"Chris Frezza's webpage has been hacked!!"

On Saturday, Feb. 8, 1997 a practical joke was played on Chris Frezza, webmaster of www.camaroz28.com. I have personally known Chris for a number of years and consider him to be a good friend of mine. Alot of rumors have been spreading about what allegedly occured. Here's my explenation of what really happend.

Late one evening I discovered a security hole in the webserver which houses Chris' camaroz28.com site. Instead of just simply telling him about his security problem, I decided to play around with his html pages and put up a hacked verson of his original site (below you will find both pages available for comparison).

Once I was inside his webserver, I neatly made backup copies of his original site, and placed the altered images into a separate directory. The following morning I received the following e-mail message from Chris. From the e-mail you can see how chris took it as a joke and wasn't angry at me in any shape or form.

Chris immediatly knew it was me because of several of the personal jokes I threw into my version of his web site, and also due to the fact that I knowingly made no attempt whatsoever to cover my tracks, so the activity logs on his server left a paper trail a mile long pointing right at me. This is something I had counted on, I mean what good is playing a practical joke if the person you are playing it on has no idea who did it??

After a friend of mine showed Chris how to restore his original site, he saw the humor of my little stunt and even asked me to meet him at Ram's Horn for coffee later that night (By the way Chris, I still have your CD's that you left at my office that night).

Some people, one person in particular, did not take this as a joke at all and even went so far as to consider it a threat against his BBS network. This person was Tony Disano, yup little WOP boy himself, someone who I've been friends with just as long as I've been friends with Chris. Tony is President of The (I)ndustry Network, the network that chris' webserver was part of. My little joke had nothing to do with Tony or his network, but nevertheless here is the message he posted to all of the users on his BBS. In that message he calls Evolution Online, a BBS which I am involved in, "miniscule" and points out that its users should refrain from releasing any of their personal information including credit card info. For one thing Evolution Online does not accept credit cards, and secondly Mr. Disano himself has a rather lengthy juvenile fraud record. Anyhow, I owe a big thank you to Tony, I couldn't have paid for better advertising for my BBS... and on his Network. (Keep in mind that this was not my intent, as far as I was concerned, it had nothing to do with Evolution Online or The (I)ndustry Network) :)

You may click on either of the images below to see the full version of each page.

Original Page

Hacked Page