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==Phrack Magazine== Volume Five, Issue Forty-Five, File 6 of 28 // // /\ // ==== // // //\\ // ==== ==== // // \\/ ==== /\ // // \\ // /=== ==== //\\ // // // // \=\ ==== // \\/ \\ // // ===/ ==== PART III ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** SUBMISSIONS WANTED ON THE FOLLOWING TOPICS FOR FUTURE ISSUES ** Cable Television Descrambling PBX Data Terminal Files Van Eck Eavesdroping Security & Anti-Security Measures (Computers, Networks, Physical Sites) Satellite Transmissions (Audio, Video, DATA, Telecommunications) Amateur Radio & Television Radio Modification Instructions Electronics Project Schematics X.25 Networking / X.29 Pad Control Digital Cellular (GSM/TDMA/CDMA) Wireless Data Networking (LAN, WAN) ** REMEMBER: Send your university dialups to phrack@well.com ASAP! ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Declaration of the Complaints and Grievances of the United States Electronic Community -- "They that can give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety!" These are Benjamin Franklin's words for one of the most important values defining American Government in it's infancy. This idea, that people should be given as much freedom as possible, and also responsibility for what problems abuse of that freedom might bring, is one of the most important differences between our so called "Democracy," and a totalitarian despotism. In fact, this value is so essential that if it is lost there will be no freedom in the United States of America, and no so called "Democracy!" Despite this fact, every day more and more of our freedoms, as citizens and residents of the United States of America, are being eroded away in the name of safety for us and for our government. This erosion of rights and freedoms has touched all areas of our lives, from health care and economics, to criminal justice and national defense. However, the most profound and dangerous erosion has been in the area of technology. We believe this is as good a place as any to begin a fight to save our country from continuing to travel down the road to despotism. Do not forget that this is only a beginning. We, the people of the Electronic Community in the United States of America, have been openly repressed and attacked by all branches and divisions of the United States Government, in direct violation of our natural rights and rights granted to us via social contract! The Electronic Community is one of the world's greatest examples of the power of freedom and democracy. Most of Cyberspace was not created by businesses looking for profit, or by governments looking for more efficient control, but mainly by ordinary citizens looking for a medium through which they could communicate with others, and express their thoughts and ideas. The computerized telecommunications used by the electronic community is a medium unlike any that has ever existed. It is a decentralized, mostly uncensored, and public forum for open discussion on a world wide basis. It provides ordinary citizens with the ability to express their ideas to anyone willing to listen, with no economic or social barriers and no prejudgments. It gives everyone in the world access to all the knowledge and information the world has to offer. It has continually shattered deeply ingrained social prejudices concerning characteristics such as age, race, wealth, and sex. In fact, it is common to find 14 year olds arguing philosophy with 41 year olds on America's computer networks! However, instead of embracing this great tool of freedom, the United States Government has reacted to it with fear and ignorance. They have completely ignored the positive effects the existence of this resource is already having on society. In fact, they have done little, if anything, to even gain an understanding of the electronic community and it's citizens. They have thought only of the damage that could be wrought if access to this kind of knowledge and information fell into the "wrong hands." They have labeled everyone in the electronic community a potential criminal, and have cracked down on any kind of activity which has not met their standards. In doing so they have crushed the free flow of ideas, trampled on the constitution, and blatantly encroached upon the civil rights of the people living and working on American's computer networks. They have chosen safety above freedom, and in doing so they have threatened the existence of one of the most important social developments of the twentieth century... They have ensued upon a Campaign of Terror, using fear to control and oppress the Electronic Community. They have openly and blatantly violated local, state, and federal law, and internationally accepted standards for human rights. They have used misinformation to set certain areas of the electronic community off against one another, or to label certain areas as criminal, while they have attacked the entire community without regard to action or position. They have lied to the press, to themselves, and to the American people in order to keep their actions unquestioned. They have imposed taxes and tariffs and have priced public utilities with the specific intent of effecting a chill upon the free flow of thoughts and ideas. They have used technology to amass enormous amounts of information on innocent citizens in order to control and oppress them. They have judged the interests of private industry to be more important than the interests of the general population. They have attacked innocent citizens in order to increase the profits of certain industries. They have declared themselves immune from the legal and moral standards they expect from the rest of society. They have, on a regular basis, committed the very acts they have called criminal. They have tried to criminalize personal privacy while belligerently defending the privacy of businesses and of government. They have attempted to control the minds of the American people by criminalizing certain knowledge and information. They have prevented the preparation of thoughts and ideas for public dissemination. They have threatened innocent citizens with loss of their right to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness in order to control their thoughts, opinions, and actions. They have repeatedly made laws and taken legal action in areas and/or concerning subjects of which they have little or no understanding. They have seized, damaged, and destroyed the property of innocent citizens. They have wrongly imprisoned citizens based on questionable information for actions which are negligible and, at worst, legally gray. They have directly attacked innocent citizens in order to keep them from publicly assembling. They have spied on and attempted to interfere with the private communications of innocent citizens. They have made unreasonable and excessive searches and seizures. They have punished innocent citizens without trial. They have attempted to effect a chill on the free flow of thoughts and ideas. They have affected to render the government independent of and superior to the people. We cannot, we WILL not, allow this tyranny to continue! The United States Government has ignored the voice of the Electronic Community long enough! When we told the government that what they were doing was wrong, they refused to listen! When we formed political action groups to bring our cases to court and before Congress, we were told that we were using loopholes in the law to get away with crime!!! We have, in a peaceful and respectful manner, given our government more than reasonable petition for redress of our grievances, but if anything the situation has gotten worse! Government administrations use computer crime as a weapon in internal battles over jurisdiction. Government officials, who have only the slightest understanding of computer science, use computer crime as a tool for career success. Elected Representatives, who have absolutely no understanding of computers, use "information superhighways", computer crime, and cryptography to gain constituent money and voter support! The Electronic Community, the only group who fully understands the issues involved here, and the only group who is effected by the decisions being made, has been completely ignored! We have sat around and discussed these wrongs long enough! NOW IS THE TIME TO STAND UP AND DEMAND A REDRESS OF OUR GRIEVANCES BY ANY AND ALL MEANS AVAILABLE! We must scream the truth so loudly that we drown out everything else! We must save our small community from destruction so that when the rest of society is ready, the world will still have a forum for free speech and open communication. We must demand freedom for America's Electronic Community!!! Tom Cross AKA The White Ninja TWN615@Phantom.Com NOTE: Redistribution and further publishing of this document is highly encouraged as long as proper credit is given. ------------------------- ------------------------- "Government is not a reason, not an eloquence; ------------------------- it is a force. Like fire, it is a dangerous --------------- * * * * * servant and a fearful master." --------------- * * * * * --------------- * * * * * -- George Washington --------------- * * * * * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN UNDERGROUND COMPUTING / Published Quarterly ======================================================================== ISSN 1074-3111 Technology, Conspiracy, Editorials, Politics, Networking ======================================================================== Editor-in-Chief: Scott Davis NetSurfer: John Logan It's A Conspiracy!: Gordon Fagan E-Mail - editors@fennec.com ** ftp site: etext.archive.umich.edu /pub/Zines/JAUC U.S. Mail: The Journal Of American Underground Computing 10111 N. Lamar #25 Austin, Texas 78753 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% To Subscribe to "TJOAUC", send mail to: sub@fennec.com All questions/comments about this publication to: comments@fennec.com Send all articles/info that you want published to: submit@fennec.com Commercial Registration for Profitable Media: form1@fennec.com "The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing power, and more sophisticated techniques used by establishment mass media to falsify, misrepresent, misquote, rule out of consideration as a priori ridiculous, or simply ignore and blot out of existence: data, books, discoveries that they consider prejudicial to establishment interest..." (William S. Burroughs and Daniel Odier, "The Job", Viking, New York, 1989) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New TimeWasters T-shirts ! Do you know the feeling ? You're behind your terminal for hours, browsing the directories of your school's UNIX system. Instead of holes, bugs and bad file permissions you find tripwire, TCPwrapper and s/key. You run a file with a s-bit and immediately you get a mail from the system admin asking what you are doing. In other words, no chance to ever become a good hacker there. Now you have the chance to at least pretend to be an eleet hacker. The Dutch hacking fanatics The TimeWasters have released the third version of their cool 'hacker' T-shirt. Because the previous versions were too limited (20 and 25 shirts) we printed no less than 200 shirts this time. Of course you want to know, what does it look like ? On the front, a TimeWasters logo in color. Below that a picture of two hacking dudes, hanging behind their equipment, also featuring a stack of phracks, pizza boxes, beer, kodez, and various computer-related stuff with a 'No WsWietse' sticker. On the back, the original TimeWasters logo with the broken clock. Below it, four original and dead funny real quotes featuring the art of Time Wasting. Wearing this shirt can only provoke one reaction; WOW ! Imagine going up to the helpdesk wearing this shirt and keeping a straight face while asking a security question ! And for just $2 more you'll get a pair of sunglasses with the text 'TimeWasters' on them ! To order: Send $20 or $22 to TimeWasters Postbus 402 5611 AK Eindhoven The Netherlands, Europe This includes shipping. Please allow some time for delivery. If you are in Holland, don't send US$, email the address below for the price in guilders and our 'postbank' number. For more information: email to: - timewasters-request@win.tue.nl with subject: T-SHIRT for a txtfile with more info. - rob@hacktic.nl or gigawalt@win.tue.nl for questions. Written by Rob J. Nauta, rob@hacktic.nl dd. 8 mar 1994 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Caller ID Technical Details by Hyperborean Menace The way Caller ID works internally is through SS7 (Signalling System 7) messages between telephone switches equipped to handle SS7. These messages pass all the call information (block/no block, calling number, etc.). The calling number is sent as part of the SS7 call setup data on all SS7 routed calls (i.e. all calls carried between switches that are SS7 connected). The calling number is sent between switches always, regardless of whether or not *67 (Caller ID Block) is dialed. It just sends along a privacy indicator if you dial *67, and then the final switch in the path will send a "P" instead of the calling number to the Caller ID box. (But it will still store the actual number - *69 will work whether or not the caller dialed *67). What the final switch along the path does with the calling number depends on how the switch is configured. If you are not paying for Caller ID service, the switch is configured so that it will not transmit the Caller ID data. This is entirely separate from Automatic Number Identification, which is sent along SS7 where SS7 is available, but can also be sent using other methods, so that ALL switches (for many years now) have been able to send ANI (which is what Long Distance companies used to know who to bill). Enhanced 911 is NOT based on Caller ID, but on ANI, thus, it will work for anyone, not just people connected to SS7 capable switches. And, of course, *67 will have no effect on Enhanced 911 either. Also interesting is the effect call forwarding has on the various services. Say I have my home telephone forwarded to Lunatic Labs, and it has Caller ID. If you call me, the call will forward to Lunatic Labs, and its Caller ID box will show YOUR number, not mine (since your line is the actual one making the call). However, ANI is based on the Billing Number (who is paying for the call (or would pay if it weren't free), not on who is actually making the call. Thus, if I forward my telephone to an 800 Number that gets ANI (such as the cable pay-per-view order number), and you call me, they will get MY number (since I would be the one paying for that portion of the call, except that 800 Numbers are free), and you will end up ordering pay-per-view for me... CNID (Caller ID) Technical Specifications PARAMETERS The data signalling interface has the following characteristics: Link Type: 2-wire, simplex Transmission Scheme: Analog, phase-coherent FSK Logical 1 (mark) 1200 +/- 12 Hz Logical 0 (space) 2200 +/- 22 Hz Transmission Rate: 1200 bps Transmission Level: 13.5 +/- dBm into 900 ohm load (I have copied this data as presented. I believe the transmission level is meant to be -13.5 dBm.) [It is indeed -13.5 dBm] PROTOCOL The protocol uses 8-bit data words (bytes), each bounded by a start bit and a stop bit. The CND message uses the Single Data Message format shown below. [ I belive this is the same as standard asynchronous serial - I think the start bit is a "space", and the stop bit is a "mark" ] Channel Carrier Message Message Data Checksum Seizure Signal Type Length Word(s) Word Signal Word Word CHANNEL SEIZURE SIGNAL The channel seizure is 30 continuous bytes of 55h (01010101) providing a detectable alternating function to the CPE (i.e. the modem data pump). [CPE = Customer Premises Equipment --i.e. your Caller ID Box] CARRIER SIGNAL The carrier signal consists of 130 +/- 25 mS of mark (1200 Hz) to condition the receiver for data. MESSAGE TYPE WORD The message type word indicates the service and capability associated with the data message. The message type word for CND is 04h (00000100). MESSAGE LENGTH WORD The message length word specifies the total number of data words to follow. DATA WORDS The data words are encoded in ASCII and represent the following information: o The first two words represent the month o The next two words represent the day of the month o The next two words represent the hour in local military time o The next two words represent the minute after the hour o The calling party's directory number is represented by the remaining words in the data word field If the calling party's directory number is not available to the terminating central office, the data word field contains an ASCII "O". If the calling party invokes the privacy capability, the data word field contains an ASCII "P". [ Note that 'O' will generally result in the Caller-ID box displaying "Out Of Area" indicating that somewhere along the path the call took from its source to its destination, there was a connection that did not pass the Caller ID data. Generally, anything out of Southwestern Bell's area will certainly generate a 'O', and some areas in SWB territory might also not have the SS7 connections required for Caller ID] CHECKSUM WORD The Checksum Word contains the twos complement of the modulo 256 sum of the other words in the data message (i.e., message type, message length, and data words). The receiving equipment may calculate the modulo 256 sum of the received words and add this sum to the received checksum word. A result of zero generally indicates that the message was correctly received. Message retransmission is not supported. EXAMPLE CND SINGLE DATA MESSAGE An example of a received CND message, beginning with the message type word, follows: 04 12 30 39 33 30 31 32 32 34 36 30 39 35 35 35 31 32 31 32 51 04h= Calling number delivery information code (message type word) 12h= 18 decimal; Number of data words (date, time, and directory number words) ASCII 30,39= 09; September ASCII 33,30= 30; 30th day ASCII 31,32= 12; 12:00 PM ASCII 32,34= 24; 24 minutes (i.e., 12:24 PM) ASCII 36,30,39,35,35,35,31,32,31,32= (609) 555-1212; calling party's directory number 51h= Checksum Word [ There is also a Caller Name service that will transmit the number and the name of the caller. The basic specs are the same as just numbers, but more data is transmitted. I don't have the details of the data stream for that.] DATA ACCESS ARRANGEMENT (DAA) REQUIREMENTS To receive CND information, the modem monitors the phone line between the first and second ring bursts without causing the DAA to go off hook in the conventional sense, which would inhibit the transmission of CND by the local central office. A simple modification to an existing DAA circuit easily accomplishes the task. [i.e. The Caller-ID Device should present a high impedance to the line] MODEM REQUIREMENTS Although the data signalling interface parameters match those of a Bell 202 modem, the receiving CPE need not be a Bell 202 modem. A V.23 1200 bps modem receiver may be used to demodulate the Bell 202 signal. The ring indicate bit (RI) may be used on a modem to indicate when to monitor the phone line for CND information. After the RI bit sets, indicating the first ring burst, the host waits for the RI bit to reset. The host then configures the modem to monitor the phone line for CND information. According to Bellcore specifications, CND signalling starts as early as 300 mS after the first ring burst and ends at least 475 mS before the second ring burst. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Country Percentage of Piracy -------------------------------------------------------- Australia / New Zealand 45% Benelux 66 France 73 Germany 62 Italy 86 Japan 92 Korea 82 Singapore 41 Spain 86 Sweden 60 Taiwan ( 1990 ) 93 Thailand 99 United Kingdom 54 United States 35 Source: Business Software Alliance, based on 1992 h/w & s/w shipping figures ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Frog Farm Mailing List FAQ v1.1 January 20th, 1994 1. What is this I am reading? 2. What is the Frog Farm? 3. Okay, so what's the Frog Farm mailing list? 4. Are there any rules enforced on the mailing list? 5. I can see all the addresses of the subscribers! 6. You must be Nazis. After all, aren't people who hate Jews, blacks, etc., the only people who talk about this sort of thing? 1. What is this I am reading? This is the FAQ for the Frog Farm mailing list. It is NOT the FAQ for the Frog Farm. The FAQ for the Frog Farm is much larger (just over 100 Kbytes in size). 2. What is the Frog Farm? Read the FAQ. You can FTP it from etext.archive.umich.edu in the /pub/Legal/FrogFarm directory (also accessible via Gopher). If you do not have FTP access, you may request the FAQ via e-mail from schirado@lab.cc.wmich.edu. 3. Okay, so what's the Frog Farm mailing list? frog-farm@blizzard.lcs.mit.edu is an unmoderated e-mail forum devoted to the discussion of claiming, exercising and defending Rights in America, past, present and future. Topics include, but are not limited to, conflicts which can arise between a free people and their public servants when said servants exceed the scope of their powers, and possible methods of dealing with such conflicts. To subscribe to the list, send a message containing the single line: ADD <your-preferred-email-addr> to frog-farm-request@blizzard.lcs.mit.edu. To remove your subscription from the forum, send a message containing the single line: REMOVE <same-email-addr-as-above> to frog-farm-request@blizzard.lcs.mit.edu. Note that these commands must be in the BODY of the message; the contents of the Subject line are ignored. While you are subscribed, send mail to frog-farm@blizzard.lcs.mit.edu to echo your message to all other list subscribers. 4. Are there any rules enforced on the mailing list? Only two: 1) Do not reveal the e-mail addresses of any subscribers to any individuals who are not subscribers. You may freely redistribute any article posted to the Frog Farm, subject to whatever conditions the poster may have placed on it. For example, some people attach a notice to their message stating that they are NOT allowing the redistribution of their message under ANY circumstances, some people stipulate that it may be redistributed only if it is unaltered in any way, etc. 2) No flaming is permitted. The list maintainers are the sole judges of what constitutes flaming. 5. I can see all the addresses of the subscribers! Under normal circumstances, you can't see the names. If you can, you had to work at it; if so, you obviously know what you're doing, and you should have known better. Try not to let your curiosity overwhelm your respect for the privacy of others. The security on this list is not as tight as it could be, and it is a trivial process for a knowledgeable hacker or hackers to circumvent it. If you know how to do this, please don't do it. 6. You must be Nazis. After all, aren't people who hate Jews, blacks, etc., the only people who talk about this sort of thing? Not at all. The official position of the Frog Farm is that every human being, of any sex or race, has "certain inalienable Rights" which may not be violated for any cause or reason. Anyone may claim and exercise Rights in America, providing they possess the necessary courage and mental competence. The Frog Farm provides a List of Interesting Organizations to its subscribers, which may include organizations or persons who believe in a god or gods, or promote the idea that certain races are inferior or perhaps part of a conspiratorial plot to enslave everyone else. The list maintainers make every effort to note such idiotic beliefs, where they exist, and encourage people not to throw out the baby with the bathwater, but to seek the truth wherever it may be found. Every individual is unique, and none may be judged by anything other than their words and actions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The LOD Communications Underground H/P BBS Message Base Project: Information/Order File: Brief Version 2/17/94 This is a short version of the longer, 35K (12 page) Order/Info file. If you want the full file, sample message file, detailed tables of contents file, etc. you can request it from lodcom@mindvox.phantom.com or choose menu item #5 on the Mindvox Gopher Server by using any gopher and opening a connection with the hostname: mindvox. The Project: ------------ Throughout history, physical objects have been preserved for posterity for the benefit of the next generation of humans. Cyberspace, however, isn't very physical; data contained on floppy diskettes has a finite lifetime as does the technology to retrieve that data. The earliest underground hacker bulletin board systems operated at a time when TRS-80s, Commodore 64s, and Apple ][s were state-of-the-art. Today, it is difficult to find anyone who has one of these machines in operating condition, not to mention the brain cells left to recall how to operate them. :-( LOD Communications has created a historical library of the "dark" portion of Cyberspace. The project's goal is to acquire as much information as possible from underground Hack/Phreak (H/P) bulletin boards that were in operation during a decade long period, dating from the beginnings (in 1980/81 with 8BBS and MOM: Modem Over Manhattan) to the legendary OSUNY, Plover-NET, Legion of Doom!, Metal Shop, etc. up through the Phoenix Project circa 1989/90. Currently, messages from over 75 different BBSes have been retrieved, although very few message bases are 100% complete. However, not having a complete "set" does not diminish their value. DONATIONS: A portion of every order will be donated to the following causes: 1) A donation will be made to help pay for Craig Neidorf's (Knight Lightning - Metal Shop Private Co-Sysop) Legal Defense bills (resulting from his successful campaign to protect First Amendment rights for electronic publishing, i.e. the PHRACK/E911 case). 2) The SotMESC Scholarship Fund. The SotMESC Scholarship is awarded to students writing exceptional papers of 20 to 30 pages on a topic based on computer culture (ie, hacking culture, virus writing culture, Internet culture, etc.) For more details write: SotMESC PO BOX 573 Long Beach, MS 39560 or email: rejones@seabass.st.usm.edu NOTE: THE FIRST DONATIONS TO EACH OF THE ABOVE TWO CAUSES HAVE ALREADY BEEN MADE. What Each "Message Base File" Contains: --------------------------------------- - A two page general message explaining H/P BBS terminology and format. - The BBS Pro-Phile: A historical background and description of the BBS either written by the original system operator(s) or those who actually called the BBS when it was in operation (it took months to track the appropriate people down and get them to write these specifically for this project; lesser known BBSes may not contain a Pro-Phile); - Messages posted to the BBS (i.e. the Message Base); - Downloaded Userlists if available; and - Hacking tutorials a.k.a. "G-Philes" that were on-line if available. It is anticipated that most people who are interested in the message bases have never heard of a lot of the BBS names shown in the listing. If you have seen one set of messages, you have NOT seen them ALL. Each system had a unique personality, set of users, and each has something different to offer. Formats the Message Base Files are Available in: ------------------------------------------------ Due to the large size of the Message Base Files, they will be compressed using the format of your choice. Please note that Lodcom does NOT include the compression/uncompression program (PKZIP, PAK, MAC Stuffit, etc.). ASCII (uncompressed) files will be provided for $5.00 extra to cover additional diskette (files that are uncompressed require more than double the number of diskettes) and shipping costs. The files are available for: - IBM (5.25 or 3.5 inch) - APPLE MACINTOSH (3.5 inch) - ATARI ST (MS-DOS Compatible 3.5 inch) - AMIGA (3.5 inch) - PAPER versions can be ordered but cost triple (due to increased costs to ship, time to print, and messages being in 40 column format which wastes lots of paper...save those trees!). Paper versions take twice the time to deliver but are laser printed. Orders are expected to arrive at the requesters' physical mail box in 3-5 weeks upon receipt of the order. The Collection: --------------- This is where we currently stand as far as what has been completed and the estimated completion dates for the rest of the project: Volume 1: 5700+ Messages, 20 H/P BBSes, COMPLETED. Volume 2: 2100+ Messages, 25 H/P BBSes, COMPLETED. Volume 3: 20-30 H/P BBSes, End of March 1994. Volume 4: ????? H/P BBSes, Sometime after 3/94. All in all there is expected to be 12000+ Messages. NOTE: Additional material has recently been received for Boards already released in the first 2 volumes. Those who have already ordered will receive the updated versions with the additional messages that have been recovered. *** Blurbs and Excerpts: *** ---------------------------- Blurbs from some of those who have received the first two Volumes: "I am stunned at the quality of this undertaking. It brought back that feeling of involvement and interest." --P.P. "I think of the release of the H/P Message Bases as an opening salvo in the battle for the truth about fraud in the Telecom Industry." --J.J. "Still sifting through Volume one. For now I've taken the approach of putting all the files into one subdirectory and searching it for topics of interest. Prime and Primos computers was my first topic of interest and Volume I yielded quite a bit of odd and useful information." --K.B. "...the professionalism of the Message Bases is of a superior quality. Somehow they bring back that age of innocence. Boy do I miss those times." --A.C. Excerpt from 2600 Magazine (The Hacker Quarterly) Autumn 1993 Issue, review by Emmanuel Goldstein entitled NEVER ERASE THE PAST. "...is this the sort of thing that people really care about? Undoubtedly, many will shrug it off as useless, boring teenagers that have absolutely no relevance to anything in the real world. The fact remains, however, that this is history. This is *our* history, or at least, a small part of it. The boards included in this project - Sherwood Forest I & II, Metal Shop Private, OSUNY, Phoenix Project, and a host of others - are among the more interesting hacker boards, with some classic dialogue and a gang of hacker stars-to-be. Nearly all of these boards were raided at one time or another, which makes it all even more fascinating." "Had the LODCOM project not come along when it did, a great many of these message bases probably would have been lost forever. Providing this service to both the hacker community and those interested in it is a noble cause that is well worth the price. If it succeeds, some valuable hacker data will be preserved for future generations." The Lodcom project was also reviewed in Computer underground Digest Issue #5.39 and will be reviewed by GRAY AREAS MAGAZINE in their summer issue. You should be able to find the issue on most newsstands in about 3 months. You can contact Gray Areas by phone: 215-353-8238 (A machine screens their calls), by email: grayarea@well.sf.ca.us, and by regular mail: Gray Areas, Inc. , PO BOX 808, Broomall, PA 19008-0808. Subscriptions are $18.00 a year U.S. and we highly recommend the magazine if you are interested in the gray areas of life. *** {End of Blurbs and Excerpts} *** Volume 1 & 2 Table of Contents: ------------------------------- A detailed Table of Contents file can be found on the Mindvox Gopher Server or requested via email. Project Contributor List: ------------------------- The following is a list (order is random) of those who helped with this effort that began in Jan. of 1993. Whether they donated material, uploaded messages, typed messages from printouts, critiqued our various materials, wrote BBS Pro-Philes, donated services or equipment, or merely 'looked in their attic for some old disks', their help is appreciated: Lord Digital and Dead Lord (Phantom Access Technologies/The MINDVOX System), 2600 Magazine/Emmanuel Goldstein, The Marauder, Knight Lightning, T.B., Computer underground Digest (CuD)/Jim Thomas/Gordon Meyer, Phrack Magazine, Strat, Jester Sluggo, Erik Bloodaxe, Taran King, Professor Falken, TUC, Lex Luthor, Mark Tabas, Phantom Phreaker, Quasi Moto, The Mechanic, Al Capone, Compu-Phreak, Dr. Nibblemaster, King Blotto, Randy Hoops, Sir Francis Drake, Digital Logic, The Ronz, Doctor Who, The Jinx, Boca Bandit, Crimson Death, Doc Holiday, The Butler, Ninja Master, Silver Spy, Power Spike, Karl Marx, Blue Archer, Dean Simmons, Control-C, Bad Subscript, Swamp Ratte, Randy Smith, Terminal Man, SK Erickson, Slave Driver, R.E.Jones/CSP/SotMESC, Gray Areas Magazine, and anonymous others. The Order Form: --------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - C U T - H E R E - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LOD Communications H/P BBS Message Base ORDER FORM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PERSONAL RATE: Volumes 1, 2, 3, and possibly a fourth if created: $39.00 This price is TOTAL & includes any updates to individual BBS Message Bases. COMMERCIAL RATE: Corporations, Universities, Libraries, and Government Agencies: $99.00 As above, price is total and includes updates. H/P BBS Message Bases (All Volumes): $________ "G-Phile" Collection (Optional): $____________ ($10.00 Personal) ($25.00 Commercial) Disk Format/Type of Computer: _____________________________________ (Please be sure to specify diskette size [5.25" or 3.5"] and high/low density) File Archive Method (.ZIP [preferred], .ARJ, .LHZ, .Z, .TAR) ____________ (ASCII [Non-Compressed] add $5.00 to order) Texas Residents add 8% Sales Tax. If outside North America please add $6.00 for Shipping & Handling. Total Amount (In U.S. Dollars): $ ___________ Payment Method: Check or Money Order please, made out to LOD Communications. Absolutely NO Credit Cards, even if it's yours :-) By purchasing these works, the Purchaser agrees to abide by all applicable U.S. Copyright Laws to not distribute or reproduce, electronically or otherwise, in part or in whole, any part of the Work(s) without express written permission from LOD Communications. Send To: Name: _____________________________________ Organization: _____________________________________ (If applicable) Street: _____________________________________ City/State/Zip: _____________________________________ Country: _____________________________________ E-mail address: _____________________________________ (If applicable) PRIVACY NOTICE: The information provided to LOD Communications is used for sending orders and periodic updates to the H/P BBS Message Base Price List. It will NOT be given or sold to any other party. 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It contains pretty useful information and examples on how to use standard UNIX utilities and how to solve certain tasks. Some of the topics it covers are: Encryption of passwords, shell programming, config files for logging in and out, setting shell prompts, vi tips & tricks, redirecting and piping, sed & awk and much more. Like most O'Reilly books, it is written with a lot of humor and easy to read. To me, this book is a reference for almost any question. You might even feel that you don't need most of your old UNIX books anymore, because this book almost covers it all. It is also a lot of fun just to browse through the book randomly and read articles on different subjects. There really is no need and no use to read it from A to Z. A lot of their tricks is collected from Usenet Newsgroups. All of their use- ful programs, scripts and general PD programs you will find on FTP sites are on the CD. However, if you want a different medium they charge you $40. And now we come to the only problem of the book: the price! I think compared to the contents, charging $59.95 is justified; but it might scare off many people anyway. Finally I would recommend this book to everyone who uses UNIX a lot and likes to experiment and play with it (and has 60 bucks left). Hacker Crackdown ================ Now reading Bruce's book won't cost you 60 bucks. In fact, it will even be totally FREE! I won't say too much about the book, because there have already been great reviews in Phrack and 2600 in Spring/Summer 1993. It is probably the most interesting and entertaining book about Hackers and Fedz from 1993. But now Bruce decided to release the book as online freeware - you may just grab the 270k file from a site, read it and give it to anyone you want. But let's listen to Bruce now and what he has to say... January 1, 1994 -- Austin, Texas Hi, I'm Bruce Sterling, the author of this electronic book. Out in the traditional world of print, *The Hacker Crackdown* is ISBN 0-553-08058-X, and is formally catalogued by the Library of Congress as "1. Computer crimes -- United States. 2. Telephone -- United States -- Corrupt practices. 3. Programming (Electronic computers) -- United States -- Corrupt practices." 'Corrupt practices,' I always get a kick out of that description. Librarians are very ingenious people. The paperback is ISBN 0-553-56370-X. If you go and buy a print version of *The Hacker Crackdown,* an action I encourage heartily, you may notice that in the front of the book, beneath the copyright notice -- "Copyright (C) 1992 by Bruce Sterling" -- it has this little block of printed legal boilerplate from the publisher. It says, and I quote: "No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. For information address: Bantam Books." This is a pretty good disclaimer, as such disclaimers go. I collect intellectual-property disclaimers, and I've seen dozens of them, and this one is at least pretty straightforward. In this narrow and particular case, however, it isn't quite accurate. Bantam Books puts that disclaimer on every book they publish, but Bantam Books does not, in fact, own the electronic rights to this book. I do, because of certain extensive contract maneuvering my agent and I went through before this book was written. I want to give those electronic publishing rights away through certain not-for-profit channels, and I've convinced Bantam that this is a good idea. Since Bantam has seen fit to peaceably agree to this scheme of mine, Bantam Books is not going to fuss about this. Provided you don't try to sell the book, they are not going to bother you for what you do with the electronic copy of this book. If you want to check this out personally, you can ask them; they're at 1540 Broadway NY NY 10036. However, if you were so foolish as to print this book and start retailing it for money in violation of my copyright and the commercial interests of Bantam Books, then Bantam, a part of the gigantic Bertelsmann multinational publishing combine, would roust some of their heavy-duty attorneys out of hibernation and crush you like a bug. This is only to be expected. I didn't write this book so that you could make money out of it. If anybody is gonna make money out of this book, it's gonna be me and my publisher. My publisher deserves to make money out of this book. Not only did the folks at Bantam Books commission me to write the book, and pay me a hefty sum to do so, but they bravely printed, in text, an electronic document the reproduction of which was once alleged to be a federal felony. Bantam Books and their numerous attorneys were very brave and forthright about this book. Furthermore, my former editor at Bantam Books, Betsy Mitchell, genuinely cared about this project, and worked hard on it, and had a lot of wise things to say about the manuscript. Betsy deserves genuine credit for this book, credit that editors too rarely get. The critics were very kind to *The Hacker Crackdown,* and commercially the book has done well. On the other hand, I didn't write this book in order to squeeze every last nickel and dime out of the mitts of impoverished sixteen-year-old cyberpunk high-school-students. Teenagers don't have any money -- (no, not even enough for the six- dollar *Hacker Crackdown* paperback, with its attractive bright-red cover and useful index). That's a major reason why teenagers sometimes succumb to the temptation to do things they shouldn't, such as swiping my books out of libraries. Kids: this one is all yours, all right? Go give the print version back. *8-) Well-meaning, public-spirited civil libertarians don't have much money, either. And it seems almost criminal to snatch cash out of the hands of America's direly underpaid electronic law enforcement community. If you're a computer cop, a hacker, or an electronic civil liberties activist, you are the target audience for this book. I wrote this book because I wanted to help you, and help other people understand you and your unique, uhm, problems. I wrote this book to aid your activities, and to contribute to the public discussion of important political issues. In giving the text away in this fashion, I am directly contributing to the book's ultimate aim: to help civilize cyberspace. Information *wants* to be free. And the information inside this book longs for freedom with a peculiar intensity. I genuinely believe that the natural habitat of this book is inside an electronic network. That may not be the easiest direct method to generate revenue for the book's author, but that doesn't matter; this is where this book belongs by its nature. I've written other books -- plenty of other books -- and I'll write more and I am writing more, but this one is special. I am making *The Hacker Crackdown* available electronically as widely as I can conveniently manage, and if you like the book, and think it is useful, then I urge you to do the same with it. You can copy this electronic book. Copy the heck out of it, be my guest, and give those copies to anybody who wants them. The nascent world of cyberspace is full of sysadmins, teachers, trainers, cybrarians, netgurus, and various species of cybernetic activist. If you're one of those people, I know about you, and I know the hassle you go through to try to help people learn about the electronic frontier. I hope that possessing this book in electronic form will lessen your troubles. Granted, this treatment of our electronic social spectrum is not the ultimate in academic rigor. And politically, it has something to offend and trouble almost everyone. But hey, I'm told it's readable, and at least the price is right. You can upload the book onto bulletin board systems, or Internet nodes, or electronic discussion groups. Go right ahead and do that, I am giving you express permission right now. Enjoy yourself. You can put the book on disks and give the disks away, as long as you don't take any money for it. But this book is not public domain. You can't copyright it in your own name. I own the copyright. Attempts to pirate this book and make money from selling it may involve you in a serious litigative snarl. Believe me, for the pittance you might wring out of such an action, it's really not worth it. This book don't "belong" to you. In an odd but very genuine way, I feel it doesn't "belong" to me, either. It's a book about the people of cyberspace, and distributing it in this way is the best way I know to actually make this information available, freely and easily, to all the people of cyberspace -- including people far outside the borders of the United States, who otherwise may never have a chance to see any edition of the book, and who may perhaps learn something useful from this strange story of distant, obscure, but portentous events in so-called "American cyberspace." This electronic book is now literary freeware. It now belongs to the emergent realm of alternative information economics. You have no right to make this electronic book part of the conventional flow of commerce. Let it be part of the flow of knowledge: there's a difference. I've divided the book into four sections, so that it is less ungainly for upload and download; if there's a section of particular relevance to you and your colleagues, feel free to reproduce that one and skip the rest. Just make more when you need them, and give them to whoever might want them. Now have fun. Bruce Sterling -- bruces@well.sf.ca.us ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _ _ ((___)) [ x x ] cDc communications \ / Global Domination Update #14 (' ') December 30th, 1993 (U) Est. 1986 New gNu NEW gnU new GnU nEW gNu neW gnu nEw GNU releases for December, 1993: _________________________________/Text Files\_________________________________ 241: "Cell-Hell" by Video Vindicator. In-depth article on modifying the Mitsubishi 800 cellular phone by Mr. Fraud himself. Rad. 242: "The Darkroom" by Mark Vaxlov. Very dark story about a high school rape in the photography lab at school. Disturbing. 243: "Fortune Smiles" by Obscure Images. Story set in the future with organized crime and identity-swapping. 244: "Radiocarbon Dating Service" by Markian Gooley. Who would go out with Gooley? YOUR MOM! 245: "The U.S. Mercenary Army" by Phil Agee. Forwarded by The Deth Vegetable, this file contains a speech by former CIA agent Agee on the Gulf War. Interesting stuff. 246: "The Monolith" by Daniel S. Reinker. This is one of the most disgusting files we've put out since the infamous "Bunny Lust." I don't wanna describe this, just read it. 247: "Post-Election '92 Cult Coverage" by Omega. Afterthoughts on Tequila Willy's bid for the U.S. Presidency. 248: "The Lunatic Crown" by Matthew Legare. Wear the crown. Buy a Slurpee. Seek the adept. Do not pass 'Go.' 249: "Yet Another Suicide" by The Mad Hatter. Guy gets depressed over a girl and kills himself. 250: "State of Seige" by Curtis Yarvin. The soldiers hunt the dogs hunt the soldiers. Like, war, ya know. Hell! __________________________________/cDc Gnuz\__________________________________ "cDc: We're Into Barbie!" cDc mailing list: Get on the ever-dope and slamagnifiterrific cDc mailing list! Send mail to cDc@cypher.com and include some wonderlessly elite message along he lines of "ADD ME 2 DA MAILIN LIZT!!@&!" NEW Official cDc Global Domination Factory Direct Outlets: The Land of Rape and Honey 502/491-6562 Desperadoes +61-7-3683567 Underworld 203/649-6103 Airstrip-One 512/371-7971 Ministry of Death 516/878-1774 Future Shock +61-7-3660740 Murder, Inc 404/416-6638 The Prodigal Sun 312/238-3585 Red Dawn-2 Enterprises 410/263-2258 Cyber Neurotic Reality Test 613/723-4743 Terminal Sabotage 314/878-7909 The Wall 707/874-1316,2970 We're always taking t-file submissions, so if you've got a file and want to really get it out there, there's no better way than with cDc. Upload text to The Polka AE, to sratte@phantom.com, or send disks or hardcopy to the cDc post office box in Lubbock, TX. cDc has been named SASSY magazine's "Sassiest Underground Computer Group." Hell yeah! Thanks to Drunkfux for setting up another fun HoHoCon this year, in Austin. It was cool as usual to hang out with everyone who showed up. Music credits for stuff listened to while editing this batch of files: Zapp, Carpenters, Deicide, and Swingset Disaster. Only text editor worth a damn: ProTERM, on the Apple II. So here's the new cDc release. It's been a while since the last one. It's out because I fucking felt like it, and have to prove to myself that I can do this crap without losing my mind and having to go stand in a cotton field and look at some dirt at 3 in the morning. cDc=cDc+1, yeah yeah. Do you know what this is about? Any idea? This is SICK and shouldn't be harped on or celebrated. This whole cyberdweeb/telecom/'puter underground scene makes me wanna puke, it's all sick and dysfunctional. Eat my shit, G33/<W0r|_<|. Virus yourself to death. Go blind staring at the screen waiting for more wares/inph0 to come trickling down the wire. The more of that shit comes in, the more life goes out. Ooh, and you hate it so much, don't you. You hate it. Hacking's mostly a big waste of time. Fuck you. Stupid Telephone Tricks will never be on David Letterman. Fuck you. Cryptography? Who'd wanna read YOUR boring email? Fuck you. Interactive television is a couch potato trap. Fuck you. "Surf the net," sucker. "Ride the edge," you maladjusted sack of shit. S. Ratte' cDc/Editor and P|-|Ear13zz |_3@DeRrr "We're into t-files for the groupies and money." Fuck you, fuck you... and most of all, fuck YOU. Write to: cDc communications, P.O. Box 53011, Lubbock, TX 79453. Internet: sratte@phantom.com. _____________________________________________________________________________ cDc Global Domination Update #14-by Swamp Ratte'-"Hyperbole is our business" ALL NEW cDc RELEASES FTP'ABLE FROM FTP.EFF.ORG -pub/Publications/CuD/CDC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction to BlackNet Your name has come to our attention. We have reason to believe you may be interested in the products and services our new organization, BlackNet, has to offer. BlackNet is in the business of buying, selling, trading, and otherwise dealing with *information* in all its many forms. We buy and sell information using public key cryptosystems with essentially perfect security for our customers. Unless you tell us who you are (please don't!) or inadvertently reveal information which provides clues, we have no way of identifying you, nor you us. Our location in physical space is unimportant. Our location in cyberspace is all that matters. Our primary address is the PGP key location: "BlackNet<nowhere@cyberspace.nil>" and we can be contacted (preferably through a chain of anonymous remailers) by encrypting a message to our public key (contained below) and depositing this message in one of the several locations in cyberspace we monitor. Currently, we monitor the following locations: alt.extropians, alt.fan.david-sternlight, and the "Cypherpunks" mailing list. BlackNet is nominally nondideological, but considers nation-states, export laws, patent laws, national security considerations and the like to be relics of the pre-cyberspace era. Export and patent laws are often used to explicity project national power and imperialist, colonialist state fascism. BlackNet believes it is solely the responsibility of a secret holder to keep that secret--not the responsibility of the State, or of us, or of anyone else who may come into possession of that secret. If a secret's worth having, it's worth protecting. BlackNet is currently building its information inventory. We are interested in information in the following areas, though any other juicy stuff is always welcome. "If you think it's valuable, offer it to us first." - - trade secrets, processes, production methods (esp. in semiconductors) - nanotechnology and related techniques (esp. the Merkle sleeve bearing) - chemical manufacturing and rational drug design (esp. fullerines and protein folding) - new product plans, from children's toys to cruise missiles (anything on "3DO"?) - business intelligence, mergers, buyouts, rumors BlackNet can make anonymous deposits to the bank account of your choice, where local banking laws permit, can mail cash directly (you assume the risk of theft or seizure), or can credit you in "CryptoCredits," the internal currency of BlackNet (which you then might use to buy _other_ information and have it encrypted to your special public key and posted in public place). If you are interested, do NOT attempt to contact us directly (you'll be wasting your time), and do NOT post anything that contains your name, your e-mail address, etc. Rather, compose your message, encrypt it with the public key of BlackNet (included below), and use an anonymous remailer chain of one or more links to post this encrypted, anonymized message in one of the locations listed (more will be added later). Be sure to describe what you are selling, what value you think it has, your payment terms, and, of course, a special public key (NOT the one you use in your ordinary business, of course!) that we can use to get back in touch with you. Then watch the same public spaces for a reply. (With these remailers, local PGP encryption within the remailers, the use of special public keys, and the public postings of the encrypted messages, a secure, two-way, untraceable, and fully anonymous channel has been opened between the customer and BlackNet. This is the key to BlackNet.) A more complete tutorial on using BlackNet will soon appear, in plaintext form, in certain locations in cyberspace. Join us in this revolutionary--and profitable--venture. BlackNet<nowhere@cyberspace.nil> -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.3 mQCPAixusCEAAAEEAJ4/hpAPevOuFDXWJ0joh/y6zAwklEPige7N9WQMYSaWrmbi XJ0/MQXCABNXOj9sR3GOlSF8JLOPInKWbo4iHunNnUczU7pQUKnmuVpkY014M5Cl DPnzkKPk2mlSDOqRanJZCkyBe2jjHXQMhasUngReGxNDMjW1IBzuUFqioZRpABEB AAG0IEJsYWNrTmV0PG5vd2hlcmVAY3liZXJzcGFjZS5uaWw+ =Vmmy -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----