Aphex Twin Aphex Twin's 'hacker' days

We've all read about it in interviews and such. But the question is, do you think he'll ever return to computer hacking?

We know that he was part of a group called 'Phrozen Crew' in 1993. I'm sure he's done a few other things since then, but information on it seems to have died down.

I'm sure if he ever did return to hacking, he'd keep quiet about it. That's a no brainer. So I guess this is a speculation thread.

Do you think he'll ever try it again? Perhaps he already has. I mean, the signs are everywhere:

http://i.imgur.com/CHVqA.png

Discuss.

Richard will hack into your computer, steal all of your embarrassing pictures and make a collage, then he will show it to his mates and laugh for hours.

He loves his fans.

i don't think he ever stopped.

I heard he is working for MI5 now, probably screening e-mails sent by people with middle-eastern sounding names.

i heard he stole all your jokes, like, 10 years ago.

Makes sense .. i used to be funny and had a very promising stand-up career.

hey i didn't knew that! now I understand why all his analords are named after a virus/trojan/annoyingcomputershit! and many other things I've read in his interviews !!!! thx pal

I think aphex runs this forum. Can you imagine it? He's so fuckin smart that he could have multiple accounts, he could be rhombix for all we know geez that would be a mindfuck

  On 12/18/2011 at 6:28 AM, Kanakori said:

I think aphex runs this forum. Can you imagine it? He's so fuckin smart that he could have multiple accounts, he could be rhombix for all we know geez that would be a mindfuck

The Ginger With The Dragon Tattoo

  On 12/20/2011 at 4:12 AM, Candiru said:

The Ginger With The Dragon Tattoo

Genius.

I hope I'm not ginger.

I've come to the conclusion that 50% of WATMM is RDJ. It's like Michael Jackson's theme park, but electronic.

  On 12/18/2011 at 2:10 AM, Rhombix said:

We've all read about it in interviews and such. But the question is, do you think he'll ever return to computer hacking?

 

We know that he was part of a group called 'Phrozen Crew' in 1993. I'm sure he's done a few other things since then, but information on it seems to have died down.

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I'm cross-posting this from the thread "aphex twin, warez king?":

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  On 8/18/2010 at 11:39 AM, chaosmachine said:

At first, I thought it was just a joke edit, but a quick search proved otherwise.

 

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A group of like-minded computer software crackers, the Phrozen Crew (PAC) was created back in 1993 by Aphex Twin.

 

1993 seems pretty early for someone to be fanboying the Aphex name. What do you think?

What an odd thread to come across. *smile*

I'm afraid it was actually a bit of fanboyism - SAW I had a major impact on me as a young, barely teenager. (And it was PC for Phrozen Crew, never PAC, never Forest Crew, etc - I don't know how that story got started.)

Greg from Canada (though oddly enough also born in South Africa) was an artist with iCE and was never associated with Phrozen Crew, Cartel, WaR or any other warez/phreaking (e.g. Scavenger's Dialer) matters. After we had had a few phone conversations, he ended up changing his handle to "Aphid Twix" to help avoid confusion.

afx was the shortened handle I used on efnet #hack/#phreak, for obvious reasons. I suspect that that was why Greg did the greet to "Afx (in SA)".

Anyway, simply put: the Aphex Twin of PC, WaR, Cartel, NakedTruth and whatever various hacking/phreaking/warez progs/mags etc isn't *the* Richard D James.

I can understand how it coulda been kinda cool though, if it had been =)

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This is so cool

Thank you richard, or whoever you are.

first hand intel!

hmm....

  On 2/24/2012 at 5:37 AM, Kanakori said:

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This is so cool

Thank you richard, or whoever you are.

 

first hand intel!

He just said he is the AFX of phrozen crew, NOT richard .

Cool to clear that up one and for all that he wasn't part of that hacking group. Unless.... SMOKESCREEN

jesus fucking christ

  On 2/24/2012 at 10:27 AM, Gocab said:

lol, nice one

  On 2/24/2012 at 8:38 AM, Herbalist said:

  On 2/24/2012 at 5:37 AM, Kanakori said:

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first hand intel!

 

He just said he is the AFX of phrozen crew, NOT richard .

 

Cool to clear that up one and for all that he wasn't part of that hacking group. Unless.... SMOKESCREEN

Yeah I got it, but it doesnt mean its true.

  On 2/25/2012 at 3:18 AM, Kanakori said:

  On 2/24/2012 at 8:38 AM, Herbalist said:

  On 2/24/2012 at 5:37 AM, Kanakori said:

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first hand intel!

 

He just said he is the AFX of phrozen crew, NOT richard .

 

Cool to clear that up one and for all that he wasn't part of that hacking group. Unless.... SMOKESCREEN

 

Yeah I got it, but it doesnt mean its true.

I have to agree. Seems rather strange, this whole thread. The "not afx" hacker just happened across this thread in the millions of pages in cyberspace a couple months after it was posted? I don't know... Just seems rather coincidental.

Afekz

trololo

The guy probably has a google alert for phrozen crew, and since he's an afx fanboy he decided to join this place. It's not strange in the least..

it doesn't seem odd at all, I'd think. if it came up the very day the thread was posted, yes, that would be suss.

But a couple of months, and the guy idly vanity-googles about his crew, and this thread comes up in the higher results of recent times (since a lot of it would've been before Google's time if 1993, and therefore not on the archives)? Hardly outside the realms of possibility.

times have changed, might be hard to just jump back into hacking