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     This stuff is totally unsupported. These are various excerpts from posts, text files, other magazines, etc. that I have found in my travels. I have tried to at least give the author credit, but the magazine or text file it originally appeared in is not always easy to find out. (These are unedited for the most part so my apologies for lack of spellng, grammar, etc)

 
Bypass Zip Drive Security

Since EVERYONE has been asking how to do this for the last 3 years... here you go. It REALLY works!

If you *EVER* forget the password for a ZIP disk, I finially figured out (with the help of some searching on the internet over the last 2 1/2 years, mostly turning up nothing) how to recover the data (not even Iomega claims to know how!) I figured it out last night. As far as I can tell, it ONLY works with the external version of the drive (internal IDE doesn't, at least under Windows 95--it kept locking up the system)

Here's how:
0) Make sure you have the Tools installed that let you password
enable/disable.
1) Take a new disk that is not password protected, give it a read/write
password (and remember it!) :)
2) Turn the SLEEP mode of the drive down to 1 minute.
3) Leaving the newly password protected disk in the drive, choose to "Unprotect until eject".
4) Wait 1 minute until you hear the drive click and spin down (the light should flash as well).[make sure nothing on the computer is accessing the drive--e.g. any explorer windows, etc..]
5) Straighten out a paperclip, and insert it into the tiny hole in the back of the drive, just about the parallel printer port connection area. Press in lightly and the disk should pop out. (DO NOT press the electronic eject button on the front..this will reset the drive's memory)
6) Put in the disk that you have forgotten the password on.
7) Choose to "Remove Protection", and enter in the password of the new disk that you assigned the password to in step 1.
8) Electronically eject (normally) and reinsert the now unprotected disk. [If you don't do this, the files will appear corrupted and cannot be read]. From here on out, your disk is unprotected and can be accessed like a disk that never had protection!

Congratulations! You have now totally removed the protection from the disk! If you have more disks to remove protection from, electronically eject (normally) the current disk, and re-insert the password protected disk and go back to step 3 and repeat until step 8. This worked quite well for me!

- Unknown

Kalidescope Crack

New idea for a way to circumvent the manufacturers update protections for Kalidescope! Requires an external hard drive, zip drive, or partitioned main drive.

1. Install v1.7 and register it using the SN# found on just about every list.

2. Copy the installer of v1.8.1 to your alternate disk, (Zip, Other HD, Partition)

3. Copy your system and finder folders and your startup disk control panel to your alternate disk.

4. Restart using your alternate disk as your startup disk.

5. Run the v1.8.1 installer on the alternate disk .

6. Restart using your main hard drive as startup disk

7. Copy v1.8.1 control panel, and extension to the appropriate folders and restart!

You should now have v1.8.1 registered and ready to go! Also supports all previous Kalidescope schemes!

Hope you can use this. I did it and it works. Of course I actually paid the shareware fee for the program and only did this for educational purposes. I acctually wouldn’t suggest anyone do this without acctually owning the software.  But this is a great option if you install v.1.8.1 and it dumps your old password as an illicit code!

- Unknown

 
How to Hack HotMail

Hot mail, the free web based e-mail service has a security hole that allows you to hack into someone's account and read their mail or more importantly send messages from their account. To do this you need some luck and good timing. But if you do it right the results are impressive.

To hack hot mail you need the following:
1. A account with hot mail (it's free-just set one up)
2. The login name of someone else on hot mail (same as the first part of
there e-mail address - i.e. bob99@hotmail.com login name is bob99
3. Luck and good timing.

To do this you first must login to your hot mail account. Then go to the button that says log out. It will ask you to log in again. Now type the login name of the account you want to hack and hit enter. A second screen will come up asking for a password. Now go to your web browser’s menu and choose "VIEW DOCUMENT SOURCE". You will see how that page is written in HTML but you want to look for where it says "password" on the same line you will see a series of numbers that look something like this-207.82.250.251/cgi-bin//start/(persons login name)/207.82.250.176_(and a letter plus a number). Take this and type it into the location bar http://(what ever address was there) and hit enter.

The only problem with this is that it only works if:
1. The account user left the account with out hitting log out
2. And it's been less than something like 90 minutes or however long before Hotmail times them out. If both of these things have happened you will get right into their account. Just go to "in box" or "compose" and have fun. ;-)

- Captain Science

Answering Machine Hack

Don't listen to all those other answering machine hacks, their algorithms are just trying to confuse you. Here is the guaranteed 2 digit Algorithm to hack answering machines and vocemail.

When you hear the beep after the messege type this in a touchtone phone very fast.

000102030405060708091011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484940505152535455657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899

It works on most answering machines I have hacked. And if you like covering your tracks when phreaking payphones just replace the person's messege with the green tones, or whatever you need. When when you put in your quarter and call the # you hacked you get your quarter (and more) money back!

- Internal Font

 
Having Fun With Those Supermarket Cars

This file is just meant as a prank. Not for serious meanings (duh).

The Story:
Some time ago I saw one of those little supermarket cars on the street, with the coin still inside (yes, yes, yes), so I decided to take it home. It's oftenly very easy to find such a car on the street, 'cause many people are to lazy to return them to the supermarket. Anyways, I wanted to get the coin out, so I grapped a paperclip (a big, strong one) and bend it in the form of the key (or whatever you you could call it), where those cars are stuck to eachother and form a line when they're not used and stuck it in, the coin ofcourse came out. The car was still at my place for a couple of days and I thought it might be wise to experment a little with it.

The Prank:
You know that in every car is a little tray to put the coin in, now the idea is to bend a (regular) paperclip flat and stick it in the length (don't force) in the little opening above the tray (where the coin goes in => see 'drawing'), so that you can slide the tray in  (if it doesn't work:  keep trying).

 __________
                     \
  little opening\
       _ /              \   

One of those 'supermarket cars
       |  |                | 
     _|_|___          |
  /              \       |      
/                  \     |
|

coin tray
|     |
|                    |     |
\                  /     |
  \_______/       |
                        / 
                       /
__________ /
    //// 
   ////
  ////
 ////

So now you have a supermarket car with a closed coin tray, but without a coin in it. 

The Plan:
Go to a supermarket nearby you and steal one of those cars (or just pretend you bought a shit load of things and you need the car to get your stuff home). Beware that the 'coin-system' I described is the same as the one you're about to 'use' (actually they're all the same). Take your car inside, get a strong paperclip and bend it in the form of the key. Get the coin out (if there's one in it) and look if the method works, if it does: GREAT, if not: keep trying. Now go back to the supermarket (armed with your flat (regular) paperclip and the 'key-formed' paperclip) and go to the place the cars are lined up. You'll see the coin trays are open, ready to receive your money. But instead of putting a coin in the tray, put the flat paperclip in it and close the tray (now there's no coin in it and nobody knows). Walk a little with your coin-less car untill you see a nice looking man, waiting to get himself a car and ask very, very  friendly: "Sir, would you like to take my car?". And ofcourse he will give you the amount of money what is suposed to be in the tray and you get the hell out of there! When he'll find out there might be a little chance that he's angry. Do this over and over again, 'till you have enough money or get caught or somethin'. You can use the 'key-formed' paperclip for practicing at home, so you don't have to take it to the supermarket (then why did I write it anyway?).

Watch Your Step :
You can make loads of money with this method, but watch your step. Don't do it too often, only when you run out of cash and need a few bucks. 'Cause the first time I did it, I wás doing it too often and some old f*cking lady, who apparantly runs a flower-store next to the supermarket noticed I was messing around with those little cars and she threatned me to bring to the police-office accross the street. So don't tell me I didn't warn you.

Why Oh Why Did I Write This Anyways:
First: because I didn't have a f*ck to do and the second reason is that I want to spread my knowledge with the rest of the world (isn't that sweet?). I do not know wether there already is a file like this one, I just liked writing it. Any questions: E-mail me (above)! And since I live in the Netherlands, there might be a slight chance that the 'coin-systems' are not alike, but hey: this prank is so easy, you could easily figure it out you own, right? And further I'd like to.....bla bla bla.

- Steve