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- Volume One, Issue Four, Phile #9 of 11
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- MCI Working With BOCs
- ---------------------
- PacBell and MCI have combined forces to make the Security Pacific Data
- Transmission Corporation. Also it has been announced that field trials are
- currently being held for Project Victoria: an integrated voice-data-video
- service for homes and small businesses.
-
- BOC stands for Bell Operating Company, and it refers to the small companies
- that were formed after the breakup of AT&T.
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- 2600 Magazine Vs. Computel Wednesday, February 26, 1986
- --------------------------
- The following post was seen on Stronghold East Elite on the above date.
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- We're seriously thinking of taking some action against those nasty people at
- Computel. We published a letter this month which implied that the whole
- operation was really a fairly sophisticated FBI scam.
-
- We need to know as many facts as possible. Please contact us on Stronghold East
- thru e-mail, in person, or call (516) 751-2600. If we're not around, leave a
- message saying when you'll call back and we'll try to be there.
-
- Tell us if you've had personal experience with Computel or if you know others
- who have. If anyone has cancelled checks or the equivalent, let us know!
-
- Also, if anyone can send us a Computel ad, which somehow everyone here at 2600
- managed to miss, it would be helpful. Send that to:
-
- 2600
- PO Box 99
- Middle Island, NY 11953
-
- Note: That's not our subscription address. Subscriptions are at PO Box 752.
-
- We may not be able to get these people prosecuted, but we can sure raise one
- hell of a stink trying.
-
- 2600/eg
-
- Let it be said that hackers and phreaks will never stand aside
- and be ripped off!
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- At this time we at Phrack have been able to uncover nothing more about the
- Computel situation.
- Information provided by (of course)
-
- 2600 Magazine
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- Mister Carding Busted
- ---------------------
- Mister Carding first started in the profession of which his name comes forth in
- the summer of 1984. Since then he has accumulated roughly $45,000 worth of
- merchandise.
-
- He was caught once before in the summer of 1985 by Federal agents. However, as
- the investigation went on, they didn't have enough material and dropped the
- charges.
-
- Somewhere around the fourth week of February he was caught again, this time by
- local authorities. Here is how it all started:
-
- "Two months ago, I had tons of stuff coming in and had another guy picking it
- up. One night two weeks or so ago I had him go out to pick up a 20 meg 3 1/2
- inch hard drive. It was only the second time I had used that place as a drop
- spot. Unfortunately, he walked right into a police stakeout and he was
- followed, first to my house and then to his own."
-
- The next day the police went to the house of the friend and arrested him. He
- willingly signed an affidavit stating that Mr. Carding was the mastermind
- behind the whole operation and that he was just an accomplice.
-
- The court date has not yet been set but his crimes are as follows:
-
- - Fraudulent use of a credit card.
- - Possession of stolen merchandise in excessive amounts.
- - Computer Invasion (Hacking).
-
- On March 6, 1986:
-
- - The police confiscated his modem. It had been carded.
- - He had a meeting with the detectives, in which he had to take a lie detector
- test. They asked him if he was lying about any part of the case, if he
- hacked into computers, and if he was using one specific person's card.
- - He failed the test.
-
- The police believe he hacked into the computer of a bank in New Jersey, Mr.
- carding denies all of it. However it is the truth.
-
- Most people didn't know it but Mr. Carding was one of the better hackers around
- and should be remembered.
-
- He is pleading innocent to all charges and has signed a reverse affidavit
- stating that the other guy was the mastermind.
-
- He, as of this writing, has not been arrested but expects to have full charges
- brought on him within the next week.
-
- Information provided by Mister Carding
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- Boston Strangler Caught Scanning
- --------------------------------
- The Boston Strangler was caught scanning, he wasn't scanning an extender, he
- was scanning a prefix in his home town. The phone company shut his line off and
- now Boston Strangler may have to go to court, he claims he is under 1XB but
- this is doubtful.
-
- An employee of the phone company actually called him and told him to not use
- the phone because his supervisor was checking for trouble on the line.
- Apparently Boston Strangler scanned the entire prefix and once he was finished
- the phone company called and said that he was in a lot of trouble.
-
- Information provided by taRfruS
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- AT&T Suing The BOCs
- -------------------
- American Telephone and Telegraph is allegedly filing an 80 million dollar
- lawsuit on the Bell Operating Companies. They filed a complaint with the FCC
- in January 1986 that claims that certain BOCs owe AT&T 80 million dollars
- because they failed to perform specific duties which were part of their billing
- and collection contracts.
-
- It is not known how much each company owes with the exception of Northwestern
- Bell who owes $2 million.
-
- Information provided by Jester Sluggo
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- Speed Demon Elite; Will It Return?
- ----------------------------------
- The rumors are true, Radical Rocker did forget to pay his phone bill, and as a
- result Speed Demon Elite was shut down.
-
- Any talk about SDE being busted for having credit card information on the board
- should be ignored as it is completely false and only one phreak's
- interpretation of past events.
-
- Radical Rocker has stated that everyone should expect Speed Demon Elite to
- return in the near future.
-
- Speed Demon Elite
- 415-522-3074
-
- Information provided by Radical Rocker
- Thanx to Investigative Reporting by Taran King
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- Private Sector Damaged/Returning
- --------------------------------
- The Private Sector, which was supposed to have been returned by the 16th of
- February, 1986 had been damaged in the hands of the authorities. According to
- them, "one of the cards blew up." They say that this happened before they had
- the chance to erase the two "illegal" files they found on the hard drive. So
- now then they had to hold onto it a bit longer. Naturally 2600 Magazine
- suspected intentional foul play and stepped up the pressure on them to return
- Private Sector. 2600 suspected the card they authorities were referring to was
- the hard disk controller. They wouldn't stick another controller from another
- machine in and they wouldn't let 2600 Magazine even look at the machine. What
- an outrage!
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- On Friday, February 28, 2600 Magazine announced the following.
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Private Sector has finally been returned, and is in the process of being
- repaired. It will be back up in the near future at the same number as before;
- 201-366-4431. Call 2600 Magazine at 516-751-2600 for more details.
-
- At the current writing of this article, Private Sector is up and running. Only
- time will tell if it will ever be the great bbs it once was.
-
- Information provided by 2600 Magazine
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- TelePub'86
- ----------
- The 1986 TelePub meeting (originally planned up by Sigmund Fraud) was held on
- the second floor of the Days Inn Hotel at 440 W.57th St. New York, NY.
- Supposedly the first Telepub meeting since 1980, when one was held in
- Washington DC. The meeting room was called by some "The Colosseum."
-
- There was a $10 admission fee to the meeting room. Supposedly Chesire
- Catalyst's girlfriend (who some said was blind and had a seeing eye dog) was
- collecting the money and handing out the name tags.
-
- Some say there were about 25-30 people there in total, but Broadway Hacker
- stated that there was only 23. This included:
-
- Broadway Hacker
- Chesire Catalyst + girlfriend
- Dr. PHATE (P>hreaks H>ackers A>nd T>elecom E>nthusiasts)
- Karl Marx
- Lou Dolinar (reporter from Newsday Magazine in Long Island)
- Ninja NYC
- Private Sector + girl (Incidentally the programmer of the NEW Private Sector
- BBS)
- Sammy Junkins
- Scan Man
- Sigmund Fraud + friend
- Slave Driver
- The Bootleg
- The Cracker
- The Lineman
- 2600 Magazine - Tim and Paul
-
- Most noted for not showing up were TUC and TWCB Inc. Since this meeting was
- generally supposed to be about the revival of TAP Magazine, it was VERY
- surprising to some that TWCB didn't go. To others however, this was expected.
-
- Their reason (excuse) has something to do with late plane arrivals and legal
- problems (probably dealing with restrictions due to their probation. Supposedly
- TUC's phone number was posted on the board at the front of the meeting room for
- those who wanted to get in touch with him.
-
- There was basically chit chat until around 11:15 am when Chesire Catalyst began
- talking about CCIS (Common Channel Inter-Office Signaling). His speech really
- told nothing new but the best part of the discussion came out of the many
- questions that were asked by the audience. Also around 11:15 is when Tim and
- Paul from 2600 Magazine showed up.
-
- A little later, Scan Man and The Bootleg started to discuss the possibilities
- of satellite phreaking, and up & down linking.
-
- A little later, Private Sector appeared and with him came an ad from Personal
- Computing Magazine. The ad was from none other than Computel. Computel, the
- supposed and almost definite fed operation magazine was discussed for quite a
- long time.
-
- Chesire Catalyst began to distribute the final issue of TAP. It was issue #91,
- Spring 1984. It included articles about credit agencies and UNIX, from BIOC;
- Hacking Western Union, by TUC; Phreaks and hackers Morality, by Big Brother;
- Passport check sums, and Bell Pie, among others.
-
- 2600 Magazine gave out their latest issue, February 1986, Volume 3 Number 2 as
- well as other promotional items.
-
- Sigmund Fraud was giving out older issues of TAP.
-
- Among other things, BBS numbers were passed and there were all sorts of
- telecommunication magazines lying around.
-
- There was a break for lunch. When they returned Scan Man started in on Chesire
- about the money that MANY had sent in to TAP and never received the magazine or
- their money back. Chesire replied, "It went to pay my bills." He also made
- other remarks about how he hasn't spent it all and how he may send it back but
- he really didn't ever answer the questions that Scan Man put to him.
-
- Much of this information came from Slave Driver and Sigmund Fraud
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- - IBM PC with 2 Half Height Teac 360k Floppy Drives
- - 20Meg MiniScribe Hard Drive
- - Hayes SmartModem 1200
- - Epson LQ-1500 Printer
- - Total of 448k of RAM and expecting 2 Meg soon
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