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                   Ocean County Phone Punx Presents
                                 OCPP01
                             April 26, 1997


                                Contents
                               Intro - Mohawk
               Turning your car into a mobile phreak unit - phear
                          Pager bombing - Mohawk
                      Operator Workstations - Mohawk
                            editorial - phear
                      Free long distance - Mohawk


Intro-Mohawk

    Well, after months of waiting the first issue is finally out!   But

who the hell are we?   Basically we're a group of phreakers from Ocean County

and some from other places in NJ.  We felt there needs to be a zine with a

strong emphasis on phreaking.  There a lot of good zines out there but half

of the issue is focused on hacking.  Also, many of them donÆt focus on the

future of phreaking.  ThatÆs where we come in.  We will be talking mostly

about present day phreaking, and the future of phreaking.  We are slowly

getting shut down and we donÆt even know it.  Right now the telco companies

are developing technology that is gonna make our current methods of

phreaking obsolete.

    Most of the boxes that worked in the 80Æs have been obsolete for

years.  Red boxing is slowly dying too with the invention of anti-fraud

devices on payphones.   We will be printing excerpts from technical

manuals that focus on todayÆs technology, and tomorrowÆs.   We will also

have new ways of phreaking,  telco news, editorials, letters to the editor,

stories, and whatever anybody feels like writing that I feel like

publishing.  Each issue will be different from the last.   If you have

something you wish to contribute just mail it in.  Enough with the crap,

letÆs get to the zine.















How to turn your car into a Mobile phreaking unit-phear


    Well all right then..  I'd like to start off with a special thanks

to Havoc Bell and OCPP for putting this in their zine and for having a

good zine in general (their getting less and less common.)  I'm sure

every true phreak out there has been wardialing from home lookin' for a

couple pbx's or a fax or two to plague and thought to themselves,  damn it

sure would be a lot better if I didnÆt have to do this from home... what

with all the *69's and so on.. well IÆve thought this myself and I decided

I was gonna do somethin' about it.  ThatÆs why IÆm writing this article..

how to turn your vehicle.. even the most piece of shit car you've ever had..

you know, the one you always had to pushroll to start, the one that didn't

have reverse or an e-brake, into a mobile phreaking unit.  What if you

didnÆt have to wardial from home,  what if you simply had to pull your car

up and whip out a 50 foot phone cable and jack in wherever you pleased.


     You can.. if you are reading this then you have a pc, or are reading it

on a friends pc and IÆm sure through your incredibly persuasive powers of

coercion you could convince them to try this idea out, in fact just bribe

them, you'll thank yourself, offer them your sister, free #900 calls,

revenge etc.  Anyway, hereÆs what you need..  A pc with a modem.. any

pc will do,  if you have to go steal your grandpa's XT and stick a 2400bd

in it.  A monitor, VGA is nice but not a necessity, the smaller the better.

A power source.


    Now the power source issue is a little more complex,  right now cuz

IÆm short on cash I use an APC Powecell backup for electric in the car.  I

bought it for my pc a while back cuz UE sucks.  Anyway its good for about 4

hours and thatÆs plenty.  Any kind of backup will do, as long as you get at

least an hour out of it, you'll have to find the internal speaker cuz when

that sucker starts doing backup power its gonna make a real annoying beep,

so take it apart and desolder the internal speaker and then your set.  Of

course the best type of power supply, the one I recommend is a line

inverter, or converter or some shit.

    Anyway what it does is take the 12vdc from your car and turn it

into 120vac.  The best one IÆve ever used is made by tripplite and its

about $100. I know, I know a little pricey but  its worth it,  with the car

on you will never notice a decrease in battery power,  with the car off you

could run a pc about 3 hours without draining the battery much,  the cheaper

line inverters may cause some strange small lines on your monitor, which

really arenÆt bad just kind of annoying.


     All right so you've got all your supplies, now your asking yourself

what the fuck do I do with all this shit.. You've just got to mount it.  I

have a small black Escort Gt.  If I can fit all this shit in my car then so

can you, firstly find a good place for the pc itself.  Behind the passenger

seat works well, unless you have a van, which is truly the ultimate

phreaking machine, then just slap a desk in the back and grab an extension

cord.  As for the cars, in most cars the best place to mount the monitor is

in the front passenger seat wedged in-between the dashboard and the edge of

the seat,  sits at a nice angle so you can see what your doing and it looks

real nice.. or at least as nice as a monitor wedged into a car can look.

Now if you just happen to luck out and find a nice small monitor, like a

10" or an 8" then just stash it somewhere... if you have enough room stick

it in-between the passenger and driver seats. You wanna put the power supply

in an easy to reach place so you can run all the cords to it without a lot

of hassle.  Then you need to determine how many people are coming with you

on your little joyride and tell the other three to go the fuck away you

only have room for one and heÆs riding in the back.  Oh yea and if you

have an external modem I would recommend sticking it in the passenger side

by the door in that crevase under the seat.  Okay you also need at least

25ft. of your favorite phone cord.. just take the one off your girlfriends

phone..  So, you've got your vehicle all loaded up and your ready to go..

but your not sure exactly how best to use  this new found toy.  So I'll

tell you about a few of the things IÆve done with mine.


     Well the first and foremost thing to do is go find a good spot, if your

gonna use a good size box with a lot of connections then make sure to bring

your beige box, and if you plan on harassing any of these fools grab your

favorite touch-tone too.  So me and chaos and his girlfriend (donÆt ask me

why I let her go,  I didnÆt have the room and she bitched about her leg

cramping the whole time) were out looking for a good spot and found a nice

dark church, which by the way are really good spots to go most of the time.

We parked the car on the side opened up the phonebox and just plugged right

on in.. I had the girlfriend do lookout duty and then dialed 72# 573-xxx-xxxx

and forwarded everything to my favorite person to harass... which by the

way if anyone wants to call her is 573-581-7077.. and make sure you say

something about her mom... anyway .. and since I live in a little shit

town people here are very guarded about phone harassment so they respond

well to hang-ups.  So I loaded up my favorite wardialer,  ToneLoc,

which is a great wardialer,  but I also use THC-Scan from time to time..

I set the call time to 15 sec. to allow for a good two rings and set it

to dialing,  I called about 80 numbers at random with the wardialer.


    Now this is one of my favorite tricks.. all the people that *69 call

the forwarded number and never interrupt my dialing...so I figured I'd had

my fun there and decided to get the hell out of there.. sides, the

girlfriend had to use the bathroom, and for some reason the bushes just

werenÆt good enough ( I can't imagine why ) so off we went, to the gas

station, where I happened to notice the fax number,  wrote it down when I

got to the car, and went to another local church, unfortunately it had

floodlights.. so I hopped out and unscrewed  the bulbs, jacked in and

faxed several nasty letters to the gas station about how much I really hate

the way they look me when I walk in there,  just because I have a nosering

and donÆt like my pants to fit so tight I have to talk in a high pitched

voice is no reason to i.d. me every time I want a pack of smokes.   So

chaos thought it might not be a bad idea to give them a call and make

sure they got the faxes.


     So he called and told the tubby bitch behind the counter to fuck off

and enjoy the faxes.. well all right.  ThatÆs it.. and remember if you

see a cop just pretend your lost, most cops are completely pc illiterate

and have no clue about phreaking either,  so if you cant run then just

play dumb.  "Oh no officer thatÆs not a pc in my car,  it's part of a new

computerized throttle control "... or maybe you could try "Well if you

werenÆt so busy eating that doughnut maybe youÆd know that this is a

highly sophisticated state of the art mobile phreaking unit used to

create chaos in the homes of people just like you, and I never would have

known about it if it havenÆt been for Havoc Bell and OCPP and this really

fucked up article I read written by some guy named phear who phreaks

with chaos and crypto and somebody else's girlfriend, who cant seem to

use the bathroom in the bushes."  well thatÆs all.. happy mobile phreaking.


        phear.         <PLA>    <HBS>    <OCPP>                                               [e-mail]
















Pager Bombing-Mohawk


    Pager Bombing can be a great way to really piss someone off.  Making

other people call someone you hate all day is really easy.  Basically you

just page a crap load of people and put in the number of whoever you want to

piss off.  Although this seems like a good idea you are probably wondering

where am I going to get tons of pager numbers?  Well when a company buys

numbers for their pagers they buy them in strings.  For example:  if the

number is XXX-XXX5 than XXX-XXX0-9 will be a pager number, sometimes it is

the third to last number but it is usually the last.  There ya go, now ya

got 10 numbers out of one.   I really wanna ruin someone's life but 20-30

numbers isn't gonna do it.

    Where am I gonna get alot of numbers?  Well there's a list printed

everyday, in the classified section in the newspaper.  People leave their

pager number if there sellin somethin and they're not gonna be home.  Read

over the used car ads and in 5 mins you'll find about 25 numbers which turns

into 250.  Some company's lease out whole exchanges for their numbers so

that every 123-XXXX number is a pager.  These are great.  The ultimate

number is a 1-800 number where you have to enter in a certain extension

for that person's pager.  This can house 1000's of numbers.  These are

great to have cuz you can call them for free from anywhere.  You'll have

to sit there and figure out the different numbers but itz worth it.


















Operator Workstations-Mohawk


    This next article is taken from "NortelÆs Long distance 101".  Now

when you harass your favorite operators youÆll know a little bit about their

workstations.


    Operators sit at computer workstations-often based on industry

standard personal computers with custom keyboards.  A group of workstations

can be connected through a local area network to supervisory workstations

and to an interface unit that provides voice and date connections to the

switch.

    Operator workstations on the Local Area Network or LAN can be set

up as "gateway" positions, providing connections to directly assistance or

intercept systems, or to other external databases.

    The operator services center doesnÆt have to be in the same building

as the switch, or even the same city.  It is not uncommon for workstations

to be located 300 or 400 miles away.  If fiber-optic connections are used,

the workstations can be located up to 1,200 miles from the host switch.

    Workstations can be dedicated to a specific task, such as toll

assistance service, or support multiple services, such as toll assistance

plus directory assistance.  New "intelligent" workstations support these

traditional services alongside any number of custom applications created by

the network provider on a third-party developer.

    When workstations software has been built on open interfaces and

industry standards, network providers can create powerful workstation

applications that interact with other elements of the operator services

environment.














Editorial-phear

    Okay.. here we go again.  Yet another article.  Some people may

find the contents of this article offensive,  thatÆs not my problem if

you donÆt like it fuck off.  I'm writing this article because IÆve been

seeing a lot of group status hype and that sort of thing floating around

in ezines and irc and that sort of thing.  To be perfectly honest it just

pisses me off.  Why is everyone so damn concerned about what 3l3373 group

they belong to??  The purpose of the underground is for the sharing of

information. When people get more concerned about what powerful and widely

noticed group they belong to they forget about whatÆs important.  It's not

what group your with or who you know its what you do.  I will phreak until

I cant move,  until my bones are old and decayed and brain is a sickening

pile of wormfood. ThereÆs only two things I rely on to learn.  Myself, as

in good old trial and error.  I've learned more from going out in the rain

for two hours phreaking a nice quiet suburbia then I have in a year of

reading articles on the net.  There is no replacement for hands on

experience.  The other thing I learn from is reading every scrap of phone

info I can get my hands on.  Fortunately a lot of the info IÆm looking for

is easily found in ezines, but the more everybody keeps worrying about

whoÆs the best the less good info I get in ezines.  It's not about

competition its about communication.  I remember reading in an HBS zine

that there have been a damn lot of takedowns, and to be careful.

    Its very true, in fact the government and the phone companies are

making a lame attempt at shutting down the underground.  I know that no

matter what they do the underground will always be there,  but thereÆs no

sense in handing ourselves over.  So I guess what IÆm trying to say is,

stop all this stupid IÆm better than you are bullshit, and stop flaming

people who are just trying to get started,  everybody has to start

somewhere.  There is strength in numbers and the stronger we are the

tighter we become.   Now donÆt get me wrong IÆm all for flaming true

lamers in fact I do it regularly, and enjoy it.  And the last thing I

want in the underground is a bunch of weak-ass narc out lamers.  So

think about it the next time you see the word 3l3373 and ask yourself..

what kind of  weak ass lamer substitutes 3's for E's anyway??

        phear.        <PLA>   <HBS>  <OCPP>


    <Have an editorial you want to write?  Or if you want to write an

opposing editorial send it to us and if we like it will publish it.>













Free long distance through voice mail-Mohawk


    With the phone company killing off most of the ways we have used to

get free long distance, we have to start looking for new ways to talk LD for

free.  Some of you might already know this but the majority of you have

never thought about it.

    With most voice mail systems, during the greeting

you can hit the * button to reach another menu where you can access

another mailbox.  This usually works on bell systems.  Well if you have

voice mail and your friend in another state does you can talk for free at

the expense of someone else.  Look in the paper, phone book, advertisement,

or whatever and look for a business that has a local number and a 1-800

number listed such as a gas station, lawyer, etc.  Make sure that that

number is in the same area code that your VMB is in.  Now have your

friend do the same thing with his area code.  Now give each other the

numbers you found.  Now whenever you two want to talk just call the

1-800 number and at the greeting press * and enter his voice mail number.

Then leave a message.  You can sit there all night and relay messages to

each other.  These places have to be closed when you are doing this.  Call

from a payphone as much as possible and donÆt over use this because they

will notice sooner or later.

    Voice mail can also be used to decode DTMF tones.  At the prompt

where it asks you to enter the mailbox number, play the tones and it

will say number XXXXXXX is an invalid box.  If you have anymore tricks with

voice mail we didnÆt mention here mail us.




Ocean County Phone Punx
Copyright 1997
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