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- %# ..uXu.. 1991 #%
- #% Underground eXperts United %#
- %# presents... #%
- #% -=*=- %#
- %# The European Digest Series Vol.1 Issue #1 #%
- #% 1991 By THE CHIEF ..uXu.. %#
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- Contents...
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- 01.............Introduction
- 02.............Why?
- 03.............Even Worse!
- 04.............SysOp's Underground Network (SUn)
- 05.............Now You Know
- 06.............Oops!
- 07.............Recommended
- 08.............End Comments
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-
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- ---------------
- Welcome to TED Vol.1 Issue #1 - The uXu File #1!
-
- The European Digest Series have come to life because of the massive amount
- of claimed underground bulletin board systems that, in recent years, have
- seen the light, or, on the other side, have hit the dust. The European
- Digest Vol.1 Issue #6 and #7 will include lists of Established and Known
- Underground Boards, in area-code order, and with comments, facts, status
- (number of members, meetings and so on), and a record of the amount of
- Online Gfiles available.
-
- This series will not, repeat NOT, be updated in a regular basis because of
- the pre-mentioned massive amount of boards that exist today. It is impossible
- to update it regularly without having that as a full-time job. And, secondly,
- I call Long Distance to ALL of these boards, which keeps the phone-bill at a
- regular $1000.00 amount.
-
- 2. THEN WHY?
- ------------
- Well, I have, probably as the most of you reading this, called a few boards
- in my lifetime. More than often, these boards have claimed to be Under-
- ground boards with:
-
- 'More than XXXX+ Gfiles Online'
- 'Very Active Subs'
- 'Serious discussions'
- 'H/P/A/V/C/x Only! No ELITE!'
- 'Latest Hacker Utils'
- 'Full Access First Call'
- 'Free Leeching'.
-
- I can say straight away that 90-95% of these "Claims" have been false, and
- have been encountered when checked with:
-
- 'The HD just crashed last week...'
- 'I had to make room for another Warez Filearea...'
- 'I don't know you, so I can't give you Full Access on the first call...'
- 'Is Hacker v0.0087 Beta NOT the latest version?...'
-
- and stuff like the following:
-
- * On A 'Free Leeching' Board:
- ---------------------------
- YOUR UL/DL RATIO IS .....
- YOU MUST UPLOAD xxxx GB Before Downloading
- GFILE AREA NOT AVAILABLE
- FILE AREAS NOT AVAILABLE
- NOTHING IS AVAILABLE
- NO LEECHING! - LEECH AND YOU'RE KICKED OUT!
- NO CARRIER
-
- * On A 'H/P/A/V/C/x! No Elite!' Board:
- ------------------------------------
- AREA 27 AMIGA 0-DAY WAREZ ONLY
- AREA 87 IBM 0-WEEK WAREZ ONLY
- (E) ELITE ONLY! MESSAGES SUBS
- PARABLOCKS HQ 9600- ONLY!
- BLAH BLAH BLAH...SOFTWARE... BLAH...IF YOU AGREE TYPE 'OK' ONLY
- IF YOU ARE A 'LAMER' YOU'RE KICKED OUT! ONLY 0-DAY WAREZ!
- NO CARRIER ONLY
-
- * On A 'Very Active Subs' and 'Serious Discussions' Board:
- --------------------------------------------------------
- Message: 1 Date: 12/6/87
- From: SysOp Pvt Recd
- To: All
- Title: Sub
- ..........
- This Message Sub is for all Hackers out there. And I just Know it will
- be a Very Active Sub, because of all the hackers that call here.
-
- /&/&/&/ SYSOP /&/&/&/
-
-
- Message: 2 Date: 1/12/90
- From: Mr Novice Pvt Recd
- To: All
- Title: Help!
- ............
- I have a Vic-20 and I have problems.
- When I call with my 1200/75 modem I
- can't connect to any bulletin board
- systems except for this one. Please
- help. Also, I wonder what Basic is?
-
- Bye!!
- ps. What is 80 columns? ds.
-
- [End Of Messages]
- (P)ost (R)ead (S)can (E)xit
- (Command:
-
- * On a 'More than XXXX+ GFILES Online' Board:
- -------------------------------------------
- AREA FILES LAST DATE
- ------------------- ------ ---------
- 1. General Gfiles 7 05/18/86
- 2. Hacking 2 01/21/87
- 3. Phreaking 11 01/21/87
- 4. Carding 1 01/21/87
- 5. Magazines 3 01/21/87
- 6. Phrack Inc.!! 1 11/17/85
- 7. GIF 18 01/21/87
- 8. Warez 0-Dayz 0 01/21/87
- 9. New Uploads 0 01/21/87
-
- [End Of Areas]
- (U)pload (L)ist (A)rea (E)xit
- (Command:
-
- (Note: No VIEW command! uachk!)
-
- ...and so it goes. On and On, and even After you have checked the board,
- received the 'explanations' from the SysOp, the Ads still look the same.
- You start to understand the point to this series? Well, here's something
- even Worse (if possible)!
-
- 3. EVEN WORSE!
- --------------
- We have all read about Feds and SS who starts Fake Underground Boards. Now
- how can you see the difference from a real one? How can you decide NOT to
- call 'Dragons Dentist' when you don't know that it is a Fed Bust-Board?
- Here's a little piece from a very funny (and true) gfile called 'Feds,
- how to find and eliminate them' (author unknown):
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Feds can be found in almost every major bbs system in the country. They are
- the ones who keep asking the "famous name" pirates for warez, and post none of
- their own. Yes, the fed is the ultimate leech. They are also mistaken for 12-
- 14 year-old leeches, but sysops can usually tell that something is wrong when
- a 13-year-old who "just started last week" is typing faster than the fire rate
- for an UZI sub-machine gun.... and uses words like "extenuating", "viable",
- and "situation normal". The typical 13-year-old follows the real leech's
- guide, with "k00l", "<``l", "rad", "l8t0r", and "do you have this...?".
-
- WHERE THEY HANG OUT: Sprint, MCI, Telediscount, AT&T, ESS, and Metro (?)
- Security offices.... Police Stations... Large BBS's... Gay Bars... You know...
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- That's some good advice there. We have also seen articles like:
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- COLORADO COPS GO ONLINE
-
- The board, which uses RBBS software, is open after 5 pm weekdays and
- all day Saturdays and Sundays at 303-987-7388. The department's address is 445
- S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood, CO 80226.
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- FORBIDDEN ZONE BBS BUSTED
-
- The FBI set up their own BBS to nail the kid (the SysOp).
- - How was the FBI able to use a BBS to catch the Forbidden zone?
- I understand that it was used to track uploaders of commercial software.
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- POLICE SET UP BULLETIN BOARD STINGS
-
- For more than two years, the department secretly ran a board called the
- Underground Tunnel, which was set up to appear as a bulletin board run by a
- system operator called Pluto. But late last month - to the surprise of the
- board's more than 1,000 users - Pluto was revealed as Sgt. Robert Ansley, a
- seven-year veteran of the police department.
-
- Sting and intelligence gathering bulletin board operations are on the rise
- throughout the country, according to law enforcement officials. Several police
- departments nationwide have already used bulletin boards to track down and
- arrest microcomputer users who post illegally obtained calling card codes,
- mainframe access procedures and passwords, or other confidential information.
- According to one high-lvel West Coast law enforcement officer who declined to
- be identified, federal officials are now joining local authorities in running
- bulletin boards in several key metropolitan areas.
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- (all article-excerpts courtesy of the writers & authors)
-
- This is a bit scary, because when there are Cop-SysOps around, the information
- flow will thin out to NOTHING in the end. No new underground boards will be
- accepted, and when the old ones die, there will be Zero Underground boards
- to call! For an example, Ripco was a Great board once. Had the reputation, was
- known to a majority of underground users, and had been active for a very long
- time. After it got up again, after the bust, people was of course reluctant
- to call. Most explanations were 'Feds got it once..' and 'Ever heard of
- bugs?'. I understand these people, and therefore it would be nice to TRUST the
- boards we call by checking them out. Now, you all say 'So how are You going to
- spot the difference between a Fake BBS and a Genuine Underground Board then??'
- Answer: I can't! That's a problem. All I wanted to say by this is that you
- can Never trust New Unknown Underground Boards and that you should be careful
- when calling one. Of course I will report Fake Boards if I spot any, so keep
- an eye on the "Number of Feds" grade in the BBS-Listings, starting in TED
- Issue #6.
-
-
- 4. SysOp's Underground Network (SUn)
- ------------------------------------
- The SySop's Underground Network is a group of SySops who, in the effort to
- further advance the state of underground computing, have joined together
- to form a network. It will not include 'warez type boards', so if that's
- your thing, you can't be a member. They will concentrate instead on the
- informational boards. Text files, P/H/A/C/V bases, and good 'underground'
- activities.
-
- A Recent forming of an information-spreading Network have made the job of
- spotting Feds and fake boards easier. SysOp's Underground Network will keep
- it's members updated on Fake Users and Feds spotted on Underground boards,
- and Busts. The members in their turn will inform the members of their boards,
- and they will then warn their friends. This will mean that fake users and feds
- will have a hard time keeping their identity secret, and will hopefully not be
- able to harm the underground community too much.
-
- To join The SysOp's Underground Network, you have to be an Underground Board
- SysOp (if you didn't understand that by now), and you have to fill out the
- SUn Application form and agree to the rules therein. The SUn application form
- can be obtained on the following boards:
-
- Persistance Of Time.....313-462-1141
- Guild Of Assains........713-933-7248
- Project X...............713-356-2042
- DoPey's Domain..........714-951-7939
- Info Addict.............+46-###-####
- The Lifetime Detour.....313-644-5505
- The Crowbar Hotel.......409-372-5511
-
- 5. NOW YOU KNOW
- ---------------
- These things should be more than enough to convince you that this series of
- files will be needed. If someone have the time to keep the BBS-Check files
- updated, that help would be greatly appreciated. It sure would be useful.
-
- If you still aren't convinced, please go into your bathroom, fill the bath-
- tub with ice-cold water, (add a few 100's of ice-cubes), and get into it.
- Thank you.
-
- 6. OOPS!
- --------
- This file should have been the 1st BBS Check file, but became a my view
- of the underground bulletin board scene. I am tired of wasting my time on
- those fake/empty/claim-to-be-great boards. That's the way gfiles are born.....
-
- 7. RECOMMENDED
- --------------
- This section is included in every issue of The European Digest and will
- contain recommended stuff/boards/reading and so on. For this file,
- Some 4 Great Boards:
-
- NAME PHONE WHY
- -------------------------- ------------ -------------------------------------
- Condemned Reality 618-397-7702 Huge Gfile Collection. Nice SysOp.
- Good Subs & Discussions.
- Lunatic Labs 213-655-0691 The Old Timer still online. Neat
- subs, Gfiles, Misc Files. Serious.
- The Crowbar Hotel 409-372-5511 Home of SUn. Good Gfile Collection.
- Nice SysOp. Kinda nice BBS Software.
- Demon Roach Underground 806-794-4362 The Old Timer still online. Great
- subs. Lotsa Gfiles. Nice SysOp.
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 8. END COMMENTS
- ---------------
- You have probably already guessed that I am not American (my spelling stinks!)
- Well, I am working on my spelling so hang in there guys. It will get better.
-
- The European Digest will not feature Hacking techniques, Phreaking, Carding,
- information about government systems or the basic underground rap. It will
- be different. It IS different. Manuals, The Underground Scene, Deep Deep
- whatever, and so on. Less 'general rag stuff' and More Miscellaneous stuff.
- Swedish Hacker News will be presented through the 'uXu - Swedish News' series,
- but ONLY in Swedish. English translations will however be published in other
- well-known underground rags, as contributions.
-
- Check out the Next TED for Something Completely Different!
-
- You can reach me on the following boards for comments, contributions,
- questions or whatever:
-
- Condemned Reality [618-397-7702]
- Land Of Karrus [215-948-2132]
- Demon Roach Underground [806-794-4362]
- Balanced pH [818-783-5320]
- Info Addict [+46-###-####]
-
-
- The Chief 1991
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