KRACK see CRACK K-RAD ("A thousand points of rad" -one of the Count Zeros) Extremely cool; very rad. [From one thousand times- "k," standing for kilo-; and "rad"- short for "radical," skateboarder-type slang term in the 1980s meaning cool.] KAPOR, MITCHELL Co-founder of the EFF. Ex-hippy, founder of Lotus, and original programmer of Lotus 1-2-3 KARL MARX Handle of James Salsman. Phreak and ex-member of LOD. Former sysop of Farmers of Doom BBS. [Handle came from a mention in the comic strip "Bloom County" about Communists.] KILL The act of deleting a file or stopping a program while it is running KILOBYTE [abbreviated as Kb or K] Small unit of measurement, usually used for measuring small programs and cache memory. Contrary to what the word would imply, a kilobyte is 1024 bytes KING BLOTTO Former member of the Legion of Doom and the 2300 Club. Phreak who invented several variant boxes KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS see THE NETHERLANDS KNIGHT LIGHTING Handle of Craig Neidorf. Former member of the 2600 Club. Co-founder of _Phrack Magazine_. He was put on trial during the Hacker Crackdown of 1990 for publishing the E911 document in _Phrack_, a document stolen in a hacker raid. When the Electronic Frontier Foundation got the case dropped, he decided he wanted to become a lawyer. He is now working for the EFF and as a writer for _2600_. (According to Lightning, handle came from a combination of the Legion of Super-Heroes comic book character "Lightning Lad" and the character "Michael Knight" from the lame television show _Knight Rider_.) THE KNIGHTMARE Handle of Dennis Fiery. Author of a book on computer security entitled _Secrets of a Super Hacker_, and sometimes writes for _2600_. I haven't read his book. Not to be confused with the Arizona hacker KNIGHTMARE [602] Arizona hacker and sysop of the Black Ice Private BBS who was one of the first to be busted in the Hacker Crackdown KROUPA, PATRICK K. see LORD DIGITAL