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- Volume Two, Issue 18, Phile #10 of 11
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- Intro
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- Welcome to yet another issue of Phrack World News. We have once again
- returned to try and bring you an entertaining, and informative newsletter
- dedicated to the spread of information and knowledge throughout the H/P
- community.
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- TOK Re-Formed
- =============
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- A group called Tribunal Of Knowledge, which has undergone previous
- re-formations has once again re-formed. The person who is currently "in
- charge" of the group says that he had permission from High Evolutionary, the
- group's founder, to re-form the organization. Although the group hasn't
- publicly announced their existence or written any files, we should be hearing
- from them in the near future.
-
- The Current Members of TOK Include -
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- Control C
- Prime Suspect
- Jack Death
- The UrVile
- The Prophet
- Psychic Warlord
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- Information Provided By Control C, and Prime Suspect.
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- SummerCon '88 Preliminary Planning
- ==================================
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- Planning for SummerCon '88 is underway. So far, we have decided on four
- tentative locations: New York City, Saint Louis, Atlanta, or Florida. Since
- this is only tentative, no dates have been set or reservations made for a
- conference.
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- planning to attend SummerCon '88, please let us know as well. Thank you.
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- Information Provided By The Forgotten Realm.
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- LOD/H Technical Journal
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- Lex Luthor of LOD/H (Legion of Doom/Hackers) has been busy with school, etc.,
- so he has not had the time, nor the initiative to release the next issue of
- the LOD/H Technical Journal. On this note, he has tentatively turned the
- Journal over to Phantom Phreaker, who will probably be taking all
- contributions for the Journal. No additional information is available.
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- Information Provided By The UrVile and Phantom Phreaker.
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- Congress To Restrict 976/900 Dial-A-Porn Services
- =================================================
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- Congress is considering proposals to restrict dial-up services in an effort to
- make it difficult for minors to access sexually explicit messages. A
- House-Senate committee is currently negotiating the "dial-a-porn" proposal.
- Lawmakers disagree whether or not the proposal is constitutional and are
- debating the issue of requiring phone companies to offer a service that would
- allow parents, free of charge, to block the 976/900 services. Other proposals
- would require customers to pay in advance or use credit cards to access the
- 976/900 services.
-
- Some companies are currently offering free services that restrict minors from
- accessing sexually explicit messages. AT&T and Department of Justice
- officials are cooperating in a nationwide crackdown of "dial-a-porn" telephone
- companies. The FCC recently brought charges against one of AT&T's largest 900
- Service customers, and AT&T provided the confidential information necessary in
- the prosecution. AT&T also agreed to suspend or disconnect services of
- companies violating the commission ban by transmitting obscene or indecent
- messages to minors.
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- Some Hope Left For Victims Of FGD
- =================================
-
- US Sprint's famed FGD (Feature Group D) dial-ups and 800 INWATS exchanges may
- pose no threat to individuals under switches that do not yet offer equal
- access service to alternate long distance carriers. Due to the way Feature
- Group D routes its information, the ten-digit originating number of the caller
- is not provided when the call is placed from a non-equal access area. The
- following was taken from an explanation of US Sprint's 800 INWATS Service.
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- CALL DETAIL
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- With US Sprint 800 Service, a customer will receive call detail information
- for every call on every invoice. The call detail for each call includes:
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- o Date of call
- o Time of call
- o The originating city and state
- o The ten-digit number of the caller if the call originates in an
- equal access area or the NPA of the caller if the non-equal access
- area.
- o Band into which the call falls
- o Duration of the call in minutes
- o Cost of the call
-
- This came directly from US Sprint. Do as you choose, but don't depend on
- this.
-
- Information Provided by US Sprint.
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- Telenet Bolsters Network With Encryption
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-
- Telenet Communications Corporation strengthened its public data network
- recently with the introduction of data encryption capability.
-
- The X.25 Encryption Service provides a type of data security previously
- unavailable on any public data network, according to analysts. For Telenet,
- the purpose of the offering is "to be more competitive; nobody else does
- this," according to Belden Menkus, an independent network security consultant
- based in Middleville, NJ.
-
- The service is aimed at users transmitting proprietary information between
- host computers, such as insurance or fund-transfer applications. It is priced
- at $200 per month per host computer connection. Both the confidentiality and
- integrity of the data can be protected via encryption.
-
- The scheme provides end-to-end data encryption, an alternative method whereby
- data is decrypted and recrypted at each node in the network. "This is a
- recognition that end-to-end encryption is really preferable to link
- encryption," Menkus said.
-
- The service is available over both dial-up and leased lines, and it supports
- both synchronous and asynchronous traffic at speeds up to 9.6K BPS.
-
- Telenet has approved one particular data encryption device for use with the
- service, The Cipher X 5000, from Technical Communications Corporation (TCC), a
- Concord, Massachusetts based vendor. TCC "has been around the data encryption
- business for quite a while," Menkus said.
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- The Cipher X implements the National Bureau of Standards' Data Encryption
- Standard (DES). DES is an algorithm manipulated by a secret 56 bit key.
- Computers protected with the device can only be accessed by users with a
- matching key.
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- The data encryptor is installed at user sites between the host computer and
- the PAD (Packet Assembler/Disassembler).
-
- Installation of the TCC device does not affect the user's ability to send
- non-encrypted data, according to Telenet. By maintaining a table of network
- addresses that require encryption, the device decides whether or not to
- encrypt each transmission.
-
- Information Provided by Network World.
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