If you are among those who listened to the Apology Line in the early 1990s then you might remember the night someone known as PUPFUCK took over.
Hacking into these answering machines was not particularly difficult. Panasonic models such as those used by Apology were secured by nothing more than a 2-digit security code which might be preceded or followed by an asterisk. With enough time and determination that code could easily be guessed by someone with the desire to do so. The owner of the Apology line, at the time known anonymously as Mr. Apology, happened to have been out of town for a weekend. This gave PUPFUCK all the time he needed to pull off his phabulous phreak.
PUPFUCK made it sound like he had broken into Apology’s headquarters and had Mr. Apology bound and gagged in the corner. Nothing like that was true. His announcement that this was a “PHONE PHREAK” invasion would have given that away to anyone listening who knew that “PHONE PHREAK” invasions took place entirely over the phone.
It was Mr. Apology himself who gave this individual his unique nickname. “PUPFUCK” is a shortened version of “PUPPY FUCKER” (Maybe it should be spelled “PUPPY PHUCKER?). Before turning against the Apology Line this individual had left messages on the line in which he confessed to sexual relations with puppies, cats, and other domestic animals. This is the same person who later returned to Apology claiming to represent the “moral majority.”
What seems to have happened here is PUPFUCK left a couple of rants on the line and then, with full control of Apology’s answering machines, called back later to listen back to responses left by other callers who heard his rants and asked what the hell was going on. PUPFUCK responded to those messages from Margo, Craig, and others, thereby overwriting their messages and his own earlier rants. I didn’t catch those earlier PUPFUCK productions but think that what we have here gives us more than we need to see into the mind of a dog-phucking phone phreaker.
