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- Wardial (v1.01, 14-Nov-1995), © TRS
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- Disclaimer:
-
- This program is supplied 'as is' with no guarantees as to whether it will
- blow up your equipment or not. You may use it at your own risk. If you
- use this program to further some unlawful scheme, the author takes NO
- responsibility for this. As far as the author is aware, the (random)
- dialling of numbers is _not_ considered harmful or unlawful in any way.
-
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- Prerequisites:
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- - Hayes(tm) compatible modem
- - Phone line
- - Serial device drivers
- - Acorn computer
- - An inquisitive mind
-
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- Introduction:
-
- For those of you who do not know what a wardialler is, you'll need to
- watch "War Games" again. To put it simple, a wardialler is a program
- which, coupled with a modem, turns your machine into a carrier scanner.
-
- Why would anyone want to scan for carriers? Well, have you ever wondered
- what lies at the end of those 0800 numbers? You have? But when you
- started dialling, you got really tired of all those "dead" numbers? Well,
- this little piece of software helps you prevent that boredom. Just leave
- it dialling overnight on a range of numbers, and voilá, pick up the live
- numbers the next morning.
-
- There are a couple of added bonuses to this method. You also get the
- numbers which have modems at the end of them. For example, why would
- there be a modem on an 0800 number to an _academic_ institution in the
- United States?
-
- I'll leave you to decide what to do with your findings.
-
-
- Running WarDial:
-
- Make sure you have located a fairly recent version of !SerialDev. This
- program was written when revision 10a was out. Be sure to have atleast
- revision 9 if you own a Risc PC.
-
- You _will_ need a Hayes(tm) compatible modem; i.e. it _must_ support
- the "AT" command set.
-
- When you start WarDial, it will present you with a series of questions.
- If you press return, it will give you the default setting, which is the
- highlighted option in brackets. In the case of "Modem volume", the
- default is 1 (medium/low volume).
-
- The most effective and reliable way to make _sure_ your modem hangs up
- when WarDial wants it to, is by letting the hangup be controlled by the
- state of the DTR (Data Terminal Ready) signal from your Arc. The other
- way is to issue a "+++" and then "ATH0", but this method is not
- guaranteed to work (for reasons I haven't had time to investigate).
-
- You may issue your own initialise string if the default string gives
- you an error.
-
- The default number prefix is 0800 (freephone). If you do not want a
- prefix, press SPACE and then return when this question is asked. By
- dialling without this prefix, you should watch your phone bill...
-
- By answering YES to random dialling, you may find that if you are
- dialling more than 2000 numbers in a go, that the database building may
- take some time. I suggest you dial between 300 and 1000 numbers at a
- time. As a guide, 1000 numbers take around 6 hours to complete. It is
- advisable to dial numbers randomly, as it seems most modems are grouped
- within a certain range of (0800) numbers.
-
- A pre-prefix in the UK is the option to stick a '141' before dialling.
- This is the 'negate caller ID' code, which means that your phone number
- (if you are on a BT digital exchange, and you are calling a number on a
- BT digital exchange) will not be available to the receiving party.
- Useful if you are paranoid. Remember, however, that the exchanges know
- who has been calling (for how long, what the delay between digits, etc),
- so don't be lulled into some false sense of security if you're thinking
- of doing something non-kosher. A note to CableTel customers wishing to
- use this program: CableTel log everything. This means that the more
- numbers you dial, the more paper is generated down at the switch. They
- log number called, delay between numbers, delay between digits, call
- duration, I mean, _everything_. Just to let you know. BT might be doing
- the same, but as far as I know, they don't really care as long as you're
- not up to something illegal. In any case, they can't cut you off for
- dialling lots of random numbers.
-
- Wait time before timing out is used to time-out the numbers. The default
- is 40 seconds, so if the modem can't connect within that time, WarDial
- logs a 'TIMEOUT/VOICE' message. In future, I hope to use the modem's
- built-in timer for this, but at the moment I am just lazy.
-
-
- Commands:
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- A Answerphone
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- Hit the 'A' key if the number you have dialled is an answerphone.
-
- C Comment
-
- Use this key to add your own comment to the number dialled. Useful
- when none of the other keys satisfies the description.
-
- D Dead
-
- Due to the nature of most BT approved modems, they are not always
- able to tell what is a "dead" line (constant hum) and what is a
- busy line. The modem used to test this software on was a BT approved
- Zoom Telephonics V.34XE.
-
- G Girl
-
- This one's useful if you hear a cute girl pick up the phone. They're
- always fun to talk to. They don't know who you are, but you may find
- out quite a lot about them if you play your cards right.
-
- P PBX
-
- Private Branch eXchange. Hit the 'P' button if you hear a PBX on the
- number dialled.
-
- R Residential
-
- Some freephone numbers are residential numbers (often in the United
- States). Most of them are good fun to talk to.
-
- U Unallocated
-
- Three-tone message from the switch saying that the "Number you have
- dialled is unavailable", or "Sorry, there is a fault.", or otherwise.
- The modem I used would think it was a voice line and time out.
-
- V Voice
-
- Due to the nature of most modems in the UK (BT approved), they are
- not equipped with "voice" capabilities. If you have a non-BT approved
- modem with Voice capabilities, your modem should pick out the
- difference. Mine can't, so if the the modem times out, it will log
- the called number with "TIMEOUT/VOICE". Hit the 'V' key if the number
- is a voice line. If you have a patch for voice modems, please do not
- hesitate to contact the author.
-
- CTRL P Pause
-
- Damn! You had to make that important phone call to your mom or your
- girlfriend, but you didn't want to interrupt your eleet scanning?
- Problem sorted! Hit CTRL P. This pauses the current number dialled,
- turns the screen red, and waits for a keypress. When you're ready
- to resume dialling, it will redial the number you interrupted when
- you went into pause mode.
-
- Any other key interrupts the currently dialled number.
-
- Escape terminates the program and closes any open log files.
-
-
- Contacting the author:
-
- Ask for TRS on IRC in #phreak, or try sending email to trs@bogus.net.
- Codex (codex@bogus.net) might know where I am if you can't reach me
- there.
-
-
- Greetings:
-
- Maelstrom, Uridium/DBA, Codex/DBA, Jinx, Bishop, Coaxial, Rotox, Dr Kaos
- and Bill SF.
-
-
- Version 1.01 (14/11/95):
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- Added "idle doodle". Draws a wandering line so you can be make sure that
- the program hasn't crashed.
-
- Added pause mode. Turns screen to burgundy red and waits for a keypress
- while drawing an wandering line.
-
- Added user choice to set modem init string.
-
- Added support for other than the internal serial device, I think. I need
- some feedback on this, to be sure though.
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- Added some descriptive progress nonsense.
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- Added version number to the running banner (wow..).
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- Added some more documentation to this file.
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