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==Phrack Inc.== Issue XIV, File 8 of 9 PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ ^*^ PWN ^*^ Phrack World News ^*^ PWN ^*^ Issue XIV/1 ^*^ PWN PWN ^*^ ^*^ Compiled, Written, and Edited ^*^ ^*^ PWN by Knight Lightning PWN ^*^ ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN On the Home Front/SummerCon '87 April 22, 1987 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well I'd like to start off this issue with an apology to my readers. Although I had suspected it for quite some time, I never had any real reason to doubt the validity of some of the past events detailed in PWN. Please disregard and ignore these previous stories relating to Oryan QUEST. Oryan QUEST Busted/415 Gets Hit Again PWN Issue 4-2 Dan Pasquale Seeks New Entertainment PWN Issue 4-3 Oryan QUEST Vs. Dan Pasquale PWN Issue 6-1 Dan Pasquale: Still Hostile Or Ancient History? PWN Issue 7-1 The events regarding Oryan QUEST getting busted or having anything to do with Dan Pasquale (of the Fremont Police Department) were fictional propaganda devised and given to me under false pretenses by Oryan QUEST in an attempt to make himself look like a more experienced phreak and to give him more publicity and fame in the phreak/hack world. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Re-Announcing SummerCon! The biggest and best phreak/hack convention ever! Scheduled for June 19,20 1987 in St. Louis, Missouri and sponsored by TeleComputist Newsletter, Phrack Inc., and Metal Shop Private. The festivities will take place at the Executive International Best Western. There will be two adjoining rooms for guests to sack out in, but you are welcome to grab your own for space and privacy reasons. The phone number at the hotel is (314) 731-3800. The name being used to rent the rooms and the room numbers will remain unannounced until June 19, 1987 where this information will be placed on the Phrack Inc./Metal Shop Private VMS and the TeleComputist Information Line. This is to prevent any individuals from spoiling our fun at the Conference. We have received quite a few confirmations about people going and have heard from dozens more who plan to attend. Just based on who we know for sure, this will be an event to remember for the rest of your lives. The schedule works sort of like this; Friday Night - Party and introductions Saturday Afternoon - The conference will commence in the hotel's banquet hall. Saturday Night - More partying Sunday Morning - Everyone cruises home Guests are asked to please bring some extra cash to help pay for the expense of this weekend. The front money will be supplied by the sponsors, but any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Remember, everyone is welcome to show up. We only ask that you inform us (myself, Taran King, and/or Forest Ranger) of your plans. This also applies for speaking at the conference. Please inform us of the topic and how long you plan to talk. If you have any further questions please contact Knight Lightning, Taran King, or Forest Ranger on any bulletin board you can find us, the Phrack Inc./Metal Shop Private VMS, or call the TeleComputist Information Line at 314-921-7938. Hope to see you there. :Knight Lightning =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= *** Special Newsflash *** ^*^ Free Seminar ^*^ When: June 19, 1987 (Morning and Evening) Where: Sheraton Plaza 900 West Port Plaza St. Louis, Missouri [Good timing isn't it] Topics: Advanced Tolls For Protocol Analysis Using the OSI 7-layer model Special operator interfaces for: - entry level operators - protocal technicians - software engineers Test T1, SNA, X.25, ISDN, SS#7 with the same tester Presented by: Atlantic Resource Corporation Featuring: The INTERVIEW 7000 (R) Series Protocol Analyzers Discussion: T1 Testing - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Call to register: Tell them you are (pick one): - A manger responsible for protocol testing and certification - An engineer developing OSI 7-layer protocols - A network manager - Tech control supervisors Seating is limited so act quickly. RSVP Atlantic Research Corp. 800-368-3261 _______________________________________________________________________________ Voice Numbers; The Road To Retirement April 5, 1987 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A rebuttle by Kerrang Khan (Edited for PWN) Contrary to popular opinion, I actually have a reason for not giving out my phone number. There has been enough bullshit about this "incident," and I guess its time I gave my side of the story. I don't want anyone to have my phone number. Nobody in the phreak/hack world needs it. I'm easily reached via boards etc., and if it is that important to speak with me voice, loops and bridges do exist. It may be more convenient for you to have my voice number, but I don't think its really worth the risk. Face it, security people are getting serious about tracking people down. Unless you move around the country on a monthly basis, you might as well retire when your phone number gets 'out'. This is not to say everyone whose number isn't secure is due to be busted but consider the following: If I have your phone number I also have: 1) Your full name 2) Age 3) Address 4) Criminal record (its public knowledge) As well as just about anything else that comes to mind. If I can do that, just think what an investigator can do. As far as Psychic Warlord's policy of no number, no access goes, well I think it sucks. Anyone here remember "The Board" in 313? [See Phrack World News Issues 7-1 and 9-1 for information concerning "THE BOARD" and its aftermath.] I don't know much about Psychic Warlord and he doesn't need to know much about me. Its his system, and he can do what he likes with it, but I hope this isn't the wave of the future. Its a good policy not to leave phone numbers when calling boards for the first time, and after that, you'll have to use common sense. That is what it all comes down to, common sense. It seems to be in short supply these days. Post Taken From Metal Shop Private _______________________________________________________________________________ Metalland South: Phreak BBS or MetaliFEDS Inc.? June 2, 1987 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Metalland South BBS, at 404-327-2327, was once a fairly well known bulletin board, where many respected members of the hack/phreak community resided. It was originally operated by two guys from Metal Communications, Inc., but it wasn't an MCI club board. The sysop was Iron Man and the co-sysop was Black Lord. Recently, it has come to the writer's attention, that MS has come under new management, new policies, and possibly a new idea; Sting. Somewhere around September-October 1986, Iron Man removed all of the hack/ phreak related subboards as well as all G-philes from the system. He was apparently worried about getting busted. The last time this reporter spoke with him, Iron Man said he intended to put the hack/phreak subs back up. Then, not long after this conversation, the number was changed (The original number was 404-576-5166). A person using the alias of The Caretaker was made co-sysop and Iron Man would not reply to feedback. Everything was handled by The Caretaker [TC from now on]. TC did not allow any hack/phreak subs, but said he would put them up if the users would follow STRICT validation procedures. Strict validation on MS includes: ^*^ Your Real Name ^*^ Your Address ^*^ Your Voice Phone Number ^*^ A Self-Addressed Envelope (in which he will send back with your account number and password.) It is obvious to see the ramifications here. A board or sysop gets busted and then makes a deal to turn over the board to some company or agency. To make sure that they get who they want, you have to give them all this info, and the only you can get a password is to let them mail it to you, thus guaranteeing that if something illegal is posted under that account, you are responsible, no ifs, ands, or buts. Now, with the always helpful use of CN/A and various other special procedures, this reporter and several others have contacted the home of The Caretaker. TC will not admit to being or to not being The Caretaker. He says he "may be." Also, while speaking with to Taran King, TC tried to engineer Taran's phone number three times, using trickery like "let's be friends, what is your phone number?" TK gave the guy the MSP number, figuring everyone has it. Also TC is older than 18 (estimated at age 30), and he has three phone lines in his house. When called, he will not admit to who he is, who runs MS, or who is the sysop of it. Also, besides begging for you phone number (or demanding he call you). TC tries to trap you into admitting that you are/have committed toll fraud. In TK's case, TC tried to get Taran to admit to using other person's LD service PINs. The whole aura of mystery around Metalland South seems enough to make it not worth calling. I urge you never to call this system and never send in information like that to any system. Recently I have spoken with Iron Man, and he says "I gave the board to some guy cause I was sick of running it." Well, he is lying as you will see in the following transcript: ME: So, gave it away. To who? IM: I really don't know him that well. I can give you his first name. ME: No, that is ok. How old is he? IM: I don't know. We only talked once and I sent him the software. ME: Is his name XXXXX, XXXXX (TC's real name)? IM: I really don't know. ME: So why did you give the board to someone you don't know? IM: That was the only way to keep it up. Now, IM do you know him or not? Do you just go throwing the board around? I thought you said you knew his first name? ^*^ How the heck could he send him the software and not know his name? (Yea, I suppose he AE'd a 30 sub system. I can see it now, "To whom these disks concern." ^*^ Didn't IM seem to know much too little about The Caretaker? I could understand him not having the guy's last name or address, but not even knowing his age or where he lives..? Here are some other things to think about. There is an entire subboard dedicated to law efforcement and the local police even have an account on the system under the name CRIMESTOPPERS. I wonder what they would have to say about codes on the bulletin board. Keep in mind that Metalland South has no affiliation with Metallibashers, Inc. or Metal Communications, Inc. Please do not harass the board or its sysop(s), for it serves no purpose. Now understand that this article is not definately stating that this board is directly connected to any law enforcement agency, you can decide this for yourself. Article Written By >UNKNOWN USER< (An Anonymous Phrack Field Reporter) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Editorial Comments... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I just wanted to make a few comments about the above article. >UNKNOWN USER< is the official handle that shall be used by anyone supplying an article, but wishes for his name not to be mentioned. Its symbolic of the "anonymous user" function on Metal Shop Private, but it has no direct connection. We, the editors of Phrack, do not necessarily agree with any of the above statements and we do encourage those with opposite viewpoints to voice them. PWN can be used as the forum for those viewpoints, in which I shall voice no opinion. One more thing, for the record, I did edit the article (with the author's consent) and will continue to do so to ensure that the original author's style will not revel their identity. :Knight Lightning _______________________________________________________________________________ Toll Fraud Trial Sets New Tone June 5, 1987 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From Network World by Josh Gonze (Staff Writer) "May be first jury finding for abuse" Dallas - The recent jury conviction of a Texas man for the theft and sale of long-distance access codes may make it easier for long-haul carriers to stem the tide of toll fraud, which costs the industry an estimated 500 million dollars a year. On May 11, 1987, a U.S. District Court jury here [in Dallas] found Dallas resident Jack Brewer guilty on two counts each of trafficking and possssion of telephone access codes stolen from Texas National Telecommunications Inc. (TNT), a Texas long-distance carrier. Brewer was charged under a section of the federal COMPREHENSIVE CRIME CONTROL ACT of 1984. Sources close to the case said Brewer may be the first person to be convicted by a jury for toll fraud in the United States. The case is also seen as important because it indicates growing recognition of toll fraud as a serious crime. Brewer was selling the stolen codes, which telephone callers use to access long-distance circuits of carriers other than AT&T and which those carriers use for billing, says Terry K. Ray, the Assistant U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Brewer. TNT officials said use of the stolen codes cost the company $30,000. Ray said he met with representatives of MCI Communications Corp. last week to discuss the investigative techniques used to apprehend Brewer and legal methods used to win the conviction. Brewer will be sentenced by a judge on June 4 [Yeah the story is a little old, so what], and faces a maximum sentence of 50 years imprisonment and a $1 million fine. Toll fraud places a heavy financial burden on MCI and other carriers. Neither MCI or AT&T would divulge what toll fraud costs them, but U.S. Sprint Communications Co. said fraudulent use of access codes lowered its first-quarter 1987 revenue by $19 million. Brewer was apprehended through a sting operation conducted with the help of TNT, Southwestern Bell Corp., and the U.S. Secret Service. Southwestern Bell monitored Brewer's private telephone as he dialed numbers sequentially in a trial-and-error attempt to obtain active access numbers. The Regional Bell Holding Company kept a list of the working access codes obtained by Brewer. Secret Service agents then contacted Brewer, posing as buyers of access numbers. For $3,000, Brewer sold them a list of 15 numbers, which matched the list, made by the RBC [Just a tad greedy wasn't he?]. MCI has joined with AT&T, U.S. Sprint and some smaller carriers to form the Communications Fraud Control Association (CFCA). Rami Abuhamdeh, executive director of Tysons Corner, a Virginia based group, said there have been several convictions for toll fraud to date, but those cases were decided by judges, not juries. A number of federal and state statues apply in stolen code cases, depending on how and when the offender defrauds the carrier, Abuhamdeh said. Gaston Sigur, a lawyer for the anti-fraud association, said the TNT case is significant because jury convictions are more difficult to get than convictions from a judge, and it indicates that Americans have come to recognize telephone fraud as a serious crime. Abuhamdeh said that as carriers gain equal access to local exchanges, they will faze out code numbers as a way of accessing long-distance circuits and the level of toll fraud will decline. Thanks to Jester Sluggo Typed for PWN by Knight Lightning _______________________________________________________________________________ PWN Quicknotes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A guy who was involved in the California area phreak/pirate organization, known as The Duplicator, was reported as being killed in a plane crash. Info by Sir Francis Drake (3/31/87) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doc Holiday was busted for hacking a COSMOS system that was local to him. Apparently, he dialed direct and the CO most likely had CLID. (4/2/87) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KEN is working on version 3.0 of Forum-PC, and there are rumors that it may be public domain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Broadway Show BBS, once known as The Radio Station, will be returning to the 212 NPA. Please contact Broadway Hacker for details. Information From Broadway Hacker (4/16/87) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________________________________