Chris Lamprecht
Chris Lamprecht (known as MinorThreat or mthreat) is an American software developer based in the US state of Texas. Lamprecht was the original author of ToneLoc, a wardialing program written in the C programming language for the DOS operating system.[1] He was the first employee and lead software architect for Indeed.com, a metasearch engine for job listings.[2]
Career[edit]
Lamprecht authored the computer wardialer program ToneLoc in the 1990s. After losing the original source code, it was re-written with the assistance of Mucho Maas.[1][3] Lamprecht presented a talk detailing ToneLoc in 1993 at the SummerCon conference.[4][5]
Lamprecht founded and worked for Searchify, a startup company offering an Internet hosting service for searches, marketed with a software as a service,[6] which is based upon the open source software IndexTank. IndexTank was acquired by LinkedIn and open sourced in 2011.[7]
Imprisonment and release[edit]
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 US District Court in 1995, Lamprecht was ordered to 70 months in the Federal Correctional Institution, Bastrop. Though a known computer hacker, the 24-year-old was never tried, nor pleaded guilty for computer related crimes, making it the more unusual that he was not allowed to access the Internet. In 1997 Lamprecht co-authored an article in Phrack Magazine issue #52[11] while incarcerated in a federal penitentiary, and the issue was published in 1998 with portions appearing in 2600 Magazine; and "prophiled" in Phrack issue #46 (1994).[4]
In 2002 Judge Sam Sparks released Lamprecht from his term of supervised release, effectively lifting his Internet ban as well.[citation needed]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Scott, Jason (2005). BBS: The Documentary (DVD). Boston, MA, USA: Bovine Ignition Systems. 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Chris Lamprecht's personal home page
- Interview with Lamprecht, ToneLoc's author, part of BBS: The Documentary
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