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- The Phollowing is another Phine Phile oph Phacts Phrom the Phixer.
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- The Fixer presents...
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- Miscellaneous Boxes (Maybe part 1 of a series)
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- Within the pages of this tome we discuss several interesting electronic
- devices that can be used for phreaking, hacking, tapping, etcetera.
- Before we begin, though, credit goes to The Griffin and M. Harry for
- supplying me with a few of these designs. Additional credit goes to
- Touch Tone for his assistance in my research in tapping and bud-boxing,
- and Dr. Boom for being a true pyro. DEATH to The Legend for slashing a
- certain sysop's motorbike tires, and to Isepic Sam and The Music Man for
- the Braniac job they did on Fast Hackem 4.0.
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- YOUR COMMODORE 64 AS AN APPLE CAT!
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- If you have a 64, but only have a pulse-dialing modem, don't phret!
- Since your SID chip can make 3 voices you can produce touch tones plus
- all the tone-type boxes as well, entirely through software. Get a copy
- of Phone Man and see what I mean. Now, with the exception of Baudot,
- your 64 can perform ALL of the famed Apple-Cat functions. But how, you
- ask? The modem is not hooked up to the audio output, so how do I get
- those tones onto the phone line? Well, here is what to do: Get a 5-pin
- DIN connector (the kind that plugs into your monitor port), a
- modular-plug Y-adapter, some 2-conductor wire, and an SPST switch. You
- will also need a .05 mfd cacacitor if you don't feel like buying a new
- SID chip. Phone line voltages are HIGH!
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- Cut one of the modular JACKS off the Y-adaptor, and strip the green and
- red wires on it (black and yellow if your number is on a 2nd household
- line). Now, wire up all these parts according to this diagram:
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- Pin 3 (monitor port plug)
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- I
- I ch
- I /
- +---/ @--------green wire
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- I I
- +----I I-------red wire
- I
- I mf
- I
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- Pin 2 (monitor port plug)
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- Simple, isn't it? Now, you can write a hacker program that tone-dials,
- even if, like me, you have only an El Cheapeau Thaihaho 300 bod modem.
- Just select 1600 for modem-type when using VIP-Term XL and you will get
- tone auto-dialing! Later, I will upload programs to support this device
- and will also publish plans for tone detectors for the '64: Hack
- extendors!!!
-
- The switch is to (A) prevent UNWANTED tones from getting onto the line
- when you don't want them, and (B) to hang up the line: the SID chip's
- resistance is such that the phone may remain off hook.
-
- Anyways, properly used, this device will speed up the
- hacker-on-a-budget's work vastly. Total cost? Not a dime over $5.
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- A SIMPLE PARALLEL TAP (From "The Computer Underground", by M. Harry)
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- I I
- I I
- I I
- O------+ @------------+
- output @ @ I I
- to tape rec. @ @ I I I I
- O------+ @---I I---+ I
- I I I I
- xfmr I I
- .005 I I
- mfd I I
- I I
- I I
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- Target line
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- The transformer has a 10k primary, 200 ohm secondary. With this device
- you can tap with little chance of detection, and record voice or data
- trasmissions. When used with a tape recorder, you can hook up the
- following to get data back from the tape:
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- CONVERTING TAPED DATA TO PRINTOUTS (Also from "The Computer Underground")
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- 100 ohm
- O-----/\/\/\/-----O
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- input from out to
- tape modem
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- O-----------------O
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- Now, you just read the taped data into your capture buffer thru your
- modem! Since the tape captured both SENT and RECEIVED data, you have all
- un-echoed user input, i.e. PASSWORDS at your disposal. This is where the
- hacker starts drooling! Could you imagine such a tap placed upon the
- local Telenet or Compuserve dialup??? The possibilities of this device
- being used to literally go fishing for passwords are endless!
-
- A later article will include using coils placed around terminal cables
- to pick up electromagnetic emissions from terminal data lines, this will
- get passwords in the same manner but will work better in places where a
- rip-the-lines-up tap is impractical.
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- HAH! And you thought you had no use for your datasette............
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- THE BUD BOX: (I know this is old news but I have some new angles, OK?)
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- For those of you who didn't know, a bud-box is very similar to the tap I
- described above. All you do is get a phone, take off the modular plug,
- strip the red and green wires, attach them to alligator clips, and you
- are ready to rock! What you do is go to a house with one of those little
- grey boxes on the side, the ones for residential phone termination. Open
- it up (By flipping it open from the bottom) and you will see 5 screws
- arranged in a square with one in the middle. Attach the alligator clips
- to the tw o screws that have wires attached. If the wires are color
- coded, attach green to green, red to red. Now, your phunny phone is an
- extension of that line and you can listen in on calls, make calls that
- will be billed to your neighbors, and box thru their lines.
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- WHERE TO BUD-BOX:
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- If you are using the residential/commercial boxes on the sides of
- houses/buildings: bud-box (a) enemies, (b) wealthy businesses, (c)
- government agencies.
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- You also have the following options:
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- - Bridging Heads (The tallish grey-green boxes you see at street corners
- every other block, but you will need to crow-bar a STRONG lock open
- first!)
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- - Distribution boxes or "cans" (The rectangular silver boxes atop phone
- poles every block or so)
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- - Phone Company Manholes (Where I live the covers are manufactured at
- VMD and are cast with the initials BCTC. In your locale they likely
- have (a) the Bell logo or (b) your local phone company's initials.
- Open with the hook side of a crowbar and be ready: they are HEAVY.
- When you go into a phone company manhole, though, you will not be
- disappointed!)
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