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- ==Phrack Inc.==
-
- Volume Three, Issue Thirty-four, File #2 of 12
-
- ^[-=:< Phrack Loopback >:=-]^
-
- By: The Phrack Staff
-
- Phrack Loopback is a forum for you, the reader, to ask questions, air
- problems, and talk about what ever topic you would like to discuss. This is
- also the place The Phrack Staff will make suggestions to you by reviewing
- various items of note; magazines, software, catalogs, hardware, etc.
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- What's on Your Mind
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- >Date: Fri, 20 Sep 91 01:22:30 -0400
- >To: phracksub@stormking.com
- >
- >So what exactly DID happen to Agent Steal? There was a small blurb in
- >PWN for 33, but gave no details. Why was he arrested, what was confiscated,
- >and how long will he probably be away for.
- >
- >Mind you, this is a tragic loss, since Agent Steal was a gifted hacker and
- >had a whole lotta balls to boot.
- >
- > Sincerely,
- >
- > A concerned reader
-
- To be honest, it would not in his best interest to say much about his
- case before his trial. What we have written comes from a very reliable source.
- Some people close to him are denying everything. This is most likely to keep
- from happening to him what happened to people like Mind Rape, who have basically
- been "convicted" by the media.
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-
- >From: Drahgon
- >Date: Thu Sep 26 06:00:35 1991
- >
- > Dear Dispater,
- >
- > My name is Drahgon unless, of course. I have several things to blow
- > from my mind here....
- >
- > How is the progress of Phrack 33? I am not really up on all the
- > hoopla surrounding it, but I am curious. In high school I often
- > published "underground newsletters" about the manufacture of drugs and
- > explosives, etc. The computer underground is a new territory for me
- > and I have just begun. I would love to hear about your mag....I would
- > perhaps have something to offer.
-
- We at Phrack Inc. are here to publish any kind of information you the
- reader are interested in. We, unlike many other people out there, will not
- judge you and can call you a "lamer" if you submit something to us that we
- might think is a little elementary. We might not necessarily run it in Phrack,
- but we aren't the kind of people that are going to call you up in the middle
- of the night on an Alliance Teleconference and harass you. In fact, there are
- many text files out there that are out-dated and need to be corrected!
- Simply put, if you are interested in it, there are probably two hundred others
- out that are afraid to ask, because some El1Te person will call them
- "stupid." Here at Phrack Inc., WE ARE NOT El1Te, WE ARE JUST COOL AS HELL!
- We want to help everyone in their quest for knowledge.
-
- > Secondly, I want to start my own bbs up here in my town. This
- > town is dead, but there is still a glint of life, it needs to be
- > kindled. There are currently no BBS's up here that carry information
- > of an "alternative nature", and there is in fact laws that prevent
- > them from springing up. (whatever happened to freedom of the press?),
- > Well, anyway, I would like to know if you would support a BBS of
- > mine, and maybe you could give me some pointers...
- >
- > Thanx ALOT
- > DRAHGON
-
- That's great! We're always glad to see new faces that are truly interested
- in helping people by becoming a source of information. If you
- have any questions about BBS's you should ask the expert, Crimson Death. He
- will be more than happy to help you out.
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- Corrections
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- In V.3, I#33, File 9 of 13, there was a error. R5 Should have been a
- 10K pot and not just a resistor. The corrected part of the schematic
- should look like this:
- _
- +9__S1/ _____________________________________________________________
- | | | | | S3 |
- R1 R2 | R3 o @ o |
- |___C1___| _____| |_________|/___ / o \___ |
- | ____|_____|_____|____ | | |\ | | _| |
- _| o | 6 4 14 | R4 |__ D1 | | R9< |
- S2 | o _|5 13|_____| _| | |__ | |
- | | | | |__ R5< | _| | |
- g |_|10 IC1 8|_ _| | | R8< | |
- | 556 | |__R6< g |__ | | |
- _|9 12|_| _| | | |
- | | | |__C2__g R7< | | |
- | |_11___3___7___2___1__| | | | |
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- Hardware Catalog Review
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- by Twisted Pair
-
- You can never get enough catalogs. One reason is because you never know what
- off-the-wall parts you'll be needing. From time to time I'll be reviewing
- catalogs so you'll be able to learn where to get the really good stuff as far
- as computer equipment, telco test equipment, and IC chips are concerned. In
- this issue, we study two of them...
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-
- SYNTRONICS
- 2143 Guaranty Drive
- Nashville, Tennessee 37214
- (615) 885-5200
-
- I recently saw an issue of "Nuts and Volts" magazine which had a Syntronics ad
- in it. I sent the dollar they wanted for a catalog. Apparently, demand for
- the catalogs was so great that they're having some more printed up. They sent
- my dollar back with an explanation and a partial photocopy of the catalog.
- An associate on the left coast and I want to build a tone decoder and have been
- looking for a particular chip for a long time. We found it in this catalog.
- It's an SSI-202 Tone Decoder IC for $12. Not bad for a chip I was unable to
- locate in about 30 catalogs I've searched through. A fellow phreak was told by
- a zit-faced Radio Shack employee over their 800 number, "They had only 3 left
- and they would cost $100 each." I don't think so.
-
- Syntronics is selling plans for an interesting device you hook up to the phone
- line. With it you can call it and turn on any one of three 110VAC outlets.
- To turn them on you use simple DTMF commands. This would be useful for
- turning on your computer, modem, room bug, security lights, etc from a remote
- location. Plans for this device cost $9 and you'd need the above-mentioned IC
- chip to build it with.
-
- Syntronics carries:
- -------------------
- Project Plans Software Unusual Hardware Kits IC's Transistors
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-
- Telephone International (The marketplace for
- PO BOX 3589 communications equipment,
- Crossville, Tennessee 38557 services, and employment)
- (615) 484-3685
-
- This is a monthly publication you can receive free. It's usually about 30 pages
- printed on large yellow-pages paper. To save yourself the $50 a year
- first-class yearly subscription rate, just tell them you're a telephone
- technician. Tell them you need to often buy PBX's, Terminal Blocks, etc.
- They'll send it to you free, because you're special!
-
- Here's a sampling of stuff you can find in there:
- -------------------------------------------------
- A Complete Digital Switching System with 3200 lines on a flatbed trailer !!!!!!
- Repaired Payphones Optical Fiber xmission system
- Operator's Headsets CO Digital multiplexers
- AT&T teletypes Used FAX machines
- AT&T Chevy bucket trucks Hookswitches
-
- Digital error message announcers Central Office Coin System Processor Cards
-
- Telephone International lists a bunch of telco seminars happening around the
- country on their "Calendar of Events" page. They also list conferences for
- security organizations including dates and phone numbers you'd need to register.
-
- That's it for this edition of Hardware Hacking. Keep an eye out for good
- suppliers to the Phreak world. Pass'em along to Phrack.
-
- -T_W-I_S-T_E-D_
- -P_A-I_R-
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- A Review of the Killer Cracker V.7.0
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- by The Legion of d0oDez
-
- As every hacker worth his/her salt knows, the Unix operating system has major
- security problems when it comes to it's passwd file. Although this may be
- good as some people think information should not be hoarded, others think
- information should be kept to be people who can use it best, the one's with
- the most money. The passwd file is the Unix file that stores the user
- information which included username, home directory, and passwords among
- others. I will not go into the basics of Unix as this is not a Unix
- how-to hack file. It is a review of Killer Cracker 7.0 (aka KC7.)
-
- KC7 is a Unix password hacker that is portable to most machines. It is
- written by Doctor Dissector and is free software as the terms of the GNU
- General Public License (By the Free Software Foundation <address at end of
- file>) states. The version 7.0 is not the latest version but seems to be
- the best to use. It is dated as 6/1/91 which makes it pretty recent. 8.0
- is rumored to be out but we have not had the opportunity to review it yet as
- we are still testing it. ;-)
-
- The best thing about KC7 is that you can run it on most machines that will
- run C programs which happens to include MS-DOS machines. With this in
- mind, you can now let your PC do the work of hacking passwords in the privacy
- of your own home without having to use a mainframe which might be a bit
- risky. The distribution copy of KC7 comes with the following files:
-
- KC.EXE -- MS-DOS executable
- KC.DOC -- Documents
- Source.DOC -- The source code to KC
- KC.C -- The Turbo C source code
-
- And other files that pertain to DES and word files.
-
- KC7 works by taking an ascii file composed of words and encrypting them so
- that it can compare the encrypted words with the passwords in the PASSWD file.
- It is pretty efficient but if running on an MS-DOS system, you will probably
- want to use a machine that is at least a 286-12 or higher. The time to
- complete a PASSWD file is directly proportional to how large the file is
- (max size of PASSWD must be less than 64K on an MS-DOS machine) and what
- speed of machine you are using. There are options which allow you to take
- words (aka guesses) from other sources as well as a words file. These
- sources can be words from the PASSWD file such as the username, single
- characters, and straight ascii characters such as DEL or ^D. It can also
- manipulate the guesses in various ways which might be helpful in guessing
- passwords.
-
- Another useful option is the RESTORE function. KC7 has the ability to
- allow the user to abort a crack session and then resume cracking at a
- later date. This is very nice since one does not always have the time
- nor patience to crack a 50k passwd file without wanting to use his/her
- machine for other uses such as trying out new passwords.
-
- We have found that the best way, as suggested by the author, to crack is by
- using the default method which is to crack by word and not by username.
- You will understand when you get a hold of the software.
-
- You can get KC7 at most H/P oriented bbs's as everyone thinks he/she is
- a Unix wizard nowadays.
-
- Overall, KC7 is an excellent program and we suggest it to all Unix hackers.
- We also hope you have enjoyed this file and we look forward to bringing
- more interesting reading to your terminal. Until then.... Happy hacking.
- _____________________________________________________________________________
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