Chris Lamprecht
Chris Lamprecht (known as MinorThreat or mthreat) is an American
Career
Lamprecht authored the computer wardialer program ToneLoc in the 1990s. After losing the original
Lamprecht founded and worked for Searchify, a
Imprisonment and release
Lamprecht is regarded as the first person to be banned from accessing the Internet, in 1995.[8][9] After being sentenced to 70 months in prison for money laundering, Lamprecht was also given a punishment of no access to the Internet until 2004.
Christopher Matthew Lamprecht had the Federal Bureau of Prisons ID# 61153-080 and was released on March 3, 2000.[10]
Under the order of Judge Sam Sparks of the
In 2002 Judge Sam Sparks released Lamprecht from his term of supervised release, effectively lifting his Internet ban as well.[citation needed]
References
- ^ OCLC 61156153. Archived from the original on May 11, 2008. Retrieved February 4, 2015.)
{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link - ^ "GeekAustin 03 - Chris Lamprecht - indeed.com" (Video). October 1, 2008. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
- ^ "Did you write the Tone Loc war dialer I used on the 90s?". February 26, 2014.
Yes, with Mucho Maas
- ^ a b Minor Threat (September 20, 1994). "Phrack Volume Five, Issue Forty-Six" (txt). Phrack. p. 13 of 28. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
- ^ "Phrack, Volume Four, Issue Forty, File 11 of 14" (txt). Phrack. August 1, 1992. p. 11 of 14. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
- ^ "Searchify – Hosted cloud search as a service". Retrieved February 4, 2015.
- ^ Basch, Diego (December 21, 2011). "IndexTank is now open source!". LinkedIn. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
- ^ "A brief history of hacking". Kaspersky Lab.
- ^ "A long time ago, in 1995, I was the first person banned from the Internet". Reddit. February 26, 2014.
- ^ "Christopher Matthew Lamprecht". Federal Bureau of Prisons. May 26, 2010. Archived from the original on June 12, 2012.
- ^ Agent Steal; Minor Threat (January 26, 1998). "Phrack Magazine Volume 8, Issue 52" (txt). Phrack. p. 05 of 20. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
Further reading
- Twice Removed: Locked Up and Barred from Net
- Banned from the Internet (Swing Magazine, March 1997)
- The Crime of Punishment Brian Martin – (attrition.org)
- The Government's Catch: Minor Threat (1998) via Wayback Machine)
- Drag.net Carol Flake (Texas Monthly January 1996)
- The Last Days of the Wild, Wired West Archived February 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Jeff Koyen. New York Press (1996)
- Computer Underground Digest, Issue 87, Jim Thomas, Gordon Meyer. 10 Dec. 1996 (ISSN 1066-632X)
External links
- Chris Lamprecht's personal home page
- Interview with Lamprecht, ToneLoc's author, part of BBS: The Documentary
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