__ \ / |_ / \ e n o n | o u n d a t i o n presents: \ / *------ the \ / / \ files ------* / \ Issue: 0 Feb/1994 Introduction By: Erik Turbo "Yes, we are the men in black hats, taking advantage of your stupidity to gain information and knowledge about the world around us, while the man on the corner is selling drugs to your children. While rapists, child molesters, murders, and common thieves are taking advantage of the justice system, we are protecting what we believe in; the freedom to learn. You claim we invade other's privacy, while you are in the process of creating universal encryption standards that you can easily dicipher. You claim we are the villains of the information age, as you assasinate another president, cover up more information, and make shady deals with yet another foreign leader. Let me inform you of the ongoing state of mind, the attitude, the power, that is the Xenon Foundation. We are a handful of collective intelligence, of revolutionaries, if you will, who have combined forces to fight the horrid system of oppression we call the government. First of all, we have been, and always shall be first and foremost, computer intruders. Hackers, crackers, thieves, criminals, call us what you will, but we are not any of those. We are crusaders, on a relentless mission to gather as much information and knowledge as humanly possible, using the most powerful medium known to man - the computer - to aid us. Combine that medium with that of the telephone network and you've got an endless stream of data - of information - flowing directly through your computer, into your brain, into your soul. Feed your brain with what your consciousness craves. Liberate yourself, my friend, and take the plunge into the electronic sea of digital data. Unearth the mass of 1's and 0's that have been intentionally covered up by the vile powers that be, to protect us." Welcome to "the-X-files." At last, from the guild of secrets, the Ring of Five, and out of the confines of secrecy, are the Xenon Foundation's most sacred works, including some of the most extensive technical volumes that have ever been combined into any series of digital text. To recieve the-X-files via Internet mail, contact: xfiles@bic.ponyx.com To submit an article for publication as an X file, mail: submit@bic.ponyx.com All other mail to the Xenon Foundation should be submitted to: xenon@bic.ponyx.com