, but these past years have mellowed former virus writer Hellraiser. Now in his mid-20s, Hellraiser has settled into a life Ward Cleaver might envy. Living in a quiet suburb outside a major East Coast city (he asked us to be vague), Hellraiser is finishing college while working as a software designer. And he's left the computer underground far behind. "I got tired of the negativity," he says. 40Hex, the e-zine he founded, is likewise a distant memory, ceasing publication in late 1995. Hellraiser admits missing his old life. "We were the premier virus-writing gang of the early '90s," he says. Byt he's still chagrined by his past antics: "The stuff we did was terribly wrong and terribly evil, and I'm probably going to Hell for it." - Hal Stucker, Wired, December 1997, p.120. I remain, humbly dreaming of our cracker seeing the light, by the mail slot of the FBN mail room, virtually near the first arch of the Mala Strana side of Charles Bridge, where they serve great hot rum, gratis for me, yours truly, the sooner the better, Svejk (GL-15 applies: digiserve.com ;-)