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- ==Phrack Magazine==
-
- Volume Five, Issue Forty-Five, File 3 of 28
-
- ****************************************************************************
-
- Phrack Loopback Part II
-
- How sad the state of affairs is. Companies do _not_ care about
- security. My father would be the last one to think about ways
- into the "systems" that are out there. We had a good talk tonite
- about the lack of security in the corporate world. I told him
- about PGP public key encryption software, and it's political
- gibberish etc. Then he hits me with this outstanding story of
- the stupidity displayed at his credit union (AEA, yes he works in
- the silicon valley). He went to get some $$ at the branch office
- near his work, and he notices they have upgraded their computer
- systems. It was apparent that it was no 'internal' updating of
- the tellers' equipment, but a major overhaul of the entire
- structure at AEA credit union. This was obvious when every teller
- was reading manuals as they helped customers. The greatest part
- of his story (which made him laugh out loud) was that on the tellers'
- computer screens were taped up pieces of paper detailing how to
- access the computers at AEA. As the teller was in the back room,
- my dad leaned over and saw what it was, and memorized the things.
- Its the things like that which make me want to trust my money to
- fabulous behemoths like credit unions.
-
- [That's typical. You should have gone straight to that bank and taken notes.
- You never know...you could have ended up with SWIFT access. Let's face it,
- if the BND's Project Rahab can, so can we.]
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- TO: The Hack/Phreak Community
- From: Amitech USA
- Subject: Explaining About What Amitech USA IS!
-
- Amitech is a group that teaches and learns... What I mean by this is
- The Hack/Phreak community should teach the inexperienced more than put them
- down, especially if they want to learn but no one is willing to teach
- them.. This is were we come in... The definition of Hacking is learning the
- holes in different telephone equipment and different computer equipment.
- People these days don't use there knowledge correctly... They abuse what
- they get and sometimes even harass people because of hatred and
- reasons of revenge.. The H/P community isn't about this... We are releasing
- this to invite anyone in the H/P community with a lot or little experience
- to join us, to learn and to teach us..
-
- Amitech USA does not condone any board crashing, harassing,
- Underground Board password stealing etc. We will not be responsible or
- accept anyone who condones such activity....
-
- Amitech has two levels of members.. 1. Trial members 2. Regular
- members. The trial members are on a basis of two weeks which in such time
- they have to show us that they are willing to learn and is not into the
- group just to use the groups name in there signature. Members decide who
- is acceptable for a group and who is not. Each member will get the users
- application except their real name and phone #. We will decide and will
- contact you within a week of when the application comes to me...
-
- We are going to be mostly underground for the simple fact that the
- group does not need recognition. Are members may stand out but for the
- most part we will not be shown and or do not want to be shown for the
- simple fact that underground is better for the newer user as will as the
- older users.
-
- Please send all applications to Either burntkid@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu
- or The Crime Scene 516-873-8903...Anyone who wants information may send a
- message. Anyone interested in joining please fill out the application below.
-
- First Name: Handle:
-
- Phone #: How many years experience:
-
- Specialties: Boards you're on:
-
- Email/Internet:
-
- Please Spread This Message Around...
-
- [Good luck with your group. And remember, when you're a group, you're
- subject to prosecution under RICO. God Bless America.]
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Dear Phrack:
-
- I know you guys take an interest in what happens at 2600
- meetings, so I thought you might like to hear about a mainstay of the
- Washington D.C. meeting. BTW, I am also submitting to 2600. (They
- should have a PGP key)
-
- ------ Cut ----
- For the past few meetings a guy from MCI has showed up. He
- works at some sort of Pentagon City mall branch of MCI and on the Fridays
- he sticks around and gets drunk. He is usually a great source of
- entertainment and this time he was undoubtedly the best part of the 2600
- meeting. That was the highest form of entertainment (except for the
- threats on The Monk's life). At a meeting before this he was saying
- (I'm not sure how many beers he had had) how he was going to bomb
- (physically) all the hackers computers by using the system batteries.
- And he also said something like "We didn't have time for this kind of
- stuff in Vietnam." Anyway, I was listening to his drunken ramblings and
- I was thinking "I should be writing his wisdom down." So I did, and
- Maverick later started to type it down. The hardest part of all of this
- was not laughing in his face. Here is where I started the notes:
-
- MCI Guy: I mean it's really small, it's only like 1 microliter long.
- Vance: Yeah, that's pretty short.
- MCI Guy: I work on computers and they go in nanoseconds.
- Vance: Nanoseconds are really short.
- MCI Guy: A nanosecond is about this long.
- < Denotes with his fingers a length of about 6 inches >
- Vance: That's great if you can visualize it.
- MCI Guy: Yeah, it's short. Most of the instructions that I do take
- less than 3 nanoseconds, and that's short. But it's still too
- slow.
-
- --- Ok, from here it somehow jumped to a discussion of Rebel Lion's
- modem that was sitting out:
-
- MCI Guy: That's a good modem, it has memory because of it's external
- capacitance. The capacitor can store the memory since it's
- outside.
- Vance: Yeah, it must have a lot of memory. How much would you say?
- MCI Guy: A lot, gigabytes of it. The computer can talk directly to it.
- Vance: You need software to access that, that's where the
- intelligence is, in 2 gigabyte capacitor technology software.
- MCI Guy: It's because it's outside and it has it's memory.
- Vance: Gigaboobs of memory. Megamammaries. It must have
- Megamammaries in it's external capacitance.
-
- -- At this point, everybody is cracking up, I can't believe Vance kept
- a straight face.
-
- MCI Guy: Yeah. < Looking confused. >
-
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- -- After this, I was really laughing and wasn't sure of exactly what was
- said. But in just a few minutes, the MCI guy left to get some more
- beer. He didn't come back to our table, he went to another one. We
- ignored him for awhile. But as he was sitting there, a woman sat down
- next to him. She was undoubtedly a prostitute, and there were many
- cracks about her gigaboobs and megamammaries. She must have spotted
- the fact that he was wasted and was trying to make some easy cash.
- After a while, the MCI guy didn't bite, and her pimp came along and
- picked her up. (There is no other logical explanation that I can
- think of.) After a few minutes, we went back to the table for the
- final round, but Vance had left, so I conducted the search for
- knowledge. It starts as I was approaching the table and trying to get
- him to talk to me.
-
- GD: When you were talking Rebel Lion's modem, I wasn't quite sure
- of what you said, could you explain it to me?
- < I get out my pencil and paper, like I'm taking notes on his
- every word. (Actually I was) >
- MCI Guy: < He is giving me a look of utter contempt, like I'm just a
- stupid kid who is not worthy to partake in his knowledge >
- Well you see it's external.
- GD: What do you mean? It's obviously external, but what does that
- mean? < Gives me another look >
- --- Maverick accidentally spills some of Mr. MCI's beer.
- MCI Guy: What was that? What are you doing?!?
- Maverick: I didn't do anything, you spilled it!
- MCI Guy: < Just forgets about it in his drunken stupor >
- It has it's own memory, it doesn't have to take up the core
- like an internal.
- GD: Core?
- MCI Guy: Or something like that, you know. It's outside the main
- frame.
- GD: Right, so it saves memory.
- MCI Guy: Hmmph, I work with so much memory. I throw out tapes.
- GD: Tapes? You mean tape backups.
- MCI Guy: Yeah.
- GD: Why? Don't you want the memory?
- MCI Guy: I have too much memory.
- GD: Yeah, I guess you're right, if you have too much memory, it is
- hard to get rid of.
- MCI Guy: I even use records.
- GD: You mean like the spinning kind of records? On a turntable?
- MCI Guy: Yeah, they hold a lot of memory.
- GD: Why don't you use CD's? They hold a lot more you know.
- MCI Guy: No they don't, you don't even know.
- GD: So you are saying that records hold more than CD's?
- MCI Guy: Yeah, and I can save space on records, I use "shrinker". It
- shrinks the space on a record.
- GD: You mean shrink the space on one of those spinning records?
- < I was trying too hard to keep from laughing to speak
- articulately >
- MCI Guy: It saves space by shrinking everything, and I can fit
- more on it.
- GD: Yeah, I guess that is a good idea.
- MCI Guy: < Incredulous at my stupidity >
- Do you even know about comp?
- GD: Comp? Sorry, I've never heard of "comp". What is it?
- MCI Guy: It's bits and bytes.
- GD: Keep on going, I want to learn about this.
- < And boy did I >
- MCI Guy: 4 bytes make a bit, 2 bytes make a double word, 2 words make a
- double word.
- GD: 2 words make a double word? Isn't that obvious since 2 means
- double?
- MCI Guy: < Ignoring me >
- It's called 32 bits. Above that you have to deal with 36 bits.
- GD: Ok, I get it. That's pretty cool.
- MCI Guy: That's called the IBM logo.
- GD: The IBM logo? It's made up of bits and bytes and comp?
- MCI Guy: Yeah, if you go above or below the line.
-
- --- Ok, at this point I was reeling from the bit-byte-word conversions
- and I didn't even want to try pursuing the "line" question since I had
- to leave. I really wish I could have stayed, but I also don't know how
- long he would have been benign; this guy was drunk and still had 2
- large beers in front of him.
-
- All through this time, people were cracking up and laughing
- in his face. It wasn't that hard for the guy currently talking to him
- to not laugh, but when you thought for a second about this guy's slurred
- speech and his look of superiority, it was damn hard not to laugh. And
- how sad is this guys life? He comes to a mall to get drunk! It
- must cost him $15 for those beers. Oh well, maybe we will spring for
- some grain alcohol next time so we can get him to say even more.
-
- Last thing, if you are talking to a guy like this. Don't do
- what I did, don't confront him. You won't get as much out of him. Do
- what Vance did; agree with everything he says. This will get him more
- comfortable and he will talk more. Then give a summary of everything he
- said, while inserting things like "megamammaries" and "gigaboobs".
-
- -- Disclaimer: I tried to be as accurate as possible but there were
- some small changes made because I couldn't remember the exact wording.
- But overall this is fairly true to life.
-
- [I've noticed that everyone I've ever met involved with LE or security
- at corporations drinks and drinks and drinks and drinks. And drinks.
- What's with that? Jesus...no wonder they are so slow to react. They
- are fucking hammered all the time. They need to invest in some
- stimulants. Swap that Gin & Tonic for a handful of Ephedrine or something.
- (Notice I said Ephedrine...gotta stay legal, eh?) ]
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- Dear Phrack,
-
- I am Knightkrawler. About a month ago Mephisto, a fellow hacker friend of
- mine, discovered a dialup for a Taco Bell computer while scanning some
- numbers. Just for the hell of it, I called up the Taco Bell manager and
- posed as the Sys Admin. THE PHUCKER FELL FOR IT!!!!!!
-
- Conversation
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- me: Hi, I'm the SYS Admin for The Taco Bell Login. My staff and I will be
- running some routine diagnostics for the next week. I'll need a passwd and
- login name to enter the system.
-
- Corey (the manager): Sure! My passwd is 1A2B3C, and my login name is Corey.
-
- me: Thank you. If you need anything, you know where to reach me.
-
- END
- ^^^
-
- WHAT A DUMBASS!!! I was able to log on and Change fuckin' payrolls!!!!
- First thing I did was to change the price of tacos to 5 cents a piece!
-
- What I want to know is, have any of you out there had any similar
- experiences with bastards like these? Are all restaurant managers so
- lame?
-
- L8R,
- -=KnIgHtKrAwLeR=-
-
-
- [The Taco Bell SCO's have been a source of amusement for some time.
- It would appear that all restaurants in the PepsiCo chain have
- SCO's in-house. Something to keep in mind.
-
- And, uh, I've never seen anything that you could do like "change prices"
- without special terminal emulation. So, uh, don't bullshit a bullshitter.
- But, hey, it's a funny hack, and there are several in every city to
- play with, if you are so inclined.]
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Hello there, I was wondering if you could help me (wait, wait,
- hear me out!). I am looking for some up-to-date info on COSMOS. I've read
- all of the Phrack articles, yours in ish 31 was particularly good, and I was
- wondering if there have been any developments lately that I should be aware
- of?
- Basically, I am looking for a manual that will show me how to use
- COSMOS. Kind of like a DOS reference guide or something similar. Your
- article was dated 1990, almost 4 years ago, and I'm sure there have been
- some new things introduced since then.
- I was thinking that if you had the raw info, you could pass it
- along to me and I could whip up a readable format for the next issue of
- Phrack. Believe me, I've got far too much time on my hands. I love Phrack
- and would do anything to help out! Anyway, I'll cut this off here before I
- waste too much of your time.
-
- Mr. Wizard
-
- [COSMOS is being phased out. I would suggest you look for info on
- SWITCH. There have been some articles on it in 2600, so you may want
- to check some back issues. Otherwise, I'll see if I can't get some
- more detailed articles on its use for future Phrack issues.
-
- But as far as COSMOS goes, I think my article from a few years back ended
- up as the most complete ever done, so I doubt there are any others that
- covered things I didn't.]
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- VIRTUAL REALITY NOW AVAILABLE TO GENERAL PUBLIC AT CYBERMIND
-
- What is Virtual Reality?
-
- Virtual Reality (VR) is a computer generated, interactive 3D environment in
- which the computer serves as a window to an alternate reality. Once immersed in
- this environment, the players interact with each other as well as the computer.
-
- Each VR system includes a head mounted display which provides a 3D graphical
- image along with full stereo sound. By placing the display over your eyes, you
- are "virtually" transported to a computer-generated world that you control.
- Wherever you move, the computer tracks the movement of your body and displays
- the appropriate image to your eyes. (If you looked up you would see the sky.
- If you looked down you would see your "feet.") The unlimited choices you can
- make in these virtual worlds make the experience one-of-a-kind.
-
- Development of Virtual Reality: Past and Future
-
- Early VR was confined to multi-million dollar systems in research labs and
- military simulations. However, the decreasing cost of computing power and
- display technology, VR now has more widespread applications: entertainment,
- education, worker training, telerobotics, medicine, teledildonics (virtual sex)
- and communication, among others.
-
- In the future, VR technology will allow you to travel, shake hands with people
- in other countries, walk on the moon or go shopping -- all without actually
- leaving the home or office.
-
- What is CyberMind?
-
- CyberMind is San Francisco's first location-based virtual reality entertainment
- center. CyberMind center features eight interactive virtual reality machines
- that allow the general public to experience and learn about 3D virtual reality
- technology by playing imaginative, roleplaying games such as Dactyl Nightmare,
- Legend Quest, Flying Aces and ExoRex II.
-
- CyberMind Virtual Reality Center
-
- WHAT: Out of this world entertainment for families, couples, singles and groups.
-
- WHERE: One Embarcadero, Lobby Level (second floor). At the top of the
- escalators.
-
- WHEN: Normal Center Hours are 10:00 am to Midnight, seven days a week.
-
- HOW MUCH: Normal Pricing is $5.00 per play per person for a six minute
- experience.
-
- 20% discount for groups over 12 persons.
-
- CYBERMIND CENTER RENTALS: For catered parties and receptions, contact
- Chris Figge at 415.693.0861
-
- WHY: It will blow your mind
-
-
- CyberMind Corp: Telephone 415.693.0861. FAX: 415.693.0171.
- 737 Pine Street, Suite 65, San Francisco, CA 94108
-
- [Uh, yeah. And Stand in line with Beavis & Butthead. Huh Huh, Cyber Stuff
- is cool. Heh heh. Cool. Yeah, I'm a Cyberpunk with $5 dollars. Let's set
- it on fire and throw it in the street. No, Ass Munch, you can get stuff
- with money. Oh yeah, heh heh heh.]
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Phrack:
- Sorry to inconvenience you and PGP this message, but I fail to trust
- the people in charge of the server in which this message is being sent from.
- Approximately six months ago I was playing around with the idea for a
- crypto-chat program. In short: You and the other people in the chat area,
- (IRC for example), would pick the same password or random seed number. This
- would tell the chat program what algorithms to use, etc. Hence forth whatever
- you type is encrypted and whatever is displayed remotely is automatically
- decrypted.
- My only problem is that I do not know enough regarding cryptology to
- write a very secure encryption routine. I have tried a few times to contact
- Cypherpunks, but to no avail, I have not received any letters back from them
- even regarding my request to be put on their mailing list. I write to you,
- Phrack, in hopes that you can set me in the correct direction for making my
- crypto-chat program a reality. I feel it would be an asset to the hack/phreak
- community and its struggle for more privacy.
-
- Thanx.
- -----------------------------------------guerilla AnArchy---------------------
-
- [Actually, it wouldn't be that hard to do, but you'd probably want to do
- it as a DCC chat type thing, rather than going through a server at all.
-
- I may be wrong, but I think someone may have worked on such a beast.
- You may want to try again to contact the cypherpunks list
- (cypherpunks@toad.com) (or to get added, cypherpunks-request@toad.com)
- and ask around. Otherwise, use the existing DCC Chat source, but
- just change it to incorporate a public key exchange, and use those
- exchanged keys to encrypt messages. It would be harder for more than
- one to one chat, but hell...no pain, no gain.
-
- Notice, I didn't volunteer to do it. Much too much work for me.]
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Dear Phrack,
-
- Just finished reading Issue #42 (so I'm a little behind). Must say,
- it was very kewl. I have a little addition to the "Car Light Hack"
- in the Loopback section. When coming up to an intersection with the
- pressure sensitive panels in the tar, pump the brakes hard so the
- car rocks back and forth. This will fool the panel into thinking
- there's more weight (more cars) sitting on it and it will change the
- light faster. This also works great with intersections where there
- are two panels--one at the light, and one six or seven car lengths
- back. Either way, the light is guaranteed to change green quickly!
-
- [Yes. Pressure pads are quiet common. Probably much more so than the
- light sensors. Whatever works.]
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Hi there !
-
- Last week I got in contact with your magazine (#44) and a soft
- called Bluebeep, because I wanted to call BBSs all over the world.
- Reading Phrack, I got more interested is hacking stuff, which I do since
- I first touched a computer when I was 9 (now I'm 20).
-
- So, since you offered in the magazine :), I'd like to get some
- info about the subject, specially about free callings. Here is the
- story.
-
- Here in Brazil most of the computers have been IBM mainframes
- for a long time, only now changing to UNIX & LANs. Phone lines were a
- shit too, I could say that batter than most since my father works for
- the Brazilian phone co. (Embratel) And that's my point. Brazilian phone
- co. is (still) owned by the federal government. NEC and AT&T are trying
- to end the monopoly. But I think it's much easier to hack it since there
- aren't many hackers here and they don't do a big mess. What should I do
- and have to try this. See, I'm very rookie, so would like some
- guidelines... People here is very afraid to talk about. BTW, could a
- AT&T guy bust me (here, in Rio de Janeiro) for using Bluebeep in the
- 000-8010 ?!?
-
- Are there other means of doing free calls ? Embratel has it's
- own Calling Card...
-
- Wish I can have your help... I'm a RPG-fanatic and would like to
- connect to Illuminati BBS and others, so I could get more info.
-
- Thanx,
-
- []s CAD
-
- [I wouldn't worry as much about the AT&T guy busting you, as I would
- the Brazilian Secret Police shooting you for boxing. I mean, if the
- government still owns the phone company, they are the ones to watch out for.
-
- To contact Steve Jackson Games and the Illuminati BBS, you should think
- about signing on to io.com. That is their Internet site. It's very
- cool, and has a huge MUD, (if you are into those sort of things.)
-
- Good luck in Brazil, and please consider doing a file for our International
- Scene section on your Country!]
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- - Translation by MIND-NRG (Rome, Italy)
-
- [All words between [] are additional comments made by the translator]
-
- Speciale Cyber September, 1993
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- by Sergio Stingo (King) [ A good italian magazine ] (P. 131)
-
- CyberPunk: everbody is talking about it, but only few people really know what
- it really is. Electronic Books ? A disturbing view of the next future ?
- Electronical conferences ? A new sort of fashion-wears ? The biggest
- democratic revolution of our age ? A silent and creeping revolution ?
- Our Stingo [perhaps a male journalist ?], always curious about everything
- that is <<new>>, is travelling around Italy to investigate about this
- phenomenon.
-
- It was like taking the lid off a brewing pot. The more He met <<cyber>>
- the more He understood that there was much more to be discovered;
- from the supporter of the <<brain machine>>, who is testing the mysterious
- machine into discos and universities, to the first art gallery where
- hackers' work of art are exhibited; from the cyber magazines, as <<Decoder>>,
- to the bands that are discovering a new style of music. Not mentioning sex,
- that, thanks to technology, is trying to increase the range of possible
- sensations. So, the trip beyond the borders of the universe was so rich and
- adventurous, that We have had to divide this articles into two issues.
- In this issue We introduce you to the first one. And, as cybernauts are used
- to say, have a good navigation.
-
-
- [ This is the translation for you boys interested into this article. Have a
- good time with it <g>.CyberPunks are unknown in Italy. It's possible to find
- poor articles on them, but no serious issues.]
-
- - MIND-NRG -
-
-
- [Hey Man! Thanks for the translation! I was wondering what that King
- Magazine article was saying. Hehe, I ought to get you to translate the
- whole article! Haha...Spanish I could do myself, but Italian is a
- little too different.
-
- BTW: We don't have an article on the Italian Hacking scene either.
- Obviously you guys have developed quite a subculture. We'd really
- like to hear more!]
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- This message is in regard to the following article in Phrack #42.
- I was just wondering if there was a way to convert the newer
- sportsters. My modem does have 4.1 roms, at least that is what
- ati6 displays. however my modem has problems with the second line
- of command:
-
-
- "Turning your USR Sportster w/ 4.1 roms
- into a 16.8K HST Dual Standard"
-
- by
-
- The Sausage with The Mallet
-
-
- If you have a USRobotics Sportster FAX modem, Ver 4.1, you can issue
- the following commands to it to turn it into an HST 16.8K dual standard.
- In effect, you add HST 16.8K to its V32.bis 14.4k capability.
-
- ats11=40v1L3x4&h1&r2&b1e1b1&m4&a3&k3
- atgw03c6,22gw05cd,2f
- ats14=1s24=150s26=1s32=8s34=0x7&w
-
- I would appreciate it if you could somehow forward the message to
- either the authors. I realize that this is an old article, but
- I would really appreciate any reply to this question.
-
- Sincerely,
- Sam F.
-
- [Wow. I have no idea. I do know that later versions of the modem
- took out that, uh, "Feature." But keep in mind, as modems progress
- they big feature that everyone wants is flash eprom for the
- software, so that you can upgrade the modem through software.
-
- The future holds a lot of fun for the person who gets his or her hands
- upon the reprogramming tool and rom images of upgrades for faster
- modems.]
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Phrack:
-
- I would like first to express all my gratitude to you, the Phrack
- editor, and to all of its contributors. You are doing a great job and
- should get credit for it. What really kills me are those wanna-be
- hackers writing you in an often offensive manner, requesting for
- information that no real hacker would expect to see in Phrack. Or
- those sending the /etc/passwd file of their local University and
- thinking they've achieved the hack of the century.
-
- I've been reading Phrack for quite long time now and was wondering how
- to contribute to it, considering that almost every hackable subject has
- been covered in one of the 44 Phrack issues.
- I saw in issue 42 that you were sort of interested to collect H/P field
- information from countries other than United States. And I thought it
- might be an opportunity for me to send you something that was uncovered
- before. I'm quite sure that you can easily find foreign contributors for
- European countries so I will probably not bother you with H/P-related
- data in France and Sweden (where I used to live). Few months ago, I
- settled in the Asian country you'll identify from my e-mail address and
- have started investigating, in a relaxed mode, hacking and phreaking
- areas. This country is a virgin territory and maybe my researches and
- experiments would provide guidelines for H/P-ers in the same lonely
- situation.
-
- I was wondering though if you had any kind of recommendations for such
- reports (style, length, depth of details to be given, etc...)
- If anybody in the Far-East area is interested to participate in the
- writing of the report, or just willing to share knowledge with me,
- please feel free to forward my e-mail address to such people.
-
- Disclaimer:
- Even if I really have the intention to write such a report, no warranty
- should be made upon the delivery time of it. My job is time-consuming
- and leave me very few time for investigations. Apart from that, life in
- this country is also highly entertaining and week-ends are mostly spent
- on parties with nice, nice people.
-
- ~~ Long live Phrack and its famous skilled contributors. ~~
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- -- Otto Sync --
-
- [Thanks for the letter of appreciation! As far as contributions go,
- we are interested in anything and everything. For your scene file,
- just use some of the files on other countries as examples, and I'm sure
- yours will be fine.
-
- Don't worry about getting it to me in any hurry. Phrack 46 is 3 months
- away. :) ]
-
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-
- Hey, guyz!
-
- What happened to the magazine, I haven't seen any number after 43... In any
- case, send the stuff to me, as soon as possible. Preferably in some kind of
- compressed format.
-
- I have got here a small question. Firstly, I noticed that a number of
- hackers have E-Mail addresses such as *@phantom.com. Is it possible to get
- one just like this, or you've gotta be some kind of a masquotte?
-
- I myself am a god-fearing character, not hacking outside my own domain. I
- prefer to produce than to steal. However, I lack chatting and I lack money,
- but I wouldn't steal it. Just to get a different view - for you. Not every
- curious person has to be a criminal.
-
- Greetings,
- Verdura (aka Vegetable)
-
- [Phantom Access is a public access unix that you can get access to just
- by telnetting to phantom.com and applying as a new user.
-
- Yes, indeed, there are a lot of hackers on phantom.com. In fact, a large
- number of us ancient LOD types are on there. More than you would
- imagine, really. But it is open to the public, and anyone who cares to
- pay the usage fees can hang out.
-
- As far as back issues, I don't send them out to anyone. They are available
- for ftp from ftp.netsys.com in /pub/phrack as .zip files.
-
- I do make exceptions for people without ftp access, and will mail
- (US Mail) disks to whoever sends me postage to:
-
- Phrack Magazine
- 603 W. 13th #1A-278
- Austin, TX 78701 ]
-
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-
- Dear phrack type person:
-
- I am working on a carding scheme involving stripe-writers. I have looked
- into getting one but it seems impossible to find someone to sell me one!
- I know publishing information like that is VERY stupid seeing as many
- government officials read phrack without paying for it. And many lamer
- asswipes read it to. That company would stop selling faster than a lamer
- on IRC gets kicked! I need any information on acquiring such a PERFECTLY
- LEGAL device because of the places I tried I could not find one that would
- sell me one! I also need any tips on magstipe encoding and atm machines
- available. I am adept in the circles of phreekdom and can call Boards if
- need be. And by the way this board I am mailing from has a dickhead for a
- sysop. I would mail from the public access internet site here, but
- They found my uid shells and kicked me off. They called the cops but being
- the most advanced police force in the nation they haven't a clue how to
- contact me. (the system only asks for you name to get an account) But now
- they require picture ID to get an account. It's a bitch but I have to get
- a fake ID and a fake parent. I was also attempting to DL cracker jack
- when They kicked me off and I would like to know were I could gopher for it
- or ftp if need be. I lost most internet access except gopher and mail from
- this crap board. ENCRYPT EVERYTHING cause the sysop sux. I would like to
- subscribe to phrack but this bastard would delete 1 meg of mail quite quickly
- unless it is small, zipped and uuencoded I guess. Well anyway I hope to hear
- from you.
-
- The government can have my encryption keys when they pry them from my cold
- dead hands.
-
- -Phiber Phreak
-
- [It's pretty hard to get such a magstripe writer, but the keyword here is
- MONEY. If you have money, they will sell you damn near anything. You may
- want to check Bank Technology News (800-835-8403 for subscription) as they
- have periodic vendor lists. Additionally you can ask them for a copy of
- their Card Industry Directory which will have all the info on suppliers that
- you could ever dream of. It has a 15 day trial period too, so read it,
- get what you need and return it (for a full refund).
-
- As far as Cracker Jack goes, get on #hack sometime and ask. I don't have
- a copy, but i imagine someone online will be able to DCC it to you.]
-
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-
- ==Phrack Magazine==
-
- Volume Five, Issue Forty-Five, File 3a of 28
-
- ****************************************************************************
-
-
- I try my best to keep Phrack unbiased. For those of you who know me,
- you know that I am not the most soft-spoken individual in the world, and
- not being able to totally flame everyone and everything puts a great deal
- of stress on me. This editorial space is my one saving grace. In this
- I can spew out incredible amounts of crap and everyone should know that
- it is MY OPINION only.
-
- If anyone else wants to write a "guest" editorial, feel free to email
- it to phrack@well.com.
-
- ---------------------
-
- This issue I'm going to rant and rave about assholes on the net.
-
- You know who you are.
-
- You break into sites without any purpose, you delete files, you harass
- and annoy, you attempt blackmail, you fake mail, you fake news, you
- sling racial insults and you generally have nothing to offer the
- world.
-
- You are a disgrace to the hacker community.
-
- --------------------
-
- There have always been confrontations online. It's unavoidable on
- the net, as it is in life, to avoid unpleasantness. However, on the net
- the behavior is far more pronounced since it effects a much greater
- response from the limited online environments than it would in the real
- world. People behind such behavior in the real world can be dealt with or
- avoided, but online they cannot.
-
- In the real world, annoying people don't impersonate you in national
- forums. In the real world, annoying people don't walk into your room
- and go through your desk and run through the town showing everyone your
- private papers or possessions. In the real world, people can't readily
- imitate your handwriting or voice and insult your friends and family by
- letter or telephone. In the real world people don't rob or vandalize
- and leave your fingerprints behind.
-
- The Internet is not the real world.
-
- All of the above continually happens on the Internet, and there is
- little anyone can do to stop it. The perpetrators know full well how
- impervious they are to retribution, since the only people who can put
- their activities to a complete halt are reluctant to open cases against
- computer criminals due to the complex nature of the crimes.
-
- The Internet still clings to the anarchy of the Arpanet that spawned it,
- and many people would love for the status quo to remain. However, the
- actions of a few miscreants will force lasting changes on the net as a
- whole. The wanton destruction of sites, the petty forgeries, the
- needless breakins and the poor blackmail attempts do not go unnoticed
- by the authorities.
-
- I personally could care less what people do on the net. I know it is
- fantasyland. I know it exists only in our minds, and should not
- have any long lasting effect in the real world. Unfortunately, as the
- net's presence grows larger and larger, and the world begins to accept
- it as an entity in and of itself, it will be harder to convince
- those inexperienced users that the net is not real.
-
- I have always played by certain rules and they have worked well for me
- in the nearly 15 years I've been online. These rules can best be
- summed up by the following quote, "We are taught to love all our
- neighbors. Be courteous. Be peaceful. But if someone lays his hands
- on you, send them to the cemetery."
-
- The moment someone crosses the line, and interferes with my
- well-being in any setting (even one that is arguably unreal such as the
- Internet) I will do whatever necessary to ensure that I can once again
- go about minding my own business unmolested. I am not alone in this
- feeling. There are hundreds of net-loving anarchists who don't want the
- extra attention and bad press brought to our little fantasyland by
- people who never learned how to play well as children. Even these
- diehard anti-authoritatians are finding themselves caught in a serious
- quandary: do they do nothing and suffer attacks, or do they make the
- phone call to Washington and try to get the situation resolved?
-
- Many people cannot afford the risk of striking back electronically,
- as some people may suggest. Other people do not have the skill set needed
- to orchestrate an all out electronic assault against an unknown, even
- if they pay no heed to the legal risk. Even so, should anyone attempt
- such retribution electronically, the assailant will merely move to a new
- site and begin anew.
-
- People do not like to deal with police. No one LOVES to
- call up their local law enforcement office and have a nice chat.
- Almost everyone feels somewhat nervous dealing with these figures
- knowing that they may just as well decide to turn their focus on you
- rather than the people causing problems. Even if you live your life
- crime-free, there is always that underlying nervousness; even in the
- real world.
-
- However, begin an assault directed against any individual, and I
- guarantee he or she will overcome such feelings and make the needed
- phone call. It isn't the "hacking" per se that will cause anyone's
- downfall nor bring about governmental regulation of the net, but the
- unchecked attitudes and gross disregard for human dignity that runs
- rampant online.
-
- What good can come from any of this? Surely people will regain the
- freedom to go about their business, but what of the added governmental
- attentions?
-
- Electronic Anti-Stalking Laws?
- Electronic Trespass?
- Electronic Forgery?
- False Electronic Indentification?
- Electronic Shoplifting?
- Electronic Burglary?
- Electronic Assault?
- Electronic Loitering?
- Illegal Packet Sniffing equated as Illegal Wiretaps?
-
- The potential for new legislation is immense. As the networks
- further permeate our real lives, the continual unacceptable behavior
- and following public outcry in that setting will force the ruling
- bodies to draft such laws. And who will enforce these laws? And who
- will watch the watchmen? Oftimes these issues are left to resolve
- themselves after the laws have passed.
-
- Is this the future we want? One of increased legislation and
- governmental regulation? With the development of the supposed
- National Information Super-Highway, the tools will be in place for a new
- body to continually monitor traffic for suspect activity and uphold
- any newly passed legislation. Do not think that the ruling forces have
- not considered that potential.
-
- We are all in a serious Catch-22, brought about by a handful of
- sociopaths. When an unwanted future arises as a direct, or indirect,
- result of their actions, REMEMBER.
-
-