Chris Lamprecht

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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]

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Career

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

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 ]

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  1. 1 2 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)
  2. ↑ "GeekAustin 03 - Chris Lamprecht - indeed.com" (Video). October 1, 2008. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Did you write the Tone Loc war dialer I used on the 90s?". February 26, 2014. Yes, with Mucho Maas
  4. 1 2 Minor Threat (September 20, 1994). "Phrack Volume Five, Issue Forty-Six" (txt). Phrack. p. 13 of 28. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Phrack, Volume Four, Issue Forty, File 11 of 14" (txt). Phrack. August 1, 1992. p. 11 of 14. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Searchify – Hosted cloud search as a service" . Retrieved February 4, 2015.
  7. ↑ Basch, Diego (December 21, 2011). "IndexTank is now open source!". LinkedIn . Retrieved February 4, 2015.
  8. ↑ "A brief history of hacking". Kaspersky Lab.
  9. ↑ "A long time ago, in 1995, I was the first person banned from the Internet". Reddit. February 26, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Christopher Matthew Lamprecht". Federal Bureau of Prisons. May 26, 2010. Archived from the original on June 12, 2012.
  11. ↑ Agent Steal; Minor Threat (January 26, 1998). "Phrack Magazine Volume 8, Issue 52" (txt). Phrack. p. 05 of 20. Retrieved February 2, 2015.

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