Legion of Doom (hacker group)

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Legion of Doom
aka LOD & LOD/HFormation| 1984[1] Recreation: 2015

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Founder| Lex Luthor
Dissolved| 1990[1]
Purpose| Hacking
Location|

* United States

Founder

| Lex Luthor

Products

| LOD Technical Journals
Affiliations| Masters of Deception
MindVox
Cult of the Dead Cow

The Legion of Doom (LOD) was an American hacker group founded by a hacker known as Lex Luthor after a rift with his previous group, the Knights of Shadow. LOD was active from the 1980s to the early 2000s, but was most active from 1984 to 1991. Today, Legion of Doom ranks as one of the more influential hacking groups in the history of technology. The name is apparently a reference to the antagonists of Challenge of the Superfriends.

At different points in the group's history, LOD was split into LOD and LOD/LOH (Legion of Doom/Legion of Hackers) for the members that were more skilled at hacking than pure phreaking.

Another hacking group existed simultaneously, called MOD, short for the Masters of Deception. While the ideologies of LOD and MOD differed, there was a cross-over between the members of the groups, so the actions of the members can be difficult to attribute. Unlike the hacking group MOD, there are different opinions regarding what the Legion of Doom is. LOD published the Legion of Doom Technical Journals and contributed to the overall pool of hacking knowledge. They claimed that they did not cause direct harm to the phone systems and computer networks they accessed. Still, at the time, any tampering with the phone systems was considered damaging, and many LOD members were raided and prosecuted by law enforcement for causing alleged damage to systems (Grant, Darden and Riggs, etc.).

## Members of LOD

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1991 Legion of Doom T-shirt created by Chris Goggans 'Erik Bloodaxe'.

As of 2012, it is unknown what happened to individual members of the Legion of Doom. A small handful of the higher-profile LOD members who are accounted for includes: "Lex Luthor", "Erik Bloodaxe", "Mark Tabas", "Karl Marx", "Agrajag the Prolonged", "Automatic Jack", "Bill From RNOC", "Lord Digital", "The Mentor", "Doctor Who", "Dead Lord", "Phiber Optik", who was a member of both LOD and Masters of Deception (MOD), and "Terminus".[2]

Alumni of the Fraternal Order of the Legion of Doom (Lambda Omega Delta)[1]

Handle  | Entered  | Exited  | Location  | Reasons for leaving
Lex Luthor  | Early 84  |  | Florida  |
Karl Marx  | Early 84  | Late 85  | Colorado  | Bust w/Tabas..College
Mark Tabas  | Early 84  | Late 85  | Colorado  | Too numerous to list
The Boca Bandit  | Early 83  | Late 84  | Florida  | High School/College
Agrajag the Prolonged  | Early-84  | Late 85  | California  | Loss of Interest
King Blotto  | Early 84  | Late 85  | Ohio  | College
Blue Archer  | Early 84  | Late 87  | Texas  | College
EBA  | Early 84  |  | Texas  |
Dr Dos  | Early 84  | Late 87  | New Jersey  | Bust- FBI / MIT
The Dragyn  | Early 84  | Late 86  | Minnesota  | Loss of Interest
Unknown Soldier  | Early 84  | Early 85  | Florida  | Bust-Toll Fraud
Sharp Razor  | Late 84  | Early 86  | New Jersey  | Bust-Compuserve Abuse
Sir Francis Drake  | Late 84  | Early 86  | California  | Loss of Interest
Paul Muad'dib (Jeremiah Beckingham)  | Late 84  | Early 89  | Toronto, ONT  | Loss of Interest
Phucked Agent 04  | Late 84  | Late 87  | California  | College
X-Man  | Late 84  | Mid 85  | New York  | Bust-Blue Boxing
Randy Smith  | Late 84  | Mid 85  | Missouri  | Bust-Credit Fraud
Steve Dahl  | Early 85  | Early 86  | Illinois  | Bust-Credit Fraud
The Warlock  | Early 85  | Early 86  | Florida  | Loss of Interest
Terminal Man  | Early 85  | Late 85  | Massachusetts  | Expelled from Group
Dr. Who  | Early 85  | Late 89  | Massachusetts  | Several Reasons
The Videosmith  | Early 86  | Late 87  | Pennsylvania  | Paranoia
Kerrang Khan  | Early 86  | Mid 89  | "London UK"  | Loss of Interest
Gary Seven  | Early 86  | Mid 88  | Florida  | Loss of Interest
The Marauder  | Early 86  | Mid 89  | Connecticut  | Loss of Interest
Silver Spy  | Late 86  | Late 87  | Massachusetts  | College
Bill from RNOC | Early 87  | Late 87  | New York  | Bust-Hacking
The Leftist  | Mid 87  | Late 89  | Georgia  | Bust-Hacking
Phantom Phreaker  | Mid 87  |  | Illinois  |
Doom Prophet  | Mid 87  |  | Illinois  |
Jester Sluggo  | Mid 87  |  | North Dakota  |
Carrier Culprit  | Mid 87  | Mid 88  | Pennsylvania  | Loss of Interest
SysOp  | Mid 87  | Early 90  | Washington  | Bust-Hacking
Master of Impact  | Mid 87  | Mid 88  | California  | Loss of Interest
Thomas Covenant  | Early 88  | Early 90  | New York  | Bust-Hacking
The Mentor  | Mid 88  | Early 90  | Texas  |  Retired after US Secret Service raid
Necron 99  | Mid 88  | Late 89  | Georgia  | Bust-Hacking
Control C  | Mid 88  | Early 90  | Michigan  |
Prime Suspect  | Mid 88  |  | New York  |
The Prophet  | Mid 88  | Late 89  | Georgia  | Bust-Hacking
Phiber Optik | Early 89  | Early 90  | New York  | Bust-Hacking
CompuPhreak  | Early 84  | Early 87  | Florida  | Started a Business
Djinn  | Early 90  | Early 01  | Georgia  | Retired

## Internal and external battles of LOD

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LOD was against wanton destruction of hacked computers. Gary Cohen "Terminal Man" was dismissed from the group for this reason.[citation needed] Other disagreements led to infighting between Erik Bloodaxe and Mark Tabas. A war with MOD was undertaken, and Erik Bloodaxe led as LOD's general. While Bloodaxe was active in this regard, other LOD members were less so.

## Projects of LOD

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In 1992, several members of LOD came together and founded LODCOM, Inc.,[citation needed] which collected old hacker bulletin board messages for an archive, which was to be sold. Most, if not all, of this material later ended up on textfiles.com. Marauder formed LOD.COM as a consulting company, and several ex-LOD members had accounts on the system. In the late 1990s, a root DNS server had an illicit new TLD of .LOD for over a year. The business name "LOD Communications" arose sometime in the late 80s when Frank Carson (aka Basketball Jones - one of the few "Unknown to the public" LOD Members) registered the name & applied for a CT Tax ID to enable Marauder to get on the Bellcore technical document mailing list.

## See also

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* Great Hacker War
* The Hacker Crackdown
* Masters of Deception

## References

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1. ^ a b c "The History of The Legion of Doom". 3 (31, 5 of 10). Phrack, Inc. `{{cite journal}}`: Cite journal requires `|journal=` (help)
2. ^ Henry Weinstein (23 March 1991). "Hacker Enters Guilty Plea in Theft of Computer Data". Los Angeles Times. Business; PART-D; Financial Desk. p. 2\. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2009.

### Public access legal records and transcripts

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* US Government's Sentencing Memorandum, US v. Grant, Darden and Riggs, Criminal Action Number 1:90-CR-31, December 1990. (US Government v. "Legion of Doom")
* LOD Technical Manuals and source
* The Legion of Doom/Hackers Technical Journal

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