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This magazine NEEDS SUPPORT ! ──────────────────── PLEASE NOTE: Certain articles contained within this magazine deal with various activities and devices which would be a violation of the law if they were to be carried out or constructed. 2280 Magazine does NOT advocate the breaking of the law. This magazine is distributed for informational purposes ONLY. We reccomend that you contact your local Law enforcement officials before undertaking any project based upon information in this magazine. We are not responsible for, nor do we assume any liability for, damages resulting from the use of any information contained within this magazine. THIS MAGAZINE IS DISTRIBUTED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY This magazine is for the use of Adults ONLY. Under no circumstances should a child view or possess it. =========2280 MAGAZINE======== INDEX! [2] .. Christmas Virus - Yup it's the history of that Christmas virus! [6] .. Bugging Transmitter - A little bug from the 2280 electronics crypt. [7] .. Microlink upgrades - What is Microlink doing ?? [7] .. Hacks - The file that is being passed around, without Control codes! [9] .. Numbers - Some interesting numbers for you to "play about" with! [15] . Membership form - Join the British Hackers Association! [19] . "Freebies" - A full list of all the Free telephone numbers. [51] . Potentially nasty - Micronet article on Hacker BBs [55] . Tracking Transmitter - Another delve into the crypts! [56] . The necessity of deviance - The New world, hell. [71] . USA BBS numbers - Those interesting US BBS's --Page 2-- THE CHRISTMAS VIRUS It all began as a joke for Christmas. A student in West Germany wrote a little program called "Christma" and sent it to all his friends on the network of Claustahal Technical University, south of Hanover. Sending it through the network was simple: the program handled that by reading a couple of files containing lists of all regular corres- pondents and all recently sent and received mail: Names and Netlog. When the program was run the recipients saw a festive Christmas tree appear on their screens. Very nice too. However Christma also secretly read the recipients Names and Netlog files, moved forward on its merry way and, rather ungratefully, then deleted itself from the host. The next, rather larger, batch of recipients (who were of course all used to unknown programs appearing through the network) ran Christma as well and saw the pretty graphics come and go. Of course they all had Names and Netlog files too... That was December 9th 1987. No Hard discs scrambled, no system lockups, no discs infected with AIDS... no harm done surely? Just a seasonal greeting transmitted by --Page 3-- good ol' Info Tech. Well that's what the writer of Christma thought too and he was very mistaken. The problem lay in the speed of communication and the increased linking of computer networks in many fields. And continents. The virus program spread with accelerating speed throughout Europe via its link into EARN: the European Academic Research Network. EARN is also linked to universities in the US via Bitnet...hundreds of automatic mailers busily consulted Netlogs and the volume of traffic grew exponentially. Within TWO DAYS networks were seriously overloaded on both continents. By the 11th December the jamming was so serious that system programmers from EARN and Bitnet came together to try to track and kill Christma. For the first time in the history of Virus hunting a Seeker program was developed (by Eric Thomas of the Ecole Centrale de Paris) which traced the flow of Christma by reading Netlog files, chasing and then erasing it. Meanwhile systems on which Christma had appeared were taken off the network while discs were checked. By the 14th December the academic networks were free. But Christma was not yet dead, although the author probably wished that he was. IBM has a private network VNET, which is linked to Bitnet...VNET corporate users tend to hold very large Names files. --Page 4-- The entire IBM corporate E-mail system was closed down for 72 hours until the infection was eradicated! :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Horrifying or amusing, depending on your point of view, Christma really happened and very recently. The implications for users and manufacturers are profound. We have all heard of Trojan files on Bulletin Boards, the Amiga Virus and others not so widely publicised. Hardware designers and manufacturers have viewed the issues as unimportant to their business. In other words it's the users problem. IBM for one may well be rethinking this strategy! Technically, it has been possible for many years to design safer systems. A program should not be able to run in a system that is completely unprotected. It should operate in isolation until tested and known. There should be no way that a program can read files without the users knowledge and express permission. Equally, users should be more careful about running programs on systems which are vital to us. Easier said than done. At present it seems there are no simple solutions except never to down load... Sid Hancock --Page 5-- "BUGGING" Transmitter │ │ ┌──────┬────┬─────┬───┬──┼──────┐ R1 R2 C1 C2 C3 │ │ │ │ ┴ ┌──┴───┼──┘ │ ├──C5──┼───┬───N1 C4 │+ │ │ │ ├──────┘ B M1 R1 C1 R3 │- │ │ │ │ │ └──────┴───┼───┴────────────────┘ ┴ Where - R1: 3.3k Resistor C1: .001 Capacitor M1: Microphone R2: 4.7k Resistor C2: 1-10pF Variable Capacitor B: 15V battery R3: 300 Resistor C3: Coil N1: NPN Transistor C4: 10pF Capacitor : Antenna C5: 10uf Capacitor ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── High power Transmitter. Uses 15 Volt Photoflash battery. Adjust C3 for desired frequency. Microphone is condenser type. NPN Transistor is BC 169. --Page 6-- ---MICROLINK--- Microlink have improved their Telecom Gold service considerably, to take advantage of the July Prestel price increase. Microlink is offering new facilities free for PC users. A major change in the microlink user interface makes it possible to recieve colour Graphics, making Microlink the first colour system on Telecom Gold. New Microlink facilities are to include an online library containing hardware & Software reviews (for PC), also keyword searching. The telex service has also been modified, to become more user-friendly. PC users access the facilities through a re-designed menu. HACKS ? --------- This text has been going round all the BBSs. Several people have had trouble reading the text due to (ASCII upload) control characters. I have removed them, so you can read the text normally! > FOR THOMAS COOK TRAVEL SERVICE DIAL (01) 408 2179 (SPEED:1200/75V) --Page 7-- > TO CONNECT WITH THORN-EMI,DIAL 061-453 1200.THE ID IS *910565789# AND THE PASSWORD IS *ACCESS# (SPEED:1200/75V) > TRY 01-831-6181 AND USE ID:ULLC.NS WITH THE PASSWORD ENTER (SPEED:1200/75) > TO BOOK HOLIDAYS(!?) PHONE 32-432111 ,SELECT INT Cheers............ EMP --Page 8-- Hacking Numbers --------------- Some of these numbers have passwords/id's for them. If you are a member of Password Passers II (Sig 12) [CCUK] then you will have the option to download them. If you are not a member,why not join!!! V=Viewdata:S=Scrolling Name Tel V/S -------------------------------------- ABTA 01 493 9555 V ABTA 0532 470611 V ACS Network 021 427 9911 S AGB Viewdata 01 991 2254 V Airtel 01 200 3439 Apricot 04544 616448 Archie 061 499 3388 V BBC 01 749 6921 Baric 01 890 6621 Baric 01 844 1401 Baric 0274 871511 Barclays Bank 01 844 1401 V Beelines mbx 01 661 8978 S --Page 9-- Bham Uni. 021 471 2101-7 S Bloxam 02957 20812 Bradford Cpoint 0800 590111 V Bradford Univ. 0274 731909 S Brit. Airways 01 897 4646/7 V British Gas 01 821 9484 Brit. Mail Ord.Cat. 061 273 4066 Cambridge Uni 0223 338888 Central London Poly 01 637 7732 Comet 01 242 9806 Commercial Union 0883 23311 Comshare 01 351 4300 S Comshare 1200 061 834 4143 Comshare 300 061 834 2848 Coventry Uni 0203 51912 S Credit Network 0272 298888 Datasolve v21 09327 81111 Datasolve v23 09327 81144 Dow Jones 01 353 1515 Epnitex 0526 861138 V Essex University 0206 864534 Ethernet GW 0443 480902 European Space Agen 01 630 9466 --Page 10-- EYP 0734 586255 FastTrack 0532 432111 FastTrack 061 236 7676 FastTrack 051 709 6565 Financial Times 01 251 9231 Ford Motor Co. 0277 255666 Ford Motor Co. 0277 254345 Gandalf PX 0800 590196 Golden Wonder 0858 33668 GRE 061 834 5288 Hatfield Poly 0462 677177 S Hatfield 07072 79858 Holiday Fax 01 870 8333 Honeywell 0268 44011 S Horizon 061 833 9889 Hull University 0482 859169 I P Sharp 01 730 4567 IBM 021 455 9311 V IBM 061 969 3681 V IBM 041 226 5533 V ICL 01 253 7888 S ILCC Network 01 581 1444 S Intasun 01 298 1800 --Page 11-- Istel Network 0203 691102 V Istel Network 061 941 5111 V Janet 01 831 6181 S John Menzies 0602 430039 Kays Catalogoue 021 236 7429 Lancs Poly 0772 21418/9 S Leeds Uni 0532 461514 S Lucas 021 744 3500 V Lunn Poly 01 387 3448 Manchester Poly 061 236 4772/3 S McDonald Douglas 0442 218455 Midland Bank 01 450 9170/1 MUD 01 998 8899 S Multistream VPAD 061 834 1414 National Comp Cen. 061 228 6334 S Natwest Bank 01 480 7777 One to One 021 214 5139 S Open University 0908 643298 Open University 061 881 7251 S Open University 01 794 0611 Open University 0908 71188 Ordering Service? 01 863 3000 Oxford Poly 0867 74980 --Page 12-- Oxford Uni 0766 77792 Owens PAD 061 273 5212 Prestel Duke 01 583 9610 V Prestel Test 01 583 9412 V Prestel IRC 01 248 0348 V Radio Soc. 0707 52242 V Rank Xerox 0927 65652 Royal Soc of Chem 0602 507411 Sealink 0734 869077 V SeeBoard 0903 39946 Severn Trent Water 0203 22182 Talbot Cars 0203 694747/474645 V Talbot Cars 01 235 5488 Telecom Gold 01 583 1275 S Thomas Cook 01 408 2179 V Thompson 021 233 1399 V Thompson Travel 061 833 0010/16/17 Thorn EMI 01 453 1200 Today 01 812 7401 S Today 0800 282301/2 S Topic 01 628 4061 V Tops Travel 051 789 2464 Trw Credit Agency 1-714-776-4511 ** USA NUMBER ** --Page 13-- TSB bank 0621 892565 EXT 82/Mr Davies Office UCK 01 388 2333 S UMIST 061 228 6601 VAPT Infolink 01 688 4488 V Vax Multistream 01 6886 2262 Vidtel 010 3170151515 ** IDD NUMBER ** West Mids Council 021 300 6300 V Whitbread Brew 0462 37811 Whitehouse 1-202-456-1414 ** USA NUMBER ** Unknown 0800 891198 v22 IBM VM/370 Yellow Pages 0734 585151 Yellow Pages 0734 586255 Unknown 01 247 9671 Unknown 0222 21051 Some passwords are available... advise us of any other numbers or changes especially if the numbers have been changed... ***Corrupt Computing 0203 76831 v21/23 8N1 TTY*** Updated by N. Woods. --Page 14-- The British Hackers Assocation -------------------------------- The British Hackers Assocation is a user group for Hackers,Fone Phreakers and Software Pirates. Whilst the BHA does not condone the activity of it's members but purely provides a forum for the exchange of idea's, via the Embassy and The BHA Newsletter that is published every 2 months. To join the BHA complete the form and send it together with a cheque or postal order 20 pounds sterling made payable to D.Jones to:- The BHA. The Embassy, 152 Lonsdale Drive, Enfield, Middx. EN2 7NF. --Page 15-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ British Hackers Assocation ---------------------------- Membership Application Form ----------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All information requested is purely for the eyes of the membership secretary and will be treated in the strictest Confidence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Full Name:-_____________________________________________________________ Full Postal Address:-___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Postcode:-____________________________ --Page 16-- Home Telephone Number:-_________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Which computer do you use?:-_____________________________________________ Which Modem do you use?:-________________________________________________ Which speeds does your modem support?:-__________________________________ Does your modem support Bell Tones?:-____________________________________ Which comms software do you use?:-_______________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I, the undersigned, fully understand the conditions of membership of the British Hackers Assocation and will abide by the few rules that do --Page 17-- exist, and that my membership can be revoked at any time without prior notice, and that all information received from the BHA will be treated as confidential and will not be passed on to any third party. Signed__________________________________ Date____________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --Page 18-- L I N K L I N E 0 8 0 0 Compiled by System Network News (020-376-831 v21/23 8N1 scrolling) Note. some lines may have opened in the 'no service' listings and some may have closed. Some of the names may be mis-spelt due to aural inaccuracies heard over the telephone lines. If there any corrections,additions and deletions to be made please let us know either by the system or Prestel #011110903. 0800-890-nnn System X exchange 000-010 No services 011 AT&T US Dial Direct 012-030 No services 031 Holland Telecom 032 No service 033 French Telecom,Paris 034 Spanish Telecom,Madrid 035-045 No services 046 Stockholm Telecom 047-060 No Services --Page 19-- 061 Australia Telecom,Sydney 062-080 No Services 081 Japan Telecom,Tokyo 082-099 No services 100 Bank of America,Tokyo 101-110 No services 111 BTI marketing,London 112-210 No services 211 AT&T US Dial direct 212-302 No services 303 International Telex 304-329 No services 330 Shuder Wine 331-799 No services 800 BTI international 800 801-807 No services 808 Unknown 809 BTI customer services 810-999 No services 0800-891-nnn System X exchange --Page 20-- 000 Reservations 001 Unknown 002 Unknown 003 No service 004 Unknown 005 No service 006 Bank of America Travellers Cheques 007 fault on line 008-010 No services 011 Unknown 012 Credit Union loanline 013 No service 014 Elliot answering service 015 No service 016 Federal Brokers,NY 017-021 No services 022 MTS software helpling 023 No service 024 Bell savings bank 025 Unknown 026 No service 027 Unknown 028 Unknown --Page 21-- 029-030 No service 031 Travel service 032 Security Pacific 033 No service 034 LF Rothschild,NY 035-036 No services 037 Unknown 038 RacomNet 039 Delta A. 040 No services 041 Unknown 042-043 No services 044 Alex Brown 045 Unknown 046 No service 047 Unknown 048 Unknown 049-051 No services 052 NY lotteries 053-054 No services 055 Fault on line 056-057 No services 058 AT Edwards --Page 22-- 059-060 No services 061 Air Ambulance 062 AMC 063 ABC television 064 Unknown 065 Forflex 066 Texas fid. trust co. 067 Robinson,Colliers and Stevens. 068 Prescion Visual 069 Unknown 070-071 No services 072 Long and Foster Real Estate 073 No service 074 Faulty Line 075-076 No services 077 Faulty Line 078 No service 079 Roscher-Spears 080 No service 081 Faulty Line 082 TTI 083 Edwards and Turner 084 Beakman travel --Page 23-- 085-086 No service 087 Unknown 088 No service 089 Performance software group 090 DataNet 091 No service 092 Honning CO 093 Montgomery... 094 Unknown 095 Telemarketing despatch centre 096 Some call circuit..asks for id 097 USRA 098 No service 099 Unknown 100 MCA 101 No service 102 Unknown 103-106 No services 107 Unknown 108-109 No services 110 Unknown 111 No service 112 Unknown --Page 24-- 113-115 No services 116 Unknown 117 No service 118 Derwent Co.,New Orleans 119 Berisford Capital Market 120-122 No services 123 Unknown 124-125 No services 126 Fundemental Brokers 127 No service 128 Johnson,Riley & CO.,New Orleans 129 No service 130 McDonald Co. 131 No service 132 Inbound Service centre 133 No service 134 Wilson & Co. 135 No service 136 Unknown 137 Unknown 138 J. P. Bradford Co. 139 Unknown 140-144 No service --Page 25-- 145 24hr travel service 146-147 No services 148 Unknown 149-150 No services 151 Telenational 152 No service 153 Travel Service Desk 154 No service 155 Phoenix Imperial 156 No service 157 First Securities 158 Unknown 159 No service 160 Medical Centre 161 Faulty line 162-163 No services 164 Sunset Marque Hotel 165 No service 166 Dain Bosworth Inc. 167 Unknown 168 Unknown 169 Air Ambulance 170 Unknown --Page 26-- 171-173 No services 174 Faulty line 175 The Office Network 176 No service 177 CableHouse Regan 178 No service 179 Robinson 180 Computer Scientists Corp 181 Unknown 182 Unknown 183 Subway 184 No service 185 Howard Weil 186-188 No service 189 Faulty Line 190 Exus Communications 191-192 No service 193 Unknown 194 No service 195 Unknown 196 Travel Service 197 No service 198 DataTone --Page 27-- 199-200 No service 201 Delta Airlines,Atlanta 202 Unknown 203-218 No services 219 InterClaim Inc 220-224 No services 225 DB View Inc 226-232 No services 233 Reservations 234-235 No services 236 Unknown 237-256 No services 257 Faulty Line 258 No service 259 Unknown 260 No service 261 TSR Inc., NY 262 Unknown 263 No service 264 Unknown 265-266 No service 267 Faulty Line 268 No service --Page 28-- 269 Faulty Line 270 Faulty Line 271-273 No service 274 Tradewinds.Conneticut 275 Cee Ray Customer Services 276-280 No services 281 Unknown 282 No service 283 ICS Network 284-287 No service 288 Unknown 289 Lemmy Customer Help Desk 290-335 No services 336 Unknown 337-356 No services 357 Western Hotel 358 No service 359 Unknown 360 Unknown 361-365 No service 366 Unknown 367-382 No services 383 Faulty Line --Page 29-- 384-388 No services 389 NASDAQ 390-459 No services 460 International Reservations 461-583 No services 584 BT International,Cambridge 585-799 No services 800 ITI 801 Unknown 802 Unknown 803 Int Relations 804 Unknown 805 Unknown 806 No service 807 Faulty Line 808-999 No services 0800-892-nnn System X exchange 000 Int Re. --Page 30-- 001 No service 002 AT&T 003-027 No services 028 Morgan & Keenan 029-039 No services 040 Eagle City 041-999 No services 0800-893-nnn System X exchange 0800-010 No services 011 Unknown 012-025 No services 026 Recording 027 Unknown 028-031 No services 032 Unknown 033-042 No services 043 Recording 044 No services 045 Unknown --Page 31-- 046-066 No services 067 Unknown 068-079 No services 080 Unknownvancouver 081-425 No services 426 Unknown 427-999 No services 0800-894-nnn System X exchange No services currently in operation on this node 0800-895-nnn System X exchange 000-599 No services 600 OTC Supervisor,Sydney,Australia 601-610 No services --Page 32-- 611 Unknown 612 No service 613 Unknown 614-615 No services 616 McAwdrey Bank 617 Data Tone 618-620 No services 621 The Age Newspaper,Australia 622 No service 623 Unknown 624-628 No service 629 International Medical Assistance Network 630-645 No service 646 Unknown 647 Unknown 648-649 No services 650 Quantas Airlines 651-659 No services 660 Faulty Line 661-666 No services 667 MedicAid 668-677 No services 678 Auantas Airlines --Page 33-- 679-688 No service 689 World Wide Assistance 690-699 No service 700 Recording 701 ditto 702 ditto 703-999 No services 0800-896-nnn System X exchange 000-375 No services 376 Unknown 377-999 No services 0800-897-nnn System X exchange 000-040 No services --Page 34-- 041 Unknown 042-099 No services 100 Recording 101 Unknown 102-999 No services 0800-898-nnn System X exchanges 000 No service 001 Unknown 002 No service 003 Unknown 004 French Recording 005 Unknown 006 Unknown 007 French Recording 008 No service 009 Unknown 010 No service 011 Telecom,Sweden --Page 35-- 012 Unknown 013 Unknown 014 Unknown 015 Unknown 016 Unknown 017 United Airlines 018 Unknown 019 Unknown 020 Unknown 021 No service 022 Unknown 023 Unknown 024 Unknown 025 Unknown 026 Unknown 027 No service 028 Unknown 029 Unknown 030 Unknown 031 Unknown 032 Unknown 033 Unknown 034 Unknown --Page 36-- 035 Recording 036 No service 037 Recording 038 Unknown 039 Unknown 040 Recording 041 Unknown 042 Unknown 043 Unknown 044 Unknown 045 Unknown 046 Unknown 047 Unknown 048 Recording 049 Unknown 050 Unknown 051 Unknown 052 Unknown 053 Unknown 054 Unknown 055 Unknown 056 Unknown 057 Unknown --Page 37-- 058 Unknown 059 Unknown 060 Recording 061 Unknown 062 Unknown 063 Unknown 064 Unknown 065 No service 066 Unknown 067 Unknown 068 Unknown 069 Unknown 070 Unknown 071 Recording 072 ditto 073 ditto 074 Unknown 075-088 No service 089 Recording 090-199 No service 200 Unknown 201-209 No service 210 Unknown --Page 38-- 211-265 No service 266 German Recording 267-288 No service 289 Unknown 290-319 No service 320 Unknown 321-332 No service 333 Unknown 334-399 No service 400 Unknown 401 Unknown 402-403 No services 404 Unknown 405 Unknown 406-407 No service 408 Unknown 410 Unknown 411 Unknown 412 Unknown 413 Unknown 414 Holland 415 Unknown 416 Unknown --Page 39-- 417 Unknown 418 No service 419 Unknown 420 Unknown 421 No service 422 Unknown 423 German Recording 424-429 No service 430 Unknown 431 Unknown 432-476 No service 477 Unknown 478-513 No service 514 Dakar,Holland 515-516 No services 517 Unknown 518-701 No services 702 Unknown 703-799 No services 800 German Recording 801 Faulty Line 802-825 No services 826 Faulty line --Page 40-- 827-832 No services 833 ItalyUnknown 834-849 No services 850 Unknown 851-869 No services 870 Unknown 871-999 No services 0800-899-nnn System X exchange 000 No service 001 Dublin.Ireland 002-999 No services If you find any changes please contact SNN or the supplier of this list.... Thank god its over....... --Page 50-- MICRONET (c) 800111503a 0p NEWS: Potentially Nasty Sun SG A potentially damaging article appears in today's Observer entitled 'Computer Nasties are on the Line.' Written by Observer investigative reporter John Merritt, the article reveals that several bulletin boards in the UK are actively disseminating anarchical information. The Open File report claims that the following information can be read online on BBSs. = Top 10 ways to kill a cop = How to make oxyacetylene balloon bombs. = Breaking into houses = An introductory guide to shoplifting = How to make tear gas The article then goes to give a thumbnail sketch of the UK's BBSs, including a character profile of Darren Ingram, sysop of 'Corrupt Computing,' a bulletin board specialising in the darker side of society. Ingram's board contains several areas, one of which is called 'Defence of... ... the Realm,' which contains several home defence files covering the topics outlined earlier in this news story. The article has off-the-cuff quotes from computer industry luminaries such as John (BBOA) Wallbridge and Alistair --Page 51-- Kelman, the computer barrister. Unfortunately for the online world, the Observer article portrays the typical BBS user as armed to the teeth and trained in 'survivalist techniques.' This will almost certainly reflect badly on BBS and UK online systems, Micronet included, and effectively undoes much of the PR work carried out by organisations such as the Bulletin Board Operators Association. Interestingly, reporter Merritt has been in contact with the Department of Trade and Industry and Oftel in a bid to discover who - if anyone - is 'responsible' for BBSs. The DTI is quoted as not knowing which government department should be looking at BBSs, but said BBS files and messages would come under Section 43 of the Telecommunications Act 1984. The Act prohibits the transmission... ... of grossly offensive, indecent or obscene messages over the PSTN (public switched telephone network). The anti-obscenity provisions of the 1984 Act were originally aimed at the 'dial-a-porn' services which have proliferated in the US. Some watered down services have appeared in the UK on 0898 value-added numbers. The Net will be taking a look at the Observer article in more depth tomorrow, when we'll discuss the ramifications of what could result in the government taking an interest in BBSs and other online systems......... ******************************************************************************* --Page 52-- MICRONET (c) 800111512a 0p NEWS: Potentially Nasty (Pt 2) Mon Steve Gold Following on from The Observer's revelations yesterday about the UK's modem users being corrupted by BBSs (GOTO 5 for the full SP), the Net has talked to several comms luminaries, many of whom were quoted in The Observer article. "The Observer chap phoned me up last week for a few comments," said Alistair Kelman, the computer barrister. Kelman revealed that the Daily Telegraph has also been chatting to comms-oriented establishment people as well as The Observer. Despite the article's emphasis on the darker... ... side of BBSs, Kelman thinks that the majority of readers will take the views of the writer with a pinch of salt. Len Stuart, ClubSpot and Netreach supremo, thinks otherwise. "The article could be very damaging for modem users generally, as people who don't know about comms will assume that Ingram's BBS is typical of all boards," said Stuart, adding that the same people will assume that all modem users regularly access such BBSs. "Not knowing any differntly, readers... ... will make the wrong assumptions about modem users," he added. John Collins, ex-Commodore and now freelance programmer on the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga, thinks the same. Like Len Stuart, Collins 'phoned the Net to draw our attention to the article. --Page 53-- "I was horrified by the article," he told the Net. "It's just the sort of publicity that we can all do without." John Wallbridge, BBOA founder, who is also quoted in The Observer article,... ... is equally disparaging about the article. "The Observer reporter left out my key comment which was that BBSs are like any other medium," he told the Net. "The problem is that all media, including BBSs, can be used to print almost anything about anything. I just hope that Observer readers don't get the wrong impression about bulletin boards generally," he said. Wallbridge is so incensed by The Observer article that - in common with several other comms industry figures - he feels that a response from the online community is called for. "At the very least, I think that a letter to The Observer is called for," he said. All the comms industry figures the Net has spoken to this weekend have agreed that The Observer article was 'over the top' and not typical of BBSs generally. It's likely that the article will have stirred up enough public outrage to generate governmental interest in how BSSs are run. It is to be hoped that - as with all exposes of this nature - the furore dies down quickly. --Page 54-- "TRACKER" Transmitter ┌──S──┬────────┬─────────┐ │ │ C1 C2 +│ R1 ┴ │ │ B │ ┌───────────┼────┤ -│ │ │ ┌───────┘ │ │ ├─────┴────N C3 │ │ └───────┐ │ │ R1 R2 │ └─────┴─────┬────────────┴────┘ ┴ Where - R1:10k Resistor C1:.001 Capacitor B:9V Battery R2:470 Resistor C2:Coil S:Switch C3:5-30pF Variable capacitor N:NPN Transistor :Crystal :Antenna ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Tracking transmitter which could be built very compact. Unmodulated signal, mustbe used with BFO-recer. Transmitting on 6-meter (50-54 MHz). C2 is 9 turns on 1/2" dia., 1/2" long, #18. is 52 MHz Antenna is 6", N is a BC 169. --Page 55-- THE NECCESITY OF DEVIANCE ___________________________ By Jack Stevenson In the Ideal utopia, individual freedomflourishes. In such a state of existence there would be no deviants since there would be nothing to deviate from. Everyone would bloom like a beautiful flower according to their own precaurioyus individual natures. There would be no stifling society codes, no predjudice, no repression, no crime. Unfortunately, or rather fortunately, Utopia is unobtainable. Deviation is the only thing that's kept the human race from dying off from bad ideas, lack of style or just plain boredom, not to mention tyranny, incompetence or stupidity. As it is, within every religion, within every country, within every city and small town, deviance springs up unwanted like some ugly evil mushroom, much to the horror of civil and moral "authorities." It is the one irrepressible, ineludable constant of human existence. Thank God. It is the deviant, at first persecuted, then martyred and worshipped, who changes society, starts all the new religions and philosophies. It is the deviant virus buzzing around in the rotted innards of established countrys and belief systems that keeps the decaying carcass on it's feet until something paramutates off, and it crashes to the ground a stinking corpse... although --Page 56-- sometimes it actually takes a few centuries to fall over. On a less grandoise scale, deviation worms it's way into fashion, art, and every other form of human conduct, often while the guise of perfect respectability is maintained. Deviance is a neccesity of life, on a par with food, shelter and clothing. And like any other activity, it can be pursued in a cowardly, or courageous fashion. Society seeks to maintain the status quo out of pure bloated inertia. Industrialization gave rise to the middle class in all developed countries, and soon the middle class had began it's own culture: a culture of cowardice, conformity and sterility whose holy ground became the suburbs. Conformity was required, the Status quo worshipped. Yet the stricter the status-quo is enforced by social codes, the more widespread the deviant urge becomes: today the suburbs are hot-beds of deviance and depravity, while inner cities - admittedly more violent - are staid in comparison. Look through any window in suburbia to see men dressed in leotards or neo- nazis in full regelia drowning kittens in bath tubs while through ghetto windows, you see earnest young dope dealers and pimps chasing the standard capitalist dream. Sexual and other deviations are shunned in the ghettos while the suburbs provide the privacy, leisure time and money to engage in such activities. It is the pointlessness and boredom of middle class life more than anything that spurs and motivates people into a life of deviance. Poor people are too --Page 57-- busy trying to "make it", chasing commercial images of success, and rich people hide all their glorious deviance behind the impenetrable wall of discretion propriety. It is out of the belly of the middle class that pulls a virtual army of "deviance" as they are quick to be called. Punk rockers are drop-outs from suburbia, with their anti-beauty esthetics. Before them the Hippies were the drop-outs with their drugs and anti-materialism. Many Gays in New York, San Fransisco and other big cities are escapees from middle class conformity. A thousand bizarre cults worldwide are gourged on the children of the middle class. It is the greatest contribution of the middle class to culture. Deviance in it's most spectacular, sensational and violent forms has become a new religion, merging Punk rock with Satanism, Nazism and modern death technology. Mark Pauline, a San Fransisco artist, builds engine powered contraptions, that animate the corpses of chickens and rabbits in a grotesque fandango. Autopsy videos are all the latest rage, and a small mouvement of Xeroxed fanzines that idolize mass-murderers is cropping up, reflecfting wider interest in this new industrial death culture that has in fact been well recieved in the art world. Mass murderers are replacing football players as focal points of youthful fascination. Gilles de Rais emerges from the muck of his history as the John The Baptist of this new order. The richest noble and bravest knight of early 15th century France, de Rais won a prominent place in French history books for his battlefield heroism in the cause of Joan Of Arc, personally rescuing her --Page 58-- from the English at least twice. His later career as a lunatic, devil worshipper and sex murderer of hundreds of young peasant children won him a place in the wax museums. Ed Gein, killer and cannibal of the American 1950s, exploded as a blinding supernova in the holy firmament of sexual deviance. Inhabiting an unworked farm in rural Wisconsin, Gein impressed neighbors as a mildly retarded simpleton who hung out with kids and was good for handyman chores and helping road crews chop weeds along the highway. Yet Gein's peaceable manner concealed the soul of a freinzied deviant: by night he engaged in murder, graverobbing and necrophilia, as well as the manufacture of human lampshades, chair seats, nipple belts and skull caos. All of Gein's crimes were traced back to a desire to revive his dead mother from her grave and driven out of control by a twisted sexual urge. Perhaps the ongoing celebration of Ed Gein is a reaction to the sterile sexual teases of Pop icons such as Doris Day and Annete Funicello who purveyed a dehumanized aura of sex that Gein actually came to practice. Charles Manson is certainly well enough known, both by the myth and reality (if in fact they can be seperated). Yet while Manson dabbled in Satanism and admired the Nazis, he was a different phenomenon than either medieval castle- dwelling de Rais or farmboy idiot/introvert Gein. Manson became the great hollywood killer and his ledgend has been enshrined by media circus parole hearings and annual televising of Helter Skelter that are as eagerly awaited as The Wizard of Oz. "I live in my world," said Manson in prison in 1970, "and --Page 59-- I am the king of my world, wether it be in a garbage dump or if it be in the desert or wherever it be, I am my own human being. You may restrain my body and you may tear my guts out, do anything you wish, but I am still me and you can't take that." Is it any wonder Manson strikes a chord with teenagers, deviants and outcasts constantly bucking the norm? Finally there is John Gacy. If mass-murderers are considered the ultimate deviants then John Gacy is an ironic contradiction. While Gacy was a killer, a more average, normal, successful and respected member of the community you could not find. He was the quintessential suburban "well respected man." His taste in everything from houses to cars to backyard barbeques was middle class suburban. None of this cult-worship commune jazz for him, his world revolved around the gravity core of middle class respectable. Because of this, he could never admit, and in fact to this day denies, that he is gay. He has been called by some "The Ultimate closet Queen" and the results of his reppresion and self-loathing became national headlines in 1979. While Gacy is a pretty poor role model for any self-respecting deviant, he is the current mass-murder record holder and hence earns the respect of the pure-mided death cultists who despise any hint of insanity or cultism. Manson and Gein on the other hand were more flamboyant and colourful characters and have enjoyed popularity on a wider scale, inspiring movies and songs and even bleeding a little bit into pop culture. Gilles de Rais, though, remains almost unknown to the population, with their fast-food slaughters and shopping-centre massacres while in history-concious France, he is known to every schoolboy. --Page 60-- Other mass killers have made the jump from police reports into pop ledgend. Jim Jones was the ultimate cult leader and fake Mohammed. Charles Starkweather was the 1950's own white-trash James Dean/Rebel without a cause, and Lizzi Borden slaughtered her parents - What red-blooded Teenager hasn't thought about it? Today there are endless Hillside Stranglers, Highway killers, Nightstalkers, mad Slashers, berserk snipers holed up in schoolhouses, and walking time bombs exploding in post offices and fast-food restaurants. And so, much to the horror of their parents, our young people find heroes aplenty in today's "world". Or perhaps I should say anti-heros. To today's youth, getting stabbed to death or getting blown apart in an explosion dosn't seem much worse than dying of boredom, and certainly it's quicker, you might even get on TV. Modern society seems a faceless, homogenized, sterile place... predictable, circumcised, pre-conditioned. The impulsive, the violent, the anti-social is admired and at times emulated. The deviant is our new hero. ------------------------------------------ --Page 70-- I think that I have now fixed the problem with the formatting of this BBS list, so you can READ AWAY!! - Go on then, don't bother about this boring old introduction - get on with the BBS list !!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHONE STATE CITY SYSOP T/S BdHrs NAME, FEATURES --------------------------