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The West Australian
Saturday August 10th 1996
HACKERS RANG UP BIG BILL
by Peter Morris
AUSTRALIA'S 2.7 million analogue mobile phone users today risk having their
accounts electronically stolen and bills in their names rang up for thousands
of dollars, according to two Perth men.
According to Telstra, the pair ran up a bill of more than $15,000 on an
Adelaides man's mobile phone over a six week period. Telstra has described it
as Australias worst case of phone fraud.
The pair, Bob and Richard (not their real names), aged 20 and 19, say they
hacked into the mobile analogue network - a proccess known as phreaking - "To
prove how insecure the network is".
They "stole" the electronic signature from Adelaide signwriter Murray Goodes'
phone by modifying their own analogue phone to scan the network and catch
electronic serial numbers (ESN) on to a computer as they were broadcast.
Using an old analogue phone and a computer, together with freely available
software, the ESN was then programmed into the phone to enable it to access
the network masquerading as Mr Goodes' phone.
bob and Richard say they were motivated by anger at Telstra's constant
assurances that the analogue mobile network was secure.
"We were interested in how long it would take telstra to track us down. If we
wanted to avoid getting caught, it would have been very easy to cover our
tracks," richard said.
The analogue system is the older of the two cellular networks operating in
Australia.