I am going to tell a tale of a time before I started my career with the IT. (rough edit just a fair warning)

The Battle for the ISP known as LVN, circa: 1999, this goes along with my story from 1.0 – 1.2…

I was on IRC, DALnet to be exact but I don’t remember the room I was in at the time, but I do recall being a mod for #appzngamez at the time and if I recall this member named “Skrilla”  which was later known as Ruben Candelario. (another news)

During the late 90’s, I was on my binge of collecting vulnerable hosts for fun, building my own botnet. Me being a teenager, I was over confident and using my botnet for malicious fun on IRC, and with my shit talking, trolling always had an over powering effect with my botnet to help me back it up. But upon doing so I didn’t realize that someone became very envious of me of what I was doing and how much I was doing it.

Back in these days we used to just call them packet storm wars, I would post publicly on IRC that I’ve 0wn3d another host while I used one of them to bounce from (IRC Proxy) and all my target was south Korea because Half Life mod at the time from Counter Strike and Team Fortress all had public servers hosting on extremely vulnerable redhat machines, I never wanted to attack something domestic or locally located in the US in fear of being in trouble at the time. (Maybe I should have, so I could of been famous too and got offered a job, eh?)

Popular Remote Exploits was popular to take over a Linux machine typically a redhat or a variant. From Redhat 6.0 to 6.2 had the wildest exploit out of the box, from pop3, ftpd, to even sshd. You know the one you seen on The Matrix part 2 called sshnuke.

And back on the topic of the IRC with  ‘Skrilla’ that started to harass me on a public channel that I just don’t recall, about the argument over scripts and a lengthy war over c++ programming making all these claims and random bullshit over how I was collecting hosts and building a botnet. He one day jumped into IRC with the host @mail.LVN and he did a huge rookie move and didn’t patch the host as this would be something I would do after applying my rootkit, I would “patch” the system to prevent others to obtain access. I got right into LVN using the exploiting the mail server pop3 as it was using the default and highly vulnerable version at the time  including in redhat 6.0.  When I got in, I patched the vulnable services, rootkit the system and booted “skrilla” out and that is when he got super furious and DDoS ( Distributed Denial of Service Attack or back then Packeting the hosts with synfloods) any bnc I was on except on LVN. I pivot around that network some, but I had no real interest in anything really at the time I was just hunting for more BNC’s and building my botnet bigger in thought of building some type of auto click program to exploit some Pay-Per-Click ads to make some type of cash from.

We continued to battle on and determined to get back into LVN, I went into chaotic mode and I still have no idea or clue why I just decided todo it but I simply ‘rm -fr / *’  the system and washed my hands from it after doing so. I remember going back to creating a botnet but it started to slow down, I also started to branch off and look for work.  From trying to land a casino job as per my family it’s the only place to work for people like me so we can die living off the retirement from it.

I wanted to boost my career and get started somewhere so I applied to work for LVN, but was denied, I applied again and was given a chance to redeem myself with creating graphics, but everything I did was failure, so my mom jumped in and landed the job as an intern technically, I work hours and learn things in return he pays a bill or 2.  I didn’t have a car, I never learned how to drive then, but I started out as fixing, repairing computers and do aDSL Installs.  I became a pro in low voltage and already knowing phone lines from

LVN was a startup and because of the starting out I worked late and started early, I would be left alone in the owners (CEO we will call Mr M, and CTO we will call Mr S.)  apartment, giving me full control but I spent my time mostly fixing computers and data entry with access databases as Mr M would party and network as he does who actually knows he slept very little. When CP Computers a partnership with LVN, when we moved into the offices I was moved around alot there I started from 1 sales cubicles, to the boiler room, then upstairs to what they called “Freddy Kruger” room. Over time I brought my own network in with making a box I called shadow, but it was all for “WRnet”  still hanging on IRC and became more of a shit talker and still rubbing in about how I legit have access now and ‘skrilla’ again DDoS the static ip address.

There was a time I started to alienate myself irc and shit talking from that area and started to focus more as an IRC admin and started to join different locations, like Dugnet, r00tabega, pranknet, and other places I forgot the name to. When I got the job with LVN, dugnet was starting to die off and I started to turn more towards piracy and top sites with Razor 1911, until they got busted.  On IRC (Efnet mostly) I hanged out with Avec that I got hooked up with the Zero Day Warez  also known as top sites as I had a T3 at my fingertips with no monitoring or metering and extremely bad, I mean bad routing to a point I would DoS the whole network if I didn’t limit the speeds from these top sites using the bandwidth. Tool of choice was Slackware and GLftpD.

Just a reminder, I never got a pay check with this company, I was promised with a word of mouth that only lead to lies, Mr M proclaimed to be my financial adviser but always leaving me always wishing I had money that I didn’t had to fight or argue about why or what?  Had a company credit card that would always left me on the edge of my seat of it was maxed out or not by eating next door to work for the only time I would eat.  There was no NDA signed and I always felt I was held back, only good thing came from this was the experience laid down for multiple paths of IT and I was able to fix my own credit .

For my next story WRNet:Sec 1.4 will be more about LVN as I struggle with a battle from within, I started to become their Cyber Security, Server, Network admin around 2001-2002,  There is a few times we would go to the Ghost Bar or to Club 7 VIP style but it felt like he was forced to lug me around. Because of his family and a client of ours I learned how to drive, I also spent long hours helping Celebrity Scene – Pete Allman with writing his articles as he would treat me for dinner.  2003 I was diagnosed with Cancer, I fought and won.  How I was promised partnership that turned into harassment, mental, and verbal abuse from both Mr M. and Mr S. and how in late 2003 Mr M. involved me with the FBI, where I had hours of ATF / FBI pointing AR15’s at my head.