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]
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]
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References
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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 Script error: No such module "webarchive"., Jeff Koyen. New York Press (1996)
- Computer Underground Digest, Issue 87, Jim Thomas, Gordon Meyer. 10 Dec. 1996 (Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".)
External links
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- Chris Lamprecht's personal home page
- Interview with Lamprecht, ToneLoc's author, part of BBS: The Documentary
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