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- B U R N - I N G ...or...How to work on a Kinko's
- %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %%% % %%% Graphic Design Workstation
- %% %% %% %%% %% %% %% %% %% %% ALL Day and Not Pay a Red Cent
- %%%% %% %%%%%% %%%% %% %% %% Plug Nickle or Thin Dime!
- %% %% %% %% %%% %% %% %% %% %% Concept by Arcangel
- %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %%% %%% Written by oleBuzzard
- -------------------------------------------------------------------02-FEB-96--
-
- INTRO
-
- I like this one. In Colorado (where I live), Kinko's has been running this
- Ad Campaign: 'Have you been to Kinko's Lately?' This alludes to Kinkos'
- complete architecural and technological overhaul of their 'Consumer Branch
- Offices.' Kinko's in case you don't know, is a print related Business
- Services company that offers Corporate Quality Printing services for Small
- Business and your everyday Joe. Anyway, Kinko's is expanding, and every
- Kinko's in town has moved from Strip Mall shacks, to 4000+ Sq.ft.
- facilities, complete with bright lights, conference rooms, state of the art
- Copiers and Color Copiers, and, upgraded Self-service computers. Quite an
- improvement considering last year (1995), Kinko's offered just 2 each Mac LC
- IIs and IBM 486SX 30s with barely enough room to accomodate those. For '96,
- nothin but P-90s, PowerPCs and plenty of room!
-
- Awesome, huh? Well not exactly. I was there for the Grand Opening, and you
- should have seen my jaw drop when my eyes zeroed in on that Macinosh 9500
- PowerPC 604 Graphics Workstation. I was like 'Cool!' I immediatley plopped
- my ass down in front of it and proceeded to work on a little Graphic Design
- job I was working on. You know it's funny how a little job can turn into a
- BIG job at the drop of hat when you're working on a computer. That 'little
- job' ended up takin four hours and 17 printous. Anyway, I was like 'Damn...
- oh well there's $30 bucks down the drain.' $30 bucks my ASS!..."HOW MUCH?!?
- $123.97?!!' I couldn't f---in' believe it. Kinko's computer rental rate USED
- to be $6.50/hour for any computer. To use that f---in' Workstation cost me
- $19.25/hour! Plus they charged me half price for each messed up Color
- printout. I was so pissed! I mean, it was cool Kinko's Expanded and
- Remodelled and stuff, but make no mistake...they did pass the cost onto the
- consumer. Anyway, I had been plotting my revenge ever since. Thank you
- Arcangel.
-
-
- DESK TRACY
-
- Arcangel is an up and commer in (303) who hipped me to how you can use those
- damn Kinko's Self-service computers for FREE! Kinko's uses an Accounting
- Package on their Macs called Desk Tracy. Basically Desk Tracy keeps an
- accounting of:
-
- * Hours, minutes, and seconds online
- * Pages printed
- * Actions performed
-
- The way Desk Tracy works is: when you get on one of Kinkos' self-service
- machines, you have to 'Login', and from that point forth, all time and
- printing is accounted. Once you're done, Desk Tracy sends a printout of
- charges to the Main Checkout Desk, and....they gotcha!
-
- As part of Desk Tracy's security: it protects against Restarts by keeping
- you you logged in and all of your charges added up if you fail to logout
- before Restarting. If you try and Restart with Extensions Off, it WON'T
- disable Desk Tracy. If you try and Delete anything from the computer, or try
- and alter the System Folder in anyway, i.e. drag something into it, or take
- something out of it, it will prevent you from doing so. And finally, you
- can't access the Desk Tracy Configuration (to override all of this
- protection) without a password. Not a bad little package. Thankfully,
- because of Arcangel's genius, there's a way around all of this sh#t.
-
-
- BURN BABY, BURN
-
- One of the most common ways of defeating protected Control Panels
- (AfterDark, SAM, Virex, etc), is to delete the Prefs. By deleting the Prefs
- you can effectivley remove a files protection because it's configuration is
- gone, and it's password is nulled out. Unfortunatley, some programs protect
- the Prefs file to prevent just this. In the case of Desk Tracy the Prefs
- file is protected in that, first off, nothing can be deleted from a 'Desk
- Tracy-ed' computers anyway. On top of that, Desk Tracy prevents anything
- from being moved into or out of the System Folder. So much for Deleting the
- Prefs or Restarting without them. Enter: Arcangel. Arcangel discovered that
- all though you can't Delete or move the Desk Tracy Prefs, you can BURN them!
-
- BURN 2.2 is, what's called, a File Wiper. File Wipers permanently destroy a
- file by writing over every sector of it with null data (0s). By this way of
- erasing a file, the file is not Deleted, it's physically written over.
- Wholey by coincedence (I suppose) this 'writing over' process circumvents
- the mechanics involved in Deleting a file (a process which simply takes a
- file out of the Desktop Database) and thereby DEFEATS protection against
- deleting files. Say good bye to Desk Tracy's protection.
-
- Steps:
-
- 1. Login to a Kinko's Self-service Mac and Insert your Disk with Burn on it
- 2. Open -> System Folder: Extensions: Desk Tracy Folder
- 3. Drag the files 'DTPreferences' and 'UData' onto the Burn 2.2 Icon.
- 4. Go up to the Menubar, you should see your Login name up there, drag down
- to 'Configuration'
- 5. Don't change anything, just click the Close Box and it will ask you if
- you want to Save. Click 'Yes'
- 6. Now go up to the Apple Option Menu and Select 'About Desk Tracy'. It
- should beep at you, and then show you the Desk Tracy 'About' Window.
- 7. By this process, you have just Returned Desk Tray to it's Virgin
- Installation State! All accounting is Off, and Desk Tracy is like it was
- when it was First installed, BEFORE it was configured!
-
- Now I tried this and it worked great! But I discovered one problem; Kinko's
- already (kinda) knows about this trick (I think). As part of the 'NEW'
- Kinkos' there's a Camera aimed from the ceiling at every other Computer, AND
- the Employees walk around looking over the shoulder of Self-service Computer
- patrons. This policy probably stems from fraudulent use of their Color
- LaserWriter 600 ;>. In any event I'm at Kinko's about to try Arcangel's
- trick for the second or third time, when this Employee comes up behind me
- and says, 'Hey, what are you using Burn for?' I'm like, 'Excuse me?!' He's
- all, 'We don;t allow Burn on our computers.' I asked why and he responded
- 'Company policy'. Now I'm not sure what THIS stems from--Arcangels' is, as
- as far as I know, a fairly new and original trick. Despite this there is NO
- question, Kinko's does not want you using Burn on their computer. Now if
- they're going to be spying on you and looking over your shoulder for
- whatever reason, and they don't want you using Burn for whatever reason,
- it's obvious you're going to need a subterfuge...
-
-
- THE CLANDESTINE BURN
-
- Basically what the following does is hide Burn's existence and actions. See,
- the Burn icon looks like a flaming Trashcan, a dead giveaway, so we need to
- change this. Also, Burn's called Burn--to obvious--so we need change this
- too. Third, Burn puts up a dialog that beeps and says 'Are you sure you want
- to delete the file [whatever]?' WAY to obvious, we definitley need to change
- this.
-
- The first two are easy, a couple of simple Finder mods. The last change,
- getting rid of the dialog, requires a patch. For the patch I went to that
- virtuoso of Cracking, Observer. Now, he pointed out to me that in Burn's
- Preferences you can just turn Off 'Confirm Delete' thereby preventing any
- Dialog from showing when you Burn the Prefs file. The only problem is, you
- want to try and be as inconspicuous as possible about this whole thing. Now,
- if you have to Load up Burn, select the Preferences, and configure the
- options...so much for being inconspicuous. And, because Burn defaults to
- 'Confirm Deletes', the only way to prevent it from doing this without
- configuring it when you move it to a new computer, is to do a patch. So,
- a-patching we will go
-
- Steps:
-
- 1. If you don't have it, go get Burn 2.2:
- ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/disk/burn-22.hqx
- 2. Create and Save a Microsoft Word or Teach Text document.
- 3. In the Finder, go up to File and Get Into on the Saved document. Within
- the Get Info information, click on the document Icon, and select Copy.
- 4. Get Info for Burn 2.2, select the Burn Icon and Paste. Burn 2.2 should
- now look like a Teach Text or Word Document.
- 5. Rename Burn to 'Assignment #1' or something.
- 6. Use Resourcer or ResEdit to make the following patch to remove the
- Delete Confirmation Dialog:
-
- CODE 1, Offset $C12--change from: 67 1C
- to: 60 1C
-
- That's it, The Clandestine Burn. Flame up those Desk Tracy prefs files in
- complete obscurity. Noone, except Happy future customers will know a thing!
-
-
- OUTRO
-
- Ah, revenge is sweet! That'll teach those bastards to charge me $19.25 an
- hour to use their f---kin' computer! ;>, I'd like to thank Arcangel for his
- *KILLER* concept, and Observer for his Programming Prowess. If you'd like to
- contact Arcangel he can be found at The Gravity Well (303)-YOU-WISH. If you'd
- like to contact Observer he can be reached at <k0p> BBS, user #158. If you'd
- like to contact me or read more of my Infamous T-Philes (nearly 40), you can
- goto the kn0wledge phreak WWW site at: http://iti2.net/k0p or call <k0p> BBS:
-
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