Patrick K. Kroupa
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Patrick Karel Kroupa | |
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Born | Los Angeles, California, USA | January 20, 1969
Nationality | American |
Other names | Lord Digital |
Citizenship | American |
Years active | 1983–present |
Known for | hacking |
Patrick Karel Kroupa (born January 20, 1969) known colloquially as Lord Digital is an American writer,
Early years
Kroupa was born in Los Angeles, California on January 20, 1969. His Czech parents left Prague, Czechoslovakia, after the Soviet invasion in 1968 and divorced when Kroupa was six. He then moved to New York City, where he was raised by his mother. He is the nephew of Czech opera singer Zdeněk Kroupa.[1]
Kroupa was part of the first generation to grow up with home computers and network access. In numerous interviews he has repeatedly listed two events which were important in shaping the course of his later years.
The first was being exposed to one of the first two Cray supercomputers that were ever built, which was located at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) where his father was a physicist, who took him through the labs and taught him to program in Fortran and feed the Cray using punched cards. This happened during the same year that Woody Allen was filming Sleeper, using NCAR in many of the futuristic background scenes that appeared in the movie. Kroupa got an Apple II computer for his personal use around the time he was seven or eight years old.[2]
The second event that shaped his life was being part of the last days of
TAP was the original
With the exception of the counter-cultural and hard-drug elements, the preceding history made Kroupa part of a small group, composed of a few hundred kids who were either wealthy enough to afford home computers in the late 1970s, or had technologically savvy families who understood the potentials of what the machines could do.[4] The Internet as it is today did not exist; only a small percentage of the population had home computers and out of those who did, even fewer had online access through the use of modems.[5]
During his time in the computer underground Kroupa was a member of the first
Kroupa started publishing some of his hacking techniques when he would have been around 12 or 13.
The MindVox Years
Voices in my Head (1991–1996)
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the computer underground had suffered through a series of protracted raids by the Secret Service and FBI, called Operation Sundevil and Operation Redux. Many Legion of Doom members were raided and charged.[12][13][14][15][16] This happened against the backdrop of the first and largest gang war that ever took place in cyberspace, the Great Hacker War between LOD and their rival gang MOD (Masters of Deception).
Considering Kroupa and Fancher's backgrounds and the fact that MindVox employed a motley collection of convicted felons like security expert
, these were very real issues at the time.This is the environment in which Patrick Kroupa and Bruce Fancher launched MindVox. In the words of Bruce Fancher:
Our greatest fear wasn't whether or not we'd be successful as a company, that was secondary. What concerned us was that one day the Secret Service would kick in the door and just confiscate everything.
This is also the time during which Patrick Kroupa wrote, Voices in my Head, MindVox: The Overture. Kroupa wrote about the cultural forces that were at play in the hacker underground during the decade that pre-dated the launch of MindVox, considered by some the "
In the process of writing and releasing Voices, Patrick Kroupa stepped out from behind Lord Digital. Instead of status in the hacker underground and notoriety in a sub-culture, Kroupa was being written about as the Jim Morrison of cyberspace[18] and receiving accolades from the mainstream press.[19][20][21][22]
Voices helped define what MindVox became, a counter-cultural media darling meriting full-length features in magazines and newspapers such as
There is no single article that captures this as well as
MIA / DOA (1996–2000)
A running theme through nearly all of Kroupa's writing is his drug use. He was a very vocal proponent of self-selecting one's own state of consciousness and freely wrote and talked about his own drug history. The caveat being, some of his drug use was open and public. The fact that he was an advocate of
Kroupa wrote with great honesty and passion about a variety of topics, but he very carefully danced around his own increasing dependence on heroin. Everybody knew that Kroupa occasionally used heroin, cocaine and dozens of other drugs, but not the extent.
By 1996, MindVox was at the absolute height of its powers, yet it was disintegrating. Bruce Fancher was suddenly part of two or three other start-ups, and system repairs that should have taken hours dragged on for weeks. While the user-base kept growing, the previously high level of intelligent discourse within the internal conferences had suffered, and while MindVox was getting more press than ever, all of it read like the same story being retold for the umpteenth time.
Sometime in early-to-mid 1996, Kroupa simply vanished. Freedom of choice gave way to the downward spiral of hardcore heroin addiction and dysfunction. In his 2005 book, Hip: The History,
In truth far too many of the celebrated figures in these pages led melancholy and difficult lives of isolation, mental illness and drug addiction. Interesting and romantic to read about, but very tough on those who live them.
Kroupa's exact whereabouts and activities from early 1996 until December 1999 remain unknown. He has acknowledged that he travelled throughout North America and spent time living in Mexico, Belize, Puerto Rico, the Czech Republic and eventually Bangkok, Thailand.
The
He subsequently spent four months living at the
21st century
A heroin-free Kroupa returned to the United States from Thailand in 2000, and became CTO of Dr. Deborah Mash's Ibogaine Research Project[25] at the University of Miami's Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.
During the next several years Kroupa appeared in a series of ibogaine-related news reports which aired on television, radio and print media.
Kroupa is regularly a featured speaker at
Yippies and the counterculture
While Kroupa's past history with the
On November 15, 2007, he spoke at the
... an unequivocal, catastrophic, world-wide failure, that has destroyed countless lives, set fire to hundreds of billions of dollars and produced no discernible results. There is no lack of drugs, basically, anywhere on planet Earth. The number of people using drugs has not decreased. While the street price of drugs hasn't gone up, the purity levels have steadily risen. But hey, we sure do have a lot of people in prison!
Kroupa is
Bibliography
Essays
Magazines
- The Akashic Records of Cyberspace (1993), Patrick K. Kroupa. Mondo 2000.
- Memoirs of a Cybernaut (1993), Patrick K. Kroupa. Wired.
- Agr1pPa - A Book of The Mentally Disturbed (1993), Patrick K. Kroupa. Mondo 2000. [http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/agr1ppa.html
- The Secret Service is Neither (1994), Patrick K. Kroupa. Mondo 2000.
- Heroin Times: Ibogaine Series (2000–2003), Patrick K. Kroupa. Heroin Times.
Medical journals
- Ibogaine: Treatment Outcomes and Observations (2003), Hattie Wells (Epoptica) & Patrick K. Kroupa (Junk the Magic Dragon), MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, Volume XIII, Number 2).
- Ibogaine in the 21st Century: Boosters, Tune-ups and Maintenance (2005), Patrick K. Kroupa & Hattie Wells. MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, Volume XV, Number 1).
References
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Books
- ISBN 0-06-096928-8)
- ISBN 0-553-56370-X)
- ISBN 0-672-30599-2)
- ISBN 0-8058-1550-3)
- ISBN 0-316-36009-0)
- ISBN 0-679-76230-2)
- ISBN 0-440-22205-2)
- ISBN 0-06-100990-3)
- ISBN 0-00-654849-0)
- Richard Power, (2000) Tangled Web: Tales of Digital Crime from the Shadows of Cyberspace. (ISBN 0-7897-2443-X)
- ISBN 1-57870-185-6)
- ISBN 1-59059-379-0)
- ISBN 0387204733)
- ISBN 0-06-052817-6)
Magazines and newspapers
- Forbes, William Flanagan (1992), The Playground Bullies Have Learned to Type
- Mondo 2000, Andrew Hawkins (1992), There's A Party in my Mind... MindVox!
- Associated Press, Frank Bajak (1993), Wiring the Planet: MindVox!
- The New Yorker (1993), CyberHero
- Charles Platt (November 1993), MindVox: Urban Attitude Online
- Sassy Magazine, Margie Ingall (1993), Hi Girlz, See You in Cyberspace!
- New York Magazine, Jeff Goodell (1994), Boot Up and See Me Sometime
- NY Times, John Leland (May 1, 2003), Yippies' Answer to Smoke-Filled Rooms
- Ocean Drive, Tristram Korten (2006), A Cure for Addiction?
- Radar, Tristram Korten (October/November 2008), The Electric Acid Kool-aid Cure
Medical journals
- Vol. 288 No. 24, December 25, 2002)
Public Access U.S. government documents
- United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, (1996). Security in Cyberspace: Hearings before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, May 22, June 5, 25, and July 16, 1996
- Available from U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office. (ISBN 0-16-053913-7)
Film
- Benjamin De Loenen (2005) Ibogaine: Rite of Passage. LunArt Productions iMDB
Television
Radio
- KNX 1070 News Radio (2005). Ibogaine
Music
- Billy Idol (1993) Cyberpunk, EMI
References
- ^ Zdeněk Kroupa 1921-1999
- ^ a b Internet Gurus Archived 2013-01-31 at archive.today Tod Foley
- ^ Blacklisted News: A Secret History of the 80's Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Yippie Book Collective. Bleecker Publishing (1984)
- ^ The First Trinity: the Commodore PET, the Radio-Shack TRS-80, and the Apple (1977-1980)
- ^ The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th edition
- ^ Response, Fredric L. Rice, Organized Crime Civilian. "No such file (.View. THE APPLE MAFIA STORY.F.THE SA". www.skepticfiles.org. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Apple Mafia Krack title page 1
- ^ Apple Mafia Krack title page 2
- ^ THE HACKER CRACKDOWN: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier War on The Legion Archived 2005-12-27 at the Wayback Machine, Bruce Sterling
- ^ A Guide To ADS Systems Archived 2007-10-31 at the Wayback Machine, Lord Digital (1982)
- ^ RSX11M Version 3.X Real Time Operating System Terminus and Lord Digital (1984)
- ^ THE HACKER CRACKDOWN: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier Sting Boards Archived 2005-12-06 at the Wayback Machine, Bruce Sterling
- ^ CS/EP142 Computers and Society, 1996
- ^ Computer Underground Digest Volume 2, Issue #2.16 Archived 2005-02-23 at the Wayback Machine (December 10, 1990)
- ^ Operation Sun-Devil Phrack Magazine, Issue: 32, Article: 10
- ^ International Intrusions: Motives and Patterns Kent E. Anderson
- ^ Boardwatch Magazine: MindVox Archived 2013-01-31 at archive.today 1992
- ISBN 0-316-36009-0)
- ^ MindVox: Urban Attitude Online. Archived 2013-01-31 at archive.today Wired Magazine, 1993, Charles Platt
- ^ Wiring the Planet-MindVox! Archived 2013-01-31 at archive.today Frank Bajak, Associated Press, 1993
- ^ Boot Up and See Me Sometime Archived 2013-02-01 at archive.today New York Magazine, 1994
- ^ There's A Party in my Mind... MindVox! Archived 2013-01-31 at archive.today Andrew Hawkins, Mondo 2000, 1993
- ^ Hi Girlz! See you in Cyberspace Archived 2013-01-31 at archive.today Sassy Magazine, 1994.
- ^ Sound Bites of Patrick Kroupa, at the Drug Policy Alliance conference DPA, New Orleans, 30 December 2007
- ^ "Ibogaine Research Project". 15 December 2001. Archived from the original on 15 December 2001. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "media". Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ Hallucinogen May Cure Drug Addiction KRON, 2004
- ^ Psychedelic Television, 2006 Ibogaine Conference[permanent dead link]
- ^ "News & Events". Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence - 5th National Harm Reduction Conference". Archived from the original on 5 February 2005. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "Drug Policy Alliance, 2003. Life in the Psychedelic Ghetto, Patrick Kroupa". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "New York City Ibogaine Forum 2005 - Ibogaine Low Dose and Maintenance Therapy". Archived from the original on 23 December 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "NYC Ibogaine and Iboga Forum, 2003". Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ Daniel Pinchbeck, Sandra Karpetas, Patrick Kroupa with coffee-cups, Ibogaine conference, 2003 Archived 2008-05-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Sandra Karpetas, Patrick Kroupa with coffee-cups, Ibogaine conference, 2003 Archived 2008-05-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "mobisux.com". www.mobisux.com. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ Yippie Speaker's Bureau Archived 2008-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Irish Examiner, Legalisation of narcotics up for debate November 15, 2007
- ^ "Sacrament of Transition ". sacrament.kibla.si. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ Cult of the Dead Cow, Introducing two new members! Archived 2006-03-16 at the Wayback Machine Feb 19, 2006
External links
- Personal homepage
- Phantom Access Exhibit
- "Wonderful Things Archived 2007-06-11 at the Wayback Machine" – War On Drugs essay
- Textfiles List of Losers, 1984
- Patrick K. Kroupa at IMDb