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============================================================================ THE SYNDICATE REPORT Information Transmittal No. 17 Released December 30, 1987 Featuring: Exposition / Author's Note (sr ;34-48) IBM Pledges Support for ISDN If World Standards Are Set (i.w;68) FCC Documents VIA General Electric Net (i.w;90) D&B Enforces Restrictions of Dialog On-Line Subscribers (i.w;104) Board Allows Remote PC User From Phone (i.w;121) Genie OnLine Service Cuts 2400 bps Rates (i.w;146) FCC Crackdown Causing Far East PC Vendors to Meet Regulations (i.w;164) The Last Visit From Officials (ts;180) Communication Networks Conference And Exposition (ltr;1\1\88;227) by The Sensei ============================================================================ Exposition: TSR Once again, TSReport now excepts outside sources. Anyone can write/provide information to The Syndicate Report. Articles/Information may be provided through TSR Newsline (see below), via voice VMS System. Any info such as Busts, Phreaking, Hacking, Data / TeleCommunications, and new developments on any the previous mentioned specialities will be: accepted, labeled, and given full actual credit by the article/info provider(s), or writer(s). -- All articles have been presented by me unless shown at the end of the article as the information provider(s), or writer(s). ============================================================================ Author's Note: TSR Welcome! I bet many of you wonder where the hell the Report has been, or me for that matter. Most of you had suspected it was a legal problems, since just before I left for a couple months I noted that a psuedo 411 service sent over some people to find out what they could do about me using their computer systems, VMS. TSR #16 Part 2 outlines most of that. The Last Visit I got will be in this file as usual. Again I wasn't sure if I should contunie releasing Syndicate Reports. But once in a while I get the free time, and it's my choice what I do with it. I still accept articles and news if you can get them to me. I am not going LD as much as due to the legal attention. 2 Other files should accompany this one. The second part of 3rd Party Fraud, and bibliographic story entitled "I'm not a Crook." Expect of of the two or both out soon. Once again, enjoy TSR #17. And Happy New Year! ============================================================================ IBM PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR ISDN IF WORLD STANDARDS ARE SET: TSR Research Triangle Park, NC -- IBM Corp. left little doubt of its commitment to a worldwide Integrated Systems Digital Network (ISDN) but said it won't continue to participate if the world can't agree on stanards. "We have strong intent and desire for ISDN to be a reality," said Len Felton, the IBM Communications Products Division's director of quality and general development. He noted that much work remains to be done by participants in the Consultative Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy (CCITT), which is trying to formulate standards that would permit the world's telephone systems to communicate digitally. The US telephone system will not be a stumbling clock to a digital phone network, said Felton. He said that IBM's independent research shows that by 1989 enough digital equipment and switches will be installed to provide connections to most of the country. Standards should be wil enough ironed out by that time to being widespread use of ISDN, he said. The company is currently involved in several field trials in the United States and Europe. ============================================================================ FCC DOCUMENTS VIA GENERAL ELECTRIC NET: GE Information Services is now carrying the National On-Line Regulatory Access database of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) textual material. The service, which costs 100$ per hour at 1200 baud plus a one-time charge of 190$, consists of the FCC Daily Digest and FCC Library, which includes the complete text of comments, orders, letters, motions, and petitions, GE said. GE Info. Services (800) 433-3683 ::::Information Provided by Dana Digital:::: ============================================================================ D&B ENFORCES RESTRICTIONS OF DIALOG ON-LINE SUBSCRIBERS: New York -- Dun & Bradstreet last week stated that it will continue to ban certain subscribers from its financial databases available on-line via Dialog Information Services. After examining the facts of the case, in which Dialog users had been denied access to Dun's Financial Records, D&B now intends to enforce it's policy. "We will continue to deny access to financial business and credit services for unauthorized persons or organizations," said Bill Doescher, VP of public relations and advertising for Dun & Bradstreet. Dun's Financial Records contains financial information on privately held companies that fear the information could be used by labor unions against them when negotiating on behalf of employees. ============================================================================ BOARD ALLOWS REMOTE PC USER FROM PHONE: BCB Electronic Sales has announced Tone-Talker TT-100, and IBM PC-- compatible multilayered board that provides communications via Touch Tone phones. TT-100 allows a touch tone telephone to interact with any commercially available program, the company said. Included resident software coverts Touch Tones into commands as though the PC keyboard. Using this system, remote users can communicate with a PC without a modem, using the phone keypad for input and receiving voice responses from the TT-100. The TT-100 features defitiezed voice record and playback, text-to-speech voice syntehsis, and call forwarding. Applications of the product include voice messaging, remote data entry, sales query, order entry systems, machines control systems, customer response systems, and telemarketing. The 995$ TT-100 is programmed using MS-DOS' batch file language. It can interface with digital phone systems, PBXes, two-way radio, and cellular phones.Other features include a dual mcicroprocessor, a 300/600 bps modem, an acoustic coupler, and autodialer, and a 4-line-by-2 character LED display. BCB Elec. Sales, Tampa Florida (813) 931-3582. ::::Information Provided by Brew:::: ============================================================================ GENIE ONLINE SERVICE CUTS 2400 BPS RATES: Effective last month, the cost of the 2400 bps Genie Online Service from GE Information Services has been cut from 15$ to 12.50$ during non-prime time. At 300 or 1200 bps, Genie costs 5$ per hour for non-prime time, which is between 6 pm and 8 am local time Monday through Fridat and all dat Saturday and Sunday, GE said. GE also gave 44 new cities local access to Genie. The company said the G GE Info. Services (800) 638-9636 ::::Information Provided by Unkown:::: ============================================================================ FCC CRACKDOWN CAUSING FAR EAST PC VENDORS TO MEET REGULATIONS: The FCC stringent crackdown on personal computers that give off excessive ratio signals has resulted in a unique statistic that proves it is better to do it right the first time. According to the FCC officials, on Far East vendor had to spend 30$ to retrofit each unit after being denied commission certification. However, new models that are designed to adhere to the FCC's regulatins cost only about 2$ more to manufacture than last year's models. Since the crackdown started, Far East companies have fallen in line behind the government's marketing and engineering standards and are doing a better job of meeting those standards, officials said. ============================================================================ THE LAST VISIT FROM OFFICIALS: I'm not sure the exact date they came over, but anyways it went like this: Just after I put my cycle in the garage after school, a car pulls up. I didn't like the whole scene one bit. It was the same Edina Minnesota Cop that came to see me before about the Connection Breakin and a Secret Service Agent. I knew the cop, so he introduced me to the S.Service Man. I won't list any names. Well, they asked if they could step in my room and have a little chat of my cituation with the Connection and this other VMS system. They were much more concerned with the Connection since Silent Assault was busted on the same system. I think they thought it was sort of a big area for Phreak and Hack information to be exchange. Infact it was for a while, for Silent Assault and Me. But no major information on my part. Just Silent had all the dangerous information which brought him to his term in jail. (See transmittal #14 for article). All I ever used it for was voice and data message accounting. I did run a private system on one of the lines for a approximately a month, although it didn't last long with the busts happening. When we got in my room, they both took and seat and went right out to ask me what I knew. They asked me specific formulas to hacking into the VMS's and other systems locally. I only told them steps to the Connection systems since they could get the information on their own, or they knew it already. They asked me questions like if I had ever used illegal credit cards or codes lately. They knew I used MCI before, but that was long since a past habit. Also, they asked for programs that hack. I gave them the disks I had since I wouldn't need them. And in case I did need them, I could get them on any system. They also asked for printouts of the directories on the disks. This was no skin off my back so I cooperated. The whole time the SS Man took mega notes as if he was going to write a book when he retires. Retirment didn't seem to long off for this guy, so he was probably going to write a novel. All and all, it went well. I they explained that since I was so co- operative and such...that they'd try to get the charges dropped. Even if I did go to court, the judge could only slap my hand. Maybe a fine, but nothing too major with my record. Clean. I'll leave you with a bit of advise. If at all you meet up with authorities of most any type, try and cooperate with them. Do so just enough not to get anyone, including yourself, in any trouble. When being questioned, think fast what your going to say and reply quickly and clearly. They are experts on questioning and can tell if the BS is being shoveled. Don't worry about anything unless you know your up a creek. Just stay cool. -The Sensei, Syndicate Report Magazine ============================================================================ COMMUNICATION NETWORKS CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION: All tutorials held Monday, January 25, 1988. Hours: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm Who should attend: Hackers in general Level of presentation: Intermediate T-1 Planning Integrated Corp. Networks -------------------------------------- I. Transmission Technologies Includes T1 networks for voice and data, private microwave, fiber optics, and satellites including VSATs. II. Integrated Network Architectures Important questions answered for planning of ISDN, users phasing in ISDN, how important ISDN is, and what about LANs for data access. Dr. John McQuillan, Pres., McQuillan Consulting, is one of the world's foremost authorities of telecommications networks. He began his work at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), where he developed many of the basic protocals for APRANET, the first packet switching network. Host. T-2 ISDN Standards, Products and Services ------------------------------------------ I. ISDN Tech. Cocepts, Standards, and Status II. ISDN and Public Usage Trials, timetable for service offerings, international perspective. III. ISDN Private Networkings PBXs and Premises networking, integrated voice/data switches, and vendor plans. IV. Planning For ISDN Evaluating ISDN, critical decisions, smart moves today, and case studies from three large organizations. T-3 Intro. to Voice Communications and PBXs I. Introduction to voice II. Voice switching and transmission III. Voice digitization IV. Integrated voice and data V. All digital world VI. T-Carriers, multiplexors, ISDN VII. Digital PABX charactoristics and advantages IX. Who makes digital PABX X. Future trends in voice communications T-4 Designing Voice and Data Networks Under The New Tariffs ------------------------------------------------------------ I. The Environment The Breakup of the Bell System, LATA, Tariff Overview II. Federal Tariffs The WATS and DDD tariffs of AT&T, MCI, and US Sprint, The Issue of "Interstate Contamination." Dates: Tuesday, Jan. 26 -- Thursday, Jan 28, 1988 Place: Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C. Leaders. 1-800 225-4698. ============================================================================ TSR will accept additional sponsor/support Systems. If you have an interest in the Report, and wish to provide support to TSR -- Leave your BBS number and any other information to TSR VMS Lines listed above. ============================================================================ Freeworld // 301-668-7657 : Brewery 314-394-8259 : Lunatic Labs 612-645-7132 Realm of Reality 612-420-6486 : Osuny* 914-725-4060 : Exec. Inn 915-581-5145 ============================================================================ This concludes this Transmittal No. 17 by The Sensei of The Syndicate Report Released December 30th, 1987 ============================================================================