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- Issue #41 September 20, 1989
- Special War-On-DrUgZ Issue!
-
- Write to us: Activist Times, Inc.
- P.O. Box 2501
- Bloomfield, NJ 07003
-
- First up, it's Prime Anarchist with the Prime Anarchist World News (PAWN):
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- Hola, Prime here again; bringing you PAWN. I'm more than happy that ATI
- will be the exclusive carrier of this fine piece. Which means y'all can rest
- assured; I'm not selling out and going syndicated. OK, here's the breakdown
- of information as I see it this week. If we're not gonna negotiate with
- terrorists, how come we're chatting so favorably with Iran??? Are we
- portraying them suddenly not as terrorists? How stupid does the Bush
- Aggravation, er, uh, I mean administration think wepeople are? And to
- suddenly take a "no neg" policy after 2 weeks of heavy negotiations with
- Lebanon is pure bunk. Not only are we the people being seen as stupid, but
- George's advisores are no doubt playing HIM the fool.
- When driving, close one eye when cars pass at night (especially on high
- beams) to protect your night vision. This works a lot better than the
- standard method of trying to stare at the side of the road. Helps you see
- much better in the dark.
- Once in a while, don't use any detergent with your laundry. Just stick
- it in there and start the spin cycles going. There's enough soap left over
- from the last person, and your clothes'll look better longer.
- Remember,if you can't be radical for a just cause,then be rad just because.
- With the 20th anniversary of Woodstock happening, self-proclaimed experts
- are having fashion shows on Good Morning Amerika and speaking out on talk
- shows as well as the evening news. Warning: most of these so-called experts,
- 50-55 year olds, weren't ever involved in the 60's. They now feel bad,
- and are reliving their childhood by being some sort of yuppy yipster.
- A strange and very scarey phenomena. I was about 4 years old back in the
- Woodstock weeks and I'm thinking I remember it better than these thugs.
- It's sad. I think we might've totally lost or defaced-by-rewrite a whole
- historical genre. Misinformation sucks.
- How come you can see invisible tape?
- When someone says "you got a minute?",pack a lunch and maybe a sleepingbag.
- Jackie Martling added seven new numbers to his 516-922-wine system.
- 922-9571, 9572, 9573, 9574, 9458, 9455, 9449. For a good time, pick a number.
- Any number.
- A fone rings at 570hz, can be seized at 2250, and can be released at 2600.
- But good luck doing it from home. Most reigions are now set up so the
- whole loop won't respond no matter how loudly you blast your single-tones.
- You've basically gotta run a tie-line out of your local switch. Good luck
- there.
- "Hmmm. What's that wire going from Marion's TSPS over to Mr. Ed's house?"
- "Dunno, must be authorized."
- Expanding your tone chip? 1633hz is a nice one to add. Played next to
- a1 you have "FO" and with 2 you've got "F", and as 7 you get "I" and at the
- 0 slot you have "R", "C" and "P". More on that later.
- VCR's are selling in Britain with built-in software to receive and
- transmit teletext. The company to bug for info is Grundig. I found them
- quite helpful. For a world power, we sure are behind on a lot of things.
- Heck, we can't even decide if we want to combine TV's and VCR's, or try
- outDAT, or improve our pathetically archaic public transportation system.
- Dark Ages?
- I just sat patiently thru a 6,000 word Associated Press article where
- the entire content seemed to be nothing more than the Credit Card bougioux,
- er, uh, I mean buisness world blaming 91 million a year credit card fraud
- for their refusal to bring their rates down. I'm sick and tired of these
- megabucks bastards claiming that fraud is keeping their interest rates high.
- If a bank certificate can only get you 9% on your dollars, Citicorpse et al
- damned well can drop down to at the least,10 percent!!!! With or without a
- percentage of fraud, as marginal as it is,a 20% credit card is highway
- robbery.
- "We want you to succeed, not just survive." More like "because we want
- you to owe, not grow."
- 65 million dollars to Bogota, Columbia. Whew! That's a lot of money
- for dope. Expect pot and coke to saor as this "war on drugz" heightens.
- And, keep in mind. It's nothing nore than a witch-hunt. Keep a good rep,
- and it'll be smooth sailing 4 U.
- Madame Helmsley got off easy. Figures. Rich people can kill and get
- off. (They may get off by killing, but they still go to jail--ed.) They
- got her on some of the medium and small counts. She COULD get 5 years jail.
- But keep in mind. With all the stuff she did (see "empire" in the mafia
- dictionary; punk and wagoners) she oughta hang, or at least get life. (Perhaps
- Mr. Anarchist should look up "empire" in a real dictionary--ed.)
- Jim Bakker? Must be nice to spend $30,000 a day on attornies. How's
- this for one? They apparently found the mega-fraud/conspiracy type guy
- under a desk in his friend's office hiding from all the people out to get
- him. He was hallucinating. (Televangelists don't hallucinate; they
- seeeeeeee!) You watch. He'll spend about five months in a funny farm, and
- then get pronounced "better" (Not quite, eh?--ed.). Must be nice to get off
- scot free. Meanwhile, a casual pinjoint smoker can expect life.
- Tired of taking peoples' bull? Give them a little of their own. 100%
- steer manure in a clear bag tied up neatly with a leather strap, and the
- message of your choice for $9.95 (now THERE's maturity--ed.). Call
- 1-800-543-5300 to use a MC or Visa, or send check or money order to For-Tuna
- Enterprises, PO Box 30506-c, Long Beach, CA, 90853. I called the number
- and someone answered, but I didn't take it any further. Post results. OK?
- Hey The Unbeliever: If I WERE able to travel the speed of light,
- halogens would be useless. What would you suggest I use?
- Hey Mac (213): I called you on the Red Phone, but the line was busy all
- night, so I'll address your topic here. Flags: Hmm. What's our flag
- represent? Much like a gang, our nation has Colors. Colors represents the
- men and women who died for our freedom. We should have great reverence for
- Colors. (At least he has one redeeming value--ed.) Colors stand for those
- that died in the two world wars to uphold freedom or simply follow orders.
- Colors also stand for those who died in wrong wars like Nam, or Honduras.
- Color should be respected with your life, I respect it with mine every day
- I take a breath of free (last time I checked) fresh (well) air. But....
- He who pushes to pass a full-fledged Constitutional amendment should be
- SHOT!! Pure bunk, I say. What we need least is legislation. What we need
- more, is to bring up our children morally, to respect Colors. That's all it
- takes. It worked for some 200-odd years(except of course for you people,who
- started all this flag-burning crap--ed.) Why can't it work under a Bush
- administration? (Ask yourself that the next time you light up a
- "pinjoint"--ed.)
- And finally, lets look at this admin a bit. Using abortion as the issue
- to test; we have "pass legislation. restrain. restrain." The last thing
- our countryfolk need is mroe laws restraining us. Bush, you're blowing it.
- What we do NOT need is a law restraining abortions. Only the poor will
- obey it anyways. What we DO need is education, morals, openness. Teach
- our children well, and they will require less restraints. (On the other
- hand,look what all our education did for animals like you--ed.)
- (PAWN)--CRIPPLE CREEK. The Eulogizer From Hell; Doc Gonzo Remembers AH.
- On the road this past year, Hunter S. Thompson has been often asked to
- eulogize media star, Abbie Hoffman. One of Hunter's abiding memories of
- Abbie is that he paid his bets. "I watched a basketball game with him in
- Seattle a while back. He considered himself a great handicapper, but I beat
- him on a bet and he paid," recalls Hunter. "That's not bad."
- That's better than you can say for Peter Rose. This morning, standing
- right on Pete Rose Way, in Downtown Cincinatti, Mr. Rose tried to reason
- his latest statement that got him a "slight" punishment by the baseball
- commission.
- "I wanted it to read, 'I don't confirm or deny having bet on baseball',
- they wanted it to read 'this finding neither confirms nor denies Rose's
- betting on baseball'. We compromised, and it now reads, 'This finding
- neither confirms nor denies Rose's betting on baseball'. Way to go, Pete.
- By the way, Pete, if you're reading this, Hunter Thompson wants his thirty
- bucks.
- In 1970 a county commissioner was elected by ONE VOTE. The loser
- demanded a recount, naturally, but the original tally proved correct.
- So, in Hinsdale county where voting residents still number only about 200--
- everyone takes his politics mighty mighty seriously.
- This sign found in a local library: "Do not place small children and
- large objects on counter". A woman put her daughter upon the counter
- and the checkout asked her to place the infant on a chair or the floor.
- An argument started over the fact that "since I only have a small child and
- not a large object AS WELL, I should be allowed to place her here." They
- then changed the "and" to an "or" and the sign now reads "Please do not place
- small children OR large objects..."
- Can you believe 1989 is almost over??? Sept. already. October's almost
- here. Soccer season. time to go running the miles again. Good luck sports
- fans. It's gonna be a good sports year. You can bet on it.
- Happy 43rd birthday, Connie Chung, you ornery old bat. if you ever,
- ever, push ME out of the way at a press conference to scoop me on a single
- interview question; while the other guys are up on their elbows with their
- mouths wide open thinking "I don't believe she did that to me" while 23,000
- Americans are tuning in, while you're flitting your hair back in place to
- prepare your calm relaxed lady-like interview, I'm gonna get back up off
- the ground and punch you right in the mouth. Right on national TV!!!!
- Why do they call it defacing property when you're writing something ON
- it? If you chisel words OFF of a gravestone, say, I can see that as defacing;
- but writing ON something? They'd better pick a new word 'cause they're wrong.
- Just thought I'd bring that up.
- Bocce has got to be about the most difficult sport to learn just by
- watching. I have no idea what the object is. I could probably spy all day
- too, to no avail.
- Arcades are starting to offer a form of credit or debit card. You
- insert the card in some thingie and you put money into some slot. The thing
- then gives your card the appropriate amount of credits. Neat. A lot can be
- done with that. You could set it so random cards get free credits (like a
- red receipt special at the grocery store) Hmm. All kinds of ideas come to
- mind. Instead of a "match", the machine'd ask you to insert your card again
- Or continue playing. You'd get a credit for ANY machine if you want it.
- Nice technology.
- With all the Colombian drug busts coming our way, I wonder how we're
- keeping Manuel Noriega quiet. Something's definitely awry in Denmark.
- Last time anything like this schtuff came up, Noriega threatened to blab all
- about how Bush was way up in the Medellin theatre.
- If you even have blue nachos laced with smashed-to-a-liquid jalepeneos,
- and hot tea, along with french onion soup, order lots of ice water.
- In fact,if you plan ahead, you can have a garden hose installed next to your
- table. Eat the soup first, belive me. If you try it after the jalapenachos,
- you're in for a narly surprise. The tea can be drunk any time in the meal.
- As cold as it gets, you could even drink it later tonite, and you'll still
- think it's your basic hot orange and black pekoe. It's worth the struggle,
- though. Blue nachos are delicious. When you finally finish, you'll feel
- fulfilled, even if it IS like eating mako shark (while he's still alive).
- If you must smoke, smoke Pall Malls (no filter to pollute with). Or you
- COULD roll your own.
- Cellular One is the competitor of the US West. They've got a van
- loaded up with 3 carfones that you can use for "free local calls". I thought
- that was a catchy ad. They go wherever there might be a lot of people. I
- wonder if all the companies use this approach yet, or is this one guy's
- project so far. I wonder how well it actually is doing, though?
- I don't much like 12 strings, how 'bout you? They sound sweet and
- all, but I never enjoyed playing them. Too limited. I'll take a beat up
- old folk guitar any day.
- Did I hear the radio right? Were they talking about Palestinians or
- Palace Indians???? They better speak up!!!
- 90% of people who seek drug rehab in America are turned away because
- of space/resource/personell problems. Hmm. NORML claims that paper made
- from hemp is 80% safer for the environment than that made from tree pulp.
- Waddya make of all these percentages? Hmmm. 90 drugz, 80 hemp. I'd
- say if 85% of druggies would just light up a joint instead of trying to go
- to drug rehab, there'd be a whole lot more paper left for the rest of us.
- Anarchy in gas stations- wondering what to do with that old keychain
- in your junk drawer? Put each key in one of those dealership "earlybird"
- envelopes with a made-up name and address on the front. Then slip each one
- in the slot. They'll spend hours looking for "your" car in the their lot.
- Then they'll spend days trying to find "you" before they realize it's a
- joke.
- "Will work for food" says a sign held by a guy with a heavy beard growth
- on a local street corner here. I'd say things aren't getting much better
- these days. The warnings GOP gave us if Democrats got in office are happening
- anyways. (Maybe because they control both houses of Congress?--ed) Hmm.
- And maybe worse so than if they HAD gotten in. Remember "a vote for Duke is
- a vote for taxes"? Hmmm. What's the first thing King George the 43rd did to
- us? Hmm. The gallon of gas as gone all the way back down to 60 cents where
- it belongs, huh? Hmmm. And look how better we are at handling hostage
- situations and terrorism the world round than a Carter type person would've
- been?
- I think it's time for cutting thru the bullshit. No politician is a
- good politician. Nobody can make order of this mess we call a democracy.
- Nobody comes through on all of his campaign promises. Nobody doesn't just
- shake your hand and kiss your baby. Nobody can run a nation effectively.
- I say Nobody for president! Thank you for reading once again, PAWN.
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- And now, from the "This Could Happen to YOU!!" department, here's a look at
- how someone was tracked down and busted for phreaking. To protect the
- identity of the person in question, the name of the person, address, city,
- state and the long distance company involved have been blocked out.
- The long distance co. investigator involved in the case will be referred to
- as "Smith".
-
- THE STATE OF XXXXXXXXXXX AFFIDAVIT FOR
-
- COUNTY OF XXXXXXXXXX SEARCH WARRANT
-
- Your affaint, XXXXXXXXXXXX, a peace officer employed by the XXXXXXXXXX
- County District Attorney's Office, after being duly sworn, on oath
- makers the following statements and accusations:
-
-
- I.
-
-
- There is in -CITY-, XXXXXXXX County, -STATE-, a place and premises
- described as a single family residence located at -ADDRESS-
-
-
- II.
-
-
- There is at the said place and premises, impliments or instruments
- used in the commission of a crime described as switch accessing
- devices such as personal computers and connecting equipment, like
- automatic dialers, programs, recording devices, discs, modems,
- printers, telephones, hardware and software that were used or
- adapted to access computers owned by -COMPANY- and property or items
- constituting evidence of an offense or constituting evidence
- to show that a particular person committed an offense such
- as the above cited items and notes, records, printouts, and ledgers.
-
-
- III.
-
-
- The said premises and place is controlled by -DEFENDANT-.
-
-
- IV.
-
-
- It is the belief of your affaint, and he hereby charges, accuse and
- says that he has reason to believe and does believe that -DEFENDANT-
- or someone living at the place and premises noted above, in
- -CITY-, XXXXXXXXX County, -STATE-, on or about between --DATE--1989,
- gained access to data stored and maintained by a computer owned by
- -COMPANY-, without the effective consent of -COMPANY-, the owner of the data,
- and the caller knew there existed a computer security system
- intended to prevent gaining access to the data in violation of the
- "Breach Of Computer Security" statute of the -STATE- Penal Code and
- stole -COMPANY- credit cards in the process in violation of the "Credit
- Card Abuse" statute of the -STATE- Penal Code. In addition it is
- your affaint's belief that the person who gained access to the
- data, violated the "Unlawful Use Of XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" statute
- of the -STATE- Penal Code. He committed this crime by adapting
- programs and computers with the intent to make phone calls so as
- to illegally obtain the data in question and that those phone calls
- were in fact made on or about between --DATE--, 1989 and --DATE--, 1989
- and the person knew the character of the instrument he set up.
- In addition, he has reason to believe and does believe that person
- or persons in the place and premises in question made numerous long
- distance phone calls between --DATE--, 1989 and --DATE--, 1989 using
- -COMPANY- credit cards that were stolen in the process described above
- in violation of the "Credit Card Abuse" statute of the -STATE- Penal
- Code. He further believes that the above cited items, property,
- impliments and instruments are located at the place and premises
- cited above.
-
-
- V.
-
-
- Your affaint's belief is based on two things--his personal
- experience that he has garnered through executing numerous search
- warrants in cases like this and conversation he has had with Smith
- who is employed as Director Of Security for -COMPANY- and a person
- with no known criminal record.
-
- Your affaint, for approximately 16 months, has been in periodic contact
- contact with different members of the security divisions of various
- long distance communications common carriers (phone companies).
- I have worked primarily with Smith of -COMPANY-.
-
- Smith and other security personnel have filed numerous complaints
- alleging that persons are accessing their companys' computer
- systems and obtaining data from them. The persons or "hackers" or
- "phreakers" as they are known in the industry, have learned how to
- break into and use the computers employed by the various companies
- to make long distance phone calls without having to pay for the
- service.
-
- On dozens of occasions, I have executed search warrants on
- residences and businesses identified through "trap and trace"
- information supplied by various phone companies pursuant to the
- filed complaints and in almost 100% of the searches recovered
- computers and equipment such as automatic dialers, programs,
- recording devices, discs, modems, printers, telephones, hardware
- and software as well as notes, records, printouts, and ledgers which
- indicate that a person was in fact making calls to the phone
- company systems, and obtaining data (codes which authorize long
- distance calls) like the complaints had alledged. This property,
- items and other material, is invariably found at the place and
- premises that are identified in the "trap and trace". I have found
- that the property, items and other materials are kept for months
- and sometimes years so that they can be used again and referred
- back to.
-
- On -DATE-, 1989, Smith told me that he was investigating an
- individual that was making calls into -COMPANY-'s system from -CITY-,
- XXXXXXXX County, -STATE-, obtaining long distance telephone
- authorization numbers (credit cards), and making long distance
- phone calls utilizing those numbers without -COMPANY-'s consent or the
- consent of -COMPANY-'s customers who have been assigned the numbers. He
- said that in -DATE-, 1989 -COMPANY- received a phone call from a
- customer who said that another person was utilizing his code to
- make long distance phone calls without his permission.
-
- Smith said that he called the phone number that had been called
- by the person illegally using the -COMPANY- authorization code and he
- was told by the party answering the phone that an individual named
- -DEFENDANT- had made the call in question. In -DATE- and -DATE-,
- 1989, he followed up leads that indicated to him that this person
- named -DEFENDANT- had made several long distance phone calls from
- -CITY-, XXXXXXXX County, -STATE- using -COMPANY- authorization codes
- assigned to customers without their consent. Smith learned
- this information by talking to the -COMPANY- customers and persons whose
- phones had been called by the person utilizing the codes
- without their owner's consent.
-
- Through investigative work, Smith learned the pager number of an
- individual named -DEFENDANT- who lived in -CITY-. Smith said he
- called that pager number and left as the phone number to be called
- his own direct work number in -CITY-, -STATE-. On -DATE-,
- 1989, and individual identifying himself as -DEFENDANT- called Smith
- on his direct line and said he was returning the call to his pager.
-
- Smith stated that the -COMPANY- phone system had the capacity to record
- information about incoming calls and when he looked at this
- information, he learned that the person who called on that date,
- was calling from -CITY-, XXXXXXXX County, -STATE- and was utilizing
- an -COMPANY- authorization code that had been assigned to a -COMPANY- customer
- who had not given the caled permission to use the code. Smith
- looked at other -COMPANY- records that showed that the code number in
- question had been "hacked" on -DATE-, 1989.
-
- Smith said that on -DATE-, 1989, he asked -BELL EMP.- an
- employee of Bell Telephone Company to set up a trap
- and trace on its -CITY- Lines so that the caller from -CITY-
- could be identified. -BELL EMP.- reported back that numerous
- phone calls were being made to the -COMPANY- system from a residence in
- -CITY-, XXXXXXXX County, -STATE- at -ADDRESS-. -BELL EMP.-
- said that phone service was set up at that residence for -DEFENDANT-.
- -BELL EMP.- said he continued the trap and trace until
- -DATE-, 1989. He said that during that period of time, frequent
- calls were made into the -COMPANY- system. The calls were usually made
- between 11:00 pm and 5:00 am.
-
- Smith said that during the time that Bell Telephone continued
- its trap and trace, -COMPANY- monitored its system to see what the caller
- was doing. Smith said that -COMPANY's- records indicate that most of
- the calls made into -COMPANY- during this period of time were of a
- searching nature. That is, the caller made frequent calls, one
- after another, using a different authorization number in each
- instance but using the same end destination phone number each time.
- The phone calls were made one or two per minute.
-
- I know, though my experience that these searching calls are made
- for the sole purpose of discovering valid authorization numbers so
- that the numbers can be used to make long distance phone calls for
- free. I know that once these valid codes are obtained, they are
- kept by the caller in notes, ledgers, papers or other medium.
- Smith told me that -COMPANY- verified that the caller was able to
- discover 12 valid codes in this manner and that many long distance
- phone calls were made from the -DEFENDANT-'s residence utilizing these
- stolen codes.
-
- I visited the residence of -DEFENDANT- and affirmed that the
- description of the place and premises given above is true and
- correct.
-
- WHEREFORE, your affaint asks for the issuance of a warrant that
- will authorize him to search said place and premises for said
- implements, instruments, property and items and to seize the same.
-
-
- XXXXXXX XXXXX, Affaint
-
-
- SUBSCRIBED and SWORN to before me, by the said affaint on this the
- 1 day of -DATE-, 1989.
-
- XXXXXXXXXXX District Court
- XXXXXXXX County, -STATE-
- XXXXXXX XXXXX, Judge
- XXXXXXX District Court
- -STATE-
- The above was a statement given by a law enforcement officer to obtain a search
- warrant. A warrant was issued, eqipment was confiscated, and the person in
- question was charged with several counts of credit card abuse.
-
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-
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-
- Take care, and stay out of trouble.