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				Step by Step1 You will need two different lines for this. okay first take off both of the boxes covering the wires 2 Take the green and red from each box and attach a wire to each of these one wire to green 1 wire to red same on the other box 3 After you have 4 wires 2 for each box then get a two way switch with two terminals then hook the two green wires to one side and the red wire two the other side then when you switch the switch you should here a dial tone and then just dial out and you will be able to talk to two people at one time distributed through the pirate club1200 Cracker Jack The Pirate Club1200 The Connection io DOS Busters
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				Hey all you phreakers! Bet you didn't know about this! It's The Poor Man's 2600 Hertz!! What the hell could I be talking about!! Well, let's say you're really hard up not in your usual sense, this time. You really need to make 2600 Hertz so you can have lotsa phun on the trunk lines, right But your mom and dad didn't give you a blue box for Christmas just an Apple! And of course you don't have a nice precision music card like mine or an Apple Cat. So what the hell can you do Well, you're not out of it yet. You, too, can make 2600 Hertz! Yes, that's right! With  NO additional hardware!Try and beat that with a stick or your fist even for that matter. And I bet you've even figured out that I'm about to tell you just how to do this. Well, you're right! EVERYBODY KNOWS that at FCA8, there's a little routine called WAIT. We are going to use that to produce the needed delay in the production of our tone. Yes, you will have to use a little machine language. But I'm going to show you exactly what to type here. So even you, yes YOU Poindexter, can get this right! Here's all you do If you have an Apple e with the enhancement installed, just type CALL151 from BASIC and get into the monitor. From there, hit a ! to use the mini assembler. Enter this exactly as it appears !1000 LDX C030 ! LDA 06 ! JSR FCA8 ! JMP 1000 And there you have it! Hit  to get back to the monitor. Then, type 1000G and listen to that beautiful tone! Not EXACTLY 2600 Hz, but close enough to do the trick! For you nonenhanced types, you can just load up INTEGER BASIC Ha! and type F666G from the monitor and use the miniassembler there. After typing the above code in, type FF69G to return to the monitor, and proceed as above. You would do that on a , too people still use those!. In all cases, just hit RESET to shut the thing up! Use it as you will. In case you didn't know, you can use that tone to reset SPRINT, MCI, etc. nodes to there dial tone. That way, you don't have to keep punching in your local number first. Just type the code and go! Pretty nice. Well, you can learn what to do from all the philes around about blue boxing. 2600 Hz doesn't work on 800 numbers here anymore. SHIT! What's going on ESS Well, if you live in ESS, don't try this! They'll snag your little butt fer sher! Then it's off to reform school for you! Well, have phun! And remember I didn't tell you this! Sir Briggs of the SouthCentral Discount Waremeisters of Texas A  M We brought you AE TAC 1.1 Scream The Ultimate Telephone Terrorizer DuoDisk Modz Be on the lookout for Scream 2.0, The ALF Box for those with ALF Music Synthesizer Cards, a onepass copier for Apple Extended Memory Cards, and MUCH, MUCH MORE!
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			<title>alt.locksmithing FAQ</title>
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				Put together from postings by spikeworld.std.com Joe Spike Ilacqua, and hesncsu.edu Henry Schaffer, with a major data collection effort by sanguishdigifix.com Scott Anguish. Edited by hes. Translated to English by elizworld.std.com Elizabeth Lear. Last changed 61692 What follows are answers to some Frequently Asked Questions on alt.locksmithing. This FAQ does not attempt to teach you locksmithing, just to answer simple questions, give you some hints on getting started, and point you to sources of information. Also included is a glossary of common terms. The Appendix covers many supply places, books and tapes. Questions Answered 1. Where can I get a lock pick set 2. How can I make my own picks and tension wrenches 3. Is it legal to carry lock picks 4. Where can I get the MIT Guide to Picking Locks 5. What books can I get on locksmithing 6. What are pick guns or automatic pickers and do they work 7. How do I open a Kryptonite lock 8. How can I get keys stamped DO NOT DUPLICATE duplicated 9. Do Skeleton Keys Exist 10. Should I bother with high security pick proof locks for my home 11. What should I do after I read a book 12. How do I continue learning about locksmithing Glossary Appendix of sources, books, videotapes. Thanks 1. Where can I get a lock pick set  Try a locksmith supply house. Look under Locksmiths' Equipment  Supplies in the Yellow Pages. Your State or the company may have requirements, such as having to prove you are a locksmith or showing a drivers license call and find out. Also look for mail order houses in the Appendix. 2. How can I make my own picks and tension wrenches  You can file or grind picks out of spring steel. It is best to use spring steel  sources include hacksaw blades, piano music wire, clock springs, streetsweeper bristles which can be found along the street after the sweeper has passed, etc. In a pinch safety pin steel, or even a bobby pin much worse can be used. When grinding, keep the steel from getting so hot as to anneal soften it. You may have to rehardenretemper it. See a book on knife making, gunsmithing, or machine shop practice for a discussion on heat treating steel. Some people prefer a rigid tension wrench and just bend a small screwdriver for this, but many prefer a slightly flexible wrench and use spring steel. The MIT Guide to Picking Locks and the Eddie The Wire books see below cover making these tools. There are many places you can buy picks and tension wrenches. See the appendix. 3. Is it legal to carry lock picks  This depends on where you are. In the U.S. the common case seems to be that it is legal to carry potential burglar tools such as keys, picks, crowbars, jacks, bricks, etc., but use of such tools to commit a crime is a crime in itself. Call your local library, district attorney, or police department to be sure. Places where it is illegal to carry lock picks The District of Columbia. 4. Where can I get the MIT Guide to Picking Locks  You can't. The guide must exist in an online form, but no one seems to have it. Rumor has it that one of the authors is aware of this group and is unwilling to post the guide. The guide is copyrighted, so scanning it in and posting would, in addition to violating the author's wishes, be illegal. 5. What books can I get on locksmithing  An excellent encyclopedic reference based on reading the 1st edition  but people have said that the 2nd and 3rd editions carry on the coverage The Complete Book of Locks  Locksmithing, 3rd Ed. C.A. Roper and Bill Phillips TAB Books ISBN 083063522X Paper 083065221 Hard 18.95 Paper 26.95 Hard also many people think highly of Eddie The Wire How to Make Your Own Professional Lock Tools Eddie The Wire Loompanics Unlimited ISBN 0685391434 4 Volumes 20 Your local book store should be able to order these for you. You can find other titles under Locksmithing in the Books In Print Subject Index, which any decent bookstore should have. Also see the Appendix. 6. What are pick guns or automatic pickers and do they work  A pick gun is a manual or powered device that uses a vibrating pin to try to bounce the pin tumblers so there are spaces at the shear line so the the plug can rotate. They are not a panacea, aren't always effective, and the net seems to feel that these are no substitute for a little skill with a pick and learning how locks work. 7. How do I open a Kryptonite lock  Easiest If you registered your lock, call or write Kryptonite for a new key. Or call a local locksmith, the should be able to pick and rekey the lock for you. Easy Get a car jack and jack it apart. Harder If it doesn't have the newer brass jacket, peel back the plastic coating on the key end, drill out the pin that holds in the cylinder, remove the cylinder, open.Hardest Chill the metal of the U with liquid Nitrogen or Freon, smash with hammer. 8. How can I get keys stamped DO NOT DUPLICATE duplicated  Some locksmiths will take the Rebok approach and Just Do It. Some will even stamp DO NOT DUPLICATE on the copy for you. If that doesn't work, label the key by sticking some tape on the DO NOT DUPLICATE stamp and try again. 9. Do Skeleton Keys Exists  Skeleton Keys are keys ground to avoid the wards in warded locks. There is no analog with modern pin tumbler locks. Master keys may open a large set of locks, but this is designed in when the locks are installed. 10. Should I bother with high security pick proof locks for my home  Why not If you are installing locks, the better quality ones are not much more expensive, and are physically more secure e.g., have hardened inserts to protect against drilling. However, note that protection against picking doesn't add a large amount to your security since burglars almost always go the brute force route. Regardless, you should have a deadbolt, and check your window security. 11. What should I do after I read a book  After some reading, then the next thing is some experience. Go to KMart, buy a deadbolt lock for around 10, and take the entire thing apart you'll need tools like screwdrivers, and perhaps a pair of pliers to see how a pin tumbler lock works. KMart carries a clone of the Kwikset which is made to be very easy to take apart. Keyinknob locksets are both more expensive and harder to take apart. You then can practice picking this lock by leaving out all but one stack of pins. This will be exceedingly easy to pick, and will mostly provide experience in manipulating the pick and tension wrench. Then put in one more pin stack and try again  feeling when one stack is picked and then the second one will let the cylinder move. Keep on adding stacks. Try picking with the curved finger, and also raking. 12. How do I continue learning about locksmithing  There are several things you can do to continue learning more about locks and locksmithing. One, of course, is to subscribe to a locksmithing magazine. Some years ago I compared the National Locksmith to the Locksmith Ledger and felt that the latter was a bit better on technical info. Call yourself a Student Locksmith, or perhaps a Security Consultant surely you have given some advice to somebody!. But all this reading won't help all that much, so you have to continue buying various types of locks, taking them apart, figuring out everything about them, and installing, removing, modifying them. Buy some key blanks, make up a master key scheme, and file the keys to fit assuming you don't have a key machine  filing may take a few minutes, but it does work. Maybe buy a rekeying kit kit of different size pins, with a follower and do some rekeying for your family or friends the same size pins fit, I think, the familiar Kwikset and Schlage pin tumbler locks so that their deadbolts can be opened with their normal front door key. Or buy a deadbolt installation kit hole saw plus template  I think that Black and Decker makes a good one, available at better building supply places and put in a few deadbolts for your family and friends  charging them only for the material plus a couple of bucks towards the installation kit  and rekey the deadbolt for them, too. Buy or make a pick set, and use your practice locks to practice picking. Do you have a good locksmith supply catalog If not, give a call to a local supplier, or perhaps to Kenco of Lincoln, Nebraska they have an 800number and get their catalog  they sell lots of goodies including most everything I've been discussing. Help people at work who have been locked out of their desks or filing cabinets. Desks usually have wafer tumbler locks which are much easier to pick than pin tumbler locks. Filing cabinets are not as easy to pick, but are pickable actually some are very easy to pick  they vary greatly and also can be opened by pushing a flexible plastic ruler past the sliding drawer  carefully inspect some working cabinets to see what I'm talking about. Glossary blank  A key that has not yet been cut to fit a lock. core  A removable cylinder and plug, used in a interchangeable core system. core key  A key which is used to remove a core. cylinder  The part of the lock in which the the pins are set and which contains the plug. cuts  The notches cut in the key to make it fit a lock. key way  The slot in which the key is inserted. master key  A key which opens a group of locks designed to match it. plug  The part of the lock which the key is inserted and is rotated by the key. warded lock  A lock using wards to keep an incorrect key from entering the key hole and turning. Appendix Here are some of the things collected about locations and availabilities most are from alt.locksmithing. We do not endorse any of these, but feel that you can get information by reading. Phoenix Systems Inc. P.O. Box 3339, Evergreen, CO 80439 3032770305 Survivalist Group, all though the Shoot all the Commies for God stuff is kept to a minimum. OUR LOCK PICKS ARE THE FINEST QUALITY PROFESSIONAL TOOLS AVAILABLE. Each pick is made of hardfinished clockspring steel, tempered to the correct degree of hardness. Whether the subject is wafer tumbler locks or 6  7 pin tumbler locks, our picks are the best available, and the standard of the industry. With a few minutes of practice, even a beginner can open most padlocks, door locks and deadbolts. NOTE BE SURE TO CHECK YOUR LOCAL, AND STATE ORDINANCES GOVERNING POSSESSION OF THESE TOOLS. 604 SUPERIOR PICK SET. Hip pocket size in top grain leather case. Our most complete set. 32 pick, tension tools  extractors. Picks seem to be from 'HPC' but I can't tell for sure. Price 75.00 ea. 606 TYRO PICK SET. An excellent choice for the beginner. Cowhide leather case contains 9 picks, tension wrenches  key extractor. Picks seem to be from 'HPC' but I can't tell for sure. Price 34.95 ea. 607 WARDED PADLOCK PICK SET. This 5 piece padlock pick set is made of the finest blue tempered spring steel. This set will pick open most every warded padlock made today. Price 9.95 ea. 610 DOUBLESIDED TUMBLER LOCK PICKS. Set of 4 picks for use with doublesided, disc tumbler, showcase, cam and PADLOCKS. An excellent addition to your other pick sets. Price 24.95 ea. 617 PADLOCK SHIM PICKS. Open padlocks in seconds! Our new Padlock Shim pick's unique design makes them so successful that it is frightening! Simply slide the shim down between the shackle and the lock housing, twist and the lock is open. Works best on laminated type padlocks the most popular type but will open ALMOST ANY TYPE OF PADLOCK  INCLUDING THE POPULAR 3 NUMBER COMBINATION TYPE. Include 20 shims  5 each of the 4 most common shackle diameters for perfect fit every time. Comes with complete instructions. Price 39.95 set 618 SCHLAGE WAFER PICK SET. There are two types of Schlage wafer locks, each needing a different base key to pick with. This set comes with both types of base keys and the pick. With the proper base key the lock is already half picked. Very quick and easy to use. Comes with complete instructions. It looks like 2 filed down keys, and a straight pointy piece of metal for the pick. Price 34.95 set 620 PICK GUN. Picks locks FAST. Open locks in less than 5 seconds. Specifically designed for tumbler locks. Insert pick into key slot, then just pull trigger. Throws all pins into position at one time. Lock is then turned with tension bar. Used extensively by police and other government agencies. Gun is spring loaded, with tension adjustment knob. Comes with 3 needle picks and tension bar. No batteries necessary. Lifetime guarantee. The model name is LockAim, but I can't make out the brand name. Price Regular 75.00 OUR SALE PRICE 59.95 ea. 612 THE SLIM JIM. Car door opener. The tool does not enter inside the car. Opens a car door by feel rather then sight. With a little practice, car opening will be no problem. For GM, Ford and Chrysler cars. Made of clockspring steel and is hand finished. Price 16.00 ea. 613 THE SUPER JIM. This tool will open most GM, Ford and AMC car doors. Opener does not enter vehicle. Made wider and thicker, and is bright nickel plated. Faster openings on most domestic automobiles. With illustrated instructions. Price 16.00 ea. 614 HOUDINI CAR DOOR OPENER. The latest and best innovations on car door openers. It works the same as your old Slim Jim, except it now folds neatly to fit in pocket or toolbox without getting in the way. ONLY 6 12 INCHES LONG WHEN FOLDED. Open up and snaps into place like a foldup ruler, excellent stainless steel constructions with vinyl handle for comfort. Looks like a cross between a slim jim and a fold up ruler. Price 19.95 ea. 615 PROLOK CAR KILLER KIT. Over the years we have had thousands of requests for a multivehicle opening kit. We are now able to offer the most complete kit that we have ever seen. This kit of tools will open over 135 automobiles, both domestic and foreign, on the road today. The opening procedure for each vehicle is diagrammed and explained in the instruction manual. Kit comes with complete instruction manual and gas cap pick tool. It's 2 slim jims, a couple of pieces of bent wire, one of which has a string on it, and a little 2 headed key. I assume the key is for the gas cap. PRICE 39.95 ea. 600 TUBULAR LOCK PICK. This tool is an easy and reliable method for picking tubular locks, as found on commercial vending machines, washers, dryers, etc. This newest high tech design is much faster and easier to use than the old type that used rubber bands to hold the feeler picks. Internal neoprene O rings together with knurled collar provide a very simple and easy tension adjustment. Sturdy stainless steel construction provides for longlasting service. This tool will, with a little practice, easily and quickly open any regular centerspaced tubular lock  the most popular type of tubular lock on the market. Comes with complete instructions and leather carrying case. A bunch of feeler picks around a tube. Price 129.95 ea.  Yipe!!!  Here are a few titles with Library of Congress Catalog Number    Title Locksmithing Author F.A. Steed LC Number TS 520 S73 1982 Title All About Locks and Locksmithing Author Max Alth LC Number TS 520 A37 1972 Title Professional Locksmithing Techniques Author Bill Phillips LC Number TS 520 P55 1991 or you can buy books from no credit cards Loompanics Unlimited  When they say unusual, they Publishers  Sellers of Unusual Books  mean it! Everything from P.O. Box 1197  igloo construction to Port Townsend, WA 98368  techniques of execution. 52042 B  E A TO Z  HOW TO GET IN ANYWHERE, ANYTIME VHS TAPE by Scott French, 1987. Nearly two full hours of onsite techniques to get in any building, beat any lock, open any safe, enter any car. Price 59.95 40031 INVOLUNTARY REPOSSESSION OR IN THE STEAL OF THE NIGHT by John Russell III 64pp, 1979. Written by a private detective for auto repossessors. All the standard methods of entering and starting locked, keyless automobiles are given. Price 10.95 52050 TECHNIQUES OF BURGLAR ALARM BYPASSING by Wayne B. Yeager 110pp, 1990. Alarms covered include Magnetic Switches, Window Foil, Sound and Heat Detectors, Photoelectric Devices, Guard Dogs, Central Station Systems, ClosedCircuit Television, and more. Price 14.95 52047 THE B  E BOOK  BURGLARY TECHNIQUES AND INVESTIGATION by Burt Rapp 149pp, 1989. This is an investigatory guide and practical manual designed for the police officer in charge of a burglary investigation and its followup. Price 14.95 52054 TECHNIQUES OF SAFECRACKING by Wayne B. Yeager 92pp, 1990. Chapters include Safe Mechanics and Operations, Guessing the Combination, Manipulation Techniques, Safe Drilling Methods, Punching and Peeling, Torches Etc., Explosives, Miscellaneous Methods of Safe Entry, Safe Deposit Boxes, Deterrence and Prevention, and more. Price 12.00 52052 HIGH SPEED ENTRY  INSTANT OPENING TECHNIQUES VHS TAPE  1Hr 1990. Topics include the Rabbit Tool and Hydra force door openers, the Omni Force jam spreader, the best exothermic lance in the world, two tools that open almost any auto in America, electronic locksmiths, rippers and pullers, shove knives and relockers, and more techie tools. A complete source guide is included. Price 39.95 52032 THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO LOCK PICKING by Eddie the Wire 80pp 1981. The very best book ever written on how to pick locks quite the claim. Topics covered include Basic Principle and General Rules, How To Mount Practice Locks, Warded Locks, Disc Tumbler Locks, Lever Tumbler Locks, Pin Tumbler Locks, Wafer Tumbler Locks, Lock Modifications To Thwart Tampering And How To Overcome Them, Various Other Ways Of Bypassing Locks And Locking Mechanisms. Price 14.95 52040 HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN PROFESSIONAL LOCK TOOLS 4 Volume set by Eddie the Wire 31pp, 1980 50pp 1981 44pp, 1981 55pp, 1986. Basically this set describes how to make all the tools mentioned the above book along with mass production techniques, carrying cases, using a PC to generate pick profiles, making soft breakins, how to case a subdivision, and more. Price 20.00 52044 PERSONAL PICKS VHS TAPE  72min by Eddie the Wire, 1988. Demonstrates the stepbystep process of making lock tools in the home workshop. Price 29.95 52051 EXPERT LOCK PICKING VHS TAPE  60min by Ron Reed, 1990. The author has won the California Locksmiths Association lockpicking championship I guess that's good. Uses specially designed cutaway, seethrough locks, so you can view the inside mechanisms of working locks as they respond to picking techniques. Price 59.95 52048 ADVANCED LOCK PICKING by Steven M. Hampton 50pp, 1989. Describes the inner workings of the new highsecurity locks and includes templates for making custom tools. Schematic diagrams for portable electronic picks to open magnetic key and card locks. Tips on enhancing finger sensitivity, concentration power, constructing practice lock boxes, and more. Price 10.00 52045 CIA FIELDEXPEDIENT KEY CASTING MANUAL 48pp, 1988. How to make a duplicate key when you can keep the original only a short time. Price 8.00 52043 HOW I STEAL CARS  A REPO MAN'S GUIDE TO CAR THIEVES' SECRETS VHS TAPE  45min by Pierre Smith, 1988. How to open and enter practically any modern automobile and how to start them without the key. Price 49.95 52016 HOW TO FIT KEYS BY IMPRESSIONING by Desert Publications 26pp, 1975. Subjects covered include Fitting bit keys, Fitting flat steel keys, Fitting lever tumbler keys, Fitting disc tumbler keys, Necessary tools, Techniques of obtaining impressions, and more. Price 7.00 Thanks The following have contributed to this FAQ Scott Anguish  J. James Jim Belonis II  Joe Ilacqua  Elizabeth Lear  Larry Margolis  Henry Schaffer 
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				We all know those snack machines, coin machines, soda machines that allow dollar bills to be excepted. Here is a quick and easy way get all of those items for free and sometimes also making money at the same time. All you need is a dollar bill and a long strip of clear tape you will want it to be the width of the dollar. What you do is at the very end of the dollar bill is tape an end of the tape to it and then fold the tape in half the long way. So it should sort of look like this, a long section of tape around 6 to 8 inches long folded so it is the smooth side and not the sticky side attached to the end of a dollar bill. Now, stick the dollar end of the bill into the dollar slot. The dollar will go in with part of the tape there should be enough tape left for you to be holding on to. Now pull the tape out along with the dollar bill.The machine thinks that you paid a dollar so now make a selection. You should be able to get the candy or whatever along with the change. So, you end up with a candy and 50 cents in change for nothing! This works the best on Lance Snack machines but feel free to try it on others too. GOOD LUCK, MARXMAN
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				So you want to be a criminal. Well, if you want to be like James Bond and open a lock in fifteen seconds, then go to Hollywood, because that is the only place you are ever going to do it. Even experienced locksmiths can spend five to ten minutes on a lock if they are unlucky.If you are wanting extremely quick access, look elsewhere. The following instructions will pertain mostly to the lock in knob type lock, since it is the easiest to pick. First of all, you need a pick set. If you know a locksmith, get him to make you a set. This will be the best possible set for you to use.If you find a locksmith unwilling to supply a set, don't give up hope. It is possible to make your own, if you have access to a grinder you can use a file, but it takes forever. The thing you need is an allen wrench set very small. These should be small enough to fit into the keyhole slot. Now, bend the long end of the allen wrench at a slight angle not 90 degrees. Now, take your pick to a grinder or a file, and smooth the end until it is rounded so it won't hang inside the lock.Test your tool out on doorknobs at your house to see if it will slide in and out smoothly. Now, this is where the screwdriver comes in. It must be small enough for it and your pick to be used in the same lock at the same time, one above the other. In the coming instructions, please refer to this chart of the interior of a lock______________________________  K        E      Y  Upper tumbler pin    H  Lower tumbler pin        O  Cylinder wall  L This is a greatly simplified  E drawing ______________________________ The object is to press the pin up so that the space between the upper pin and the lower pin is level with the cylinder wall. Now, if you push a pin up, it's tendency is to fall back down, right That is where the screwdriver comes in.Insert the screwdriver into the slot and turn. This tension will keep the solved pins from falling back down. Now, work from the back of the lock to the front, and when you are through, there will be a click, the screwdriver will turn freely, and the door will open. Do not get discouraged on your first try! It will probably take you about twenty to thirty minutes your first time. After that, you will quickly improve with practice.
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				Lockpicking I Cars and Assorted Other LocksWhile the basic themes of lockpicking and uninvited entry have not changed much in the last few years, some modern devices and techniques have appeared on the scene. Automobiles Many older automobiles can still be opened with a Slim Jim type of opener these and other auto locksmithing techniques are covered fully in the book In the Still of the Night, by John Russell III however, many car manufacturers have built cases over the lock mechanism, or have moved the lock mechanism so the Slim Jim will not work. So American Locksmith Service P.O. Box 26 Culver City, CA 90230 ALS offers a new and improved Slim Jim that is 30 inches long and 34 inches wide, so it will both reach and slip through the new car lock covers inside the door. Price is 5.75 plus 2.00 postage and handling. Cars manufactured by General Motors have always been a bane to people who needed to open them, because the sidebar locking unit they employ is very difficult to pick. To further complicate matters, the new GM cars employ metal shields to make the use of a Slim Jim type instrument very difficult. So Lock Technology Corporation 685 Main St. New Rochelle, NY 10801 LTC offers a cute little tool which will easily remove the lock cylinder without harm to the vehicle, and will allow you to enter andor start the vehicle. The GMC40 sells for 56.00 plus 2.00 for postage and handling. The best general automobile opening kit is probably a set of lockout tools offered by Steck MFG Corporation 1319 W. Stewart St. Dayton, OH 45408 For 29.95 one can purchase a complete set of six carbon lockout tools that will open more than 95 of all the cars around. Kwickset locks have become quite popular as one step security locks for many types of buildings. They are a bit harder to pick and offer a higher degree of security than a normal builder installed door lock. So A MFG 1151 Wallace St. Massilon, OH 44646 Price is 11.95. Kwickset locks can handily be disassembled and the door opened without harm to either the lock or the door by using the above mentioned Kwick Out tool. If you are too lazy to pick auto locks Veehof Supply Box 361 Storm Lake, IO 50588 VS sells tryout keys for most cars tryout keys are used since there is no one master key for any one make of car, but there are group type masters a.k.a. tryout keys. Prices average about 20.00 a set. Updated Lock PickingFor years, there have been a number of pick attack procedures for most pin and tumbler lock systems. In reverse order of ease they are as follows Normal Picking Using a pick set to align the pins, one by one, until the shear line is set and the lock opens. Racking This method uses picks that are constructed with a series of bumps, or diamond shape notches. These picks are raked i.e. run over all the pins at one time. With luck, the pins will raise in the open position and stay there. Raking, if successful, can be much less of an effort than standard picking. Lock Aid Gun This gun shaped device was invented a number of years ago and has found application with many locksmiths and security personnel. Basically, a needle shaped pick is inserted in the snout of the gun, and the trigger is pulled. This action snaps the pick up and down strongly. If the tip is slipped under the pins, they will also be snapped up and down strongly. With a bit of luck they will strike each other and separate at the shear line for a split second. When this happens the lock will open. The lock aid gun is not 100 successful, but when it does work, the results are very dramatic. You can sometimes open the lock with one snap of the trigger. Vibrator Some crafty people have mounted a needle pick into an electric toothbrush power unit. This vibrating effect will sometimes open pin tumbler locks  instantly. There is now another method to open pin and wafer locks in a very short time. Although it resembles a toothbrush pick in appearance, it is actually an electronic device. I am speaking of the Cobra pick that is designed and sold by Fed Corporation P.O. Box 569 Scottsdale, AR 85252 The Cobra uses two nine volt batteries, teflon bearings for less noise, and a cam roller. It comes with three picks for different types of locks and works both in America and overseas, on pin or wafer locks. The Cobra will open group one locks common door locks in three to seven seconds with no damage, in the hands of an experienced locksmith. It can take a few seconds more or up to a half a minute for someone with no experience at all. It will also open group two locks including government, high security, and medecos, although this can take a short time longer. It will not open GM sidear locks, although a device is about to be introduced to fill that gap. How much for this toy that will open most locks in seven seconds 235.00 plus 4.00 shipping and handling. For you hard core safe crackers, FC also sells the MI6 that will open most safes at a cost of 10,000 for the three wheel attack model, and 10,500 for the four wheel model. It comes in a sturdy aluminum carrying case with monitor, disk drive and software. If none of these safe and sane ideas appeal to you, you can always fall back on the magic thermal lance The thermal lance is a rather crude instrument constructed from 38 inch hollow magnesium rods. Each tube comes in a 10 foot length, but can be cut down if desired. Each one is threaded on one end. To use the lance, you screw the tube together with a matted regulator like a welding outfit uses and hook up an oxygen tank. Then oxygen is turned on and the rod is lit with a standard welding ignitor. The device produces an incredible amount of heat. It is used for cutting up concrete blocks or even rocks. An active lance will go through a foot of steel in a few seconds. The lance is also known as a burning bar, and is available from C.O.L. MFG 7748 W. Addison Chicago, IL 60634
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				Using a Wired XBox 360 Controller as a Mouse in WindowsWhat You'll Need1. A Wired XBox 360 Controller2. Drivers from Microsoft Should be automatically downloaded from Windows Update when you plug in your controller3. Xpadder4. Our XBox360 Mouse Xpadder Profile and xBox360 Controller file here.Step 1  Install Xpadder to your system.Step 2  Copy our Xpadder Profile and Controller Files on Item 4 in the What You'll Need section above to the Xpadder directory and Open them in Xpadder The Mouse Xpadder file on the Right Profiles and the XBox360 Controller File on the Left.Now, as long as Xpadder is open generally Minimised to Tray and the Mouse Profile is selected, your Wired XBox 360 Controller will operate as a system mouse.
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				VMS System Managers ManualORDER NUMBER AALA00ATETyped in by Guardian Of TimeThis Manual provides the basic concepts and procedures for VMS system management it is especially inteded for managers of small clusters and systems.Chapter 1 IntroductionThe VMS operating system and the other software products that run on your computer provide you and the other users on your system w a wide range of computing capabilities. In order to create and maintain a proper and efficient computing environment, certain administrative tasks must be undertaken. These tasks are called SYSTEM MANAGEMENT, and they include the following Setting up the system Giving individual users access to the system Installing software and software updates Managing acceptable performance levels Preventing the loss of important information that you keep on line  Making sure that the system is secure Handling media such as disksmagnetic tapes setting up the software to allow for printers and for batch jobs  Setting up a cluster Setting up a networkAs system manager, you may need to do some of these tasks only once for example, setting up software to allow for printers or batch jobs, or setting up a network others are done on a continuing basis for example, maintaining system security and preventing the loss of data. At some sites, one or more people are designated as SYSTEM MANAGERS, and other individuals are designated as OPERATORS.In these cases, operators are responsible for tasks such as physically mounting magnetic tapes and disks, monitoring printers, responding to emergencies or security alarms, and maintaining system log files.Not all of the tasks described in this manual may be necessary for your site. This chapter provides an overview of the information that this manual contains. You should read this introductory chapter to determine which parts of the manual may be applicable to your site. Managers should use this chapter  Operators should use this Chapter  there was NO usefull information on that partGuardian of Time 1.2 SYSTEM MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS AND TERMS Some concepts and terms are used frequently in system management, and you should become familiar w them. The following terms and concepts are used both in the context of everday general use in a VMS system andin the context of system management they are described in the VMS GENERAL USER'S MANUAL  Accounts and directories Command Procedures Digital Command Language DCL The following concepts and terms apply primarily to system management  SYSTEM account and SYSMGR directoryThe SYSTEM account is reserved for use by the system manager. When you are logged into the SYSTEM ACCOUNT, your default directory Which is also reserved for the system manager is SYSSYSROOTSYSMGR. Always be carefule when you are logged into the SYSTEM account. When you are logged into the SYSTEM account, all privileges are enabled, by default. You need these privileges to perform many system management tasks however, they can also produce unwanted or even destructive results if you use them carelessly. CONSOLE OPERATOR'S TERMINALYou can perform most system management tasks from any terminal that is connected to the processor or the cluster. However, certain tasks such as bootstrapping the system and communicating w the VAX processor's console subsystem must be performedat a special terminal called the CONSOLE TERMINAL.The console terminal, which always has the designation OPA0, is also usually designated as the OPERATOR'S TERMINAL. You use the operator's terminal to send messages to system users and respond to user requests, using the operator communication process OPCOM.CHAPTER 2  STARTING UP THE SYSTEMThe system startup procedure establishes the computing environment for your systemThis chapter covers three major topics How to start your system for the first time How to create the proper computing environment whenever you restart your system  How to shut down your systemBefore you can use the procedures described in this chapter, you must girst set up the hardware for each VAX processor. To set up the hardware and install the VMS operating system, refer to the instructions in your VAX processor installation and operations guide. After youhave installed the operating system, you will be able to log into the SYSTEM account on your computer.After the operating system has been successfully loaded, you can set up the proper computing environment for your system. The sitespecific system startup file, SYSTARTUP_V5.COM, is an essential aspect of establishing an environment specific to the needs of your site.Section 2.4 describes how to modify SYSTARTUP_V5.COM to meet the needs of your site.2.1 STARTING UP YOUR SYSTEM FOR THE FIRST TIMEInstufctions for installing the VMS operating system are included in the installation and operations guide for your processor. You must choose whether you are installing the VMS operating systsm as a new installation or as an upgrade. If you are installing the VMS operating systemfor the first time, you must use the new installation procedure. If you already have a previous version of the VMS operating system on your processor, then you should use the upgrade prodcedure. Instructions for a new unstallation are found in your processor installation and operations guide instructions for an upgrade procedure are found in the Release Notes for the VMS operating system.When you install the VMS operating system using the new installation procedure, the disk on which you install the operating system is first erased, and then a directory structuure and the operating system itself is put in place. When you use the upgrade procedure, the files for theVMS operating system are replaced w files for the upgraded operating system, and all other files on your system disk for example, data files, executable images that are NOT part of the operating system, and so on remain as they are.CAUTION if you use the new installation procedure for a processor that already has a previous version of the VMS operating system, you will DESTROY the previous contents of the disk that you designateas they system disk.2.2 BOOTING THE SYSTEMBooting is the process of loading the operating system from the system disk into processor memory. You can perform either a nonstop boot or a conversational boot. A nonstop boot is the quickest and easiest method, and the operating system will automatically set system parameters that are appropriate for most computing activities for your system's hardware configuration. A conversational boot requires you to supply more information during the boot process, but it allows you to change system parameters during the boot procedure. See your VAX processor installation and operations guide for detailed booting instructions.After a system shuts down, it must be rebooted before you can use it. Some processors provide the capability of an automatice reboot when you enable this feature, the system automatically attempts to reboot itself after it has been shut down. For example, if your site experiences a power failure, a processor that has automatic reboot enabled restarts itself automatically after the power has been restored.See your VAX processor installation and operations guide for information about automatic rebooting. In unusual cases, the normal startup procedures will NOT work properly and troubleshooting may be necessary. Section 2.9 describes procedures that you should follow if the normal startup procedure fails, or if you find yourself locked out of your system.2.3 LOGGING INTO THE NEW SYSTEMWhen the boot procedure is complete, a message is displayed on the terminal from which the system is booted except on workstations, where the message is displayed on the operators window. The message is similar to the followingVAXVMS VERSION 5.0 08JUN1989 070000.00 OPCOM,   Logfile has been initialized by operator _OPA0Logfile is SYSSYSROOT SYSMGROPERATOR.LOG1SETIINTSET, login interactive limit  64, Current interactive value  0SYSTEM job terminated at 
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				A profile on vax's, compiled by blind justice and dr. InsanitybasicinfoVax systems are almost always unix based. There are seven diffent versions of bell's unix and commands on each of them differ. Therefore this file will only go into commands common to virtually all unix and vax's.Hacking vax's are indeed very hard, almost immpossible. The reason is this when you connect to the system, you get a simple 'login' prompt. They give you no chance to see what the login format is. commonly used are single words under 8 digits to get past this hinderance it is suggested to check for an account called 'suggest' suggest accounts are used to make suggestions to a system root terminal.Once this account has been accessed we freeze the screencontrols. Next we send a clear screen commandsystem dependant. Next we send fake line noise, anywhere from 1oo to 3oo charactersfor 'effect'. Then a command to create a login account. Now we merely clear the screen again, and then unfreeze the terminalbecause when the terminal is frozen it keeps a buffer of what your modem sendsusually 127 characters your garbage has overflown it or cleared it for our intents, in the clean buffer we have a command to create a login accountsystem dependant. After this we clear the screenbuffer and unfreeze the terminal. It now implements all commands you have made, from insideie, you have in a sense already logged on.What to look for Well there have as mr.Sikes can attest to always been root accounts. These accounts are the most powerful accounts there are. consider a root account like the roots of a tree. Without them where is the tree The roots are always hidden and under protection at all times. Roots die, tree dies. Simple.. The reason why the root account is so powerful is it is where all of the system files reside, in other words be on the look out for this account.Unix archetechture. In unix the root directory is called root. Besides the primary root directory are several 'sub' root directories, usually to group things like system stats, user logs, reports, programms, etc These sub directories can prove to be as valuable if not more then the root but rarely. Then there is the 'super' user account or the sysop. Then the normal users accounts, these are best for prolonged 'phun'.The way unix was written everything is a file to the computer. You access a program the same way you access a directory and so on. Everything belongs to the root directory. So if you have hacked the root directory then you have access to everything. Basic unix prompt is . If you have a  prompt you have hacked the 'super' user account. To see where you are and what paths are active with your user account enteryour password.To access more paths enterpath1path2path3You jump from path 1 to path 3 and have access to 1, 2, and 3. You can run programs on all paths. If you cannot connect to a path then you have insufficient privilages. 'ls' generally gives you a list of commands.Since most systems have the logoff command in the root file, the root must be accessed to log off. And because a user must enter his password at the prompt you can intercept every user who logs off by writeing a simple .Bat file to save the information to a text downloadable at your convenience. Just some plain simple shit to get you started____________________________________________________blind justicedoc________. . . Another great release by the eternal nappa . . .
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				Unix is a trademark of bell labs and you know what that meansWelcome to the basics of hacking ii vax's and unix.In this article, we discuss the unix system that runs on the various vax systems. If you are on another unixtype system, some commands may differ, but since it is licenced to bell, they can't make many changes.Hacking onto a unix system is very difficult, and in this case, we advise having an inside source, if possible. The reason it is difficult to hack a vax is this many vax, after you get a carrier from them, respond login they give you no chance to see what the login name format is. Most commonly used are single words, under 8 digits, usually the person's name.There is a way around this most vax have an acct. Called 'suggest' for people to use to make a suggestion to the system root terminal. This is usually watched by the system operator, but at late he is probably at home sleeping or screwing someone's brains out. So we can write a program to send at the vax this type of a message a screen freeze cntrls, screen clear system dependant, about 255 garbage characters, and then a command to create a login acct., after which you clear the screen again, then un freeze the terminal. What this does when the terminal is frozen, it keeps a buffer of what is sent. Well, the buffer is about 127 characters long. So you overflow it with trash, and then you send a command line to create an acct. system dependant. After this you clear the buffer and screen again, then unfreeze the terminal. This is a bad way to do it, and it is much nicer if you just send a command to the terminal to shut the system down, or whatever you are afterThere is always, always an acct. Called root, the most powerful acct. To be on, since it has all of the system files on it. If you hack your way onto this one, then everything is easy from here on On the unix system, the abort key is the cntrld key. Watch how many times you hit this, since it is also a way to log off the system!A little about unix architechture the root directory, called root, is where the system resides. After this come a few 'sub' root directories, usually to group things stats here, priv stuff here, the user log here. Under this comes the superuser the operator of the system, and then finally the normal users. In the unix 'shell' everything is treated the same. By this we mean you can access a program the same way you access a user directory, and so on.The way the unix system was written, everything , users included, are just programs belonging to the root directory. Those of you who hacked onto the root, smile, since you can screw everything The main level exec level prompt on the unix system is the , and if you are on the root, you have a  super user prompt.Ok, a few basics for the system To see where you are, and what paths are active in reguards to your user account, then type pwdThis shows your acct. Seperated by a slash with an other pathname acct., possibly many times. To connect through to another path, or many paths, you would typeYou path1path2path3And then you are connected all the way from path1 to path3. You can run the programs on all the paths you are connected to. If it does not allow you to connect to a path, then you have insufficient privs, or the path is closed and archived onto tape. You can run programs this way alsoYou path1path2path3programnameUnix treats everything as a program, and thus there a few commands to learn To see what you have access to in the end path, type lsFor list. This show the programs you can run. You can connect to the root directory and run i t's programs with rootBy the way, most unix systems have their log file on the root, so you can set up a watch on the file, waiting for people to log in and snatch their password as it passes thru the file. To connect to a directory, use the command cd pathnameThis allows you to do what you want with that directory. You may be asked for a password, but this is a good way of finding other user names to hack onto. The wildcard character in unix, if you want to search down a path for a game or such, is the . ls Should show you what you can access. The file types are the same as they are on a dec, so r efer to that section when examining file. To see what is in a file, use the  pr filename command, for print file. We advise playing with pathnames to get the hang of the concept. There is online help available on most systems with a 'help' or a ''. We advise you look thru the help files and pay attent ion to anything they give you on pathnames, or the commands for the system. You can, as a user, create or destroy directories on the tree beneath you. This means that root can kill everything but root, and you can kill any that are below you. These are the mkdir pathname rmdir pathnameCommands. Once again, you are not alone on the system Type whoTo see what other users are logged in to the system at the time. If you want to talk to them write usernameWill allow you to chat at the same time, without having to worry about the parser. To send mail to a user, say mailAnd enter the mail subsystem. To send a message to all the users on the system, say wallWhich stands for 'write all' by the way, on a few systems, all you have to do is hit the  key to end the message, but on others you must hit the cntrld key. To send a single message to a user, say write usernameThis is very handy again! If you send the sequence of characters discussed at the very beginning of this article, you can have the superuser terminal do tricks for you again. Privs if you want superuser privs, you can either log in as root, or edit your acct. So it can say suThis now gives you the  prompt, and allows you to completely bypass the protection. The wonderful security conscious developers at bell made it very difficult to do much without privs, but once you have them, there is absolutely nothing stopping you from doing anything you want to. To bring down a unix system chdir  bin  rm This wipes out the pathname bin, where all the system maintenance files are. Or try r rThis recursively removes everything from the system except the remove command itself. Or try kill 1,1 syncThis wipes out the system devices from operation. When you are finally sick and tired from hacking on the vax systems, just hit your cntrld and repe at key, and you will eventually be logged out. The reason this file seems to be very sketchy is the fact that bell has 7 licenced versions of unix out in the public domain, and these commands are those common to all of them. Were commend you hack onto the root or bin directory, since they have the highest levels of privs, and there is really not much you can do except develope software without them.Next to come the basics of hacking iii data generalThis article written by the knights of shadowend 1984
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				Accounts to try if you wanna enter into a VAXVMSOf course you can recognize a VAX when after the connection is made u listen to a BEEP and u see somenthing likeWelcome to VAXVMS V5.4Usernameor somenthing likeWelcome to VAXVMS V5.0 on node HACKERUNATHORIZED TO THIS SYSTEM IS PROHIBITED ___ONLY AUTHORIZED USERS ARE CAN USE IT  Username vDon't worry about it other times u see only the Username request without the welcome message.Well, at the Username request try this accounts_______ _______    SYSTEMSYSTEM  this is the SYSTEM account  but only 1 time in my life I enteredV  in a VAX with that accout becauseUsername  of the incompetence of the OperatorVPasswordFIELDFIELDFIELDSERVICE a lot of times it workBACKUPBACKUP you will go to the Backup menu, but there will be a function to drop into DCLTESTTESTSYSTESTSYSTESTDECNETDECNET a lot of times u will see You are not authorized to login from this sourceDECDECDECMAILDECMAILMANAGERMANAGEROPERATOROPERATORROOTROOT Well, this is an Unix account but  a guy found it in a VAXVMS V5.2ROOTSYSTEM USERUSER USERTESTUSERTEST VAXVAXHELPHELP help account, try to drop into DCL with CTRLZ or CTRLYDCLDCLDEMODEMOGUESTGUEST 1 year ago I entered in VAX with this account, and it was a privileged account too.NEWNEWNEWSNEWSNETNETNETNETWORKORACLEORACLEREPORTREPORTREPORTSREPORTSSYSSYSDELPHIDELPHIMAILMAILMAILERMAILERTCPTCPHELLOHELLOSTARTSTARTJACKJACKRUNRUNJOBJOBWORKWORKLIBLIBKERMITKERMITDIALOUTDIALOUTCONTABCONTAB especially on italian VAXesLAVOROLAVORO         ACQUISTIACQUISTI         AIUTOAIUTO         If you don't enter in the VAX with this funny accounts, try to enter surnames likeROSSI, BIANCHI, ANDERSON, ADAMS, SIMPSON or names likeMARIO, SILVIA, MARK, ERIC, PETER If after the connection to a VAXVMS u see somenthing likeWelcome to VAXVMS V5.3 on node LARRY1try to enter with the LARRY1 account, and I am sure it will work. Personally I entered a lot of times with the name of the node. I can't understand why the Operator creates that account.Well, if you are an Operator and you want to protect a VAXVMS by Hacking attemps into it I recommend you to protect the SYSTEM account password of course, and to delete accounts like FIELD, SYSTEST, etc so the only privileged account will be the SYSTEM one and with it you can do all the things that u usually do with the FIELD and SYSTEST accounts.After that, start to create accounts for your dependents likeID001 ID002 ID003  For the password use  things very difficult likesor is better things like  S03JDJH28DJH8SFND orAAX01  39283812232312333BAX02 CAX03  Don't use password likeDAX04 EAX05  MILAN,INTER,JACK,SPORT,MUSIC  Well dear Operator, when you create this accounts don't give the ALL privileges to all. remember that the only privileged account is the SYSTEM oneUAF ADD ID001PASSWORD34239382333 
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				What's HackingA series by David LightmanSPECIAL ISSUEVAX COMPUTER SYSTEMSThis is a requested discussion from Jolly Bardsman's Pub  Tavern at XXX XXXXXXX. If you have any requests, send me mail at any address listed belowUSENET bdunnattctc.dallas.tx.us  or  texsun..texbell..!attctc!bdunnTELEMAIL csupporta755.cc3556tech.servicescredit.dataisgtrwBBS'sElm Street Jolly Bardsman's Pub  TavernChannel Z Spyder's WebDead Zone Abyssal PlaneOblivion if AO gets the damn thing off the ground By 030690, you may connect to a beta Twilight Zone at XXXXXXXXXX. You may also reach me voice at 2146606054. Limit the calls to an EXTREME minimum!If I get multiple requests about a topic as I did with VAX, I will put something online the WHAT'S HACKING subboards and the beta system Twilight Zone I.VAX The VAX acronym is derived from Virtual Address eXtension.The VAX computer is designed to use memory addresses beyond the hardware's actual limits, enabling it to handle programs that are too large to fit into physical memory. The VAX computer system is a member of the Digital Equipment Corporation DEC computer family. Currently the VAX series includes models spanning the desktop VAX station to mainframe class multiCPU VAX processors. These vary from the superminis, like MicroVAX, to the older, moderate sized 117XX series, to the newer 6000 series. These computer systems commonly use an operating system known as VMS.VMS The VMS acronym is for Virtual Memory System.The operands of VMS are very similar to other operating systems. Back in the days of standalone computer systems, DEC had the idea for streamlining the operation of their computers for business and engineering. It conceived VMS as a way of allowing the basiccomputer management to be done by a user familiar with any of the multiple systems it made.DCL The DCL acronym is for Digital Command Language.It is the fundamental language of the VMS. Those of you who have an IBM system, you can think of a DCL program like a batch file.You can do a lot with it much more than a PCDOS or MSDOS batch but it work basically the same way. One difference is that when you want to execute anything as if you were typing it in at the command prompt, you first must put a  in front of the command in the DCL program. DCL programs are commonly called COM files as well. When you are not executing a COM or DCL program file, you are almost always typing things into the DCL processor.
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				What's HackingA series by David LightmanSPECIAL ISSUEVAX COMPUTER SYSTEMSThis is a requested discussion from Jolly Bardsman's Pub  Tavern at XXX XXXXXXX. If you have any requests, send me mail at any address listed belowUSENET bdunnattctc.dallas.tx.us  or  texsun..texbell..!attctc!bdunnTELEMAIL csupporta755.cc3556tech.servicescredit.dataisgtrwBBS'sElm Street Jolly Bardsman's Pub  TavernChannel Z Spyder's WebDead Zone Abyssal PlaneOblivion if AO gets the damn thing off the ground By 030690, you may connect to a beta Twilight Zone at XXXXXXXXXX. You may also reach me voice at 2146606054. Limit the calls to an EXTREME minimum!If I get multiple requests about a topic as I did with VAX, I will put something online the WHAT'S HACKING subboards and the beta system Twilight Zone I.VAX The VAX acronym is derived from Virtual Address eXtension.The VAX computer is designed to use memory addresses beyond the hardware's actual limits, enabling it to handle programs that are too large to fit into physical memory. The VAX computer system is a member of the Digital Equipment Corporation DEC computer family.Currently the VAX series includes models spanning the desktop VAX station to mainframe class multiCPU VAX processors. These vary from the superminis, like MicroVAX, to the older, moderate sized 117XX series, to the newer 6000 series. These computer systems commonly use an operating system known as VMS.VMS The VMS acronym is for Virtual Memory System. The operands of VMS are very similar to other operating systems. Back in the days of standalone computer systems, DEC had the idea for streamlining the operation of their computers for business and engineering. It conceived VMS as a way of allowing the basic computer management to be done by a user familiar with any of the multiple systems it made.DCL The DCL acronym is for Digital Command Language. It is the fundamental language of the VMS. Those of you who have an IBM system, you can think of a DCL program like a batch file. You can do a lot with it much more than a PCDOS or MSDOS batch but it work basically the same way.One difference is that when you want to execute anything as if you were typing it in at the command prompt, you first must put a  in front of the command in the DCL program. DCL programs are commonly called COM files as well. When you are not executing a COM or DCL program file, you are almost always typing things into the DCL processor.Subject What's Hacking VAX Special  2From David Lightman Level 30 A dude who wanted accessTo ALLSent 3190 at 249 pmWHAT DOES A VAX LOOK LIKE quicklyWhen you log into a VAX, you will see something similar to the followingWELCOME TO THE ATT MICROVAX II SYSTEMUsername username herePassword password here does not echo 
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				The following text file is to be used when hacking the VAXVVMS systems. Irecommend hacking these systems cause they always have good shit to mess up.Most VAXVVMS systems are easily found at colleges, like Hartnell College at4087579494. Although I recommend them cause they are fun to mess up I will not be responsible for dicks that get caught cause they dont know what the fuck is going on. This is only a refernce file and not the ten commandments.NOTATION CONVENTIONS The portion of an example that you would type is screened.E.G. USERNAME username Single keys are surrounded by angle brackets  . E.G. . CTRL
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				Using the VAXVMS Authorize UtilityWritten by Line Shadow on 091088A Telecom Computer Security Bulletin File Volume One, Number 1, File 9 of 12Time to play God with your favorite___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___        d  i  g  i  t  a  l _____________________VAXVMS SystemIn order to put this article to good use, you will have to acquire a high priviledged VAX account. I'm leaving that up to you, as this article is intended for the more advanced VAX hacker. You can expect another article discussing the tricks of the trade as regards getting an account with priviledges of that sort in future articles. Until then, you're on your own.This is a reference on how to use a powerful utility within VMS that will allow you to create accounts on a digital VAX system. This utility, called the Authorize Utility is located on every VAX system. It can be found in theSYSSYSTEM directory which is a logical name for SYSSYSROOTSYSEXE under the filename AUTHORIZE.EXE. This is the actual program and you just RUN it.Along with tons of other files within SYSSYSTEM, you will find two other files that are manipulated by the Authorize Utility.Quick definitions for the Command SyntaxQualifier  A qualifier is an optional extension of a main commanddiscussed below whose format consists ofcommandqualifierUse of brackets  Use of brackets '' and '' placed around a logicalname indicates that the enclosed item is optional.Except in the case of specifying directories whichhas to have the brackets around the directory name.Also note that parenthesis arounf a logical name arerequired when noted as such.filespec,  Indicates that additional parameters, values, orinformation can be entered.Command Syntax UAF command parameterADDNOACCESSrange,ACCOUNTaccountnameNOADD_IDENTIFIERATTRIBUTESkeyword,NOBATCHrange,BIOLMvalueBYTLMvalueCLIclinameCLITABLESclitablenameCPUTIMEtimeDEFPRIVILEGESNOprivname,DEVICEnameNODIALUPrange,DIOLMvalueDIRECTORYdirectorynameENQLMvalueEXPIRATIONtimeFILLMvalueGENERATE_PASSWORDkeywordFLAGSNOoption,NOINTERACTIVErange,JTQUOTAvalueLGICMDfilespecNOLOCALrange,MAXACCTJOBSvalueMAXDETACHvalueMAXJOBSvalueNONETWORKrange,OWNERownernameNOPASSWORDpassword,password2PFLAGSNOoption,PGFLQUOTAvaluePRCLMvalueP_RESTRICTrange,PRIMEDAYSNOday,PRIORITYvaluePRIVILEGESNOprivname,NOPWDEXPIREDNOPWDLIFETIMEtimePWDMINIMUMvalueQUEPRIORITYvalueNOREMOTErange,SFLAGSNOoption,SHRFILLMvalueS_RESTRICTrange,TQELMvalueUICuicWSDEFAULTvalueWSEXTENTvalueWSQUOTAvalueADDIDENTIFIERATTRIBUTESkeyword,USERuserspecVALUEvaluespecifierADDPROXYCOPYSame qualifiers as ADDCREATEPROXYCREATERIGHTSDEFAULTSame qualifiers as ADDEXITGRANTIDENTIFIERATTRIBUTESkeyword,HELPAll commands and qualifiersLISTBRIEFFULLLISTIDENTIFIERBRIEFFULLUSERuserspecVALUEvaluespecifierLISTPROXYLISTRIGHTSUSERuserspecMODIFYNOACCESSrange,ACCOUNTaccountnameASTLMvalueNOBATCHrange,BIOLMvalueBYTLMvalueCLIclinameCLITABLESclitablenameCPUTIMEtimeDEFPRIVILEGESNOprivname,DEVICEnameNODIALUPrange,DIOLMvalueDIRECTORYdirectorynameENQLMvalueEXPIRATIONtimeFILLMvalueFLAGSNOoption,NOINTERACTIVErange,JTQUOTAvalueLGICMDfilespecNOLOCALrange,MAXACCTJOBSvalueMAXDETACHvalueMAXJOBSvalueNOMODIFY_IDENTIFIERNONETWORKrange,OWNERownernamePASSWORDpassword,password2PFLAGSNOoption,PGFLQUOTAvaluePRCLMvalueP_RESTRICTrange,PRIMEDAYSNOday,PRIORITYvaluePRIVILEGESNOprivname,!NOPWDEXPIREDNOPWDLIFETIMEtimePWDMINIMUMvalueQUEPRIORITYvalueNOREMOTErange,SFLAGSNOoption,SHRFILLMvalueS_RESTRICTrange,TQELMvalueUICuicWSDEFAULTvalueWSEXTENTvalueWSQUOTAvalueMODIFYIDENTIFIERATTRIBUTESkeyword,HOLDERholdernameNAMEidnameVALUEvaluespecifierMODIFYSYSTEM_PASSWORDsystempasswordREMOVENOREMOVE_IDENTIFIERREMOVEPROXYRENAMEPASSWORDpassword,password2NOMODIFY_IDENTIFIERRENAMEIDENTIFIERREVOKEIDENTIFIERSHOWBRIEFSHOWIDENTIFIERBRIEFFULLUSERuserspecVALUEvaluespecifierSHOWPROXYSHOWRIGHTSUSERuserspecDescriptionUsing Authorize, you control access to the system and its resources byo Creating new records and modifying existing records in the system user authorization file SYSSYSTEMSYSUAF.DAT and the network user authorizationfile SYSSYSTEMNETUAF.DATo Creating new records and modifying existing records in the rights database file SYSSYSTEMRIGHTSLIST.DATCommand SummaryADDThe ADD command will create a new entry in the user authorization file.Format for creating new entries in SYSUAF.DATADD newusername qualifiersQualifiersACCESSNOACCESSPRIMARY, nm, n , SECONDARY, nm, n , NOACCESSPRIMARY nm, n, SECONDARY nm,Used to specify hours of access for all modes of logins. Specify hours as integers from 0 to 23, inclusive. Hours may be specified as single hours n,or as ranges of hours nm. If the ending hour of a range is earlier than the starting hour, the range extends from the starting hour through midnightto the the ending hour. The first set of hours after the keyword PRIMARY specifies hours on primary days the second set of hours after the keywordSECONDARY specifies hours on secondary days.All the list elements are optional. If no hours are specified for a day type, access is permitted the entire day. If only primary hours or only secondaryhours are given, no access is permitted for secondary or primary days, respectively. If hours are given with no day type, they apply to both types of days.Negating the qualifier by specifying NOACCESS completely inverts the sense of the access hours.ExamplesACCESS allows unrestricted accessNOACCESSSECONDARY allows access on primary days onlyACCESS917 allows access from 9am through 5 pm on all daysNOACCESSPRIMARY, 917, SECONDARY, 188 allows access from 9 through 5 on secondary days and all but 9 through 5 on primary daysACCESSPrimary 916 Secondary 187, 8 Primary 17allows access from 9 through 5 on primary days and all but 9 through 5 on secondary daysTo specify access hours for specific types of logins, see the BATCH, NETWORK, INTERACTIVE, LOCAL, DIALUP, and REMOTE qualifiers.ACCOUNTACCOUNTaccountnameSpecifies a default account name. This field is often used for billing purposes, and should consist of 1 through 8 characters.ADD_IDENTIFIERNOADD_IDENTIFIERControls whether an identifier corresponding to the specified username and UIC is added to the rights database. The default is ADD_IDENTIFIER.ASTLMASTLMnSpecifies the AST queue limit, which is the total number of asynchronous system trap operations and scheduled wakeup requests that can be outstandingat one time for the user.BATCHNOBATCHPRIMARY, nm, n , SECONDARY, nm, n , NOBATCHPRIMARY nm, n, SECONDARY nm,Specifies hours of access permitted for batch jobs. For a detailed description of the interpretation of the access specification, see the ACCESS qualifier.BIOLMBIOLMnSpecifies the total buffered IO operations that can be outstanding at one time.BYTLMBYTLMnTotal number of bytes that can be specified for transfer in outstanding buffered IO operations.CLICLIclinameName of the default command interpreter.CLITABLESCLITABLEStablenameName of the default command interpreter tables.CPUTIMECPUTIMEdeltatimeMaximum amount of CPU time a user process can take per session. The unit of time must be in delta format. 0 means infinite.DEFPRIVILEGESDEFPRIVILEGESNOprivname ,Specifies the default privileges for the user i.e., those enabled at login time. A NO prefix removes this privilege from the user specifying aprivilege without the NO prefix allows the user that privilege.There are many privileges available with varying degrees of power and potential system impact. Please see the VAXVMS System Manager's Reference Manual for a more detailed discussion of the available privileges.DEVICEDEVICEdevicenameName of default device must be a direct access device from one to fifteen characters. The colon is automatically added if omitted. A blank deviceis interpreted as SYSSYSDISK.DIALUPNODIALUPPRIMARY, nm, n , SECONDARY, nm, n , NODIALUPPRIMARY nm, n, SECONDARY nm,Specifies hours of access permitted for interactive login via dialup terminals. For a detailed description of the interpretation of the access specification,see the ACCESS qualifier.DIOLMDIOLMnTotal direct usually disk IO operations that can be outstanding at one time.DIRECTORYDIRECTORYdirectorynameName of default login directory. Brackets either  or  must be supplied.ENQLMENQLMnTotal number of lock requests which may be outstanding at one time.EXPIRATIONEXPIRATIONtimeExpiration date and time of the account. Specify as an absolute or combination time.FILLMFILLMnTotal number of files that can be open at one time, including active network logical links.FLAGSFLAGSNOoption,Login flags for this user. Options which may be specified areNOAUDIT  do not audit all security relevant actionsNOAUTOLOGIN  do not restrict this account to autologins onlyNOCAPTIVE  do not prevent userNODEFCLI  do not prevent user from changing default CLI or CLI tablesNODISCTLY  do not disable  interruptsNODISMAIL  do not prevent mail delivery to this userNODISNEWMAIL  do not suppress New Mail announcements NODISRECONNECTdo not disable automated reconnectionsNODISREPORT  do not disable time of last login and other security reportsNODISUSER  do not disable this account completelyNODISWELCOME  do not suppress Welcome to login message NOGENPWD  do not require user to use generated passwordsNOLOCKPWD  do not prevent user from changing passwordNOPWD_EXPIRED do not mark password as expiredNOPWD2_EXPIREDdo not mark second password as expiredGENERATEGENERATEGENERATECURRENTGENERATEPRIMARYGENERATESECONDARYGENERATEBOTHGENERATEALLGenerate a random password. The formats of the passwords is the same as for the DCL SET PASSWORD GENERATE command.INTERACTIVENOINTERACTIVEPRIMARY, nm, n , SECONDARY, nm, n , NOINTERACTIVEPRIMARY nm, n, SECONDARYn,Specifies hours of access permitted for interactive login via any terminal. For a detailed description of the interpretation of the ACCESS qualifier.JTQUOTAJTQUOTAnSpecifies the initial byte quota with which the jobwide logical name table is to be created with.LGICMDLGICMDfilespecName of login command file. Default device and directory are used to locate the command file.LOCALNOLOCALPRIMARY, nm, n , SECONDARY, nm, n , NOLOCALPRIMARY nm, n, SECONDARY nm,Specifies hours of access permitted for interactive login via local terminals. For a detailed description of the interpretation of the access specification, see the ACCESS qualifier.MAXACCTJOBSMAXACCTJOBSnInteractive and detached processes which may be active at one time for all users which are on the same account as the user for which the qualifier is present.MAXDETACHMAXDETACHnSpecifies the maximum number of detached processes with this username that may be active at one time. Processes which cause this count to be exceeded areterminated.MAXJOBSMAXJOBSnMaximum number of interactive, batch, and detached processes with this username which can be active at one time. Processes which cause this count tobe exceeded are terminated.NETWORKNONETWORKPRIMARY, nm, n , SECONDARY, nm, n , NONETWORKPRIMARY nm, n, SECONDARY nm,Specifies hours of access permitted for network jobs. For a detailed description of the interpretation of the access specification, see the ACCESSqualifier.OWNEROWNERownernameName of owner for billing purposes, etc. May be from one to 31 characters.PASSWORDPASSWORDpassword ,password2NOPASSWORDPasswords for login. Must be from 0 to 31 characters in length, and must be composed of alphanumeric characters, dollar signs, and underscores.To set the first password with no second password, specifyPASSWORDpasswordTo set both passwords, specifyPASSWORDpassword, password2To set only the first password leaving the second alone, specifyPASSWORDpassword, To set only the second password leaving the first alone, specifyPASSWORD, password2To clear the second password leaving the first alone, specifyPASSWORDTo clear both passwords, specifyNOPASSWORDPBYTLMPBYTLMnPaged pool byte count limit.PFLAGSPFLAGSNOoption,This qualifier is obsolete and is retained for compatibility purposes. For current usage, see the ACCESS, etc., qualifiers.Login flags for primary days. Options areNODISDIALUP  do not prohibit user from dialing in NODISNETWORK  do not prohibit user from logging in via a SET HOST command.PGFLQUOTAPGFLQUOTAnTotal pages that this process can use in the system paging file. Should be a minimum of 2048 for a typical interactive process.P_RESTRICTP_RESTRICTnm,orP_RESTRICTn,This qualifier is obsolete and is retained for compatibility purposes. For current usage, see the ACCESS, etc., qualifiers.Used to specify hours or ranges of hours to restrict user from logging in on primary days.P_RESTRICT is roughly equivale7t to NOACCESSPRIMARY, PRCLMPRCLMnTotal number of subprocesses that can exist at one time.PRIMEDAYSPRIMEDAYSNOday,Used to define primary and secondary days. A day prefixed with NO becomes a secondary day, and a day without the NO prefix is defined as a primary day.Primary and secondary day definitions are used in conjunction with the ACCESS, etc., qualifiers.PRIORITYPRIORITYnDefault base priority for user. The priority should be in the range from 0  31, and 4 is the default for a timesharing user.PRIVILEGESPRIVILEGESNOprivname,Specifies authorized privileges for this user. Privileges which are allowed or disallowed for this user. A NO prefix removes this privalege from the userspecifying a privilege without the NO prefix allows the user that privilege.There are many privileges available with varying degrees of power and potential system impact. I will make up a list of the priviledges in a future article, until thenset them to ALL! HehehPWDEXPIREDNOPWDEXPIREDPassword is not preexpired. When a password is preexpired, the user is allowed to log in once, at which time he must change his password or be locked out of the system.PWDLIFETIMEPWDLIFETIMEdeltatimePWDLIFETIMENONEPassword lifetime. If the date of last password change is older than the password lifetime, when the user logs in, he is issued a warning message andthe password is marked as expired. If there is no password lifetime, the password never expires.Deltatime is in the form dddd hhmmss.ccPWDMINIMUMPWDMINIMUMnMinimum password length in characters. Note that this value is only enforced by the SET PASSWORD command passwords in violation of this value may bespecified to AUTHORIZE.QUEPRIORITYQUEPRIORITYnMaximum priority for queuing batch and print jobs. The priority should be in the range from 0  31, and 4 is the default value for a timesharing user.REMOTENOREMOTEPRIMARY, nm, n , SECONDARY, nm, n , NOREMOTEPRIMARY nm, n, SECONDARY nm,Specifies hours of access permitted for interactive login via network remote terminals i.e., SET HOST. For a detailed description of the interpretationof the access specification, see the ACCESS qualifier.SFLAGSSFLAGSNOoption,This qualifier is obsolete and is retained for compatibility purposes. For current usage, see the ACCESS, etc., qualifiers.Login flags for secondary days. Options areNODISDIALUP  do not prohibit user from dialing in NODISNETWORK  do not prohibit user from logging in via a SET HOST command.S_RESTRICTS_RESTRICTnm,orS_RESTRICTn,This qualifier is obsolete and is retained for compatibility purposes. For current usage, see the ACCESS, etc., qualifiers.Used to specify hours or ranges of hours to restrict user from logging in on secondary days.S_RESTRICT is roughly equivalent to NOACCESSSECONDARY, SHRFILLMSHRFILLMnMaximum number of shared files allowed to be open at one time.TQELMTQELMnTotal entries in the timer queue plus the number of temporary common event flag clusters that the user can have at one time.UICUICuicUser identification code as explained in the VAXVMS System Manager's Reference Manual. The UIC should have an octal group number and user number, and beseparated by a comma and enclosed in brackets.WSDEFAULTWSDEFAULTnInitial limit of a working set for the user process.WSEXTENTWSEXTENTnMaximum to which the user's process may raise its working set limit when there is free memory available.WSQUOTAWSQUOTAnMaximum to which the user's process may raise the working set limit when system memory is in demand.ADDIDENTIFIERThe ADDIDENTIFIER command is used to add an identifier to the rights database.FormatADDIDENTIFIER idnameParametersidnamespecifies the name of the identifier to be added to the rights database. If you omit the name, you must specify the USER qualifier. The idname is a string of 1 through 32 alphanumeric characters that may contain underscores and dollar signs. The name must contain at least one nonnumeric character.QualifiersATTRIBUTESATTRIBUTESkeywordSpecifies attributes to be associated with the new identifier. Valid keywords areNODYNAMICIndicates whether or not unprivileged holders of the identifier may add or remove the identifier from the process rights list. The default is NODYNAMIC.NORESOURCEIndicates whether or not holders of the identifier may charge resources to it. The default is NORESOURCE.USERUSERuserspecScans the UAF records of the specified users and creates the appropriate identifierss. Specify userspec by username or UIC. You can user the asteriskwildcard to specify multiple usernames or UICs full user of the asterisk and percent wildcards is permitted for user names.UICs must be in the form ,, n,, ,n, or n,n. A wildcard username specification i.e.,  creates identifiers alphabetically by username a wildcard UIC specification i.e., , creates them in numerical order by UIC.VALUEVALUEvaluespecifierSpecifies the value to be attached to the identifier. Valid formats for the valuespecifier areIDENTIFIERintegerAn integer value in the range of 32768 to 268435455, or a hexadecimal number in the range X00008000 to 0FFFFFF UICuicA uic value in the standard UIC formatExamplesThe following examples illustrate the use of the ADDIDENTIFIER command.1.UAF ADDIDENTIFIERVALUEUIC300,011 INVENTORYidentifier INVENTORY value 000300,000011 added to RIGHTSLIST.DATThis command adds to the rights database an identifier named INVENTORY. By default, the identifier is not marked as a resource.2.UAF ADDIDENTIFIERATTRIBUTESRESOURCE VALUEIDENTIFIERX80011 PAYROLL identifier PAYROLL value X80080011 added to RIGHTSLIST.DATThis command adds the identifier PAYROLL and marks it as a resource.ADDPROXYAdds a user record to the network UAF.FormatADDPROXY noderemoteuser localuserParametersnodespecifies a node name 1 through 6 alphanumberic characters.remoteuserspecifies the username of a user at a remote node. If you specify an asterisk, all users at the specified node can access files of a user specified on thelocal node.localuserspecifies the username of a user on a local node.Examples1.UAF ADDPROXY MISHAMARCO record successfully added NETUAF.DATThe command in this example specifies that the user MARCO on the remote node MISHA can only access the files of MARCO on the local node.2.UAF ADDPROXY MISHA MARCOrecord successfully added to NETUAF.DATThe command in this example specifies that any user on the remote node MISHA can access the files of MARCO on the local node.Parametersnewusernamenewusername specifies the name of the user to be added to the user authorization file.COPYThe COPY command is used to make a copy of a record in SYSUAF.DAT. The full range of qualifiers is available for the command in order to change certainfields in the process of the copy operation.FormatCOPY existingusername newusername qualifiersParametersexistingusername newusernameexistingusername is the source authorization record newusername is the destination authorization record.QualifiersSame qualifiers as ADDCREATEThis command will create a Proxy Login File NETUAF.DAT if one does not already exist or the rights database RIGHTSLIST.DAT.Qualifiers PROXYCreates and initializes a network UAF, NETUAF.DAT. The PROXY qualifier is required. The file is created with no records and is assigned the followingprotectionSRWED,ORWED,GRWE,WRIGHTSCreates and initializes the rights database, RIGHTSLIST.DAT, If it does not already exist. The file is created with no records and is assigned the followingprotectionSRWED,0RWED,GRWE,WFormatCREATERIGHTSQualifiers Format CREATPROXY or RIGHTSqualifierSYSTEM_IDinteger listSpecifies the system ID quadword. Only the first two integers are used. The first integer becomes the first longword of the system ID, and the secondinteger the second longword. If only one integer is specified, the second longword is set to 0.DEFAULTThis command enables the user to change any fields in the DEFAULT record in SYSUAF.DAT.FormatDEFAULT qualifier qualifiersQualifiersSame qualifiers as ADDEXITThe EXIT command terminates AUTHORIZE and returns the user to command language level.FormatEXITGRANTThe GRANT command grants an identifier name to a user UIC. The IDENTIFIER is required.FormatGRANTIDENTIFIER idname userspecParametersidnameSpecifies the identifier name see the ADDIDENTIFIER command.userspecIs an identifier UIC or non UIC format that specifies the user see the ADDIDENTIFIER command.QualifierATTRIBUTESATTRIBUTESkeywordSee the ADDIDENTIFIER command.ExampleUAF GRANTIDENTIFIER INVENTORY 300,015identifier INVENTORY granted to CRAMERThe command in this example grants the identifier INVENTORY to a user with the UIC 300,015. The user becomes the holder of the identifier and any resourcesassociated with it.HELPLists and explains the AUTHORIZE commands and qualifiers.FormatHELP commmandnameParametercommandnameName of an AUTHORIZE command.QualifierqualifiernameName of an AUTHORIZE qualifierLISTThe LIST command outputs a listing file which gives information on the records specified. Unless otherwise specified by qualifiers, UAF records are listed.QualifiersBRIEFThis qualifier will give an abbreviated listing of the desired records. BRIEF is equivalent to NOFULL.FULLThis qualifier gives complete information on the desired records. FULL is equivalent to NOBRIEF. FULL is the default.LISTIDENTIFIERCreates a listing file RIGHTLIST.LIS to which identifier information is written.FormatLISTIDENTIFIER idnameParameteridnameSpecifies an identifier name. If you omit the identifier name, you must specify USER or VALUE.QualifiersUSERUSERuserspecSpecifies one or more users whose identifiers are to be listed. Userspec may be a username or UIC. You can user the asterisk wildcard to specify multiple usernames or UICs full use of the asterisk and percent wildcards is permitted for usernames.UICs must be in the form ,, ,n, or n,. A wildcard username specification i.e.,  lists identifiers alphabetically by username a wildcard UIC specification i.e., , lists them numerically by UIC.VALUEVALUEvaluespecifierSpecifies the value of the identifier to be listed. Valid formats for the valuespecifier areIDENTIFIERintegerAn integer value in the range of 32768 to 268435455, or a hexadecimal number in the range X00008000 to 0FFFFFFF UICuicA uic value in the standard UIC formatExamplesUAF LISTIDENTIFIER INVENTORYwriting listing filelisting file RIGHTSLIST.LIS completeThe command in this example generates a full listing for the identifier INVENTORY, including its value in hexadecimal, holders, and attributes.UAF LISTIDENTIFIERUSERANDERSONwriting listing filelisting file SYSUAF.LIS completeThis command lists an identifier associated with the user ANDERSON, along with its value and attributes. Note, however, that this is the same result youwould produce had you specified ANDERSON's UIC with the following forms of the commandUAF LISTIDENTIFIERUSER300,015orUAF LISTIDENTIFIERVALUEUIC300,015LISTPROXYCreates a listing file of all the network UAF records. The PROXY qualifier is required.FormatLISTPROXYExampleUAF LISTPROXYwriting listing filelisting file NETUAF.LIS completeThe command in this example creates a listing file of all the network UAF records.LISTRIGHTSLists the holders of the specified identifier, or, if USER is specified, all identifiers held by the specified users.FormatLISTRIGHTS idnameParameteridnameThis is the name of the identifier usually the username associated with the user. If idname is omitted, you must specify the USER qualifier.QualifierUSERUSERuserspecSpecifies a user whose identifiers are to be listed. Userspec may be a username or UIC. You can use the asterisk wildcard to specify multiple usernamesor UICs full user of the asterisk and percent wildcards is permitted for usernames.UICs must be in the form ,, n,, n,n or ,n. A wildcard username specification i.e.,  or wildcard UIC specification i.e., , lists all identifiers held by users. The wildcard username specification lists holders' usernames alphabetically the wildcard UIC specification lists them in the numerical order of their UICs.ExampleUAF LISTRIGHTS PAYROLL writing listing file listing file RIGHTSLIST.LIS is completeThe command is this example creates a listing file of all holders of the identifier PAYROLL.MODIFYThis command allows the user to change any fields in any user authorization records. Wildcarding of usernames or UICs is allowed.FormatMODIFY userspec qualifier qualifiersQualifier'sThe MODIFY qualifiers are very similar to the ADD qualifiers with the following exceptionsNOMODIFY_IDENTIFIER rather than NOADD_IDENTIFIER with the sameparametersASTLMASTLMvalueSpecifies the AST queue limit, which is the total number of asynchronous system trap operations and scheduled wakeup requests that can be outstanding atone time for the user.MODIFYIDENTIFIERModifies an identifier in the rights database.FormatMODIFYIDENTIFIER idnameParameteridnameSpecifies the name of an identifier to be modifiedQualifiers ATTRIBUTESATTRIBUTESkeywordSpecifies attributes to be associated with the modified identifier. Valid keywords areNODYNAMICIndicates whether or not unprivileged holders of the identifier may add or remove the identifier from the process rights list. The default is NODYNAMIC.NORESOURCE Indicates whether or not holders of the identifier may charge resources to it. The default is NORESOURCE.If you specify RESOURCE, a holder named with the HOLDER qualifier gains the right to charge resources to the identifier. If you specify NORESOURCE, the holder loses the right to charge resources. If you specify NORESOURCE and do not name any holder if HOLDER is not specified, all holders lose the right to charge resources.HOLDERHOLDERusernameSpecifies the holder of an identifier whose attributes are to modified. HOLDER is used only in conjunction with ATTRIBUTES qualifier. If you specify HOLDER, the NAME and VALUE qualifiers are ignored.NAMENAMEidnameSpecifies a new idname to be associated with the identifier.VALUEVALUEvaluespecifierSpecifies a new identifier value. Note, however, that an identifier value cannot be modified from a UIC to a non UIC format or vice versa. Valid formats for the valuespecifier areIDENTIFIERintegerAn integer value in the range of 32768 to 268435455, or a hexadecimal number in the range X00008000 to 0FFFFFFF UICuicA uic value in the standard UIC formatExamplesUAF MODIFYIDENTIFIERVALUEUIC300,21 ACCOUNTINGidentifier ACCOUNTING modifiedThe command in this example changes the old UIC value of the identifier ACCOUNTING to a new value.UAF MODIFYIDENTIFIERATTRIBUTESNORESOURCEHOLDERALLISON ACCOUNTINGidentifier ACCOUNTING modifiedThe command in this example associates the attribute NORESOURCE with the identifier ACCOUNTING in ALLISON's holder record.MODIFYSYSTEM_PASSWORDSets the system password.FormatMODIFYSYSTEM_PASSWORDsystempasswordParametersuserspecThe records to be modified may be specified in a variety of ways1 wildcarded username standard DCL wildcarding2 wildcarded UIC, asa ,b ,nc n,3 specific username4 specific UICREMOVEThis command will remove a user authorization record from SYSUAF.DAT.Format for removing a record from SYSUAF.DATREMOVE usernameParametersusernameusername is the name of the authorization record to be removed from SYSUAF.DAT.QualifiersREMOVE_IDENTIFIERNOREMOVE_IDENTIFIERControls whether the identifier corresponding to the specified username in the rights database is removed. The default is REMOVE_IDENTIFIER.REMOVEIDENTIFIERRemoves an identifier from the rights database.FormatREMOVEIDENTIFIER idnameParameteridnameSpecifies the name of an identifier in the rights database.ExampleUAF REMOVEIDENTIFIER Q1SALESrecord removed from RIGHTSLIST.DATThe command in this example deletes the identifier Q1SALES from the rights database.REMOVEPROXYThis qualifier changes the context of REMOVE command. Its presence indicates that the intention is to remove a record from the Proxy Login File, NETUAF.DAT.The format for removing a record from NETUAF.DAT isREMOVEPROXY noderemoteusernameWhere noderemoteusername is an entry in NETUAF.DAT for the local node.RENAMEThis command will change the username for a record in the user authorization file, SYSUAF.DAT. The only parameter qualifier allowed for the RENAME commandis the PASSWORD qualifier.FormatRENAME oldusername newusername PASSWORDpasswordQualifiers GENERATEGENERATEGENERATECURRENTGENERATEPRIMARYGENERATESECONDARYGENERATEBOTHGENERATEALLGenerate a random password. The formats of the passwords is the same as for the DCL SET PASSWORD GENERATE command.MODIFY_IDENTIFIERNOMODIFY_IDENTIFIERControls whether the identifier corresponding to the specified username in the rights database is modified. The default is MODIFY_IDENTIFIER.PASSWORDPASSWORDpassword ,password2NOPASSWORDPasswords for login. Must be from 0 to 31 characters in length, and must be composed of alphanumeric characters, dollar signs, and underscores.To set the first password with no second password, specifyPASSWORDpasswordTo set both passwords, specifyPASSWORDpassword, password2To set only the first password leaving the second alone, specifyPASSWORDpassword, To set only the second password leaving the first alone, specifyPASSWORD, password2To clear the second password leaving the first alone, specifyPASSWORDTo clear both passwords, specifyNOPASSWORDIt is important to specify new passwords for a renamed record. Since the user name is taken as part of the input for password verification, the old passwordwith the new user name will not yield the same result as the original password and user name, and the verification will fail.RENAMEIDENTIFIERRenames an identifier in the rights database.FormatRENAMEIDENTIFIER oldidname newidnameParametersoldidnameSpecifies the name of an identifier to be renamed.newidnameSpecifies the new identifier name.ExampleUAF RENAMEIDENTIFIER Q1SALES Q2SALESidentifier Q1SALES renamedThe command in this example renames the identifier Q1SALES to Q2SALES.Parametersoldusername newusernameoldusername is the username for the authorization record which is to be renamed. newusername is the new username for the record.REVOKERevokes an identifier name from a username or UIC identifier. The IDENTIFIER qualifier is required.FormatREVOKEIDENTIFIER idname userspecParametersidnameSpecifies the identifier name see the ADDIDENTIFIER command.userspecIs an identifier UIC or non UIC format that specifies the user see the ADDIDENTIFIER command.SHOWThe SHOW command outputs a listing of the specified authorization records to the user's terminal. Unless otherwise specified by qualifiers, UAF records are listed.Format for the authorization fileSHOW qualifiers userspecQualifiers BRIEFThis qualifier will give an abbreviated listing of the desired records. BRIEF is equivalent to NOFULL. BRIEF is the default.FULLThis qualifier gives complete information on the desired records. FULL is equivalent to NOBRIEF.SHOWIDENTIFIERDisplays information about the identifier on the currentSYSOUTPUT device.FormatSHOWIDENTIFIER idnameParameteridnameSpecifies an identifier name. If you omit the identifier name, you must specify USER or VALUE.Qualifiers BRIEFThis qualifier will give an abbreviated listing of the desired records. BRIEF is equivalent to NOFULL. BRIEF is the default.FULLThis qualifier gives complete information on the desired records. FULL is equivalent to NOBRIEF.USERUSERuserspecSpecifies one or more users whose identifiers are to be displayed. Userspec may be XH.lKU9You can use the asterisk wildcard to specify multiple usernames or UICs full use of the asterisk and percent wildcards is permitted for usernames.UICs must be in the form ,, ,n, n,, or n,n. A wildcard username specification i.e.,  displays identifiers alphabetically by username a wildcard UIC specification i.e., , displays them numerically by UIC.VALUEVALUEvaluespecifierSpecifies the value of the identifier to be listed. Valid formats for the valuespecifier areIDENTIFIERintegerAn integer value in the range of32768 to 268435455, or a hexadecimal number in the range X00008000 to 0FFFFFFFUICuicA uic value in the standard UICformatSHOWPROXYDisplays one or all records in the network UAF. The PROXY qualifier is required.FormatSHOWPROXY noderemoteuserParametersnodeSpecifies the name of a network node in the network UAF. The asterisk wildcard is permitted in the node specification.remoteuserSpecifies the name of a user on a remote node. The asterisk wildcard is permitted in the remoteuser specification.SHOWRIGHTSDisplays the names, values, and attributes of all identifiers held by the specified users.FormatSHOWRIGHTS userspecParameteruserspecIs the name of the identifier usually the username associated with the user in SYSUAF.DAT. If userspec is omitted, you must specify the USER qualifier.Qualifier USERUSERuserspecSpecifies one or more users whose identifiers are to be displayed. Userspec may be a username or UIC. You can use the asterisk wildcard to specify multiple usernames or UICsfull use of the asterisk and percent wildcards is permitted for usernames UICs must be in the form ,, ,n, n,, or n,n.A wildcard username specification i.e.,  displays identifiers alphabetically by username a wildcard UIC specification i.e., , displays them numerically by UIC.ParametersIf a listing is generated from SYSUAF.DAT, then the user may specify userspec in a variety of ways1 wildcarded username standard DCL wildcarding2 wildcarded UIC, asa ,b ,nc n,3 specific username4 specific UIC.Phew! After all that, you should be doing just fine using the AuthorizeUtility. You can expect summaries of VMS commands, DCL, and other VAX infor mation in future articles. Now, happy hacking and go play God for a while!
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				The Legion of DoomLegion of Hackers Presents1800NNX Translation DirectoryJanuary 1, 1989This list was obtained directly from Bell, and is extremely accurate. Note that this doesn't mean that every 1800226xxxx number will connect you to Mircotel, for example. This just means that Microtel leases that line out. You can take this information into account when hacking on an 800  either on a computer or for access codes. As a side note, not all numbers are available from all areasThe Mentor LODHNNX Company That Controls It  NNX Company That Controls It 200  600  700  300  800  400  900  500 
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			<title>The making of a hacker</title>
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				The Making Of A Hackerby Framstag of West GermanyJune 2, 1989Prologue For None VMS UsersDECnet is the network for DEC machines, in most cases you can say VAXes. DECnet allows you to do email file transfer remote login remote command remote job entry PHONEPHONE is an interactive communication between users and is equal to TALK on UNIX or a deluxeCHAT on VMCMS.BELWUE, the university network of the state BadenWuerttemberg in West Germany contains besides other networks a DECnet with about 400 VAXes. On every VAX there is standardaccount called DECNET with pw DECNET, which is not reachable via remote login.This account is provided for several DECnetUtilities and as a pseudoguestaccount. The DECNETaccount has very restricted privileges You cannot edit a file or make another remote login.The HELPmenu is equipped by the system and is similar to the MAN command on UNIX.More information on DECnet can be found in Looking Around In DECnet by Deep Thought in this very issue of Phrack Inc.                                      Here, at the University of Ulm, we have an incredibly ignorant computer center staff, with an even bigger lack of systemliterature besides the 80 kg of VAXVMSmanuals. The active may search for information by himself, which is over the level of run, FORTRAN, or logout.My good luck that I have other accounts in the BELWUEDECnet, where more information is offered for the users. I am a regular student in Ulm and all my accounts are completely legal and corresponding to the German laws. I don't call myself a hacker, I feel more like a user it's more a definingproblem.In the HELPmenu in a host in Tuebingen I found the file netdcl.com and the corresponding explanation, which sends commands to the DECNETAccount of other VAXes and executes them there remote command. The explanation in the HELPmenu was idiotproof  therefore for me, too With the command  mcr ncp show known nodes you can obtain a list of all netwide active VAXes, as is generally known, and so I pinged all these VAXes to look for more information for a knowledgethirsty user. With help, dir and other similar commands I look around on those DECnet accounts, always watching for topics related to the BELWUEnetwork.It's a pity, that 23 of all VAXes have locked the DECNETAccount for NETDCL.COM. Their system managers are probably afraid of unauthorized access, but I cannot imagine how there could be such an unauthorized access, because you cannot log on this account  no chance for trojan horses, etc.Some system managers called me back after I visited their VAX to chat with me about the network and asked me if they could help me in any way. One sysop from Stuttgart even sent me a version of NETDCL.COM for the ULTRIX operation system.Then, after a month, the H O R R O R came over me in shape of a the following mailFrom TUEBINGENSYSTEM 31MAY1989 153111.38To FRAMSTAGCCSubj don't make any crap, or you'll be kicked out!From ITTGPXSYSTEM 29MAY1989 1646To TUEBINGENSYSTEMSubj Systembreakingin 01May1989To the system manager of the Computer TUEBINGEN, On May 1st 1989 we had a Systembreakingin in our DECNETaccount, which started from your machine. By help of our accounting we ascertained your user FRAMSTAG to have emulated an interactive logon on our backbonenode and on every machine of our VAXcluster with the trojan horse NETDCL.COM.Give us this user's name and address and dear up the occurrence completely. We point out that the user is punishable. In case of repetition we would be forced to take corresponding measures. We will check whether our system got injured. If not, this time we will disregard any measure.Inform us via DECnet about your investigation results  we are attainable by the nodenumber 1084system Dipl.Ing. Michael HagerMy system manager threatened me with the deleting of my account, if I would not immediately enlighten the affair. Gulp!I was conscious about my innocence, but how to tell it to the others I explained, step by step, everything to my system manager. He then understood after a while, but the criminal procedure still hovered over meso, I took quickly to my keyboard, to compose file of explanations and to send it to that angry system manager in Stuttgart node 1084 is an institute there. But no way out He had run out of disk quota and my explanationmail sailed into the nirwana mail explanationTo 1084systemMAILE, error sending to user SYSTEM at 1084MAILEOPENOUT, error opening SYSSYSROOTSYSMGRMAIL00040092594FD194.MAIas outputRMSECRE, ACP file create failedSYSTEMFEXDISKQUOTA, disk quota exceededAlso the attempt of a connection with the PHONEfacilty failed In his borderless hackerparanoia, he cut off his PHONE and nowhere is a list with the REALaddresses of the virtual DECnetaddresses available to prevent hacking.Now I stood there with the brand DANGEROUS HACKER! and I had no chance to vindicate myself. I poured out my troubles to an acquaintance of mine, who is a sysop in the computercenter in Freiburg. He asked other sysops and managers thru the whole BELWUEnetwork until someone gave him a telephone number after a few days  and that was the right one!I phoned to this Hager and told him what I had done with his DECnetaccount and also what NOT. I wanted to know which crime I had committed. He promptly cancelled all of his reproaches, but he did not excuse his defamous incriminations.I entreated him to inform my system manager in Tuebingen that I have done nothing illegal and to stop him from erasing my account. This happens already to a fellow student of mine in this case, Hager was also guilty. He promised me that he would officially cancel his reproaches.After over a week this doesn't happen I'm allowed to use my account further on. In return for it, I received a new mail from Hager on another account of mineFrom 1084HAGER 1JUN1989 1251To 50180STUD_11Subj SystembreakinginOn June 1st 1989 you have committed a systembreakingin on at least one of our VAXes. We were able to register this occurrence. We would be forced to take further measure if you did not dear up the occurrence completely until June 6th. Of course the expenses involved would be imposed on you. Hence enlightenment must be in your own interest.We are attainable via DECnetmail with the address 1084HAGER or via following addressInstitut fuer Technische Thermodynamik und Thermische Verfahrenstechnik Dipl.Ing. M. Hager Tel. 07116856109Dipl.Ing. M. Mrzyglod Tel. 07116853398Pfaffenwaldring 91017000 Stuttgart80 M. HagerM. MrzyglodThis was the reaction of my attempt  PHONE 1084SYSTEM. I have not answered to this mail. I AM SICK OF IT!FramstagFRAMSTAGDTUPEV5A.BITNETWith Special Thanks For Translation Assistance To Schrulli B.
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				The Remote InformerEditors Tracker, Norman Bates, and Ye Cap'nSeptember 26, 1987 Issue 02Brought to you by the 'new' TUFF The Underground Fone FederationThe NewsSprint Strikes Back  Celestial EliteTUFF Come to an EndSprint caught a guy dealing Celestial Elite and TUFF, the famouscodes on the street in LAhackphreak groups came to an end a couplethis past week. Informationweeks ago. TUFF, however, is being rebornon this bust is limited atand you can expect it to be back to fullthis time. force within a month.Sources have it that A seventeen year old wasMagnus Adept, head of the now terminated busted in Arizona last week.group, Celestial Elite, has started a new The name of the teenager willgroup called Avalon Kingdom. We are unsure not be printed to protect himwhat plans are in store for it. from harassment calls.  TUFF has several ideas and plans that will be out to the public soon. Look for This information was suppliedfuture issues of The Remote Informer tmby Phreaky Phone II for new updates.Beige Box Bust  TeleNet Hacker  Bate's Motel MovesOne of our editors and a Crusader released Bate's Motel BBS, member of TUFF, Norman Bateshis TeleNet hackingrun by Norman Bates, was caught for Beige boxingprogram on Septemberwas forced to move. It that he had done over 3 months20, 1987. Look foris temporarily set up ago. The calls he had madeit on a good boardat 6192678619. It were inside his state and costyou call.A reviewwill remain 1200 baud, a total of 12. He paid thewill be in the nextand a member of the bill and no charges were filedissue of The Remote TUFF Network. It is against him. Informer. open to the public.Phreaky Phones Return Amazing  LDDS Buys Out TMC Companies MergeThe original Phreaky Phone numbers LDDS bought out TMC last month.now support the new Phreaky Phones.They merged into LDDS, since it wasThe guys running them had protestedbigger and more widespread. Any that the lines were being monitored.companies that were subscribing to There is no way that could have been,the TMC long distance service were and they contradicted themselves byautomatically coverted to LDDS.All restarting Phreaky Phones on the samelocal TMC ports still work, but will numbers. They gave alot of creditsoon be disconnected. Refer to the to the people calling to suggest theyarticle on LDDS in this issue for believe a story like that. more information on LDDS dialups.US Sprint Calls Destinations  Pirate's Hollow Is Back With 10 MegsUS Sprint now calls all the Pirate's Hollow is back online. It numbers called with unauthorizednow is run a 10 meg hard drive. Unlike codes. Their disadvantage ismost boards that have 's of megs, this that they are delayed by aboutone will stress more attention on it's two months in calling becausedatabase.The database is scheduled to they have to wait till peoplebe online by October 1st. This database report they did not make calls towill contain 800 text files on various the numbers they were billed for.topics, with about 60  70 pertaining Best advice is to not call voiceto illegal activities.Unfortunately, with Sprint except to those whoTrax Xe is being redesigned, so until it have private lines other thanis finished, it will run on Carina. The their regular phone line. number is 4155936784 3001200 baud.Raggers and BraggersThis section is to make you aware of wellknown raggers and braggers.Since this is the first time this section is being printed, we will tellyou what classifies people as raggers and braggers.In the future issues the top raggers and braggers will be listed in this newsletter to let the SysOps know who not to let on their board, or to atleast keep an eye on.A ragger is someone who will put someone else down for something.The person might post a message asking a novice question about hacking and phreaking, or may say something that is completely wrong, and a ragger will put the other person down for he said, posted, etc.The ones that usually classify in this category are the ones that think they know it all and consider themselves right no matter what anyone says. Most of the users that use codes and consider themselves a master phreaker usually become raggers.A bragger is someone who either does or thinks he does know everything, and puts it upon himself to tell the whole world that he knows it all. This person is also one who thinks he is better than everyone else and he believes he is Elite, and no one else is.People who tend to do this are those who have, for some reason, become wellknown in the underworld, and as a result become a bragger. Those usually not too wellknown will not tend to brag as much as those who think everyone would love to be their friend and be like them.
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				The Remote Informer Newsletter!November TRI Issue 05The Editors Tracker, Ye Cap'n, Norman Bates, and The Reporter ATT Rates  WASHINGTON  American Telephone  Telegraph Co. proposed Tuesday to lower its interstate longdistance rates by an average of 3.6 percent to reflect reduced costs in connecting to the local telephone network.The largest decrease  6.3 percent  would be seen in day time prices because of the need to make those rates more competitive, ATT said.Rates for calls made during evening hours would drop 2.2 percent and calls made during the late night and weekends would be cut by 0.8 percent, the company said.The rate reductions would take effect Jan. 1, if they are approved by the Federal Communications Commission.Reacting to the proposed price cuts, MCI Communications Corp. and US Sprint Communications Co., the nation's secondlargest and thirdlargest long distance companies respectively, said their response would depend on what the FCC finally approves but both said they intended to remain competitive with ATT. ATT, the nation's largest longdistance company, proposed to the FCC that its rates drop as much as 800 million, but ATT said the exact amount will depend on the access charges the FCC allows the local telephone companies to collect from long distance carriers, which must pay the fees to hook into the phone local network.ATT has challenged the new access rates filed by the regional Bell operating companies, contending they are more than 1 billion too high. In proposing its new rates, the longdistance leader told the FCC it expects local companies' access fees to fall by at least 200 million  which would amount to an average rate reduction of less than 1 percent. But the company said it believes the FCC will order an additional 600 million in reductions based on ATT's challenge.We're confident the FCC will recognize that access charges filed by the local telephone companies need to be substantially reduced, which would mean more savings for our customers, said Larry Garfinkel, ATT vice president for marketing.He said the company filed its proposed rates based on disputed charges because we wanted to let the public react  and further to let the FCC have full knowledge of where we were heading given our expectation that we had a valid basis for our dispute.ATT's longdistance rates have fallen by about 34 percent since the company was stripped of its local operating companies by an antitrust decree nearly four years ago.Since then, phone rate payers have been paying a larger share of the costs of maintaining the local network through monthly subscriber line charges, now 2.60 for residential customers.That has reduced the longdistance companies' share of local network expenses, which they pay in the form of access charges.Jack Grubman, a telephone analyst with PaineWebber Inc., said ATT's proposal targets business customers because that's where the competition is and where the better profit margins are. In addition, it aims to keep the pressure on competition in international calling by extending discounts to more customers. Grubman added that, if the company's rate proposal is approved by the FCC, he would expect no further cuts in ATT rates in 1988.Wendell Lind, ATT administrator of rates and tariffs, said the cuts for business and residential customers are about the same because business cuts are offset by a proposed 128 million increase in ATT's private line rates.ATT is the only longdistance company whose rates are regulated by the FCC, but its prices set the pace for the industry. Though ATT is far larger than any of its competitors, its market share has been declining since divestiture and the company now says it serves about 75 percent of the market.In addition to the reductions in basic longdistance rates, ATT proposed cutting prices by 5 percent and 5.7 percent for its ProAmerica calling plans.The company also proposed to reduce prices by 2.9 percent for its 800 Service customers and 4.4 percent for WATS customers, although it would increase the monthly access line charges for those plans by 3.20 to reflect higher special access charges filed by the local phone companies. Supplied by Tracker and The Reporter US Sprint Operator Service Traffic Increases 40  New Center Added In Dallas ORLANDO, Fla.  US Sprint Wednesday announced its long distanceoperators who began saying, May I help you just five months ago, are nowhandling 3.5 million calls a month.The fiberoptic longdistance carrier, offering the only operator servicealternative to ATT has experienced a 40 percent growth in operator service calls since it announced its service July 1.Amanda Weathersby, US Sprint vice president of product marketing, said Tuesday, More and more people are taking advantage of our call completion assistance and alternative billing arrangements.Customer surcharges are the same as ATT with the added benefit of US Sprint's fiberoptic quality and lower longdistance rates.US Sprint currently offers persontoperson, stationtostation, call completion and collect calling. US Sprint has announced an agreement with US WEST Service Link that will allow anyone to call on US Sprint and charge their calls to a Regional Bell Operating Co. calling card beginning in first quarter 1988.Previously, our operator service was available only on presubscribed US Sprint phones and recently we added operator assistance for US Sprint FON CARD customers, Weathersby said.With this new agreement, we'll be able to expand our operator service to markets such as pay phones, hospitals, and hotelsmotels.The newest 24hour operator service center in Dallas began operations on Oct. 5. US Sprint's other operator service centers are in Cherry Hill, N.J. Atlanta Lombard, Ill. and Reno, Nev.US Sprint is a joint venture of United Telecommunications Inc. of Kansas City, Mo. and GTE Corp. of Stamford, Conn. Supplied by Tracker and The Reporter Pacific Bell Pursuing Calling Card Thief SAN FRANCISCOBWPacific Bell is warning consumers to protect theirtelephone calling cards like any other credit card in the wake of a series offrauds by people posing as phone company employees.A Pacific Bell spokesman says customers in the 213, 805 and 916 area codes are being victimized by someone who says he is a telephone company employee investigating calling card fraud. The individual calls people at home at odd hours, asking for their calling card numbers. He then sells the numbers to people who use the numbers to make long distance phone calls.As recently as Monday of this week, 180 long distance calls were billed to a Sacramento area resident who had given his number to the thief just three hours earlier.According to Pacific Bell, this kind of scheme and other forms of calling card fraud cost telephone customers nationwide half a billion dollars a year.The company offered these tips to consumers to avoid becoming a victim of calling card fraudNever give your calling card number or personal identification number to anyone. Any telephone company employee with a legitimate need to know the number has access to it.Treat your calling card like any other credit card. Report its loss immediately by calling the 800 number on the back of the card 8006210430.If you receive a suspicious call regarding your telephone calling card, report it by calling the 800 number on the back of the card.If you receive a call from someone claiming to be a telephone company employee and asking for your calling card number, ask for a name and number to call back. Then call the local Pacific Bell business office to report the incident.One suspect was arrested in Southern California last week by a quick thinking customer who did just that. Pacific Bell immediately contacted the local police department. A suspect holding seven stolen calling card numbers was arrested minutes later.Pacific Bell and longdistance telephone companies will credit customers for calling card charges determined to be fraudulent. Pacific Bell is a subsidiary of Pacific Telesis Group, a diversified telecommunications corporation based in San Francisco. Supplied by Tracker and The ReporterWe look for information in anyway related to the newsletter. If you have something of interests, or something that you saw on television, or in the newspaper, then upload it to one of the boards listed below. You will receive full credit.Pirate's Hollow..4155936784Bates Motel619 2670293
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				The Remote Informer Newsletter!November TRI Issue 04The Editors Tracker, Ye Cap'n, Norman Bates and The Reporter FCC Charges Much Ado About Not Much New Cannan, CT  International Resource Develope of New Cannan, CT saysthat the market bubble for packet switch networks like TeleNet is going toburst by 1991, regardless of what the Federal Communications Commission doesabout access charges. Cheap fiber, which greatly increases the capacity, andISDN services, which let you share a phone line with your computer, will do the business in, the report says. Over the next four years, however, the demand for packet switch services to will grow from 650 million to 1,612 million If the Baby Bells are allowed to add competition to the market, the 5hour access charge cannot be passed though to the customers anyway. Supplied by Ye Cap'n Pirate's Hollow Update San Carlos, CA  The Pirate's Hollow, one of the more popular BBS's inthe Bay Area, is installing several new features that will even add to it'spopularity. For one, users will be able to gamble against each other bybetting on NFL games and participating in the Pirate's Hollow Lottery. Also,in order to support one of the best newsletters around, the Pirate's Hollow will soon be adding a seperate module that will act as an outpost for The Remote Informer. This module will feature the older issues of the newsletter, a section that will keep you abreast of updates of recently released information, and a section that will show what is upcoming in the next issues of The Remote Informer.The longawaited database will soon be put online. Over 800 textfiles on a variety of subjects will be available to the users that pay the access fee that will be determined at a later date. Many more are on the way, and will be included at no charge. The charge will be a one time charge though, rather than a yearly payment.Another new option will be available by early December. PC Pursuit callback will be installed. This will allow people to call and then get called back if your area code is supported by PC Pursuit. This will also require a charge, to be set at a later date.The Pirate's Hollow has been doing well in its comeback to the telecommunications world, but we need more callers in order to formulate a more diverse user base. Please spread the BBS  around while also trying to make others aware of the newsletter. Switching Systems There are currently three different forms of switching systems that arepresent in the United States today. Step by Step SxS, Crossbar, and theElectronic Switching System ESS make up the group. Phreaks have always beena little tenative when it comes to doing their work once they have heardabout effects of switching systems on their hobby. After researching this topic, I have found that there really is not that much to be worried about. Read on, while I share with you information which I have compiled about all of these switching systems and their distinct features.The first switching system that was used in the country was called Step by Step. This was adopted in 1918 by Bell, and until 1978, they had over 53 of all their exchanges using Step by Step SxS. This system is known for it's long, confusing train of switches that are used for its step by step switching.Step by Step has many disadvantages to phone users. The switch train becomes jammed fairly often, and it causes calls to be blocked. Also, SxS does not allow the use of DTMF dialing.This accounts for some of the areas in the United States that cannot have touch tone dialing abilities. A tremendous amount of electricity and maintenance needs to accompany the SxS switching system, which makes it even more impratical. All in all, this is probably the most archaic switching system around.There are a number of ways to see if you are on SxS. You will notice that there are no pulsing digits after dialing. Most sources say that the phone company will sound like many typewriters. SxS does not offer features such as speed calling, call forwarding, threeway calling, call waiting, and other such services.Pay phones on SxS also will want your money before you receive a dial tone. This adds to the list of disadvantages labelled to that of the Step by Step switching systems.Another type of switching system that is prevalent in the United States is Crossbar. Crossbar has been Bell's primary switcher after 1960, and three types of it exists. Number 1 Crossbar 1xB, Number 4 Crossbar 4xB, and the Number 5 Crossbar 5xB.In Crossbar, a switching matrix is used for all the phones in an area, and when someone calls, the route is determined and is met up with the other phone. This matrix is setup in horizontal and vertical paths. Unlike other swichting systems, in my research, I could not come up with any true and definate distinguishing features of the Crossbar switching systems.The Electronic Switching System ESS is yet another switching system used in the United States and the most used of all three swicthing systems. ESS is an extremely advanced and multifaced type of switching system, and is feared by marauders of the phone company everywhere.With ESS, your phone company is able to know every digit dialed including mistakes, who you call, when you called, and how long you were connected. ESS is also programmed to print out the numbers of people who make excessive calls to WATS numbers 800 services or directory assistance.This feature of ESS is called 800 Exceptional Calling Report, and has spelled the end of some forms of continuous code hacks to certain extenders. ESS can also be programmed to print logs of who called and abused certain numbers as well. Everything is kept track of in its records.The aforementioned facts show that ESS has made the jobs of organizations such as the FBI, NSA, and other phone company security forces easier. Tracing can be done in a matter of microseconds, and the result will be conveniently printed out on the monitor of a phone company officer. ESS is also programmed to pick up any foreign tones on the phone line such as the many varied tones emulated by boxes.ESS can be identified by a few features common in it. The 911 emergency service is covered in the later versions of ESS. Also, you are given the dial tone first when using a pay phone unlike that of SxS.Calling services like call forwarding, speed calling, and call waiting are also common to ESS. One other feature common to ESS is ANI Automatic Number Identification for long distance calls. As you can see, ESS is basically the zenith of all switching systems, and it will probably plague the entire country by the early 1990's.Soon after, we should be looking forward to a system called CLASS. This switching system will contain the feature of having the number of the person that is calling you printed out on your phone.What have I concluded about these switching systems Well, they are not good enough. I know a few people employed by the phone company, and I know for a fact that they do not have enough time these days to worry about code users, especially in large, metropolitan areas. So, I will go out on a limb here, and say that a large portion of people will never have to worry about the horrors of ESS. Written by Ye Cap'n New Gizmo Can Change Voice Gender The most amazing device has turned up in the new Hammacher Schlemmer catalog the telephone voice gender changer.What it does is change the pitch of your voice from, say, soprano to bass a most efficient way to dissuade an obscene phone caller just as he's getting warmed up.That is not the same as running a 45 r.p.m. record at 33. In digital conversion, the pitch can be changed without altering the speed.The device runs on a 9volt batter and attaches to the telephone mouth piece with a rubber coupler that takes but a moment to slip on and off.With the changer switched on, says Lloyd Gray, a Hammacher Schlemmer technical expert, the effect is similar to what you hear when they interview an anonymous woman on television and disguise her voice by deepening it. It's better for changing a woman's voice to a man's than the other way around, Gray said. A man can use it to raise the pitch of his voice, but he still won't sound like a woman.A man could, however, use the changer to disguise his voice. But with the device set on high, Gray's voice still could be identified as his own. On low, his normal tenor became so gravel like that the words were unintelligible. Supplied by Tracker and The ReporterWe look for information in anyway related to the newsletter. If you have something of interests, or something that you saw on television, or in the newspaper, then upload it to one of the boards listed below. You will receive full credit.Pirate's Hollow..4155936784Bates Motel619 2670293
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				The Remote Informer Newsletter!November TRI Issue 03The Editors Tracker, Ye Cap'n, Norman Bates, and The Reporter Introduction It's been a month now, and ALOT has happened. So much, in fact, that theinformation will be split into several issues. This should be no shock sinceI mentioned in the first issue that we may put several issues out sometimes.I want to congratulate the readers for finally contributing to the newsletter. This first two issues were all on information that I, myself, obtained. Several people gave me information for these issues, and their handle and information is included in the articles. In The News! ITT has 9 digits!  Phreaky Phones Go Down! Information!For those of you who did The famed Phreaky Phones are down We have not know this, ITT has nine again. Modem Man, the original personso much info digit codes. They are saidthat started them, has said that theyto put out, to give better connectionswill be down until further notice. Inthat we areto some extent. This info.the meantime, other independent boxesputting outwas originally given to usare being started. A listing can bemany issuesby Party Beast. made of current ones on request. at one time.If you want Magnus Adept Gets Busted  Sprint Codes Are Dying Fast!all issuesthat are outFellow Atarian and well Sprint codes are hard to get andnow, thenknown phreak Magnus Adeptwhen they are obtained, they tend tocall one ofgot caught by MCI. Detailsdie rather quickly. Phreakers havethe boardsof the how, when, and wherebeen saying that the 9500777 portat the end are not known at this time.is dead, but on the contrary, it isof the issue He got caught with 150 codesstill available in states that areor look for and may have to pay up tonot highly abused by phreaks. Herean editor on50 dollars for each code.again, rumors are being spread. a hack BBS. The Best BBS of the Month Starting from now on, we will have a BBS of the month. We will choose aBBS, ragardless of computer type, and look at the user participation in phreakrelated matters, as well as quality discussions on the various illegal topics.A BBS can remain the BBS of the month as long as they reside above the rest of the BBS systems. Even though we will sometimes bring out more than one issue in a month, the board will remain BBS of the month until the first issue inthe next month comes out.This month's BBS of the month is FBI PirateNet. We chose this board because of the large numbers of posts in the bases, and not only information, but discussions as well, with a minimum number of posts from raggers and braggers. The number for it is 5166617360. The SysOp of FBI PirateNet is The Phantom, not to be confused with an earlier narc. US Sprint Expected to Trim Staff, Consolidate Divisions New York  US Sprint Communications Corp., the troubled long distancecarrier, is expected to announce soon that it will cut its work force byseveral hundred people and reduce its seven regional divisions to 3 operatinggroups, sources familiar with the company said.The company's Pacific division is based in Burlingame, CA. The layoffs and reorganization are part of a plan by US Sprint's new president, Robert H. Snedaker, to reduce heavy operating losses, which analysts expect to reach more than 800 million this year.Snedaker replaced Charles M. Slibo, who was forced to resign in July because losses were running much higher than the parent companies had expected. Problems with the company's computerized billing system also contributed to Skibo's ouster. US Sprint is owned and operated by the GTE Corp. and United TeleCom.According to sources close to Snedaker, who was vice chairman and chief operating officer of United TeleCom, he is planning to consolidate the company's 7 divisions, which operate in the same geographical regions as the seven regional Bell operating companies, into 3 divisions.The rationale for the move, according to idustry analysts, is that the company will need a much smaller work force once it begins handling all it's phone traffic on it's new fiber optic network, which can carry a greater number of telephone calls at less cost. Company officials have said that they expect to have most of the traffic on the network by early next year.One source said that there would be more than one round of layoffs in the coming months and that the company ultimately plans to reduce its 14,000 member work force by 15 percent.Several top managers are expected to resign as soon as US Sprint centralizes its marketing and support operations as its headquarters in Kansas City, MO., according to a report in the latest issue of Business Week magazine.A spokesman for US Sprint said on Friday that the company would not comment on the rumors. The company is the nation's third largest long distance company, after the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. ATT and MCI Communications Co.Last year, Washington based MCI undertook a similar reorganization in which it posted a 502.5 million loss to write down old inventory and restructure operations.Analysts said that is US Sprint is to turn a profit, the company must increase its market share. To do this, US Sprint must gain more large business customers, which account for about 80 percent of industry revenues, said Robert B. Morris III, Securities in San Francisco.Morris said that by using a slick marketing campaign to differentiate its allfiber telephone network from those of competitors, US Sprint more than doubled its customer base last year. But most of these customers were residential and small business users that added little to Sprint's bottom line, he added. If the company expects to be profitable, it will have to concentrate on providing the best service to volume users. This information was supplied by Ye Cap'n Secret Service Cracks Down on Teen Hackers Mount Lebanon, PA  The US Secret Service and local police departmentshave put a scare into the hacker community with a nationwide crackdown oncomputer crime that has resulted in the arrests of teenage hackers in at leastthree cities.People who monitor the bulletin boards say there are a lot of nervous hackers out there, wondering who will be arrested next, says Ronald E. Freedman, vicepresident of Advanced Information Management, a Woodbridge, VA base computer security firm.Nine teenagers from Mount Lebanon JuniorSenior High School near Pittsburg, PA, were arrested recently and charged with computer fraud. The juveniles allegedly used home computers to gain illegal access to a credit card authorization center. They obtained valid credit card numbers and used them to purchase thousands of dollars worth of mail order merchandise, the police said.Freedman says it appears the hackers used some relatively sophisticated techniques in the scheme, including specially written software that enabled them to bypass security controls and navigate through credit records to obtain key information.Police officials say that the hackers also obtained access codes from pirate bulletin board systems to make free long distance calls and gain access to various business and government computers.The arrests were the result of a 6 week investigation by the Secret Service and the Mount Lebanon police. The police were tipped off by parents who were suspicious about how their son managed to obtain a skateboard valued at 140.The Secret Service was also involved in investigations that led to the arrests of several hackers in San Francisco and New York last July.Secret Service spokesman William Corbett says that although some reports have portrayed the hackers as part of a national crime ring, the cases are unrelated. It's just that a few of these computers hacking cases came to a head at about the same time, he says.Federal Legislation enacted in 1984 gives the Secret Service, part of the Department of the Treasury, a major role in investigating computer crimes. Under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986, computer fraud is a felony that carries a maximum penalty of 5 years for the first offense, and 10 years for the second. Displaying unauthorized passwords on hacking bulletin boards carries a maximum penalty of 1 year in prison for the first offense, and 10 years for the second. This information was supplied by Ye Cap'n German Teens Crack NASA Washington, D.C.  A group of West German teenagers from the ChaosComputer Club penetrated a NASA network recently, saying they were doing it totest the security.What they got into was SPAN Net, a computer network with about 700 notes,which is actually based at the Goddard Space Center in Maryland. All that's in there is unclassified data, space science information, and postflight data anaysis. Anyone with NASA related research can apply for access to SPAN says a spokesman, who adds that the network runs on DEC VAX hardware. We picked up three attempts to gain access and put in security precautions so it would't happen. His personal opinion is, We're happy that they couldn't get back in, and decided to go public. He also added that NASA has many other networks, many of the classified and probably inpenetrable. But I do not want to challenge anybody.How'd they get in Probably they got a West German NASA licensee, which gave them a visitor's pass, then they created new passwords with unlimited security for themselves, after which getting around the network was easy. Supplied by Ye Cap'nWe look for information in anyway related to the newsletter. If you have something of interests, or something that you saw on television, or in the newspaper, then upload it to one of the boards listed below. You will receive full credit.Pirate's Hollow..4155936784Bate's Motel..619 2670293
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				202 282 3010 UNIV. OF D.C.202 553 0229 PENTAGON T.A.C.202 635 5710 CATHOLIC UNIV. OF AMERICA202 893 0330 DEFENSE DATA NETWORK202 893 0331 DEFENSE DATA NETWORK202 965 2900 WATERGATE203 771 4930 TELEPHONE PIONEERS206 641 2381 VOICE OF CHESTER212 526 1111 NEW YORK FEED LINE212 557 4455 SEX HOT LINE212 799 5017 ABC NY FEED LINE212 934 9090 DIALANIDIOT212 976 2727 P.D.A.212 986 1660 STOCK QUOTES213 541 2462 STOCK MARKET REPORTS213 547 6801 NAVY SHIPS INFO213 576 6061  213 664 3321 NEWS FOR THE BLIND301 393 1000  301 667 4280 LOTTERY INFO312 939 1600  404 221 5519 NUCLEAR COMMISSION408 248 8818 1ST NAT'L BANK415 642 2160 EARTHQUAKE REPCRT505 883 6828  512 472 2181  512 472 4263 WIERD RECORDING512 472 9833  512 472 9941 INSERT 25 CENTS512 472 9941 SPECIAL RECORDING512 870 2345  516 794 1707  619 748 0002 LOOP LINE619 748 0003  703 331 0057 MCI 5 DIGITS703 334 6831 WASH. POST703 354 8723 COMPEL INC.703 737 2051 METROPHONE 6 DIGITS703 835 0500 VALNET 5 DIGITS703 861 7000 SPRINT 68 DIGITS703 861 9181 SPRINT 68 DIGITS714 974 4020 CA. MAINFRAME716 475 1072 N.Y. DECSYSTEM800 222 0555 RESEARCH INSTITUTE800 223 3312 CITIBANK800 227 5576 EASTERN AIRLINES800 248 0151 WHITE HOUSE PRESS800 321 1424 FLIGHT PLANES800 323 3026 TELTEC 6 GIGITS800 323 4756 MOTOROLA DITELL800 323 7751 M.C.I. MAINFRAME800 325 4112 EAsYLINK800 325 6397 F.Y.I.800 344 4000 MSG SYSTEM800 368 6900 SKYLINE ORDER LINE800 424 9090 RONALD REAGAN'S PRESS800 424 9096 WHITE HOUSE SWITCH800 438 9428 ITT CITY CALL SWITCHING800 521 2255 AUTONET800 521 8400 TRAVELNET 8 DIGITS800 526 3714 RCA MAINFRAME800 527 1800 TYMNET800 621 3026 SPECIAL OPERATOR800 621 3028  800 621 3030  800 621 3035  800 631 1146 VOICE STAT800 821 2121 BELL TELEMARKETING800 828 6321 XEROX 800 858 9313 RECORDAVOICE800 882 1061 ATT STOCK PRICES914 997 1277  916 445 2864 JERRY BROWNNA 950 1000 SPRINTNA 950 1022 MCI EXECUNETNA 950 1033 US TELEPHONENA 950 1044 ALLNET 6 DIGITSNA 950 1066 LEXITELNA 950 1088 SKYLINE 6 DIGITSPHONE   DESCRIPTIONCODE2016432227  CODES235199,235022 AND 1212708003254112  WESTERN UNION8005471784  CODES101111,350009 AND 3500088004249098  TOLL FREE WHITE HS.8004249099  DEFENSE HOT LINE2029652900 WATERGATE8003685693 HOWARD BAKER HOTLN2024567639 REAGANS SECRETARY2025456706 PENTAGON2026940004 PENTAGON MODEM2019323371 RUTGERS8003252091 PASSWORD GAMES8002281111 AMERICAN EXPRESS6172588313 AFTER CONNECT PRESS CTRLC 8003237751 PASSWORDREGISTER8003221415 CODES266891,411266 AND 836566  USED BY SYSOPThe following 800 's have been collected however no codes have been found yet! if you hack any please let me knowphone   codes8003213344  8003233027  8003233208  8003233209  8003257222  8003279895  8003279136  8003431844  8005471784  8005476754  8006548494  8006824000  8008589000  800 's with carriers.800323900780032390668003239073800321460080054717841800 numbers of the goverment.8003211082NAVY FINANCE CENTER.8004245201EXPORT IMPORT BANK.8005230677ALCOHOL TOBACCO AND.8005321556FED INFORMATION CNTR11082NAVY FINANCE CENTER. 8004245201EXPORT IMPORT BANK.8005230677ALCOHOL TOBACCO AND. 8005321556FED INFORMATION CNTR.8003254072COMBAT  ARMS SERVICE.8003254095COMBAT SUPPORT BRANCH.8003254890ROPD USAR COMBAT ARMS.8004323960SOCIAL SECURITY.8004265996PUGET NAVAL SHIPYARD.Directory of toll free numbers.8004323960SOCIAL SECURITY.8004265996PUGET NAVAL SHIPYARD.Directory of toll free numbers.3012340100BALTIMORE ELECTRIC.2024561414WHITE HOUSE.2025456706PENTAGON.2023431100EPA.7148911267DIALAGEEK.7148975511TIMELY.2135716523SATANIC MESSAGES.2136647664DIALASONG.4058437396SYNTHACER MUSIC.2137651000LIST OF MANY NUMBERS.5124724263WIERD.5124729941INSERT 25.2037713930PIONEERS.2132544914DIALAATHIEST.2125860897DIRTY.2138403971HOROWIERD2037713930PIONEERS4719420,3459721,83689628363298,3234139,83656984719440,4719440,47169524766040,3279772,47194808003251693,80032541138005218400VOICE ACTIVATED2139928282METROFONE ACCESS NUMBER6177385051PIRATE HARBOR6177203600TIMECOR 23013449156N.A.S.A PASSWORDGASET3182336289UNIVERSITY LOUISIANA213822211221382233562138221924213822 31272134494040TECH CENTER2139373580TELENET1800842878118003685676180034538782123311433213892721121362624007132371822713224609871322510537132249417818992828218005218400After entering the sprint code,and, CDestination number. Then enter this number20597722, And the main tracer for sprint will be disabled. 2155613199SPRINT LONG DISTANCE2024561414WHITE HOUSE0114419304832QUEEN ELIZABETH9164452864JERRY BROWN8004249090RONALD REAGAN'S PRESS2127995017ABC NEW YORK FEED LINE8008821061AT  T STOCK PRICES2129861660STOCK QUOTES2139351111WIERD EFFECTS!5124724263WIERD RECORDING2129762727P.D.A.6197480002FONE CO. TESTING LINES9004106272SPACE SHUTTLE COMM.2012216397AMERICAN TELEPHONE2154666680BELL OF PENNSYLVANIA2023470999CHESAPEAKE TELEPHONE2138290111GENERAL TELEPHONE8085334426HAWAIIAN TELEPHONE3123688000ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE3172658611INDIANA BELL3132237233MICHIGAN BELL3132237223NEVADA BELL2079551111NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE2014833800NEW JERSEY BELL2123952200NEW YORK TELEPHONE5152430890NORTHWESTERN BELL2168226980OHIO BELL2063452900PACIFIC NORTHWEST BELL2136214141PACIFIC TELEPHONE2053212222SOUTH CENTRAL BELL4043912490SOUTHERN BELL2037714920SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND3142475511SOUTHWESTERN BELL4146783511WISCONSIN TELEPHONE8003276713UNKNOWN ORIGIN3032328555HP30003154231313DEC103135770260WAYNE STATE5124745011AUSTIN COMPUTERS5165678013LYRICS TIMESHARING2123695114RSTSE4153275220NEC7137951200SHELL COMPUTERS5184718111CNA OF NY8003276761AUTONET8002281111VISA CREDIT CHECK7134832700NASUA2133831115COSMOS4082801901TRW4048853460SEARS CREDIT CHECK4142899988AARDVARK SOFTWARE9198521482ANDROMEDA INCORPORATED2139852922ARTSCI7146279887ASTAR INTERNATIONAL4159648021AUTOMATED SIMULATIONS5033453043AVANT GARDE CREATIONS4154566424BRODERBUND SOFTWARE4156588141BUDGE COMPANY7147555392CAVALIER COMPUTER8017536990COMPUTER DATA SYSTEMS2137015161DATASOFT INC.2133667160DATAMOST7164428960DYNACOMP2133466783EDUWARE8006310856HAYDEN9199831990MED SYSTEMS SOFTWARE3124337550MICRO LAB2064541315MICROSOFT3016597212MUSE SOFTWARE2096836858ONLINE SYSTEMS2036618799PROGRAM DESIGN PDI2133446599QUALITY SOFTWARE3039259293SENTIENT SOFTWARE7026472673SIERRA SOFTWARE9169201939SIRIUS SOFTWARE2153932640SIRTECH4159628911SOFTWARE PUBLISHERS4159641353STRATEGIC SIMULATIONS2173598482SUBLOGIC COM.2062263216SYNERGISTIC SOFTWAREHere are a few tips on how not to get caught when using MCI or other such services1 Try not to use them for voice to voice personal calls. Try to use them for computer calls only. Here is whyMCI and those other services can't really trace the calls that come through the lines, they can just monitor them. They can listen in on your calls and from that, they can get your name and other information from the conversation. They can also call the number you called and ask your friend some questions.If you call terminals and BBS'S then it is much harder to get information. For one thing,most sysops won't give these dudes that call any info at all or they will act dumb because they PHREAK themselves!2 Beware when using colored boxes! They are easy to find!!!!!3 Try to find a sinewave number. Then use an MCI or other service to call it. You will hear a tone that goes higher and lower. If the tone just stops,then that code is being monitored and you should beware when using it.If you do get caught,then if you think you can,try to weasel out of it. I have heard many stories about people that have pleaded with the MCI guys and have been let off.You will get a call from a guy that has been monitoring you. Act nice. Act like you know it is now wrong to do this kind of thing..just sound like you are sorry for what you did. If you get a call, you probably will be a little sorry! Otherwise,it is very dangerous!!!!!!! Very with a capital V!
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				The following tables matches Terminal numerical IDs telenet parmater 23 Generic and Specific Terminal Identifiers.ID  Generic Term ID Terminal Type note   0 Unknown or Synch. Host1 B1 AJ63 Anderson Jacobson 6302 B5 AJ86 Anderson Jacobson 860 93 A2 CD30 CDI 10304 D1 DP22 Datapoint 22005 D2 DP30 Datapoint 3000  33006 D3 HP21 HewlettPackard 2100s 97 A2 CT30 CT Execuport 3009 A4 GE30 GE Terminet 30010 A3 GE12 GE Terminet 120011 D1 HZ20 Hazeltine 200012 E1 IBM1 2741 EBCD 513 E2 IBM2 2741 EBCD 614 E3 IBM3 2741 EBCD 715 E4 IBM4 2741 EBCD 816 C1 IBM5 2741 Correspondence 117 C2 IBM6 2741 Correspondence 218 C3 IBM7 2741 Correspondence 319 C4 IBM8 2741 Correspondence 420 D1 T42 Special Terminal26 A1 TT33 Teletype 3327 A1 TT35 Teletype 3530 D1 TT40 Teletype 4032 A7 TI25 TI 72533 A2 TI33 TI 733 Default34 A6 TI45 TI 73535 B2 UV50 Univac DCT 50038 D1 IFVD Infoton Vistar Display39 D1 RI34 Teleray 3300370040 A5 TN30 GE Terminet 3041 A8 DECW DEC LA3536 Decwriter II43 A3 TN12 GE Terminet 12044 A9 CT12 CT Execuport 120045 A1 Generic Terminal46 A2 Generic Terminal47 A3 Generic Terminal48 A4 Generic Terminal49 A5 Generic Terminal50 A6 Generic Terminal51 A7 Generic Terminal52 A8 Generic Terminal53 A9 Generic Terminal54 D1 ADDS ADDS 520, 580, 98055 B3 AJ83 AJ 830  83256 B1 Generic Terminal57 B2 Generic Terminal59 D1 BHMB Beehive MiniBee 260 C1 Generic Terminal61 C2 Generic Terminal62 C3 Generic Terminal63 C4 Generic Terminal64 D1 CD11 CDI 113265 A2 CD12 CDI 1202  120366 D1 Generic Terminal67 D2 Generic Terminal68 D1 DECV DEC VT50  VT5269 D1 DGLG DigiLog 33, Telecomputer I70 A1 DPPT Data Products Portaterm71 B3 DS16 Diablo 1550  162072 E1 Generic Terminal73 E2 Generic Terminal74 E3 Generic Terminal75 E4 Generic Terminal76 B3 GS30 GenComm Systems 30077 D1 HP26 HP 2640, 2644, 264578 D1 LSAM Lear Siegler ADM1, 2, 379 A2 NC60 NCR 26080 B1 TD40 Trendata 400081 D1 TI45 TI 74582 D2 TI65 TI 763, 765 1083 D1 TK40 Tektronix 4002402384 B3 TT43 Teletype 4385 A3 WU30 Western Union EDT 3086 A4 WU12 Western Union EDT 120087 B3 DT30 Data Term  Comm DCT 30030 288 B3 Generic Terminal89 B4 Generic Terminal90 B5 Generic Terminal 991 D3 Generic Terminal 9127 Asynchronous HostsThe following are terminal models with corresponding generic terminal types supported by the terminal handler.Terminal Model ID note ADDS Consul 520, 580, 980 D1 1ADDS Envoy 620, Regent D1 1Alanthus Data Terminal T133 A1T300 A8T1200 A3Alanthus Miniterm A2AMJacquard Amtext 425 D1 1Anderson Jacobsen 510 D1 1Anderson Jacobsen 630 B1Anderson Jacobsen 830  832 B3 2Anderson Jacobsen 860 B5Apple II D1 1Atari 400, 800 D1 1ATT Dataspeed 401, 402, 403 D1 1Beehive MiniBee, MicroBee D1 1Centronics 761 A8Commodore Pet D1 1CompuColor II D1 1Computer Devices CDI 1030 A2Computer Devices Teleterm 1132 A8Computer Devices Miniterm 1200 series A2Computer Transceiver Execuport 300 A2Computer Transceiver Execuport 1200 A2Computer Transceiver Execuport 4000 A2CPT 6000, 8000 D1 1Datamedia Elite D1 1Datapoint 1500, 1800, 2200, 3000, 3300,3600, 3800 D1 1Data Products Portaterm A1Data Terminal  Comm DTC 300, 302 B3 2Diablo Hyterm B3 2Digilog 33  Telecomputer II D1 1DEC LA 3536 Decwriter II A8DEC LA 120 Decwriter III A8DEC VT50, VT52, VT100, WS78, WS200 D1 1GenComm Systems 300 B3 2GE Terminet 30 A5GE Terminet 120, 1200 A3GE Terminet 300 A4General Terminal GT100A, GT101, GT110,GT400, GT400B D1 1Hazeltine 1500, 1400, 2000 D1 1Hewlett Packard 2621 D3Hewlett Packard 2640 series D1 1IBM PC and compatibles D1 1IBM 3101 D1 1Informer I304, D304 D1 1Infoton 100, 200, 400, Vistar D1 1Intelligent Systems Intecolor D1 1Intertex Intertube II D1 1Lanier Word Processor D1 1Lear Siegler ADM series D1 1Lexitron 1202, 1303 D1 1Memorex 1240 A2Micom 2000, 2001 D1 1NBI 3000 D1 1NCR 260 A2PerkinElmer Model 110, Owl, Bantam D1 1PerkinElmer Carousel 300 Series A8Radio Shack TRS 80 D1 1Research Inc. Teleray D1 1Tektronix 40024023 D1 1Teletype Model 33, 35 A1Teletype Model 40 D1 1Teletype Model 43 B3 2Teletype Model 401, 402, 403 D1 1Texas Instrument 725 A7733 A2735 A6743, 745, 763, 765 D1 1820 B3 2994 D1 1Trendata 4000 ASCII B1Tymshare 110, 212 A2315 A8325 B3 2Univac DCT 500 B4WANG 20, 25, 30, 105, 130, 145 D1 1Western Union EDT 30, 35 A1300 A41200 A4XEROX 800, 850, 860 D1 1XEROX 1700 B3 2Notes 1 Use D3 if you wish Telenet to respond to XONXOFFflow control.2 Use B5 if you wish Telenet to respond to XONXOFF flow control.The following are the major characteristics of the generic terminal types supported by the terminal handlerGeneric Tab LF CR Pad CR Pad Line CodePad Pad Fixed Var'bl Size Type note      A1 0 1 0 0 72 ASCIIA2 0 2 7 0 80 ASCIIA3 0 0 0 0 120 ASCII  PrinterA4 0 6 0 0 120 ASCIIA5 0 5 5 0 120 ASCIIA6 0 0 1 1 80 ASCIIA7 0 4 0 2 80 ASCIIA8 2 0 1 0 132 ASCIIA9 12 10 16 6 132 ASCIIB1 1 0 2 1 132 ASCIIBUFFEREDB2 0 2 6 0 132 ASCIIBUFFEREDB3 0 0 0 0 132 ASCIIBUFFEREDB4 0 2 10 0 132 ASCIIBUFFEREDB5 0 0 0 0 132 ASCIIBUFFERED 9C1 1 1 4 1 130 2741 Correspondence 1C2 1 1 4 1 130 2741 Correspondence 2C3 1 1 4 1 130 2741 Correspondence 3C4 1 1 4 1 130 2741 Correspondence 4D1 0 0 0 0 80 ASCIICRTD2 0 0 0 0 72 ASCIICRTD3 0 0 0 0 80 ASCIICRT 9E1 1 1 4 1 130 2741 EBCD 5E2 1 1 4 1 130 2741 EBCD 6E3 1 1 4 1 130 2741 EBCD 7E4 1 1 4 1 130 2741 EBCD 8Notes1 Corresponds with Ball Types 001, 005, 007, 008, 012, 020, 030, 050, 053, 067, 070, and 085. Ball Type code can be found underneath the locking tab of the ball on an IBM 2741 terminal.2 Corresponds with Ball Types 006, 010, 015, 019, 059, and 090.3 Corresponds with Ball Types 021, 025, 026, 027, 028, 029, 031, 032, 033, 034, 035, 036, 037, 038, 029, 060, 068, 086, 123, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 146, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 156, and 161.4 Corresponds with Ball Types 043 and 054.5 Corresponds with Ball Types 963, 996, and 998.6 Corresponds with Ball Types 938, 939, 961, 962, and 997.7 Corresponds with Ball Types 942 and 943.8 Corresponds with Ball Types 947 and 948.9 Terminal Types D3 and B5 enable TerminaltoPAD flow control in the Terminal PAD TFLOW.10 The specific Terminal ID, TI65, incorrect maps to the generic ID, D2. Since TI 763 and 765 print 80 character per line, users with these terminals should specify a generic TERM ID of either D3 TFLOW enabled or D1 TFLOW not specified.
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			<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:10:12 PDT</pubDate>
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				It seems that not many of you know that Telenet is connected to about 80 computernetworks in the world. No, I don't mean 80 nodes, but 80 networks with thousands of unprotected computers. When you call your local Telenet gateway, you can only call those computers which accept reversecharging calls.If you want to call computers in foreign countries or computers in USA which do not accept Rcalls, you need a TelenetID. Did you ever notice that you can type ID XXXX when being connected to TelenetYou are then asked for the password. If you have such a NUI NetworkUserID you can call nearly every host connected to any computernetwork in the world. Here are some examples026245400090184 Is a VAX in Germany Username DATEXP and leave mail for CHRIS !!!0311050500061 Is the Los Alamos Integrated computing network One of the hosts connected to it is the DNA Defense Nuclear Agency!!!0530197000016 Is a BBS in New Zealand024050256 Is the SEBank in Stockholm, Sweden Login as GAMES !!!02284681140541 CERN in Geneva in Switzerland one of the biggest nuclearresearch centers in the world Login as GUEST0234212301161 A Videotexstandard system. Type OPTEL to get in and use theID 999_ with the password 9_0242211000001 University of Oslo in Norway Type LOGIN 17,17 to play the MultiUserDungeon !0425130000215 Something like ITT Dialcom, but this one is in Israel ! ID HELP with password HELP works fine with security level 30310600584401 Is the Washington Post News Service via Tymnet Yes, Tymnet is connected to Telenet, too ! ID and Password is PETER You can read the news of the next day !The prefixes are as follows02624 is DatexP in Germany02342 is PSS in England03110 is Telenet in USA03106 is Tymnet in USA02405 is Telepak in Sweden04251 is Isranet in Israel02080 is Transpac in France02284 is Telepac in Switzerland02724 is Eirpac in Ireland02704 is Luxpac in Luxembourg05252 is Telepac in Singapore04408 is VenusP in Japanand so on Some of the countries have more than one packetswitchingnetwork USA has 11, Canada has 3, etc.OK. That should be enough for the moment. As you see most of the passwords are very simple. This is because they must not have any fear of hackers. Only a few German hackers use these networks. Most of the computers are absolutely easy to hack !!! So, try to find out some TelenetID's and leave them here. If you need more numbers, leave email.I'm calling from Germany via the German DatexP network, which is similar to Telenet. We have a lot of those NUI's for the German network, but none for a special Tymnetoutdialcomputer in USA, which connects me to any phone .CUL8R, Mad MaxPS Call 026245621040000 and type ID INF300 with password DATACOM to get more Informations on packetswitchingnetworks !PS2 The new password for the Washington Post is KING !!!!
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			<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:08:14 PDT</pubDate>
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				TELENET INFORMATION1Directory Of System2Terminal ID's3Dialup Numbers4Hacking Telenet5DatapacTelenet6Sales Offices7Access Via Telex8Intl TelenetX.21PREVIOUS MENUCommand 2 P TO PAUSE S TO STOP TELENET TERMINAL IDENTIFIERSTHIS IS A LIST OF THE TERMINAL IDENTIFIERS FOR TELENET AND THE SYSTEM TYPES THEY REPRESENT. REMEMBER WHEN YOU FIRST LOGON THE INITIAL FIRST QUESTION ASKED IS TERMINAL THIS LIST SHOULD PROVIDE YOU WITH ALL KNOW AVAILABLE TERMINAL TYPES. YOU MAY WISH TO MAKE NOTE THAT PERSONAL COMPUTERS USUALLY USE THE IDENTIFIER D1.D1 ADDS CONSUL 520, 580, 980D1 ADDS ENVOY 620 REGENT SERIESA1 ATLANTHUS DATA TERMINAL T133A8   T300A3   T1200A2 ATLANTHUS MINITERMD1 AMJAQUARD AMTEXT 510D1 ANDERSON JACOBSON 510B1   630B3   830, 832B5   860D1 APPLE IID1 ATARI 400, 800, 800XLD1 ATT DATASPEED 40, 401, 402, 43D1 BEEHIVE MINIBEE, MICROBEE, SUPERBEEA8 CENTRONICS 761D1 COMMODOREPETD1 COMPUCOLOR IIA2 COMPUTER DEVICES CDI 1030A8   TELETERM 1132A2   MINITERM 1200 SERIESMA2 COMPUTER TRANCIEVER EXECUPORT 300A9   1200A8   4000D1 CPT 6000, 8000D1 DATAMEDIA ELITED1 DATAPOINT 1500, 1800, 2200, 3000, 3300, 3600, 3800A1 DATA PRODUCTS PORTATERMB3 DATA TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATIONS DTC 300, 302B3 DIABLO HYTERMD1 DIGILOG 33  TELECOMPUTER IIA8 DEC LA35  LA36 DEC IIA8 DEC LA120 DEC IID1 DEC VT50, VT52, VT100, WS78, WS200B3 GENCOMM SYSTEMS 300A5 GE TERNINET 30A4   300A3   120, 1200D1 GE TERMINAL GT100A, GT101, GT110D1 HAZELTINE 1500, 1400, 2000D1 HP 2640 SERIESD1 IBM 3101D1 INFORMER 1304, D304INFOTON 100, 200, 400, VISTARINTELLIGENT SYSTEMS INTECOLORTERTEC INTERTUBE IILANIER WPLSI ADM SERIESLEXITRON 1202, 1303A2 MEMOREX1240D1 MICOM 2000, 2001D1 NBI 3000A2 NCR 260D1 PERKIN ELMER MODEL 1100, OWL, BANTAMA8   CAROUSEL 300 SERIESD1 TRS80D1 RESEARCH INC., TELERAYD1 TEKTRONIX 4002, 4024A1 TELETYPE MODELS 33, 35D1   40B3   43D1   401, 402, 403A7 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS 725A2   733A6   735D1   743, 745, 763, 765B3   820 D1   994B1 TRENDATA 4000 ASCIIA2 TYMSHARE 110, 212A8   315B3   325B4 UNIVAC DCT 500D1 WANG 20, 25, 30, 015, 130, 145A1 WESTERN UNION EDT 33, 35A3   300A4   1200D1 XEROX 800, 850, 860B3 XEROX 1700TELENET INFORMATION1Directory Of System2Terminal ID's3Dialup Numbers4Hacking Telenet5DatapacTelenet6Sales Offices7Access Via Telex8Intl TelenetX.21PREVIOUS MENUCommand 1 P TO PAUSE S TO STOP Telenet Directory By SCANMANLOCAL ACCESS NUMBER 3043456471C 110021 UNIVACC 10327C 20120 VM 370 ONLINEC 20124C 20125 NJIT ELECTRONIC INFORMATION EXCHANGE SYSTEMC 20130C 20133C 20136C 20138C 20148C 20154C 20165C 20166C 20167 WARNER COMPUTER SYSTEMSC 20168 WARNER COMPUTER SYSTEMSC 20171C 20182 BANKERS TRUST CUSTOMER SERVICEC 20184C 20186C 20188 DUNN  BRADSTREETC 20225 COMSHARE C 202O27C 20221 SCIENTIFIC TIME SHARINGC 20220 TOPS20C 20222 BANKERS TRUSTC 20225 COMSHARE COMMANDER IIC 20226C 20230 TIMESHARINGC 20232 TIMESHARINGC 20246C 20247 GSD TIMESHARINGC 20249 WYLBURC 20264C 20266C 20270 GSD TIMESHARINGC 20286C 202067C 202124 GENERAL MOTORS WARRENC 202133C 202138 TYPE .HELP C 202139 TYPE .HELP C 202140 TYPE .HELP C 202143C 202144 TYPE .HELP C 202148C 202149C 202175 HONEYWELLC 202202 COMPUSTOREC 202214 PRIMENETC 202218 PRIMENETC 202222 GM PARTSC 202229 PRIMENETC 20247C 20321 WYLBURC 20364C 20420 STAMFORDC 20423 UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC 20424 UNIVERSITYOF ALBERTA TESTC 20430 VM270C 20436 UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC 20447 UTCS DATAPACC 20451C 20459 PRIMENETC 20461 CYBERSHAREC 20653 MILTENC 21216 DBC 21221 PRIMNET 19. 2. 7 SYSAC 21222 VMCMS SYSTEM 0C 21224 PRIMENET 19. 3EVB SYS0C 21225 INTERACTIVE MARKET SYSTEMSC 21226 INTERACTIVE MARKET SYSTEMSC 21228 BURROUGHS NYC DATA CENTERC 21229 LANDART SYSTEMSC 21230 PRIMNET 19. 2. 7 SYSDC 21231 E.F.HUTTON VMCMSC 21233 VMCMSC 21235 IBISM ELECTRONIC VILLAGE  FOR HELPC 21241 IFI CITI RSTS CITIBANK V7. 008C 21244 IS4000 INT'L 4 CITIBANKC 21245 IS4000 INT'L 3 CITIBANKC 21247C 21248 ENERGY TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM N.Y.C 21250 GROUP FINANCE SYSTEM NET OF VAX'SC 21252 PRIMNET 19. 3. 3 SYSAC 21253 VM370 ONLINEC 21255 IS4000 INT'L 2 CITIBANKC 21256 CITIBANK CASH MANAGER IS4000C 21260 CITICASH MANAGER INTERNATIONAL IS4000C 21264 CITICASH MANAGER INTERNATIONAL IS4000 INT'L 1C 21265 CITICASH MANAGER INTERNATIONAL IS4000 INT'L 2C 21266 CITICASH PWCITICASH.BIMA ACCT6425 OPTIONFREEC 21267 IS4000 INT'L 3 CITIBANKC 21268 IS4000 INT'L 4 CITIBANKC 21269C 21270 A TSO IBM TIMESHARING OPTIONC 21273C 21281 BANKERS TRUST CUSTOMER SERVICEC 21284 DATAMOR TIME SHARINGC 21285 BITSHARE A TOPS 20 DEC 20C 21286  C 21287 IS4000 INT'L 6 CITIBANKC 21288 SK WDC SYSTEM 1ONLINEC 21289 IFI RSTS V7. 008C 212111 VMCMSC 212112 VMCMSC 212113 IS4000 NAT'L 2 CITIBANKC 212119 VMCMSC 212121 NAT'L 2 CITIBANKC 212122 VMCMSC 212126 AMERICAN EXPRESS CORP. INFO SYSTEM. A NODE OF 2 DEC 20'S, A CMS, AN ASCII EMULATOR AND A CDN.C 212128 VMCMSC 212129 VMCMSC 212131 VMCMSC 212132 VMCMSC 212133 TOBAS VAX SKVAX2 I THINK THIS IS A BIG BANK I SIGNED ON IT AND SAW SOME CHECK TRANSFERS FROM CHASE MANHATTAN AND LLYODS FOR 80 MILLION C 212135 A CIS AN IBM INTERFACE FOR DATABASE  TRY HELP, ON AN ADDS TYPE TERMINAL.C 212136 TYPE NEWTSCC 212137 PRIMNET 19. 3. 2. R5. SAL. V2 XNYC 212139 INSTINETC 212141 TELENET INFO  OR MAIL SYSTEMSC 212142  C 212143 PRIMENET 18. 5. 8. GJL SYSBC 212145 VAXC 212146 VAXC 212148C 212150 ADS SYSTEMSC 212151 CITICASH MANAGER INTERNATIONAL IS4000C 212152 VAXC 212153 AN HP 3000C 212157 VMCMSC 212158 PRIMNETC 212159 MCRC 212160 TELSTAT SIGMA 6C 212161 INTERACTIVE MARKET SYSTEMSC 212162 PRIMNET SYSAC 212163 VMCMSC 212164 DUNN  BRADSTREET CICSC 212165 DB SYSTEMC 212167 RSTS V.7.007C 212168 A PROTOCOL CONVERTER PCI NETWORKC 212169 IS4000C 212171C 212172C 212173 BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN VTAMC 212174 PRIMNETC 212181 DB CICSC 212185 PRIMENETC 212191 IRVING TRUST CASH REGISTERC 212194 VMCMSC 212196 DUNN  BRADSTREETC 212200 IRVINE TRUSTC 212203 CITIADVICE CENTERC 212205 DUNN  BRADSTREETC 212206 DUNN  BRADSTREETC 212208C 212216 IRVING TRUSTC 212219 DUNN  BRADSTREETC 212220C 212221 WYLBURC 212224 GEMSERVICEC 212226 VM370INTERACTIVE MKT.C 21255 PRIMENETC 21256 PRIMENETC 21284 DATAMOR TIME SHARINGC 21325 PRIMENETC 21335 MARKETRON RESEARCH AND SALESC 21336 MARKETRON RESETELENET INFORMATION1Directory Of System2Terminal ID's3Dialup Numbers4Hacking Telenet5DatapacTelenet6Sales Offices7Access Via Telex8Intl TelenetX.21PREVIOUS MENUCommand 4 P TO PAUSE S TO STOP HOW TO HACK TELENETOKAY, SO YOU WANT TO TRY YOUR HAND AT FINDING SOME JUICY COMPUTERS, HUH WELL, HERE'S WHAT YOU DO.FIRST, FIND OUT YOUR LOCAL TELENET ACCESS PHONE NUMBER. THIS SHOULDN'T BE TOO HARD IF YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND WITH A SOURCE ACCOUNT HAVE HIM TYPE 'TYMTEL' FROM THE COMMAND MODE. THEN, DIAL UP AND REPLY 'D1' TO THE 'TERMINAL' PROMPT. THIS GETS RID OF ALL THOSE NULLS AT THE END OF EACH LINE.NOW, TYPE 'C AAANN' WHERE AAA IS THE AREACODE OF THE COMPUTER YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, AND NN IS ANY NUMBER.. START WITH 15 OR 20 RQVWORK BEST. AFTER HITTING RETURN OR ENTER, YOU SHOULD GET SOME SORT OF MESSAGE. IF IT SAYS SOMETHING LIKE 'NOT OPERATING' GIVE UP ON THAT NUMBER AND TRY ANOTHER. THE GOAL HERE IS TO GET 'AAA NN CONNECTED'.ONCE CONNECTED, TRY A FEW RETURNS, AND YOU'LL USUALLY GET A SIGNON PROMPT. THE OTHER. GIVEAWAY ERRORS ARE 'AAA NN REJECTING' AND 'AAA NN REFUSED COLLECT CONNECTION'. THESE MEAN THERE ARE COMPUTERS THERE,BUT THEY ARE UNREACHABLE. 'INVALID ADDRESS' MEANS THERE IS NOTHING CONNECTED.SOME RIPE AREACODES ARE 204 CANADA AND 415 IN CALIFORNIA. GIVE IT A TRY AND LET ME KNOW WHAT HAPPENS!!!!!THE TELENET SYSTEM HAS A FEW COMMANDS OF ITS OWN. THESE ARE VERY USEFUL FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES, THE MOST USEFUL BEING THE ABILITY TO DISCONNECT FROM A NODE WITHOUT HANGING UP THE PHONE. THUS MAKING IT EASIER TO TRY ANOTHER NODE ADDRESS. I HAVE ATTEMPTED TO SUMMARIZE TELENET'S COMMANDS BELOWCOMMAND EFFECT HALF SETS NET HALFDUPLEX. ECHOFULL SETS NET FULLDUPLEX. NO ECHOC AAA NN CONNECT THE NODE ADDRESSED BY AAANN WHERE AAAIS A VALID US TELEPHONE AREACODE, AND NN ISANY 2DIGIT NUMBER.D DISCONNECT NODE, IF STILL ATTACHED.ID UNKNOWN  PROBABLY AN ID FOR NODES WITHSECURITY CHECKING.  NO IDEA OF PASSWORDFORMATNOTETHE ONLY WAY TO USE THE DISCONNECT COMMAND IS TO GET THE NET'S ATTENTION FIRST. ASSUMING YOU ARE CONNECTED TO A VALID NODE, THIS IS DONE BY TYPING THE SEQUENCE RETURN FOLLOWED BY THE AT SIGN, AND ANOTHER RETURN. IF IT IS EXECUTED CORRECTLY, THE WORD TELENET WILL APPEAR AS WELL AS ANOTHER AT SIGN. YOU MAY NOW ENTER D AND DISCONNECT FROM THE NODE.MORE HINTS ON TELENETON PRIMENET SYSTEMS THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNTS ARE DEFAULTLOGIN SYSTEMLOGIN DOSSOME SYSTEMS RSTSE LET YOU LOOK AT USER NAMES THAT ARE ONLINE WITHOUT LOGGING IN THE COMMANDS TO DO THIS ON SOME SYSTEMS ARESYSSYSTATSYSTAT U DISPLAYS USERNAMES AS WELLSHOW USERSIF YOU MAKE IT INTO A SYSTEM WITH THE SHOW COMMANDS THEN THE FOLLOWING COMMADS WILL BE USEFULL IN A PRIVLEDGED ACCOUNTSHOW PSWSHOWS PASSWORDS TO A ACCOUNTSET ACCESSSTOP PEOPLE FROM LOGGING INSHOW ALL SHOWS ALL ACCOUNTS WITH PASSWORDSTELENET INFORMATION1Directory Of System2Terminal ID's3Dialup Numbers4Hacking Telenet5DatapacTelenet6Sales Offices7Access Via Telex8Intl TelenetX.21PREVIOUS MENUCommand 6 P TO PAUSE S TO STOP GTETELENET COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATIONFIELD MARKETING SALES OFFICESAtlanta, Georgia4043961515Boston, Massachusetts.6174510048Chicago, Illinois..3127826119Cleveland,Ohio..2165820800Cupertino,California..4082556450Dallas,Texas.2146613014Denver,Colorado.3037412303Detroit,Michigan3135250400Ft. Lauderdale, Florida..3055614445Garden Grove, California.7148914481Minneapolis, Minnesota6128312127New York Penn Plaza, New York2128682230New York Broad St., New York.2124250010Paramus, New Jersey2013683600Philadelphia,Pennsylvania2155684985Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.4125712170Rochester, New York7163859995Rocky Hill, Conneticut2035295474Rosslyn, Virginia..7032437510San Diego, California.7144762551Santa Monica, California.2134500606Seattle, Washington2068278722Tampa, Florida..8138727555White Plains, New York9146821933GTE Telenet Communications Corp7034421000Corporate Headquarters Telex No248419 GTE TCCTELENET INFORMATION1Directory Of System2Terminal ID's3Dialup Numbers4Hacking Telenet5DatapacTelenet6Sales Offices7Access Via Telex8Intl TelenetX.21PREVIOUS MENUCommand 7 P TO PAUSE S TO STOP ACCESS TO TELENET VIA INTERNATIONAL TELEXInternational users can access hosts on Telenet via International Telex. The user follows local procedures and places a prepaid Telex call from his terminal to the Telex number listed below. There, BaudotASCII conversion is performed.The user then logs into his host. The user is billed localy for placing a Telex call from his international location. For additional information please contact your local GTE Telenet Sales Office.SERVICE PROCEDUREINFOTEX Place call to ITT INFOTEX471235 CRITT INFOTEXTELENETC Host address CRDATALINK Place call to RCA DATALINK231745 CRRCA LSDSTELENETC Host address CRTELELINK Place call to WUI TELELINK6666 CRWUI TELELINKPlease log in Tel CR Host address CRNoteTelelink requires the user to specify the X.121 address which is 12 or 14 digits. Please see instructions in the 'International Telenet FileTELENET INFORMATION1Directory Of System2Terminal ID's3Dialup Numbers4Hacking Telenet5DatapacTelenet6Sales Offices7Access Via Telex8Intl TelenetX.21PREVIOUS MENUCommand 5 P TO PAUSE S TO STOP DATAPAC, CANADADefinitionsDatapac 3000 serviceDatapac X.25 hostsDatapac 3101 serviceDatapac asynchronous hosts, private dial ports,or public dial portsSNAPSynchronous Network Access Protocol, Datapac X.25 protocolNIMNetwork Interface Machine, all Datapac nonX.25 devices, functional equivalent to Telenet Packet AssemblerDisassembler PADEnvoy 100Datapac Electronic Message SystemTariff Structure For Legitimate CustomersFor calls originating fromto DatapacTelenet, kilopackets rates are based on a tierred band structure.Rate structure is based on the followingFor TelenetUSA to DatapacCanada or DatapacCanada to TelenetUSA callsWhere is the call originatingIf from TelenetUSA, is the call public dial or other If call is public dial, then the rate is 4.50hour plus kilopacket charge by band, reference band chart below.If other type of call private dial, DAF, or X.25, then there is a kilopacket charge for data transmitted.If call originates from DatapacCanada, band needs to be determined. If service is Datapac 3000, then only kilopacket charge applies. If service is Datapac 3101, then 2.70hour connect charge plus kilopacket charge by band is applicable.Datapac Band ChartNote All Datapac 3101 service requires a NIM interfaceDatapacTelenet  Canadian DSA BandsBand 1Calgary Alta. Quebec City Que.Edmonton Alta. Regina SaskHalifax N.S. Saint John N.B.Hamilton Ont. St. John's Nfld.London Ont. Toronto Ont.Montreal Que. Vancouver B.C.Ottawa Ont. Windsor OntWinnipeg ManBand 2Barrie Ont. Fredericton N.B.Brampton Ont. Kitchener Ont.Brantford Ont Oshawa Ont.Chatham Ont. Sarnia Ont.Clarkson Ont. St.Catherines Ont.Joiliett Que. St. Jean QueBand 3Bathurst N.B. New Glasgow N.S.Bellevill Ont. Niagara Falls Ont.Brandon Man. North Bay Ont.Bridgewater Ont. Peterborough Ont.Charlottetown P.E.I. Prince Albert Sask.Cornwall Ont. Red Deer Alta.Galt Ont. Saskatoon Sask.Granby Que. Sherbrooke Que.Guelph Ont. Sudbury Ont.Jonquiere Que. Sydney N.S.Kamloops B.C. St. Hyacinthe Que.Kentville N.S. Trois Riviers Que.Kingston Ont. Truro N.S.Lethbridge Alta. Victoria B.C.Moncton N.B. Woodstock Ont.Moose Jaw Sask.Amerst N.S Brockville Ont.Band 4Kelowna B.C. Thompson Man.Prince George B.C. Thunder Bay Ont.Medicine Hat Alta.Band 5Fort McMurray Alta. Sault Ste. Marie Ont.Grande Prairie Alta. Terrace B.C.Nelson B.C.For additional information, Datapac provides an online information system. Following are the procedures to access this information.Information about Datapac public dial telephone number and locations use the following network address at the Datapac prompt signC 0302092100086 for information in EnglishTelenetUSA to DatapacCanada Access ProceduresAccess procedures for public and private dial in access.Procedure Response Terminal and Dataset, Power OnEnsure tat the terminal is ONLINE,MARK or ODD PARITY and FULL DUPLEX.Dial the nearest Telenet access number and place the data set in data mode.Enter two 2 carriage returns. CR CRTelenet will identify itself and your port identification number, and will ask you to identify your terminal. Enter a carriag return. CR Telenet will identify itself and your port identifcation 202 DL9 number, and will ask you to TERMINAL xxx identify your terminal CR Enter a carriage return.Telenet will prompt for your call  c 03020xxxxxxxxxCR with an  symbol. Enter c for call, followed by a space, followed by the zero to define international call request command, followed by theanetworkraddress.Example To connect to Datapac Information System C 03020416002104Telenet will respond with a connection message. Conversation with destinationready to begin.Address ConnectedSignoff systemAddress DiscountedDatapacCanada to TelenetUSA Access ProceduresAccess procedures for public and private dial in accessProcedure Response Terminal and Dataset, power ONTerminal, ONLINETerminal, EVEN PARITYTerminal, Half DuplexTerminal, Character Mode if exists Dial Datapac Public or private acces number for the city in which you are located. At the sound of the tone place data set in data mode. If Datapac herald is not received immeditaely, enter either.CR for 300 bps access or ..CR for 1200 bps access orCR for 110 bps accessDatapac will identify itself and your network address, and will wait for your call request.DATAPAC terminal address Receive Datapac heraldDatapac will identify itself and your network address, and wait for your call requestDatapac terminal addressTo connect to Telenet from Datapac via X.75 Gateway, simply use X.121 format and insert a 1 before the Telenet DNIC 3110 1311021200141Datapac will respond with a connection messageDatapac call connectedAfter signning off, host system, you will automatically receive a call cleared from DatapacDatapac call cleared remote requestDatapac Sales OfficesLondon, Ontario 519 6637571Montreal 514 3940144Ottawa 613 5672491 Ontario Region 613 5602491 NSGToronto, Ontario 416 5812000TELENET INFORMATION1Directory Of System2Terminal ID's3Dialup Numbers4Hacking Telenet5DatapacTelenet6Sales Offices7Access Via Telex8Intl TelenetX.21PREVIOUS MENUCommand 8 P TO PAUSE S TO STOP INTERNATIONAL TELENETHERE ARE INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING TELENET THERE ARE SOME VERY BASIC THINGS, WHICH MOST PEOPLE ALREADY KNOW, AND SOME OTHER THINGS, WHICH EVEN THE MOST DEDICATED HACKERS HAVE PROBABLY NEVER EVEN HEARD OF. THIS INCLUDES THINGS SUCH AS INTERNATIONAL ACCESS, ETC.THE TELENET CONNECTIONINTERNATIONAL ADDRESSINGINTERNATIONAL ACCESS PROCEDURESI. TELENET INTERNATIONAL ADDRESS FORMAT DATA NETWORK IDENTIFICATION CODEDNIC  AREA CODE     DTE ADDRESS     PORT ADDRESS      DDDD AAA HHHHH PPOPTIONAL SUBADDRESS FIELD FOR PACKET MODE DTEEXAMPLETELENET INTERNATIONAL 212 141 3110 21200141909 84 3110 90900084II. ACCESS TO OVERSEAS PUBLIC DATA NETWORKS1. TURN ON THE TERMINAL AND COUPLER.2. DIAL THE NEAREST TELENET ACCESS NUMBER SEE TELENET PUBLIC DIAL LISTING. WHEN YOU HEAR A HIGHPITCHED TONE, PLACE THE TELEPHONE RECEIVER IN THE COUPLER. FOR DATA SETS BELL 103 OR 113 TYPE, DEPRESS THE DATA BUTTON.3. TYPE TWO CARRIAGE RETURNS CR.4. TELENET WILL GIVE YOU A PORT IDENTIFICATION NUMBER AND ASK YOU TO IDENTIFY YOUR TERMINAL TYPE IN THE TWO OR FOUR CHARACTER ID FOR YOUR TERMINALFOLLOWED BY A CARRIAGE RETURN CR OR TYPE CARRIAGE RETURN CR.EX.TELENET202 DL9 TERMINAL  AJ63CR5. AFTER TELENET PROMPTS WITH A '' TYPE 'ID', SKIP A SPACE SP AND TYPEYOUR PASSWORD FOLLOWED BY A CARRIAGE RETURN. CONTACT YOUR GTE TELENETREPRESENTATIVE TO OBTAIN A REQUIRED CALLER PAID ID. EX. IDSPINTLCRTYPE IN YOUR PASSWORD. EX. PASSWORD  123456CR6. AFTER TELENET PROMPTS WITH AN , TYPE A C. SKIP A SPACE AND TYPE THENETWORK ADDRESS OF THE COMPUTER YOU WISH TO ACCESS, FOLLOWED BY A CARRIAGE RETURN CR. EX. CSP023411234567890CRNOTE YOUR INTERNATIONAL ADDRESS WILL FOLLOW A FORMAT SUCH AS020801234567890 FOR FRANCETRANSPAC023421234567890 FOR UNITED KINGDOMBRITISH TELECOM026241234567890 FOR GERMANYDATEXP7. TELENET WILL RESPOND WITH A CONTELENET INFORMATION1Directory Of System2Terminal ID's3Dialup Numbers4Hacking Telenet5DatapacTelenet6Sales Offices
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				This really should be in a text file, but. i wish this information to be reserved for the few users on this system.before i start, here are a few basic commands to get famialir withExecution syntax of command functionConnect c sp Connects to a host optStatus stat Displays network port addFullDuplex full network echoHalfDuplex half Termnial echoMailorTelemail mail telemail telemailset Parmaters set sp 20,32 Select Pad ParametersRead Paramaters par parsp20,32 display padSet and readParamaters setsp20,32escape escape from data modewFile Trasnfer dtape Prepares network for bulkcontinue contdisconnect bye or dhang up hangupterminial termspd1 Set TERMtesttestspchartestspechotestsptrianglethis is the end of the commands, view next msg for useageTrap and pipe x.25 prot. telenetPlease note this is a very difficult transaction The following flow chart, will only work on a machine with atleast 10 Mhz.. However, an account on a unix, with cu capabilities will also work..Package networking, is exactly what it means..before, i go into detail, let me give you and over viewHost!!!!telenet, remote divertor, andpacakge.!!! ! ! !! ! ! !u u u us s s se e e er r r rs s s sIf you notice carefully, there is online to the host and 4 users. That is how its packaged, for instance the first 100 mills. will be from user on then two etc..The way telenet can tell which is user is which, is simply by the time. Time is of the essense. data is constantly been packed, anywhere from 100 mils. to 760 mils. The trick to trap tapping and piping, a lead off of telenet, is to have as system running four proccewss and the same time, and have a master prgm. that switch's at the appropriate delaysAs you can see this is where a 10 Mhz  system, is needed. On the host end. The host end consists of three things.. 1 9600 baud modem 2 a dedicated telcue line 3 a network pad.. I doubt know one needs a lesson on the first two, but lets take a look at telenets, weakest link..Network PadThere are three types of network pads a 4 pad 12 pad and 32 pad They really do not make a diffrence, it only changes the amount of users, capable of using on line.. example. if you have a 4 network pad. you system will be able to handle four users from telenet etc The network pad is Such a piece ofshit you have know idea..All parameters are set remotly by a telenet eng.. This is important If the pad is every shutoff all parameters are lost.. and an eng. must reload the pad.. again, this is done remotly to give you a small ifea, ofthe amount of programing in thms pad which i might add has over 2 megs of internal RAM for an eng. to upload it ct 9600 bps..it took approx 38 mins. The Pad is not a computer, if ytou think about it though, if your traveling at 1200 on telenet, your actually travling at 9600 and back to 1200.. when x.25 is unpacked.. How is the pad set remotly.. lets take an example c 2122 now c 2122 this is an example ha four nodes its a siml divester to the next node. however you can specify, the node you want c212.01c 212.02etc.nodes can alsobe stated as 2122a is the same as 2122.01and 2122.03 is the same as 2122cNow that we know how to access the indiv. nodes. let me show you a small secretTheres a programing node.. so an eng. can upload, to your network pad..every address has itit always ends in 99so, if i wanted to trap and tap c 2122i would enter c 2122.99you would get a connected.. but is you notice nothin happens..at this point do not touch any keys.. a wrong key stroke, will most likely alert someone to your tampering..dont forget, all network pads have a direct alarm signle.. so follow mydirections to the tenter in with out a return.. you should get telenet if you dont give it a min. then hit return. your actually there. but the prompt, just didnt print.. ok..Now type set 150when entered.. hold 15 secs.. for a time delay..then type in cont to continue, with the host you brokg from.. you will get a messageTP3005 DEBUG PORT V5.37.03your now, directly accessed the network pad..Please note some of these have passwordsHowever if your prompted for a password, of if nothing happenstelenet has two standard passwordssupermanrepreseting a male tech. and wonderwomenrepre. a woman tech..when in your prompt is always a greater than signtype the following 7FDSHIT RETURNyoull get a responce  E 01NOW TYPE IN L7FE,L,A2,R2,Dthen youll get a message R 00A626 8805now entering 40588YOUR RESPONCE WILL BE  E 01right now you should open at least a 640K buffer..now type in  R0589YOU'LL GET A WHOLE LIST OF DATA THAT IS CURRENTLY CROSSING THE PADS DUPLEX.ONE LINE WILL LOOK LIKE THISR 00A625 06805FF17068703 1287100230050540 0000000000000000 FF020101000000 f! ! 19AIQYaiIt seems that not many of you know that Telenet is connected to about 80 computernetworks in the world. No, I don't mean 80 nodes, but 80 networks with thousands of unprotected computers. When you call your local Telenet gateway, you can only call those computers which accept reversechargingcalls.If you want to call computers in foreign countries or computers in USA which do not accept Rcalls, you need a TelenetID. Did you ever notice that you can type ID XXXX when being connected to Telenet You are then asked for the password. If you have such a NUI NetworkUserID you can call nearly every host connected to any computernetwork in the world.Here are some examples026245400090184 is a VAX in Germany Username DATEXP and leave mail for CHRIS !!!0311050500061 is the Los Alamos Integrated computing network One of the hosts connected to it is the DNA Defense Nuclear Agency!!!0530197000016 is a BBS in New Zealand024050256 is the SEBank in Stockholm, Sweden Login as GAMES !!!02284681140541 CERN in Geneva in Switzerland one of the biggest nuclearresearch centers in the world Login as GUEST0234212301161 A Videotexstandard system. Type OPTEL to get in anduse the ID 999_ with the password 9_0242211000001 University of Oslo in Norway Type LOGIN 17,17 to play the MultiUserDungeon !0425130000215 Something like ITT Dialcom, but this one is in Israel ! ID HELP with password HELP works fine with security level 30310600584401 is the Washington Post News Service via Tymnet Yes, Tymnet is connected to Telenet, too ! ID and Password is PETER You can read the news of the next day !The prefixes are as follows02624 is DatexP in Germany02342 is PSS in England03110 is Telenet in USA03106 is Tymnet in USA02405 is Telepak in Sweden04251 is Isranet in Israel02080 is Transpac in France02284 is Telepac in Switzerland02724 is Eirpac in Ireland02704 is Luxpac in Luxembourg05252 is Telepac in Singapore04408 is VenusP in Japanand so on Some of the countries have more than one packetswitching network USA has 11, Canada has 3, etc.OK. That should be enough for the moment. As you see most of the passwords are very simple. This is because they must not have any fear of hackers. Only a few German hackers use these networks. Most of the computers are absolutely easy to hack !!!So, try to find out some TelenetID's and leave them here. If you need more numbers, leave email.I'm calling from Germany via the German DatexP network, which is similar to Telenet. We have a lot of those NUI's for the German network, but none for a special Tymnetoutdialcomputer in USA, which connects me to any phone .CUL8R, Mad MaxPS Call 026245621040000 and type ID INF300 with password DATACOM to get moreInformations on packetswitchingnetworks !PS2 The new password for the Washington Post is KING !!!!Distributed in part bySkeleton Crue xxxxxxxxxx located out of Moraga, California. !!Get on the band wagon before it RUNS YOU DOWN!!The very LAST bastion of Abusive Thought in all of the Suburbian West Coast
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			<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:38:57 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>More TRW Info</title>
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				Trw is a large database in which company's and banks can run credit checks on their customers. Example John Jones orders 500 worth of stereo equipment from the Joe Blow Electronic distributtng Co.Well it could be that he gave the company a phony credit card number, or doesn't have enough credit, etc. Well they call up Trw and then run a check on him, trw then lists his card numbers everything from sears to visa and tells the numbers, credit, when he lost it last if he ever did and then of course tells if he has had any prior problems paying his bills.I would also like to add that although Trw contains information on millions of people, not every part of the country is served, although the major area are.. So if you hate someone and live in a small state, you probably wont be able to order him 300 pink toilet seats from Kmart.Logging onTo log on, you dialup your local access number or longdistance, what ever turns you on and wait for it to say trw at this promt, you type either an A or a CtrlG and it will say circuit building in progress it will wait for a minute and then clear the screen, now you will type one of the following. Tca1Tca2Tnj1Tga1This is to tell it what geographical area the customer is in, it really doesnt matter which you use, because trw will automatically switch when it finds the record..Next, you will type in the pswd and info on the person you are trying to get credit info on you type it in a format like this Rts Pswd Lname Fname ,House number First letter of street name Zip cr now you type ctrl s and 2 ctrl q's here is what it looks like in real lifeAe Dialing xxxxxxxxxxscreen clearTrw Gcircuit building in progresspause . . . screen clearTca1Rtc 3966785cm5 Johnson David ,4567R 56785s q qand then it will wait for a few seconds and print out the file on him if it can locate one for the guynote you may have to push return when you first connect to get the systemsattention.Getting Your PasswordsTo obtain pswds, you go down to your favorite bank or sears store and dig through the trash hence the name trashing looking for printouts, if they are a big enough place, and live in a trw area, then they will probably have some. The printouts will have the 7 digit subscriber code, leaving the 34 digit pswd up to you. Much like trashing down at good old ma bell.
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:33:14 PDT</pubDate>
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				BLACK BART SHOWED HOW TO START A CONFERENCE CALL THRU AN 800 EXCHANGE, AND I WILL NOW EXPLAIN HOW TO START A CONFERENCE CALL IN A MORE ORTHODOX FASHION, THE 2600 HZ. TONE. FIRSTLY, THE FONE COMPANY HAS WHAT IS CALLED SWITCHING SYSTEMS. THERE ARE SE VERAL TYPES, BUT THE ONE WE WILL CONCERN OURSELVES WITH, IS ESS ELECTRONIC SWITCHING SYSTEM. IF YOUR AREA IS ZONED FOR ESS, DO NOT START A CONFERENCE CALL VIA THE 2600 HZ. TONE, OR BELL SECURITY WILL NAIL YOUR ASS! TO FND OUT IF YOU ARE UNDER ESS, CALL YOUR LOCAL BUSINESS OFFICE, AND ASK THEM IF YOU CAN GET CALL WAITINGFORWARDING, AND IF YOU CAN, THAT MEANS THAT YOU ARE IN ESS COUNTRY , AND CONFERENCE CALLING IS VERY, VERY DANGEROUS!!! NOW, IF YOU ARE NOT IN ESS, YOU WILL NEED THE FOLLOWING EQUIPMENTAN APPLE CAT II MODEMA COPY OF TSPS 2 OR CAT'S MEOWA TOUCH TONE FONE LINEAND A TOUCH TONE FONE. TRUE TONENOW, WITH TSPS 2, DO THE FOLLOWINGRUN TSPS 2CHOSE OPTION 1CHOSE OPTION 6CHOSE SUBOPTION 9NOW TYPE15145551212 DASHES ARE NOT NEEDEDLISTEN WITH YOUR HANDSET, AND AS SOON AS YOU HEAR A LOUD 'CLICK', THEN TYPETO GENERATE THE 2600 HZ. TONE. THIS OBNOXIOUS TONE WILL CONTINUE FOR A FEW SECONDS, THEN LISTEN AGAIN AND YOU SHOULD HEAR ANOTHER LOUD 'CLICK'.NOW TYPEKM2130801050SWHERE 'K'  KP TONE'M'  MULTI FREQUENCY MODE'S'  S TONENOW LISTEN TO THE HANDSET AGAIN, AND WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR THE 'CLICK' AGAIN. THEN TYPEKM2139752975SWHERE 2139751975 IS THE NUMBER TO BILL THE CONFERENCE CALL TO. NOTE 213975 1975 IS A DISCONNECTED NUMBER, AND I STRONGLY ADVISE THAT YOU ONLY BILL THE CALL TO THIS NUMBER, OR THE FONE COMPANY WILL FIND OUT, AND THEN. REMEBER, CONFERENCE CALLS ARE ITEMIZED, SO IF YOU DO BILL IT TO AN ENEMY'S NUMB ER, HE CAN EASILY FIND OUT WHO DID IT AND HE CAN BUST YOU!YOU SHOULD NOW HEAR 3 BEEPS, AND A SHORT PRERECORDED MESSAGE. FROM HERE ON, EVERYTHING IS ALL MENU DRIVEN.CONFERENCE CALL COMMANDSFROM THE '' MODE1  CALL A NUMBER6  TRANSFER CONTROL7  HANGS UP THE CONFERENCE CALL9  WILL CALL A CONFERENCE OPERATRSTAY AWAY FROM 7 AND 9! IF FOR SOME REASON AN OPERATOR GETS ONLINE, HANG UP! IF YOU GET A BUSY SIGNAL AFTER KM2130801050S, THAT MEANS THAT THE TELECONFEREN CING LINE IS TEMPORARILY DOWN. TRY LATER, PREFERRABLY FROM 9AM TO 5PM WEEK DAYS, SINCE CONFERENCE CALLS ARE PRIMARILY DESIGNED FOR BUSINESS PEOPLE.THE LEECH
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:31:00 PDT</pubDate>
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				VIII. Screwing with the most secure operating system on the netVAXVMS HackingWHAT IS VAXVMSVAXVirtual Address eXtension. Computer is desisgned to use memory addresses beyond the actual hardware and can therefore run progs larger than physical memory. Developed by Digital Equipment Corporation DEC.VMS Virtual Memory System. Also developed by DEC.DCLDigital Command Language. Similar to DOS batch language or UNIX script language.WHATARE SOME OF THE DEFAULT VAX LOGINSUsername Password   DECNET DECNET DEFAULT DEFAULT DEMO DEMOunpasswordedFIELD FIELDSERVICEGUEST GUESTunpasswordedOPERATOR OPERATOROPERATIONS OPERATIONSSYSMAINT SYSMAINTSERVICEDIGITALSYSTEM SYSTEMMANAGEROPERATORSYSLIBSYSTEST UETPSYSTESTSYSTEST_CLIG CLIGSYSTESTTESTSUPPORT SUPPORTDEC WHAT ARE SOME OF THE BASIC COMMANDS FROM THE  PROMPT  executes a DCL programusage filename.comACCOUNTING program that tracks usage of the system by users CREATE PASCAL compilerusage CREATE filename.pasCREATEDIR create a subdirectoryDELdelete filesusage DEL filename.extDIRlist the contents of a directoryoptions FULL  full listing with all security infoBRIEF  brief listing  wildcard for anything  wildcard for a specific characterEDIT VMS editor, requires VT220 terminalHELP brings up help infoLOGOUT obviousMAIL send Email locally and to any connected networks PASSWORD change your passwordusage PASSWORD newpasswordPHONE chat programusagePHONE changes the prompt to a '', from there type in the username you wish to talk to. If the user is on a different node then enter nodenameusernamePHOTO record sessionRUN execute an executable fileSHOW lets you look at alot of different stuffusage SHOW optionoptionsCLUSTER  VAX cluster, if anyDEFAULT  directory path and device DEVICES  system devices drives, modems, etc. INTRUSION  accounts being hacked, if any MEMORY  obvious NETWORK  network name and VAX's location in it PROCESS  PROCESS processname shows status QUOTA  disk space available for account SYSTEM  system info DAY  obvious TIME  obvious USERS  online usersTYPE display file on terminal same as DOS 'type' and UNIX 'cat' SET FILEPROTECTION sets the ReadWriteExecuteDelete flagsusage SET FILEPROTECTIONOWNERRWED filename.extoptionsWORLD, GROUP, or SYSTEM can be used in place of OWNER WORLD  all users in your world GROUP  all users in your group SYSTEM  all users with SYSPRV privilegesSET TERMINAL controls terminal settings usage SET TERMINALoptionoptionsWIDTH80  set width to 80 columnsADVANCED_VIDEO  selects 124x24 lines NOADVANCED_VIDEO  unselects 124x24 lines ANSI_CRT  selects ANSI escape sequences NOANSI_CRT  unselects ANSI escape sequences AUTOBAUD  allows computer to select highest possiblebaud rateNOAUTOBAUD  turn off automatic baud selection BROADCAST  allows receipt of SEND, MAIL and PHONE messagesNOBROADCAST  prevents receiption of SEND, MAIL and PHONE messagesDEVICE_TYPEVT220  set terminal type to VT220 ECHO  enables echoing from DCL command line NOECHO  disable DCL command line echoing FULLDUP  enable full duplexNOFULLDUP  disable full duplexHANGUP  log off if no carrierNOHANGUP  don't log off even if no carrier INQUIRE  show device type of terminal PAGE43  set display length to 43 lines TYPE_AHEAD  enable type ahead function NOTYPE_AHEAD  disable type ahead function UNKNOWN  use for ASCII device typesWRAP  set wrap around featureNOWRAP  unset wrap around featureWHAT ARE COMMON VAX FILENAME EXTENSIONSCOMPILER SOURCE CODE FILESADA  ADA compiler source code fileBAS  BASIC compiler source code fileB32  BLISS32 compiler source code fileC  C compiler source code fileCOB  COBOL compiler source code fileFOR  FORTRAN compiler source code fileMAR  MACRO compiler source code filePAS  PASCAL compiler source code filePLI  PLI compiler source code fileOBJ  object code created by compiler before linkingDCL LANGUAGE FILESCLD  DCL command description fileCOM  DCL batch fileGENERAL FILESDAT  DATa fileDIR  subDIRectory fileEXE  EXEcutable programHLP  text for HeLP librariesLIS  system listing files TYPE, PRINT, PHOTOLOG  batch job outputMEM  DSR output fileRNO  DSR source fileSIXEL  file for SIXEL graphicsSYS  SYStem image fileTJL  Trouble JournaLTMP  TeMPorary fileTXT  text library input fileUAF  User Autorization FileMAIL FILESDIS  DIStribution fileMAI  MAIl message fileTXT  mail output fileEDT EDITOR FILESEDT  command file for the EDT editorJOU  EDT journal when problems occurTPU  editor command file
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:29:08 PDT</pubDate>
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				IntroductionFirst a bit of Phone Trivia. A standard telephone keypad has 12 buttons. These buttons, when pushed, produce a combination of two tones. These tones represent the row and column of the button you are pushing.1 1 12 3 40 3 79 6 7697 1 2 3770 4 5 6851 7 8 9941  0 So 1 produces a tone of 6971209, 2 produces a tone of 6971336, etc.FunctionWhat the Silver Box does is just creates another column of buttons, with the new tone of 1633. These buttons are called A, B, C, and D.UsefulnessAnyone who knows anything about phreaking should know that in the old days of phreaking, phreaks used hardware to have fun instead of other people's Sprint and MCI codes. The most famous and useful was the good ol' Blue Box. However, Ma Bell decided to fight back and now most phone systems have protections against toneemitting boxes.This makes boxing just about futile in most areas of the United States ie those areas with Crossbar or StepByStep. If you live in or near a goodsized city, then your phone system is probably uptodate ESS and this box and most others will be useless. However, if you live in the middle of nowhere no offense intended, you may find a use for this and other boxes.Materials1 Foot of Blue Wire1 Foot of Grey Wire1 Foot of Brown Wire1 Small SPDT Switch 1 Standard Ma Bell Phone SPDT  Single PoleDouble ThrowTools1 Soldering Iron1 FlatTip ScrewdriverProcedure1 Loosen the two screws on the bottom of the phone and take the casinf off. 2 Loosen the screws on the side of the keypad and remove the keypad from the mounting bracket.3 Remove the plastic cover from the keypad.4 Turn the keypad so that 0 is facing you. Turn the keypad over. You'll see a bunch of wires, contacts, two Black Coils, etc.5 Look at the Coil on the left. It will have five 5 Solder Contacts facing you. Solder the Grey Wire to the fourth Contact Pole from the left.6 Solder the other end of the Grey Wire to the Left Pole of the SPDT Switch. 7 Find the Three 3 GoldPlated Contacts on the bottom edge of the keypad. On the Left Contact, gently seperate the two touching Connectors they're soldered together and spread them apart.8 Solder the Brown Wire to the Contact farthest from you, and solder the other end to the Right Pole of the SPDT Switch.9 Solder the Blue Wire to the Closest Contact, and the other end to the Center Pole of the SPDT Switch.10 Put the phone back together.Using The Silver BoxWhat you have just done was installed a switch that will change the 369 column into an ABCD column. For example, to dial a 'B', switch to Silver Box Tones and hit '6'.No one is sure of the A, B, and C uses. However, in an area with an old phone system, the 'D' button has an interesting effect. Dial Directory Assistance and hold down 'D'. The phone will ring, and you should get a pulsing tone. If you get a pissedoff operator, you have a newer phone system with defenses against Silver Boxes.At the pulsing tone, dial a 6 or 7. These are loop ends.
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:23:22 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>A Short History of Phreaking</title>
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				Well now we know a little vocabulary, and now its into history, Phreak history. Back at MIT in 1964 arrived a student by the name of Stewart Nelson, who was extremely interested in the telephone. Before entering MIT, he had built autodialers, cheese boxes, and many more gadgets. But when he came to MIT he became even more interested in fonehacking as they called it.After a little while he naturally started using the PDP1, the schools computer at that time, and from there he decided that it would be interesting to see whether the computer could generate the frequencies required for blue boxing. The hackers at MIT were not interested in ripping off Ma Bell, but just exploring the telephone network. Stew as he was called wrote a program to generate all the tones and set off into the vast network.Now there were more people phreaking than the ones at MIT. Most people have heard of Captain Crunch No not the cereal, he also discovered how to take rides through the fone system, with the aid of a small whistle found in a cereal box can we guess which one.By blowing this whistle, he generated the magical 2600hz and into the mouthpiece it sailed, giving him complete control over the system. I have heard rumors that at one time he made about 14 of the calls coming out of San Francisco. He got famous fast.He made the cover of people magazine and was interviewed several times as you'll soon see. Well he finally got caught after a long adventurous career. After he was caught he was put in jail and was beaten up quite badly because he would not teach other inmates how to box calls. After getting out, he joined Apple computer and is still out there somewhere.Then there was Joe the Whistler, blind form the day he was born. He could whistle a perfect 2600hz tone. It was rumored phreaks used to call him to tune their boxes.Well that was up to about 1970, then from 1970 to 1979, phreaking was mainly done by college students, businessmen and anyone who knew enough about electronics and the fone company to make a 555 Ic to generate those magic tones. Businessmen and a few college students mainly just blue box to get free calls. The others were still there, exploring 800's and the new ESS systems.ESS posed a big problem for phreaks then and even a bigger one now. ESS was not widespread, but where it was, blue boxing was next to impossible except for the most experienced phreak. Today ESS is installed in almost all major cities and blue boxing is getting harder and harder.1978 marked a change in phreaking, the Apple , now a computer that was affordable, could be programmed, and could save all that precious work on a cassette. Then just a short while later came the Apple Cat modem. With this modem, generating all blue box tones was easy as writing a program to count form one to ten a little exaggerated.Pretty soon programs that could imitate an operator just as good as the real thing were hitting the community, TSPS and Cat's Meow, are the standard now and are the best.19821986 LD services were starting to appear in mass numbers. People now had programs to hack LD services, telephone exchanges, and even passwords. By now many phreaks were getting extremely good and BBS's started to spring up everywhere, each having many documentations on phreaking for the novice.Then it happened, the movie War Games was released and mass numbers of sixth grade to all ages flocked to see it. The problem wasn't that the movie was bad, it was that now EVERYONE wanted to be a hackerphreak. Novices came out in such mass numbers, that bulletin boards started to be busy 24 hours a day. To this day, they still have not recovered. Other problems started to occur, novices guessed easy passwords on large government computers and started to play aroundWell it wasn't long before they were caught, I think that many people remember the 414hackers. They were so stupid as to say yes when the computer asked them whether they'd like to play games. Well at least it takes the heat off the real phreakshackerkrackers.
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:09:20 PDT</pubDate>
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				Secrets of the Little Blue Boxby Ron RosenbaumTyped by One Farad CapAAGA story so incredible it may even make youfeel sorry for the phone company The AAG Proudly Presents The AAG Proudly Presents Dudes These four files contain the story, Secrets of the Little Blue Box, by Ron Rosenbaum. A story so incredible it may even make you feel sorry for the phone company Printed in the October 1971 issue of Esquire Magazine.If you happen to be in a library and come across a collection of Esquire magazines, the October 1971 issue is the first issue printed in the smaller format. The story begins on page 116 with a picture of a blue box.One Farad Cap, Atlantic Anarchist GuildThe Blue Box Is Introduced Its Qualities Are RemarkedI am in the expensively furnished living room of Al Gilbertson His real name has been changed., the creator of the blue box. Gilbertson is holding one of his shiny blackandsilver blue boxes comfortably in the palm of his hand, pointing out the thirteen little red push buttons sticking up from the console.He is dancing his fingers over the buttons, tapping out discordant beeping electronic jingles. He is trying to explain to me how his little blue box does nothing less than place the entire telephone system of the world, satellites, cables and all, at the service of the bluebox operator, free of charge.That's what it does. Essentially it gives you the power of a super operator. You seize a tandem with this top button, he presses the top button with his index finger and the blue box emits a highpitched cheep, and like that  cheep goes the blue box again  you control the phone company's longdistance switching systems from your cute little Princes phone or any old pay phone. And you've got anonymity.An operator has to operate from a definite location the phone company knows where she is and what she's doing. But with your beeper box, once you hop onto a trunk, say from a Holiday Inn 800 tollfree number, they don't know where you are, or where you're coming from, they don't know how you slipped into their lines and popped up in that 800 number.They don't even know anything illegal is going on. And you can obscure your origins through as many levels as you like. You can call next door by way of White Plains, then over to Liverpool by cable, and then back here by satellite. You can call yourself from one pay phone all the way around the world to a pay phone next to you. And you get your dime back too.And they can't trace the calls They can't charge youNot if you do it the right way. But you'll find that the freecall thing isn't really as exciting at first as the feeling of power you get from having one of these babies in your hand. I've watched people when they first get hold of one of these things and start using it, and discover they can make connections, set up crisscross and zigzag switching patterns back and forth across the world.They hardly talk to the people they finally reach. They say hello and start thinking of what kind of call to make next. They go a little crazy. He looks down at the neat little package in his palm. His fingers are still dancing, tapping out beeper patterns.I think it's something to do with how small my models are. There are lots of blue boxes around, but mine are the smallest and most sophisticated electronically. I wish I could show you the prototype we made for our big syndicate order.He sighs. We had this order for a thousand beeper boxes from a syndicate front man in Las Vegas. They use them to place bets coast to coast, keep lines open for hours, all of which can get expensive if you have to pay. The deal was a thousand blue boxes for 300 apiece. Before then we retailed them for 1500 apiece, but 300,000 in one lump was hard to turn down.We had a manufacturing deal worked out in the Philippines. Everything ready to go. Anyway, the model I had ready for limited mass production was small enough to fit inside a fliptop Marlboro box. It had flush touch panels for a keyboard, rather than these unsightly buttons, sticking out. Looked just like a tiny portable radio. In fact, I had designed it with a tiny transistor receiver to get one AM channel, so in case the law became suspicious the owner could switch on the radio part, start snapping his fingers, and no one could tell anything illegal was going on.I thought of everything for this model  I had it lined with a band of thermite which could be ignited by radio signal from a tiny button transmitter on your belt, so it could be burned to ashes instantly in case of a bust. It was beautiful. A beautiful little machine. You should have seen the faces on these syndicate guys when they came back after trying it out. They'd hold it in their palm like they never wanted to let it go, and they'd say, 'I can't believe it. I can't believe it.' You probably won't believe it until you try it.The Blue Box Is Tested Certain Connections Are MadeAbout eleven o'clock two nights later Fraser Lucey has a blue box in the palm of his left hand and a phone in the palm of his right. He is standing inside a phone booth next to an isolated shutdown motel off Highway 1. I am standing outside the phone booth.Fraser likes to show off his blue box for people. Until a few weeks ago when Pacific Telephone made a few arrests in his city, Fraser Lucey liked to bring his blue box This particular blue box, like most blue boxes, is not blue. Blue boxes have come to be called blue boxes either because 1 The first blue box ever confiscated by phonecompany security men happened to be blue, or 2 To distinguish them from black boxes. Black boxes are devices, usually a resistor in series, which, when attached to home phones, allow all incoming calls to be made without charge to one's caller. to parties.It never failed a few cheeps from his device and Fraser became the center of attention at the very hippest of gatherings, playing phone tricks and doing request numbers for hours. He began to take orders for his manufacturer in Mexico. He became a dealer.Fraser is cautious now about where he shows off his blue box. But he never gets tired of playing with it. It's like the first time every time, he tells me.Fraser puts a dime in the slot. He listens for a tone and holds the receiver up to my ear. I hear the tone. Fraser begins describing, with a certainpracticed air, what he does while he does it. I'm dialing an 800 number now.Any 800 number will do. It's toll free. Tonight I think I'll use the  henames a wellknow rentacar company 800 number. Listen, It's ringing. Here,you hear it Now watch. He places the blue box over the mouthpiece of thephone so that the one silver and twelve black push buttons are facing up towardme. He presses the silver button  the one at the top  and I hear that highpitched beep. That's 2600 cycles per second to be exact, says Lucey. Now, quick. listen. He shoves the earpiece at me. The ringing has vanished. The line gives a slight hiccough, there is a sharp buzz, and then nothing but soft white noise.We're home free now, Lucey tells me, taking back the phone and applying the blue box to its mouthpiece once again. We're up on a tandem, into a longlines trunk. Once you're up on a tandem, you can send yourself anywhere you want to go. He decides to check out London first. He chooses a certain pay phone located in Waterloo Station. This particular pay phone is popular with the phonephreaks network because there are usually people walking by at all hours who will pick it up and talk for a while.He presses the lower lefthand corner button which is marked KP on the face of the box. That's Key Pulse. It tells the tandem we're ready to give it instructions. First I'll punch out KP 182 START, which will slide us into the overseas sender in White Plains. I hear a neat clunkcheep. I think we'll head over to England by satellite.Cable is actually faster and the connection is somewhat better, but I like going by satellite. So I just punch out KP Zero 44. The Zero is supposed to guarantee a satellite connection and 44 is the country code for England. Okay we're there. In Liverpool actually. Now all I have to do is punch out the London area code which is 1, and dial up the pay phone. Here, listen, I've got a ring now.I hear the soft quick purrpurr of a London ring. Then someone picks up the phone.Hello, says the London voice.Hello. Who's this Fraser asks.Hello. There's actually nobody here. I just picked this up while I was passing by. This is a public phone. There's no one here to answer actually.Hello. Don't hang up. I'm calling from the United States.Oh. What is the purpose of the call This is a public phone you know.Oh. You know. To check out, uh, to find out what's going on in London. How is it thereIts five o'clock in the morning. It's raining now.Oh. Who are youThe London passerby turns out to be an R.A.F. enlistee on his way back to the base in Lincolnshire, with a terrible hangover after a thirtysixhour pass. He and Fraser talk about the rain. They agree that it's nicer when it's not raining. They say goodbye and Fraser hangs up. His dime returns with a nice clink.Isn't that far out, he says grinning at me. London, like that.Fraser squeezes the little blue box affectionately in his palm. I told ya this thing is for real. Listen, if you don't mind I'm gonna try this girl Iknow in Paris. I usually give her a call around this time. It freaks her out.This time I'll use the  a different rentacar company 800 number andwe'll go by overseas cable, 133 33 is the country code for France, the 1 sendsyou by cable. Okay, here we go. Oh damn. Busy. Who could she be talkingto at this timeA state police car cruises slowly by the motel. The car does not stop, but Fraser gets nervous. We hop back into his car and drive ten miles in the opposite direction until we reach a Texaco station locked up for the night. We pull up to a phone booth by the tire pump. Fraser dashes inside and tries the Paris number. It is busy again.I don't understand who she could be talking to. The circuits may be busy. It's too bad I haven't learned how to tap into lines overseas with this thing yet.Fraser begins to phreak around, as the phone phreaks say. He dials a leading nationwide charge card's 800 number and punches out the tones that bring him the time recording in Sydney, Australia. He beeps up the weather recording in Rome, in Italian of course. He calls a friend in Boston and talks about a certain overthecounter stock they are into heavily.He finds the Paris number busy again. He calls up Dial a Disc in London, and we listen to Double Barrel by David and Ansil Collins, the numberone hit of the week in London. He calls up a dealer of another sort and talks in code. He calls up Joe Engressia, the original blind phonephreak genius, and pays his respects. There are other calls. Finally Fraser gets through to his young lady in Paris.They both agree the circuits must have been busy, and criticize the Paris telephone system. At twothirty in the morning Fraser hangs up, pockets his dime, and drives off, steering with one hand, holding what he calls his lovely little blue box in the other.You Can Call Long Distance For Less Than You ThinkYou see, a few years ago the phone company made one big mistake, Gilbertson explains two days later in his apartment. They were careless enough to let some technical journal publish the actual frequencies used to create all their multifrequency tones. Just a theoretical article some Bell TelephoneLaboratories engineer was doing about switching theory, and he listed the tonesin passing. At  a wellknown technical school I had been fooling aroundwith phones for several years before I came across a copy of the journal in theengineering library. I ran back to the lab and it took maybe twelve hours fromthe time I saw that article to put together the first working blue box. It wasbigger and clumsier than this little baby, but it worked.It's all there on public record in that technical journal written mainly by Bell Lab people for other telephone engineers. Or at least it was public. Just try and get a copy of that issue at some engineeringschool library now. Bell has had them all redtagged and withdrawn from circulation, Gilbertson tells me.But it's too late. It's all public now. And once they became public the technology needed to create your own beeper device is within the range of any twelveyearold kid, any twelveyearold blind kid as a matter of fact. And he can do it in less than the twelve hours it took us. Blind kids do it all the time. They can't build anything as precise and compact as my beeper box, but theirs can do anything mine can do.HowOkay. About twenty years ago A.T.T. made a multibilliondollar decision to operate its entire longdistance switching system on twelve electronically generated combinations of twelve master tones. Those are the tones you sometimes hear in the background after you've dialed a longdistance number. They decided to use some very simple tones  the tone for each number is just two fixed singlefrequency tones played simultaneously to create a certain beat frequency. Like 1300 cycles per second and 900 cycles per second played together give you the tone for digit 5.Now, what some of these phone phreaks have done is get themselves access to an electric organ. Any cheap family homeentertainment organ. Since the frequencies are public knowledge now  one blind phone phreak has even had them recorded in one of the talking books for the blind  they just have to find the musical notes on the organ which correspond to the phone tones. Then they tape them. For instance, to get Ma Bell's tone for the number 1, you press down organ keys F5 and A5 900 and 700 cycles per second at the same time. To produce the tone for 2 it's F5 and C6 1100 and 700 c.p.s. The phone phreaks circulate the whole list of notes so there's no trial and error anymore.He shows me a list of the rest of the phone numbers and the two electric organ keys that produce them.Actually, you have to record these notes at 3 34 inchespersecond tape speed and double it to 7 12 inchespersecond when you play them back, to get the proper tones, he adds.So once you have all the tones recorded, how do you plug them into the phone systemWell, they take their organ and their cassette recorder, and start banging out entire phone numbers in tones on the organ, including country codes, routing instructions, 'KP' and 'Start' tones. Or, if they don't have an organ, someone in the phonephreak network sends them a cassette with all the tones recorded, with a voice saying 'Number one,' then you have the tone, 'Number two,' then the tone and so on.So with two cassette recorders they can put together a series of phone numbers by switching back and forth from number to number. Any idiot in the country with a cheap cassette recorder can make all the free calls he wants.You mean you just hold the cassette recorder up the mouthpiece and switch in a series of beeps you've recorded The phone thinks that anything that makes these tones must be its own equipmentRight. As long as you get the frequency within thirty cycles per second of the phone company's tones, the phone equipment thinks it hears its own voice talking to it. The original granddaddy phone phreak was this blind kid with perfect pitch, Joe Engressia, who used to whistle into the phone.An operator could tell the difference between his whistle and the phone company's electronic tone generator, but the phone company's switching circuit can't tell them apart. The bigger the phone company gets and the further away from human operators it gets, the more vulnerable it becomes to all sorts of phone phreaking.A Guide for the PerplexedBut wait a minute, I stop Gilbertson. If everything you do sounds like phonecompany equipment, why doesn't the phone company charge you for the call the way it charges its own equipmentOkay. That's where the 2600cycle tone comes in. I better start from the beginning.The beginning he describes for me is a vision of the phone system of the continent as thousands of webs, of longline trunks radiating from each of the hundreds of toll switching offices to the other toll switching offices. Each toll switching office is a hive compacted of thousands of longdistance tandems constantly whistling and beeping to tandems in faroff toll switching offices.The tandem is the key to the whole system. Each tandem is a line with some relays with the capability of signalling any other tandem in any other toll switching office on the continent, either directly onetoone or by programming a roundabout route through several other tandems if all the direct routes are busy.For instance, if you want to call from New York to Los Angeles and traffic is heavy on all direct trunks between the two cities, your tandem in New York is programmed to try the next best route, which may send you down to a tandem in New Orleans, then up to San Francisco, or down to a New Orleans tandem, back to an Atlanta tandem, over to an Albuquerque tandem and finally up to Los Angeles.When a tandem is not being used, when it's sitting there waiting for someone to make a longdistance call, it whistles. One side of the tandem, the side facing your home phone, whistles at 2600 cycles per second toward all the home phones serviced by the exchange, telling them it is at their service, should they be interested in making a longdistance call.The other side of the tandem is whistling 2600 c.p.s. into one or more longdistance trunk lines, telling the rest of the phone system that it is neither sending nor receiving a call through that trunk at the moment, that it has no use for that trunk at the moment.When you dial a longdistance number the first thing that happens is that you are hooked into a tandem. A register comes up to the side of the tandem facing away from you and presents that side with the number you dialed. This sending side of the tandem stops whistling 2600 into its trunk line.When a tandem stops the 2600 tone it has been sending through a trunk, the trunk is said to be seized, and is now ready to carry the number you have dialed  converted into multifrequency beep tones  to a tandem in the area code and central office you want.Now when a bluebox operator wants to make a call from New Orleans to New York he starts by dialing the 800 number of a company which might happen to have its headquarters in Los Angeles. The sending side of the New Orleans tandem stops sending 2600 out over the trunk to the central office in Los Angeles, thereby seizing the trunk.Your New Orleans tandem begins sending beep tones to a tandem it has discovered idly whistling 2600 cycles in Los Angeles. The receiving end of that L.A. tandem is seized, stops whistling 2600, listens to the beep tones which tell it which L.A. phone to ring, and starts ringing the 800 number. Meanwhile a mark made in the New Orleans office accounting tape notes that a call from your New Orleans phone to the 800 number in L.A. has been initiated and gives the call a code number. Everything is routine so far.But then the phone phreak presses his blue box to the mouthpiece and pushes the 2600cycle button, sending 2600 out from the New Orleans tandem to the L.A. tandem. The L.A. tandem notices 2600 cycles are coming over the line again and assumes that New Orleans has hung up because the trunk is whistling as if idle. The L.A. tandem immediately ceases ringing the L.A. 800 number.But as soon as the phreak takes his finger off the 2600 button, the L.A. tandem assumes the trunk is once again being used because the 2600 is gone, so it listens for a new series of digit tones  to find out where it must send the call.Thus the bluebox operator in New Orleans now is in touch with a tandem in L.A. which is waiting like an obedient genie to be told what to do next. The bluebox owner then beeps out the ten digits of the New York number which tell the L.A. tandem to relay a call to New York City. Which it promptly does.As soon as your party picks up the phone in New York, the side of the New Orleans tandem facing you stops sending 2600 cycles to you and stars carrying his voice to you by way of the L.A. tandem. A notation is made on the accounting tape that the connection has been made on the 800 call which had been initiated and noted earlier. When you stop talking to New York a notation is made that the 800 call has ended.At three the next morning, when the phone company's accounting computer starts reading back over the master accounting tape for the past day, it records that a call of a certain length of time was made from your New Orleans home to an L.A. 800 number and, of course, the accounting computer has been trained to ignore those tollfree 800 calls when compiling your monthly bill.All they can prove is that you made an 800 tollfree call, Gilbertson the inventor concludes. Of course, if you're foolish enough to talk for two hours on an 800 call, and they've installed one of their special antifraud computer programs to watch out for such things, they may spot you and ask why you took two hours talking to Army Recruiting's 800 number when you're 4F.But if you do it from a pay phone, they may discover something peculiar the next day  if they've got a bluebox hunting program in their computer  but you'll be a long time gone from the pay phone by then. Using a pay phone is almost guaranteed safe.What about the recent series of bluebox arrests all across the country  New York, Cleveland, and so on I asked. How were they caught so easilyFrom what I can tell, they made one big mistake they were seizing trunks using an area code plus 5551212 instead of an 800 number. Using 555 is easy to detect because when you send multifrequency beep tones of 555 you get a charge for it on your tape and the accounting computer knows there's something wrong when it tries to bill you for a twohour call to Akron, Ohio, information, and it drops a trouble card which goes right into the hands of the security agent if they're looking for bluebox user.Whoever sold those guys their blue boxes didn't tell them how to use them properly, which is fairly irresponsible. And they were fairly stupid to use them at home all the time.But what those arrests really mean is than an awful lot of blue boxes are flooding into the country and that people are finding them so easy to make that they know how to make them before they know how to use them. Ma Bell is in trouble.And if a bluebox operator or a cassetterecorder phone phreak sticks to pay phones and 800 numbers, the phone company can't stop themNot unless they change their entire nationwide longlines technology, which will take them a few billion dollars and twenty years. Right now they can't do a thing. They're screwed.Captain Crunch Demonstrates His Famous UnitThere is an underground telephone network in this country. Gilbertson discovered it the very day news of his activities hit the papers. That evening his phone began ringing. Phone phreaks from Seattle, from Florida, from New York, from San Jose, and from Los Angeles began calling him and telling him about the phonephreak network. He'd get a call from a phone phreak who'd say nothing but, Hang up and call this number.When he dialed the number he'd find himself tied into a conference of a dozen phone phreaks arranged through a quirky switching station in British Columbia. They identified themselves as phone phreaks, they demonstrated their homemade blue boxes which they called MFers for multifrequency, among other things for him, they talked shop about phonephreak devices. They let him in on their secrets on the theory that if the phone company was after him he must be trustworthy. And, Gilbertson recalls, they stunned him with their technical sophistication.I ask him how to get in touch with the phonephreak network. He digs around through a file of old schematics and comes up with about a dozen numbers in three widely separated area codes.Those are the centers, he tells me. Alongside some of the numbers he writes in first names or nicknames names like Captain Crunch, Dr. No, Frank Carson also a code word for a free call, Marty Freeman code word for MF device, Peter Perpendicular Pimple, Alefnull, and The Cheshire Cat. He makes checks alongside the names of those among these top twelve who are blind. There are five checks.I ask him who this Captain Crunch person is.Oh. The Captain. He's probably the most legendary phone phreak. He calls himself Captain Crunch after the notorious Cap'n Crunch 2600 whistle. Several years ago, Gilbertson explains, the makers of Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal offered a toywhistle prize in every box as a treat for the Cap'n Crunch set. Somehow a phone phreak discovered that the toy whistle just happened to produce a perfect 2600cycle tone.When the man who calls himself Captain Crunch was transferred overseas to England with his Air Force unit, he would receive scores of calls from his friends and mute them  make them free of charge to them  by blowing his Cap'n Crunch whistle into his end. Captain Crunch is one of the older phone phreaks, Gilbertson tells me. He's an engineer who once got in a little trouble for fooling around with the phone, but he can't stop.Well, they guy drives across country in a Volkswagen van with an entire switchboard and a computerized supersophisticated MFer in the back. He'll pull up to a phone booth on a lonely highway somewhere, snake a cable out of his bus, hook it onto the phone and sit for hours, days sometimes, sending calls zipping back and forth across the country, all over the world.Back at my motel, I dialed the number he gave me for Captain Crunch and askedfor G T, his real name, or at least the name he uses when he's notdashing into a phone booth beeping out MF tones faster than a speeding bulletand zipping phantomlike through the phone company's longdistance lines.When G T answered the phone and I told him I was preparing a story forEsquire about phone phreaks, he became very indignant.I don't do that. I don't do that anymore at all. And if I do it, I do it for one reason and one reason only. I'm learning about a system. The phone company is a System. A computer is a System, do you understand If I do what I do, it is only to explore a system. Computers, systems, that's my bag. The phone company is nothing but a computer. A tone of tightly restrained excitement enters the Captain's voice when he starts talking about systems.He begins to pronounce each syllable with the hushed deliberation of an obscene caller. Ma Bell is a system I want to explore. It's a beautiful system, you know, but Ma Bell screwed up. It's terrible because Ma Bell is such a beautiful system, but she screwed up. I learned how she screwed up from a couple of blind kids who wanted me to build a device. A certain device.They said it could make free calls. I wasn't interested in free calls. But when these blind kids told me I could make calls into a computer, my eyes lit up. I wanted to learn about computers. I wanted to learn about Ma Bell's computers. So I build the little device, but I built it wrong and Ma Bell found out. Ma Bell can detect things like that. Ma Bell knows. So I'm strictly rid of it now. I don't do it. Except for learning purposes. He pauses. So you want to write an article. Are you paying for this call Hang up and call this number.He gives me a number in a area code a thousand miles away of his own. I dial the number. Hello again. This is Captain Crunch. You are speaking to me on a tollfree looparound in Portland, Oregon. Do you know what a tollfree loop around is I'll tell you. He explains to me that almost every exchange in the country has open test numbers which allow other exchanges to test their connections with it.Most of these numbers occur in consecutive pairs, such as 302 9560041 and 302 9560042. Well, certain phone phreaks discovered that if two people from anywhere in the country dial the two consecutive numbers they can talk together just as if one had called the other's number, with no charge to either of them, of course.Now our voice is looping around in a 4A switching machine up there in Canada, zipping back down to me, the Captain tells me. My voice is looping around up there and back down to you. And it can't ever cost anyone money. The phone phreaks and I have compiled a list of many many of these numbers. You would be surprised if you saw the list. I could show it to you. But I won't. I'm out of that now. I'm not out to screw Ma Bell. I know better.If I do anything it's for the pure knowledge of the System. You can learn to do fantastic things. Have you ever heard eight tandems stacked up Do you know the sound of tandems stacking and unstacking Give me your phone number. Okay. Hang up now and wait a minute. Slightly less than a minute later the phone rang and the Captain was on the line, his voice sounding far more excited, almost aroused. I wanted to show you what it's like to stack up tandems.To stack up tandems. Whenever the Captain says stack up it sounds as if he is licking his lips. How do you like the connection you're on now the Captain asks me. It's a raw tandem. A raw tandem. Ain't nothin' up to it but a tandem. Now I'm going to show you what it's like to stack up. Blow off. Land in a far away place. To stack that tandem up, whip back and forth across the country a few times, then shoot on up to Moscow.Listen, Captain Crunch continues. Listen. I've got line tie on my switchboard here, and I'm gonna let you hear me stack and unstack tandems. Listen to this. It's gonna blow your mind. First I hear a super rapidfire pulsing of the flutelike phone tones, then a pause, then another popping burst of tones, then another, then another. Each burst is followed by a beepkachink sound. We have now stacked up four tandems, said Captain Crunch, sounding somewhat remote. That's four tandems stacked up. Do you know what that means That means I'm whipping back and forth, back and forth twice, across the country, before coming to you. I've been known to stack up twenty tandems at a time. Now, just like I said, I'm going to shoot up to Moscow.There is a new, longer series of beeper pulses over the line, a brief silence, then a ring. Hello, answers a faroff voice. Hello. Is this the American Embassy Moscow Yes, sir. Who is this calling says the voice. Yes. This is test board here in New York. We're calling to check out the circuits, see what kind of lines you've got. Everything okay there in Moscow Okay Well, yes, how are things there Oh. Well, everything okay, I guess. Okay. Thank you. They hang up, leaving a confused series of beepkachink sounds hanging in midether in the wake of the call before dissolving away.The Captain is pleased. You believe me now, don't you Do you know what I'd like to do I'd just like to call up your editor at Esquire and show him just what it sounds like to stack and unstack tandems. I'll give him a show that will blow his mind. What's his number I ask the Captain what kind of device he was using to accomplish all his feats. The Captain is pleased at the question. You could tell it was special, couldn't you Ten pulses per second. That's faster than the phone company's equipment.Believe me, this unit is the most famous unit in the country. There is no other unit like it. Believe me. Yes, I've heard about it. Some other phone phreaks have told me about it. They have been referring to my, ahem, unit What is it they said Just out of curiosity, did they tell you it was a highly sophisticated computeroperated unit, with acoustical coupling for receiving outputs and a switchboard with multiplelinetie capability Did they tell you that the frequency tolerance is guaranteed to be not more than .05 percent The amplitude tolerance less than .01 decibel Those pulses you heard were perfect. They just come faster than the phone company. Those were highprecision opamps. Opamps are instrumentation amplifiers designed for ultrastable amplification, superlow distortion and accurate frequency response. Did they tell you it can operate in temperatures from 55 degrees C to 125 degrees C I admit that they did not tell me all that. I built it myself, the Captain goes on. If you were to go out and buy the components from an industrial wholesaler it would cost you at least 1500. I once worked for a semiconductor company and all this didn't cost me a cent. Do you know what I mean Did they tell you about how I put a call completely around the world I'll tell you how I did it.I MFed Tokyo inward, who connected me to India, India connected me to Greece, Greece connected me to Pretoria, South Africa, South Africa connected me to South America, I went from South America to London, I had a London operator connect me to a New York operator, I had New York connect me to a California operator who rang the phone next to me. Needless to say I had to shout to hear myself. But the echo was far out. Fantastic. Delayed. It was delayed twenty seconds, but I could hear myself talk to myself. You mean you were speaking into the mouthpiece of one phone sending your voice around the world into your ear through a phone on the other side of your head I asked the Captain.I had a vision of something vaguely autoerotic going on, in a complex electronic way. That's right, said the Captain. I've also sent my voice around the world one way, going east on one phone, and going west on the other, going through cable one way, satellite the other, coming back together at the same time, ringing the two phones simultaneously and picking them up and whipping my voice both ways around the world back to me. Wow. That was a mind blower. You mean you sit there with both phones on your ear and talk to yourself around the world, I said incredulously. Yeah. Um hum. That's what I do. I connect the phone together and sit there and talk. What do you say What do you say to yourself when you're connected Oh, you know. Hello test one two three, he says in a lowpitched voice. Hello test one two three, he replied to himself in a highpitched voice. Hello test one two three, he repeats again, lowpitched. Hello test one two three, he replies, highpitched. I sometimes do this Hello Hello Hello Hello, Hello, hello, he trails off and breaks into laughter.Why Captain Crunch Hardly Ever Taps Phones Anymore Using internal phonecompany codes, phone phreaks have learned a simple method for tapping phones. Phonecompany operators have in front of them a board that holds verification jacks. It allows them to plug into conversations in case of emergency, to listen in to a line to determine if the line is busy or the circuits are busy. Phone phreaks have learned to beep out the codes which lead them to a verification operator, tell the verification operator they are switchmen from some other area code testing out verification trunks. Once the operator hooks them into the verification trunk, they disappear into the board for all practical purposes, slip unnoticed into any one of the 10,000 to 100,000 numbers in that central office without the verification operator knowing what they're doing, and of course without the two parties to the connection knowing there is a phantom listener present on their line.Toward the end of my hourlong first conversation with him, I asked the Captain if he ever tapped phones. Oh no. I don't do that. I don't think it's right, he told me firmly. I have the power to do it but I don't Well one time, just one time, I have to admit that I did. There was this girl, Linda, and I wanted to find out you know. I tried to call her up for a date. I had a date with her the last weekend and I thought she liked me. I called her up, man, and her line was busy, and I kept calling and it was still busy.Well, I had just learned about this system of jumping into lines and I said to myself, 'Hmmm. Why not just see if it works. It'll surprise her if all of a sudden I should pop up on her line. It'll impress her, if anything.' So I went ahead and did it. I MFed into the line. My MFer is powerful enough when patched directly into the mouthpiece to trigger a verification trunk without using an operator the way the other phone phreaks have to. I slipped into the line and there she was talking to another boyfriend. Making sweet talk to him.I didn't make a sound because I was so disgusted. So I waited there for her to hang up, listening to her making sweet talk to the other guy. You know. So as soon as she hung up I instantly MFed her up and all I said was, 'Linda, we're through.' And I hung up. And it blew her head off. She couldn't figure out what the hell happened. But that was the only time. I did it thinking I would surprise her, impress her. Those were all my intentions were, and well, it really kind of hurt me pretty badly, and and ever since then I don't go into verification trunks.Moments later my first conversation with the Captain comes to a close. Listen, he says, his spirits somewhat cheered, listen. What you are going to hear when I hang up is the sound of tandems unstacking. Layer after layer of tandems unstacking until there's nothing left of the stack, until it melts away into nothing. Cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, he concludes, his voice descending to a whisper with each cheep. He hangs up.The phone suddenly goes into four spasms kachink cheep. Kachink cheep kachink cheep kachink cheep, and the complex connection has wiped itself out like the Cheshire cat's smile. The MF Boogie Blues The next number I choose from the select list of phonephreak alumni, prepared for me by the bluebox inventor, is a Memphis number. It is the number of Joe Engressia, the first and still perhaps the most accomplished blind phone phreak.Three years ago Engressia was a nineday wonder in newspapers and magazines all over America because he had been discovered whistling free longdistance connections for fellow students at the University of South Florida. Engressia was born with perfect pitch he could whistle phone tones better than the phonecompany's equipment. Engressia might have gone on whistling in the dark for a few friends for the rest of his life if the phone company hadn't decided to expose him.He was warned, disciplined by the college, and the whole case became public. In the months following media reports of his talent, Engressia began receiving strange calls. There were calls from a group of kids in Los Angeles who could do some very strange things with the quirky General Telephone and Electronics circuitry in L.A. suburbs.There were calls from a group of mostly blind kids in , California, who had been doing some interesting experiments with Cap'n Crunch whistles and test loops. There was a group in Seattle, a group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a few from New York, a few scattered across the country. Some of them had already equipped themselves with cassette and electronic MF devices. For some of these groups, it was the first time they knew of the others.The exposure of Engressia was the catalyst that linked the separate phonephreak centers together. They all called Engressia. They talked to him about what he was doing and what they were doing. And then he told them  the scattered regional centers and lonely independent phone phreakers  about each other, gave them each other's numbers to call, and within a year the scattered phonephreak centers had grown into a nationwide underground.Joe Engressia is only twentytwo years old now, but along the phonephreak network he is the old man, accorded by phone phreaks something of the reverence the phone company bestows on Alexander Graham Bell. He seldom needs to make calls anymore. The phone phreaks all call him and let him know what new tricks, new codes, new techniques they have learned.Every night he sits like a sightless spider in his little apartment receiving messages from every tendril of his web. It is almost a point of pride with Joe that they call him. But when I reached him in his Memphis apartment that night, Joe Engressia was lonely, jumpy and upset. God, I'm glad somebody called. I don't know why tonight of all nights I don't get any calls.This guy around here got drunk again tonight and propositioned me again. I keep telling him we'll never see eye to eye on this subject, if you know what I mean. I try to make light of it, you know, but he doesn't get it. I can head him out there getting drunker and I don't know what he'll do next. It's just that I'm really all alone here, just moved to Memphis, it's the first time I'm living on my own, and I'd hate for it to all collapse now. But I won't go to bed with him. I'm just not very interested in sex and even if I can't see him I know he's ugly. Did you hear that That's him banging a bottle against the wall outside. He's nice. Well forget about it. You're doing a story on phone phreaks Listen to this. It's the MF Boogie Blues.Sure enough, a jumpy version of Muskrat Ramble boogies its way over the line, each note one of those longdistance phone tones. The music stops. A huge roaring voice blasts the phone off my ear AND THE QUESTION IS roars the voice, CAN A BLIND PERSON HOOK UP AN AMPLIFIER ON HIS OWN The roar ceases. A highpitched operatortype voice replaces it. This is Southern Braille Tel.  Tel. Have tone, will phone. This is succeeded by a quick series of MF tones, a swift kachink and a deep reassuring voice If you need home care, call the visitingnurses association. First National time in Honolulu is 432 p.m.Joe back in his Joe voice again Are we seeing eye to eye 'Si, si,' said the blind Mexican. Ahem. Yes. Would you like to know the weather in Tokyo This swift manic sequence of phonephreak vaudeville stunts and blindboy jokes manages to keep Joe's mind off his tormentor only as long as it lasts. The reason I'm in Memphis, the reason I have to depend on that homosexual guy, is that this is the first time I've been able to live on my own and make phone trips on my own.I've been banned from all central offices around home in Florida, they knew me too well, and at the University some of my fellow scholars were always harassing me because I was on the dorm pay phone all the time and making fun of me because of my fat ass, which of course I do have, it's my physical fatness program, but I don't like to hear it every day, and if I can't phone trip and I can't phone phreak, I can't imagine what I'd do, I've been devoting three quarters of my life to it. I moved to Memphis because I wanted to be on my own as well as because it has a Number 5 crossbar switching system and some interesting little independent phonecompany districts nearby and so far they don't seem to know who I am so I can go on phone tripping, and for me phone tripping is just as important as phone phreaking. Phone tripping, Joe explains, begins with calling up a centraloffice switch room. He tells the switchman in a polite earnest voice that he's a blind college student interested in telephones, and could he perhaps have a guided tour of the switching stationEach step of the tour Joe likes to touch and feel relays, caress switching circuits, switchboards, crossbar arrangements. So when Joe Engressia phone phreaks he feels his way through the circuitry of the country garden of forking paths, he feels switches shift, relays shunt, crossbars swivel, tandems engage and disengage even as he hears  with perfect pitch  his MF pulses make the entire Bell system dance to his tune. Just one month ago Joe took all his savings out of his bank and left home, over the emotional protests of his mother. I ran away from home almost, he likes to say.Joe found a small apartment house on Union Avenue and began making phone trips. He'd take a bus a hundred miles south in Mississippi to see some oldfashioned Bell equipment still in use in several states, which had been puzzling. He'd take a bus three hundred miles to Charlotte, North Carolina, to look at some brandnew experimental equipment. He hired a taxi to drive him twelve miles to a suburb to tour the office of a small phone company with some interesting idiosyncrasies in its routing system.He was having the time of his life, he said, the most freedom and pleasure he had known. In that month he had done very little longdistance phone phreaking from his own phone. He had begun to apply for a job with the phone company, he told me, and he wanted to stay away from anything illegal. Any kind of job will do, anything as menial as the most lowly operator.That's probably all they'd give me because I'm blind. Even though I probably know more than most switchmen. But that's okay. I want to work for Ma Bell. I don't hate Ma Bell the way Gilbertson and some phone phreaks do. I don't want to screw Ma Bell. With me it's the pleasure of pure knowledge. There's something beautiful about the system when you know it intimately the way I do. But I don't know how much they know about me here.I have a very intuitive feel for the condition of the line I'm on, and I think they're monitoring me off and on lately, but I haven't been doing much illegal. I have to make a few calls to switchmen once in a while which aren't strictly legal, and once I took an acid trip and was having these auditory hallucinations as if I were trapped and these planes were divebombing me, and all of sudden I had to phone phreak out of there. For some reason I had to call Kansas City, but that's all. A Warning Is Delivered At this point  one o'clock in my time zone  a loud knock on my motelroom door interrupts our conversation.Outside the door I find a uniformed security guard who informs me that there has been an emergency phone call for me while I have been on the line and that the front desk has sent him up to let me know. Two seconds after I say goodbye to Joe and hang up, the phone rings. Who were you talking to the agitated voice demands. The voice belongs to Captain Crunch. I called because I decided to warn you of something. I decided to warn you to be careful.I don't want this information you get to get to the radical underground. I don't want it to get into the wrong hands. What would you say if I told you it's possible for three phone phreaks to saturate the phone system of the nation. Saturate it. Busy it out. All of it. I know how to do this. I'm not gonna tell. A friend of mine has already saturated the trunks between Seattle and New York. He did it with a computerized MFer hitched into a special Manitoba exchange. But there are other, easier ways to do it. Just three people I ask. How is that possible Have you ever heard of the longlines guard frequency Do you know about stacking tandems with 17 and 2600 Well, I'd advise you to find out about it. I'm not gonna tell you. But whatever you do, don't let this get into the hands of the radical underground. Later Gilbertson, the inventor, confessed that while he had always been skeptical about the Captain's claim of the sabotage potential of trunktying phone phreaks, he had recently heard certain demonstrations which convinced him the Captain was not speaking idly. I think it might take more than three people, depending on how many machines like Captain Crunch's were available. But even though the Captain sounds a little weird, he generally turns out to know what he's talking about. You know, Captain Crunch continues in his admonitory tone, you know the younger phone phreaks call Moscow all the time.Suppose everybody were to call Moscow. I'm no rightwinger. But I value my life. I don't want the Commies coming over and dropping a bomb on my head. That's why I say you've got to be careful about who gets this information. The Captain suddenly shifts into a diatribe against those phone phreaks who don't like the phone company. They don't understand, but Ma Bell knows everything they do. Ma Bell knows. Listen, is this line hot I just heard someone tap in. I'm not paranoid, but I can detect things like that. Well, even if it is, they know that I know that they know that I have a bulk eraser. I'm very clean. The Captain pauses, evidently torn between wanting to prove to the phonecompany monitors that he does nothing illegal, and the desire to impress Ma Bell with his prowess.Ma Bell knows how good I am. And I am quite good. I can detect reversals, tandem switching, everything that goes on on a line. I have relative pitch now. Do you know what that means My ears are a 20,000 piece of equipment. With my ears I can detect things they can't hear with their equipment. I've had employment problems. I've lost jobs. But I want to show Ma Bell how good I am. I don't want to screw her, I want to work for her. I want to do good for her. I want to help her get rid of her flaws and become perfect. That's my numberone goal in life now.The Captain concludes his warnings and tells me he has to be going. I've got a little action lined up for tonight, he explains and hangs up. Before I hang up for the night, I call Joe Engressia back. He reports that his tormentor has finally gone to sleep  He's not blind drunk, that's the way I get, ahem, yes but you might say he's in a drunken stupor. I make a date to visit Joe in Memphis in two days. A Phone Phreak Call Takes Care of BusinessThe next morning I attend a gathering of four phone phreaks in  aCalifornia suburb. The gathering takes place in a comfortable splitlevelhome in an uppermiddleclass subdivision. Heaped on the kitchen table are theportable cassette recorders, MF cassettes, phone patches, and line ties of thefour phone phreaks present. On the kitchen counter next to the telephone is a shoeboxsize blue box with thirteen large toggle switches for the tones. The parents of the host phone phreak, Ralph, who is blind, stay in the living room with their sighted children. They are not sure exactly what Ralph and his friends do with the phone or if it's strictly legal, but he is blind and they are pleased he has a hobby which keeps him busy.The group has been working at reestablishing the historic 2111 conference, reopening some tollfree loops, and trying to discover the dimensions of what seem to be new initiatives against phone phreaks by phonecompany security agents.It is not long before I get a chance to see, to hear, Randy at work. Randy is known among the phone phreaks as perhaps the finest con man in the game. Randy is blind. He is pale, soft and pearshaped, he wears baggy pants and a wrinkly nylon white sport shirt, pushes his head forward from hunched shoulders somewhat like a turtle inching out of its shell. His eyes wander, crossing and recrossing, and his forehead is somewhat pimply.He is only sixteen years old. But when Randy starts speaking into a telephone mouthpiece his voice becomes so stunningly authoritative it is necessary to look again to convince yourself it comes from a chubby adolescent Randy. Imagine the voice of a crack oilrig foreman, a tough, sharp, weatherbeaten Marlboro man of forty. Imagine the voice of a brilliant performancefund gunslinger explaining how he beats the Dow Jones by thirty percent. Then imagine a voice that could make those two sound like Stepin Fetchit. That is sixteenyearold Randy's voice. He is speaking to a switchman in Detroit.The phone company in Detroit had closed up two tollfree loop pairs for no apparent reason, although heavy use by phone phreaks all over the country may have been detected.Randy is telling the switchman how to open up the loop and make it free again How are you, buddy. Yeah. I'm on the board in here in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and we've been trying to run some tests on your looparounds and we find'em busied out on both sides. Yeah, we've been getting a 'BY' on them, what d'ya say, can you drop cards on 'em Do you have 08 on your number group Oh that's okay, we've had this trouble before, we may have to go after the circuit. Here lemme give 'em to you your frame is 05, vertical group 03, horizontal 5, vertical file 3. Yeah, we'll hang on here. Okay, found it Good. Right, yeah, we'd like to clear that busy out. Right. All you have to do is look for your key on the mounting plate, it's in your miscellaneous trunk frame. Okay Right. Now pull your key from NOR over the LCT. Yeah. I don't know why that happened, but we've been having trouble with that one. Okay. Thanks a lot fella. Be seein' ya. Randy hangs up, reports that the switchman was a little inexperienced with the looparound circuits on the miscellaneous trunk frame, but that the loop has been returned to its freecall status.Delighted, phone phreak Ed returns the pair of numbers to the activestatus column in his directory. Ed is a superb and painstaking researcher. With almost Talmudic thoroughness he will trace tendrils of hints through softwired mazes of intervening phonecompany circuitry back through complex linkages of switching relays to find the location and identity of just one tollfree loop. He spends hours and hours, every day, doing this sort of thing.He has somehow compiled a directory of eight hundred Bandsix inWATS numbers located in over forty states. Bandsix inWATS numbers are the big 800 numbers  the ones that can be dialed into free from anywhere in the country. Ed the researcher, a nineteenyearold engineering student, is also a superb technician. He put together his own working blue box from scratch at age seventeen. He is sighted.This evening after distributing the latest issue of his inWATS directory which has been typed into Braille for the blind phone phreaks, he announces he has made a major new breakthrough I finally tested it and it works, perfectly. I've got this switching matrix which converts any touchtone phone into an MFer. The tones you hear in touchtone phones are not the MF tones that operate the longdistance switching system.Phone phreaks believe A.T.T. had deliberately equipped touch tones with a different set of frequencies to avoid putting the six master MF tones in the hands of every touchtone owner. Ed's complex switching matrix puts the six master tones, in effect put a blue box, in the hands of every touchtone owner. Ed shows me pages of schematics, specifications and parts lists. It's not easy to build, but everything here is in the Heathkit catalog. Ed asks Ralph what progress he has made in his attempts to reestablish a longterm open conference line for phone phreaks. The last big conference  the historic 2111 conference  had been arranged through an unused Telex testboard trunk somewhere in the innards of a 4A switching machine in Vancouver, Canada.For months phone phreaks could MF their way into Vancouver, beep out 604 the Vancouver area code and then beep out 2111 the internal phonecompany code for Telex testing, and find themselves at any time, day or night, on an open wire talking with an array of phone phreaks from coast to coast, operators from Bermuda, Tokyo and London who are phonephreak sympathizers, and miscellaneous guests and technical experts. The conference was a massive exchange of information.Phone phreaks picked each other's brains clean, then developed new ways to pick the phone company's brains clean. Ralph gave M F Boogies concerts with his homeentertainmenttype electric organ, Captain Crunch demonstrated his roundtheworld prowess with his notorious computerized unit and dropped leering hints of the action he was getting with his girl friends. The Captain lives out or pretends to live out several kinds of fantasies to the gossipy delight of the blind phone phreaks who urge him on to further triumphs on behalf of all of them.The somewhat rowdy Northwest phonephreak crowd let their bitter internal feud spill over into the peaceable conference line, escalating shortly into guerrilla warfare Carl the East Coast international tone relations expert demonstrated newly opened direct MF routes to central offices on the island of Bahrein in the Persian Gulf, introduced a new phonephreak friend of his in Pretoria, and explained the technical operation of the new Oaklandto Vietnam linkages. Many phone phreaks pick up spending money by MFing calls from relatives to Vietnam G.I.'s, charging 5 for a whole hour of transPacific conversation.Day and night the conference line was never dead. Blind phone phreaks all over the country, lonely and isolated in homes filled with active sighted brothers and sisters, or trapped with slow and unimaginative blind kids in straitjacket schools for the blind, knew that no matter how late it got they could dial up the conference and find instant electronic communion with two or three other blind kids awake over on the other side of America.Talking together on a phone hookup, the blind phone phreaks say, is not much different from being there together. Physically, there was nothing more than a twoinchsquare wafer of titanium inside a vast machine on Vancouver Island. For the blind kids there meant an exhilarating feeling of being in touch, through a kind of skill and magic which was peculiarly their own. Last April 1, however, the long Vancouver Conference was shut off. The phone phreaks knew it was coming.Vancouver was in the process of converting from a stepbystep system to a 4A machine and the 2111 Telex circuit was to be wiped out in the process. The phone phreaks learned the actual day on which the conference would be erased about a week ahead of time over the phone company's internalnewsandshoptalk recording. For the next frantic seven days every phone phreak in America was on and off the 2111 conference twentyfour hours a day.Phone phreaks who were just learning the game or didn't have MF capability were boosted up to the conference by more experienced phreaks so they could get a glimpse of what it was like before it disappeared. Top phone phreaks searched distant area codes for new conference possibilities without success. Finally in the early morning of April 1, the end came. I could feel it coming a couple hours before midnight, Ralph remembers. You could feel something going on in the lines. Some static began showing up, then some whistling wheezing sound. Then there were breaks. Some people got cut off and called right back in, but after a while some people were finding they were cut off and couldn't get back in at all. It was terrible. I lost it about one a.m., but managed to slip in again and stay on until the thing died I think it was about four in the morning. There were four of us still hanging on when the conference disappeared into nowhere for good. We all tried to MF up to it again of course, but we got silent termination. There was nothing there. The Legendary Mark Bernay Turns Out To Be The Midnight Skulker Mark Bernay.I had come across that name before. It was on Gilbertson's select list of phone phreaks. The California phone phreaks had spoken of a mysterious Mark Bernay as perhaps the first and oldest phone phreak on the West Coast. And in fact almost every phone phreak in the West can trace his origins either directly to Mark Bernay or to a disciple of Mark Bernay.It seems that five years ago this Mark Bernay a pseudonym he chose for himself began traveling up and down the West Coast pasting tiny stickers in phone books all along his way. The stickers read something like Want to hear an interesting tape recording Call these numbers. The numbers that followed were tollfree looparound pairs. When one of the curious called one of the numbers he would hear a tape recording prehooked into the loop by Bernay which explained the use of looparound pairs, gave the numbers of several more, and ended by telling the caller, At six o'clock tonight this recording will stop and you and your friends can try it out. Have fun. I was disappointed by the response at first, Bernay told me, when I finally reached him at one of his many numbers and he had dispensed with the usual I never do anything illegal formalities which experienced phone phreaks open most conversations.I went all over the coast with these stickers not only on pay phones, but I'd throw them in front of high schools in the middle of the night, I'd leave them unobtrusively in candy stores, scatter them on main streets of small towns. At first hardly anyone bothered to try it out. I would listen in for hours and hours after six o'clock and no one came on. I couldn't figure out why people wouldn't be interested. Finally these two girls in Oregon tried it out and told all their friends and suddenly it began to spread.Before his Johny Appleseed trip Bernay had already gathered a sizable group of early prebluebox phone phreaks together on looparounds in Los Angeles. Bernay does not claim credit for the original discovery of the looparound numbers. He attributes the discovery to an eighteenyearold reform school kid in Long Beach whose name he forgets and who, he says, just disappeared one day. When Bernay himself discovered looparounds independently, from clues in his readings in old issues of the Automatic Electric Technical Journal, he found dozens of the reformschool kid's friends already using them.However, it was one of Bernay's disciples in Seattle that introduced phone phreaking to blind kids. The Seattle kid who learned about loops through Bernay's recording told a blind friend, the blind kid taught the secret to his friends at a winter camp for blind kids in Los Angeles. When the camp session was over these kids took the secret back to towns all over the West. This is how the original blind kids became phone phreaks.For them, for most phone phreaks in general, it was the discovery of the possibilities of looparounds which led them on to far more serious and sophisticated phonephreak methods, and which gave them a medium for sharing their discoveries. A year later a blind kid who moved back east brought the technique to a blind kids' summer camp in Vermont, which spread it along the East Coast. All from a Mark Bernay sticker.Bernay, who is nearly thirty years old now, got his start when he was fifteen and his family moved into an L.A. suburb serviced by General Telephone and Electronics equipment. He became fascinated with the differences between Bell and G.T.E. equipment. He learned he could make interesting things happen by carefully t
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				The purpose of a Scarlet box is to create a very bad connection, it can be used to crash a BBS or just make life miserable for those you seek to avenge.Materials 2 alligator clips, 3 inch wire, or a resister plain wire will create greatest amount of staticResister will decrease the amount of static in proportion to the resister you are usingStep 1 Find the phone box at your victims house, and pop the cover off.Step 2 Find the two prongs that the phone line you wish to box areconnected to.Step 3 Hook your alligator clips to your wireresister.Step 4 Find the lower middle prong and take off all wires connected to it, i think this disables the ground and call waiting and shit like that.Step 5 Now take one of the alligator clips and attach it to the upper most prong, and take the other and attach it to the lower middle prong.Step 6 Now put the cover back on the box and take off!!        prongs  wireresister some phone bs
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				Some of you may have heard of devices called Remobs which stands for Remote Observation System.These Devices allow supposedly authorized telephone employees to dial into them from anywhere, and then using an ordinary touch tone fone, tap into a customer's line in a special receive only mode. The mouthpiece circuit is deactivated, allowing totally silent observation from any fone in the world Wire tapping without a court order is against the law __How Remobs Work______________Dial the number of a Remob unit. Bell is rumored to put them in the 555 information exchanges, oron special access trunks Unreachable except via blue box. A tone will then be heard for approximately 2 seconds and then silence. You must key in In DTMF a 2 to 5 digit access code while holding each digit down at least 1 second. If the code is not entered within 5 or 6 seconds, the Remob will release and must be dialed again.If the code is supposedly another tone will be heard. A seven digit subscriber fone number can then be entered The Remob can only handle certain 'exchanges' which are prewired, so usually one machine cannot monitor an entire NPA. The Remob will then connect to the subscribers line. The listener will hear the low level idle tone as long as the monitored party is on hook.As the monitored party dials rotary or DTMF, the listener would hear And Record the number being dialed. Then the ENTIRE conversation, datalink, whatever is taking place, all without detection. There is no current box which can detect Remob observation, since it is being done with the telephone equipment that makes the connection.When the listener is finished monitoring of that particular customer, he keys the last digit of the access code to disconnects him from the monitored line and return to the tone so that he can key in another 7 digit fone .When the listener is totally finished with the Remob, he keys a single 'disconnect digit' which disconnects him from the Remob so that the device can reset and be ready for another caller._History of Remobs_______________Bell has kept the existance of Remobs very low key. Only in 1974, Bell acknowledged that Remobs existed. The device was first made public during hearings on Telephone Monitoring Practices by Federal Agencies before a subcommittee on government operations. House of Representatives, NinetyThird Congress, June 1974.It has since been stated by Bell that the Remob devices are used exclusively for monitoring Bell employees such as operators, information operators, etc., to keep tabs on their performance. Suuureee, were stupid__Possible Uses for Remobs__The possible uses of Remobs are almost as endless as the uses of self created fone line. Imagine the ability to monitor bank lines etc, just off the top of my head I can think of these applicationsData Monitoring of TRWNational Credit BureauATT CosmosBank InstitutionsCompuserve and other Networks.Voice Monitoring of Bank InstitutionsMail Order buisnesses.Bell Telephone themselves.Any place handling sensitive or important information. Anyone that you may not like.With just one Remob, someone could get hundreds of credit cards, find out who was on vacation, get compuserve passwords by the dozens, disconnect peoples fones, do credit checks, find out about anything that they may want to find out about. Im sure you brilliant can see the value of a telephone hobbiest and a telecommunications enthusist getting his hands on a few choice Remobs. Grin_Caution________________________If any reader should discover a Remob during his or her scanning excursions, please keep in mind the very strict federal laws regarding wiretapping and unauthorized use of private Bell property.
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				Red boxing is simulating the tones produced by public payphones when you drop your money in. The tones are beeps of 2200 Hz  1700 Hz Nickle  1 beep for 66 milliseconds.Dime  2 beeps, each 66 milliseconds with a 66 millisecond pause between beeps.Quarter  5 beeps, each 33 milliseconds with a 33 millisecond pause between beeps. There are two commonly used methods being used by Phreaks to make free calls.1. An electronic handheld device that is made from a pair of Wienbridge oscillators with the timing controlled by 555 timing chips.2. A tape recording of the tones produced by a home computer.One of the best computers to use would be an Atari ST. It is one of the easier computers to use because the red box tones can be produced in basic with only about 5 statments.
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				The long awaited prequil to Phreaker's Guide has finally arrived. Conceived from the boredom and loneliness that could only be derived from The Traveler!But now, he has returned in full strength after a small vacation and is here to 'World Premiere' the new files everywhere. Stay cool. This is the prequil to the first one, so just relax. This is not made to be an exclusive ultra elite file, so kinda calm down and watch in the background if you are too cool for it. Phreak Dictionary Here you will find some of the basic but necessary terms that should be known by any phreak who wants to be respected at all.Phreak 1. The action of using mischevious and mostly illegal ways in order to not pay for some sort of tele communications bill, order, transfer, or other service. It often involves usage of highly illegal boxes and machines in order to defeat the security that is set up to avoid this sort of happening. fr'eaking. v.2. A person who uses the above methods of destruction and chaos in order to make a better life for all. A true phreaker will not not go against his fellows or narc on people who have ragged on him or do anything termed to be dishonorable to phreaks. fr'eek. n.3. A certain code or dialup useful in the action of being a phreak. Example I hacked a new metro phreak last night.Switching System1. There are 3 main switching systems currently employed in the US, and a few other systems will be mentioned as background.A SxS This system was invented in 1918 and was employed in over half of the country until 1978. It is a very basic system that is a general waste of energy and hard work on the linesman.A good way to identify this is that it requires a coin in the phone booth before it will give you a dial tone, or that no call waiting, call forwarding, or any other such service is available. Stands for Step by StepB XB This switching system was first employed in 1978in order to take care of most of the faults of SxS switching. Not only is it more efficient, but it also can support different services in various forms. XB1 is Crossbar Version 1.That is very limited and is hard to distinguish from SxS except by direct view of the wiring involved. Next up was XB4, Crossbar Version 4. With this system, some of the basic things like DTMF that were not available with SxS can be accomplished.For the final stroke of XB, XB5 was created. This is a service that can allow DTMF plus most 800 type services which were not always available. Stands for Crossbar.C ESS A nightmare in telecom. In vivid color, ESS isa pretty bad thing to have to stand up to. It is quite simple to identify. Dialing 911 for emergencies, and ANI see ANI below are the most common facets of the dread system.ESS has the capability to list in a person's caller log what number was called, how long the call took, and even the status of the conversation modem or otherwise.Since ESS has been employed, which has been very recently, it has gone through many kinds of revisions. The latest system to date is ESS 11a, that is employed in Washington D.C. for security reasons. ESS is truly trouble for any phreak, because it is 'smarter' than the other systems.For instance, if on your caller log they saw 50 calls to 18004219438, they would be able to do a CNA see Loopholes below on your number and determine whether you are subscribed to that service or not.This makes most calls a hazard, because although 800 numbers appear to be free, they are recorded on your caller log and then right before you receive your bill it deletes the billings for them.But before that the are open to inspection, which is one reason why extended use of any code is dangerous under ESS. Some of the boxes see Boxing below are unable to function in ESS. It is generally a menace to the true phreak.Stands For Electronic Switching System. Because they could appear on a filter somewhere or maybe it is just nice to know them anyways.A SSS Strowger Switching System. Firstnonoperator system available.B WES Western Electronics Switching. Used about 40 years ago with some minor places out west.Boxing1 The use of personally designed boxes that emit or cancel electronical impulses that allow simpler acting while phreaking. Through the use of separate boxes, you can accomplish most feats possible with or without the control of an operator.2 Some boxes and their functions are listed below. Ones marked with '' indicate that they are not operatable in ESS.Black Box Makes it seem to the phone company that the phone was never picked up.Blue Box  Emits a 2600hz tone that allows you to do such things as stack a trunk line, kick the operator off line, and others.Red Box  Simulates the noise of a quarter, nickel, or dime being dropped into a payphone.Cheese Box  Turns your home phone into a pay phone to throw off traces a red box is usually needed in order to call out.Clear Box  Gives you a dial tone on some of the old SxS payphones without putting in a coin.Beige Box  A simpler produced linesman's handset that allows you to tap into phone lines and extract by eavesdropping, or crossing wires, etc.Purple Box  Makes all calls made out from your house seem to be local calls.ANI ANI 1 Automatic Number Identification. A serviceavailable on ESS that allows a phone service see Dialups below to record the number that any certain code was dialed from along with the number that was called and print both of these on the customer bill. 950 dialups see Dialups below are all designed just to use ANI.Some of the services do not have the proper equipment to read the ANI impulses yet, but it is impossible to see which is which without being busted or not busted first.Dialups dy'l'ups 1 Any local or 800 extended outlet that allows instantaccess to any service such as MCI, Sprint, or ATT that from there can be used by handpicking or using a program to reveal other peoples codes which can then be used moderately until they find out about it and you must switch to another code preferrably before they find out about it.2 Dialups are extremely common on both senses. Some dialups reveal the company that operates them as soon as you hear the tone. Others are much harder and some you may never be able to identify.A small list of dialups18004219438 5 digit codes 18005476754 6 digit codes 18003450008 6 digit codes 18007343478 6 digit codes 18002222255 5 digit codes3 Codes Codes are very easily accessed procedures when you call a dialup. They will give you some sort of tone. If the tone does not end in 3 seconds, then punch in the code and immediately following the code, the number you are dialing but strike the '1' in the beginning out first. If the tone does end, then punch in the code when the tone ends. Then, it will give you another tone. Punch in the number you are dialing, or a '9'. If you punch in a '9' and the tone stops, then you messed up a little. If you punch in a tone and the tone continues, then simply dial then number you are calling without the '1'.4 All codes are not universal. The only type that I know of that is truly universal is Metrophone. Almost every major city has a local Metro dialup for Philadelphia, 21535101000126 and since the codes are universal, almost every phreak has used them once or twice. They do not employ ANI in any outlets that I know of, so feel free to check through your books and call 5551212 or, as a more devious manor, subscribe yourself.Then, never use your own code. That way, if they check up on you due to your caller log, they can usually find out that you are subscribed. Not only that but you could set a phreak hacker around that area and just let it hack away, since they usually group them, and, as a bonus, you will have their local dialup.5 950's. They seem like a perfectly cool phreakers dream. They are free from your house, from payphones, from everywhere, and they host all of the major long distance companies 9501044 , 9501077 , 9501088 , 9501033 . Well, they aren't. They were designed for ANI. That is the point, end of discussion.A phreak dictionary. If you remember all of the things contained on that fileup there, you may have a better chance of doing whatever it is you do. This next section is maybe a little more interestingBlue Box PlansThese are some blue box plans, but first, be warned, there have been 2600hz tone detectors out on operator trunk lines since XB4. The idea behind it is to use a 2600hz tone for a few very naughty functions that can really make your day lighten up.But first, here are the plans, or the heart of the file700  1  2  4  7  11 900    3  5  8  12 1100      6  9  KP 1300        10  KP2 1500          ST  700  900 1100 1300 1500 Stop! Before you diehard users start piecing those little tone tidbits together, there is a simpler method. If you have an AppleCat with a program like Cat's Meow IV, then you can generate the necessary tones, the 2600hz tone, the KP tone, the KP2 tone, and the ST tone through the dial section.So if you have that I will assume you can boot it up and it works, and I'll do you the favor of telling you and the other users what to do with the blue box now that you have somehow constructed it.The connection to an operator is one of the most well known and used ways of having fun with your blue box. You simply dial a TSPS Traffic Service Positioning Station, or the operator you get when you dial '0' and blow a 2600hz tone through the line.Watch out! Do not dial this direct! After you have done that, it is quite simple to have fun with it. Blow a KP tone to start a call, a ST tone to stop it, and a 2600hz tone to hang up. Once you have connected to it, here are some fun numbers to call with it07004561000 Teleconference free, because you are the operator! Area code101 Toll SwitchingArea code121 Local Operator heheArea code131 InformationArea code141 Rate  RouteArea code181 Coin Refund OperatorArea code11511 Conference operator when you dial 8005446363Well, those were the tone matrix controllers for the blue box and some other helpful stuff to help you to start out with. But those are only the functions with the operator. There are other kfun things you can do with it.More advanced Blue Box StuffOops. Small mistake up there. I forgot tone lengths. Um, you blow a tone pair out for up to 110 of a second with another 110 second for silence between the digits. KP tones should be sent for 210 of a second. One way to confuse the 2600hz traps is to send pink noise over the channel for all of you that have decent BSR equalizers, there is major pink noise in there.Using the operator functions is the use of the 'inward' trunk line. Thatis working it from the inside. From the 'outward' trunk, you can do such things as make emergency breakthrough calls, tap into lines, busy all of the lines in any trunk called 'stacking', enable or disable the TSPS's, and for some 4a systems you can even reroute calls to anywhere.All right. The one thing that every complete phreak guide should be without is blue box plans, since they were once a vital part of phreaking. Another thing that every complete file needs is a complete listing of all of the 800 numbers around so you can have some more Fu7nC 800 Dialup Listings 18003450008 6 18005476754 618002454890 4 18003279136 418005265305 8 18008589000 318004379895 7 18002457508 518003431844 4 18003221415 618004373478 6 18003257222 6All right, set Cat Hacker 1.0 on those numbers and have a fuck of a day. That is enough with 800 codes, by the time this gets around to you I dunno what state those codes will be in, but try them all out anyways and see what you get.On some 800 services now, they have an operator who will answer and ask you for your code, and then your name. Some will switch back and forth between voice and tone verification, you can never be quite sure which you will be upagainst.Armed with this knowledge you should be having a pretty good time phreaking now. But class isn't over yet, there are still a couple important rules that you should know.If you hear continual clicking on the line, then you should assume that an operator is messing with something, maybe even listening in on you. It is a good idea to call someone back when the phone starts doing that. If you were using a code, use a different code andor service to call him back.A good way to detect if a code has gone bad or not is to listen when the number has been dialed. If the code is bad you will probably hear the phone ringing more clearly and more quickly than if you were using a different code. If someone answers voice to it then you can immediately assume that it is an operative for whatever company you are using. The famed '311311' code for Metro is one of those.You would have to be quite stupid to actually respond, because whoever you ask for the operator will always say 'He's not in right now, can I have him call you back' and then they will ask for your name and phone number. Some of the more sophisticated companies will actually give you a carrier on a line that is supposed to give you a carrier and then just have garbage flow across the screen like it would with a bad connection.That is a feeble effort to make you think that the code is still working and maybe get you to dial someone's voice, a good test for the carrier trick is to dial anumber that will give you a carrier that you have never dialed with that code before, that will allow you to determine whether the code is good or not.For our next section, a lighter look at some of the things that a phreak should not be without. A vocabulary. A few months ago, it was a quite strange world for the modem people out there. But now, a phreaker's vocabulary is essential if you wanna make a good impression on people when you post what you know about certain subjects. Vocabulary Do not misspell except certain exceptionsphone  fonefreak  phreakNever substitute 'z's for 's's. i.e. codez  codesNever leave many characters after a post i.e. Hey Dudes!!!!NEVER use the 'k' prefix kkool, krad, kwhateverDo not abbreviate. I got lotsa wares w docsNever substitute '0' for 'o' r0dent, l0zer.Forget about ye old upper case, it looks ruggyish.All right, that was to relieve the tension of what is being drilled into your minds at the moment. Now, however, back to the teaching course. Here are somethings you should know about phones and billings for phones, etc.LATA Local Access Transference Area. Some people who live in large cities or areas may be plagued by this problem. For instance, let's say you live in the 215 area code under the 542 prefix Ambler, Fort Washington. If you went to dial in a basic Metro code from that area, for instance, 3510100, that might not be counted under unlimited local calling because it is out of your LATA.For some LATA's, you have to dial a '1' without the area code before you can dial the phone number. That could prove a hassle for us all if you didn't realize you would be billed for that sort of call. In that way, sometimes, it is better to be safe than sorry and phreak.The Caller Log In ESS regions, for every household around, the phone company has something on you called a Caller Log. This shows every single number that you dialed, and things can be arranged so it showed every number that was calling to you. That's one main disadvantage of ESS, it is mostly computerized so a number scan could be done like that quite easily. Using a dialup is an easy way to screw that, and is something worth remembering.Anyways, with the caller log, they check up and see what you dialed. Hmm you dialed 15 different 800 numbers that month. Soon they find that you are subscribed to none of those companies. But that is not the only thing. Most people would imagine But wait! 800 numbers don't show up on my phone bill!.To those people, it is a nice thought, but 800 numbers are picked up on the caller log until right before they are sent off to you. So they can check right up on you before they send it away and can note the fact that you fucked up slightly and called one too many 800 lines.Right now, after all of that, you should have a pretty good idea of how to grow up as a good phreak. Follow these guidelines, don't show off, and don't take unnecessary risks when phreaking or hacking.Greets to Pee Wee for this file taken from his 'Hell Disk' 1
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				Have you ever been in an office or somewhere and wanted to make a free phone call but some asshole put a lock on the phone to prevent outgoing calls Fretno more phellow phreake, for every system can be beaten with a little knowledge!There are two ways to beat this obstacle, first pick the lock, I don't have the time to teach locksmithing so we go to the second method which takesadvantage of telephone electronics.To be as simple as possible when you pick up the phone you complete a circuit known as a local loop. When you hang up you break the circuit.When you dial pulse it also breaks the circuit but not long enough to hang up! So you can Pushdial. To do this you  RAPIDLY  RAPIDLY  EVENLY 
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				Definition  This is a box that may substitute for many boxes which produce tones in hertz.The Pearl Box when operated correctly can produce tones from 19999hz. As you can see, 2600, 1633, 1336 and other crucial tones are obviously in its sound spectrum.Materials you will need in order to build The Pearl BoxC1, C2.5mf or .5uf ceramic diskcapacitors Q1..NPN transistor 2N2222 works best S1..Normally open momentary SPST switch S2..SPST toggle switchB1..Standard 9Volt batteryR1..Single turn, 50k potentiometerR2..   100k potentiometerR3..   500k potentiometerR4..   1meg potentiometerSPKRStandard 8ohm speakerT1..Mini transformer 8ohm works bestMiscWire, solder, soldering iron, PC board or perfboard, box to contain the completed unit, battery clipInstructions for building Pearl BoxSince the instruction are EXTREMELY difficult to explain in words, you will be given a schematic instead. It will be quite difficult to follow but try it any way.Schematic for The Pearl Box! ! C1 C2 ! !   T1! ! b c! ! Q1 ! S1! eS2 ! SPKR! ! ! ! B1 !! ! !! !R1 R2 R3 R4!     Now that you are probably thoroughly confused, let me explain a fewminor details. The potentiometer area is rigged so that the left pole isconnected to the center pole of the potentiometer next to it.The middle terminal of T1 is connected to the piece of wire that runs down to the end of the battery.Correct operation of The Pearl BoxYou may want to get some drytransfer decals at Radio Shack to make this job a lot easier. Also, some knobs for the tops of the potentiometers may be useful too.Use the decals to calibrate the knobs. R1 is the knob for the ones place, R2 is for the tens place, R3 if for the hundreds place and R4 is for the thousands place. S1 is for producing the all the tones and S2 is for power.Step 1 Turn on the power and adjust the knobs for the desired tone.Example For 2600 hzR10R20R36R42Step 2 Hit the pushbutton switch and VIOLA! You have the tone. If you don't have a tone recheck all connections and schematic.
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				Phrack Inc.Volume Three, Issue 28, File 5 of 12  A Real Functioning PEARL BOX Schematic   Written, Tested, and Used   by Dispater   July 1, 1989  Introduction After reading the earlier renditions of schematics for the PearlBox, I decided that there was an easier and cheaper way of doing the same thing with an IC and parts you probably have just laying around the house.What Is A Pearl Box and Why Do I Want OneA Pearl Box is a tone generating device that is used to make a wide range of single tones. Therefore, it would be very easy to modify this basic design to make a Blue Box by making 2 Pearl Boxes and joining them together in some fashion.A Pearl Box can be used to create any tone you wish that other boxes may not. It also has a tone sweep option that can be used for numerous things like detecting different types of phone tapping devices.Parts ListCD4049 RCA integrated circuit.1 uF disk capacitor1 uF 16V electrolitic capacitor1K resistor10M resistor1meg pot1N914 diodeSome SPST momentary pushbutton switches1 SPDT toggle switch9 Volt battery  clipand miscellaneous stuff you should have laying around the house.StateoftheArtText Schematic 16V 1uF ____________________________________ ! !   _ _______________________ __________  8ohms__________________  __________   9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16    _ CD4049UBE   _1__2__3__4__5__6__7__8_   _  __ __  _____________________________  ! !  b __________________________ a    t ! 1N914 ! ! t________________________________________________      10M  _____   _________  
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				This is a relatively new box, and all it basically does is serve as a phone ringer. You have two choices for ringers, a piezoelectric transducer ringer, or a standard 8 ohm speaker. The speaker has a more pleasant tone to it, but either will do fine. This circuit can also be used in conjunction with a rust box to control an external something or other when the phone rings. Just connect the 8 ohm speaker output to the inputs on the rust box, and control the pot to tune it to light the light which can be replaced by a relay for external controlling when the phone rings.______________  NC  5 4 G   R2G TO RINGER  8 1  ______________   L1 R1 C1 L2a. Main ringer TTL circuitGP1b. Peizoelectric transducer S1      __ G
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				An inspection of you local Telco office trash receptacles can reveal a wealth of documents of great interest to a telecommunications hobbiest. The fone company doesn't expect anyone except maybe bums to paw through their refuge, and therefore often disposes some interesting materials. In all the istallation we have investigated, the Company doesn't shred or incinerate anything. Most sites have their garbage in trash bags convenient for removal an leisurely inspection at home.A case in point. The authors of this article have been engaged in trashing for about three months, finding quite informative info, but when we escorted two phriends from the city on an expedition, we didn't know the most efficient methods. They came out of the boondocks of New Jersey to inspect the wealth of AT and Bell installations in the region. They were quite expert at trashing, hg more experience in the art, so we merely watched an copied their technique.Our first hit of the night was of an ATT Information Systems office building. We gathered a large mass of manuals and binders. Then we moved onward to hit ATT Communcations, the local business office, our central office, and another Bell site. After a successful session, we decided to call it a night.We sorted the piles of garbage for things of merit. Our phriends gathered the majority of the really interesting items, but we salvaged several things of worth. This sorting session was conducted in the center of town, to the amusement of passersby. It was interesting to explain to friends that passed by what we were doing. We BS'ed an inquisitive young lady into thinking that we were a local group of Boy Scouts cleaning the area as a project for our Egle Scout badge. Following the tendency of the masses to follow falsehoods, she complimented us on how clean the town looked, for she had been out of the cntry for the last couple of months. A couple of times we alsmost contradicted each other as everyone got into the flow of falsehoods.Numerous things of interest can be found in Bell trash. Ones that are of use to anyone are binders and notebooks with the Bell logo on them, good for impressing friends. Also, supplies of Bell letterhead are good for scaring phriends. Documents of more interest to phreaks can also be found. Cosmos printouts abound in any CO trash. In house telephone directories list employees of Bell, goot to try social engineering on. Manuals also have merit for the phreak. Maintenance reports, trunk outages reports, line reports, network control analysis NCA, TSPS documents, and lists of abbreviations used by the fone company can be found. The latter is of great importance as it allows one to decipher the cryptic documents. Bell seems to love ridiculous and mysterious abbreviations and anacronyms.Looking for NotebooksThe expert trasher must be willing to physically enter the dumpster. Only raching in for easily obtainable objects misses heavy manuals that tend to sink to the bottom. Huge bulky printouts, directories, and obese manuals as well as binders settle out of reach. Also, once in the dumpster, inquisitive security can't see you.Speaking of security, what are the dangers of trashing Well, we don't know, having never been caught at it. The basic fact which protects the trasher is the ludicrousness of someone stealing your garbage. Probably the most they can get you for is trespassing, and most of the time they'll probably just throw you off of the property. Good excuses for being around the dumpster are that you are passing through on a shortcut, that a ball or frisbee has flown in, or you are looking for notebooks for school.A good way to avoid unnecessary surveillance by Telco employees is to trash late at night, after most0have gone home. Weekends, especially Sunday nights, leave the sites deserted, except for security or janitorial staff. Before starting on a trashing run, be sure to reconnoiter the area, and find out the schedule of garbage collection. That way you can hit the trash at the fullest and most profitable time.One thing that simplifies trashing runs is the use of a car. A car will allow one to hit trash sites farther afield, as well as assisting in the removal of bags and boxes of trash to sort at your leisure. Trash sorting really shouldn't be done on site as it increases the possible time for your discovery by security. Removing garbage by foot invites stares and limits the amount that can be removed. The car should drop off the trashers and return about a half hour later, depending on the amount of trash there. Before dropping them off, be sure to investigate if there is any trash in the first place for, as past experience has shown, they tend to get quite angered when they have spent the last hour staring at an empty trash container.The onsite trashers should be willng to hop into the dumpster. As we mentioned, this maximizes the amount of trash that can be reached. They should rip open any bags, shoving the uninteresting ones to the rear and botton of the container, while bringing new ones to the forefront. Boxes in the trash should be used to carry the documents into the trunk of the car for leisurely sorting. This should be done with a minimum of noise and light, if flashlights are to be used. The trasher shouldn't attempt to take the best stuff, just to grab as much as looks interesting.At the appointed time, the car should return and pick up the trashers. Boxes should be stuffed in the trunk as quickly as possible. Smell won't be much of a problem, as all you are taking are papers. Occasionally a bag of coffee grinds smells up the works, but you, at all costs, should avoid cafeteria dumpsters as the rotting food really reeks, and contains little of value to the telecommunications hobbiest.The car should then drive off to a safe and secluded spot to sort the trash. The location should be well lit and have another dumpster handy to throw the real trash out permanently. The valuable stuff should be take home and sorted according to type. By keeping all of the similar stuff together, patterns can berecognized. Here, abbreviation lists come in handy. The date and location where the trash is located helps to keep the junk organized.A carful inspection of local Telco trash receptables can be informative and fun. Any real phreak should find out at the least what the switching equipment for hisherits area is. Proper trashing technique is gained by experience, so climb on in! Well, happy trashing and have a phree day.
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				Greetings and SalutationsThis is addition to the most excellentNet Abuse FAQ posted to news.admin.netabuse.misc, alt.current events.netabuse etc, brought to you by J.D. Falk httpwww.cybernothing.orgfaqsnetabusefaq.htmlAnd Bill's WWW page Everything You'd Rather Not Have To Know About NetAbuse httpwww.tezcat.comhaz1netabusenetabuse.htmlThe latest  greatest version of this FAQ will be found athttpdigital.netgandalfspamfaq.htmlPLEASE email followups, additions  changes to gandalfdigital.netMy news source is OK, but I sometimes miss items.There are places in this FAQ with ALL CAPS. This is where I need some help or input. I accept all and any input. I consider myself to be the manager of this FAQ for the good of everyone, not the absolute  controlling Owner Of The FAQ. I do not always write in a completely coherent manner. What makes sense to me may not make sense to others.If the community wants something added or deleted, I will do so. I removed any email and last name references to someone making a suggestion  addition.. This is so that someone doesn't get upset at this FAQ and do something stupid. If you don't mind having your e mail in this FAQ or where it is required, please tell me and I will add it back in.First off, before trying to determine where the post or email originated from, you should realize that just like the National Inquirer, or a logical argument from CS the message will have some amount of truth, but all or most of the information may be forged. Be careful before accusing someone.Commands used in this FAQ are UNIX  VMS commands. Sorry if they don't work for you, you might wish to try looking around at your commands to find an equivalent command or I might be able to help out some.And no, I am not going to tell you how to post a fake message or fake email. It only took me about 2 days a few hours a day to figure it out. It ain't difficult.Three sections to this portion of the FAQ Tracing an email message o Listserve messagesTracing a posted messageWhat is an IP address and converting an IP address o WWW IP Lookup URL's o Converting that IP to a nameGetting a complaint to the correct personFiltering EMail using procmail or News with GnusMisc. Because I can't spell miscellaneous  stuff I couldn't think to put anywhere else. o Origins of Spam o The MMF Make Money Fast Posts or any fraud on theInterneto Those annoying 1900  1800 Sex Phone Ads o How To Respond to SPAMRevenge  What to do  not to do mostly not o Telephoning someone o Snail Mailing someoneEvery email or post will have a point at which it was injected into the information stream. Email will have a real computer from which it was passed along. Likewise a post will have a news server that started passing the post. You need to get cooperation of the postmaster at the sites the message passed thru. Then you can get information from the logs telling you what sites the message actually passed thru, and where the message looked like it passed thru but actually didn't. Of course you do have to have the cooperation of all the postmasters in a string of sitesTracing an email messageFirst and easiest thing to forge is the email return address. Most personal computer posting software lets you type in just about any e mail address you want to for example the software I am using to post this message. Unless someone is a real idiot or they truly don't know they will annoy tons of people, they will forge a fake email return or put in the email of someone they don't like.It seems that most machines will accept email from any other machine, so don't send email to postmasters at upstream sites that are just passing the message along.You will need to take a look at the headers on the message if you can In PINE for example hit h to get headers. Look for a line like the followingMessageID You should look at the message ID first  see what site it appeared to come from the part after the  sign. If it is a bunch of numbers an IP address then you should then do a nslookup see further below for a description of nslookup to see what the site name is. Furthermore all the messageID lines should have a unique number. If not then you have someone who is very familiar with the SMTP protocol and is forging the email to another site like the Euphoria Tape spammer. Sometimes this header will even tell you who the message actually came from.From the below, the only way we can tell the origin site is in the MessageId which has an IP of 204.183.126.181 is to do a nslookup on the IP address, and proceed from there.Received from 199.3.242.38 ppp007.free.org 199.3.242.38 bysirocco.CC.McGill.CA 8.6.128.6.6 with SMTP id EAA16681 Sat, 11 Nov 1995045030 0500XSMTPPostingOrigin 199.3.242.38 ppp007.free.org 199.3.242.38XSender yoshioosak.ac.jp UnverifiedMessageId Sample fake email message From Ab.c.d Sat Nov 11 1316 EST 1995Received from wavenet.com wavenet.com 198.147.118.131 byddi.digital.net 8.6.118.6.9 with ESMTP id NAA04656 for Sat, 11 Nov 1995 131603 0500Received from ddi.digital.net ddi.digital.net 198.69.104.2 bywavenet.com 8.6.128.6.9 with SMTP id KAA27279 forgandalfddi.digital.net Sat, 11 Nov 1995 102752 0800Received from wavenet.com wavenet.com 198.147.118.131 byddi.digital.net 8.6.118.6.9 with ESMTP id OAA18017 for Tue, 24 Oct 1995 140946 0400Received from inetlis.wavenet.com port16.wavenet.com198.147.118.209 by wavenet.com 8.6.128.6.9 with SMTP id LAA02685 for  Tue, 24 Oct 1995 112112 0700This is a mail message I sent to myself just to use as an example. I have cut out a bit of the other header information so that I could take a look at just the important parts.Obvious faked piece is the From address. You read the headers from the bottom to the top to trace which sites the message has gone thru.Make sure that you do a nslookup on the IP address's for example I would verify 198.147.118.131 actually is wavenet.com. If the IP doesn't jive with the name then you may have the IP address of the e mail faker. This message decodes to the followingport16.wavenet.com  198.147.118.209wavenet.com  198.147.118.131ddi.digital.net  198.69.104.2From site To site Date  Time delta GMTTime in GMT hhmmssinetlis.wavenet.com wavenet.com Tue, 24 Oct 1995 112112 0700182112wavenet.com ddi.digital.net Tue, 24 Oct 1995 140946 400180946ddi.digital.net wavenet.com Sat, 11 Nov 1995 102752 800182752wavenet.com ddi.digital.net Sat, 11 Nov 1995 131603 500181603Wolfgang Schelongowski  reminds us  The first is hhmm.ss WULT WULT  Widely Unknown Local Time  with a delta from GMT, so you add in the delta to get a zero time. The time is from the computer transmitting, so it is possible to have the clocks several minutes apart.GMT  Greenwich Mean Time. The time was kept at RGO Royal Greenwich Observatory, Greenwich England at one time and is also known as UTC UTC  Coordinated Universal Time, or Universal Coordinated Time or Zulu or Zero time. It is kept by the UK National Physical Laboratory, and is no longer at the RGO Royal Greenwich Observatory.I manually inserted the first two mail transfers myself as you can see from the date  times to muddy the waters. It looks like this message originated from inetlis.wavenet.com, when in reality it came from ddi.digital.net. The date  time in this case tells you that something is wrong, but sometimes a computer may be down along the way which would hold up the mail. You really need cooperation from other people  get multiple messages to compare the headers. There will be a common injection point.Whether it is the starting point or in the middle. Ask that postmaster to look thru the logs  figure out who sent that email. Someone from the first common injection point From site spammed out the email. It has been kindly pointed out to me that there is a feature read bug in the UNIX mail spool wherein the person emailing you a message can append a message with the headers to the end of their message.It makes the mail reader think you have 2 messages when the joker that sent the original message only sent one message with a fake message appended. If the headers look really screwy, you might look at the message before the screwy message and consider if it may not be a joke message.Listserve messagesA Listserve is an automated moderated or unmoderated mailing list for an interest group. A message gets sent to the Listserve and it gets passed to everyone on the Listserve list. A one to many relationship.Example Header appears belowReceived from dir.bham.ac.uk dir.bham.ac.uk 147.188.128.25 bygol1.gol.com 8.7.58.6.9 with SMTP id GAA27292 for Sun, 5 May 1996 063115 0900 JSTReceived from bham.ac.uk by dir.bham.ac.uk with SMTP PP using DNSid  Sat, 4 May 1996 205649 0100Received from emout09.mail.aol.com actually emout09.mx.aol.com bybham.ac.uk with SMTP PP Sat, 4 May 1996 211303 0100Received by emout09.mail.aol.com 8.6.128.6.12 id PAA29156 Sat, 4May 1996 153553 0400Date Sat, 4 May 1996 153553 0400From Jeanchevaol.comMessageID Subject CRaZy Complimentary Offer..This is a post from Kevin Lipsitz for his  FREE 1 yr. USA Magazine Subscriptions. Reports are that he doesn't provide very good service after the sale of the subscription that is if you even get a magazine. In relation to the Internet he makes a slimy used car salesman look like a saint. We won't even start to discuss the fact the he likes to use female names for his messagesFor more info about Krazy Kevin or the Magazine Spam , Tony tells us the page Stop Spam! is available in html format athttpwww.iac.co.jpisshostopspam.htmlJoel mentions that if you want even more details about Kevin, do a search on Lipsitz in www.altavista.digital.com or www.lycos.com or a similar search.That having been said, email from a Listserve can usually be broken down the same way as normal email headers. There are just more waypoints along the way. As you can see from the above, the email originated from emout09.mail.aol.comYou might with to also direct the listserve owner to look at  ask questions in news.admin.netabuse.misc about how to keep spam off the listserve. It probably won't be all that difficult of a thing to do.Tracing a posted messageTracing a fake post is probably easier than a fake email because of some posting peculiarities. You just have to save and look at a few normal posts to try to spot peculiarities. Most people are not energetic to go to the lengths of the below, but you never know.Dan reminds us that first you should gather the same post from several different sites get your friends to mail the posts to you and look at the Path line. Somewhere it should branch. If there is a portion that is common to all posts, then the actual posting computer is most likely in that portion of the path. That should be the starting postmaster to contact. Be sure to do this expeditiously because the log files that help to trace these posts may be deleted daily.Once again, start by looking at the MessageID, and ask yourself if that site makes sense. Again, look at the number after the MessageID and see if it is identical for several different posts i.e. posts to different groups. MessageID's are unique for each different post. If the MessageID is the same, then it is faked. If you really want to see some fake posts, look in alt.test or in the alt.binaries.wares. groups.A fake postPath!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!news.net99.net!news!s46.phxslip4.indirect.com!vacFrom XXXindirect.comFemale UserSubject Femdom In Search of Naughty BoysMessageID Sender XXXindirect.comFemale UserNntpPostingHost s46.phxslip4.indirect.comOrganization Internet Direct, Inc.XNewsreader Trumpet for WindowsVersion 1.0 Rev B final beta 1Date Mon, 6 Nov 1995 015938 GMTApproved XXXindirect.comLines 13This poor lady Name deleted by suggestion was abused by someone for a couple of days in an epic spam. Many messages were gathered. The message ID was different for several messages. But several anomalies showed an inept poster. The headers were screwed up, and when looking at a selection of messages from several sites, the central site was news.net99.net, where goodnet.com gets  injects news at. This lead to the conclusion that either goodnet.com or news.net99.net should be contacted to see who the original spammer was. I never heard the results of this, but the spamming eventually stopped. EMail return is probably the easiest to fake and is always suspect. The NNTPPostingHost and  or MessageID are harder to fake but not much harder and probably deserve a closer look at those sites. You can try looking at sites  see if they have that message by  telnet s46.phxslip4.indirect.com 119Connected to s46.phxslip4.indirect.com.200 s46.phxslip4.indirect.com InterNetNews server INN 1.4 22Dec93 readyhead 430 Message was not found at that site, so it did not go thru that computer, or the article has already expired or been deleted off of that news reader.What is an IP address and converting an IP addressWhen all you have is a number the looks like 204.183.126.181, and no computer name, then you have to figure out what the name of that computer is. Most likely if you complain to postmaster204.183.126.181 it will go directly to the spammer themselves if it goes anywhere at all.WWW IP Lookup URL'sA whole host of WWW IP utils is thoughtfully provided by Mike at  httpsh1.ro.commprevostnetutilsnetutils.htmlOr for a WWW Traceroute you can try the URL httpwebwareinc.comwtr.htmlFor a WWW version of Dig httpsh1.ro.commprevostnetutilsdig.html WWW Nslookup  httpthor.clr.comnslookup.htmlSWITCH WHOIS Gatewayhttpwww.switch.chswitchinfowhois_form.htmlTIG Internet DomainName Database httphome.tig.comcgibingenobjectdomaindbIP to Lat  Lon For those times when only a Tactical Nuke will do   httpcello.cs.uiuc.educgibinslammip2llhttpwwwpablo.cs.uiuc.eduslammip2lllinks.htmlYet Another IP to namehttpcello.cs.uiuc.educgibinslammip2nameConverting that IP to a nameIf the site is a IP address like 127.0.0.0, you can do a DNS lookup to backtrack the site. A DNS lookup or a host command see example below uses the info in a Domain Name Server database. This is the same info that is used for packet routing. The UNIX command is nslookup 198.41.0.5And you get Name RS.INTERNIC.NETAddresses 198.41.0.5, 198.41.0.6InterNIC is your friend. The InterNIC Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet Information Networks, ASN's, Domains, and POC's. Please use the whois server at nic.ddn.mil for MILNET Information. Try telnet rs.internic.netwhois 198.41.0.5If that doesn't provide anything, try chopping off the last digits and you might getWhois 204.162.179BBN BARRNET, Inc. NETBLKNETBLKBARRNET4 NETBLKBARRNET4204.160.0.0  204.163.255.0Slip.Net NETBLKNETBLKSLIP NETBLKSLIP 204.162.160.0 204.162.191.0Success! BARRNet has the blocks of the IP's.John tells us Um yes, but that particular subblock belongs to slip.net barrnet is obviously slip.net's provider, the barrnet block looks like 4 class B's or 256 THOUSAND IP's.., while the slip.net block is a mere 32 class C's or 8 thousand IP'sSo a whois NETBLKSLIP gives us among other information  Slip.Net NETBLKNETBLKSLIPNetname NETBLKSLIPNetblock 204.162.160.0  204.162.191.0To see who the upstream provider is, try multinet traceroute ip30.abqdialin.hollyberry.comYou might get traceroute to IP30.ABQDIALIN.HOLLYBERRY.COM 165.247.201.30, 30 hops max, 38 byte packets1 cpe2.Washington.mci.net 192.41.177.181 190 ms 210 ms 120 ms2 borderx1hssi20.Washington.mci.net 204.70.74.101 100 ms 100 ms 60 ms3 corefddi0.Washington.mci.net 204.70.2.1 180 ms 130 ms 70 ms4 core1hssi4.LosAngeles.mci.net 204.70.1.177 150 ms 140 ms 150 ms5 corehssi4.Bloomington.mci.net 204.70.1.142 180 ms 200 ms 180 ms6 border1fddi0.Bloomington.mci.net 204.70.2.130 170 ms 290 ms 240 ms7 internetdirect.Bloomington.mci.net 204.70.48.30 300 ms 210 ms 270 ms8 165.247.70.1 165.247.70.1 180 ms 240 ms 180 ms9 abqphxgw1.indirect.com 165.247.202.253 290 ms 220 ms 230 ms10 Humm.. Seems that after abqphxgw1.indirect.com we get no response, so that is who I would complain to or you can just send a message to postmasterindirect.com.JamBreaker sez  Be sure to let the traceroute go until the traceroutestops after 30 hops or so. A reply of   doesn't mean that you've got the right destination it just means that either the gateways don't send ICMP time exceeded messages or that they send them with a ttl timetolive too small to reach you.Try 'dig' or one of its derivatives, it is used to search DNS records For the software  httpwww.rediris.esftpinfoirisredipdnsdig 2.0yourhost dig x 38.11.185.89  dig 2.0  x HEADER ls d kjl.comwb3ffv.abs.netkjl.com. SOA kjl.com dnsadmin.abs.net. 1021600 3600604800 86400kjl.com. NS ns1.abs.netkjl.com. NS ns2.abs.netkjl.com. MX 10 abs.netkjl.com. SOA kjl.com dnsadmin.abs.net. 1021600 3600604800 86400If you are quick enough, you can see if the spammer is still on by  multinet RUSERS rust.nmt.edu And you might get  kuller ray timbers jweinman timbers john timbers rayzer Assuming that the spammer is from ingress.com you can expand the Spammers UserID some sites have expn  vrfy turned off by  telnet ingress.com smtpTrying 199.171.57.2 Connected to ingress.com.Escape character is ''.220 ingress.com Sendmail 4.1SMI4.1 ready at Sun, 22 Oct 95 151339 EDTexpn krazykev250 Lipsitz Kevin  We connect to port 25 smtp and issues an expn command. Looks like krazykevkjl.com is being used as a maildrop for this user. I'll would send my complaint to postmasterkjl.com as well not that it would do any good in Krazy Kevin's case but the reply to your e mail might be amusing. To find out the Mail Exchange records, do a nslookup for the MX records only. You can then look up the expansion of the postmaster or root to see who they really are. For example nslookup set typemx gnn.comgnn.com preference  20, mail exchanger  maile1a.gnn.com gnn.com preference  10, mail exchanger  maile1b.gnn.comtelnet maile1a.gnn.com smtp 220 maile1a.gnn.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.7.18.6.9 ready at Thu, 11 Jan 1996 125426 0500 EST expn postmaster 250 250  expn root 250 250 You can use the 'host' command. It's really simplehost t any domain.nameThis will give you anything your name server can find out.host t ns domain.nameThis tells you the name servers. Not all systems have host, but it's a small program which should be easy to compile like whois.The command last will tell where the spammer logged on from last, but it has to be done by a user from that site. For example last imrket4uWould produce imrket4u ttypf ip30.abqdialin.hollyberry.com Fri Sep 15 0027 0034 0006imrket4u ttyq8 ip30.abqdialin.hollyberry.com Fri Sep 15 0019 0020 0001imrket4u ttyqc abqts1 Thu Sep 14 2042  22210139imrket4u ttyqc rust.nmt.edu Thu Sep 14 1839  18410001imrket4u ttypb abqts1 Thu Sep 14 1755  17570002Filtering EMail using procmail or News with GnusGet the procmail FAQ httpwww.jazzie.comiifaqsarchivemailfilteringfaq httpwww.jazzie.comiiinternetmailbots.htmlhttpwww.cis.ohiostate.eduhypertextfaqusenetmailfiltering faqfaq.htmlOr read about it when it is posted to Newsgroups comp.mail.misc , comp.mail.elm , comp.mail.pine ,comp.answers , news.answersSubject Filtering Mail FAQBrian has a Gnus scorefile from the Internet blacklist httpwww.cs.ubc.caspideredmondsusenetgnusBLACKLISTOr his example global scorefile httpwww.cs.ubc.caspideredmondsusenetgnusSCOREMany news readers have a kill file that will filter out the posts from either a certain userid, or posts with certain titles. Each news reader is unique. You might wish to read the help file on the subject of kill files.Misc.Origins of SpamThe history of calling inappropriate postings in great numbers Spam is from a Monty Python skit yes, it is very silly where a couple go into a restaurant, and try to get something other than Spam. In the background are a bunch of Vikings that sing the praises of Spam. Pretty soon the only thing you can hear in the skit is the word Spam. That same idea would happen to the Internet if large scale inappropriate postings were allowed. You couldn't pick the real postings out from the Spam.Black listed Internet Advertisers httpmathwww.unipaderborn.deaxelBL or httpwww.ip.netBLblacklist.htmlFirst off, the only CORRECT way to Spam the net Show SPAM Gifts httpwolf.co.netspamgiftindex.htmlA collection of Spam links httpwww.io.orgspamilySpam.htmlhttpwheel.dcn.davis.ca.usseanspamspamfaq.htmlhttpsemantic.rsi.comspamThe Church of Spam httpwww.goodnet.comswiggyThe MMF Make Money Fast Posts or any fraud on the InternetThere is a WWW site dedicated to any kind of fraud. It is  A partnership of the National Association of Attorneys General, the Federal Trade Commission and The National Consumers League httpwww.fraud.orgWolfgang Schelongowski  sez IMHO MMF is associated with Hello, my name is Dave Rhodes. In 198.There was also a forged article purporting to tell how MMF is illegal From purvishoover.fbi.gov Melvin Purvis he arrested  shot John Dillinger.Subject 'Make Money Fast' ScamJon said  Hermann appears to have spammed at least 27 Bitnetmailing lists, including TANGOL, where I saw it, with a standard MMF. I checked at the US Post Office web site and verified that chain letters are federal crimes under Title 18, United State Code, Section 1302. This does apply to email as well as paper quoting from URLFrom httpwww.usps.govwebsitesdepartinspectchainlet.htm  Recently, hightech chain letters have begun surfacing. They may be disseminated over the Internet, or may require the copying and mailing of computer disks rather than paper. Regardless of what technology is used to advance the scheme, if the mail is used at any step along the way, it is still illegal.To find your nearest postal inspector in the USA, see URLhttpwww.usps.govncsclocatorsfindis.html I believe that the applicable Canadian description can be found at  httpwww.rcmpgrc.gc.cahtmlcommerc.htmAnd from the Canadian Department of Justice serverhttpcanada.justice.gc.caSTATUTES OF CANADA,C,Competition  PART VI OFFENSES IN RELATION TO COMPETITION  Definition of scheme of pyramid selling  Section 55.1DOES ANYBODY HAVE POSTAL INSPECTOR ADDRESSES FOR OTHER COUNTRIES THAT PONZI  MMF SCHEMES ARE ILLEGAL INThose annoying 1900  1800 Sex Phone AdsI would like to thank Eileen at the FTC for kindly answering my questions about 1900  1800 phone numbers.Paraphrasing what she emailed me When a 1900 number is advertised, the price must also be disclosed this may be found at 16 CFR Part 308.When calling a 1800 number that charges, there must be an existing subscription agreement between the buyer and the sellerhttpwww.ftc.gov Federal Trade Commission Home Pagehttpwww.ftc.govbcptelemarkrule.htm Telemarketing Sales Rule httpwww.ftc.govbcptelemarktelesale.htm Telemarketing Sales Rule httpwww.ftc.govbcpscams01.htm Online Scamsfrom the Online Scams pageFor More InformationIf you have a question or complaint about a suspect online ad or promotion, contact your commercial service provider. In addition, you can file complaints with your state attorney general, consumer protection office or with the Federal Trade Commission write to Correspondence Branch, Federal Trade Commission, 6th St.  Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20580. Also, contact the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, 845 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10022.Questions about whether or not an investment sales person is licensed, or if an offered security is registered, should be directed to the Office of Consumer Affairs, Securities and Exchange Commission, 202 9427040.The National Fraud Information Center maintains a tollfree Consumer Assistance Service, 18008767060, to provide consumers with answers to questions about telephone or mail solicitations and online scams. They also offer information about how and where to report fraud and give help in filing complaints.How To Respond to SPAMHoward reminds us Note to all NEVER followup to a spam. NEVER. Express your indignation in mail to the poster andor thepostmasteroffending.site, but NEVER in the newsgroups!Karen asksBut what about the newbies who look at a group, see lots of spam and ads, see NO posts decrying them, and conclude that ads are therefore OKRan replies When it gets bad, you'll usually see some What can we do about this threads. That's a good place to attach a reply that tells people why it's bad, and what they can, in fact, do.Austin SuggestsAt the risk of attracting flames, let me suggest an exception to Howard's law. A followup is allowed if the following 3 conditions hold.1 The offending article is clearly a SCAM for instance, the Canada calls with the Seychelles Islands phone  scam2 No one else has followedup with a posting identifying it as a scam in other words, no 'Me too' warnings3 It is unlikely to be canceled soon, either because it seems to be below the thresholds, or it is in a local hierarchy that doesn't get cancels, or Chris Lewis is on vacation in the Seychelles Islands. If all three conditions are met, a followup that X's out the contact information , severely trims the contents and identifies the post as a scam is exempt from Howard's law.CommentsBill's and Wolfgang's addition 4 Followups should be cross posted to n.a.na.m and the groups of the spam, but FollowupTo MUST be set to n.a.na.m ONLY or post a followup and SET FollowupTo alt.dev.null. In the first case changeSubject Important FREE toSubject SPAM was Re Important FREE and include the original Newsgroups and MessageID line, so the professional despammers will immediately find what you're talking about. Do not post unless you're absolutely sure that you can do all that properly. Also 1  3 do apply. If you see the same article with different MessageIDs in several groups, collect the complete headers of each article and check n.a.na.m if it's already been reported. If not, start a thread withSubject SPAM was Re  in n.a.na.m. Include allof the headers and as much of the body of one article as you see fit.Revenge  What to do  not to doNo matter how much we hate Spam and how much we dislike what the spammers to our quiet little corner of the Universe known as the Internet, Spam is not illegal yet. If you try anything against the spammers, please do not put yourself in risk of breaking the law. It only makes them happy if you get in trouble because you were trying to get back at them.The reason why spammers use throwaway accounts is because they know the email account will be deleted. They usually provide either another email address or a name  phone number or postal address so that prospective customers can be contacted. Be sure to complain to the postmaster of all email names provided to make sure that this route is inhibited.Telephoning someoneCalling someone once is fine. If enough people are pissed at the spammer and they all call the 1800 number the spammer provides, the spammer will get the idea sooner or later that it is costing them more in irate people and most especially loss of business and it is not worth it to spam.Do not dial any phone numbers more than once from your home. Phone harassment is illegal and you can be prosecuted in court for this. Even tho' 67 prevents your number from being displayed on their telephone at home if they have caller ID, 57 will give the phone company the number. If it is a 1800 number there are two problems. First they can always get your phone number, and secondly it may not be a toll free number. You may be charged for calling a 1800 number.Likewise, do not call collect using 1800COLLECT or 1800CALLATT from home, once again this can be traced.Austin comments  I would say that calling a listed non800 numberonce collect to voice a complaint is not harassment, but justified. They sent you a postage due message, didn't they If they don't want to accept collect calls, they should say so  and if they do, you should be a responsible person and not do it again.ATT Information for 1800 numbers is 18005551212, but that only helps if you know the company name you are trying to call. Also, you can try searching for a 1800 number you do not have to know the company name at httpwww.tollfree.att.netdir800 or httpwww.tollfree.att.netcgibintaos_mf.plunix advanced search options.Snail Mailing someoneLikewise, one well thought out letter sent to the spammer might help convince the spammer not to do this again. Especially if the spammer was part of a corporation that didn't realize the detrimental effects of spamming the Internet.If you decide to deluge the spammers postal address by filling out one or two bingo popcorn postage paid cards in the technical magazines by circling a few dozen product info requests per card  putting on printed out self sticking labels with the spammers address, or by putting preprinted labels on postage paid cards that come in the mail in the little plastic packages, don't organize a public campaign that they can point to against the spammer in the newsgroup.Scott also reminds us Since this is the Spam FAQ, I'd like to point this out You're basically Spamming the company offering information in a magazine. It costs companies money, not the one you're spamming. They get a free pile of junk which is easy to throw out. In other words, this may be harming third parties more than the intended target. I'm not trying to be Mr. Nice Guy, just trying to point out an important technicality.You should also read Title 47 of the United States Code, Section 227. There is a FAQ at cornell.law.edu for the text of the law gopher or ftp or httpwww.law.cornell.eduuscode47227.html, and you can use Dejanews to read the USC 47 thread on n.a.na.m. to make up your own mind it invariably comes up or you can look at httpwww.cybernothing.orgdocscode47.5.II.txtOrganizing a campaign against the spammer in a news group could lead to the spammer trying to get a cease  desist police order against the organizers. On the upside note, the spammer will have to try to figure out where these anonymous cards were coming from especially hard to do in a big city.Of course if someone every once in a while reminded the newsgroup of the spammers address by posting a message for informational purposes only, and not to encourage mail bombing, I don't see how that could be considered harassment .I am not a lawyer, and all of the above could be wrong. 80 of the Internet is bull Free advice is worth every penny you paid for it .Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards for they are easily angered. This user wishes to remain anonymous because of job considerations.EMail  gandalfdigital.net  Gandalf The White OWWW Page  httpdigital.netgandalfWWW Trace EMail forgery  httpdigital.netgandalfspamfaq.html
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				IntroductionThe Lunch Box is a VERY simple transmitter which can be handy for all sorts of things. It is quite small and can easily be put in a number of places. I have successfully used it for tapping fones, getting inside info, blackmail and other such things.The possibilities are endless. I will also include the plans or an equally small receiver for your newly made toy. Use it for just about anything. You can also make the transmitter and receiver together in one box and use it as a walkie talkie.Materials you will need1 9 volt battery with battery clip1 25mfd, 15 volt electrolytic capacitor2 .0047 mfd capacitors1 .022 mfd capacitor1 51 pf capacitor1 365 pf variable capacitor1 Transistor antenna coil1 2N366 transistor1 2N464 transistor1 100k resistor1 5.6k resistor1 10k resistor1 2meg potentiometer with SPST switchSome good wire, solder, soldering iron, board to put it on, box optionalSchematic for The Lunch BoxThis may get a tad confusing but just print it out and pay attention.!!51 pf! base collector!  2N366 GND365 pf  emitter !!  ! !  ! !! ! ! ! !GND  .022mfd ! !10k ! ! ! GND emitter! ! ! 2N464 .0047 ! base collector2meg  ! !  ! ! GND ! ! !GND ! ! !.0047 ! !! 25mfd ! !microphone  100k !!GND
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				A loop is a wonderous device which the telephone company created as test numbers for telephone repairmen when testing equipment. By matching the tone of the equipment with the tone of the loop, repairmen can adjust and test the settings of their telephone equipment.A loop, basically, consists of two different telephone numbers. Let's use A and B as an example. Normally if you call A, you will hear a loud tone this is a 1004 hz tone, and if you call B, the line will connect, and will be followed by silence.This is the format of a loop line. Now, if somebody calls A and someone else calls BViola!A and B loop together, and one connection is made. Ma Bell did this so repairmen can communicate with each other without having to call their own repair office.They can also use them to exchange programs, like for ANA or Ringback. Also, many CO's have a Loop Assignment Center. If anyone has any information on these centers please tell me.Anyway, that is how a loop is constructed. From this information, anyone can find an actual loop line. Going back to the A and B example, Note the tone side and the silent side can be either A or B. Don't be fooled if the phone company decides to scramble them around to be cute.As you now know, loops come in pairs of numbers. Usually, right after each other.For example8179721890 and 8179721891Or, to save space, one loop line can be written as 81797218901.This is not always true. Sometimes, the pattern is in the tens or hundreds, and, occaisionally, the numbers are random.In cities, usually the phone company has set aside a phone number suffix that loops will be used for. Many different prefixes will correspond with that one suffix.In Arlington, Texas, a popular suffix for loops is 1893 and 1894, and a lot of prefixes match with them to make the number.For Example8174601893481746118934817465189348174671893481746918934are all loopsor a shorter way to write this is817xxx18934xxx 460, 461, 465, 467, 469Note You can mixandmatch a popular suffix with other prefixs in a city, and almost always find other loops or test numbers.Note For Houston, the loop suffixes are 1499 and 1799. And for Detroit it's 9996 and 9997.When there are a large number of loops with the same prefix format, chances are that many loops will be interlocked. Using the above example of Arlington loops again, I will write the prefixes to save space 460, 461, and 469 are interlocked loops. This means that only one side can be used at a given time. This is because they are all on the same circuit.To clarify, if 8174611893 is called, 817460 and 4691893 cannot be called because that circuit is being used. Essentialy, interlocked loops are all the same line, but there are a variety of telephone numbers to access the line.Also, if the operator is asked to break in on a busy loop line heshe will say that the circuit is overloaded, or something along those lines. This is because Ma Bell has taken the checking equipment off the line. However, there are still many rarely used loops which can be verfied and can have emergency calls taken on them.As you have found out, loops come in many types. Another type of loop is a filtered loop. These are loop lines that the tel co has put a filter on, so that normal human voices cannot be heard on either line. However, other frequencies may be heard.It all depends on what the tel co wants the loop to be used for. If a loop has gotten to be very popular with the local population or used frequently for conferences, etc. the tel co may filter the loop to stop the unwanted traffic. Usually, the filter will be removed after a few months, though.
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				Here are instructions for using TELENET. There are some very basic things, which most people already know, and some other things, which even the most dedicated hackers have probably never even heard of. This includes things such as international access, etc. Well, have fun.THE TELENET CONNECTIONINTERNATIONAL ADDRESSINGINTERNATIONAL ACCESS PROCEDURESI. TELENET INTERNATIONAL ADDRESS FORMAT Data Network Identification Code DNIC  Area Code     DTE Address      Port Address      DDDD AAA HHHHH PP Optional SubaddressField for Packet Mode DTEExample Telenet International 212 141 3110 21200141909 84 3110 90900084II. ACCESS TO OVERSEAS PUBLIC DATA NETWORKS1. Turn on the terminal and coupler.2. Dial the nearest Telenet access number See Telenet Public Dial listing.When you hear a highpitched tone, place the telephone receiver in the coupler.For Data Sets Bell 103 or 113 type, depress the data button.3. Type Two carriage returns CR.4. Telenet will give you a port identification number and ask you to identify your terminal type in the two or four character id for your terminal followed by a carriage return CR or type carriage return CR.EX. TELENET202 DL9TERMINAL  AJ63CR5. After Telenet prompts with a '' type 'ID', skip a space SP and type your password followed by a carriage return. Contact your GTE Telenet Representative to obtain a required caller paid ID.EX. IDSPINTLCRType in your password.EX. PASSWORD  123456CR6. After Telenet prompts with an , type a C. skip a space and type the network address of the computer you wish to access, followed by a carriage return CR.EX. CSP023411234567890CRNote Your International address will follow a format such as020801234567890 for FranceTranspac023421234567890 for United KingdomBritish Telecom 026241234567890 for GermanyDatexP7. Telenet will respond with a connection message. You are now ready to begin your conversation with the host computer.EX. ADDRESSCONNECTED8. To disconnect from your computer, log off as usual. Telenet will send you a disconnected message.EX. ADDRESSDISCONNECTEDHang up to disconnect from Telenet.CR  Carriage returnSP  Space
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				Phrack Inc.Volume Three, Issue 27, File 3 of 12  Introduction to MIDNET    Chapter Seven Of The Future Transcendent Saga   A More Indepth Look Into NSFnet  National Science Foundation Network   Presented by Knight Lightning  June 16, 1989  PrologueIf you are not already familiar with NSFnet, I would suggest that you readFrontiers Phrack Inc., Volume Two, Issue 24, File 4 of 13, and definitely NSFnet National Science Foundation Network Phrack Inc., Volume Three, Issue 26, File 4 of 11.Table Of ContentsIntroductionThe DOD Protocol SuiteNames and Addresses In A NetworkTelnet NOT TelenetFile TransferMailIntroductionMIDNET is a regional computer network that is part of the NSFnet, the National Science Foundation Network. Currently, eleven midUnited States universities are connected to each other and to the NSFnet via MIDnetUA  University of Arkansas at FayettevilleISU  Iowa State University at AmesUI  University of Iowa at Iowa CityKSU  Kansas State University at ManhattanKU  University of Kansas at LawrenceUMC  University of Missouri at ColumbiaWU  Washington University at St. Louis, MissouriUNL  University of Nebraska at LincolnOSU  Oklahoma State University at StillwaterUT  University of Tulsa OklahomaOU  University of Oklahoma at NormanResearchers at any of these universities that have funded grants can access the six supercomputer centers funded by the NSFJohn Von Neuman Supercomputer CenterNational Center for Atmospheric ResearchCornell National Supercomputer FacilityNational Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsPittsburgh Supercomputing CenterSan Diego Supercomputing CenterIn addition, researchers and scientists can communicate with each other over a vast worldwide computer network that includes the NSFnet, ARPAnet, CSnet, BITnet, and others that you have read about in The Future Transcendent Saga. Please refer to Frontiers Phrack Inc., Volume Two, Issue 24, File 4 of 13 for more details.MIDnet is just one of several regional computer networks that comprise the NSFnet system. Although all of these regional computer networks work the same, MIDnet is the only one that I have direct access to and so this file is written from a MIDnet point of view. For people who have access to the other regional networks of NSFnet, the only real differences depicted in this file that would not apply to the other regional networks are the universities that are served by MIDnet as opposed toNYSERnet in New York StateSURAnet in the southeastern United StatesSEQSUInet in TexasBARRnet in the San Francisco areaMERIT in MichiganThere are others that are currently being constructed.These regional networks all hook into the NSFnet backbone, which is a network that connects the six supercomputer centers. For example, a person at Kansas State University can connect with a supercomputer via MIDnet and the NSFnet backbone. That researcher can also send mail to colleagues at the University of Delaware by using MIDnet, NSFnet and SURAnet. Each university has its own local computer network which connects oncampus computers as well as providing a means to connecting to a regional network.Some universities are already connected to older networks such as CSnet, the ARPAnet and BITnet. In principal, any campus connected to any of these networks can access anyone else in any other network since there are gateways between the networks.Gateways are specialized computers that forward network traffic, thereby connecting networks. In practice, these widearea networks use different networking technology which make it impossible to provide full functionality across the gateways. However, mail is almost universally supported across all gateways, so that a person at a BITnet site can send mail messages to a colleague at an ARPAnet site or anywhere else for that matter. You should already be somewhat familiar with this, but if not refer toLimbo To Infinity Phrack Inc., Volume Two, Issue 24, File 3 of 13 and Internet Domains Phrack Inc., Volume Three, Issue 26, File 8 of 11Computer networks rely on hardware and software that allow computers to communicate. The language that enables network communication is called a protocol. There are many different protocols in use today. MIDnet uses the TCPIP protocols, also known as the DOD Department of Defense Protocol Suite.Other networks that use TCPIP include ARPAnet, CSnet and the NSFnet. In fact, all the regional networks that are linked to the NSFnet backbone are required to use TCPIP. At the local campus level, TCPIP is often used, although other protocols such as IBM's SNA and DEC's DECnet are common. In order to communicate with a computer via MIDnet and the NSFnet, a computer at a campus must use TCPIP directly or use a gateway that will translate its protocols into TCPIP.The Internet is a worldwide computer network that is the conglomeration of most of the large wide area networks, including ARPAnet, CSnet, NSFnet, and the regionals, such as MIDnet. To a lesser degree, other networks such as BITnet that can send mail to hosts on these networks are included as part of the Internet. This huge network of networks, the Internet, as you have by now read all about in the pages of Phrack Inc., is a rapidly growing and very complex entity that allows sophisticated communication between scientists, students, government officials and others. Being a part of this community is both exciting and challenging.This chapter of the Future Transcendent Saga gives a general description of the protocols and software used in MIDnet and the NSFNet. A discussion of several of the more commonly used networking tools is also included to enable you to make practical use of the network as soon as possible.The DOD Protocol SuiteThe DOD Protocol Suite includes many different protocols. Each protocol is a specification of how communication is to occur between computers. Computer hardware and software vendors use the protocol to create programs and sometimes specialized hardware in order to implement the network function intended by the protocol. Different implementations of the same protocol exist for the varied hardware and operating systems found in a network.The three most commonly used network functions areMail  Sending and receiving messagesFile Transfer  Sending and receiving filesRemote Login  Logging into a distant computerOf these, mail is probably the most commonly used. In the TCPIP world, there are three different protocols that realize these functions SMTP  Simple Mail Transfer Protocol MailFTP  File Transfer Protocol sending and receiving files Telnet  Remote login How to use these protocols is discussed in the next section. At first glance, it is not obvious why these three functions are the most common. After all, mail and file transfer seem to be the same thing. However, mail messages are not identical to files, since they are usually comprised of only ASCII characters and are sequential in structure. Files may contain binary data and have complicated, nonsequential structures. Also, mail messages can usually tolerate some errors in transmission whereas files should not contain any errors.Finally, file transfers usually occur in a secure setting i.e. The users who are transferring files know each other's names and passwords and are permitted to transfer the file, whereas mail can be sent to anybody as long as their name is known. While mail and transfer accomplish the transfer of raw information from one computer to another, Telnet allows a distant user to process that information, either by logging in to a remote computer or by linking to another terminal.Telnet is most often used to remotely log in to a distant computer, but it is actually a generalpurpose communications protocol. I have found it incredibly useful over the last year. In some ways, it could be used for a great deal of access because you can directly connect to another computer anywhere that has TCPIP capabilities, however please note that Telnet is NOT Telenet.There are other functions that some networks provide, including the followingName to address translation for networks, computers and peopleThe current timeQuote of the day or fortunePrinting on a remote printer, or use of any other remote peripheralSubmission of batch jobs for noninteractive executionDialogues and conferencing between multiple usersRemote procedure call i.e. Distributing program execution over several remote computersTransmission of voice or video informationSome of these functions are still in the experimental stages and require faster computer networks than currently exist. In the future, new functions will undoubtedly be invented and existing ones improved.The DOD Protocol Suite is a layered network architecture, which means that network functions are performed by different programs that work independently and in harmony with each other. Not only are there different programs but there are different protocols. The protocols SMTP, FTP and Telnet are described above. Protocols have been defined for getting the current time, the quote of the day, and for translating names. These protocols are called applications protocols because users directly interact with the programs that implement these protocols.The Transmission Control Protocol, TCP, is used by many of the application protocols. Users almost never interact with TCP directly. TCP establishes a reliable endtoend connection between two processes on remote computers. Data is sent through a network in small chunks called packets to improve reliability and performance. TCP ensures that packets arrive in order and without errors. If a packet does have errors, TCP requests that the packet be retransmitted.In turn, TCP calls upon IP, Internet Protocol, to move the data from one network to another. IP is still not the lowest layer of the architecture, since there is usually a data link layer protocol below it. This can be any of a number of different protocols, two very common ones being X.25 and Ethernet.FTP, Telnet and SMTP are called application protocols, since they are directly used by applications programs that enable users to make use of the network. Network applications are the actual programs that implement these protocols and provide an interface between the user and the computer. An implementation of a network protocol is a program or package of programs that provides the desired network function such as file transfer. Since computers differ from vendor to vendor e.g. IBM, DEC, CDC, each computer must have its own implementation of these protocols. However, the protocols are standardized so that computers can interoperate over the network i.e. Can understand and process each other's data. For example, a TCP packet generated by an IBM computer can be read and processed by a DEC computer.In many instances, network applications programs use the name of the protocol. For example, the program that transfers files may be called FTP and the program that allows remote logins may be called Telnet. Sometimes these protocols are incorporated into larger packages, as is common with SMTP. Many computers have mail programs that allow users on the same computer to send mail to each other. SMTP functions are often added to these mail programs so that users can also send and receive mail through a network. In such cases, there is no separate program called SMTP that the user can access, since the mail program provides the user interface to this network function.Specific implementation of network protocols, such as FTP, are tailored to the computer hardware and operating system on which they are used. Therefore, the exact user interface varies from one implementation to another. For example, the FTP protocol specifies a set of FTP commands which each FTP implementation must understand and process. However, these are usually placed at a low level, often invisible to the user, who is given a higher set of commands to use.These higherlevel commands are not standardized so they may vary from one implementation of FTP to another. For some operating systems, not all of these commands make equal sense, such as Change Directory, or may have different meanings. Therefore the specific user interface that the user sees will probably differ.This file describes a generic implementation of the standard TCPIP application protocols. Users must consult local documentation for specifics at their sites.Names and Addresses In A NetworkIn DOD Protocol Suite, each network is given a unique identifying number. This number is assigned by a central authority, namely the Network Information Center run by SRI, abbreviated as SRINIC, in order to prevent more than one network from having the same network number. For example, the ARPAnet has network number 10 while MIDnet has a longer number, namely 128.242.Each host in a network has a unique identification so other hosts can specify them unambiguously. Host numbers are usually assigned by the organization that manages the network, rather than one central authority. Host numbers do not need to be unique throughout the whole Internet but two hosts on the same network need to have unique host numbers.The combination of the network number and the host number is called the IP address of the host and is specified as a 32bit binary number. All IP addresses in the Internet are expressible as 32bit numbers, although they are often written in dotted decimal notation. Dotted decimal notation breaks the 32bit number into four eightbit parts or octets and each octet is specified as a decimal number. For example, 00000001 is the binary octet that specifies the decimal number 1, while 11000000 specifies 192. Dotted decimal notation makes IP addresses much easier to read and remember.Computers in the Internet are also identified by hostnames, which are strings of characters, such as phrackvax. However, IP packets must specify the 32bit IP address instead of the hostname so some way to translating hostnames to IP addresses must exist.One way is to have a table of hostnames and their corresponding IP addresses, called a hosttable. Nearly every TCPIP implementation has such a hosttable, although the weaknesses of this method are forcing a shift to a new scheme called the domain name system. In UNIX systems, the hosttable is often called etchosts. You can usually read this file and find out what the IP addresses of various hosts are. Other systems may call this file by a different name and make it unavailable for public viewing.Users of computers are generally given accounts to which all charges for computer use are billed. Even if computer time is free at an installation, accounts are used to distinguish between the users and enforce file protections. The generic term username will be used in this file to refer to the name by which the computer account is accessed.In the early days of the ARPAnet which was the first network to use the TCPIP protocols, computer users were identified by their username, followed by a commercial at sign , followed by the hostname on which the account existed. Networks were not given names, per se, although the IP address specified a network number.For example, knightphrackvax referred to user knight on host phrackvax. This did not specify which network phrackvax was on, although that information could be obtained by examining the hosttable and the IP address for phrackvax. However, phrackvax is a ficticious hostname used for this presentation.As time went on, every computer on the network had to have an entry in its hosttable for every other computer on the network. When several networks linked together to form the Internet, the problem of maintaining this central hosttable got out of hand. Therefore, the domain name scheme was introduced to split up the hosttable and make it smaller and easier to maintain.In the new domain name scheme, users are still identified by their usernames, but hosts are now identified by their hostname and any and all domains of which they are a part. For example, the following address,KNIGHTUMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU specifies username KNIGHT on host UMCVMB. However, host UMCVMB is a part of the domain MISSOURI  which is in turn part of the domain EDU. There are other domains in EDU, although only one is named MISSOURI. In the domain MISSOURI, there is only one host named UMCVMB.However, other domains in EDU could theoretically have hosts named UMCVMB although I would say that this is rather unlikely in this example. Thus the combination of hostname and all its domains makes it unique. The method of translating such names into IP addresses is no longer as straightforward as looking up the hostname in a table. Several protocols and specialized network software called nameservers and resolvers implement the domain name scheme.Not all TCPIP implementations support domain names because it is rather new. In those cases, the local hosttable provides the only way to translate hostnames to IP addresses. The system manager of that computer will have to put an entry into the hosttable for every host that users may want to connect to. In some cases, users may consult the nameserver themselves to find out the IP address for a given hostname and then use that IP address directly instead of a hostname.I have selected a few network hosts to demonstrate how a host system can be specified by both the hostname and host numerical address. Some of the nodes I have selected are also nodes on BITnet, perhaps even some of the others that I do not make a note of due a lack of omniscent awareness about each and every single host system in the world Numerical Hostname Location BITnet   18.72.0.39 ATHENA.MIT.EDU Mass. Institute of Technology 26.0.0.73 SRINIC.ARPA DDN Network Information Center 36.21.0.13 MACBETH.STANFORD.EDU Stanford University 36.21.0.60 PORTIA.STANFORD.EDU Stanford University 128.2.11.131 ANDREW.CMU.EDU Carnegie Mellon University ANDREW128.3.254.13 LBL.GOV Lawrence Berkeley Labrotories LBL128.6.4.7 RUTGERS.RUTGERS.EDU Rutgers University 128.59.99.1 CUCARD.MED.COLUMBIA.EDU Columbia University 128.102.18.3 AMES.ARC.NASA.GOV Ames Research Center NASA 128.103.1.1 HARVARD.EDU Harvard University HARVARD 128.111.24.40 HUB.UCSB.EDU Univ. Of CalifSanta Barbara 128.115.14.1 LLLWINKEN.LLNL.GOV Lawrence Livermore Labratories 128.143.2.7 UVAARPA.VIRGINIA.EDU University of Virginia 128.148.128.40 BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU Brown University BROWN128.163.1.5 UKCC.UKY.EDU University of Kentucky UKCC128.183.10.4 NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV Goddard Space Flight Center NASA 128.186.4.18 RAI.CC.FSU.EDU Florida State University FSU128.206.1.1 UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU Univ. of MissouriColumbia UMCVMB128.208.1.15 MAX.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU University of Washington MAX128.228.1.2 CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU City University of New York CUNYVM129.10.1.6 NUHUB.ACS.NORTHEASTERN.EDU Northeastern University NUHUB131.151.1.4 UMRVMA.UMR.EDU University of MissouriRolla UMRVMA192.9.9.1 SUN.COM Sun Microsystems, Inc. 192.33.18.30 VM1.NODAK.EDU North Dakota State Univ. NDSUVM1192.33.18.50 PLAINS.NODAK.EDU North Dakota State Univ. NDSUVAXPlease Note Not every system on BITnet has an IP address. Likewise, not every system that has an IP address is on BITnet. Also, while some locations like Stanford University may have nodes on BITnet and have hosts on the IP as well, this does not neccessarily imply that the systems on BITnet and on IP the EDU domain in this case are the same systems.Attempts to gain unauthorized access to systems on the Internet are not tolerated and is legally a federal offense. At some hosts, they take this very seriously, especially the government hosts such as NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where they do not mind telling you so at the main prompt when you connect to their system.However, some nodes are public access to an extent. The DDN Network Information Center can be used by anyone. The server and database there have proven to be an invaluable source of information when locating people, systems, and other information that is related to the Internet.TelnetRemote login refers to logging in to a remote computer from a terminal connected to a local computer. Telnet is the standard protocol in the DOD Protocol Suite for accomplishing this. The rlogin program, provided with Berkeley UNIX systems and some other systems, also enables remote login.For purposes of discussion, the local computer is the computer to which your terminal is directly connected while the remote computer is the computer on the network to which you are communicating and to which your terminal is NOT directly connected.Since some computers use a different method of attaching terminals to computers, a better definition would be the following The local computer is the computer that you are currently using and the remote computer is the computer on the network with which you are or will be communicating. Note that the terms host and computer are synonymous in the following discussion.To use Telnet, simply enter the command TELNETThe prompt that Telnet gives is TelnetHowever, you can specify where you want to Telnet to immediately and bypass the the prompts and other delays by issuing the command TELNET location.There is help available by typing in . This prints a list of all the valid subcommands that Telnet provides with a oneline explanation.Telnet To connect to to another computer, use the open subcommand to open a connection to that computer. For example, to connect to the host UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU, do open umcvmb.missouri.eduTelnet will resolve i.e. Translate, the hostname umcvmb.missouri.edu into an IP address and will send a packet to that host requesting login. If the remote host decides to let you attempt a login, it prompts you for your username and password. If the host does not respond, Telnet will time out i.e. Wait for a reasonable amount of time such as 20 seconds and then terminate with a message such as Host not responding.If your computer does not have an entry for a remote host in its hosttable and it cannot resolve the name, you can use the IP address explicitly in the telnet command. For example,TELNET 26.0.0.73 Note This is the IP address for the DDN Network Information Center SRINIC.ARPAIf you are successful in logging in, your terminal is connected to the remote host. For all intents and purposes, your terminal is directly hardwired to that host and you should be able to do anything on your remote terminal that you can do at any local terminal. There are a few exceptions to this rule, however.Telnet provides a network escape character, such as CONTROLT. You can find out what the escape character is by entering the status subcommandTelnet statusYou can change the escape character by entering the escape subcommandTelnet escapeWhen you type in the escape character, the Telnet prompt returns to your screen and you can enter subcommands. For example, to break the connection, which usually logs you off the remote host, enter the subcommand quitTelnet quitYour Telnet connection usually breaks when you log off the remote host, so the quit subcommand is not usually used to log off.When you are logged in to a remote computer via Telnet, remember that there is a time delay between your local computer and the remote one. This often becomes apparent to users when scrolling a long file across the terminal screen nd they wish to cancel the scrolling by typing CONTROLC or something similar. After typing the special control character, the scrolling continues. The special control character takes a certain amount of time to reach the remote computer which is still scrolling information. Thus response from the remote computer will not likely be as quick as response from a local computer.Once you are remotely logged on, the computer you are logged on to effectively becomes your local computer, even though your original local computer still considers you logged on. You can log on to a third computer which would then become your local computer and so on. As you log out of each session, your previous session becomes active again.File TransferFTP is the program that allows files to be sent from one computer to another. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol.When you start using FTP, a communications channel with another computer on the network is opened. For example, to start using FTP and initiate a file transfer session with a computer on the network called UMCVMB, you would issue the following subcommandFTP UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDUHost UMCVMB will prompt you for an account name and password. If your login is correct, FTP will tell you so, otherwise it will say login incorrect. Try again or abort the FTP program. This is usually done by typing a special control character such as CONTROLC. The program abort character varies from system to system.Next you will see the FTP prompt, which isFtpThere are a number of subcommands of FTP. The subcommand  will list these commands and a brief description of each one.You can initiate a file transfer in either direction with FTP, either from the remote host or to the remote host. The get subcommand initiates a file transfer from the remote host i.e. Tells the remote computer to send the file to the local computer the one on which you issued the ftp command. Simply enter get and FTP will prompt you for the remote host's file name and the new local host's file name. ExampleFtp getRemote file nametheirfilelocal file namemyfileou can abbreviate this by typing both file names on the same line as the get subcommand. If you do not specify a local file name, the new local file will be called the same thing as the remote file. Valid FTP subcommands to get a file include the followingget theirfile myfileget doc.x25The put subcommand works in a similar fashion and is used to send a file from the local computer to the remote computer. Enter the command put and FTP will prompt you for the local file name and then the remote file name. If the transfer cannot be done because the file doesn't exist or for some other reason, FTP will print an error message.There are a number of other subcommands in FTP that allow you to do many more things. Not all of these are standard so consult your local documentation or type a question mark at the FTP prompt. Some functions often built into FTP include the ability to look at files before getting or putting them, the ability to change directories, the ability to delete files on the remote computer, and the ability to list the directory on the remote host.An intriguing capability of many FTP implementations is third party transfers. For example, if you are logged on computer A and you want to cause computer B to send a file to computer C, you can use FTP to connect to computer B and use the rmtsend command. Of course, you have to know usernames and passwords on all three computers, since FTP never allows you to peek into someone's directory and files unless you know their username and password.The cd subcommand changes your working directory on the remote host. The lcd subcommand changes the directory on the local host. For UNIX systems, the meaning of these subcommands is obvious. Other systems, especially those that do not have directorystructured file system, may not implement these commands or may implement them in a different manner.The dir and ls subcommands do the same thing, namely list the files in the working directory of of the remote host.The list subcommand shows the contents of a file without actually putting it into a file on the local computer. This would be helpful if you just wanted to inspect a file. You could interrupt it before it reached the end of the file by typing CONTROLC or some other special character. This is dependent on your FTP implementation.The delete command can delete files on the remote host. You can also make and remove directories on the remote host with mkdir and rmdir. The status subcommand will tell you if you are connected and with whom and what the state of all your options are.If you are transferring binary files or files with any nonprintable characters, turn binary mode on by entering the binary subcommandbinaryTo resume nonbinary transfers, enter the ascii subcommand.Transferring a number of files can be done easily by using mput multiple put and mget multiple get. For example, to get every file in a particular directory, first issue a cd command to change to that directory and then an mget command with an asterisk to indicate every filecd somedirectorymget When you are done, use the close subcommand to break the communications link. You will still be in FTP, so you must use the bye subcommand to exit FTP and return to the command level. The quit subcommand will close the connection and exit from FTP at the same time.MailMail is the simplest network facility to use in many ways. All you have to do is to create your message, which can be done with a file editor or on the spur of the moment, and then send it. Unlike FTP and Telnet, you do not need to know the password of the username on the remote computer. This is so because you cannot change or access the files of the remote user nor can you use their account to run programs. All you can do is to send a message.There is probably a program on your local computer which does mail between users on that computer. Such a program is called a mailer. This may or may not be the way to send or receive mail from other computers on the network, although integrated mailers are more and more common. UNIX mailers will be used as an example in this discussion.Note that the protocol which is used to send and receive mail over a TCPIP network is called SMTP, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. Typically, you will not use any program called SMTP, but rather your local mail program.UNIX mailers are usually used by invoking a program named mail. To receive new mail, simply type mail.There are several varieties of UNIX mailers in existence. Consult your local documentation for details. For example, the command man mail prints out the manual pages for the mail program on your computer.To send mail, you usually specify the address of the recipient on the mail command. For example mail knightumcvmb.missouri.edu will send the following message to username knight on host umcvmb.You can usually type in your message one line at a time, pressing RETURN after each line and typing CONTROLD to end the message. Other facilities to include alreadyexisting files sometimes exist. For example, Berkeley UNIXes allow you to enter commands similar to the following to include a file in your current mail messager myfileIn this example, the contents of myfile are inserted into the message at this point.Most UNIX systems allow you to send a file through the mail by using input redirection. For examplemail knightumcvmb.missouri.edu  myfileIn this example, the contents of myfile are sent as a message to knight on umcvmb.Note that in many UNIX systems the only distinction between mail bound for another user on the same computer and another user on a remote computer is simply the address specified. That is, there is no hostname for local recipients. Otherwise, mail functions in exactly the same way. This is common for integrated mail packages. The system knows whether to send the mail locally or through the network based on the address and the user is shielded from any other details.The Quest For Knowledge Is Without End
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:59:22 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Inside Vax/Vms</title>
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				Advanced Telecommunications Inc.Note The following is geared for the more advanvced hacker.Part 1 Using Command Procedures.You can use command procedures to automate sequences of commands that you use quite often. For example, if you always use the DIRECTORY command after you move to a SubDirectory there work files are kept, you can write a simple command procedure to issue the SET DEFAULT and DIRECTORY commands for you.The following example, GO_DIR.COM, contains two commands Set Default perry.accounts directoryInstead of using each command alone, you can execute GO_DIR.COM with the  command Go_Dir his command tells the DCL command interpreter to read the fileO_DIR.COM and executes the commands in the file. So the commandinterpreter sets your default directory toPERRY.ACCOUNTS and issues the DIRECTORY command.Note DCL means Digital Command Language. sorryFormatting Command ProceduresUse the DCL command CREATE to create and format a command procedure. When you name the command procedure, use the default file type COM. If you use this default, you don't have to use the file type when you execute the procedure with the  command.Command procedures contain DCL commands that you want the DCL command intepreter to execute and data lines that are used by these commands. Commands must begin with a dollar sign. You can start the command string just after the dollar sign.Data lines do not start with a dollar sign. Data lines are used as input data for commands. Data lines are used by the most recently issued command.The following example shows command and data lines in a command rocedure. mailSENDTHOMASMY MEMODid you get my memoShow users thomas The first line is a command and must start with a . The next ines are data lines that are used by the mail function these lines must not start with .Using Multiple Lines for One CommandIf you are writing a command that includes many qualifers, ou can make the command procedure more readable by listing the ualifers on seperate lines rather than running them together. To o this, use the hyphen as a continuation character. Don't start he continued line with . For example print test.out after1800 copies10 queuelpb0Executing Command ProceduresYou can execute command procedures in two modes interactive end batch. In interactive mode, the commands in the command procedure are executing as if you were typing them. You cannot execute any other commands from your computer. In batch mode, the system creates a seprate process to run the command procedure. After you use a batch job you can continue to use the system while it executes.Executing Command Procedures InteractivelyTo execute a command procedure interactively, type the  command followed by the file specifications. If you don't enter e entire command specification, the system will use the current disk, directory, and file default.Changing Command LevelsA command level is the DCL level from which you issue commands. When you log in and type commands at your Computer, you are issuing commands at your level zero. If you execute a procedure, the commands in the procedure are executed at command level 1. When the procedure ends and the DCL prompt is on your screen, you are back at levil zero.A System Login FileIf a system login file exists, it is executed before the personal file. When the system login file ends, control is passed to the personal login file. System and group login files low a system manager to make sure certian files are executed when a person logs in.To make a system login file, you have to have a managers account, you use the name SYSSYLOGIN to make the login file.Personal Login FilesAfter executing a system or group login file, the system executes a personal login file. Use a personal login file to execute commands that you want to that you want to issue everytime you login. Name the login command procedure LOGIN.COM d put it in the default login directory.Defineing Parameters or QualifersYou can create a command procedure that specifies only parameters andor qualifers and then use the command procedure thin a DCL command string. This type of command procedure is useful when there is a set of parimeters or qualifiers that you frequently use with one or more particular commands. To executeThe command string where you would normally use the qualifiers or arameters.For example You could create a command procedure that contains these qualifiers.DEBUGSYMBOL_TABLEMAPFULLCROSS_REFERENCETo use this command procedure, execute it on the command line where you would otherwise place qualifiers. For example, if you name the command procedure DEFLINK.COM, you would use the following command line to link to an object module name SYNAPSE.OBJ with the qualifiers that you specified in the command procedure LINK SYNAPSEDEFLINKThe next example shows a command procedure named PARM.COM that contains parametersHAP1, CHAP2To execute the procedure, use it in a command string in place of a parameter name DIRECTORY PARAMThe others in this set are completed, they should stay in a oup.________________________________________________HackRite 1986  Advanced Telecommunications Inc.
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				In this article, I will first describe the termination, wiring, and terminal hardware most commonly used in the Bell system, and I will include section on methods of using them.LOCAL NETWORKThe local telephone network between the central officeexchange and the telephone subscribers can be briefly described as followsFrom the central office or local exchange of a certain prefixes, underground area trunks go to each area that has that prefix Usually more than one prefix per area.At every few streets or tract areas, the underground cables surface. They then go to the telephone pole or back underground, depending on the area and then to the subsribers house or in the case of an apartment building or mutliline business, to a splitter or dis tribution boxpanel.Now that we have the basics, I'll try and go indepth on the subject.UNDERGROUND CABLESThese are sometimes interoffice trunks, but usually in a residential area they are trunk lines that go to bridging heads or distribution cases. The cables are about 23 inches thick varies, and are either in a metal or pvctype pipe or similiar. Rarely maybe not in some remote rural areas are the cables just 'alone' in the ground. Instead they are usually in an underground cement tunnel resembles a small sewer or storm drain. The manholes are heavy and will say 'Bell system' on them.They can be opened with a 12 inch wide crowbar Hookside inserted in the top rectangular hole. There are ladder rungs to help you climb down. You will see the cable pipes on the wall, with the blue and white striped one being the interoffice trunk at least in my area. The others are local lines, and are usually marked or color coded.There is almost always a posted color code chart on the wall, not to mention Telco manuals de scribing the cables and terminals, so I need not get into detail. Also, there is usually some kind of test equipment, and often Bell test sets are left in there.BRIDGING HEADSThe innocentlooking grayishgreen boxes. These can be either trunk bridges or bridging for residences. The major trunkbridging heads are usually larger, and they have the 'Western Electric' logo at the bottom, whereas the normal bridging heads which may be different in some areasdepending on the company you are served by. GTE B.H.'s look slightly different. Also, do not be fooled by sprinkler boxes! They can be found in just about every city.To open a bridging head if it is locked and you're feeling destructive, put a hammer or crowbar the same one you used on the manhole in the slot above the top hinge of the right door. Pull hard, and the door will rip off. Very effective! If it isn't locked as usual, take a 78 inch hex socket and with it, turn the bolt about 18 of a turn to the right you should hear a spring release inside. Holding the bolt, turn the handle all the way to the left and pull out.To Check for a testset which are often left by Bell employees, go inside  First check for a testset which are often left by Bell employees. There should be a panel of terminals and wires. Push the panel back about an inch or so, and rotate the top latch round with a flat section downward. Release the panel and it will fall all the way forward.There is usually a large amount of wire and extra terminals. The testsets are often hidden here, so don't overlook it Manuals, as well, are sometimes placed in the head. On the right door is a metal box of alligator clips. Take a few Compliments of Bell.. On each door is a useful little round metal device. Says 'insert gently' or' clamp gently  do not overtighten' etc..On the front of the disc, you should find two terminals. These are for your test set. If you dont have one, dont despair I'll show you ways to make basic test sets later in this article.Hook the ring  wire to the 'r' terminal and the tip  wire to the other. By the way, an easy way to determine the correct polarity is with a 1.5v LED. Tap it to the term. pair, if it doesnt light, switch the poles until it does. When it lights,find the longer of the two LED poles This one will be on the tip wire .Behind the disc is a coiled up cord. This should have two alligator clips on it.. Its very useful, because you dont have to keep connecting and disconnecting the fone test set itself, and the clips work nicely.On the terminal board, there should be about 10 screw terminals per side. Follow the wires, and you can see which cable pairs are active. Hook the clips to the terminal pair, and you're set! Dial out if you want, or just listen If someone's on theline.Later, I'll show you a way to set up a true 'tap' that will let the person dial out on his line and receive calls as normal, and you can listen in the whole time. More about this laterOn major prefixarea bridging heads, you can see 'local loops' ,which are two cable pairs cable pair  ringtip, a fone line that are directly connected to each other on the terminal board. These 'cheap loops' as they are called, do not work nearLy as well as the existing ones set up in the switching hardware at the exchange office. Try scanning your prefixes' 00xx to 99xx 's.The tone sides will announce themselves with the 1008 hz loop tone, and the hang side will give no response. The first person should dial the 'hang' side, and the other person dial the tone side, and the tone should stop if you have got the right loop.If you want to find the number of the line that you're on, you can either try to decipher the 'bridging log' or whatever, which is on the left door. If that doesnt work, you can use the follwingANI  Automatic Number IDThis is a Telco test number that reports to you the number that youre calling from It's the same, choppy 'Bell bitch' voice that you get when you reach a disconnected For the 213 NPA  Dial 1223408 NPA  Dial 760914 NPA  Dial 990These are extremely useful when messing with any kind of line terminals, house boxes, etc.Now that we have bridging heads wired, we can go on don't forget to close and latch the box after all Wouldnt want GE and Telco people mad, now, would weCANS  Telephone Distribution BoxesBasically, two types1 Large, rectangular silver box at the end of each street.2 Black, round, or rectangular thing at every telephone pole.Type 1  This is the case that takes the underground cable from the bridge and runs it to the telephone pole cable The lowest, largest one on the telephone pole.The box is always on the pole nearest the briging head, where the line comes up. Look for the 'Call before you Dig  Underground cable' stickers.. The case box is hinged, so if you want to climb the pole, you can open it with no problems. These usually have 2 rows of terminal sets.You could try to impersonate a Telco technician and report the number as 'new active' giving a fake name and fake report, etc. I dont recommend this, and it probably won't almost positively won't work, but this is basically what Telco linemen do.Type 2  This is the splitter box for the group of houses around the pole Usually 4 or 5 houses. Use it like I mentioned before. The terminals 8 or so will be in 2 horizontal rows of sets. The extra wires that are just 'hanging there' are provisions for extra lines to residences 1 extra line per house, thats why the insane charge for line 3!If its the box for your house also, have fun and swap lines with your neighbor! 'Piggyback' them and wreak havoc on the neighborhood It's eavesdropping time Again, I don't recommend this, and its difficult to do it correctly. Moving right alongAPARTMENT  BUSINESS MULTILINEDISTRIBUTION BOXESFound outside the buliding most often on the right side, but not always Just follow the wire from the telephone pole or in the basement. It has a terminal for all the lines in the building. Use it just like any other termination box as before.Usually says 'Bell system' or similar. Has up to 20 terminals on it usually. the middle ones are grounds forget these. The wires come from the cable to one row usually the left one, with the other row of terminals for the other row of terminals for the building fone wire pairs. The ring  wire is usually the top terminal if the set in the row 1 of 10 or more, and the tip is in the clampscrew below it.This can be reversed, but the cable pair is always terminated oneontopofeach other, not on the one next to it. I'm not sure why the other one is there, probably as aprovision for extra lines Don't use it though, it is usually to close to the other terminals, and in my experiences you get a noisy connection.Final note Almost every apartment, business, hotel, or anywhere there is more than 2 lines this termination lines this termination method is used. If you can master this type, you can be in control of many things Look around in your area for a building that uses this type, and practice hooking up to the line, etc.As an added help,here is the basic 'standard' colorcode for multiline terminalswiringetcSingle line Red  RingGreen  TipYellow  Ground  Connected to the ringer coil in individual and bridged ringer phones Bell only Usually connected to the green TipRing   RedWhiteRed StripeBrownWhiteOrange StripeBlackYellow StripeTip   Green Sometimes yellow, see above.WhiteGreen StripeWhiteBlue StripeBlueBlackWhite StripeGround  BlackYellowRESIDENCE TERMINAL BOXSmall, gray can be either a rubber Pacific Telephone or hard plastic AT  T housing deal that connects the cable pair from the splitter box See type 2, above on the pole to your house wiring.Only 2 or 4, the 2 top terminals are hooked in parallel with the same line terminals, and is very easy to use. This can be used to add more lines to your house or add an external line outside the house.TEST SETSWell, now you can consider yourself a minor expert on theterminals and wiring of the local telephone network. Now you canapply it to whatever you want to do.. Here's another helpful itemHow to make a Basic TestSet and how to use it to dial out, eavsdrop, or seriously tap and record line activity.These are the usually orange hand set fones used by Telco technicians to test lines. To make a very simple one, take any Bell or other, but I recommend a good Bell fone like a princess or a trimline. gte flip fones work excllently, though.. fone and follow the instructions below.Note A 'black box' type fone mod will let you tap into their line, and with the box o, it's as if you werent there. they can recieve calls and dial out, and you can be listening the whole time! very useful. With the box off, you have a normal fone test set.Instructions A basic black box works well with good results. Take the cover off the fone to expose the network box Bell type fones only. The  terminal should have a green wire going to it orange or different if touch tone  doesnt matter, its the same thing. Disconnect the wire and connect it to one pole of an SPST switch. Connect a piece of wire to the other pole of the switch and connect it to the  terminal. Now take a 10k hm 12 watt 10 resistor and put it between the  terminal ad the  terminal, which should have a blue and a white wire going to it different for touch tone.It should look like thisBlue wire!White wire!!10k Resistor!!Green wire !! !SPSTWhat this does in effect is keep the hookswitch  dial pulse switch F to RR loop open while holding the line high with the resistor. This gives the same voltage effect as if the fone was 'onhook', while the 10k ohms holds the voltage right above the 'off hook' threshold around 22 volts or so, as compared to 1517 or normal off hook 48 volts for normal 'onhook', giving Test Set Version 2.Another design is similar to the 'type 1' test set above, but has some added featuresFrom TipRing Test sets can be purchased from TechniTool5 Apollo RoadBox 368Plymouth Meeting PA., 19462Ask for catalog 28They are usually 300  600, and are supposed to have MF dialing capability as well as TT dialing. They are also of much higher quality than the standard bell test sets.If you would like to learn more about the subjects covered here, I suggest1 Follow Bell trucks and linemen or technicians and ask subtle questions. also try 611 repair service and ask questions..2 Explore your area for any Bell hardware, and experiment withit. Don't try something if you are not sure what youre doing, because you wouldnt want to cause problems, would you
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				NOTE THE BRITISH POST OFFICE, IS THE U.S. EQUIVALENT OF MA BELL.IN BRITAIN, PHREAKING GOES BACK TO THE EARLY FIFTIES, WHEN THE TECHNIQUE OF 'TOLL A DROP BACK' WAS DISCOVERED. TOLL A WAS AN EXCHANGE NEAR ST. PAULS WHICH ROUTED CALLS BETWEEN LONDON AND NEARBY NONLONDON EXCHANGES. THE TRICK WAS TO DIAL AN UNALLOCATED NUMBER, AND THEN DEPRESS THE RECEIVERREST FOR 12 SECOND. THIS FLASHING INITIATED THE 'CLEAR FORWARD' SIGNAL, LEAVING THE CALLER WITH AN OPEN LINE INTO THE TOLL A EXCHANGE.THE COULD THEN DIAL 018, WHICH FORWARDED HIM TO THE TRUNK EXCHANGE AT THAT TIME, THE FIRST LONG DISTANCE EXCHANGE IN BRITAIN AND FOLLOW IT WITH THE CODE FOR THE DISTANT EXCHANGE TO WHICH HE WOULD BE CONNECTED AT NO EXTRA CHARGE.THE SIGNALS NEEDED TO CONTROL THE UK NETWORK TODAY WERE PUBLISHED IN THE INSTITUTION OF POST OFFICE ENGINEERS JOURNAL AND REPRINTED IN THE SUNDAY TIMES 15 OCT. 1972.THE SIGNALLING SYSTEM THEY USE SIGNALLING SYSTEM NO. 3 USES PAIRS OF FREQUENCIES SELECTED FROM 6 TONES SEPARATED BY 120HZ. WITH THAT INFO, THE PHREAKS MADE BLEEPERS OR AS THEY ARE CALLED HERE IN THE U.S. BLUE BOX, BUT THEY DO UTILIZE DIFFERENT MF TONES THEN THE U.S., THUS, YOUR U.S. BLUE BOX THAT YOU SMUGGLED INTO THE UK WILL NOT WORK, UNLESS YOU CHANGE THE FREQUENCIES.IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES, A SIMPLER SYSTEM BASED ON DIFFERENT NUMBERS OF PULSES WITH THE SAME FREQUENCY 2280HZ WAS USED. FOR MORE INFO ON THAT, TRY TO GET A HOLD OF ATKINSON'S TELEPHONY AND SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY.IN THE EARLY DAYS OF BRITISH PHREAKING, THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY TITAN COMPUTER WAS USED TO RECORD AND CIRCULATE NUMBERS FOUND BY THE EXHAUSTIVE DIALING OF LOCAL NETWORKS. THESE NUMBERS WERE USED TO CREATE A CHAIN OF LINKS FROM LOCAL EXCHANGE TO LOCAL EXCHANGE ACROSS THE COUNTRY, BYPASSING THE TRUNK CIRCUITS. BECAUSE THE INTERNAL ROUTING CODES IN THE UK NETWORK ARE NOT THE SAME AS THOSE DIALED BY THE CALLER, THE PHREAKS HAD TO DISCOVER THEM BY 'PROBE AND LISTEN' TECHNIQUES OR MORE COMMONLY KNOWN IN THE U.S. SCANNING.WHAT THEY DID WAS PUT IN LIKELY SIGNALS AND LISTENED TO FIND OUT IF THEY SUCCEEDED. THE RESULTS OF SCANNING WERE CIRCULATED TO OTHER PHREAKS. DISCOVERING EACH OTHER TOOK TIME AT FIRST, BUT EVENTUALLY THE PHREAKS BECAME ORGANIZED. THE TAP OF BRITAIN WAS CALLED UNDERCURRENTS WHICH ENABLED BRITISH PHREAKS TO SHARE THE INFO ON NEW NUMBERS, EQUIPMENT ETC.TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE BRITISH BRITISH PHREAKS DID, THINK OF THE PHONE NETWORK IN THREE LAYERS OF LINES LOCAL, TRUNK, AND INTERNATIONAL.IN THE UK, SUBSCRIBER TRUNK DIALING STD, IS THE MECHANISM WHICH TAKES A CALL FROM THE LOCAL LINES AND LEGITIMATELY ELEVATES IT TO A TRUNK OR INTERNATIONAL LEVEL.THE UK PHREAKS FIGURED THAT A CALL AT TRUNK LEVEL CAN BE ROUTED THROUGH ANY NUMBER OF EXCHANGES, PROVIDED THAT THE RIGHT ROUTING CODES WERE FOUND AND USED CORRECTLY.THEY ALSO HAD TO DISCOVER HOW TO GET FROM LOCAL TO TRUNK LEVEL EITHER WITHOUT BEING CHARGED WHICH THEY DID WITH A BLEEPER BOX OR WITHOUT USING STD. CHAINING HAS ALREADY BEEN MENTIONED BUT IT REQUIRES LONG STRINGS OF DIGITS AND SPEECH GETS MORE AND MORE FAINT AS THE CHAIN GROWS, JUST LIKE IT DOES WHEN YOU STACK TRUNKS BACK AND FORTH ACROSS THE U.S.THE WAY THE SECURITY REPS SNAGGED THE PHREAKS WAS TO PUT A SIMPLE 'PRINTERMETER' OR AS WE CALL IT A PEN REGISTER ON THE SUSPECTS LINE, WHICH SHOWS EVERY DIGIT DIALED FROM THE SUBSCRIBERS LINE.THE BRITISH PREFER TO GET ONTO THE TRUNKS RATHER THAN CHAINING. ONE WAY WAS TO DISCOVER WHERE LOCAL CALLS USE THE TRUNKS BETWEEN NEIGHBORING EXCHANGES, START A CALL AND STAY ON THE TRUNK INSTEAD OF RETURNING TO THE LOCAL LEVEL ON REACHING THE DISTANT SWITCH. THIS AGAIN REQUIRED EXHAUSTIVE DIALING AND MADE MORE WORK FOR TITAN IT ALSO REVEALED 'FIDDLES', WHICH WERE INSERTED BY POST OFFICE ENGINEERS.WHAT FIDDLING MEANS IS THAT THE ENGINEERS REWIRED THE EXCHANGES FOR THEIR OWN BENEFIT. THE EQUIPMENT IS MODIFIED TO GIVE ACCESS TO A TRUNK WITH OUT BEING CHARGED, AN OPERATION WHICH IS PRETTY EASY IN STEP BY STEP SXS ELECTROMECHANICAL EXCHANGES, WHICH WERE INSTALLED IN BRITAIN EVEN IN THE 1970S NOTE I KNOW OF A BACK DOOR INTO THE CANADIAN SYSTEM ON A 4A CO., SO IF YOU ARE ON SXS OR A 4A, TRY SCANNING 3 DIGIT EXCHANGES, IE DIAL 999,998,997 ETC.AND LISTEN FOR THE BEEPKERCHINK, IF THERE ARE NO 3 DIGIT CODES WHICH ALLOW DIRECT ACCESS TO A TANDEM IN YOUR LOCAL EXCHANGE AND BYPASSES THE AMA SO YOU WON'T BE BILLED, NOT HAVE TO BLAST 2600 EVERY TIME YOU WISH TO BOX A CALL.A FAMOUS BRITISH 'FIDDLER' REVEALED IN THE EARLY 1970S WORKED BY DIALING 173. THE CALLER THEN ADDED THE TRUNK CODE OF 1 AND THE SUBSCRIBERS LOCAL NUMBER. AT THAT TIME, MOST ENGINEERING TEST SERVICES BEGAN WITH 17X, SO THE ENGINEERS COULD HIDE THEIR FIDDLES IN THE NEST OF SERVICE WIRES.WHEN SECURITY REPS STARTED SEARCHING, THE FIDDLES WERE CONCEALED BY TONES SIGNALLING 'NUMBER UNOBTAINALBE' OR 'EQUIPMENT ENGAGED' WHICH SWITCHED OFF AFTER A DELAY. THE NECESSARY RELAYS ARE SMALL AND EASILY HIDDEN.THERE WAS ANOTHER SIDE TO PHREAKING IN THE UK IN THE SIXTIES. BEFORE STD WAS WIDESPREAD, MANY 'ORDINARY' PEOPLE WERE DRIVEN TO.OCCASIONAL PHREAKING FROM SHEER FRUSTRATION AT THE INEFFICIENT OPERATOR CONTROLLED TRUNK SYSTEM. THIS CAME TO A HEAD DURING A STRIKE ABOUT 1961 WHEN OPERATORS COULD NOT BE REACHED. NOTHING COMPLICATED WAS NEEDED.MANY OPERATORS HAD BEEN IN THE HABIT OF REPEATING THE CODES AS THEY DIALLED THE REQUESTED NUMBERS SO PEOPLE SOON LEARNT THE NUMBERS THEY CALLED FREQUENTLY. THE ONLY 'TRICK' WAS TO KNOW WHICH EXCHANGES COULD BE DIALLED THROUGH TO PASS ON THE TRUNK NUMBER.CALLERS ALSO NEEDED A PRETTY QUIET PLACE TO DO IT, SINCE TIMING RELATIVE TO CLICKS WAS IMPORTANT THE MOST FAMOUS TRIAL OF BRITISH PHREAKS WAS CALLED THE OLD BAILY TRIAL.WHICH STARTED ON 3 OCT. 1973.WHAT THEY PHREAKS DID WAS TO DIAL A SPARE NUMBER AT A LOCAL CALL RATE BUT INVOLVING A TRUNK TO ANOTHER EXCHANGE THEN THEY SEND A 'CLEAR FORWARD' TO THEIR LOCAL EXCHANGE, INDICATING TO IT THAT THE CALL IS FINISHEDBUT THE DISTANT EXCHANGE DOESN'T REALIZE BECAUSE THE CALLER'S PHONE IS STILL OFF THE HOOK. THEY NOW HAVE AN OPEN LINE INTO THE DISTANT TRUNK EXCHANGE AND SENDS TO IT A 'SEIZE' SIGNAL '1' WHICH PUTS HIM ONTO ITS OUTGOING LINES NOW, IF THEY KNOW THE CODES, THE WORLD IS OPEN TO THEM.ALL OTHER EXCHANGES TRUST HIS LOCAL EXCHANGE TO HANDLE THE BILLING THEY JUST INTERPRET THE TONES THEY HEAR. MEAN WHILE, THE LOCAL EXCHANGE COLLECTS ONLY FOR A LOCAL CALL. THE INVESTIGATORS DISCOVERED THE PHREAKS HOLDING A CONFERENCE SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND SURROUNDED BY VARIOUS PHONE EQUIPMENT AND BLEEPER BOXES, ALSO PRINTOUTS LISTING 'SECRET' POST OFFICE CODES. THEY PROBABLY GOT THEM FROM TRASHING THE JUDGE SAID SOME TAKE TO HEROIN, SOME TAKE TO TELEPHONES FOR THEM PHONE PHREAKING WAS NOT A CRIME BUT A HOBBY TO BE SHARED WITH PHELLOW ENTHUSIASTS AND DISCUSSED WITH THE POST OFFICE OPENLY OVER DINNER AND BY MAIL.THEIR APPROACH AND ATTITUDE TO THE WORLDS LARGEST COMPUTER, THE GLOBAL TELEPHONE SYSTEM, WAS THAT OF SCIENTISTS CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS OR PROGRAMMERS AND ENGINEERS TESTING PROGRAMS AND SYSTEMS. THE JUDGE APPEARED TO AGREE, AND EVEN ASKED THEM FOR PHREAKING CODES TO USE FROM HIS LOCAL EXCHANGE!!!
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				Of all the new 1960s wonders of telephone technology  satellites, ultra modern Traffic Service Positions TSPS for operators, the picturephone, and so on  the one that gave Bell Labs the most trouble, and unexpectedly became the greatest development effort in Bell System's history, was the perfection of an electronic switching system, or ESS.It may be recalled that such a system was the specific end in view when the project that had culminated in the invention of the transistor had been launched back in the 1930s. After successful accomplishment of that planned miracle in 194748, further delays were brought about by financial stringency and the need for further development of the transistor itself.In the early 1950s, a Labs team began serious work on electronic switching. As early as 1955, Western Electric became involved when five engineers from the Hawthorne works were assigned to collaborate with the Labs on the project. The president of ATT in 1956, wrote confidently, At Bell Labs, development of the new electronic switching system is going full speed ahead.We are sure this will lead to many improvements in service and also to greater efficiency. The first service trial will start in Morris, Ill., in 1959. Shortly thereafter, Kappel said that the cost of the whole project would probably be 45 million.But it gradually became apparent that the developement of a commercially usable electronic switching system  in effect, a computerized telephone exchange  presented vastly greater technical problems than had been anticipated, and that, accordingly, Bell Labs had vastly underestimated both the time and the investment needed to do the job. The year 1959 passed without the promised first trial at Morris, Illinois it was finally made in November 1960, and quickly showed how much more work remained to be done.As time dragged on and costs mounted, there was a concern at ATT and something approaching panic at Bell Labs. But the project had to go forward by this time the investment was too great to be sacrificed, and in any case, forward projections of increased demand for telephone service indicated that within a phew years a time would come when, without the quantum leap in speed and flexibility that electronic switching would provide, the national network would be unable to meet the demand. In November 1963, an allelectronic switching system went into use at the Brown Engineering Company at Cocoa Beach, Florida.But this was a small installation, essentially another test installation, serving only a single company. Kappel's tone on the subject in the 1964 annual report was, for him, an almost apologetic Electronic switching equipment must be manufactured in volume to unprecedented standards of reliabilityTo turn out the equipment economically and with good speed, mass production methods must be developed but, at the same time, there can be no loss of precision Another year and millions of dollars later, on May 30, 1965, the first commercial electric centeral office was put into service at Succasunna, New Jersey.Even at Succasunna, only 200 of the town's 4,300 subscribers initially had the benefit of electronic switching's added speed and additional services, such as provision for three party conversations and automatic transfer of incoming calls. But after that, ESS was on its way.In January 1966, the second commercial installation, this one serving 2,900 telephones, went into service in Chase, Maryland. By the end of 1967 there were additional ESS offices in California, Connecticut, Minnesota, Georgia, New York, Florida, and Pennsylvania by the end of 1970 there were 120 offices serving 1.8 million customers and by 1974 there were 475 offices serving 5.6 million customers.The difference between conventional switching and electronic switching is the difference between hardware and software in the former case, maintenence is done on the spot, with screwdriver and pliers, while in the case of electronic switching, it can be done remotely, by computer, from a centeral point, making it possible to have only one or two technicians on duty at a time at each switching center.The development program, when the final figures were added up, was found to have required a staggering four thousand manyears of work at Bell Labs and to have cost not 45 million but 500 million!
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:27:17 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Hacking Voice Mail Boxs</title>
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				It has come to our attention that some scumbags out there are EXPLOITING the fine services offered to this country by Telecom and Optus. Can I just start by saying that we here at MAIM are totally disgusted by this outright disregard for the laws set by our virtuous government and it MUST stopto give you an example of what these lowlife vandals are doing, read the following text which has been circulating around Australian BBS's disgusting isn't it!Enuf of the crap, on with the show. Many people have contributed to the writing of this article, so it's unfair for me to take the credit for producing this text file. All the info for this article came from many peoples work.. you know who you are!! Voice mail means that you will never miss a call again.With voice mail if you are on the phone, unable to answer the phone or out of the coverage area, your callers messages can be diverted to your voice mail service, you can retrieve messages from voice mail at any time, with any kind of touchfone ie. mobile or landline.You can save important messages for later reference. Change your recorded greeting as often as you need to. As you guys prolly gather Voice Mail Boxes are like a remote answering machine.The following method of hacking empty voice mail box is a proven method, I have used it myself, and so have many other people.Victorian VMB Dialups03221XXXX03222XXXX03220XXXX03303XXXXThe above dialups are for the Optus VMB's.The password for the empty VMB is the number you just called. ie. If the VMB is 3031024 Mine then the password would be 3031024. Its that easy!!The hardest part of the whole process is to find an empty VMB, you will know when you hit an empty one because when you hit '' during the message, an Optus lady will read out the box number to you.To get into the box press '' while the message is being read out then enter ya password.Once in the box you will know what to do, its all menu operated and is pretty straight forward just listen. If you stuff up you can always call back and try again.Apparently this method will also work on Telescum VMB's Although i am not 100 sure.. But I have been told that they suck. Stick to optus boxes there is more features on em. If you still wanna try Telescum boxes then the dialup is03506XXXXWell hope it all goes well.PERS0NAL GREETZMorbid AngelThanx for making me FINALLY write this article.Lord WarlockThanx for all ya help  info.Malfesant TrooperThat message on DU really helped.ParadoxThanx for the help.Trash ManFound decent software yetThe Red RipperThanx for all ya help.Shotgun MessiahTurn down the bloody TV!
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:24:14 PDT</pubDate>
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				There are literally hundreds of systems connected to some of these larger networks, like Tymnet and Telenet.Navigation around these networks is very simple, and usually well explained in their online documentation. Furthermore, some systems will actually tell you what is connected and how to get to it.In the case of Tymnet, after dialing in, at the log in prompt, type information for the online documentation. Accessing systems through networks is as simple as providing an address for it to connect to. The best way to learn about the addresses and how to do things on a network is to read A Novice's Guide to Hacking 1989 Edition which was in Issue 22, File 4 of 12, Volume Two December 23, 1988.Some points are reiterated here. Once on a network, you provide the NUA network user address of the system you wish to connect to. NUAs are strings of 15 digits, broken up in to 3 fields, the NETWORK ADDRESS, the AREA PREFIX, and the DNIC. Each field has 5 digits, and are left padded with 0's where necessary. The DNIC determines which network to take the address from. Tymnet, for example, is 03106. 03110 is Telenet.The AREA PREFIX and NETWORK ADDRESS determine the connection point. By providing the address of the system that you wish to connect to, you will be accessing it through the net as if you were calling it directly. Obviously, then, this provides one more level of security for access. By connecting to an outdial, you can increase again the level of security you enjoy, by using the outdial in that area to connect to the remote system.Addendum  Accessing Tymnet Over Local Packet Networks This is just another way to get that extra step andor bypass other routes. This table is copied from Tymnet's online information. As said earlier, it's a great resource, this online information!BELL ATLANTICNODE CITY STATE SPEED ACCESS NUMBER NTWK     03526 DOVER DELAWARE 3002400 3027349465 PDN03526 GEORGETOWN DELAWARE 3002400 3028567055 PDN03526 NEWARK DELAWARE 3002400 3023660800 PDN03526 WILMINGTON DELAWARE 3001200 3024280030 PDN03526 WILMINGTON DELAWARE 2400 3026551144 PDN06254 WASHINGTON DIST. OF COL. 3001200 2024797214 PDN06254 WASHINGTON MIDTOWN DIST. OF COL. 2400 2027851688 PDN06254 WASHINGTON DOWNTOWN DIST. OF COL. 3001200 2023936003 PDN06254 WASHINGTON MIDTOWN DIST. OF COL. 3001200 2022934641 PDN06254 WASHINGTON DIST. OF COL. 3001200 2025465549 PDN06254 WASHINGTON DIST. OF COL. 3001200 2023280619 PDN06254 BETHESDA MARYLAND 3001200 3019869942 PDN06254 COLESVILLE MARYLAND 3002400 3019899324 PDN06254 HYATTSVILLE MARYLAND 3001200 3017799935 PDN06254 LAUREL MARYLAND 3002400 3014909971 PDN06254 ROCKVILLE MARYLAND 3001200 3013409903 PDN06254 SILVER SPRING MARYLAND 3001200 3014959911 PDN07771 BERNARDSVILLE NEW JERSEY 3002400 2017667138 PDN07771 CLINTON NEW JERSEY 3001200 2017308693 PDN07771 DOVER NEW JERSEY 3002400 2013619211 PDN07771 EATONTOWNRED BANK NEW JERSEY 3002400 2017588000 PDN07771 ELIZABETH NEW JERSEY 3002400 2012895100 PDN07771 ENGLEWOOD NEW JERSEY 3002400 2018713000 PDN07771 FREEHOLD NEW JERSEY 3002400 2017808890 PDN07771 HACKENSACK NEW JERSEY 3002400 2013439200 PDN07771 JERSEY CITY NEW JERSEY 3002400 2016593800 PDN07771 LIVINGSTON NEW JERSEY 3002400 2015330561 PDN07771 LONG BRANCHRED BANK NEW JERSEY 3002400 2017588000 PDN07771 MADISON NEW JERSEY 3002400 2015930004 PDN07771 METUCHEN NEW JERSEY 3002400 2019069500 PDN07771 MIDDLETOWN NEW JERSEY 3002400 2019579000 PDN07771 MORRISTOWN NEW JERSEY 3002400 2014550437 PDN07771 NEWARK NEW JERSEY 3002400 2016230083 PDN07771 NEW BRUNSWICK NEW JERSEY 3002400 2012472700 PDN07771 NEW FOUNDLAND NEW JERSEY 3002400 2016979380 PDN07771 PASSAIC NEW JERSEY 3002400 2014736200 PDN07771 PATERSON NEW JERSEY 3002400 2013457700 PDN07771 PHILLIPSBURG NEW JERSEY 3002400 2014549270 PDN07771 POMPTON LAKES NEW JERSEY 3002400 2018358400 PDN07771 RED BANK NEW JERSEY 3002400 2017588000 PDN07771 RIDGEWOOD NEW JERSEY 3002400 2014454800 PDN07771 SOMERVILLE NEW JERSEY 3002400 2012181200 PDN07771 SOUTH RIVER NEW JERSEY 3002400 2013909100 PDN07771 SPRING LAKE NEW JERSEY 3002400 2019740850 PDN07771 TOMS RIVER NEW JERSEY 3002400 2012863800 PDN07771 WASHINGTON NEW JERSEY 3002400 2016896894 PDN07771 WAYNEPATERSON NEW JERSEY 3002400 2013457700 PDN03526 ALLENTOWN PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2154350266 PDN11301 ALTOONA PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 8149468639 PDN11301 ALTOONA PENNSYLVANIA 2400 8149490505 PDN03526 AMBLER PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2152832170 PDN10672 AMBRIDGE PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4122669610 PDN10672 CARNEGIE PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4122761882 PDN10672 CHARLEROI PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4124839100 PDN03526 CHESTER HEIGHTS PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2153580820 PDN03526 COATESVILLE PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2153837212 PDN10672 CONNELLSVILLE PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4126287560 PDN03526 DOWNINGTONCOATES. PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2153837212 PDN03562 DOYLESTOWN PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2153400052 PDN03562 GERMANTOWN PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2158434075 PDN10672 GLENSHAW PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4124876868 PDN10672 GREENSBURG PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4128367840 PDN11301 HARRISBURG PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 7172363274 PDN11301 HARRISBURG PENNSYLVANIA 2400 7172380450 PDN10672 INDIANA PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4124657210 PDN03526 KING OF PRUSSIA PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2152702970 PDN03526 KIRKLYN PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2157895650 PDN03526 LANSDOWNE PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2156269001 PDN10672 LATROBE PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4125370340 PDN11301 LEMOYNEHARRISBURG PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 7172363274 PDN10672 MCKEESPORT PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4126736200 PDN10672 NEW CASTLE PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4126585982 PDN10672 NEW KENSINGTON PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4123370510 PDN03526 NORRISTOWN PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2152702970 PDN03526 PAOLI PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2156480010 PDN03562 PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2159237792 PDN03562 PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2155570659 PDN03562 PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2155457886 PDN03562 PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2156770321 PDN03562 PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA 2400 2156250770 PDN10672 PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4122818950 PDN10672 PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4126874131 PDN10672 PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA 2400 4122619732 PDN10672 POTTSTOWN PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2153278032 PDN03526 QUAKERTOWN PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2155387032 PDN03526 READING PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2153757570 PDN10672 ROCHESTER PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4127289770 PDN03526 SCRANTON PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 7173481123 PDN03526 SCRANTON PENNSYLVANIA 2400 7173411860 PDN10672 SHARON PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4123421681 PDN03526 TULLYTOWN PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2155473300 PDN10672 UNIONTOWN PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4124375640 PDN03562 VALLEY FORGE PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2152702970 PDN10672 WASHINGTON PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4122239090 PDN03526 WAYNE PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 2153419605 PDN10672 WILKINSBURG PENNSYLVANIA 3001200 4122411006 PDN06254 ALEXANDRIA VIRGINIA 3001200 7036836710 PDN06254 ARLINGTON VIRGINIA 3001200 7035248961 PDN06254 FAIRFAX VIRGINIA 3001200 7033851343 PDN06254 MCLEAN VIRGINIA 3001200 7038482941 PDNPDN BELL ATLANTIC  NETWORK NAME IS PUBLIC DATA NETWORK PDNCONNECT MESSAGE. . . _ _C _R _ _ SYNCHRONIZES DATA SPEEDSWELCOME TO THE BPADST PDN. 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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:20:26 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Hacking Vax's &amp; Unix</title>
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				Unix is a trademark of Att and you know what that meansIn this article, we discuss the unix system that runs onthe various vax systems. If you are on another unixtype system, some commands may differ, but since it is licenced to bell, they can't make many changes._______________________________________ Hacking onto a unix system is very difficult, and in this case, we advise having an inside source, if possible. The reason it is difficult to hack a vax is this Many vax, after you get a carrier from them, respond LoginThey give you no chance to see what the login name format is. Most commonly used are single words, under 8 digits, usually the person's name. There is a way around this Most vax have an acct. called 'suggest' for people to use to make a suggestion to the system root terminal. This is usually watched by the system operator, but at late he is probably at home sleeping or screwing someone's brains out.So we can write a program to send at the vax this type of a messageA screen freeze Cntrls, screen clear system dependant, about 255 garbage characters, and then a command to create a login acct., after which you clear the screen again, then unfreeze the terminal. What this does When the terminal is frozen, it keeps a buffer of what is sent. well, the buffer is about 127 characters long. so you overflow it with trash, and then you send a command line to create an acct. System dependant. after this you clear the buffer and screen again, then unfreeze the terminal.This is a bad way to do it, and it is much nicer if you just send a command to the terminal to shut the system down, or whatever you are after There is always, Always an acct. called root, the most powerful acct. to be on, since it has all of the system files on it. If you hack your way onto this one, then everything is easy from here onOn the unix system, the abort key is the Cntrld key. watch how many times you hit this, since it is also a way to log off the system! A little about unix architechture The root directory, called root, is where the system resides. After this come a few 'sub' root directories, usually to group things stats here, priv stuff here, the user log here.Under this comes the superuser the operator of the system, and then finally the normal users. In the unix 'Shell' everything is treated the same. By this we mean You can access a program the same way you access a user directory, and so on. The way the unix system was written, everything, users included, are just programs belonging to the root directory. Those of you who hacked onto the root, smile, since you can screw everything the main level exec level prompt on the unix system is the , and if you are on the root, you have a  superuser prompt.Ok, a few basics for the system To see where you are, and what paths are active in regards to your user account, then type pwdThis shows your acct. seperated by a slash with another pathname acct., possibly many times. To connect through to another path,or many paths, you would type path1path2path3and then you are connected all the way from path1 to path3. You can run the programs on all the paths you are connected to. If it does not allow you to connect to a path, then you have insufficient privs, or the path is closed and archived onto tape.You can run programs this way alsoyou path1path2path3programnameUnix treats everything as a program, and thus there a few commands to learnTo see what you have access to in the end path, type lsfor list. this show the programs you can run. You can connect to the root directory and run it's programs with rootBy the way, most unix systems have their log file on the root, so you can set up a watch on the file, waiting for people to log in and snatch their password as it passes thru the file. To connect to a directory, use the command cd pathnameThis allows you to do what you want with that directory. You may be asked for a password, but this is a good ay of finding other user names to hack onto.The wildcard character in unix, if you want to search down a path for a game or such, is the . ls Should show you what you can access. The file types are the same as they are on a dec, so refer to that section when examining file.To see what is in a file, use the pr filename command, for print file.We advise playing with pathnames to get the hang of the concept. There is online help available on most systems with a 'help' or a ''. We advise you look thru the help files and pay attention to anything they give you on pathnames, or the commands for the system. You can, as a user, create or destroy directories on the tree beneath you. This means that root can kill everything but root, and you can kill any that are below you.These are the mkdir pathname rmdir pathnamecommands.Once again, you are not alone on the system type whoTo see what other users are logged in to the system at the time.If you want to talk to themwrite usernameWill allow you to chat at the same time, without having to worry about the parser.To send mail to a user, say mail And enter the mail subsystem.To send a message to all the users on the system, say wall Which stands for 'write all'. By the way, on a few systems, all you have to do is hit the  key to end the message, but on others you must hit the cntrld key.To send a single message to a user, say write usernameThis is very handy again! If you send the sequence of characters discussed at the very beginning of this article, you can have the superuser terminal do tricks for you again.PrivsIf you want superuser privs, you can either log in as root, or edit your acct. so it can say su this now gives you the  prompt, and allows you to completely bypass the protection. The wonderful security conscious developers at bell made it very difficult to do much without privs, but once you have them, there is absolutely nothing stopping you from doing anything you want to.To bring down a unix system chdir bin rm this wipes out the pathname bin, where all the system maintenance files are.Or try r r This recursively removes everything from the system except the remove command itself.Or try kill 1,1 syncThis wipes out the system devices from operation.When you are finally sick and tired from hacking on the vax systems, just hit your cntrld and repeat key, and you will eventually be logged out.The reason this file seems to be very sketchy is the fact that bell has 7 licenced versions of unix out in the public domain, and these commands are those common to all of them. I recommend you hack onto the root or bin directory, since they have the highest levels of privs, and there is really not much you can do except develop software without them.
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:16:43 PDT</pubDate>
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				L LO Lex Luthor OD and D The Legion Of DoomHackers L Present LO HACKING VAX'S VMS OD DLODLODLODLODLODLODLODLODLODL LO This file will list most default OD accountspasswords, commands for D nonprivileged accts and commands L for privileged accounts, how to LO set up your own acct, list users OD and how to shut down the system. D LODLODLODLODLODLODLODLODLODLO C WRITTEN 10APR85 OD Written by LODH DLODLODLODLODLODLODLODLODLODINTRODUCTIONThe VAX is made by DEC Digital Equipment Corp and can run a variety ofoperating systems. In this file, I will talk about the VMS Virtual MemoryOperating System, VMS. The VAX is a 32 bit machine with 32 bit virtual address space.ENTRANCEWhen you first connect with a VAX you type either a return, a ctrlc, or actrly. It will then respond with something similar toLODH NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH SYSTEM VMS V4.0UsernamePasswordThe most frequent way of gaining access to a computer system is by using a'default' loginpassword. In this example you may try LOD as the username andRESEARCH as the password or a combination of words in the opening banner ifthere is one which may allow you access, otherwise you will have to try theDEFAULT METHOD of entry. The version listed above V4.0 is the latest version to my knowledge of VMS.The more widely used version that I have seen is V3.7.When DEC sells a VAXVMS, the system comes equiped with 4 accounts which areDEFAULT  This serves as a template in creating user records in the UAF UserAuthorization File. A new user record is assigned the values of the DEFAULTrecord except where the system manager changes those values. The DEFAULT record can be modified but cannot be deleted from the UAF.SYSTEM  Provides a means for the system manager to log in with fullprivileges. The SYSTEM record can be modified but cannot be deleted from theUAF.FIELD  Permits DIGITAL field service personnel to check out a new system. TheFIELD record can be deleted once the system is installed.SYSTEST  Provides an appropriate environment for running the User EnvironmentTest Package UETP. The SYSTEST record can be deleted once the system isinstalled.Usually the SYSTEM MANAGER adds, deletes, and modifies these records whichare in the UAF when the system arrives, thus, eliminating the default passwords,but this is not true in all cases.The 'default' passwords that I have found to get me into a system areUsername Password SYSTEM MANAGER or OPERATORFIELD SERVICE or TESTDEFAULT USER or DEFUALTSYSTEST UETP or SYSTESTOther typical VMS accounts areVAX VAXVMS VMSDCL DCLDEMO DEMOTEST TESTHELP HELPNEWS NEWSGUEST GUESTGAMES GAMESDECNET DECNETOr a combination of the various usernames and passwords. If none of these get you in, then you should move on to the next system unless you have a way to get usernamespasswords, like from trashing, stealing passwords directly, or by some other means.YOUR IN!Downloaded from P80 Systems..
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:09:40 PDT</pubDate>
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				When you call TRW, the dial up will identify itself with the message TRW. It will then wait for you to type the appropiate answer back such as CTRLG.Once This has been done, the system will say CIRCUIT BUILDING IN PROGRESS Along with a few numbers. After this, it clears the screen CTRL L followed by a CTRLQ. After the system sends the CTRLQ, It is ready for the request. You first type the 4 character identifyer for the geographical area of the account..For Example TCA1  for certain Calif.  Vicinity subscribers. TCA2  A second CALF. TRW System.TNJ1  Their NJ Database.TGA1  Their Georgia Database.The user then types A  and then on the next line, he must type his 3 char. Option. Most Requests use the RTS option.OPX, RTX, and a few others exist. NOTE TRW will accept an A, C, or S as the 'X' in the options above. Then finally, the user types his 7 digit subscriber code. He appends his 34 character password after it.It seems that if you manage to get hold of a TRW Printout Trashing at Sears, Saks, ETC. or from getting your credit printout from them Their subscriber code will be on it leaving only a 34 character pw up to you.For Example,Call the DialUpTRW System Types, ST CTRLGYou type,YT Circuit building in progress 1234ST CTRLL CRTLQ TCA1 CYT BTS 3000000AAA YTNote This sytem is in Half Duplex, Even Parity, 7 Bits per word and 2 Stop Bits.CAUTION It is a very stressed rumor that after typing in the TRWpassword Three 3 times.. It sets an Automatic Number Identification on your ass, so be careful. And forget who told you how to do this..
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			<title>Green Box</title>
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				Paying the initial rate in order to use a red box on certain fortresses left a sour taste in many red boxers mouths, thus the green box was invented. The green box generates useful tones such as COIN COLLECT, COIN RETURN, AND RINGBACK.These are the tones that ACTS or the TSPS operator would send to the CO when appropriate. Unfortunately, the green box cannot be used at the fortress station but must be used by the CALLED party.Here are the tonesCOIN COLLECT 7001100hzCOIN RETURN 11001700hzRINGBACK 7001700hzBefore the called party sends any of these tones, an operator realease signal should be sent to alert the MF detectors at the CO. This can be done by sending 900hz  1500hz or a single 2600 wink 90 ms. Also do not forget that the initial rate is collected shortly before the 3 minute period is up.Incidentally, once the above MF tones for collecting and returning coins reach the CO, they are converted into an appropriate DC pulse 130 volts for return and 130 for collect. This pulse is then sent down the tip to the fortress. This causes the coin relay to either return or collect the coins.The alledged Tnetwork takes advantage of this information. When a pulse for coin collect 130 VDC is sent down the line, it must be grounded somewhere. This is usually the yellow or black wire. Thus, if the wires are exposed, these wires can be cut to prevent the pulse from being grounded.When the three minute initial period is almost up, make sure that the black and yellow wires are severed, then hang up, wait about 15 seconds in case of a second pulse, reconnect the wires, pick up the phone, and if all goes well, it should be JACKPOT time.
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				HOW TO BUILD ITYou will need the followingTwo 10K OHM and three 1.4K OHM resistorsTwo 2N3904 transistorsTwo Photo CellsTwo Red LED'S The more light produced the betterA box that will not let light inRed and Green WireLight from the 1 LED must shine directly on the photocell 1. The gold box I made needed the top of the LED's to touch the photo cell for it to work.The same applies to the 2 photo cell and LED.1PHOTOCELL  BASE 1 TTTTT LED TRANSISTOR TTTTT   I  COLLECTORRED1  GREEN2I   2 LED 10K 10K 1.4K 1.4KRESISTORES2PHOTOCELL BASE TTTTT TRANSISTOR TTTTT  EMITTER GREEN1 RED2 1.4KThe 1.4K resistor is variable and if the second part of the gold box is skipped it will still work but when someone picks up the phone they will hear a faint dial tone in the background and might report it to the Gestapo erATT.1.4K will give you good reception with little risk of a Gestapo agent at your door.Now that you have built it take two green wires of the same length and strip the ends, twist two ends together and connect them to green1 and place a piece of tape on it with line 1 writing on it.Continue the process with red1 only use red wire. Repeat with red2 and green2 but change to line 2.HOW TO INSTALLYou will need to find two phone lines that are close together. Label one of teh phone lines Line 1. Cut the phone lines and take the outer coating off it. Tere should be 4 wires. Cut the yellow and black wires off and strip the red and green wires for both lines.Line 1 should be in two pieces. Take the green wire of one end and connect it to one of the green wires on the gold box. Take the other half of line 1 and hook the free green wire to the green wire on the phone line. Repeat the process with red1 and the other line.All you need to do now is to write down the phone numbers of the place you hooked it up at and go home and call it. You should get a dial tone!!! If not, try changing the emittor with the collector.Have a great time with this!
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:01:37 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>General information on LANs</title>
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				!!!!!!!  General Information on LANs Topologies, Etc.  ! An Official THUG Production.  Written by Laughing Gas For Solsbury Hill BBS.   Please keep the name THUGLAN2.TXT where possible !!!!!!!Released 73191 Foreward Well, in the previous file on LANs, I said that the next one this one would have a complete list of all the programs availible a Novell LAN system, and description of each. Well, that was at the end of the school year, and I didn't have access to a Novell LAN over the summer. However, I do have a LANtastic lan set up here at home.. So I'll probably release a file on that soon.. However, since I've been doing work with this LAN, and research and so on, I started to write a file about topologies, etc, and since someone else mention it on a local BBS, I figured I'd release this file, which is basically an introductory guide to topologies and network access methods. This file is basically released to the computer underground, however, it might be found more interesting by a LAN manager than a hacker. It doesn't really have anything on breaking in, or security. Oh well. Here it is. Oh, by the way, when school starts up in about a month, I'll get back to the Novell information.The basic subjects of this file as mentioned above areLAN TopologiesNetwork Access MethodsGeneral Wiring InformationI threw in the wiring information, because it doesn't really have anything to do with hacking, and neither does the rest of the file.. and it might be interesting to anyone interested in the rest of the file.. LAN Topologies What is a topology It's the way a LAN is set up, physically. Before we get into the different types, you have to know a couple of vocabulary terms here.Workstation  A Workstation is a single computer on the LAN, which uses theLAN's server's resources.Server  A Server is a computer on the LAN which allows it's resources diskdrives, printers, modems, etc to be accessed by a workstation. There are a couple of basic types of serversNetwork Server This is a computer usually with a large hard drive,which acts as the main HUB of the network, and all of the workstations have access to it. The majority of shared files are on this machine, and the majority of resources are attached to this machine.Print Server This is a machine attached to one or more printers withthe job of handling all print spooling requests. Although the print queues can often be controlled by a superuser from another machineCommunications Server This is the machine or machines with the modem or modems in it, and is responsible for handling all of the outside communication.File Server This is just a machine with a hard drive dedicated to thenetwork.Nondedicated Server This is a server that is also a workstation. Ie, you can sit down at the server and log into the network..Dedicated Server This is a server which is dedicated to the network. You canlog in FROM itNode  A Node is ANY computer, OR device on the LAN. Any workstation, orserver is a node, as well as any printer, modem, etc.Well, thats about it for terms to know.There are three basic LAN topologies. BUS, RING and STAR.BUSIf a LAN is set up with a BUS topology, there is one long cable, the ends of which are NOT connected to ANYTHING. Each Node is connected directly to this cable.Check out this lame ascii diagram..Node 1  Node 3    Node 2  Node 4Get the idea A bus topology is a reliable method of setting up a network. If a node on the network goes down, all the other nodes can still communicate.RINGA ring topology is just what it sounds like, the nodes are connected in a circular or ring fashion. Node 1 connected to Node 2 connected to Node 3 connected to node 1 again.Lame diagram. Node 2 . Node 1 Node 3  Node 4 'Got it A ring topology is not usually a good idea. If one node goes down, other nodes may not be able to communication with nodes that are connected through the down node. In the case above, it's fairly simple, but for arguments sake, if node 1 went down, node 2 could communicate with node 3, and node 3 could communicate with nodes 2 and 4, and node 4 could communicate with node 3, but node 2 and 4 could not communicate Well, technically they could, but in a larger network, two or more nodes could go down, one on either side of a node, blocking it from the other nodes, or if the system was designed to find the shortest path, it might find that one of the nodes in that direction was down. Unless it was designed to find alternate routes, it might be stuck.STARIn a star topology there is a main network server, and each node is wired directly to the server.Something like thisNode 1Node 4  Server  Node 2Node 3A star topology is better than a ring topology, but not as good as a bus topology. In a star topology, any one of the nodes could go down, and the rest of the lan would still be able to function, but if the server goes down, NONE of the rest of the lan would function. Network Access Methods There are two major network access methods that I know of, however I suspect there are more that I don't know about. hey, I never said I knew everything.First of all, what is a network access method It's the method used to send data around the network. Network Access Methods are meant to keep data from colliding with other data.The two major types I know of are Token Ring Passing, and Contention.TOKEN RING PASSINGToken Ring Passing is used primarily with you guessed it.. Token Ring Networks. Token Ring Networks are usually set up with a ring topology, although I would assume that token ring passing could occur not matter what your topology.When token ring passing is in use, an electronic signal, called a token signal is continously sent around the network. When a node wants to send a packet of data, it must attach it to this token. The data then rides the token around the network until it gets to the node it was intended for.CONTENTIONContention is used most often with CSMACD Carrier Sensing Multiple Access with Collision Detection set ups. I like to call it the waiting method. Basically, a node sends a packet of data out, if another packet of data is at the same point, whichever one got there first keeps going, the other one bounces back to the node it originated from, waits for a second well, not literally, but just for the tinyest microsecond then bounces back to see if the way is clear. General Wiring Information There are three main types of wiring for LANs. Twisted Pair, Coaxial Cable, and Fiber Optic wiring.Twisted Pair wiring consists of two insulated copper wires twisted around each other. It's basically just phone wire. This is a common easy way to set up a LAN, also very inexpensive just buy phone wire.. However, it is the least efficent method, and can't handle the load or speed that other types of wire can handle.Coaxial Wiring or Fiber Optik lines are better, they can hold a larger capacity of data, and transmit much faster with no errors. However, these types of wire are much more expensive, and often need to be wired into the walls, or floor, and that makes them even MORE expensive.There is one other way of setting up a LAN, which is what I've done here at home That's using serial or parralell ports, or even modems, to connect the computers. In my case, it's not much of a LAN, an IBM XT w 40 megs and an IBM 386SX w 80 megs hooked together through the serial ports with a null modem. A serialparralellmodem connection is going to be MUCH MUCH MUCH slower than a direct connection. Not only is the data transfered slower, but when you use other types of cable, the cable has to connect through a NIC, or Network Interface card. Not only does the NIC connect the wires together, but it also has the extra power to allow your computer to access the network with no slow downs. Of course, this method is much cheaper.. 5 or less for a null modem cable, and the price of the LAN software LANtastic is the only one I know of that works with serialparralellmodem connections, with it's EZLAN software, which is what I use.., although that only applies if you pay for the software. Conclusion Oh well, not a very underground file Feel free to distribute it to whomever you like.. although I'd apprieciate it if you left it entirely intact, or at least left my name on it. Feel free to publish this in any electronic or nonelectronic form of publication, just leave it intact. If you find any errors or whatever, contact me on my board, Solsbury Hill, in the 301 area code.As the warez dudez say, Greetz to Elk, and Insight.. You're learning fast..Phusionman.. Sorry your friend didn't get served at Maggies snicker Weapons, TRG, Gentry.. Good to see you again at Maggies Tuc.. where are youLaughing Gas, 73191.
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:41:21 PDT</pubDate>
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				Ever get an operator who gave you a hard time, and you didn't knowwhat to do Well if the operator hears you use a little Bell jargon, she might wise up. Here is a little diagram excuse the artwork of the structure of operators  !Operator!  ! S.A. ! ! BOS !  !!V! Group Chief !Now most of the operators are not bugged, so they can curse at you, if they do ask INSTANTLY for the S.A. or the Service Assistant. The operator does not report to her 95 of them are hers but they will solve most of your problems. She MUST give you her name as she connects  all of these calls are bugged. If the SA gives you a rough time get her BOS Business Office Supervisor on the line. SHe will almost always back her girls up, but sometimes the SA will get tarred and feathered. The operator reports to the Group Chief, and SHe will solve 100 of your problems, but the chances of getting SHe on the line are nill.If a lineman the guy who works out on the poles or an installation man gives you the works ask to speak to the Installation Foreman, that works wonders.Here is some other bell jargon, that might come in handy if you are having trouble with the line. Or they can be used to lie your way out of situations.An Erling is a line busy for 1 hour, used mostly in traffic studies A Permanent Signal is that terrible howling you get if you disconnect, but don't hang up.Everyone knows what a busy signal is, but some idiots think that is the Actual ringing of the phone, when it just is a tone beeps when the phone is ringing, wouldn't bet on this though, it can and does get out of sync.When you get a busy signal that is 2 times as fast as the normal one, the person you are trying to reach isn't really on the phone, he might be, it is actually the signal that a trunk line somewhere is busy and they haven't or can't reroute your call. Sometimes you will get a Recording, or if you get nothing at all Left High  Dry in fone terms all the recordings are being used and the system is really overused, will probably go down in a little while. This happened when Kennedy was shot, the system just couldn't handle the calls. By the way this is called the reorder signal and the trunk line is blocked.One more thing, if an overseas call isn't completed and doesn't generate any money for ATT, is is called an Air  Water Call.
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:37:06 PDT</pubDate>
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				Almost every exchange in the bell system has test 's and other goodies such as loops with dialups. These goodies are usually found between 9900 and 9999 in your local exchange. If you have the time and initiative, scan your exchange and you may become lucky!Here are some findings in the 914268 exchange9900  ANI9901  ANI9927  OSC. TONE POSSIBLE TONE SIDE OF A LOOP9936  VOICE  TO THE TELCO CENTRAL OFFICE9937  VOICE  TO THE TELCO CENTRAL OFFICE9941  COMPUTER DIGITAL VOICE TRANSMISSION9960  OSC. TONE TONE SIDE LOOP MAY ALSO BE A COMPUTER IN SOME EXCHANGES9961  NO RESPONSE OTHER END OF LOOP9962  NO RESPONSE OTHER END OF LOOP9963  NO RESPONSE OTHER END OF LOOP9966  COMPUTER SEE 99419968  TONE THAT DISAPPEARSRESPONDS TO CERTAIN TOUCHTONE KEYSMost of the numbers between 9900  9999 will ring or go to a what , please operator.from the Official Phreaker's Manual
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:21:41 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Electromagnetic radiation from cables</title>
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				Unauthorised Access UK 0636708063 10pm7am 12oo24oofrm 'the threat of information theft by reception of electromagnetic radiation from rs232 cables.' computers and security, 91990 5358 factors effecting reception are groundingcoupling, data rate baud, and cable length. I am not entering any of the math, and alot of the tech stuff  If you want to do this get ahold of the paper.experiments showed that RS232 data signals can be intercepted several meters away from a target system, even when a shielded data cable is used. This can be done w the aid of a very compact commercially available and therefore cheap gear such as a walkman provided w a recording facility and some minor modifications. This means that although the seperation distance at which interception is possable is limited to several meters, in many cases eavesdropping can be done without attracting attention. On the other hand, when more sophisticated equipment is used such as a communications receiver in combination w a directional antenna, eavesdropping might be difficult close to the target systemhowever larger and therefore quite safe seperation distances may be feasable.I get the impression that one needs to place the receiver a specific distance frm the cable, mutch akin to having 2 receivers tuned to the same frequency a set distance apart that is a factor of the wavelength of the tuned to frequence and being able to send morse by tapping on the speakers  frequency entrainment, But i'm not shure about this.When an RS232 interface cable is connection is part of the equip configuration, then there are many factors acting in favor of the eavesdropper, the most important being the followingthe bit amplitude of an RS232 data signal is relativly large compaired w the levels of the logic signals used in the inner circuites of the equipment.the rise and fall times of the data signal are very short. Consequently they correspond to high frequency components resulting in considerable radiation.the RS232 interface connection is unballanced with respect to the earth. This inhearent unballance will contribute to a high level of radiation.in many cases, the RS232 cables are not shielded, or the shielding is not adequetly connected to to the equipment, so that those cables behave like unshielded cables.inner walls without metal grids do not effect radiation levels signifficantly at frequencies of interest below 200MHz. the data are serially transported along the RS232 cable, which makes it easy to recognise the individual bits. Usually the data are coded in well known character sets like ASCII. This makes it very easy to to decode the reconstructed bits.the data are often structured by the legal user, therefore they are easily interpreted.the data signal is transmittted at bit rates which are low 300, 600, 1200 bits compaired with the nyquist rate corresponding to the bandwidth of a standard radio receiver AM  5 kHz, FM  75 kHz. Therefore. in principle, the data signal can be detected even w the help of a standard pocket radio receiver. At the same time the data can be recorded on a tape w the help of an ordinary cassette recorder.a simplification is the absence of the coupling between the two resulting signal conductors. For the most commonly used RS232 cables this ommision makes makes no significant difference to the field strength calculation. further we have assumed that the transmitter is grounded and the receiver is not. Grounded means that the galvanic connection to the reference groundplane exists. this is often the case in practice. When no groundplane exists, there will be a certain amount of parasitic capacity between equipment and groundplane in the case of desktop equip. typically 100 pF 2 experiments using a pocket radio receiver  7meter's picked up the signal at 16 MHz short wave band, and 98 MHz.in the FM band at harmonics of the system clocka standard AMFM radio receiver equiped w a whip antinna 1m long. A hard limiter circuit was used to reconstruct the detected dataonly at one site was shielding effectivness signifficant. Radio signals could be detected at a distance in all cases, virtuallycorrelating w the the orriginal data stream. however at 3 sites the data could not be reconstructed w just the aid of a simple level detector he doesn't say what was used to reconstruct the signals beyond a level detector. At the remaining sites, the data could be reconsructed w level detection at distances of 69m A PCmodem connection could be be intercepted in the bedroom of an adjacent housedata received  98 MHz will be too week to to be heard through the the speaker, must use a simple level detector.preampfilter, it seems like proccessing is going to be the biggest pain in getting one of these systems up, it being highly desirable to condition the signal so that it can be fed into a computer and storred on disk.Downloaded From P80 Systems 3047442253
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				COPYRIGHT C 1991 BY FULL DISCLOSURE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.In light of the recent debates regarding the various activities of the hacking community and it various methods of collecting and distributing information the following legal opinion by the Detroit, Michigan Police Department is presented to give some insight on the activity refered to as Dumpster Diving.Not only does this opinion show that such an activity can be legal but that it is not exclusive to the hackers, but is a investigative procedure of law enforcement agenciesSEARCH OF ABANDONED REFUSEA recent Michigan Court of Appeals decision concerns searches of rubbish and garbage without a search warrant. Although courts in other states have addressed the legality of such searches, no Michigan appellate court has ever been confronted with the question.People v Richard Whotte aka Richard BreathourQUESTION Is it ever legal to search rubbish and refuse for evidence if the rubbish or refuse has not been set out for or picked up by trash collectors if I do not first obtain a search warrantANSWER Such searches without search warrants are permissible if they meet the standards listed in People v Whotte.DISCUSSIONIn People v Whotte, Mich App Feb 1982, a Grosse Pointe Park detective was investigating a holdup of a bar when he had occasion to speak to a possible subject at a twofamily apartment. The detective noted that there was domestic rubbish scattered in the backyard of a twofamily flat and it appeared that dogs, cats, or other animals had strewn the litter about the yard in searching for foodstuffs. The detective noted credit card receipts within the refuse in the name of the suspect. The next day, the detective returned, reexamined the credit card receipts, and looked inside one of the torn open bags in the yard, finding the suspect's wedding license and a wallet of one of the victims. This information was elicited in testimony at the circuit court. Upon this and other evidence, defendant was found guilty and eventually appealed his conviction, unsuccessfully.Other states have addressed the issue of whether or not a search warrant is needed to examine trash and have generally decided that such searches are legal if the garbage has been left at a spot where the garbage is collected by the collection service or if the garbage has lost its identity by being mingled with other people's trash. The Michigan Court of Appeals has adopted the Alaska rule, which attempts to determine if the search violates the trash owner's reasonable expectations of privacy. That determination is made considering these factors1. Where the trash is located2. Whether the dwelling is a multiple or single family unit3. Who recovered the trash4. Where the search of the trash takes place.Based on these standards, a search warrant is probably needed if the rubbish is stored immediately outside a rear door of a single family dwelling and only placed outside the back fence on trash collection day. However, trash thrown onto a common heap in the backyard of a large apartment building where roaming dogs strew it about would not require a warrant. Further, although the test might indicate otherwise, trial courts will probably not allow searches of trash inside of buildings even if there has been indication of intent to abandon the trash.The test announced in this new case adopts a common sense approach as to whether the trash has been abandoned or just removed from inside the house to a more convenient location. Common sense would also dictate, though, that in questionable circumstances, discretion favors obtaining a search warrant. This case appears to be the state of the law in Michigan today, but is subject to reversal by a superior court.Members having questions about this case are requested to contact the Legal Advisor Unit at Centrex 44426 or Police Dial 346.The above is reprinted from Full Disclosure Newspaper.
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				It seems that fewer and fewer people have blue boxes these days, and that is really too bad. Blue boxes, while not all that great for making free calls since the TPC can tell when the call was made, as well as where it was too and from, are really a lot of fun to play with. Short of becoming a real live TSPS operator, they are about the only way you can really play with the network.For the few of you with blue boxes, here are some phrases which may make life easier when dealing with the rate  route RR operators. To get the RR op, you send a KP  141  ST. In some areas you may need to put another NPA before the 141 i.e., KP  213  141  ST, if you have no local RR ops.The RR operator has a myriad of information, and all it takes to get this data is mumbling cryptic phrases. There are basically four special phrases to give the RR ops. They are NUMBERS route, DIRECTORY route, OPERATOR route, and PLACE NAME.To get an RR an area code for a city, one can call the RR operator and ask for the numbers route. For example, to find the area code for Carson City, Nevada, we'd ask the RR op for Carson City, Nevada, numbers route, please. and get the answer, Right 702 plus. meaning that 702 plus 7 digits gets us there.Sometimes directory assistance isn't just NPA  131. The way to get these routings is to call RR and ask for Anaheim, California, directory route, please. Of course, she'd tell us it was 714 plus, which means 714  131 gets us the D.A. op there. This is sort of pointless example, but I couldn't come up with a better one on short notice.Let's say you wanted to find out how to get to the inward operator for Sacremento, California. The first six digits of a number in that city will be required the NPA and an NXX. For example, let us use 916 756. We would call RR, and when the operator answered, say, 916 756, operator route, please. The operator would say, 916 plus 001 plus. This means that 916  001  121 will get you the inward operator for Sacramento. Do you know the city which corresponds to 503 640 The RR operator does, and will tell you that it is Hillsboro, Oregon, if you sweetly ask for Place name, 503 640, please.For example, let's say you need the directory route for Sveg, Sweden. Simply call RR, and ask for, International, Baden, Switzerland. TSPS directory route, please. In response to this, you'd get, Right Directory to Sveg, Sweden. Country code 46 plus 1170. So you'd route yourself to aninternational sender, and send 46  1170 to get the D.A. operator in Sweden.Inward operator routings to various countries are obtained the same way International, London, England, TSPS inward route, please. and get Country code 44 plus 121. Therefore, 44 plus 121 gets you inward for London.Inwards can get you language assitance if you don't speak the language. Tell the foreign inward, United Staes calling. Language assitance in completing a call to called party at called number.RR operators are people are people too, y'know. So always be polite, make sure use of 'em, and dial with care.
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				Phrack Inc.Volume Three, Issue 30, File 5 of 12  The DECWRL Mail Gateway   by Dedicated Link   September 20, 1989  INTRODUCTION DECWRL is a mail gateway computer operated by Digital's Western Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, California. Its purpose is to support the interchange of electronic mail between Digital and the outside world. DECWRL is connected to Digital's Easynet, and also to a number of different outside electronic mail networks. Digital users can send outside mail by sending to DECWRLoutsideaddress, and digital users can also receive mail by having your correspondents route it through DECWRL. The details of incoming mail are more complex, and are discussed below. It is vitally important that Digital employees be good citizens of the networks to which we are connected. They depend on the integrity of our user community to ensure that tighter controls over the use of the gateway are not required. The most important rule is no chain letters, but there are other rules depending on whether the connected network that you are using is commercial or noncommercial. The current traffic volume September 1989 is about 10,000 mail messages per day and about 3,000 USENET messages per day. Gatewayed mail traffic has doubled every year since 1983. DECWRL is currently a Vax 8530 computer with 48 megabytes of main memory, 2500 megabytes of disk space, 8 9600baud Telebit modem ports, and various network connections. They will shortly be upgrading to a Vax 8650 system. They run Ultrix 3.0 as the base operating system.ADMINISTRATIONThe gateway has engineering staff, but no administrative or clerical staff. They work hard to keep it running, but they do not have the resources to answer telephone queries or provide tutorials in its use.They post periodic status reports to the USENET newsgroup dec.general. Various helpful people usually copy these reports to the VAXNOTES gateways conference within a day or two.HOW TO SEND MAILDECWRL is connected to quite a number of different mail networks. If you were logged on directly to it, you could type addresses directly, e.g.To strange!foreign!address.But since you are not logged on directly to the gateway, you must send mail so that when it arrives at the gateway, it will be sent as if that address had been typed locally. Sending from VMSIf you are a VMS user, you should use NMAIL, because VMS mail does not know how to requeue and retry mail when the network is congested or disconnected. From VMS, address your mail like thisTo nmDECWRLstrange!foreign!addressThe quote characters  are important, to make sure that VMS doesn't try to interpret strange!foreign!address itself. If you are typing such an address inside a mail program, it will work as advertised. If you are using DCL and typing directly to the command line, you should beware that DCL likes to remove quotes, so you will have to enclose the entire address in quotes, and then put two quotes in every place that one quote should appear in the address mail test.msg nmDECWRLforeign!addr subjhelloNote the three quotes in a row after foreign!addr. The first two of them are doubled to produce a single quote in the address, and the third ends the address itself balancing the quote in front of the nm.Here are some typical outgoing mail addresses as used from a VMS systemTo nmDECWRLlllwinkin!netsys!phrackTo nmDECWRLpostmastermsp.pnet.sc.eduTo nmDECWRLnetsys!phrackuunet.uu.netTo nmDECWRLphrackservCUNYVM.bitnetTo nmDECWRLChris.Jonesf654.n987.z1.fidonet.org Sending from UltrixIf your Ultrix system has been configured for it, then you can, from your Ultrix system, just send directly to the foreign address, and the mail software will take care of all of the gateway routing for you. Most Ultrix systems in Corporate Research and in the Palo Alto cluster are configured this way.To find out whether your Ultrix system has been so configured, just try it and see what happens. If it doesn't work, you will receive notification almost instantly.NOTE The Ultrix mail system is extremely flexible it is almostcompletely configurable by the customer. While this is valuable to customers, it makes it very difficult to write global instructions for the use of Ultrix mailers, because it is possible that the local changes have produced something quite unlike the vendordelivered mailer. One of the popular changes is to tinker with the meaning of quote characters  in Ultrix addresses. Some systems consider that these two addresses are the samesite1!site2!userhost.dec.comandsite1!site2!userhost.dec.comwhile others are configured so that one form will work and the other will not. All of these examples use the quotes. If you have trouble getting the examples to work, please try them again without the quotes. Perhaps your Ultrix system is interpreting the quotes differently.If your Ultrix system has an IP link to Palo Alto type etcping decwrl.dec.com to find out if it does, then you can route your mail to the gateway via IP. This has the advantage that your Ultrix mail headers will reach the gateway directly, instead of being translated into DECNET mail headers and then back into Ultrix at the other end. Do this as followsTo alien!addressdecwrl.dec.comThe quotes are necessary only if the alien address contains a ! character, but they don't hurt if you use them unnecessarily. If the alien address contains an  character, you will need to change it into a  character. For example, to send via IP to joewidget.org, you should address the mailTo joewidget.orgdecwrl.dec.comIf your Ultrix system has only a DECNET link to Palo Alto, then you should address mail in much the same way that VMS users do, save that you should not put the nm in front of the addressTo DECWRLstrange!foreign!addressHere are some typical outgoing mail addresses as used from an Ultrix system that has IP access. Ultrix systems without IP access should use the same syntax as VMS users, except that the nm at the front of the address should not be used.To lllwinken!netsys!phrackdecwrl.dec.comTo postmastermsp.pnet.sc.edudecwrl.dec.comTo phrackservCUNYVM.bitnetdecwrl.dec.comTo netsys!phrackuunet.uu.netdecwrl.dec.comTo Chris.Jonesf654.n987.z1.fidonet.orgdecwrl.dec.comDETAILS OF USING OTHER NETWORKSAll of the world's computer networks are connected together, more or less, so it is hard to draw exact boundaries between them. Precisely where the Internet ends and UUCP begins is a matter of interpretation.For purposes of sending mail, though, it is convenient to divide the network universe into these categoriesEasynetDigital's internal DECNET network. Characterized by addresses of the form NODEUSER. Easynet can be used for commercial purposes.InternetA collection of networks including the old ARPAnet, the NSFnet, the CSnet, and others. Most international research, development, and educational organizations are connected in some fashion to the Internet. Characterized by addresses of the form usersite.subdomain.domain. The Internet itself cannot be used for commercial purposes.UUCPA very primitive network with no management, built with autodialers phoning one computer from another. Characterized by addresses of the form place1!place2!user. The UUCP network can be used for commercial purposes provided that none of the sites through which the message is routed objects to that.USENETNot a network at all, but a layer of software built on top of UUCP and Internet.BITNETAn IBMbased network linking primarily educational sites. Digital users can send to BITNET as if it were part of Internet, but BITNET users need special instructions for reversing the process. BITNET cannot be used for commercial purposes.FidonetA network of personal computers. I am unsure of the status of using Fidonet for commercial purposes, nor am I sure of its efficacy.DOMAINS AND DOMAIN ADDRESSINGThere is a particular network called the Internet it is somewhat related to what used to be the ARPAnet. The Internet style of addressing is flexible enough that people use it for addressing other networks as well, with the result that it is quite difficult to look at an address and tell just what network it is likely to traverse. But the phrase Internet address does not mean mail address of some computer on the Internet but rather mail address in the style used by the Internet. Terminology is even further confused because the word address means one thing to people who build networks and something entirely different to people who use them. In this file an address is something like mikedecwrl.dec.com and not 192.1.24.177 which is what network engineers would call an internet address.The Internet naming scheme uses hierarchical domains, which despite their title are just a bookkeeping trick. It doesn't really matter whether you say NODEUSER or USERNODE, but what happens when you connect two companies' networks together and they both have a node ANCHOR You must, somehow, specify which ANCHOR you mean. You could say ANCHOR.DECUSER or DEC.ANCHORUSER or USERANCHOR.DEC or USERDEC.ANCHOR. The Internet convention is to say USERANCHOR.DEC, with the owner DEC after the name ANCHOR.But there could be several different organizations named DEC. You could have Digital Equipment Corporation or Down East College or Disabled Education Committee. The technique that the Internet scheme uses to resolve conflicts like this is to have hierarchical domains. A normal domain isn't DEC or STANFORD, but DEC.COM commercial and STANFORD.EDU educational. These domains can be further divided into ZK3.DEC.COM or CS.STANFORD.EDU. This doesn't resolve conflicts completely, though both Central Michigan University and CarnegieMellon University could claim to be CMU.EDU. The rule is that the owner of the EDU domain gets to decide, just as the owner of the CMU.EDU gets to decide whether the Electrical Engineering department or the Elementary Education department gets subdomain EE.CMU.EDU.The domain scheme, while not perfect, is completely extensible. If you have two addresses that can potentially conflict, you can suffix some domain to the end of them, thereby making, say, decwrl.UUCP be somehow different from DECWRL.ENET.DECWRL's entire mail system is organized according to Internet domains, and in fact we handle all mail internally as if it were Internet mail. Incoming mail is converted into Internet mail, and then routed to the appropriate domain if that domain requires some conversion, then the mail is converted to therequirements of the outbound domain as it passes through the gateway. Forexample, they put Easynet mail into the domain ENE STATE DENSITY ACCESS NUMBER NTWK     03306 BERKELEY CALIFORNIA 3001200 4155482121 PPS06272 EL SEGUNDO CALIFORNIA 3001200 2136408548 PPS06272 FULLERTON CALIFORNIA 3001200 7144412777 PPS06272 INGLEWOOD CALIFORNIA 3001200 2132167667 PPS06272 LOS ANGELESDOWNTOWN CALIFORNIA 3001200 2136873727 PPS06272 LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA 3001200 2134801677 PPS03306 MOUNTAIN VIEW CALIFORNIA 3001200 4159603363 PPS03306 OAKLAND CALIFORNIA 3001200 4158939889 PPS03306 PALO ALTO CALIFORNIA 3001200 4153254666 PPS06272 PASADENA CALIFORNIA 3001200 8183560780 PPS03306 SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 3001200 4155438275 PPS03306 SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 3001200 4156265380 PPS03306 SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 3001200 4153622280 PPS03306 SAN JOSE CALIFORNIA 3001200 4089200888 PPS06272 SANTA ANNA CALIFORNIA 3001200 7149729844 PPS06272 VAN NUYS CALIFORNIA 3001200 8187801066 PPSPPS PACIFIC BELL  NETWORK NAME IS PUBLIC PACKET SWITCHING PPSCONNECT MESSAGE. . . _ _C R SYNCHRONIZES DATA SPEEDSDOES NOT ECHO TO THE TERMINALONLINE 1200WELCOME TO PPS 415XXXXXXX1 _3 _1 _0 _6 9 TYMNET ADDRESSDOES NOT ECHO UNTIL TYMNET RESPONDSGWY 0XXXX TYMNET PLEASE LOG IN HOST  WITHIN DASHESSOUTHWESTERN BELLNODE CITY STATE DENSITY ACCESS NUMBERS NWRK     05443 KANSAS CITY KANSAS 3001200 3162259951 MRLK05443 HAYS KANSAS 3001200 9136258100 MRLK05443 HUTCHINSON KANSAS 3001200 3166691052 MRLK05443 LAWRENCE KANSAS 3001200 9138415580 MRLK05443 MANHATTAN KANSAS 3001200 9135399291 MRLK05443 PARSONS KANSAS 3001200 3164210620 MRLK05443 SALINA KANSAS 3001200 9138254547 MRLK05443 TOPEKA KANSAS 3001200 9132351909 MRLK05443 WICHITA KANSAS 3001200 3162691996 MRLK04766 BRIDGETONST. LOUIS MISSOURI 3001200 3146220900 MRLK04766 ST. LOUIS MISSOURI 3001200 3146220900 MRLK06510 ADA OKLAHOMA 3001200 4054360252 MRLK06510 ALTUS OKLAHOMA 3001200 4054770321 MRLK06510 ALVA OKLAHOMA 3001200 4053271441 MRLK06510 ARDMORE OKLAHOMA 3001200 4052238086 MRLK03167 BARTLESVILLE OKLAHOMA 3001200 9183366901 MRLK06510 CLINTON OKLAHOMA 3001200 4053238102 MRLK06510 DURANT OKLAHOMA 3001200 4059242680 MRLK06510 ENID OKLAHOMA 3001200 4052428221 MRLK06510 LAWTON OKLAHOMA 3001200 4052488772 MRLK03167 MCALESTER OKLAHOMA 3001200 9184260900 MRLK03167 MIAMI OKLAHOMA 3001200 9185401551 MRLK03167 MUSKOGEE OKLAHOMA 3001200 9186831114 MRLK06510 OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA 3001200 4052360660 MRLK06510 PONCA CITY OKLAHOMA 3001200 4057629926 MRLK03167 SALLISAW OKLAHOMA 3001200 9187757713 MRLK06510 SHAWNEE OKLAHOMA 3001200 4052730053 MRLK06510 STILLWATER OKLAHOMA 3001200 4053775500 MRLK03167 TULSA OKLAHOMA 3001200 9185836606 MRLK06510 WOODWARD OKLAHOMA 3001200 4052569947 MRLKMRLK  SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE NETWORK NAME IS MICROLINK IIRCONNECT MESSAGEPLEASE TYPE YOUR TERMINAL IDENTIFIERA _ YOUR TERMINAL IDENTIFIERWELCOME TO MICROLINK IIXXXX01030PLEASE LOG IN.T  _C _R  USERNAME TO ACCESS TYMNETHOST CALL CONNECTEDGWY 0XXXX TYMNET PLEASE LOG INSOUTHERN NEW ENGLANDNODE CITY STATE DENSITY ACCESS NUMBERS NWRK     02727 BRIDGEPORT CONNECTICUT 3002400 2033666972 CONNNET02727 BRISTOL CONNECTICUT 3002400 2035895100 CONNNET02727 CANAAN CONNECTICUT 3002400 2038245103 CONNNET02727 CLINTON CONNECTICUT 3002400 2036694243 CONNNET02727 DANBURY CONNECTICUT 3002400 2037432906 CONNNET02727 DANIELSON CONNECTICUT 3002400 2037791880 CONNNET02727 HARTFORDMIDDLETOWN CONNECTICUT 3002400 2037246219 CONNNET02727 MERIDEN CONNECTICUT 3002400 2032373460 CONNNET02727 NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT 3002400 2037761142 CONNNET02727 NEW LONDON CONNECTICUT 3002400 2034430884 CONNNET02727 NEW MILFORD CONNECTICUT 3002400 2033550764 CONNNET02727 NORWALK CONNECTICUT 3002400 2038665305 CONNNET02727 OLD GREDDWICH CONNNETICUT 3002400 2036378872 CONNNET02727 OLD SAYBROOK CONNECTICUT 3002400 2033880778 CONNNET02727 SEYMOUR CONNECTICUT 3002400 2038811455 CONNNET02727 STAMFORD CONNECTICUT 3002400 2033249701 CONNNET02727 STORRS CONNECTICUT 3002400 2034294243 CONNNET02727 TORRINGTON CONNECTICUT 3002400 2034829849 CONNNET02727 WATERBURY CONNECTICUT 3002400 2035970064 CONNNET02727 WILLIMANTIC CONNECTICUT 3002400 2034564552 CONNNET02727 WINDSOR CONNECTICUT 3002400 2036889330 CONNNET02727 WINDSOR LCKSENFIELD CONNECTICUT 3002400 2036239804 CONNNETCONNNET  SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE  NETWORK NAME IN CONNNETCONNECT MESSAGEH_ H_  SYNCHRONIZES DATA SPEEDSDOES NOT ECHO TO THE TERMINALCONNNET._ T_ _ MUST BE CAPITAL LETTERS26SEP88 1833 DATA031069 ADDRESS CONFIRMATIONCOM CONFIRMATION OF CALL SETUPGWY OXXXXTYMNET PLEASE LOG INOn a side note, the recent book The Cuckoo's Egg provides some interesting information in the form of a story, however on a Tymnet hacker. Remember that he was into BIG things, and hence he was cracked down upon. If you keep a low profile, networks should provide a good access method.If you can find a system that is connected to the Internet that you can get on from Tymnet, you are doing well.Usernamef.n.z.ifna.orgIn other words, if I wanted to mail to Silicon Swindler at 11355, the address would be Silicon_Swindlerf5.n135.z1.ifna.org and, provided that your mailer knows the .ifna.org domain, it should get through alright. Apparently, as of the writing of this article, they have implemented a new gateway name called fidonet.org which should work in place of ifna.org in all routings. If your mailer does not know either of these domains, use the above routing but replace the first  with a  and then afterwards, use either of the following mailers after the  CS.ORST.EDU or K9.CS.ORST.EDU i.e. usernamef.n.z.fidonet.orgCS.ORST.EDU or replace CS.ORST.EDU with K9.CS.ORST.EDU.The following is a list compiled by Bill Fenner WCFPSUECL.BITNET that was posted on INFONETS DIGEST which lists a number of FIDONET gatewaysNet Node Node Name  104 56 milehi.ifna.org105 55 casper.ifna.org107 320 rubbs.ifna.org109 661 blkcat.ifna.org125 406 fidogate.ifna.org128 19 hipshk.ifna.org129 65 insight.ifna.org143 NA fidogate.ifna.org152 200 castle.ifna.org161 NA fidogate.ifna.org369 17 megasys.ifna.orgNOTEThe UUCP equivalent node name is the first part of the node name. In other words, the UUCP node milehi is listed as milehi.ifna.org but can be mailed directly over the UUCP network.Another way to mail to FIDONET, specifically for Internet people, is in this formatihnp4!necntc!ncoast!ohiont!!!user_namehusc6.harvard.eduAnd for those UUCP mailing people out there, just use the path described and ignore the husc5.harvard.edu portion. There is a FIDONET NODELIST available on most any FIDONET bulletin board, but it is quite large.ONTYMEPreviously known as Tymnet, OnTyme is the McDonnell Douglas revision. After they bought out Tymnet, they renamed the company and opened an experimental Internet gateway at ONTYME.TYMNET.COM but this is supposedly only good for certain corporate addresses within McDonnell Douglas and Tymnet, not their customers. The userid format is xx.yyy or xx.yyy where xx is a net name and yyy or yyy is a true username. If you cannot directly nail this, tryxx.yyyONTYME.TYM
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				One of the most pressing needs in all computers systems is computer security.The penetration of a computer system can cause devastating losses. Theselosses include losses in personal privacy,equiptment,capability,money,timeand opportunity. monetary losses due to computerrelated crime and who you talkto. compare this amount to the 50 million lost per year due to armed bankrobberies. The trend towards distributed systems present many new possibilies for security and privacy violations.Computer criminals are becoming more and more sophisticated and learned intheir practice. According to the FBI, only about 1 of all computer crimesare ever discovered, and those discovered,less than 5 leads to convictions.Failures in some computer systems can cause world war,economic collapse,nuclear power plant meltdown,or massive blackouts! These failures can be causedby many factors. One major factor is the purposeful or accidental byproductof a computer crime. Computer crimes average 30 times more  than others.Computer crime orphreaking as a crime category is no doubt the most lucrativeand least risky of all crimes category Little of it is reported on the news,and those cases reported are generally the more amateurish attempts.PHREAKING is what a phreak does. In the 1960s, groups of hippies,radical, etc., bored with the middle and upper class successes of their families,engaged in wild,daring,and dangerous activities. These activities includedrippingoff originally a hippie term Ma Bell by making free long distanceand pay phone calls,using homebuilt, handheld Blue and Red boxes,respectivly. These perpetrators became known as PHONE FHREAKS, and later, as PHREAKS. Their publication, TAP , founded by Abbie Hoffman and others,operated fromRoom 603 147 w.42nd St. NYC,NY, until burglarized and burned out in 1983.As the 1980s arrived, Ma Bell consideraly tightened security, and Red andBlue boxes., phreaking has apparently leveled off. The primary phone phreaking objective today is credit card fraud. One lady was recently billed109,000 for 15,000 credit card calls in one month using her credit cardnumber, which,apparently, someone had overheard her say. Ma Bell readjustedher bill to 47.00!With the increasing popularity of small microcomputers,particulary the portableand transportable kinds,communications between computers systems using modemphone hookups have also increased.Hundreds of computer Bulletins Boards BBS now flourish all over the country. These permit computerists to use their computers to post messages andsoftware accessible by those permitted to use the BBwhich may include thegeneral public or limited to some type of club,business or other special arrangement.Most of the computer phone traffic is legal, but much of it is questionable,and some clearly illegal. The primary purpose of some BBs is to transferinformation of mostly illegal application, such as credit card numbers,passwords, copyrighted software, etc., and to put people in contact with eachother withe like questionable or illegal intentions.Along with the increased use of BBs to facilitate criminal activity, is the increased activity of some people to use this information, and to develop their own, to penetrate systems not intended for their use.The FBI and other legal authorities, and Ma Bell security are more closelyscrutinizing the activities of BBs. BBs have been raided and shut down.Sting operations have been set up. Suspected BBs are regularly monitoredwhile nearly all others are periodically examined to gain intelligenceon phreakers, and those associated with underground radical organizations.The Red and Blue Box Phreaker of yesterday has evolved into the Computer Phreaker of today. He is daring, intelligent and knowledgeable. He maybe reckless, or cool and systematic.He is generally young, single, white, male, middle class, secure, highlyintelligent and a good student. The term, whiz is often used to describehim.The term Computer Phreaking is steadily evolving from misusing a microcomputer and Ma Bell to penetrate other computer systems ala WAR GAMES, to a generalized term to cover all crimes in which a computer is programmed to act as an accomplice. Today, the bulk of computer phreaking is done by officers and employees of the Government, financial institutions, and large corporations for themselves or the institution which employs them, with little or no associaion with whiz kids, long distance phone calls and BBs.DISCLAIMER While every attempt hasbeen made to provide correct and complete information, we do not assume responsibility for any errors or omissions. We assume no liability whatever for loss or damage caused directly or indirectly, or alleged to be caused by the information found herein. COMPUTER PHREAKING is printed as is, and is printed for educational and entertainment purposes only. We do NOT recommend, suggest or encourage any illegal use of computers.TERMINOLOGYThe following terms are used hereACCOUNT Refers to savings, checking, credit, debit, inventory or general ledger account.ATM Automated or Automatic Teller Machine. A computerized cash dispenseracceptor used to replace a bank clerk. One inserts an encoded debit card into the ATM's slot to initiate the transaction.BB Computer Bulletin Board. Functions similarly to other bulletin boards except that access is made by computers via phonemodem hookups.DATA Data in the generalized sense to include numerical data, messages and text. May be raw data or processed data information.EFTS Electronic Fund Transfer System A gerneralized term that refers to all computerized banking operations involving the communication of financial information from one point to another.Although EFTS has come to mean many diverse electronic automation projects,it usually denotes ATMs,POSs, Automated Clearing Houses, and a type of nationalbanking or money settlement and clearing function.FILE A Computer File, which may be a computer program routine or data file. A data file is any computer file which is not a routine of program.INSTITUTION Refers to financial instutions, large corporations, government, and other businessess which rely upon computers.KEY DATA Refers to a data file record descriptor, such as name, address, account number, transaction numberex. banking, Social Security , VA , etc., part number, sales identitifier, department number, applicable discount rate, account number, vendor identifier, account type, privileges, activity status, expiration or monthly closing date, etc.OS Computer Operating System the master software which manages and supervises computer operation. A UTILITY is a program used to perform frequent operations required by the OS andor application programs, such as spooling, printer dump, file conversion etc. An APPLICATION PROGRAM is a program designed for a specific user application, such as a game, wordprocessor, general ledger, etc.PAYMENT Refers to a payroll, divident, interest, commission, loan, rent,installment, account deposit, annuity, pension, disability, welfare, unemployment compensation, insurance, Social Security, etc. payment.PERPETRATOR Refers to one who perpetrates an action or crime, and includes all his accomplices and accessories.POS Point of Sale terminal. An ATM device used in stores to enter, verifyand debit the cost of purchases.TARGET Refers to the person in the objective sense targetted by the computer crime. The target may be a customer, client, patron, vendor, contractor, employee, employer, pensioner, stockholder, taxpayer, salesman, patient, welfare recipient, disability recipient, etc. Usually, Target refersto the victim, but not always. Depending upon use, it may refer to an accomplice, or refer to one who neither gains nor loses by the crime but whoseparticipation is required.TRANSACTION Refers to the transfer of money between accounts or between anaccount and a person. It also refers to adding and deleting a data file, orchanging a data file which ultimately affects the transfer of money.CRIMERELATED TERMSThe following terms are defined in context to their relationship to computercrime.ACCESS NUMBER An Access Number is a secret phone, extension, account orproject number used to access a computer or program.AUTHENTICATION PROCEDURES See section on this topic.BODY SNATCHER A Body Snatcher is a program whish takes a file, and automatically creates from it a Mutant. It may or may not destroy the original and rename the new one as the original.BOMB A Bomb is a program or program function which fails because of bugs.BUG 1 A program mistake or defect.2 An electronic surveillance device, wired or unwired.BREAKAGE Breakage is the bleeding off of small sums from numerous sources such as accumulating all the roundoffs from numerous savings accounts interest computations. Each data file may lose less than a penny but, in large banks, the total breakage losses can amount to  Thousands per day.CANDYMAN A Candyman is a person who compromises key computer, accounting or purchasing personnel to obtain intelligence critical to computer penetration, usually with bribes of money or sex.CHEESEBOX A Cheesebox is an electronic device which, upon receipt ofa certain phone number or data sequence automatically switches a line to anunauthorized line perhaps to a Wiretap.CHECKSUM A Checksum is a sum derived from a summation check usually without regard to overflow. Checksums are very effective in detecting random, naturally caused errors but can be manipulated to not detect fraud errors. To minimize the probability of manipulation, make the Checksum also depended upon a key andor random information.Two types1 STANDARD CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECK CRC The message is expressed as a polynymial, and is then divided by a small, fixed polynomial, F. The remainder is the CRC. The CRC is then appended to the transmitted message. The combined message received must be evenly divisible by F to be correct.2 MODULO ARITHMETIC SUM The results of a Modulon operation.CODE 10 A Code 10 is a procedure instituted by credit and debit cardissuers to stop fraud. If a merchant is suspicious of a customer, he callsthe card issuer for verification. While on the phone, he says the wordsCode 10. He is automatically hooked up to security, which asks him a set ofquestions requiring only yes and no answers.COUNTERMEASURE A Countermeasure is a defensive technique used to detect, prevent or expose crime.CRASH A Crash is similar to a Bomb but generally refers to a major OS orprogram failure. Also caused by power failures.DIVERSION A Diversion is a secondary activity used to divert attention awayfrom a crime or perpetrator. Examples are staged crashes, program bugs, or other criminal activity.EARMARK An Earmark is a characters ex. a nonprintable character used tosecretly identify files or data elements for special treatment. Earmarksare used for fraud purposes. Earmarks can also be used as a Countermeasure.ENCRYPTION SCHEMES To encrypt data or text means to encode or encipher it.Most savvy computer users do not rely solely upon passwords and complex signon procedures to protect their systems and software. They can be too easilyguessed or compromised.The data or text is encoded using a key designed by the encoding scheme. The encoded or encrypted message is then transmitted. When it is received by an authorized receiver, a key is used to decode the data or text so that it is again meaningful. Uncoded or decoded data is called PLAINTEXT. Encoded data is called CIPHERTEXT.GODFATHER or BIGBROTHER A Godfather or BigBrother is a Trojan Horsewhich modifies the OS, or a utility routine or program which performs an OSfunction. When it is active, it takes over the control of certain OS orutility functions. The controlled applications or utility program orroutine becomes a Zombie.The primary illegal purpose of a Godfather is tomodify the function or programs without changing the code in the programs themselves. Thus, the programs will operate as designed when the Godfather isabsent, but differently when it is present. Godfathers can be designed to beactivated or deactivated by user entry ex. pressing a certain key combination.EXAMPLE A modification of the OS's printer output routine to interceptall printer outputs and to screen out bogus transaction inputs. The OS codeis zapped to add an extra CALL or JUMP routines, which diverts the processing of printer outputs to the perpetrator's Godfather code located elsewhere in memory or on disk or tape.After the Godfather screens out all bogus transactions, it returns controlback to the OS printer routine to resume normal processing of outputdata.KEY A Key is a sequence of characters, which are combined with data tochange Plaintext to Ciphertext or vice versa. Encoded data requires knowledgeof the key to decode. Many encoding schemes are possible, the most popular methods use character substitutions, matrix operations, the U.S.Government's Data Encryption Standard DES, or Public Keys.LAPPING Lapping is a scheme in which meticulous record keeping and timemanagement permits the phreaker to deselect an existing target while selecting a new one to minimize the risk of discovery and identification.LOGIC BOMB A Logic Bomb is a Trojan Horse which activates usually at a certain date or time, and destroys files, its host program or routine, and usually itself. An interesting application of Logic Bombs are in some commercial software packages. Most people do not want to spend  Hundreds for a program without actually applying it themselves first.The problem is, once you lend a program to a potential customer to try out, how do you collect payment for the program if the potential customer keeps it, and, how do you guarantee that he won't pirate your program You install a Logic Bomb in the program. After the stolen program has been run for a certain amount of time, the program destroys itself.Once the program is paid for, the programmer removes or deactivates the Logic Bomb.MOLE A Mole is a spy for another country, business or agency who infiltrates an organization to steal national security information, trade secretsstrategies, files, money, etc., or to sabotage or create havoc.MUTANT A Mutant is created by a Body Snatcher, and closely resembles another file except for a few critical changes.PASSWORD A Password is a word or phrase that must be correctly entered into the computer for the computer to allow access to programs andor data in the computer. Most computer security schemes rely upon more than one password to protect the system. There are basically two types of passwordsA. ACCESS PASSWORDS Passwords which level of access is dictated by assigned Protection Levels or Attributes.B. UPDATE PASSWORDS Passwords which permit the user Total Privilege inthe system. Total Privilege permits the user to execute, read, write, rename and kill files.PATCH or ZAP A Patch is a software modification, usually by using autility ex. IBM'S SUPERZAP to change the actual bytes of program or data stored on disk, tape or memory. Zaps are used to implant Trojan Horses, and to make other file changes.PIRACY Piracy is the theft of proprietary software or data. Many computer programmers now use sophisticated protection schemes, both hardware and software in nature, to protect their software from unauthorized duplication.These techniques, however, are overcome by computer whizzes just about as fast as new methods appear, and they prevent authorized users from making needed backups in case the original program is destroyed.The piracy of data from financial and government data banks is largely thwarted by the use of Passwords, complex Encryption schemes, Security Codes, Access Numbers, Authentication procedures, and dedicated lines. Still the piracy of data is widespread and increasing. Whatever scheme is devised by man to thwart penetration can also be undone by man.PROTECTION LEVELS or ATTRIBUTESAccess Passwords are assigned Protection Levels. These areA. EXECUTE Only permits the user to execute a program, but not to read a data file.B. READ Permits the user to execute, AND to read data files.C. WRITE Permits the user to execute, read files, AND to write to data files.D. RENAME Permits the user to execute, read, write, AND to rename files.E. KILL or TOTAL PRIVILEGE Permits the user to execute, read, write, andrename files AND to kill files.Protection Levels are important because they allow you to assign access capability based upon the need of the user. For example, if a shipping clerkneeds to verify that an order was placed, he should not have the power to kill customer files.PUBLIC KEY SYSTEMS See section on this topic.SCRAMBLER A Scrambler is a device which electronically scrambles data, usually by frequency inversion, frequency hopping, bandsplitting, or time division multiplexing.SECURITY CODE A Security Code is an identifier or combination used to access a computer or program.SHAKE or LOSE To Shake or Lose is to evade detection.SILENT ALARM A Silent Alarm is a computer system protection scheme that detects efforts to penetrate a computer system  particulary trialanderror type efforts. Usually at least three signon attempts are permitted before an alarm is activated.Unknown to the offender, the program enters a silent trap or interrupt routine, and a system alarm is activated. System and security personnel, the phone company, andor law enforcement personnel are then notified, usually but not always immediatly.Also, entrapment procedures are activated to determine who the offender is, and to record all that transpires. These usually consist of a phone trace andor a game in which the violator is roped into playing. The game cleverly probes the perpetrator for indentifying information.Of course, the alarm in not detectable by the violator. The Milwaukee 414 group was caught largely due to information derived from a Silent Alarm game in a California bank they penetrated.SMOE Surreptious Methods of Entry.The art of penetrating a computer system without leaving a clue or evidence.SOLO ARTIST A Solo Artist is a sophisticated criminal who words by himself.TAP or WIRETAP A Tap or Wiretap is an unauthorized monitoring circuit directly connected to a computer's communications line.TRAPDOOR A Trapdoor is a Trojan Horse which modifies an OS utility, or applications program to permit the use of an unauthorized Master Passwords to gain access. This second Password penetrates by bypassing all other Passwords and security schemes used by the System  even after they've been changed!Trapdoors are often installed by programmers to ease the development and troubleshooting of programs, or to assure access to them no matter who has them or how they are used. In WAR GAMES it was the placement of an easily guessed Trapdoor routine his son's name was used as the password by the eccentric program designer that permitted easy penetration.TROJAN HORSE A Trojan horse is a software routine which is insidiously implanted in a program or routine.When a certain combination of events occur the Trojan Horse routine is activated and performs a functions alien or contrary to the true intention of the program. The programming events may include the date, the amount of time the program is run, a data entry or combination of data entries, the calling of a legitimate routine or combination of routines, or by certain keyboard entries.The Trojan Horse is designed to periodically inspect for these programming events, and upon their occurrence, to launch into special routines. Trojan Horses are frequently used to defraud. Examples of Trojan Horses are Logic Bombs, Trapdoors and Godfathers.For example, when the targeted combination of programming events occur, the Trojan Horse in a bank's savings accounts program activates. It transfers a huge quantity of money to another account. It then changes or erases both itself from the program and the record of to whom the money was transferred. The money literally disappears with little or no trace! Trojan Horses are usually difficult to detect in program code, and to prevent.How Destructive can Trojan Horses be The type of penetration depicted in WAR GAMES is virtually impossible.However, what if the Soviets penetrate our missile systems and plant Trojan Horses in the computer programs which control the launching of our intercontinental ballistic missilesWhen we try to launch these missiles against the Soviet Union, the Soviet Trojan Horses are activated, coordinates are changed, and our missiles destroy our own cities, or fail to launch! Were the Korean Airline passengers a victim of a Soviet Trojan Horse implanted in the Inertial Guidance computers  the same type of Inertial Guidance System used in our jets and missilesZOMBIE A Zombie is a program controlled by a Godfather.
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				TO GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT A PBX CAN DO, HERE ARE A FEW BASIC FUNDAMENTALS.THE MODERN PBX IS A COMBINED COMPUTER,MASS STORAGE DEVICE, AND OF COURSE A SWITCHING SYSTEM THAT CAN1 PRODUCE ITEMIZED,AUTOMATED BILLING PROCEDURES,TO ALLOW THE IDENTIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT OF TOLL CALLS. HAHAHA2 COMBINE DAYTIME VOICE GRADE COMMUNICATION CIRCUITS INTO WIDEBAND DATA CHANNELS FOR NIGHT TIME HIGH SPEED DATA TRANSFERS.3 HANDLES ELECTRONIC MAIL  INCLUDING OFFICE MEMOS .4 COMBINE VOICE CHANNELS INTO A WIDEBAND AUDIOVISUAL CONFERENCE CIRCUIT,WITH THE ABILITY TO XFER AND CAPTURE SLIDES, FLIPCHARTS, PICTURES OF ANY KIND.BOTH THE EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL CALLING CAPACITY OF THE PBX SYSTEM MUST BE CAREFULLY CONSIDERED BECAUSE MANY BUSINESS OPERATIONS RUN A VERY HIGH RATIO OF INTERNAL STATION TO STATION DIALING AND A LOW CAPACITY SYSTEM WILL NOT HANDLE THE REQUESTED TRAFFIC LOAD.A CRITICAL FACTOR IS THE NUMBER OF TRUNKS AND THE CENTRAL OFFICE FACILITIES THAT ARE USED FOR OUTSIDE CONNECTIONS.ANOTHER IS THE NUMBER OF JUNCTIONS OR LINKS THAT MAKE UP THE INTERNAL CALLING PATHS.TO UNDERSTAND THE SERVICES AVAILABLE ON A TYPICAL COMPUTER RUN PBX IT IS NECESSARY TO INTRODUCE THE SUBJECT OF TIME DIVISION SWITCHING.IN A TIME DIVISION SWITCHING NETWORK ALL CONNECTIONS ARE MADE VIA A SINGLE COMMON BUS CALLED OF COURSE A 'TIMEDIVISION BUS'.EVERY LINE TRUNK THAT REQUIRES A CONNECTION WITH ANOTHER IS PROVIDED WITH A PORT CIRCUIT.ALL PORT CIRCUITS HAVE ACCESS TO THE TIME DIVISION BUS THROUGH A TIME DIVISION SWITCH. WHEN TWO PORTS REQUKRE CONNECTION,THEIR TIME DIVISION SWITCHES OPERATE AT A VERY HIGH FREQUENCY 16,000 TIMES PER SECOND.THIS TECHNIQUE,WHICH IS CALLED 'SPEECH SAMPLING',ALLOWS MANY SIMULTANEOUS CONNECTIONS OVER THE SAME TIME DIVKSION BUS.EACH CONNECTION IS ASSIGNED A TIME INTERVAL,THE 'TIME SLOT' ,AND THE NUMBER OF TIME SLOTS IDENTIFIES THE NUMBER OF SIMULTANEOUS CONNECT IONS AMONG PORTS.THE NEXT CRITICAL ITEM IS CIRCUIT PACKS.THE SYSTEM ELEMENTS THAT WE WILL BE DESCRIBING IN FUTURE TUTORIALS LINESTRUNKSSWITCHES,MEMORY AND CONTROL ARE CONTAINED ON PLUG IN CIRCUIT PACKS.EACH LINE CIRCUIT PACK CONTAINS A NUMBER OF LINES,IN EXAMPLE,FOUR.BUT THE ASSIGNMENT OF STATION NUMBERS TO ACTUAL PHONE LINE CIRCUITS IS FLEXIBLE.THE SYSTEM MEMORY IS CONTAINED IN CIRCUIT PACKS WHICH PROVIDE THE CALL PROCESSING FUNCTIONS.THE CIRCUIT PACKS ARE HELD IN SMALL FRAMES CALLED 'CARRIERS'.WITHIN EACH CARRIER,THE CIRCUIT PACKS ARE PLUGGED INTO POSITIONS THE 'SLOTS'.EVERY CIRCUIT CAN BE ADDRESSED BY,SAY A FIVE DIGIT NUMBER WHICH TELLS ITS LOCATION BY CARRIERSLOTCIRCUIT. STARTING TO GET THE IDEA THERE CAN BE THREE TYPES OF CARRIERS IN A MODERN PBX SYSTEMO LINE CARRIERSO TRUNK CARRIERS O CONTROL CARRIERSTHE LINE CARRIERS CONTAIN STATION LINES.IN A.T. T.'S DIMENSION MODEL,FOR EXAMPLE,A TOTAL OF 52 TO 64 LINES ARE PROVIDED.THE TRUNK CARRIERS CONTAIN SLOTS FOR 16 TRUNK CIRCUIT PACKS.THE CONTROL CARRIER INCLUDES PROCESSOR, MEMORY,CONTROL CIRCUITRY,DATA CHANNELS FOR ATTENDANT CONSOLE CONTROL AND TRAFFIC MEASUREMENT OUTPUTS.PBX SYSTEMS WILL DIRECTLY REFLECT THE TYPES OF SERVICES OFFERED AT THE C.O.O CCSAO CCIS O PICTUREPHONES SOONER THAN YOU THINK MY PHRIENDSCOMMON CONTROL SWITCHING ARRANGEMENTS  CCSA  PERMIT ANY UNRESTRICTED TELE PHONE STATION TO CALL ANY OTHET INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL SYSTEM STATION BY USING THE STANDARD SEVEN DIGIT NUMBER.ALTERNATE ROUTING IS A FEATURE OF CCSA SERVICE THE INTERFACILITY,ALTERNATE ROUTED CALLING PATHS ARE ACCOMPLISHED AT THE TELE PHONE COMPANY CENTRAL OFFICE LEVEL,NOT AT THE PBX LEVEL.A SYSTEM OF INTEREST TO LARGE SCALE TELEPHONE USERS IS COMMON CHANNEL INTER OFFICE SIGNALLING CCIS.TYPICALLY,THIS TECHNIQUE EMPLOYS COMMON CHANNELS TO CARRY ALL INTERFACILITY SIGNALLING INSTRUCTIONS DIAL PULSES,ON HOOK IDLE, OFF HOOK BUSY,AND SO ON,BETWEEN TWO SWITCHING CENTERS.  GETTING WARM .CCIS REPLACES OLDER METHODS OF INTEROFFICE SIGNALLING SUCH AS 'IN BAND' AND 'OUT OF BAND' TECHNIQUES. BY THE WAY,REAL PHREAKS ARE SELLING THEIR BOXES TO IDIOTS WHO STILL THINK THE'RE WORTH ALOTTHE FORMER IN BAND TRANSMITS SIGNALLING DATA WITHIN THE NORMAL CONVERSATION BANDWIDTH.IT'S SHORTCOMING IS THAT FALSE INFORMATION MAY BE TRANSMITTED DUE TO UNIQUE TONE OR NOISE COMBINATIONS SET UP IN THE TALKING PATH. THIS IS THE OFFICIAL REASONING. OUT OF BAND SIGNALLING TECHNIQUES PLACED THE INTEROFFICE DATA IN SPECIAL CHANNELS,GENERALLY ADJACENT TO AND IMMEDIATELY ABOVE THE VOICE PATH.TO PRE SERVE INTERCHANNEL INTEGRITY,OUT OF BAND SIGNALLING REQUIRES VERY EFFECIENT FILTERING OR GREATER 'BAND GUARD' SEPERATION BETWEEN CHANNELS.
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:24:50 PDT</pubDate>
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				The clear box is a new device which has just been invented that can be used throughout Canada and rural United States. The clear box works on PostPay payphones fortress fones. Those are the payphones that don't require payment until after the connection is established. You pick up the fone, get a dial tone, dial your number, and then insert your money after the person answers.If you don't deposit the money then you can not speak to the person on the other end because your mouth piece is cut off but not the earpiece. obviously these phones are nice for free calls to weather or time or other such recordings.All you must do is to go to your nearby Radio Shack, or electronics store, and get a fourtransistor amplifier and a telephone suction cup induction pickup. The induction pickup would be hooked up as it normally would to record a conversation, except that it would be plugged into the output of the amplifier and a microphone would be hooked to the input.So when the party that is being called answers, the caller could speak through the little microphone instead. His voice then goes through the amplifier and out the induction coil, and into the back of the receiver where it would then be broadcast through the phone lines and the other party would be able to hear the caller.The Clear Box thus 'clears up' the problem of not being heard. Luckily, the line will not be cutoff after a certain amount of time because it will wait forever for the coins to be put in.The biggest advantage for all of us about this new clear box is the fact that this type of payphone will most likely become very common. Due to a few things 1st, it is a cheap way of getting the DTF, dialtonefirst service, 2nd, it doesn't require any special equipment, for the phone company This payphone will work on any phone line. Usually a payphone line is different, but this is a regular phone line and it is set up so the phone does all the charging, not the company.
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:21:50 PDT</pubDate>
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				A Cheesebox named for the type of box the first one was found in is a type of box which will, in effect, make your telephone a PayPhone..This is a simple, modernized, and easy way of doing it.Inside InfoThese were first used by bookies many years ago as a way of making calls to people without being called by the cops or having their numbers traced andor tappedHow To Make A Modern Cheese BoxIngredients1 Call Forwarding service on the line1 Set of Red Box TonesThe number to your prefix's Intercept operator do some scanning for this oneHow ToAfter you find the number to the intercept operator in your prefix, use your callforwarding and forward all calls to herthis will make your phone stay off the hookactually, now it waits for a quarter to be dropped inyou now have a cheese box In Order To Call Out On This LineYou must use your Red Box tones and generate the quarter dropping inthen,you can make phone calls to peopleas far as I know, this is fairly safe, and they do not check muchAlthough I am not sure, I think you can even make creditcard calls from a cheesebox phone and not get traced
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:19:32 PDT</pubDate>
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				The cellularmobile phone system is one that is perfectly set up to be exploited by phreaks with the proper knowledge and equipment. Thanks to deregulation, the regional BOC's Bell Operating Companies are scattered and do not communicate much with each other. Phreaks can take advantage of this by pretending to be mobile phone customers whose home base is a city served by a different BOC, known as a roamer. Since it is impractical for each BOC to keep track of the customers of all the other BOC's, they will usually allow the customer to make the calls he wishes, often with a surcharge of some sort.The bill is then forwarded to the roamer's home BOC for collection. However, it is fairly simple with the correct tools to create a bogus ID number for your mobile phone, and pretend to be a roamer from some other city and state, that's just visiting. When your BOC tries to collect for the calls from your alleged home BOC, they will discover you are not a real customer but by then, you can create an entirely new electronic identity, and use that instead.How does the cellular system know who is calling, and where they are When a mobile phone enters a cell's area of transmission, it transmits its phone number and its 8 digit ID number to that cell, who will keep track of it until it gets far enough away that the sound quality is sufficiently diminished, and then the phone is handed off to the cell that the customer has walked or driven into. This process continues as long as the phone has power and is turned on. If the phone is turned off or the car is, someone attempting to call the mobile phone will receive a recording along the lines of The mobile phone customer you have dialed has left the vehicle or driven out of the service area. When a call is made to a mobile phone, the switching equipment will check to see if the mobile phone being called is logged in, so to speak, or present in one of the cells. If it is, the call will then act to the speaking parties just like a normal call  the caller may hear a busy tone, the phone may just ring, or the call may be answered.How does the switching equipment know whether or not a particular phone is authorized to use the network Many times, it doesn't. When a dealer installs a mobile phone, he gives the phone's ID number an 8 digit hexadecimal number to the local BOC, as well as the phone number the BOC assigned to the customer. Thereafter, whenever a phone is present in one of the cells, the two numbers are checked  they should be registered to the same person. If they don't match, the telco knows that an attempted fraud is taking place or at best, some transmission error and will not allow calls to be placed or received at that phone. However, it is impractical especially given the present state of deregulation for the telco to have records of every cellular customer of every BOC. Therefore, if you're going to create a fake IDphone number combination, it will need to be based in an area that has a cellular system obviously, has a different BOC than your local area does, and has some sort of a roamer agreement with your local BOC.How can one phreak a cellular phone There are three general areas when phreaking cellular phones using one you found in an unlocked car or an unattended walkabout model, modifying your own chip set to look like a different phone, or recording the phone numberID number combinations sent by other local cellular phones, and using those as your own. Most cellular phones include a crude password system to keep unauthorized users from using the phone  however, dealers often set the password usually a 3 to 5 digit code to the last four digits of the customer's mobile phone number. If you can find that somewhere on the phone, you're in luck. If not, it shouldn't be TOO hard to hack, since most people aren't smart enough to use something besides 1111, 1234, or whatever. If you want to modify the chip set in a cellular phone you bought or stole, there are two chips of course, this depends on the model and manufacturer, yours may be different that will need to be changed  one installed at the manufacturer often epoxied in with the phone's ID number, and one installed by the dealer with the phone number, and possible the security code. To do this, you'll obviously need an EPROM burner as well as the same sort of chips used in the phone or a friendly and unscrupulous dealer!. As to recording the numbers of other mobile phone customers and using them as far as I know, this is just theory but it seems quite possible, if you've got the equipment to record and decode it. The cellular system would probably freak out if two phones with valid IDphone number combinations were both present in the network at once, but it remains to be seen what will happen.
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:17:22 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Canadian WATS Phonebook</title>
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				8002274004 ROLM Collagen Corp.8002278933 ROLM Collagen Corp.8002684500 Voice Mail8002684501 ROLM Texaco8002684505 Voice Mail8002686364 National Data Credit8002687800 Voice Mail8002687808 Voice Mail8003289632 Voice Mail8003872097 Voice Mail8003872098 Voice Mail8003878803 ROLM Canadian Tire8003878861 ROLM Canadian Tire8003878862 ROLM Canadian Tire8003878863 ROLM Canadian Tire8003878864 ROLM Canadian Tire8003878870 ROLM Halifax Life8003878871 ROLM Halifax Life8003879115 ASPEN Sunsweep8003879116 ASPEN Sunsweep8003879175 PBX Hold MusicCHUM FM8003879218 Voice Messenger8003879644 Carrier8004262638 Carrier8005242133 Aspen8006635000 PBXVoice Mail Hold MusicCFMI FM8006635996 Voice Mail 5 rings8008476181 Voice MailNOTES Each and every one of these numbers is available to the 604British Columbia Area Code. Most are available Canada Wide and some are located in the United States. Numbers designated ROLM have been identified as being connected to a ROLM Phonemail system. Numbers designated ASPEN are connected to an ASPEN voice message system. Numbers designated VOICE MAIL have not been identified as to equipment in use on that line. Numbers designated carrier are answered by a modem or data set. Most Voice Message systems, and ALL Rolms, sound like an answering machine. Press 0 during the recording when in a rolm,  or  or other DTMF in other systems, and be propelled into another world
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:15:58 PDT</pubDate>
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				NPA TEL NO NPA TEL NO201 2016767070 601 6019618139202 3043437016 602 3032938777203 2037896815 603 6177875300204 2049490900 604 6044322996205 2059887000 605 4025802255206 2063825124 606 5025832861207 6177875300 607 5184718111208 3032938777 608 6082526932209 4155432861 609 2016767070212 5184718111 612 4025802255213 4157815271 613 4164430542214 2144647400 614 6144640123215 4126335600 615 6153735791216 6144640123 616 3132238690217 2175255800 617 6177875300218 4025802255 618 2175255800219 3172654834 619 8185017251301 3043431401 701 4025802255302 4126335600 702 4155432861303 3032938777 703 3043447935304 3043448041 704 9127840440305 9127840440 705 4169793469306 3063472878 706  NONE 307 3032938777 707 4155436374308 4025802255 709  NONE 309 2175255800 712 4025802255312 3127969600 713 7138617194313 3132238690 714 8185017251314 3147216626 715 6082526932315 5184718111 716 5184718111316 8162752782 717 4126335600317 3172654834 718 5184718111318 5042455330 801 3032938777319 4025802255 802 6177875300401 6177875300 803 9127840440402 4025802255 804 3043447935403 4034252652 805 4155432861404 9127840440 806 5128282501405 4052366121 807 4164430542406 3032938777 808 2123344336408 4155436374 809 2123344336409 7138617194 812 3172654834412 4136335600 813 8132287871413 6177875300 814 4126335600414 6082526932 815 2175255800415 4155436374 816 8162752782416 4164430542 817 2144647400417 3147216626 818 4157815271418 5147252491 819 5147252491419 6144640123 901 6153735791501 4052366121 902 9024214110502 5025832861 904 9127840440503 2063825124 906 3132238690504 5042455330 907  NONE 505 3032938777 912 9127840440506 5066483041 913 8162752782507 4025802255 914 5184718111509 2063825124 915 5128282501512 5128282501 916 4155432861513 6144640123 918 4052366121514 5147252491 919 9127840440515 4025802255 516 5184718111517 3132238690 518 5184718111519 4164430542 900 2016767070
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				To quote Karl Marx, blue boxing has always been the most noble form of phreaking. As opposed to such things as using an MCI code to make a free fone call, which is merely mindless pseudophreaking, blue boxing is actual interaction with the Bell System toll network.It is likewise advisable to be more cautious when blue boxing, but the careful phreak will not be caught, regardless of what type of switching system he is under.In this part, I will explain how and why blue boxing works, as well as where. In later parts, I will give more practical information for blue boxing and routing information.To begin with, blue boxing is simply communicating with trunks. Trunks must not be confused with subscriber lines or customer loops which are standard telefone lines. Trunks are those lines that connect central offices.Now, when trunks are not in use i.e., idle or onhook state they have 2600Hz applied to them. If they are twoway trunks, there is 2600Hz in both directions. When a trunk IS in use busy or offhook state, the 2600Hz is removed from the side that is offhook. The 2600Hz is therefore known as a supervisory signal, because it indicates the status of a trunk on hook tone or offhook no tone. Note also that 2600Hz denoted SF single frequency signalling and is inband. This is very important. Inband means that is within the band of frequencies that may be transmitted over normal telefone lines. Other SF signals, such as 3700Hz are used also. However, they cannot be carried over the telefone network normally they are outofband and are therefore not able to be taken advantage of as 2600Hz is. Back to trunks.Let's take a hypothetical phone call. You pick up your fone and dial 18062581234 your good friend in Amarillo, Texas. For ease, we'll assume that you are on 5 Crossbar switching and not in the 806 area.Your central office CO would recognize that 806 is a foreign NPA, so it would route the call to the toll centre that serves you. For the sake of accuracy here, and for the more experienced readers, note that the CO in question is a class 5 with LAMA that uses outofband SF supervisory signalling. Depending on where you are in the country, the call would leave your toll centre on more trunks to another toll centre, or office of higher rank. Then it would be routed to central office 806258 eventually and the call would be completed.IllustrationACO1TC1TC2CO2BA. youCO1your central officeTC1.. your toll office.TC2.. toll office in Amarillo.CO2.. 806258 central office.B. your friend 8062581234In this situation it would be realistic to say that CO2 uses SF inband 2600Hz signalling, while all the others use outofband signal ling 3700Hz. If you don't understand this, don't worry. I am pointing this out merely for the sake of accuracy.The point is that while you are connected to 8062581234, all those trunks from YOUR central office CO1 to the 806258 central office CO2 do NOT have 2600Hz on them, indicating to the Bell equipment that a call is in progress and the trunks are in use.Now let's say you're tired of talking to your friend in Amarillo, so you send a 2600Hz down the line. This tone travels down the line to your friend's central office CO2 where it is detected. However, that CO thinks that the 2600Hz is originating from Bell equipment, indicating to it that you've hung up, and thus the trunks are once again idle with 2600Hz present on them. But actually, you have not hung up, you have fooled the equipment at your friend's CO into thinking you have. Thus,it disconnects him and resets the equipment to prepare for the next call.All this happens very quickly 300800ms for stepbystep equipment and 150400ms for other equipment. When you stop sending 2600Hz after about a second, the equipment thinks that another call is coming towards on hook, no tone off hook.Now that you've stopped sending 2600Hz, several things happen 1 A trunk is seized.2 A wink is sent to the CALLING end from the CALLED end indicating that the CALLED end trunk is not ready to receive digits yet.3 A register is found and attached to the CALLED end of the trunk within about two seconds max.4 A startdial signal is sent to the CALLING end from the CALLED end indicating that the CALLED end is ready to receive digits.Now, all of this is pretty much transparent to the blue boxer. All he really hears when these four things happen is a . So, seizure of a trunk would go something like this1 Send a 2600Hz2 Terminate 2600Hz after 12 secs.3 beepkerchunkOnce this happens, you are connected to a tandem that is ready to obey your every command. The next step is to send signalling information in order to place your call. For this you must simulate the signalling used by operators and automatic tolldialing equipment for use on trunks. There are mainly two systems, DP and MF. However, DP went out with the dinosaurs, so I'll only discuss MF signalling.MF multifrequency signalling is the signalling used by the majority of the inter and intralata network. It is also used in international dialing known as the CCITT no.5 system. MF signals consist of 7 frequecies, beginning with 700Hz and separated by 200Hz. A different set of two of the 7 frequencies represent the digits 0 thru 9, plus an additional 5 special keys. The frequencies and uses are as followsFrequencies Hz Domestic Int'l700900 1 17001100 2 29001100 3 37001300 4 49001300 5 511001300 6 67001500 7 79001500 8 811001500 9 913001500 0 07001700 ST3p Code 19001700 STp Code 111001700 KP KP113001700 ST2p KP215001700 ST STThe timing of all the MF signals is a nominal 60ms, except for KP, whichshould have a duration of 100ms. There should also be a 60ms silent periodbetween digits. This is very flexible however, and most Bell equipment willaccept outrageous timings. In addition to the standard useslisted above, MF pulsing also has expanded usages known as expanded inband signalling that include such things as coin collect, coin return, ringback, operator attached, and operator attached, and operator released. KP2, code 11, and code 12 and the ST_ps STart primes all have special uses which will be mentioned only briefly here.To complete a call using a blue box once seizure of a trunk has been accomplished by sending 2600Hz and pausing for the , one must first send a KP. This readies the register for the digits that follow. For a standard domestic call, the KP would be followed by either 7 digits if the call were in the same NPA as the seized trunk or 10 digits if the call were not in the same NPA as the seized trunk. Exactly like dialing normal fone call. Following either the KP and 7 or 10 digits, a STart is sent to signify that no more digits follow. Example of a complete call1 Dial 180625812342 wait for a callprogress indication such as ring,busy,recording,etc.3 Send 2600Hz for about 1 second.4 Wait for about llprogress indication such as ring,busy,recording,etc.5 Send KP3059949966STThe call will then connect if everything was done properly. Note that if a call to an 806 number were being placed in the same situation, the are code would be omitted and only KP  seven digits  ST would be sent. Code 11 and code 12 are used in international calling to request certain types of operators. KP2 is used in international calling to route a call other than by way of the normal route, whether for economic or equipment reasons. STp, ST2p, and ST3p prime, two prime, and three prime are used in TSPS signalling to indicate calling type of call such as coindirect dialing.
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				Ever want to really make yourself be heard Ever talk to someone on the phone who just doesn't shut up Or just call the operator and pop her eardrum Well, up until recently it has been impossible for you to do these things. That is, unless of course you've got a blast box.All a blast box is, is a really cheap amplifier, around 5 watts or so connected in place of the microphone on your telephone. It works best on model 500 ATT Phones, and if constructed small enough, can be placed inside the phone.ConstructionConstruction is not really important. Well it is, but since I'm letting you make your own amp, I really don't have to include this.UsageOnce you've built your blast box, simply connect a microphone or use the microphone from the phone to the input of the amplifier, and presto. There it is. Now, believe it or not, this device actually works. At least on crossbar. It seems that Illinois bell switching systems allow quite alot of current to pass right through the switching office, and out to whoever you're calling.When you talk in the phone, it comes out of the other phone again it works best if the phone that you're calling has the standard western electric earpiece incredibly loud. This device is especially good for PBS Subscription drives.Have Phun, and don't get caught!
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				The Phone Co. will go to extreams on occasions. In fact, unless you really know what to expect from them, they will suprise the heck out of you with their unpublished tarriffs. Recently, a situation was brought to my attention that up till then I had been totaly unaware of, least to mention, had any concern about. It involved gar bage! The phone co. will go as far as to prosecute anyone who rumages through their garbage and helps himself to someOf course, they have their reasons for this, and no doubt benefit from such action. But, why should they be so picky about garbage The answer soon became clear to me those huge metal bins are filled up with more than waste old food and refuse Although it is Pacific Tele. policy to recycle paper waste products, sometimes employees do overlook this sacred operation when sorting the garbage. Thus topsecret confidential Phone Co. records go to the garbage bins instead of the paper shredders. Since it is constantly being updated with company memorandums, and supplied with extensive reference material, the Phone co. must continualy dispose of the outdated materials. Some phone companies are supplied each year with the complete System Practices guide. This publication is an over 40 foot long library of reference material about everything to do with telephones. As the new edition arrives each year, the old version of System Practices must also be thrown out.I very quickly figured out where some local phone phreaks were getting their material. They crawl into the garbage bins and remove selected items that are of particular interest to them and their fellow phreaks. One phone phreak in the Los Angeles area has salvaged the complete 1972 edition of Bell System Practices. It is so large and was out of order the binders had been removed that it took him over a year to sort it out and create enough shelving for it in his garage.Much of this Top Secret information is so secret that most phone companies have no idea what is in their files. They have their hands full simply replacing everything each time a change in wording requires a new revision. It seems they waste more paper than they can read!It took quite a while for Hollywood Cal traffic manager to figure out how all of the local phone phreaks constantly discovered the switchroom test numbersWhenever someone wanted to use the testboard, they found the local phone phreaks on the lines talking to all points all over the world. It got to the point where the local garbage buffs knew more about the office operations than the employees themselves. One phreak went so far as to call in and tell a switchman what his next daily assignment would be. This, however, proved to be too much. The switchman traced the call and one phone phreak was denied the tool of his trade.In another rather humorous incident, a fellow phreak was rumaging through the trash bin when he heard somone apraoching. He pressed up against the side of the bin and silently waited for the goodies to come. You can imagine his surprise when the garbage from the lunchroom landed on his head. Most people find evenings best for checking out their local telco trash piles. The only thing necessary is a flashlight and, in the case mentioned above, possibly a rain coat. A word of warning though, before you rush out and dive into the trash heap. It is probably illegal, but no matter where you live, you certainly won't get the local policeman to hold your flashlight for you.
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				ACD Automatic Call Distributor  A system that automatically distributes callsto operator pools providing services such as intercept and directory assistance, to airline ticket agents, etc.Administration The tasks of recordkeeping, monitoring, rearranging,prediction need for growth, etc.AIS Automatic Intercept System  A system employing an audioresponse unitunder control of a processor to automatically provide pertinent info to callers routed to intercept.Alert To indicate the existence of an incoming call, ringing.ANI Automatic Number Identification  Often pronounced Annie, a facility forautomatically identify the number of the calling party for charging purposes.Appearance A connection upon a network terminal, as in the line has twonetwork appearances.Attend The operation of monitoring a line or an incoming trunk for offhook orseizure, respectively.Audible The subdued image of ringing transmitted to the calling party duringringing not derived from the actual ringing signal in later systems.Backbone Route The route made up of finalgroup trunks between end offices indifferent regional center areas.BHC Busy Hour Calls  The number of calls placed in the busy hour.Blocking The ratio of unsuccessful to total attempts to use a facilityexpresses as a probability when computed a priority.Blocking Network A network that, under certain conditions, may be unable toform a transmission path from one end of the network to the other. In general, all networks used within the Bell Systems are of the blocking type.Blue Box Equipment used fraudulently to synthesize signals, gaining access tothe toll network for the placement of calls without charge.BORSCHT Circuit A name for the line circuit in the central office. Itfunctions as a mnemonic for the functions that must be performed by thecircuit Battery, Overvoltage, Ringing, Supervision, Coding, Hybrid, andTesting.Busy Signal Calledlinebusy An audible signal which, in the Bell System,comprises 480hz and 620hz interrupted at 60IPM.Bylink A special highspeed means used in crossbar equipment for routing callsincoming from a stepbystep office. Trunks from such offices are often referred to as bylink trunks even when incoming to noncrossbar offices they are more properly referred to as dc incoming trunks. Such highspeed means are necessary to assure that the first incoming pulse is not lost.Cable Vault The point which phone cable enters the Central Office building.CAMA Centralized Automatic Message Accounting  Pronounced like Alabama.CCIS Common Channel Interoffice Signaling  Signaling information for trunkconnections over a separate, nonspeech data link rather that over the trunks themselves.CCITT International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee AnInternational committee that formulates plans and sets standards for intercountry communication means.CDO Community Dial Office  A small usually rural office typically served bystepbystep equipment.CO Central Office  Comprises a switching network and its control and supportequipment. Occasionally improperly used to mean office code.Centrex A service comparable in features to PBX service but implemented withsome Centrex CU or all Centrex CO of the control in the central office. In the later case, each station's loop connects to the central office.Customer Loop The wire pair connecting a customer's station to the centraloffice.DDD Direct Distance Dialing  Dialing without operator assistance over thenationwide intertoll network.Direct Trunk Group A trunk group that is a direct connection between a givenoriginating and a given terminating office.EOTT End Office Toll Trunking  Trunking between end offices in different tollcenter areas.ESB Emergency Service Bureau  A centralized agency to which 911 universalemergency calls are routed.ESS Electronic Switching System  A generic term used to identify as a class,storedprogram switching systems such as the Bell System's No.1 No.2, No.3, No.4, or No.5.ETS Electronic Translation Systems  An electronic replacement for the cardtranslator in 4A Crossbar systems. Makes use of the SPC 1A Processor.False Start An aborted dialing attempt.Fast Busy often called reorder  An audible busy signal interrupted at twicethe rate of the normal busy signal sent to the originating station to indicate that the call blocked due to busy equipment.Final Trunk Group The trunk group to which calls are routed when availablehighusage trunks overflow these groups generally home on an office next highest in the hierarchy.Full Group A trunk group that does not permit rerouting offcontingent foreigntraffic there are seven such offices.Glare The situation that occurs when a twoway trunk is seized more or lesssimultaneously at both ends.High Usage Trunk Group The appellation for a trunk group that has alternateroutes via other similar groups, and ultimately via a final trunk group to a higher ranking office.Intercept The agency usually an operator to which calls are routed when madeto a line recently removed from a service, or in some other category requiring explanation. Automated versions ASI with automatic voiceresponse units are growing in use.Interrupt The interruption on a phone line to disconnect and connect withanother station, such as an Emergence Interrupt.Junctor A wire or circuit connection between networks in the same office. Thefunctional equivalent to an intraoffice trunk.MF Multifrequency  The method of signaling over a trunk making use of thesimultaneous application of two out of six possible frequencies.NPA Numbering Plan Area.ONI Operator Number Identification  The use of an operator in a CAMA officeto verbally obtain the calling number of a call originating in an office not equipped with ANI.PBX Private Branch Exchange  PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange Antelephone office serving a private customer, Typically , access to the outside telephone network is provided.Permanent Signal A sustained offhook condition without activity no dialingor ringing or completed connection such a condition tends to tie up equipment, especially in earlier systems. Usually accidental, but sometimes used intentionally by customers in highcrimerate areas to thwart off burglars.POTS Plain Old Telephone Service  Basic service with no extra frills.ROTL Remote Office Test Line  A means for remotely testing trunks.RTA Remote Trunk Arrangement  An extension to the TSPS system permitting itsservices to be provided up to 200 miles from the TSPS site.SF Single Frequency. A signaling method for trunks 2600hz is impressed uponidle trunks.Supervise To monitor the status of a call.SxS StepbyStep or Strowger switch  An electromechanical office typeutilizing a grossmotion stepping switch as a combination network and distributed control.Talkoff The phenomenon of accidental synthesis of a machineintelligiblesignal by human voice causing an unintended response. whistling a tone.Trunk A path between central offices in general 2wire for interlocal, 4wirefor intertoll.TSPS Traffic Service Position System  A system that provides, under storedprogram control, efficient operator assistance for toll calls. It does not switch the customer, but provides a bridge connection to the operator.Xbar Crossbar  An electromechanical office type utilizing a finemotioncoordinate switch and a multiplicity of central controls called markers. There are four varietiesNo.1 Crossbar Used in large urban office application 1938No 3 Crossbar A small system started in 1974.No.4A4M Crossbar A 4wire toll machine 1943.No.5 Crossbar A machine originally intended for relatively smallsuburban applications 1948Crossbar Tandem A machine used for interlocal office switching.
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				INTRODUCTIONPerhaps the most exciting Operating system to HACK on is VAXVMS.It offers many challenges for hackers and boasts one of the best security systems ever developed. In comparison to the security on UNIX, VMS is far superior in every respect. It can be very difficult to get inside such a system and even harder to STAY inside, but isn't that what this is all about! I have written this file as a way for beginning hackers to learn about the VMS operating system. There is such a vast amount of information that can be related about VAXVMS hacking that it is not possible for me to cover everything in just one file. As such i will try and stick to the basics for this file and hopefully write another file in the future that deals with heavyduty kernal programming, the various data structures, and system service calls. All right so lets get at it!GETTING INFirst of all how do you recognize a VAX when you see one! Well thething that always gives a VAX away, is when you logon you will seeUsernameIt may also have some other info before it asks you for the username, usually identifying the company and perhaps a message to the effect ofUnauthorized Users will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!That should get you right in the mood for some serious hacking! Ok so when you have determined that the system you have logged into is indeed a VAX, you will have to at this point enter your SYSTEM LOGIN. Basically on VAX's there are several default logins which will get you into the system. However on MOST systems these default logins are changed by the system manager. In any case, before you try any other logins, you should try these since some system managers are lazy and don't bother changing themUsername Password AlternateSYSTEM MANAGER OPERATORFIELD SERVICE TESTDEFAULT DEFAULT USERSYSTEST UETP SYSTESTDECNET DECNET NONPRIVThat's it. Those are the default system userspasswords. The only ones on the list that are GUARANTEED to be in the userlist are SYSTEM and DEFAULT. However, I have never come across a system where these two haven't been changed from their default passwords to something else. In the above list, the alternate password is simply a password many operators set the password to from the deafult. So if the first password doesn't work, try the alternate password. It should be noted when the a user is added into the system, the default password for the new user the SAME as his username. You should keep this point in mind because it is VERY important. Most of the accounts you hack out, will be found in this way! Ok if above ones don't work, then you should try these accounts. These following accounts are NOT defaults, but through experience i have found that many systems use these accounts or some variation thereofUsername PasswordVAX VAXVMS VMSDCL DCLDEC DEC DEMO DEMO TEST TEST NETNONPRIV NONPRIV NETPRIV PRIVORACLE ORACLE ALLIN1 ALLIN1 INGRES INGRES GUEST GUEST GAMES GAMESBACKUP BACKUP HOST HOSTUSER USER DIGITAL DIGITALREMOTE REMOTE SAS SASFAULT FAULTUSERP USERPVISITOR VISITORGEAC GEACVLSI VLSIINFO INFO POSTMASTER MAILNET NETLIBRARY LIBRARYOPERATOR OPERATOR OPER OPERThe ones that have asterisks  beside them are the more popular ones and you have a better chance with them, so you should try them first. It should be noted that the VAX will not give you any indication of whether the username you typed in is indeed valid or not. Even if you type in a username that does not exist on the system, it will still ask you for a password. Keep this in mind because if you are not sure if whether an account exists or not, don't waste your time in trying to hack out its password. You could be going on a wild goose chase! You should also keep in mind that ALL bad login attempts are kept track of and when the person logs in, he is informed of how many failed attempts there were on his account. If he sees 400 login failures, I am sure that he will know someone is trying to hack his account.THE BASICSOk i am assuming you tried all the above defaults and managed to get yourself into the system. Now the real FUN begins! Ok first things first. After you log in you will get some message about the last time you logged in etc. If this is the first time you have logged into this system then you should note the last login date and time and WRITE IT DOWN! This is important for several reasons. The main one being that you want to find out if the account you have just hacked is an ACTIVE or INACTIVE account. The best accounts are the inactive ones. Why! Well the inactive accounts are those that people are not using currently, meaning that there is a better chance of you holding onto that account and not being discovered by the system operator. If the account has not been logged into for the last month or so, theres a good chance that it is inactive. Ok anyhow once your in, if you have a normal account with access to DCL you will get a prompt that looks likeThis may vary from machine to machine but its usually the same. If you have a weird prompt and would like a normal one, typeset promptIf this is the first time you have hacked into this system there are a couple of steps you should take immediately. First typeset controly,tThis will enable your break keys like ctrlc so that you can stop a file or command if you make a mistake. Usually ctrlc is active, but this command will insure that it is. Note in general to abort a command, or program you can type ctrlc or ctrly Ok anyhow, the next step is to open the buffer in your terminal then typetype syssystemrightslist.datThis will dump a file that has all the systems users listed in it. You may notice a lot of weird garbage characters. Don't worry about those, that is normal. Ok after this file ends and you get the shell prompt again  then save the buffer, clear it out and leave it open. Then typeshow logicalOk after this file is buffered save it also. Ok at this point you have two files on your disk which will help you hack out MORE accounts on the system. For now, lets find out how powerful the account you currently hacked into is. You should typeset procprivallThis may give you a message telling you that all your privileges were not granted. That's ok. Now typeshow procprivThis will give you a list of all the privileges your account is set up for. Usually most user accounts only have NETMBX and TMPMBX privs. If you have more than these two, then it could mean that you have a nice highlevel user. Unlike UNIX which only has a distinction between user and superuser, VMS has a whole shitload of different privileges you can gain. The basic privs are as followsPRIVILEGE DESCRIPTIONNONE no privilege at allNORMAL PRIVSMOUNT Execute mount volume QIONETMBX Create network connections you need this to call out!TMPMBX Create temporary mailboxGROUP PRIVSGROUP Control processes in the same groupGRPPRV Group access through SYSTEM protection fieldDEVOUR PRIVSACNT Disable accountingALLSPOOL Allocate spooled devicesBUGCHK Make bugcheck error log entriesEXQUOTA Exceed disk quotasGRPNAM Insert group logical names n the name tablePRMCEB Createdelete permanent common event flag clustersPRMGBL Create permanent global sectionsPRMMBX Create permanent mailboxesSHMEM Createdelete structures in shared memorySYSTEM PRIVSALTPRI Set base priority higher that allotmentOPER Perform operator functionsPSWAPM Change process swap modeWORLD Control any processSECURITY Perform security related functionsSHARE Access devices allocated to other usersSYSLCK Lock systemwide resourcesFILES PRIVSDIAGNOSE Diagnose devicesSYSGBL Create system wide global sectionsVOLPRO Override volume protectionALL PRIVSBYPASS Disregard protectionCMEXEC Change to executive modeCMKRNL Change to kernal modeDETACH Create detached processes of arbitrary UICLOG_IO Issue logical IO requestsPFNMAP Map to specific physical pagesPHY_IO Issue physical IO requestsREADALL Possess read access to everythingSETPRV  ENABLE ALL PRIVILEGES!!! SYSNAM Insert system logical names in the name tableSYSPRV Access objects through SYSTEM protection fieldOk that's the lot of them! I will explain some of the more important privileges later in the file. For now, at least you can see just how powerful the account is. It should be noted that most accounts usually are only granted the TMPMBX and NETMBX privileges, so if you don't have the others, don't fret too much.GENERAL TERMINOLOGYI think that i should clarify some of the basic concepts involved withVAXVMS operating systems before we go any furtherPROCESSthis is what is created when you log in. The system sets aside CPU time and memory for you and calls it a process. Any task that is run in VMS is called a process.SUBPROCESSalso known as childprocess, this is just a process that was created by another process.DCL  Digital Command Language. This is the shell  that you are put intowhen you log into a VAXMCR  an alternate shell that is used rarely on certain accounts. Loginprompt is a  as opposed to DCL which gives a SHELL  this is the '' that you see once you are logged in. This is yourinterface with the system, where you can enter the various commands execute files and perform other activities.JOB  a process and a group of its subprocesses performing some taskSPAWN  this is the actual command that allows you to create subprocesses'SPAWNING' is the act of creating subprocessesPID  process identification number. This is an 8 byte ID code that isuniquely given to each process that is created on the system.IMAGE  this is an EXE file that you can execute ie runUIC  User identification code. This is in two parts, namely group,memberThe way this works is that users in the same group can access each others files through the group protection code. However since the UIC MUST uniquely identify each user, the member portion separates the individuals in each group. If an account does not have a different member number, he will NOT be put in the RIGHTSLIST database.CONTROL KEYSA brief note on control sequences. Several different actions can be activated via control sequences. They areCTRLH delete last characterCTRLB redisplay last command can go back up to the last 20 commands issued CTRLS pause displayCTRLQ continue after pauseCTRLZ EXIT use to break out of things such as CREATE and EDIT CTRLC CANCEL will exit out of most operationsCTRLY INTERRUPT will break out of whatever you are doing CTRLT print out statistical info about the processNOTEsometimes upon login, the CTRLY, CTRLC keys are disabled. To ensure these are enabled, issue this command upon login SET CONTROLNOTEall the commands that are executed from DCL can be referenced from an online help manual. To access this, simply type help at any '' prompt This help is also available within the various utilities and programs such as authorize and mail. The two MOST important commands are SET and SHOW. These should be buffered and printed out for your own reference.FILES and DIRECTORIESThe directory structure of VMS is a heirarchical one similar to MSDOS and UNIX. Its a simple concept, and i will only briefly skim over it. First of all it should be noted that there may be more than one hard drive or other massstorage device hooked up to your system. Within each hard drive there is the ROOT directory. This is the highest directory in the tree and is referenced by 000000. this will be explained in a minute Within the root there are several subdirectories. Within these subdirectories there may be files and even further subdirectories. The concept is quite simple, but can be difficult to explain. Here is a diagram to give you a rough idea of how it is set up000000  2.161 NORTELCOM2.6 JANUS 0 3 3 UNA0  2.6 JANUS2.2 LUMPY 0 9 5 UNA0  2.2 LUMPY2.3 SBSU 0 5 4 UNA0  2.3 SBSU2.4 AURORA 0 4 4 UNA0  2.4 AURORATotal of 5 nodes.This is a sample output that you would see on your screen. Let me give a brief explanation of what each column means. The first column shows the node address and the NodeName. The node name is the most important to the VAX hacker since that is how you will be contacting the remote node. LINKS shows the number of logical links between the local node and each available remote node. COST shows the total line cost of the path to a remote node. HOPS shows the number of intermittent nodes plus the target node. NEXT HOP TO NODE shows the outgoing physical line used to reach the remote node.The important item from this list of course is the node name. By referencing this you can connect to other nodes. A nice technique that allows you to get user accounts on other nodes without actually having access to the node employs this idea. For example, if you want to find out the user list of a node SBSU, you could typecopy sbsusyssystemrightslist.dat sysloginThis will then transfer the rightslist from the other node to your login directory, giving you a list of all the users on the other system that you can hack out.It should be noted that copying files from another node will create a file on the remote node indicating your transfer. To get rid of this, log onto the remote node and delete the file called NETSERVER.LOG just delete the file versions that you have created, and leave the others alone!There is another useful trick that sometimes yields more USER accounts on other systems. Try typingshow logicalThis will present you with a giant list of what seem like symbol equates. What you should look for in here is something that accesses a file in another system eg.mainuafsbsusyssystemsysuaf.datMany times, a userpassword combination is hidden among these definitions. To find these, simply search the file for occurrences where they have a nodename such as SBSU followed by a quote and some info. An examplemainuafsbsusystem managersyssystemsysuaf.datThe important part is the info in quotes after the node name. The first item before the space is a username, and the word after the space is the password. It is rare to find such an occurrence, but it should not be overlooked, since it can sometimes yield high system level accounts. In this example, node SBSU has a user called SYSTEM, who's password is MANAGER.DECNET and PSIIf you do a SHOW NET and it gives you a list of other nodes, you can connect to these nodes using the SET HOST command. For example to connect to node SBSUset host sbsuThis will then connect you to SBSU, and you have to go through their login procedure also. An interesting trick to note is, lets suppose that you have hacked an account out on node SBSU. What you want to find out is the DATAPAC or TELENET address of the machine. To do this usemc ncp tell sbsu sh known dteThis will then give you the address of the machine, so that you can call it directly rather than through this VAX. You may want to do this to increase speed, since obviously calling through another VAX slows things down a bit.Another method which often works is to use the SHOW LOGICAL command. By specifying a certain table, you can sometimes get a list of the NUAs of the other nodes in the same cluster as your node. To do this typeshow logicaltablepsiAn alternative method which is a bit messy and requires higher privileges is to type out the NETCIRC.DAT file. ietype syssystemnetcirc.datOn all the systems that I have seen, none of them had WORLD READ access to this file, so it is not possible to read this with just TMPMBX and NETMBX privileges.Many times you will want to call a phone number to another machine. To do this useset hostdte txa0 dialnumber5551212This command will dial out to 5551212 using the terminal TXA0 To dial out a phone number, you MUST specify a terminal that is hooked up to a modem. To find out which terminals have modems typeshow deviceThis will give you a list of devices hooked up to the VAX. Devices are 4 character strings followed by a colon  The terminals that you can use are usually further down the list. To test the terminal for a modem, use the following line, which also illustrates the importance of lexicalswrite sysoutput fgetdvitxa0,tt_modemThis above line would test the terminal TXA0 to see if it has a modem attached If it responds with TRUE, then you have a modem, otherwise not. Note that you must put the terminal name in quotes, and also that you DO NOT enter the colon.If the VAX you have hacked onto is hooked up on a packet switching system such as DATAPAC or TELENET, then there is another USEFUL thing you can perform. To call out NUA's use the X29 qualifier. For exampleset hostx29 026245400050570This would call up the NUA 026245400050570 altostchh. What is interesting to note is that on many VAX's you can call out to foreign remote nodes such as in the example and the charge for the collect call is placed to the account through which you are logged in as. This is a safe and easy method to call out to PSDN's which are normally long distance from you. It should be noted that many system managers turn off foreign DNICs, which may limit you to calling only within your local DNIC.One precaution you may want to take when using the SET HOSTX29 command is to turn off logging. Although this is usually turned off, some system managers may buffer everything you type in and keep it in a file. To temporarily turn the logging off, try thisrun syssystempsipadIt will then ask for NODE just hit RETURN, thenPSIshow log_filethis will either say that buffering is off or it will give you a filename with a directory path. If it is not off then make a note of the file, then typePSIset nolog_fileThis will turn off the buffering. After you are through with the remote session be sure to turn it back on withPSI set log_file xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxxAll the xxx's represent the full filename path that you initially wrote down when you did the SHOW LOG_FILE command.I want to point out another interesting trick that sometimes works on certain accounts. Many a time i have encountered an account on a Vax which would simply allow you to call out to another node. It had no other purpose, and would refuse to give you DCL access. If you encounter such an account and it asks you to enter a nodename, try putting x29 NUA. This technique allows you to dial out to remote systems via some PSS even though you do not have DCL access! An exampleEnter nodename x29 026245400050570If X29 isn't disabled, this will allow you to call that NUA.One thing to note is that not all systems allow you to call out using these methods. Some have x29 disabled, others have dial disabled etc. In order to overcome this barrier, it is important to know which files are involved. If you want to dial out, you MUST have the modem files such as DMCL. If you want to dial out across a PSS, you must have the PSI utility files, and lastly if you wish to dial out to another node in the cluster you must have RTPAD.EXE on the local node and REMACP.EXE and RTTDRIVER.EXE on the remote node.One quick note about finding other VAXes that have PSI utilities on them. Often you may want to hack only those VAXes that have PSIPAD on them. To determine if a particular VAX in your cluster has the capability, issue the commanddir NODEsyssystempsi.NODE stands for the nodename that you want to check. If this returns with a message that no files match, then this particular VAX does not have PSI installed. If on the other hand it returns with several file names, then it does have the PSI utilities installed.This is just a VERY brief overview of the DECnet setup on VAXVMS systems. For a more detailed analysis, look for my other file 'Understanding DECnet and NCP'HIDING ON THE SYSTEMThere are several methods that allow you to remain undetected once you have hacked onto a VAX. One of the most important things is to leave things as they are, in other words, do not delete files or subdirectories. You should also avoid leaving suspicious looking COM or EXE files that you may have created.An important ability to have is being able to hide from SHOW USER. There are several ways of going about this, but the simplest is to become a noninteractive process. Or to become a subprocess of some other noninteractive process such as a BATCH or NETWORK process. Although this will hide you from SHOW USERS, you will still be visible if someone did a SHOW SYSTEM. To get around this you should also specify your process name to a printer driver or something. For exampleshow systemLook for the process that has a name of SYMBIONT_xxxx where xxxx is a number. These are the printer drivers on the system. Look for the last number on the list and then change your own process to one higher than this number. For example if the last printer is 5 then typeset procnameSYMBIONT_0006At the end of this file i have enclosed a small 20 line assembler program that you can enter through EDIT. It allows you to hide from SHOW USER by changing your process to an OTHER noninteractive process. After you assemble the file, link it and then execute it using the RUN command. You should then copy this file to some rarely used directory, where no one else will notice it.OTHER PROCESSESSo you have hacked your way in, and everything is going smooth. Now you want to find out what all the other people on the system are doing. There are several ways of finding out who else is using the system and what they are doing. Here i will outline some of the basic methods.Perhaps the simplest command that you can issue to see who else is logged in is the SHOW USER command.show usera typical output might look likeVAXVMS Interactive Users1SEP1989 124851.14Total number of interactive users5PID Username Process Name Terminal202000B3 DELUCAJ DELUCAJ VTA21 TTA7204000C4  _vta13 VTA13 LTA820400138 OPERATOR system monitor VTA17 OPA02040013D POLLACK POLLACK VTA11 TTB0204000BC ENTITY FUK YOO VTA15 TTA1Ok so what does all this mean! Well lets go one column at a time. The first column gives you your process identification number. This is a unique number that is assigned to each process as it logs in. The number itself really doesn't matter, however it is required for certain commands. The next column is the username of the process. This always puts the name of the account that you logged in with. Sometimes you may notice that instead of a name it says  This indicates that someone is currently going through the login procedures under that PID. The next column is the process name. This is defaulted to be the same as your username, but can easily be changed. For exampleset procnameHacker!This will set your process name to Hacker! Since everybody will see this when they do a SHOW USER command, it is not recommended that you choose something that will give you away. In general, you leave this as the default. The next column shows the virtual terminal that you are logged into. The last column shows the physical terminal that you are logged into. It is important to check this last column. You should check to make sure that nobody is logged in under OPA0 Anyone logged in under this is using the system console, which means that they could possibly be watching you! Another one to note is RTxx which indicates a process that is remotely logged in ie calling in from another VAX or something Other things that you should watch out for are users who are logged in under the SYSTEM account or any other highprivileged accounts. Any one of OPERATOR,OPER,SYSTEM,SYSMGR etc could mean trouble for the hacker.One thing that you may notice on some systems is that a process will be logged on ALL the time under the OPA0 terminal. What's going on! Is the system manager there all the time No. What happens on many systems is that the system manager logs into his terminal, and doesn't bother logging out at the end of the day, leaving his process running often for weeks at a time. There is no easy way to know if the guy is really there or not. There are two things you can do. One is to check the time that the account has been IDLE, but there is no easy way to check this without going into some programming. The next best you can do is issue the SHOW SYSTEM command. This will show all the processes currently running, their priority levels, how much CPU time they are eating up etc. A typical report may look likeshow systemVAXVMS X2EN on node DELPHI 01SEP1989 151031.02 Uptime 0 120630Pid Process Name State Pri IO CPU Page flts Ph. Mem22200080 NULL COM 0 0 0 163412.00 0 022200088 SWAPPER HIB 16 0 0 000352.53 0 022200113 ENTITY LEF 4 16505 0 000012.02 8689 233 etc etcThis display can give you several important pieces of information about other processes. The explanation of each columnPID  the process identification numberProc Name  the name of the process. Note that certain noninteractive systemprocesses such as NULL, SWAPPER, ERRFMT etc are always running inbackground.STATE  This is important. This tells you what the process is currentlydoing. HIBhibernating, COMcomputing, LEFactive, CUR currentPRIORITY  the higher the priority number, the higher priority it has in termsof accessing CPU time.IO  Shows the accumulation of the direct IO and buffered IOCPU  the total amount of CPU time the process has used so farPAGE FLTS  page faults, number of exceptions generated. Not very usefulPH. MEM  amount of physical memory that the process occupiesA further thing you may notice after the last column on some processes is a single letter. This is the process indicator, and it can be one ofB  batch jobS  subprocessN  network processAnother useful option is the ability to know which files, each of the processes are accessing. To accomplish this typeshow devicesfilesnosystemThe only problem with this command is that it will not show the filename if you do not have read access to it. or the BYPASS privilegePerhaps the most POWERFUL tool that the VAXVMS hacker has is the System Dump Analyzer SDA. An important option of this allows you to view all the process running on the system, what files they are accessing, their process status, the contents of their virtual memory such as keyboard buffer etc etc A VERY powerful command, it is started with the commandanalyzesystemThe only drawback with this command is that it requires the CMKRNL privilege. I will discuss this feature in more detail later in the file.DETACHED ACCOUNTSA very big security loophole which is allowed on many VMS systems are detached accounts. Basically what this allows you to do is cut carrier instead of logging out properly. Instead of logging the process out, it is left waiting on the system. The next user who logs in, instead of getting a Username prompt will get your shell  prompt! There are many useful things you can do with a detached account. The most obvious use of course is to set up a Trojan Horse program. Basically you write a procedure that simulates the VAXVMS login sequence. After the user enters hisher usernamepassword, you save this info to a file, give him a 'User authorization failure' and throw him into the real login sequence. He will think he mistyped something and this time when he tries, he will be able to log in normally. But in the meantime, you have a copy of his usernamepassword combination stored away in a file, which you can later use!EXAMINING FILESOften it becomes necessary to examine a file in greater detail than provided by a simple TYPE command. For executable and object files there is of course the ANALYZEIMAGE and ANALYZEOBJECT commands, but often you want to have a look at each individual byte in the file. The best way to do this is to use the DUMP command. An exampledump test.datDUMP of file DISK0NORMANtest.dat on 15APR1989 154326.08 File ID 3134,818,2 End of file block 1  Allocated 3Virtual block number 1 00000001, 512 0200 bytes706d6173 20612073 69207369 68540033 3.This is a samp 00000073752065 62206f74 20656c69 6620656c le file to be us 00001061786520 504d5544 2061206e 69206465 ed in a DUMP exa 00002000000000 00000000 0000002e 656c706d mple 00003000000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 . 00004000000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 . 0001E000000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 . 0001F0As you can see, this not only shows the ASCII interpretation, but also the HEX value for each byte. This can be VERY valuable in certain situations. You should note that since the default is HEXADECIMAL LONGWORD, the bytes seem to be in a backwords order. This is due to the way the machine stores numbers in memory Lobyte,LSB,MSB,Hibyte. You can optionally specify the numbers to come out in decimal or also in single byte format. Exampledump sbsusyssystemrightslist.dat byteheaderdecimalSee the online HELP files for more detail into the various qualifiers. You should note that you CAN use dump to access files on OTHER nodes!CREATING TEXT FILESThis isn't the best of places to put this topic, but if I don't do it now, I will probably forget later on, so here goesOften you will need to create files on a system, such as messages to other hackers, notes to yourself, small DCL programs etc. The basic method is as followscreate file.txtHi this is a dumb message that i am typing just tosee how this command works.Basically what is happening here is you specify a filename and an extension when using the CREATE command in this case file.txt and then the system waits there for you to type in something. At this point you can type whatever you want, and to end the messageprogrammemo just hit CTRLZ. This will return you to the DCL prompt. This is an easy method to transmit COM files that you have either created or buffered from some other system. Just issue the CREATE command, send the file through your buffer, then hit CTRLZ to finish it off.VAXVMS MAIL SYSTEMAlthough it is not a good idea to use the MAIL system to send or receive messages since the messages can be read by anyone with enough privs I will present a brief list of what it can do. One important thing to note is that whenever there are MAIL messages waiting to be read, they are stored in a file that ends with the MAI extension. So if the account you have logged into has received mail, and you really want to read it for some reason, then you can do the following from DCLtype mail.maiThis file is not necessarily called MAIL.MAI, it could be any other name with a MAI extension. Aside from some header information stored at the beginning of each message, the rest of the message is mostly in standard ASCII and easily readable. Doing it this way ensures that the message remains there for the REAL user when he logs in. after a message has been read, it is put into another area, and the user will not see it. This could make him suspicious if he keeps losing important mail messages!Reading MAIL files can be quite useful, because sometimes important messages are stored here. Like i stated earlier, you shouldn't be actually using MAIL to read the mail since it will then get deleted, and the actual user will eventually notice. Also, you shouldn't use the MAIL system to send hackerrelated information to other hackers because system managers can access your mail and read what you have to say.Basically you can use the MAIL facility in two ways Interactively and through the shell. For ease of use I will only describe the interactive method since it is easier and more flexible. If you insist on doing it from the shell, then just call up the ONLINE HELP for the qualifiers. In any case, to interactively use the MAIL utility typemailThis will respond with the promptMAILAt this point you can enter the various mail commands. Following is a brief overview of the more important commands and concepts. At the end, I have provided a table with all the possible commands that can be entered here.Heres a brief list of the more important MAIL commands that I will discuss hereSEND DIRECTORY EXTRACTREADNEW DELETE PRINTFORWARD MOVE HELPREPLY SELECT EXITThe first command to try is the SEND command. Try sending a message to yourself Enter the SEND command and press RETURN. Enter your own user name at the prompt and press RETURN. Enter a subject at the prompt and press RETURN again. The following example shows how to use the SEND command MAIL SENDToPIERCESubjSailingEnter your message below. Press CTRLZ when complete, or CTRLC to quitWhen you finish entering the text of your message, press CTRLZ. Because you are sending the message to yourself, MAIL signals that you have just received a new message by displaying the following message New mail on node FLAXEN from PIERCE MAILNow, you are ready to use the READ command. To read the message you just sent to yourself, enter the READ command with the NEW qualifier and press RETURN as follows MAIL READNEWYou must specify the NEW qualifier with the READ command when you want to read new mail that arrives w
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				An Introductory Guide To TeleNet CommandsI don't know how many of you use TeleNet to call this system or other systems but I thought this might come in handy for those that do.Some basic info about TeleNet commands. To enter a TeleNet you must be at the TeleNet prompt . You can get there two ways1 When you first dial TeleNet you will be at the prompt2 When connected to a system via TeleNet you can return to TeleNet command mode by typing  See note A.Once you get to the prompt here are some of the commands available to you and a brief description of what they do.Command FunctionC xxxxxxx Connects you to a specific host or terminal.STAT Display network port address.FULL Set full duplexHALF Set half duplexDTAPE Prepares the network for bulk file transfers.CONT Return to transfer mode from command mode.BYE or D Disconnects you from the currently connected host.HANGUP Tells TeleNet to hang up the phone.TERM xx Changes your terminal type. xx can be one of thefollowingD1  CRT's and Personal ComputersB3  Bidirectional printersA2  Unidirectional printersA5  Slow printing terminal whichloses data on the left sideat another setting.A9  same as A5  UnknownMAIL or Requests connection to Telemail.TELEMAILTEST CHAR Used to test the system if you are receiving garbled output. Use this and look for garbled characters or patern breaks. If you do try adjusting your parity or contact TeleNet.TEST ECHO If you feel your input to the system is being garbled by your parity or contact TeleNet.
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				Vax Systems Are Almost Always Unix Based. There Are Seven Diffent VersionsOf Bell's Unix And Commands On Each Of Them Differ. Therefore This File WillOnly Go Into Commands Common To Virtually All Unix And Vax'S.Hacking Vax's Are Indeed Very Hard, Almost Immpossible. The Reason Is This When You Connect To The System, You Get A Simple 'Login' Prompt. They Give You No Chance To See WHAT The Login Format Is.Commonly Used Are Single Words Under 8 Digits To Get Past This Hinderance It Is Suggested To Check For An Account Called 'Suggest'Suggest Accounts Are Used To Make Suggestions To A System Root Terminal. Once This Account Has Been Accessed We Freeze The Screencontrols. Next We Send A Clear Screen CommandSystem Dependant. Next We Send Fake Line Noise, Anywhere From 1oo To3oo CharactersFor 'Effect'. Then A Command To Create A Login Account. Now We Merely Clear The Screen Again, And Then Unfreeze The TerminalBecause When The Terminal Is Frozen It Keeps A Buffer Of What Your Modem SendsUsually 127 Characters Your Garbage Has Overflown It Or Cleared It For Our Intents, In The Clean Buffer We Have A Command To Create A Login AccountSystem Dependant. After This We Clear The ScreenBuffer And Unfreeze The Terminal. It Now Implements All Commands You Have Made, From INSIDEie, You Have In A Sense Already Logged On.What To Look For Well There Have As Mr.Sikes Can Attest To Always Been Root Accounts. These Accounts Are The Most Powerful Accounts There Are. Consider A Root Account Like The Roots Of A Tree. Without Them Where Is The Tree The Roots Are Always Hidden And Under Protection At All Times. Roots Die, Tree Dies. Simple.. The Reason Why The Root Account Is So Powerful Is It Is Where All Of The System Files Reside, In Other Words Be On The Look Out For This Account.Unix Archetechture. In Unix The Root Directory Is Called Root. Besides The Primary Root Directory Are Several 'Sub' Root Directories, Usually To Group Things Like System Stats, User Logs, Reports, Programms, Etc These Sub Directories Can Prove To Be As Valuable If Not More Then The Root But Rarely. Then There Is The 'Super' User Account Or The SysOp. Then The Normal Users Accounts, These Are Best For Prolonged 'Phun'. The Way Unix Was Written Everything Is A File To The Computer. You Access A Program The Same Way You Access A Directory And So On. Everything Belongs To The Root Directory. So If You Have Hacked The Root Directory Then You Have Access To EVERYTHING. Basic Unix Prompt Is . If You Have A  Prompt You Havee Hacked The 'Super' User Account. To See Where You Are And What Paths Are Active With Your User Account Enter Your Password. To Access More Paths Enter Path1Path2Path3.You Jump From Path 1 To Path 3 And Have Access To 1, 2, And 3. You Can Run Programs On All Paths. If You Cannot Connect To A Path Then You Have Insufficient Privilages. 'Ls' Generally Gives You A List Of Commands.Since Most Systems Have The Logoff Command In The Root File, The Root Must Be Accessed To Log Off. And Because A User Must Enter His Password At The Prompt You Can Intercept Every User Who Logs Off By Writeing A Simple .bat File To Save The Information To A Text Downloadable At Your Convenience. just some plain simple shit to get you started
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				Recently, a telephone fanatic in the northwest made an interesting discovery. He was exploring the 804 area code Virginia and found out that the 840 exchange did something strange.In the vast majority of cases, in fact in all of the cases except one, he would get a recording as if the exchange didn't exist. However, if he dialed 804840 and four rather predictable numbers, he got a ring!After one or two rings, somebody picked up. Being experienced at this kind of thing, he could tell that the call didn't supe, that is, no charges were being incurred for calling this number.Calls that get you to an error message, or a special operator, generally don't supervise. A female voice, with a hint of a Southern accent said, Operator, can I help youYes, he said, What number have I reachedWhat number did you dial, sirHe made up a number that was similar.I'm sorry that is not the number you reached. Click.He was fascinated. What in the world was this He knew he was going to call back, but before he did, he tried some more experiments. He tried the 840 exchange in several other area codes. In some, it came up as a valid exchange. In others, exactly the same thing happened  the same last four digits, the same Southern belle. Oddly enough, he later noticed, the areas worked in seemed to travel in a beeline from Washington DC to Pittsburgh, PA.He called back from a payphone. Operator, can I help youYes, this is the phone company. I'm testing this line and we don't seem to have an identification on your circuit. What office is this, pleaseWhat number are you trying to reachI'm not trying to reach any number. I'm trying to identify this circuit.I'm sorry, I can't help you.Ma'am, if I don't get an ID on this line, I'll have to disconnect it. We show no record of it here.Hold on a moment, sir.After about a minute, she came back. Sir, I can have someone speak to you. Would you give me your number, pleaseHe had anticipated this and he had the payphone number ready. After he gave it, she said, Mr. XXX will get right back to you.Thanks. He hung up the phone. It rang. INSTANTLY! Oh my God, hethought, They weren't asking for my number  they were confirming it!Hello, he said, trying to sound authoritative.This is Mr. XXX. Did you just make an inquiry to my office concerning a phone numberYes. I need an identiWhat you need is advice. Don't ever call that number again. Forget you ever knew it.At this point our friend got so nervous he just hung up. He expected to hear the phone ring again but it didn't.Over the next few days he racked his brains trying to figure out what the number was. He knew it was something big  that was pretty certain at this point. It was so big that the number was programmed into every central office in the country. He knew this because if he tried to dial any other number in that exchange, he'd get a local error message from his CO, as if the exchange didn't exist.It finally came to him. He had an uncle who worked in a federal agency. He had a feeling that this was government related and if it was, his uncle could probably find out what it was. He asked the next day and his uncle promised to look into the matter.The next time he saw his uncle, he noticed a big change in his manner. He was trembling. Where did you get that number! he shouted. Do you know I almost got fired for asking about it! They kept wanting to know where I got it.Our friend couldn't contain his excitement. What is it he pleaded. What's the number!IT'S THE PRESIDENT'S BOMB SHELTER!He never called the number after that. He knew that he could probably cause quite a bit of excitement by calling the number and saying something like, The weather's not good in Washington. We're coming over for a visit. But our friend was smart. he knew that there were some things that were better off unsaid and undone.
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			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:37:47 PDT</pubDate>
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				Not too long ago I wrote up a review here about the decent services from Rewards1.com URLs Forum.  Here, we're going to go into maximizing your earnings getting more points, qualifying for more offers, and getting credit for more offers.Firstly, I recommend that you use Firefox with the Google Toolbar, FiZiX's PointGAINER, and Fireform plugins installed.  The Google Toolbar and Fireform will allow you to fill the address information faster, and FiZiX's PointGAINER will allow you to automate the click through process.I recommend you use fake information in the autofill, just use a trashmail account for your email and let it go on its merry wayNow, how do you make points for items you may ask Well, you HAVE to fill out offers, and you MUST make the address you use for these offers look like a real one  NEVER buy anything, just click through or better yet, let FiZiX's plugin do it.You can probably do a good 4080 offers in a week, not bad since it'll equate 2040Be sure you1. Click through each offer to the end.2. When you get to an end and it wants you to fill out sponsor offers, just fill out X amount if they request payment, close them and move on.  Most will tell you what they want myself I just open the ad then close them and still get the points these are the offers IN the offers.3. Be patient, it can take several days to get credit!Now, when you request a cashout of your credits in the form of a gift it can take up to 2 weeks, so you'll need to be a little patient by following what I do as defined above you'll be easily on your way!Signup Here
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				 Simple Windows Networking  By Gizmo  March 06, 2002  Preface This text is wrote with the thought that you have at least SOMEunderstanding of computers. It will cover both networking andconnection sharing.Section 1     What you will needSection 2     Getting startedSection 3     Adding network devicesSection 4     Linking network devicesSection 5     Connection sharingSection 6     Troubleshooting Section 1 What you will need2 Computers      only two if using a cross over cable.1 Hub           or cross over cable, please note you can use more than          one hub, this will be discussed at end of article.Some CAT5 cable     1 per computer plus 1 extra for server if connection          sharing on a broadband connection.2 Net Cards     1 per computer, if connection sharing on broadband          connection your server will need two.1 Windows CD     This is needed for the drivers on disk.1 Firewall     This is to keep unwanted users from your network.          Windows networking will open NetBIOS on your computer          so you will need to close it from outside access while          still leaving it open for internal access.1 Connection     This is for connection sharing.1 Internet     This is a program that lets computers on your networkRouter     connect to the internet through the server running the          program. We recommend Sygate Home Networking          httpwww.sygate.com. Section 2 Here you will need to setup your windows computers. To install theprotocols needed for networking and connection sharing you will needto start here. Steps so anyone can do it are included here1. Look at your desktop.2. Right click Network Neighborhood.3. Choose properties.4. Click the identification tab and enter in a computer name MUST BEDIFFERENT ON EVERY COMPUTER IN THE NETWORK. If you are on abroadband computer your servers name will need to be your id nameassigned to you by your provider.5. Enter your workgroup name such as home if your broadbandconnection is home on your server.6. Enter a description of computer this is so that you can rememberwhich computer besides the name, such as this is moms computerfor description.7. Click on the Configuration tab.8. Click ADD.9. You will need to add the following Type  Make  Protocol     Client  Microsoft  Client for Microsoft Networks     Protocol  Microsoft  IPXSPXcompatible Protocol     Protocol  Microsoft  TCPIPService  File and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks          use ipxspx only if you want to use it for internal           gaming, which is about the only reason that I can           find to use it. It is not required for your network.10. Click the Primary Network Logon drop box and change it toClient for Microsoft Networks.11. Click the File and Print Sharing button and be sure both areselected.12. Click ok and then reboot.13. repeat on all computers to be on network. Section 3 A network device is a drive or printer on another computer in yournetwork that you would like to make available to other computers inyour network. These devices can be password protected if you wish.Instructions on adding a device are below1. Look at your desktop.2. Open My Computer.3. Right click on the drive of your choice and choose Sharing.To do a printer, open the printers folders and right click aprinter.4. Click the Shared As selection button.5. Type in name of device example 20Gig C 12 char max.6. Type in comment of drive can be blank if none.7. Select the access Type you would like, your options are     ReadOnly     Full     Depends on password8. If you want to password protect this device enter a passwordin the Passwords section, you can leave this blank.9. Click Apply then OK. Section 4 A linked device is when your on one computer of your network and youare browsing the files on another. You can choose to Map this driveto a drive letter on the present computer that you would like to.These steps are1. Look at desktop.2. Open Network Neighborhood double left click.3. Open the corresponding computer name of the drive you wish to map.4. Right click on the device you wish to map.5. Choose Map Network Drive.6. Select which drive letter you wish to use.7. If you want the mapped drive to stay linked every time you rebootselect Reconnect at Logon.8. Select the OK button.9. Verify it added by looking at your desktop, opening My ComputerYou should now see your linked device in your list. WARNING WARNING WARNING At this point you should have installed your firewall on your MAINcomputer, this is the computer or computers that are accessible to theinternet. Section 5 Connection sharing makes it so that your computers on your networkcan connect to the web, this shares IP costs for broadbandconnections. To set this up look below1. Your server will need 2 network cards If on a broadbandconnection. Note that you CAN use a standard modem but its notrecommended.2. You will need to assign an IP to each computer in your internalnetwork, to do this     Look at your desktop.     Right click Network Neighborhood.     Choose Properties.     Double click TCPIP for your network card if on server use the          bottom of the two installed.     Choose the IP Address Tab.     Click the Specify an IP address button.     For IP Address enter 90.0.0.2 make your server 90.0.0.1          Please note that each computer will go up from this          so the next would be 90.0.0.3.     Enter a Subnet Mask as 255.255.255.0     Choose the Gateway Tab.     In the New Gateway section enter 90.0.0.1 and select add     Choose the DNS Configuration Tab.     Enter the following          Host     UGN          Domain     undergroundnews.com          DNS     90.0.0.1     Choose OK3. Choose ok then reboot and repeat on other computers. For yourserver's TOP network card you would enter your broadband info.4. Install your connection software on your server. And follow theinstructions that come with it. Section 6 Q I don't understand thisA This article was wrote with the idea you'd be able to at least turnyour computer on. These are step by step instructions, if you can't follow you have no need for a network.
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				Terrorism  The HackerNovember 19 2001By GizmoI have been online and active in my computer community for 8 years, and I've been around computers my while life. Lately a bill passed in the senate states that for me gaining unauthorized access to computers, systems, etc is considered terrorism.Now, i speak for the majority of my community when i state that we are not terrorists, were a group of people whom posses a superior intellect and who want to know everything about everything.You may state that what we do is malicious, and for the most part this is true, however if it wasn't for us and our high demands, AMD and INTEL wouldn't have processors that go at 2 gig. Linux wouldn't be used if it wasn't for us, just as your computers that you know now wouldn't be as fast, as secure, and people wouldn't be as smart.We run on a Jedi rule, some of us are Malicious, and some of us are just ones who want to help. Say that i wrote a program such as backoriface, now, you can use this as a server for private use, or you can use it as a way for you to get back into a system at your leisure.If your security is so bad that you get hacked, keep in mind that it is your own fault, if you can't go through the trouble of making your computer un hackable its your bad, not ours.Securing a system isn't hard, in windows you just install a firewall, don't install anything you dont need, then you don't have to worry about the likes of us. in Linux, hey if your running it and you can't secure it, use windows.Now, you compare us geniuses to people like Bin Laden and AlGama'at alIslamiyya Egypt's largest militant group. But in defense we just want to state, if it wasn't meant to be public and free, it just wasn't meant to be.
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				Ten Things To NOT Do If ArrestedApril 10, 2001By GizmoThis article is a readaptation of an article wrote by Brian Dinday. Sections have been added and removed for strong points and stronger methods.Please note that I am not a law enforcement official, and that i have no affiliations with the government andor any police offices.A portion of this article was written by Brian Dinday who is a practicing attorney for the past 24 years. He has the following to say. I have been practicing criminal law for 24 years and have seen a wide variety of reactions by people who are being arrested. Some of these reactions are unwise but understandable. Others are self defeating to the point of being bizarre. No one plans to be arrested, but it might help to think just once about what you will do and not do if you ever hear the phrase Put your hands behind you. The simplest to do rule is to do what you are told. Simple, but somehow it often escapes someone who is either scared or intoxicated. More important to guarding your rights and interests are ten things you SHOULD NOT do1. Don't try to convince the officer of your innocence. It's useless. He or she only needs probable cause to believe you have committed a crime in order to arrest you. He does not decide your guilt and he actually doesn't care if you are innocent or not. It is the job of the judge or jury to free you if he is wrong. If you feel that urge to convince him he's made a mistake, remember the overwhelming probability that instead you will say at least one thing that will hurt your case, perhaps even fatally. It is smarter to save your defense for your lawyer.Please note to take extreme caution when you hear your rights, Anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law sticks in every manner.2. Don't run. It's highly unlikely a suspect could outrun ten radio cars converging on a block in mere seconds. I saw a case where a passenger being driven home by a drunk friend bolted and ran. Why It was the driver they wanted, and she needlessly risked injury in a forceful arrest. Even worse, the police might have suspected she ran because she had a gun, perhaps making them too quick to draw their own firearms. Most police will just arrest a runner, but there are some who will be mad they had to work so hard and injure the suspect unnecessarily.Please note that police are given the right to shoot you in the leg if it means your arrest, so if you decide to run on foot against 10 cars watch yourself, they could miss.3. Keep quiet. My hardest cases to defend are those where the suspect got very talkative. Incredibly, many will start babbling without the police having asked a single question. My most vivid memory of this problem was the armed robbery suspect who blurted to police How could the guy identify me The robbers was wearing masks. To which the police smiled and responded, Oh Were they Judges and juries will discount or ignore what a suspect says that helps him, but give great weight to anything that seems to hurt him. In 24 years of criminal practice, I could count on one hand the number of times a suspect was released because of what he told the police after they arrested him.Once again I want to point out your rights that the police read out, You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law.4. Don't give permission to search anywhere. If they ask, it probably means they don't believe they have the right to search and need your consent. If you are ordered to hand over your keys, state loudly You do NOT have my permission to search. If bystanders hear you, whatever they find may be excluded from evidence later. This is also a good reason not to talk, even if it seems all is lost when they find something incriminating.If police come to your home and want to look around your home or car, anything that they find or see in your home gives them a right to use in court to file charges against you. If they state that we know their in there kindly state to your officer if you have a warrant you may look, but if you do not have a warrant please vacate my property until you get one.5. If the police are searching your car or home, don't look at the places you wish they wouldn't search. Don't react to the search at all, and especially not to questions like Who does this belong toI would like to add, at times of this i have had police walk to a bong pick it up and ask what is this if you are a smoker and you leave your items around, be prepared for trouble or if the cops are just looking for a specific thing or someone they may let it slide.6. Don't resist arrest. Above all, do not push the police or try to swat their hands away. That would be assaulting an officer and any slight injury to them will turn your minor misdemeanor arrest into a felony. A petty shoplifter can wind up going to state prison that way. Resisting arrest such as pulling away is merely a misdemeanor and often the police do not even charge that offense. Obviously, striking an officer can result in serious injury to you as well.I would like to state that if you are in your car, take great care that the officer doesn't strike himself to your window and that his fingers do not get caught in your door, both of these are Aggravated Assault and can wind you with a hefty fine and quite the amount of jail time.7. Try to resist the temptation to mouth off at the police, even if you have been wrongly arrested. Police have a lot of discretion in what charges are brought. They can change a misdemeanor to a felony, add charges, or even take the trouble to talk directly to the prosecutor and urge him to go hard on you. On the other hand, I have seen a client who was friendly to the police and talked sports and such on the way to the station. They gave him a break. Notice he did not talk about his case, however.If you find the need to talk to the officer, be nice, don't start talking about you hating pigs and you want to go on a 187 spree, i've seen morons do this, and the police charged them with harassment. Instead do as listed above, be nice, talk about sports television radio whatever interests you. Do not get into the cops family issues either, if your too dumb to know about how to start a conversation just ask, Do you have any siblings if you get no reply, state, I have 3 siblings then try and start a conversation off like that, it often works, so long as they don't believe your a crazed lunatic you can make a popo friend.8. Do not believe what the police tell you in order to get you to talk. The law permits them to lie to a suspect in order to get him to make admissions. For example, they will separate two friends who have been arrested and tell the first one that the second one squealed on him. The first one then squeals on the second, though in truth the second one never said anything. An even more common example is telling a suspect that if he talks to the police, it will go easier. Well, that's sort of true. It will be much easier for the police to prove their case. I can't remember too many cases where the prosecutor gave the defendant an easier deal because he waived his right to silence and confessed.If you know your guilty and you want to make a deal, make it DIRECTLY to the prosecutor, not to anyone else except your attorney. The police just want you to admit your crime so that they can get a pat on the back for a job well done, then you'll end up behind bars where you were going to begin with, only now they know more than what they would have.9. If at home, do not invite the police inside, nor should you step outside. If the police believe you have committed a felony, they usually need an arrest warrant to go into your home to arrest you. If they ask you to step outside, you will have solved that problem for them. The correct responses are I am comfortable talking right here., No, you may not come in., or Do you have a warrant to enter or to arrest me in my home I am not suggesting that you run. In fact, that is the best way to ensure the harshest punishment later on. But you may not find it so convenient to be arrested Friday night when all the courts and law offices are closed. With an attorney, you can perhaps surrender after bail arrangements are made and spend NO time in custody while your case is pending.If you have a screen door at your residence in many cases the officer will not even bother opening that. If he asks you to step outside, just stand in your doorway with your screen door closed and state I am comfortable talking where I currently am, what do you need. The officer has no rights to enter your home or arrest you without just cause and a warrant.10. If you are arrested outside your home, do not accept any offers to let you go inside to get dressed, change, get a jacket, call your wife, or any other reason. The police will of course escort you inside and then search everywhere they please, again without a warrant. Likewise decline offers to secure your car safely.If your worried about securing your home or vehicle, just tell the person whom you make your phonecall to that you want them to secure your home or vheacle immediately since you didn't have time to do so as the officers were arresting you. After you are arrested you are considered guilty to the officers and until you have your hearing you are. Just keep your shirt on and wait things through, the faster you go the faster you go home.That's it Ten simple rules that will leave as many of your rights intact as possible if you are arrested. How about a short test You have a fight with your livein girlfriend and the police come and find you on the sidewalk two houses down from the apartment. The girlfriend points you out and the police arrest you for assault. They tell you they don't intend to question you. They just want your name and address. Do you answer Well, you shouldn't. Your address is the single most damaging admission you could make. If you admit living with her, you have just converted a misdemeanor assault into a felony punishable by state prison. When you are arrested it is their game, and you don't know the rules. It is best to be silent and let the attorney handle it later. The bottom line is that if the police have enough evidence to arrest, they will. If they don't have that evidence, you could easily provide it by talking. If you feel that you need to comment, just sate no comment to the officer, they can't do anything and all they are waiting for is for you to tell them what they want to hear. As for your girlfriend, you can sort those problems out later.
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				Scanning for proxiesNovember 16, 2001By GizmoThis is just a quickly typed up list of what to do that I had made for myself a ways back, I am making it public so that you all can brush up on your ninja vanish skilletz.First, you need a program to scan for both 8080 andor 3128, these both are common proxy ports, also you can try port 80. Some companies have a set port for their block for their proxies, so at many times a class will be full of proxies, and others empty, and some that your just lead to believe are empty.Don't try and run a full port scan of a class, it's kinda dumb and impractical to scan 65535 ports on 255 computers, but if you must, feel free, although their more apt to notice a scan of more than 5 ports.A scanner that I both enjoy and recommend is Super Scan, it can be found at Found Stone Technologies www.foundstone.com, see I used to use this program back when a 31337 scanner writer using home wrote it, so I've been with the program since it was a baby. Another scanner that you may want to take a look at that impresses me is Access Diver, available at www.accessdiver.com, this program comes with a bunch of nice features and scanners, its what I use to check if my proxy's are anonymous or not.Now that you have a scanner, set it up for your ports, in Super Scan you select port list go figure after this select deselect all, scroll down to your ports that you want and double click them yes, this is a windows based application.Now, enter your starting ip, then your ending, Super scan has a max of a class c now I believe, evidently they didn't like users being able to scan an entire class A since beta x.Now hit scan, it will list a bunch of shit, don't toy with it until complete. Click expand all, then click prune. next save your list, I prefer to save it as the class I had just scanned, say 12.0.0.txt or so.Now, go through this list and test out your proxies, after that, check to see if their anonymous and go have fun. Gizmo
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				 Router Fun  By Gizmo  gizmocorthell.com  IRC Gizmo  Shouts to Thinkpol and Cpio  Shouts to comdak and khecka November 21 2000Bounceserver routerip 23quote passquote 199.232.159.166 6667quote user Nicknamehere is owned by gizmo lar lar kekekekequote nick NicknameherePackettelnetrouterippassenablepasspingBLANKvictim ip200000180240BLANKBLANKConfig Enter Passtelnetrouterippassenablepassconf tno enable secretline vty 0 4password newpasscontrolZcontrolZtype rel and follow the instructionsConfigure Enable Passtelnetrouterippassenablepassconf tno enable secretenable password newpasscontrolZcontrolZtype rel and follow the instructionsTo turn off fingertelnetrouterippassenablepassconf tno ip fingercontrolZcontrolZtype rel and follow the instructionsTo knock someone off routerclear line 3replace number with  they are on routerTo see who is on a routerwhoTo message people on routerenable routersend control zreplace  with number they are on routerTo Telnet through a routerenable routertelnethostTo Traceroute through a routerenable routertracerouteTo view processesenableshow procTo view how fastsh inlook for kbit in first few linesTo disable loggingenable routerconf tno enable secretno logging consoleno logging bufferno logging trapno logging monitorTo Show Whats Loggingshow logging
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				 Router Fun  By Gizmo  gizmocorthell.com  httpwww.phoneabuse.com  IRC Gizzy  Shouts to Thinkpol and Cpio  Shouts to Missa and khecka  Shouts to Lucky225 and UPIN November 21 2000BounceBouncing through a cisco router is quite easy, and if you are on a rather nice router, you do not have to worry about little packet kiddies. To bounce using mIRC, use the following 5 commands, and ONLY change the specified areas, otherwise, it won't work.server routerip 23quote passquote 199.232.159.166 6667quote user Nicknamehere is owned by gizmo lar lar kekekekequote nick NicknamehereThe quote 199.232.159.166 6667 line tells your router that you would like to bounce to twisted.dal.net port 6667.PacketNow you too can be a packet kiddie, although we do not recommend this, since it is quite illegal, the commands are shown none the less, we just say this to let you know what your doing is against the law. These commands use TELNET, or a proper TELNET emulator.telnetrouterippassenablepasspingBLANKvictim ip200000180240BLANKBLANKNow your users ip will be flooded, if you are on a fast Cisco Router, the user will ping offline within minutes, this can vary, weather the user is using 56k, CABLEDSL, or something more powerful. Keep in mind, this tends to piss off people, and chances are, you may have a little packet war going on.PasswordsThe changing of the enable and enter passwords were removed from this text because we feel that if your stupid enough to packet us, that we will have a rather easy way of making you stop.. Changing your routers passwords.If you need to change your routers passwords, find the commands out yourself, it isn't too hard to do.. Its actually rather simple.To turn off fingerTurning off your routers finger ports is another step in making your identity anonymous on IRC or anything else that you are doing for that matter. This will close port 79 aka finger port. If you wish to finger a router, telnet to port 79 and it will display all users currently logged into the router, so long as this port is opened. These commands use TELNET or a proper TELNET emulator.telnetrouterippassenablepassconf tno ip fingercontrolZcontrolZtype rel and follow the instructionsThis will close the finger port, and reboot your router, it will be down for approx. 35 minutes.Scanning for Cisco RoutersScanning for a router is half the battle, we recommend Super Scanner which is now owned and maintained by Foundstone httpwww.foundstone.com. We have been using this scanner since it was made by a lonely home programmer, now look where his programs went . This program is only available for windows.When you have a proper scanner, we recommend that you set up a portlist in the portlist setup. To do this, click the port list button, select ports 23, 79, 80, 8080. This will scan for 23 telnet, 79 finger, and 808080 httpproxy. The reason that you would want to scan proxys is to use them for other fun activities, its not too good to use prescanned stuff since chances are that they are currently used by other users, and possibly logged.After you have all of this configured, just run on a random class B or C and wait for generous amounts of replies to come in. Wait until your scan is complete, choose expand, then prune, then save yoru list, and now it is your job to go through your findings.Finding Cisco RoutersThe reply from a Cisco Router will be something among the following  127.0.0.1     ___ 23 Telnet          ___ .User Access Verification.Password  127.0.0.1     ___ 23 Telnet          ___ .User Access Verification.UsernameNow a Cisco Router with the default password will be cisco. Among other popular passwords, the following are also usable at times admin, god, router, enable, password. We recommend that if you own a Cisco Router, that you do NOT use these passwords, just to keep your network safe from the likes of us.Thats all for now, have fun, and good hunting..Gizmo
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				 RCMAC  By Gizmo  gizmocorthell.com  httpwww.phoneabuse.com  IRC Gizzy  Shouts to Thinkpol and Cpio  Shouts to Missa and khecka  Shouts to Lucky225 and UPIN July 22, 2001RCMAC Arr Cee Mak, or Recent Change Memory Administrative Center.An RCMAC is an operator who changes lineclassers, etc. The operator adds threeway calling, call waiting, and other line additions and removals to your line. This can quite possibly be the most important number to any phreak, or prank whore. This operator can change the line class, disconnect, reconnect a phone line. Via this, you can disconnect a users line, make it non touch tone capable, or our upin favorite, make them have a payphone.Getting an RCMAC number is half the battle, some pefer to social the number, others can just find them via alternitive manners.Once you have achieved a number of a working RCMAC, its now quite easy to achieve numbers of many others, just try and social the information out of the present working operator avalable at the number.An example of a typical RCMAC situationOP Hello RCMAC Portland, how may I help youYou Hello, this is John Scholtz here at Portland RCMAC, our computers are currently down, are they presently up in your locationYou Yes they are running fine may I help youYou Oh good. I need the Portland RCMAC and the present number that we have is wrong, could you please give me the newest oneOP Yes the Portland number is 503XXXXXXXYou Ok thank you for your help, have a good day.Now that you have a working RCMAC, its time to call it at late night and sayOP Hello Portland RCMACYou Hi this is John Scholtz from the Portland RCMAC and our computers are presently down, and my supervisor had wanted me to place a trouble ticket on victem's number here, could you please assist me in this. will terminate the line until they check it for troubleOP Sir I am sorry we are doing dialtones they check dialtones late at night now so I cant.You Could you possibly write a note for the change when RCMAC is back onOP Sure whats the numberIf that scenario doesn't work at first, try again, or just come up with a better story shouldn't be that hard. If you would like to add or remove a service, or make the line into a payphone, just exchange the trouble ticket that your fileing for its lineclass code belowESF Speed callingCWT Call WaitingCFB Call Forwarding BusyCFV Call ForwardingTWC Three Way CallingTTC Touch Tone Dialing fun to removeUNA No Long DistancePXX Block All Long Distance servicesCHD CentrexCPUACB Auto Call BackFRE Free CallingDTF PayfoneCFD Coinless Charge a callLine ProblemsNDT No DialToneCC Can't CallDTWDDialTone While DialingCH Cant HearCBH Cant Be HeardThis is about all for RCMAC's for now, please check in soon and we will update the text accordingly, so please stay tuned.Information in this text was gathered from Gizzy, Weeve, BrainPhreak.
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				 Pranking Not leaving a trace   www.phoneabuse.com  By Gizmo December 17, 2001About the textWell this is my yearly Christmas text, choosing a title was a bitch since things can be a pain in the ass. I am starting this on the 17th and it should be complete by the 20th.This text covers how to cover your tracks while pranking, this only goes so far for the sheer fact if you need to cover your tracks THAT badly, you shouldn't be making the call.What's neededFirstly you need a calling card or PBX, or basically anything else that's on a toll free number that you can make a call through.How it worksMost 0ops the operator who answers your telephone call when you dial 0 will process a call to a toll free number for the caller. At times they wont, and with some services you can just state Yes, I am visually impaired and I need assistance in dialing a toll free number.Now, first you need to see if your 0op forwards ANI, you do this through having your 0op connect you to an ANIC a number which reads off the phone number that your calling from if it reads back error unavailable or area code000.0000 your set, if it reads back your number, stop reading now, your fucked. Different 1010 numbers will also dial numbers for you and don't forward ANI, so go find one.Now, you have a service to forward your call without your ANI, so you simply dial your transport of your PBX, phone card, etc. Now you're at your transport and your ready to dial your victim. Just type in their number and have yourself some fun.Please remember that if you decide to prank a government office or a police department, they will subpoena the records of your little joyous occasion in hopes of busting you, but hey, you diverted to your card, just do use it unless you divert from now on..Please also remember that the FBI, NSA, CIA, etc. use Lock and Trace technologies, and well your fucked unless you diverted and have a loyal company, which is why we state to buy your calling card with cash or card it .
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				 Pranking Choosing a victem   www.phoneabuse.com  By Gizmo December 17, 2001About the textWell this is a sister text to my yearly Christmas text, choosing a title was a bitch since things can be a pain in the ass. I am starting this on the 17th and it should be complete by the 20th.This text covers how to choose a victem for your pranking, this only goes so far for the sheer fact that we dont want you pranking the Gov, thats our spot.What's neededYou need a few phonebooks, a pen and paper for notes, and possibly some munchiesHow it worksOk, we usually prank people that we have a grudge on, such as the FBICIANSADEA etc, we dont reccommend this for the feeble minded.So if you have a victem look up thier number and your done, wtf you reading this for, this is for the less skillfull wanna be ninjas.We like to use blockbuster as a prank source, you can get all sorts of cool info out of thier workers, we have a blockbuster text up somewhere.If your extremely desperate for a prank, just decide what you wanna do, call a person white pages a business business or yellow pages or a state prank blue pages at the front of your phonebook.We always like to start at the blue, then work our way through the business then end with a few grandma pranks.When you prank, we recommend doing it at around 3am sence nothings more annoying and scary to someone than to be woken up to Mam, this is Sargent McMurphy from the Clackamas County Poliece department, I'm sorry, but your son got struck by a drunk driver and is no longer with us then to hang up before they get details.We know were mean bastards, and i know this text was pointless, but hey, you all know I'm a dick x.
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				 Morse Code 4 Dummiez  By Gizmo  gizmocorthell.com  httpwww.phoneabuse.com  IRC Gizzy  Shouts to Thinkpol and Cpio  Shouts to Missa and khecka  Shouts to Lucky225 and UPIN July 22 2001Letter Morse Letter Morse Digit MorseA . N . 0 B  O  1 .C .. P .. 2 ..D .. Q . 3 E . R .. 4 .F ... S  5 ..G . T  6 .H . U .. 7 I .. V  8 ..J . W . 9 .K . X ..L ... Y .M  Z ..Letter Morse Punctuation       Mark Morse .. Fullstop period ... .. Comma .. .. Colon Ch  Question mark query .... .... Apostrophe .. . Hyphen . . Fraction bar ... .. Brackets parentheses ..Quotation marks ....
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			<title>How to create a hold box</title>
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				  How to create a hold box  By Gizmo  December 18, 2001PrefaceI decided to make these plans when I was chilling on the phone this afternoon with Jen and my boy's kept talkin shit in the background, sadly I had no hold button on my telephone, so I kept having to cover my mouthpeice and tell them to shut the hell up.NotesI never got into resisters and all that fun shit, so this is the bare essentials ghetto plan for this box.Needed Components1 Spool of wire1 Minibox Enclosure1 OnOff Switch2 Female telephone adaptersPlansFirst, take your minibox and drill a hole into the top, it needs to be just right if not a little snug for your onoff switch. After you have the hole drilled you will need to drill another on either side of your box, or wherever you would like your telephone inout placed.Now that you have your holes drilled, place your components where you would like them to be, and cut your wire at the lengths to each adapter. From line in to the onoff switch give say 12 for workspace, then from the on off switch to the line out port on your box.Now, solder the red and green on the line in to your wire that you had cut. Place white as red, black as green. Do the same for your line out on your box.Now, take your soldered whiteblack wires from both the in and out lines, and hook the white ring to the onoff adapter. Remember that its whitewhite and blackblack, we don't want any cross connections, and then take and solder the blackblack wires together.Now, simply plug in your phone cord from your wall to your line in on your box, and then plug another wire from your line out to your telephone. Whenever you would like to place someone on hold, just simply flip your switch and they can't hear you, but oh look, you can hear them.
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				 How to setup a conference   www.phoneabuse.com  By Gizmo November 7 2001This tutorial is written for those who would like to how howto setup a teleconference whom don't already know. Thistutorial requires a beige box linemans set and in some cases a normaltelephone cord.TutorialOk, as stated above you need a beigebox, you can find a tutorial on how to build one on www.phoneabuse.com.First you must find a Telco Can andor a TNI. Now you open the can there should be a little lip towards the bottom, please note that most cans are locked and require a telco key steal out of a telco van, or build your own.Secondly you must take your alligator clips on your beige box or linemans test set and connect the red clip to the top left and the black to the bottom right. please see the following photoo Ro Bo Ro BNow, you should hear a dial tone, tada, you've beiged, you are now officially connected to someones line and doing something illegal! clapNext step is to figure out the telephone number of the line that you are on. You can do this by calling an ANAC.After you have your telephone number of this line, you call a conference center, we prefer ATT Teleconferencing Service. 1.800.232.1234 is the ATT Teleconferencing line.You call ATT and state that you would like to start a conference. They will ask you for a name and billing information, state that you would like to bill to your line when asked. they will now ask you for your number and that they will call back to verify.Conference SetupOP Hello ATT Teleconferencing ServicesYOU Hello I would like to setup a conferenceOP Yes sirmam, what is the number that you are calling fromYOU 504.555.1212OP And your name and address sirmamYOU Yes i am John Doe, and my address is AddressOP What time and date would you like your conference to startYOU state half an hour from present time i would like it at 1030 please.OP Yes sirmam, we will call you back to verify info.YOU Thank you..CallbackOP Hello this is ATT Teleconferencing calling to speak to John DoeYOU Yes, this is himOP Ok sirmam, your information is conf infoYOU thank you.After the callback you will get your conference information, now go home and give your info out. By GizmoShouts Khecka, Optix, Snake, TNUPINPPCP2kUGN, unreal and comic you little bitch..
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			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:08:49 PDT</pubDate>
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				Exploiting windows file sharesDecember 07, 2001By GizmoFirst if you know your victem has a home network, just get their ip address, this can often to as easy to dns user on an irc server.If you dont have any specific user in mind, just open a portscanner and scan for open ports, you'll be looking for port 139 NetBios by the way.Now lets have a brief discussion, when configuring your network, your network neighborhood will add NetBios to your protocol list, you want to delete this since you wont have too much of a use for it.Now if you've found a few users with your scanner running port 139, just open your webbrowser yes, internet explorer, netscape, or whatever you are currently running. Now you want to type IPADDRESS in your address bar, an example would be 127.0.0.1 and if their not running a firewall to block your access you should see a list of their shared folders.What to do now now you can just toy with their computers, go through their files and find anything that could interest you. Even the FIND tool is available to you. Now if you find some software or a bit of information that you'd just love to have, just right click and copy to your hard drive.
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			<title>Crack PS2 Parental Lock</title>
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				 Override Playstation II Parental Controls  By Gizmo  GizmoPhoneabuse.com   httpwww.phoneabuse.com  httpwww.undergroundnews.com   Saturday, July 13, 2002   Shout outs to Weeve, Katy, Neo, Lucky  UGN, UPIN, Papa Herf, and Rev. Curse.  Introduction The Playstation II comes with a feature for DVD playbackcalled Parental Control. For those of you who don't knowwhat it is, a Parental Control makes it so that parentscan block out features so that their children cannot playgames andor movies with graphical content and sexualcontent. Notes from the author I say this to any of you parents who think that you canstop this freedom from your kids or husband, yehright This is the freedom of information age, you'llnever stop it, everything has a backdoor. To do This is quite simple in fact I did it in fewer than 30seconds If you'd like to go ahead and crack yourparental controls for your Playstation II Console, dothe followingLoad a DVDGame which is above your current controllevel in other words if it's blocked, use this cd.Choose temporarily change parental control modes to 8Press SelectType in the code 7444 What you did Now, it will say Code Deleted. Please keep in mind thatyou have to set a new code for Parental Control level 8Most parents will think that they just forgot the code, justdon't let them see you watching porn. The End I wrote this article because I was bored and I had to findthe parental control code for a PSX that was acquired forme. Now the code is something only I know, and its set atlevel 8, so in other words, everything goes x.Gizmo A. LayGizmophoneabuse.com
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				Like many users, I decided to give IE7 a try, and absolutely hated it  I couldn't stand the dumbed down interface, and quite frankly, disliked the changes in every regard  I mainly use FireFox which I promote whole heartedly but for those IE users who want to roll back to IE6 from IE7 roll back from Internet Explorer 7 to Internet Explorer 6, heres howThe process is quite easy in Windows XP and Windows 2003, simply go to add and remove programs, and remove Windows Internet Explorer 7 and follow the prompts.  After a reboot, you'll be back at IE6  Quite simple huhUninstalling Internet Explorer 7 RC1 works for all versions of IE AFAIK found hereTo uninstall Internet Explorer 7 and restore Internet Explorer 6 when using Windows XP or Windows Server 2003   1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.   2. Click Add or Remove Programs.   3. Scroll down to Windows Internet Explorer 7, click it, and then click ChangeRemove.If you cannot find Internet Explorer 7 in Add or Remove Programs, click Start, click Run, type windirie7spuninstspuninst.exe, and then press ENTER.Note windir is the location of your Windows directory, which can usually be found at CWindows. To do this, you need to have view hidden folders enabled.
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:10:00 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Configuring Bonjour in the Pidgin (GAIM) IM Client</title>
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				Since version 2.0.2 of Pidgin for Windows Pidgin allows usage of the Bonjour protocol.  In order for the option to display in the protocols dropdown in the configuration however you must install the Bonjour for Windows application which is freely available from Apple here.You may be asking yourself, what is Bonjour  Well, Bonjour, also known as zeroconfiguration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks. Bonjour uses industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically discover each other without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers.You can also utilize Bonjour as an internal network chat, which will allow users within the network to talk to each other without requiring an external server such as AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Jabber, etc.A benefit here would be, if your network where to be down, you can still message in between computers for productivity.
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			<title>Show Windows (Vista) Clock in Military Format</title>
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				So James posted the simple tutorial to show you how to change your clock to military time with Windows XP. I decided it wouldn't hurt to share with people how to do the exact same thing, but with Vista. The following is from microsoft.com1. In Windows, click the Start Button image button.2. Click Control Panel, click Clock, Language, and Region.Note If you are using Control Panel in Classic View, doubleclick Regional and Language Options, and then skip to step 3.3. Click Regional and Lanugage Options.4. Click Customize this format.5. On the Time tab, do one of the following Change Time format to HHmmss for a 24hour clock. Change Time format to hhmmss tt for a 12hour clock.
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:10:00 PDT</pubDate>
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				Well I sometimes prefer my windows clock to relay in Military time than the standard look.  I decided to do some searching and found a rather good article at annoyances.org and decided to relay it for you all.Set the Windows XP Clock to or from Military Time1. Click My Computer2. Open the Control Panel3. Select Time Options3a. Classic View Open Regional and Language Options.3b. Category View Date, Time, Language and Regional Options.4. Click Change the format of numbers, dates, and times.5. Select the Regional Options tab.6. Next to the box that shows your selected language click Customize.7. Click the Time tab.8. In the Time Format box enter8a. Standard Format hmmsstt8b. Military Format HHmmss
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:49:00 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Troubleshooting a &quot;Disk Boot Failure&quot; error...</title>
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				I received this DISK BOOT FAILURE  INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER error on my DVR system tonight, so I dove deep into troubleshooting the problem.The rough cause of the problem is that the system cannot read from a bootable drive generally a hard disk ie, it cannot read the operating system on your hard disk.So, my first step was reading the bootup process on my computer very closely upon booting the system will take and look for all drives in your system  In my case, one was missing from the scan my primary driveSo, I turn off the machine, pop it open, and ensure everything is connected properly  As it was, I started it up again to see if there was any change maybe there was a loose connection and I could see that there obviously wasn't as I have the same error.So I say to myself, Well, lets do what any high tech geek would do, let us take and replace the cable and see what happens!  It kind of caught me off guard since the data cable had been the one which came with the drive, but I figured hey, what could it hurt  So I dive through my big 'ole box 'o cables and find a new so I have bought a lot of drives for computers over the years and grab a cable, time to test!So I swap out the old cable for the new one, throw the machine back together, and boot her up  I have a drive! lolSo, it turns out, all of this trouble over a 1 cableSo in the future, if this error ever plagues you, chances are something is wrong with either your disk, or the connection to itMy next troubleshooting tips would have been to plug the disk into another computer, or another spot on the machine there are generally 2 ide channels on a motherboard, each supporting 2 devices so that's 4 possible spots to test.  After that, I'd be RMA'ing my hard drive back to the manufacturer for repairs as the drive may have burnt out
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:47:00 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>How to Open and Download Torrent Files</title>
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				All .torrent files are is a list of information on the files that are to be downloaded and their location on the internet through a tracker server.  When you open the file, you'd open it with a Torrent Client such as uTorrent.  The Torrent client would then open the file, read its data, and connect to the Tracker Server which is listed in the torrent.Some Tracker Servers are Private Trackers, meaning that they are available only to their clients.  Most of these are free to sign up, however some require an invitation from current users to sign up.  This is done to ensure that users properly seed their fair share of the bandwidth they download.Seeding is the process of uploading the file to the server during and after you've downloaded the files.  It's a good idea to seed the torrent after you've downloaded it as Torrents are seeded by the users who download the files.  A good ratio to seed to is 1.51 all of what you downloaded, and half as much more or more.Most people think that Torrent files are for illegal copies of software, games, and music this is vastly untrue.  Where the blackgrey areas of Torrent files do cover illegal downloading of licensed goods, there are many legal torrented files as well.  For example, a lot of Open Source software such as Linux, Unix, Open Office, etc can be downloaded through the bittorrent protocol.Configuring a torrent client is quite easy, simply download a client such as uTorrent, install it, set your download directory, and start your downloading.  Some users, namely those behind a router, will need to forward a port on their router to their computer this will ensure that you can properly be connected to so that you can seed your torrents.  This port will vary from client to client, and most will allow you to set the port within its configuration.Another option that some offer is Encrypting Downloads, which simply encodes your data stream.  This is useful if your ISP blocks bittorrent traffic which some have been doing, assuming it all is an AUP violation.Another piece of software you may want to look at is Peer Guardian 2.  Peer Guardian blocks known bad hosts which upload dummybad data, or tracks your usage for malicious purposes.  This also includes such organizations such as the MPAARIAA.Please note that we do not condone internet piracy in any way, however we do advocate user privacy on networks.
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:20:00 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>How to Watch a DVD in Windows Media Player</title>
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				You may have put a DVD into your computer and assumed that just because you have a DVD that you can simply open it in Windows Media Player, but have found that it'll give you an error or simply won't open.  This is because Windows Media Player doesn't include a DVD Decoded within it.A DVD Decoder simply decodes the data stream read from your DVD and pipes it in a format that can be played through a DVD Player on your computer.  It does this in 2 ways Decodes the CSS Encoding which is applied to all video files on disk. Decodes the MPEG2 Encoding which is applied to video content on disk.There are many DVD Decoders to choose from online, however not many are free in fact, you'll find that most are not.  This is because of the development and licensing costs paid to the DVD patent holders.  As most DVD drives will come with some software to play DVD Videos, this is a definite free option.Microsoft has a list of DVD Decoders which they recommend that you can access here. Once you've installed a DVD Decoder, you'll be able to properly watch DVD's within Windows Media Player.Another option is to use another program, such as VLC Media Player which has a DVD Decoder as well as many other codec's programmed into it.
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				Upgrading the RAM Random Access Memory, or simply Memory on your system is quite simple  You'll need some information about your system before you get started. Supported Memory Speed Machine Type Desktop or Laptop Maximum Supported Size Number of SlotsThe above information is quite critical, as it lets us know exactly what is supported within your system.  For example, if we have a desktop, our ram will be a vastly different size than a laptop.If your system supports 4GB of ram, but only has 2 slots, that would mean your system supports 2GB sticks so if the same system had 4 slots, but supported 4GB ram, it'd support only 1GB sticks of RAM.You can usually find this information in the manual which came with your PC, or from an online memory manufacturer's website such as Memory To Go.  However, I recommend that you purchase your memory at NewEgg as you can see user reviews and compare the prices of many types of ram from many manufacturers.One thing you can keep in mind is that DDR memory can be clocked down, however you cannot clock it up  An example is that you can buy DDR400 memory for a DDR300 system and have it work flawlessly however you cannot do the opposite.To upgrade the memory on a desktop system1. Power down your computer, and unplug the computer from the power socket.2. Open your case.3. Locate the RAM slots, they will be grouped together and will have white connectors at the sides of where the ram plugs into each port.4. If you're upgrading all of the ram in the system by replacing the current memory remove the old memory, else proceed to 5.5. The RAM will only fit in one direction, so there aren't many worries, simply line the ram in the port and press it down firmly the white connectors on the sides should snap in place once the RAM has been fully pushed into the slot.  Repeat as needed for each stick of ram.6. Reassemble your system, plug in the power, and start.To upgrade the memory on a laptop system1. Power down the laptop, and remove the power cable.2. Unscrew the memory port housing usually signified by a small stick of ram in a picture on the case3. Locate the RAM slots, they will be grouped together and will usually have either a white plastic or metal connectors at each end where the ram plugs into each port.4. If you're upgrading all of the ram in the system by replacing the current memory remove the old memory, else proceed to step 5.5. The RAM will only fit in one direction so there aren't many worries, simply line the ram in the port and push it in firmly, the connectors should snap into the sides of the memory sticks and hold them in firmly.  Generally these ram slots are at a slant and require some pressure to fit in the housing.6. Reassemble your system, plug in the system and start up.From here you'll have upgraded your system memory, your system should boot up and do a memory check and display the total ram in the machine and will boot normally to your system.
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			<title>Upgrading to a DVDRW</title>
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				Generally people think that adding a new drive to your computer is a job only suited for tech's this however isn't the case most of the timeThe price of DVDRW drives has drastically dropped in recent years, and it actually costs more in some cases to buy an old CDRom drive than to just buy one that's capable of not only reading DVD's, but can also write to them.Adding a new DVD to your machine is one of the most simple, and we'll cover that hereThe first step is to figure out what you currently have most systems will have a standard IDE drive plugged into a cable, some newer and more expensive systems will have SATA drives, but it isn't common yet.The IDE ribbon cable is a bulky cable, with 40 contacts per housing, and generally has 2 housings other than the port plugging into your motherboard.  If your cable is an IDE cable, and only has one housing other than the one plugging into your motherboard you may consider replacing it as well most new drives come with a new cable, which usually has two housings.You'll now want to decide on a drive, for the purposes of this article, I've looked up the LITEON DH20A4P04 20x DVDR, 8x DVDRW, 16x DVDRom, 32x CDRW drive featurewise vs price vs reviews, it's the top recommendation on NewEgg.com.Now that you have your drive, you'll want to power down the system, and remove the power cable.  You'll then want to open the computer housing and locate the drive bays.  From here we have several routes  If you'll be replacing your IDE cable, you'll want to do so now unplug it from the motherboard and the current drives ensuring, in this case, that you only unplug the cable for the channel you'll be upgrading.Since the drive is still out of the machine, you'll want to set its jumper.  You have 3 choices, Master, Slave, and Cable Select.  Cable Select means that wherever the drive is in line of the cable it will take that position longest being master, middle being slave I however recommend setting them to Master then Slave on the drive itself.  I do like how MasterSlave is set on Cable Select, so I recommend going that route, but I only reccommend setting a drive to slave when another is on the cable that is the master.Replacing a Current DriveNow you'll want to remove your old drive from the computer housing generally the drives are held in place by 4 screws, on either side of the drive chassy.  Simply remove these screws, and slide out the drive.  To get to the screws on the other side of the chassy, you may have to take off the other panel on your system.Adding the New DriveFrom here, you'll want to slide the new drive into the chassy, attach the ribbon cable and power, then secure it with 4 screws.  Most chassy's have a lead on the under side of each port in the system.  This ensures yoru drive enters the system straight and even.  A lot of people only secure two screws on the left side of the drive, or one screw on each side myself, I recommend doing all 4 of the screws two in the front, two in the back on the sides of the drive.One thing to keep in mind when attaching the drive to the data cable is that the pin1 on the cable usually signified by a long black or colored line on the cable itself usually points towards the power adapter if you plug the cable in upside down, it will not function.If you have a second drive, you can follow the above directions to add it in as well, you'll want to be sure you set its jumpers as well before inserting it into the system.After the drives are inserted into the system, you'll want to put it back together and attach the power cable and power on the system.  The boot process should show that the new drives are attached and able to be read additionally, the access light on the drives should power on for a moment.Once your boot process completes, your devices should be automatically be installed and configured.  If you have software that comes with the drive that you'd like to use, you should install it now.
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:42:00 PDT</pubDate>
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				I have found that Windows Vista is one of the more unstable operating systems, even for Microsoft. Not only is it unstable, it's slow, and a lot of products do not work with it. The solution to this is easy, and it's what I have finally given in and done. Switch back to XP. If you want ultimate stability, of course Linux is probably your best route, but if you're more comfortable in the Microsoft world or you have other reasons for using Windows over Linux driver support issues, etc., get rid of Vista and just go back to XP. Even new PCs are coming with the option to downgrade to XP, not a good sign for the future of Vista at all.The only thing you really have to worry about with downgrading is driver issues. If your computer came with Vista, there's the possibility that you will have to search for all the drivers you need in XP versions or at least the ones you need to get online to find the rest before you wipe out Vista entirely. In most cases, these drivers should be readily available from the manufacturer's website.If you're not comfortable backing up your data and installing an all new OS, you should be able to find someone else to do it for you, either a friend or family member or a local computer shop or independent computer specialist.The first thing you'll notice after the switch is how much quicker XP takes to load, and the benefits just keep coming after that.
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 12:53:00 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Preventing Google from Logging Web History.</title>
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				Have you noticed that when you visit Google these days and repeat a search you've done in the past, Google will actually tell you when you last visited each page in the results This occurs if you have a Google account. Services that qualify you for this are any Google service where you have a login, including Gmail, and a few you may not be aware of, including Blogger, YouTube, and Orkut. But if you don't feel comfortable having your web history logged, there is light at the end of the tunnel.The first thing you need to do is go to Google and see if you're signed in. If you are, your information will be in the upper right hand corner. If you're not, it should say iGoogle  Sign in. In this case, you will want to sign in.I will assume you are logged in. In the upper right hand corner, click My Account. Under My Products click Web History. At this time, it may or may not ask you to install the Google Toolbar, and you'll have two options, Enable Web History and Install Toolbar or Limit Web History to Searches. We're going to go with the second option, Limit Web History to Searches. If you do not get this message, don't worry, just continue from this point forward.You will now be able to view a lot of information about your search history sorted by date and time. Let's make this go away and stop it from happening in the future. On the menu on the left hand side, select Remove Items, select Clear entire Web History , and confirm that you want to do this.At this point Google will automatically stop collecting web history information from you until you go back to the web history options and tell Google to resume.Of course, if you have more than one Google account, you will want to do this each one of them.Enjoy the slight increase in internet privacy.
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 09:47:00 PDT</pubDate>
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				At least once a day I get a little pop up on my screen saying that my virtual memory is too low. Windows will fix it but it might refuse some requests during the process. And go to help to learn more.Well, help doesn't help at all. I cannot find anything about this issue. My computer slows down a little for a while 5 minutes maybe Then all seems well.I want to know what I can do to help my computer not need to do this. Will deleting things help I'm not sure even where to go to check on my computer's specs and memory usedavailable.Well, for starters you could add more physical memory to your computer it's not really that expensive at all now adays to max out the memory that a computer can use.Generally speaking, these errors happen when programs utilize all of the available memory and then work on the virtual memory of the system generally memory leaks in software can just eat and eat more and more resources so no, it's not the pictures on your machine.If you're one of those people who leave your computer on all of the time, you may consider making sure you close various programs that you use normally as they could be not releasing their resources to the computer when not in use.Virtual memory aka page file or swap file, is a file on your drive usually pagefile.sys your OS and programs use with physical memory when needed. The default and recommended size of the file is 1 to 2 times the total amount of ram. Virtual memory is the sum of physical memory and the page file. If your computer has 512mb of RAM it will have a 768mb page file as a default total of 1.25 GB of physical  virtual memory.You can hunt down what programs are the issue by right clicking on a blank area in your task bar and opening Task Manager, from here go to View and choose Select Columns and from the new popup select the Virtual Memory Size option and press ok.Now select the Processes tab and click on the VM Size column header on the words that say VM Size and it'll list everything according to smallest to largest if you click again it'll list largest to smallest. You can see what programs are using the most virtual memory on your system.These programs are ones you'll generally want to make sure are closed when you leave your PC unattended it'll likely be your web browsers, media applications, etc.In my case, i have FireFox which is using 191.5mb memory, and 177.8m of virtual memory this is definably one which I'd want to make sure I'd close when not in use.
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:29:00 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>HDTV Converter Boxes</title>
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				In Feb 2008 "Over the Air" broadcasters will be only transmitting their broadcasts as High Definition Television broadcasts which means that if your television does not support HDTV you'll need to purchase a Converter Box in order to continue receiving "Over The Air" broadcasts.Now, a lot of people THINK they need one, but in actuality you probably don't..  If you have Cable or Satellite service in your home for example, you likely don't need one of these boxes.You will ONLY need one of these boxes if your television uses an antenna to pull signals from the airwaves not to be mistaken with a satellite dish and your television does NOT support HDTV signals.If your television supports HDTV signals you likely have your antenna plugged directly into your television you'll need to change nothing as you already have the equipment to support HDTV broadcasts in fact, you likely already have them.Now, you may consider purchasing a decent quality HDTV antenna as well to pull in better quality signals I recommend the Terk HDTVa Indoor Amplified HighDefinition Antenna Note that you can usually find this antenna at RadioShack.
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:39:00 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Cleaning up after spyware</title>
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				If you've happened to notice that you've gotten hit by spyware, the first step is cleaning the mess  If you haven't noticed it yet, there may be something hidden on your system that you don't know of yetWell good news  I'm here to tell you all about two FREE utilities that have been heavily testedThe first is my favorite, every PC in my house has it installed, even client machines that come into my office get it installed for a quick scanSpyBot Search and Destroy  Spybot  Search  Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common antivirus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven't intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been "hijacked" or changed without your knowledge, your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don't see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. SpybotSD is free, so there's no harm giving it a try to see if something has invaded your computer.The second tool is created by Microsoft, I know some of you will snare, but it does the job nicely although no where as fast as Spybot.  One crevate you may have is that it utilizes the WGA to ensure your copy of windows is genuine this check often goes haywire on LEGIT systems.Windows Defender  Windows Defender is software that helps protect your computer against popups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software by detecting and removing known spyware from your computer. Windows Defender features RealTime Protection, a monitoring system that recommends actions against spyware when it's detected, minimizes interruptions, and helps you stay productive.Now, both are really good programs, Defender runs at all times, but Spybot has several features which come in handy as well, such as TeaTimer which is a program which monitors changes to your registry and allows you to approve or deny them as they're added.Myself, I use them both.
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:55:00 PDT</pubDate>
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				I've been asked, "Is there any way to share my internet connection and not get charged by my ISP to have multiple computers online" Well, short and sweet, yes it's simple to share your internet connection over a home network of computers, today we'll dive into how to setup your ISP for multiple connectionsFirst, what you'll need as a bare minimum is a Router for your network  You'll need to decide if you want to have to run wire to each area you wish to have each computer at or if you'll want to allow the computers to connect via a wireless connection or both!.Myself, I recommend the wireless approach, as you can have both, or move to having both at all times  What I'd recommend as far as hardware is the Linksys WRT54GL router, which is quite affordable in today's market hardware wise it's basically identical to the WRT54G v4 that Linksys created years ago, which was quite reliable unlike the newer WRT54G v5 which are stripped down hardware wise If you'd like to go the route of a WIRED connection, there's always the LINKSYS BEFSR41 it's likely important to note that the wireless router is just about the same price as the wired and has BOTH network ports AND wireless.Now, most routers have a built in switch, a switch allows multiple computers to connect and will share the connections between your isp and your computers here the WRT54GL has a 4 port switch built in, which means that 4 computers can be plugged into it and up to 255 computers can connect to the router altogether wireless, or wired by adding additional switches should your needs grow.Now, to connect wirelessly to the router, each computer which wants to connect wirelessly will need a wireless card this card will "pull" the wireless signal and allow you to communicate with your router they're nice!.  You have a few options, on a desktop you have the PCI cards which just slide into your computer, on a laptop you have PCMCIA cards which just slide into the slot on your computer.  On BOTH types though you have USB ones which just plug into the USB slot on your system which is easy for those which do not wish to take their computer apart.If you're going the wired approach, any modern PC or Laptop should have a network port built into it, you'll simply need cabling Clicky.Recommended network cards Desktop  Wireless  PCI Card  GIGABYTE GNWP01GS Laptop  Wireless  PCMCIA Card  LINKSYS WPC600N BOTH  Wireless  USB Dongle  TRENDnet TEW424UBNow, we need to install and configure our new hardwareInstalling Network CardInstalling a network card is simple place it in its appropriate slot and when prompted to install the drivers, press "cancel" then run the CD which comes with the network card, it should install your drivers and prompt you to reboot and you should be installed.Installing a routerWell, this is at least the fun part lol  Your router will come with a network cable, you'll want to plug the cable into the "WAN" port of your router and plug the other end into your cable or dsl modem.  Now you'll plug another network cable into your computer.Note At least for the purposes of the initial configuration of the router setting up wireless you'll HAVE to have your router plugged into a computer with a cable.  You can use the cable which comes with your router vs plugging it into your modem, at least for the time being.From here, you'll want to restart your computer, this is so that your system will check for a dhcp server from your router and get its information.  After you've rebooted you'll want to open up your web browser of choice and go to http192.168.1.1 this is the default address for the Linksys router anyway the quick start guide which comes with your particular model will show its default address.Wireless Now, you'll want to make some adjustments here for your WIRELESS router so that it's secured so only you can use it.  I'm writing these out for a Linksys router, your settings may vary depending on vender.First, go to the "Wireless" tab and make the following config updates Wireless Mode AP Wireless Network Mode Mixed Wireless Network Name enter a name for your router here so you can identify your router Wireless Channel Auto Wireless SSID Broadcast EnableWireless Now, in the Wireless Tab you'll want to click the "Security" link, and make the following adjustments Wireless Interface WLAN Security Mode WPA PSK WPA Algorithms TKIP WPA Shared Key enter a password that only you know Group Key Renewal 3600Both From here, you'll want to visit the "System" tab, and the "DHCP" link, and make these adjustments DHCP Server Enable Starting Address 50 Max DHCP 205 Client Lease Time 86400Both From here, you'll want to visit the "Administration" tab. Router Password set your password UPnP Enable once you enable it, then visit the page again and turn on all of the upnp options below the upnp optionConnecting Wireless ComputersFrom here you'll open the wireless connection setting on all of the wireless computers, it should be in your tool tray and say that it's found a new wireless network!  From here simply double click on the linksys applet or the Windows Wireless Configuration then it'll show the list of available access points.  You'll want to select the one you setup before in your router configuration.  Now you'll simply need to enter in your password and you'll be able to connect!Some Final Steps  NotesNow, as soon as you plug your router into your cable modem, and connect your wireless computers, you should be online with all computers.Should you not be able to connect to the internet, simply go back to your router setup and go to the "Status" tab, under the "Router" link you'll see an "internet configuration" area, all of the options here should have numbers, if for some reason the ip address isn't set, you'll want to click the "DHCP Release" and "DHCP Renew" buttons and test your internet again.  If these do not make the router pull an ip address from your ISP you'll need to make sure you're connected from the router to the modem.
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:36:00 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>What is - A guide to Networking Hardware</title>
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				Today we're going to delve into the different hardware associated with networks we're going to point towards the small businesshome networking class, so I'll leave quite a few of the corporate items out as most of you won't really care and it'll simply confuse you Routers  A router is simply a deice which allows multiple systems to connect to the internet utilizing one ip address or entity a simple way of sharing an internet connection.There are several types of Routers Wireless  A Wireless Router will allow you to serve your internet access to your computers by way of Wireless Networking each system will need its own Wireless Card to "wirelessly" talk to your router, please note that you can "wire" the system to your network and it can talk to other systems in your network which are connected wirelessly. Wired  A standard Wired router will act the same as the wireless router above only with wired only clients.Now we'll talk about Hubs and Switches, please note that most routers come with a 35 port switch built into them.Hubs  Switches  A "Network Hub" will allow you to connect multiple systems into your network, it functions much like a switch however a "Network Switch" will actually manage your traffic which goes through it and is thus the recommended medium hey, they cost the same, so why not go with the one which isn't obsolete.Cabling  There are many types of network cable, all listed as "categories" Category 1  Previously used for telephone and doorbell wiring. Category 2  Previously used for "Token Ring" networks. Category 3  Rated at 16 MHz Category 4  Rated at 20 MHz, Prevously used for "Token Ring" networks. Category 5  Does NOT support Gigabit Networks  100 MHz Rating Category 5e  Supports Gigabit Networks although not recommended  100 MHz Rating Category 6  Supports Gigabit Networks, Backward Compatable with Cat5  250 MHz Rating Category 6a  Supports 10 Gigabit Applications  500 MHz Rating Category 7  Supports 100 Gigabit Applications  Rated at 600 MHzSince most modern networking equipment support "Automatic Crossover", we won't even go into the different types of crossover cabling that is available.  Additionally, fiber optic cable is generally out of the scope of this article.We recommend Cat6Cat6a cabling for any wired networking project Cat7 cabling specs where just released and will likely cost quite a bit once they're out the higher rating is for 10100 gig networks and thus will be overkill for your network.You should not use any cabling prior to Cat5e, they're not rated for 10100 MHz networks and several are not recognized as cabling standards even Standard Cat5.
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:21:00 PDT</pubDate>
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				Quite simply, BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting, and bandwidth resources. Instead, when data is distributed using the BitTorrent protocol, each recipient supplies pieces of the data to newer recipients, reducing the cost and burden on any given individual source, providing redundancy against system problems, and reducing dependence on the original distributor.The first step in getting started with BitTorrent is to get a good client we recommend uTorrent.  You will also need to find a site which hosts links to the content you wish to download.  we host a Torrent Tracker tracker script which monitors sites for their online status you can find this page here.Now, if you have a home network and are behind a router, there are several things that you'll probably want to do.  As BitTorrent is a shareseed protocol, the more you seed the faster you'll download so you'll probably want to assign your computer a static IP Address with your router, and then set a port forward for BitTorrent to your computer.In uTorrent, you can set the port you wish to "listen" on in the settings menu, simply copy this port to your router's port forwarding page and then enter in your computers ip address and you should have an open connection.  Please note that we also recommend turning the "encryption" option in your bittorrent client "on" as some ISP's don't like the increased traffic due to BitTorrent.Now that you have your client setup, pick a torrent site possibly from the UGN list linked above and search for your content.  After you've found something, simply download the .torrent file and then open it with your BitTorrent client.  During a download you should be able to watch the downloadupload and once done, launch your download from within your BitTorrent client.
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:34:00 PDT</pubDate>
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				Adding a hard disk is a simple task for just about anyone  Open your case, slide it into the ribbon red line facing the power cable, slide it into the "holding bay" and power up  However, identifying your hard disk type and how many you can have could be another issue entirelyYour system should support any capacity hard disk, so it's simply a matter of identification the easiest route is to simply Google your motherboard version and it should be in a huge font on your motherboard, as all manufacturers proudly want to spam their product.If you can't find the model on the motherboard you're not at a loss, you can identify most times by the adapter  There are two main types of connector, IDE which is a bulky 40 pin adapter and SATA which is a smaller adapter which you shouldn't even really be able to identify any pin's.  From here you'll need to see if you're dealing with SATA or SATA3g it should list it on the motherboard itself, all else fails however, you could just go with a standard sata hard drive.So, from here, just head over to the Hard Drive section of NewEgg.com and select a "system type" Desktop, Connector Type SATA, SATA3g, IDE, etc.  I do NOT recommend selecting a capacity however, you'll often find a much larger hard disk for the SAME target price, so it's good to shop around.After you hit search, select "Most Reviews" from the "Sort" box to the right this will allow you to rely on other peoples reviews of products always best to buy what's reliable right. From here, identify a disk you want size, rating, etc and read the first set of reviews if it looks good to you, then buy!As I said before, you'll find prices very low for some, semi high for others, it's up to you with what your needs are.There are also External Hard Drives which come with their own USB or FireWire enclosure, if you don't know what ports you have on your machine, you can usually just default to USB as all else fails, you can just buy a USB hub if all of your ports are full.  The link to the NewEgg.com External Hard Drive page is here.  You can also make your own external hard drive, but that's a topic for another article.Note  As SATA3g and ATA133 are backwards compatible with their predecessors, you should have no problem putting them into a system as they will be read regardless of their faster specs.  However, SATA and ATA themselves are NOT the same types of drive, thus you cannot put an ATA drive into an SATA slot it wouldn't fit in the first place.
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:56:00 PDT</pubDate>
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				I'm going to assume that you know the difference in how a USB and FireWire port look as it's how you'll identify what you have for the TYPE of enclosure we'll be selecting.Our first step is selecting a Hard Drive Enclosure the main thing we need for starters is the TYPE of connector you want to use see above for identifying what you have.  After you know the type of connector that you have, lets head over to the External Enclosure section over at Newegg.com.  From here, select the type of connector you want to enter either "USB" or "1394" in the keyword box the dropdown box has options for a lot of combinations, as we could care less and want something that just HAS the connection we're looking for, we'll use the keyword search.From here, select "Most Reviews" from the dropdown to the right by default it will say "Best Match".  After all, we do want something reliable don't weNow, there will be several options, some cases will require an external power source, others will power themselves from your USBFireWire port.  I'd recommend an external power source one, so you can select "yes" from the "AC Adapter" dropdown you'll probably also want to select "3.5" from the "Size" dropdown.  You can also select the internal interface as well, I'd go with SATA.From here you'll have a list of the most reviewed external enclosures, select one that looks good for your needs and let's proceed.Now that we've selected our case, we need to find a hard drive  On the steps selecting our case we may have selected an Internal Interface if you did not, simply just go to the Specifications page on our case and locate the "Internal Interface" section.Now, head over to the Internal Hard Drive section of NewEgg.com and select the "Interface" of what your case supports see the above step you'll also want to select a size of 3.5".  Simply select "Most Reviews" from the dropdown to the right, and find a hard disk you want to use for your new enclosure.After here, we slide open our External Enclosure, connect our hard drive, close the case, plug it into our computer, and your computer should recognize and install it as a new external hard drive.Please note that some external cases will list a max capacity, this should be listed on the specifications page, and you should not install a drive larger than it wants.Note  As SATA3g and ATA133 are backwards compatible with their predecessors, you should have no problem putting them into a system as they will be read regardless of their faster specs.  However, SATA and ATA themselves are NOT the same types of drive, thus you cannot put an ATA drive into an SATA slot it wouldn't fit in the first place.
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:23:00 PDT</pubDate>
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				Well, there are several parts of a hard drive that may confuse some, but luckily we have "Backwards Compatibility" with standards so it's much easier to not make a huge mistakeYour hard drive will likely be either a SATA or IDEATA drive.  Now each of these specifications have been updated in recent years for speed After all, we don't want to wait 5 minutes to access a file do we.SATA now has 3 Gbits with draft specifications for 3Gbits, and ATA is ATA133 that'd be 133 MBs however you can use an SATA3g drive in a simple SATA connector, as you can do the same with a ATA133 disk in an ATA adapter which just means you can put a faster drive in a slower slot which you'll have to end up doing as it'll be harder and harder and even more expensive to find a older hard disk for outdated standards and I can't understand why you'd really want to.If you take the short time to glace at the wikipedia links above, you'll see that the SATA standard is far faster than ATA it's why it's generally globally recommended.
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:30:00 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Safeguarding your Internet with Peer Guardian</title>
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				Phoenix Labs publishes a tool called Peer Guardian which will filter incoming connections from "known bad hosts" RIAA, MPAA, malware, spamware, etc and deny them from connecting to your computer.It's a great tool that I highly recommend ESPECIALLY the option which allows you to allow all "web" requests connecting to websites from your browser while still blocking them from connecting to your system.The tool is free, and is quite easy to configureOnce installed, open the application and select the "Allow HTTP" button on the right side of the page.  Now, select the "settings" tab and "de tick" the "show allowed connections".In the history area, you should likely either set a very LOW log level, or prune it all togetherSelect "Remove" from the dropdown, and set "Every Days" to whatever you're comfortable with.  Me, I have it set to 1 days as I really don't care about the logs at all.From here, you're done configuring, simply click the "x" to close the program it'll minimize to your system tray this is normal behavior as it is still runing, protecting your system.
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:50:00 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Gizmo's introduction to Hacker Definitions</title>
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				Hackers often define themselves in 3 categories, these categories are described as follows.White Hats Ethical Hackers are the elitists who use their computing skills in a legal manner rather than for malicious tasks. Commonly, these users are generally known for being the most skilled members in the hacking community.Back Hats on the other hand are the maliciouscriminal side of the hacking community, they generally specialize in items that would be highly illegal. Destructive exploits, viruses, etc are commonly created and set forth by the Black Hats, often for no reasons other than to promote a zombie network of computers to be used for future malicious acts.Grey Hats however are the common medium of the two, they see that there is light in the dark and generally wouldn't intentionally harm a users system or steal information unless it was entirely necessary. They likely wouldn't have a second thought in doing it, and they often just walk a fine line.
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			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:55:00 PDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Increasing Laptop Monitor Brightness</title>
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				Today we've been asked, "how do I increase the screen brightness on my laptop"Most laptops will have "power save" options configured to conserve your battery life these settings can make your monitor quite dim and can cause eye strain when trying to look at your monitor. What most people don't realize is that your laptop can usually increase the brightness to a level you're more comfortable with like that you use when you're on power. Now, these settings can be used for both "on battery" and "on cord" power settings as both settings are separate.First, locate your Function key generally labeled "Fn", usually it is located in the bottom left corner of your laptop, near the shift key. Now, locate the "light" key there is also usually a "contrast" key. When you press the "Light Up" key while holding the "Function Key" you'll notice your monitor get brighter. Likewise, if you press the "Light Down" key you'll notice the display get dimmer.Different keyboards have different function keys, your manufacturers keys will vary, but almost all will have a light key if not many, many more
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			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:55:00 PDT</pubDate>
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