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]

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]

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]
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.
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"Did you write the Tone Loc war dialer I used on the 90s?". February 26, 2014. Yes, with Mucho Maas
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Minor Threat (September 20, 1994). "Phrack Volume Five, Issue Forty-Six" (txt). Phrack. p. 13 of 28. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
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"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.
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"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.

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)

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[bbs-1] [1]
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] [2]
"GeekAustin 03 - Chris Lamprecht - indeed.com" (Video). October 1, 2008. Retrieved February 4, 2015.

[3] [3]
"Did you write the Tone Loc war dialer I used on the 90s?". February 26, 2014. Yes, with Mucho Maas

[prophile-4] [4]
Minor Threat (September 20, 1994). "Phrack Volume Five, Issue Forty-Six" (txt). Phrack. p. 13 of 28. Retrieved February 2, 2015.

[phrack40-5] [5]
"Phrack, Volume Four, Issue Forty, File 11 of 14" (txt). Phrack. August 1, 1992. p. 11 of 14. Retrieved February 4, 2015.

[6] [6]
"Searchify – Hosted cloud search as a service". Retrieved February 4, 2015.

[7] [7]
Basch, Diego (December 21, 2011). "IndexTank is now open source!". LinkedIn. Retrieved February 4, 2015.

[8] [8]
"A brief history of hacking". Kaspersky Lab.

[9] [9]
"A long time ago, in 1995, I was the first person banned from the Internet". Reddit. February 26, 2014.

[10] [10]
"Christopher Matthew Lamprecht". Federal Bureau of Prisons. May 26, 2010. Archived from the original on June 12, 2012.

[phrack52-11] [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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