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- Diary of a Hacker
- Part: II
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- My Handle is The Cuisinart Blade.
- I am a Hacker.
-
- This is part 2 in a three part series about my adventures as
- a Hacker. The events in these Text files are very real. They
- are written as they occured. All people in this have had their
- Handles changed, (unless otherwise specified).
-
- -To continue where I left off...
-
- I sent Dr.Antristo home after our "encounter" with IBM. I loved
- the fact I had entered one of the biggest Corps in the World!
- It was about 3:34 in the morning, I logged onto the Lunacy in
- the Abyss BBS, and went into the chat with my peers. After talking
- to them at length about my "Discoveries", I found them all asking
- me for the Passwords, and how I managed to get that far. I told
- them that only an EXPERIENCED Hacker could do such things...I will
- admit, I was up on myself. (shame) These others, all 13 of them,
- were in Awe. For once I was in the lead, I was able to scoff at
- some of the higher ups who had told me I would never achieve what
- they had. I may not have been as good as they were, but I was
- up with them in the big leagues!
- Potempkin, Renwôar, Übermahn, The Drifter, Sewer Rat, and Thycho,
- a few names of those who were online at the time. They were all
- very intrested in accquiring info+ on what I had gotten into. I
- wanted to tell them, but I thought it best not to. Not yet.....
- After chatting for half the evening, I finally went to sleep,
- wondering what my next move should be.
-
- October 30th, 1988
-
- Dr.Antristo and I went Bin shopping again. We dug up a record
- of Ex-employees scheduled to have their Passwords cleared from the
- system. Someone loved us, to give us this trash. We returned home
- to find Passwords, Doodling, more Loop Numbers, and an old records
- collection of New In-Service Numbers. We wanted to know how AT&T
- worked, so we were going to check it out. I first needed to talk to
- my friend/contact in Ohio. I dialed up his number in the 216 Area
- and waited to chat with him. He wasn't online. Bummer. I checked
- a few of the other BBS's in the general area looking for people who
- could tell me how one was able to crack into AT&T. No one seemed to
- know.
- On the following evening we finally got our big break. Another
- Hacker, told us in exchange for Loop Numbers he would give us a
- Password in the AT&T System. We agreed. He gave us the Password
- to a smaller area of AT&T and told us that it was pretty unguarded
- so we should have no problem finding what we wanted to look at. I
- was and very much still am an Astronomy Buff. I wanted to find out
- how many AT&T Satellites were up there. So Dr.Antristo & I were
- going to find out the following night.
-
- Happy Holloween.....<Evil Grin>
-
- On November 1st, 1988 we Called AT&T. We were buzzed off of the
- 24pack of Jolt we had imbibed. After connection to the Loop number
- we dialed into the Corperate office of AT&T and were actually given
- a command prompt, (after a COLORFUL Ascii Screen...Yeah...Right.)
- The AT&T Logo was proudly displayed onto our moniter, but we thought,
- with their appearant lack of security, that Pride was False.
- We typed in the Password and it told us that it required a name for
- "Security" reasons. We dug up a name and fed it into the Computer.
- After verification of that employee, (NEVER put your full name on
- stationairy!) it gave us access into the System. I thumbed through
- some small records and such. Nothing much to get in the way of
- records, or options. I decided to look into the system a bit
- further. After nosing through some Menus, I found a "Doorway" to
- the larger system. The way AT&T was, it was a bunch of smaller
- computers all hooked into one another by a bigger system. I was
- merely in one of the smaller appendages. I wanted the big guy!
- I opened the door and was system transferred to a larger net, where
- it showed scheduled Payrolls, Pink Slip notices, Active Staff Members
- , and a monstrofic listing of people who were behind on their
- payments. Jackpot! Or so I thought. No where could I find anything
- on AT&T Satellites, or the such. I couldn't fix any of the payrolls
- or even reprieve people from getting the ever-more-noticable Pink
- Slip. (I still think American Companies are penny pinchers for
- looking elsewhere for their SLAVE LABOUR)
- I sat there looking through the People lists, looking for a higher
- up so I could "Borrow" his name...heh heh.
- I couldn't locate the main file area for any of the larger ups',
- so I logged off for the evening. I would find out later. The Doc
- had an idea that would require skilful planning and cunning. I
- counted myself in. So there we were at 3:35 the next day, standing
- on a corner, on a pay phone, talking to the operater. We told the
- nice lady we were late for an appointment with Director of Operations
- and that we needed to reschedule our time, and after several minutes
- of chatting with the nice lady, I told her I was putting his name
- down in my appointment book, and I needed it spelled correctly, so
- She and I went through the spelling of the Director of Ops. :)
- I laughed as we wrote it down, little would this girl know what
- were up to!
- After chatting for a few minutes, I disconnected and Dr.Antristo
- and I went home. We began to talk about how we were going to get
- in, as well as what we would do when we had access. He didn't know
- and neither did I. I guessed we'd have'ta figure it out when we
- got there. School homework was completed on time, (I STILL think
- that its a waste) and we both had dinner with our respective in-
- mates. (What would you call a family that no longer cared?)
- Evening rolled around, we were both a bit tired, so we were going
- to make this quick...We dialed into the Loop Number and then into
- the little number our Hacker buddy gave us. After we were in, I
- opened the Doorway and entered the main area. After scanning the
- place for new info, I used the fellows name and opened myself to
- a world of new possibilites. I found myself able to rearrange small
- lists of people, reverse pink slips, etc... I was in!
- I checked out some of those pink slips and read up. I was horrified
- to find that some of these people were being canned because they
- were in their 40's?!? I looked for who was responsible for signing
- these Slips, and to my utter amazement it was the guy who I was
- impersonating! Well, I, being the better part of this guys
- conscience, decided to fix what I broke! I reversed several of the
- pink slips and gave one to this bastard! (Someone out there owes me
- there job! :) )
- After dawdling with the Pink Slips, I went to check out other
- areas of the company. I managed to worm my way into the Special
- sections, like who could order what. Private lines for other
- companies, Tracing Codes, and Satellites. I couldn't access the
- Satellites, but I managed to print Screen the Private Phone Lines
- of other companies, (and I STILL have them) and I found a real cute
- doorway...it was to emergency areas. Example, A master program for
- the termination of the Chicagoland area. I liked that. I could
- axe Communtication on 3.2 million people in a mircosecond. hahaha!
- I didn't, of course. I went ahead and logged out. I felt very
- good about the things I had done. If there is a God, he must have
- been thinking about that moment. I know that most people out there
- who are Hackers or want to Hack, I know it is hard to believe, but
- should you ever be in the position I am, you'd understand why I
- did what I did. I never asked for forgiveness, as a matter of fact,
- I don't want it. I was aware of what I was doing, and I enjoyed it.
- Anyways...Dr.Antristo had told me that the Department of Defence was
- offering contracts to Fermi Labs, and to Argonne on the Star Wars
- Space Project, and that we should look into it. I liked that idea,
- but the government? Geez...
- I thought about it for all of a month. In that time I hacked a
- large number of places, Mircosoft, IBM (again), Sears, Texaco,
- Illinois Bell, Wisconsin Bell, Prudental, My High School, (Everyone
- has done it, admit it), Martin Marrettia, and Jet Propultion Lab-
- rotories, (if you don't know what the last 2 are, STOP READING!)
- I had enough stuff that if I sold half of it, I could retire at the
- ripe age of 16! But even thought our government holds out on us,
- and lies, steals, and keeps secrets, I still love it. This is the
- land of the free.....NOT!!!
-
- December 3rd, 1988
-
- I was at home watching some christmas shopping commercials and
- drinking a Jolt, when I recieved a phone call from my buddy
- Dr.Antristo. He told me that Argonne had gotten the project and
- that someone I knew was the project manager. The Password was
- Anti-RX...?!? I sighed and said what the hell, why not. Lets
- see what our wonderful government is up to now.
- After a little bit of looking into it, I found out that yes indeed
- someone I knew was into the project. I also found out that as of
- 1988-89 Star Wars was not...35% complete, but a whopping 87%. The
- only thing left to "Shunt" into orbit was a weapon called the
- Wiggler beam. A laser which concentrated high speed X-rays into
- a focused stream, resulting in a laser so powerful it would
- litterly slice incoming missiles in half. I didn't care what the
- thing could do, this was good information. I liked it, so I got
- onto Argonne National Labrotories Crey computer using a stolen
- password and copied the plans to an undisclosed location for later
- retrival.
- Dr.Antristo told me to goto the Department of Energy, you know, the
- bigwigs with no dicks, who push everyone whom they consider beneith
- them around to make their things for them. (Wussies) I went from
- the Crey to the main computer terminal of the D.O.E. and looked
- around for a bit. I found something I know all you will just love,
- a small article of information indicating after shipping out 265
- "Pink Slips" that Article 130a, said that they (all the brass at the
- D.O.E. were going to give themselves some raises) oh my, how cute.
- Well, after looking around in the D.O.E. area, I quickly shut off
- the computer and terminated the connection when I heard my all-
- powerful Father come down the stairs to talk to me. Whew!
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