==Phrack Inc.==
Volume Three, Issue Thirty-Three, File 1 of 13
Issue XXXIII Index
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P H R A C K 3 3
September 15, 1991
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~Technology for Survival~
On December 24, 1989, Taran King and I released the 30th issue of Phrack
and began to prepare for the new decade. The future of Phrack seemed bright
and full of great potential. A few weeks later, Phrack was shut down by the
United States Secret Service as part of a large scale attack on the world
famous hacking group, the Legion of Doom.
The legend of Phrack died... or did it? Several months later, a
newsletter called Phrack and listed as issue 31 appeared under the editorship
of Doc Holiday. Of course it was not the original Doc Holiday from Tennessee,
but instead one of the founding members of Comsec Data Security, Scott Chasin.
It may have called itself Phrack, but it wasn't.
On November 17, 1990, another attempt was made to resurrect Phrack.
Crimson Death and Doc Holiday were back to try again, this time calling their
product "Phrack Classic." That issue was not absolutely terrible, but the tone
behind the articles was misplaced. The introduction itself showed a lack of
responsibility and maturity at a time when it was needed most. To complicate
matters, Crimson Death failed to produce another issue of Phrack Classic until
September 1, 1991, almost 10 months later. This lack of predictability and
continuity has become too much of a burden on the hacker community.
I am proud to announce that a new era of Phrack has thus begun. The new
Phrack is listed as Phrack 33 despite the Phrack Classic issue of September
1st. To help ease the transition, the new Phrack staff has borrowed files
from the PC 33 so they are chronicled correctly. Even Crimson Death has agreed
that it is once again time to pass the torch.
The new Phrack editor is Dispater and other people involved in working on
this issue include Ninja Master, Circuit, and The Not. Of course they are
always looking for help and good articles. The new Phrack will be run slightly
different than the old. The kind of information likely to be found in Phrack
will not change drastically, but Phrack is intended for people to learn about
the types of vulnerabilities in systems that some hackers might be likely to
exploit. If you are concerned about your system being disrupted by computer
intruders, allow the hackers who write for Phrack to point out some flaws you
might wish to correct. Phrack still strongly supports the free exchange of
information and will never participate in censorship except when it would be
necessary to protect an individual's personal privacy. There is a delicate
balance to be found in this arena and hopefully it can be discovered. Be
patient and do not judge the new Phrack without really giving it a chance to
work out the bugs.
I've said my piece, now it is time to turn over the reigns to Dispater.
I wish him the best of luck, and for you the readers, I hope you enjoy the new
Phrack as much as you have enjoyed the previous.
Sincerely,
:Knight Lightning (kl@STORMKING.COM)
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A few words from Dispater:
Phrack will be introducing a new regular column similar to a "letters to
the editor" section. It will be featured as the second file in each issue,
beginning with issue 34. Any questions, comments, or problems that you the
reader would like to air with Phrack publically will be answered there.
I'd really like to thank Crimson Death for his cooperation in helping us
get Phrack started again. He is one of the coolest hackers I have met. We
could not have done it without him. Other important people to mention are the
The Monk and Twisted Pair.
Thanks to Tuc, Phrack will soon be using an Internet listserver. See
Phrack 34 for more details. Phrack will also be found on various anonymous FTP
sites across the Internet, including the anonymous ftp site at EFF.ORG, a Unix
machine operated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization to
which we at Phrack respect. It can also be found at the anonymous ftp site at
CS.WIDENER.EDU
Off the Internet, we hope to establish several bulletin board systems
as archive sites including Digital Underground (812)941-9427, which is operated
by The Not. Submissions or letters to Phrack can be made there or on the
Internet by sending mail to "phracksub@STORMKING.COM".
The new format will be a little more professional. This is because I
have no desire to find myself in court one day like Knight Lightning. However,
I have no intention of turning Phrack Inc. into some dry industry journal.
Keeping things lite and entertaining is one of the ways that I was attracted
to Phrack. I think most people will agree that there is a balance of fun
and business to be maintained. If this balance is not met, you the reader,
will get bored and so will I!
Check out Phrack World News Special Edition IV for the "details" on
CyberView '91, the SummerCon-ference hosted by Knight Lightning that took place
this past summer in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Phrack XXXIII Table of Contents
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1. Introduction to Phrack 33 by Knight Lightning and Dispater
2. Phrack Profile of Shooting Shark by Crimson Death
3. A Hacker's Guide to the Internet by The Gatsby
4. FEDIX On-Line Information Service by Fedix Upix
5. LATA Referance List by Infinite Loop
6. International Toll Free Code List by The Trunk Terminator
7. Phreaking in Germany by Ninja Master
8. TCP/IP: A Tutorial Part 1 of 2 by The Not
9. A REAL Functioning RED BOX Schematic by J.R."Bob" Dobbs
10. Phrack World News Special Edition IV (CyberView '91) by Bruce Sterling
11. PWN/Part01 by Crimson Death
12. PWN/Part02 by Dispater
13. PWN/Part03 by Dispater
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==Phrack Inc.==
Volume Three, Issue Thirty-Three, File 2 of 13
-*[ P H R A C K XXXIII P R O P H I L E ]*-
-=>[ by Crimson Death ]<=-
This issue Phrack Profile features a hacker familiar to most of you.
His informative files in Phrack and the Legion of Doom Technical Journals
created a stampede of wanna-be Unix hackers. Your friend and mine...
Shooting Shark
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Personal
~~~~~~~~
Handle: Shooting Shark
Call him: 'Shark'
Past handles: None
Handle origin: It's the title of the 3rd song on "Revolution By Night,"
which many consider to be Blue Oyster Cult's last good
album.
Date of Birth: 11/25/66
Age at current date: 24
Approximate Location: San Francisco Bay Area.
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 150 lbs.
Eye color: Hazel
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Computers: First: Apple //e. Presently: ALR Business V EISA
386/33.
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The Story of my Hacking Career
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In 1984 I was lucky enough to be a Senior at a high school that had one of
the pilot "Advanced Placement Computer Science" classes. I didn't know much
about computers at the time, but I had a strong interest, so I signed up.
"Advanced Placement Computer Science" meant programming in Pascal using the
UCSD P-System on the newly-released Apple //e. I wasn't too crazy about
programming in Pascal -- does ANYBODY really like Pascal? -- but I did enjoy
the software piracy sessions that the class had after school and, much of the
time, during class when the Instructor was lecturing about DO WHILE loops or
something equally fascinating. Some of our favorite games at the time were
ZORK II and what I still consider to be the best Apple II game ever, RESCUE
RAIDERS. A few months into the school year, I somehow convinced my mother to
buy me my very own Apple //e, with an entire 64K of RAM, a monochrome monitor,
and a floppy drive. The first low-cost hard drive for the Apple II, the Sider,
was $700 for 10Mb at the time, so it was out of the question.
Now at about this time, Coleco was touting their Adam add-on to the
ColecoVision game unit, and they had these great guilt-inducing advertisements
that had copy something like this:
TEACHER: "I want to talk to you about Billy. He's not doing very
well in school. He just doesn't seem to understand new
concepts as well as the other kids. All he does is sit
there and pick his nose."
CONCERNED "Well, golly, I just don't know what to do. It's probably
FATHER: probably because his mother drank so much when she was
pregnant."
TEACHER: "Have you considered getting Billy a computer?"
And of course the next scene showed little Billy inserting a tape
cartridge into his new Adam and pecking his way to higher grades.
Such was not the case with me when I got MY computer. All I did was go
home after school and play "Wizardry." I stopped doing homework and
I failed 3 out of 6 classes my last semester of my Senior year of high school.
Luckily enough, I had already been accepted to the local state University, so
it didn't really matter. Shortly before graduating, I took the AP Computer
Science test and got the minimum passing score. (I didn't feel so bad when Sir
Francis Drake later told me that he failed it. Then again, he completed all
the questions in BASIC.)
Worse yet, "Wargames" came out around this time. I'll admit it, my
interest in hacking was largely influenced by that film.
Shortly after I (barely) graduated from high school, I saved up my money
and bought a (get this) Hayes MicroModem //e. It was only something like $250
and I was in 300 baud heaven. I started calling the local "use your real name"
BBSs and shortly graduated to the various small-time hacker BBSs. Note that
90% of the BBSs at this time were running on Apples using Networks, GBBS or
some other variant. Few were faster than 300 baud. It was on one of these
Apple Networks BBSs that I noticed some users talking about these mysterious
numbers called "800 extenders." I innocently inquired as to what these were,
and got a reply from Elric of Imrryr. He explained that all I needed to do was
dial an 800 number, enter a six-digit code, and then I could call anywhere I
wanted for FREE! It was the most amazing thing. So, I picked a handle, and
began calling systems like Sherwood Forest II and Sherwood Forest III, OSUNY,
and PloverNet. At their height, you could call any of these systems and read
dozens of new messages containing lots of new Sprint and extender codes EVERY
DAY. It was great! I kept pestering my mentor, Elric, and despite his
undoubted annoyance with my stupid questions, we remained friends. By this
time, I realized that my Hayes MicroModem //e was just not where it was at, and
saved up the $400 to buy a Novation Apple Cat 300, the most awesomest modem of
its day. This baby had a sound generation chip which could be used to generate
speech, and more importantly, DTMF and 2600Hz tones. Stupidly enough, I began
blue boxing. Ironically, at this time I was living in the very town that Steve
Wozniak and Steve Jobs had gotten busted in for boxing ten years previously.
And THEN I started college. I probably would have remained a two-bit
Apple hacker (instead of what I am today, a two-bit IBM hacker) to this day if
a friend hadn't told me that it was easy to hack into the school's new Pyramid
90x, a "super mini" that ran a BSD 4.2 variant. "The professor for the C class
has created a bunch of accounts, sequentially numbered, all with the same
default password," he told me. "Just keep trying them until you get an account
that hasn't been used by a student yet!" I snagged an account which I still
use to this day, seven years later.
At about this time, I called The Matrix, run by Dr. Strangelove. This was
my first experience with Ken's FORUM-PC BBS software. Dr. Strangelove was a
great guy, even though he looks somewhat like a wood mouse (and I mean that in
the nicest possible way). DSL helped me build my first XT clone for a total
cost of about $400. He even GAVE me a lot of the components I needed, like a
CGA card and a keyboard.
Shortly after that, The Matrix went down and was quickly replaced by IDI,
run by Aiken Drum. It is here that I met Sir Francis Drake. Shortly after
THAT, IDI went down and was quickly replaced by Lunatic Labs Unltd, run by my
old friend The Mad Alchemist. TMA lived within walking distance of my house,
so I called LunaLabs quite a bit. LunaLabs later became the home base of
Phrack for a few issues when Knight Lightning and Taran King gave it upon
entering their freshman year of college.
So during this time I just got really into Unix and started writing files
for Phrack. I wrote about six articles for Phrack and then one for the 2nd LOD
Technical Journal, which featured a brute-force password hacker. I know, that
sounds archaic, but this was back in 1984, and I was actually one of the few
people in the hacker community that knew quite a bit about Unix. I've been
told by several people that it was my LOD TJ article that got *them* into Unix
hacking (shucks). I also wrote the original Unix Nasties article for Phrack,
and on two occasions, when I was later heavily into massive Internet node
hopping, I would get into a virgin system at some backwoods college like MIT
and find *my file* in somebody's directory.
During 1987, I got a letter from the local FBI office. It was addressed
to my real name and asked for any information I might wish to provide on a
break-in in San Diego. Of course I declined, but they kept sending me more
letters. Now that I was 18 years old I decided to stop doing illegal things.
I know..."what a weenie." So Lunatic Labs, now being run by The Mad Alchemist,
became my exclusive haunt because it was a local board. When Elric and Sir
Francis Drake took over the editorship of Phrack for a few issues, I wrote all
their intro files.
When my computer broke I let those days just fade away behind me.
Occasionally, old associates would manage to find me and call me voice, much to
my surprise. Somebody called me once and told me an account had been created
for me on a BBS called "Catch 22," a system that must have been too good to
last. I think I called it twice before it went down. Most recently, Crimson
Death called me, asked me to write a Profile, and here we are.
What I'm Doing Now
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After two years in the Computer Science program in college, I switched my
major to Theater Arts for three reasons:
1) Theater Arts people were generally nicer people;
2) Most CS students were just too geeky for me (note I said "most"); and,
3) I just couldn't manage to pass Calculus III!
I graduated last year with a BA in Theater Arts, and like all newly graduated
Theater majors, started practicing my lines, such as "Do you want fries with
that?" and "Can I tell you about today's special?" However, I managed to have
the amazing luck of getting a job in upper management at one of the west
coast's most famous IBM video graphics card manufacturers. My position lets me
play with a lot of different toys like AutoDesk 3D Studio and 24-bit frame
buffers. A 24-bit image I created was featured on the cover of the November
1990 issue of Presentation Products magazine. For a while I was the system
administrator of the company's Unix system, with an IP address and netnews and
the whole works. Now I'm running the company's two-line BBS -- if you can
figure out what company I work for, give it a call and leave me some mail
sometime. I'm also into MIDI, and I've set my mother up with a nice little
studio including a Tascam Porta One and a Roland MT-32. I was an extra in the
films "Patty Hearst" (with The $muggler) and "The Doors" (for which I put in a
22-hour day at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco for a concert scene that
WAS CUT FROM THE #*%& FILM) and I look forward to working on more films in a
capacity that does not require me to wear bell-bottoms. I've also acted in
local college theater and I'll be directing a full-length production at a local
community theater next year. I like to consider myself a well-rounded person.
Oh yeah. I also got married last October.
People I Have Known
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Elric of Imrryr -- My true mentor. He got me into the business. Too bad he
moved to Los Angeles.
Shadow 2600 -- Known to some as David Flory, may he rest in peace. Early
in my career he mentioned me and listed me as a collaborator for
a 2600 article. That was the first time I saw my name in print.
Oryan QUEST -- After I had my first Phrack article published, he started
calling me (he lived about 20 miles away at the time). He would
just call me and give me c0deZ like he was trying to impress me
or something. I don't know why he needed me for his own
personal validation. I was one of the first people to see
through him and I realized early on that he was a pathological
liar. Later on he lied about me on a BBS and got me kicked off,
because the Sysop though he was this great guy. Sheesh.
Sir Francis Drake -- Certainly one of the more unique people I've met. He
printed a really crappy two-part fiction story I wrote in
his WORM magazine. Shortly after that the magazine
folded; I think there's a connection.
David Lightman -- Never met him, but he used to share my Unix account at
school.
The Disk Jockey -- He pulled a TRW report on the woman that I later ended
up marrying. Incidentally, he can be seen playing
basketball in the background in one scene of the film
"Hoosiers."
Lex Luthor -- I have to respect somebody who would first publish my article in
LOD TJ and then call me up for no reason a year later and give me
his private Tymnet outdial code.
Dr. Strangelove -- He runs a really cool BBS called JUST SAY YES. Call it at
(415) 922-2008. DSL is probably singularly responsible for
getting me into IBM clones, which in turn got me my job (how
many Apple // programmers are they hiring nowadays?).
BBSs
~~~
Sherwood Forest II and III, OSUNY -- I just thought they were the greatest
systems ever.
Pirate's Bay -- Run by Mr. KRACK-MAN, who considered himself the greatest Apple
pirate that ever lived. It's still up, for all I know.
The 2600 Magazine BBS -- Run on a piece of Apple BBS software called
TBBS. It is there that I met David Flory.
The Police Station -- Remember THAT one?
The Matrix, IDI, Lunatic Labs -- Three great Bay Area Forum-PC boards.
Catch-22 -- 25 Users, No Waiting!
And, of course, net.telecom (the original), comp.risks, rec.arts.startrek...
Memories
~~~~~~~~
Remember Alliance Teleconferencing? Nothing like putting the receiver
down to go get something to eat, forgetting about it, coming back in 24 hours,
and finding the conference still going on.
Playing Wizardry and Rescue Raiders on my Apple //e until I lost the
feeling in my fingers...
Carding 13 child-sized Garfield sleeping bags to people I didn't
particularly care for in high school...
Calling Canadian DA Ops and playing a 2600Hz tone for them was always fun.
Trashing all the local COs with The Mad Alchemist...
My brush with greatness: I was riding BART home from school one night a
few years ago when Steve Wozniak got onto my car with two of his kids. He was
taking them to a Warriors game. I was the only person in the car that
recognized him. He signed a copy of BYTE that I happened to have on me and we
talked about his new venture, CL-9, the universal remote controller. (Do you
know anybody who ever BOUGHT one of those?)
....And now, for the question
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Of the general population of phreaks you have met, would you consider
most phreaks, if any, to be computer geeks?"
Back in my Apple pirating days, I met quite a few young men who were
definitely members of the Order of the Geek. However, I can count the number
of true phreaks/hackers I have met personally on one hand. None of them are
people I'd consider geeks, nerds, spazzes, dorks, etc. They're all people who
live on the fringe and do things a bit differently -- how many LEGAL people do
you know that have a nose ring? -- but they're all people I've respected.
Well, let me take back what I just said. Dr. Strangelove looks kinda geeky in
my opinion (my mother thinks he's cute, but then again she said that Sir
Francis Drake is "cute" and when I told him that it bothered him to no end),
but I consider him a good friend and a generally k-kool d00d. (I'm sure I'll
be getting a voice call from him on that one...) The only phreak that I've
ever taken a genuine disliking to was Oryan QUEST, but that was only because he
was a pathological liar and a pest. Who knows, he might be a nice person now,
so no offense intended, especially if he knows my home address.
So, Anyway...
-> Thanks for your time Shooting Shark.
Crimson Death
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==Phrack Inc.==
Volume Three, Issue Thirty-Three, File 3 of 13
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A Hacker's Guide to the Internet
By The Gatsby
Version 2.00 / AXiS / July 7, 1991
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1 Index
~~~~~~~~~
Part: Title:
~~~~ ~~~~~
1 Index
2 Introduction
3 Glossary, Acronyms, and Abbreviations
4 What is the Internet?
5 Where You Can Access The Internet
6 TAC
7 Basic Commands
a TELNET command
b ftp ANONYMOUS to a Remote Site
c Basic How to tftp the Files
d Basic Fingering
8 Networks
9 Internet Protocols
10 Host Names and Addresses
2 Introduction
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The original release of this informative file was in an IRG newsletter,
but it had some errors that I wanted to correct. I have also added more
technical information.
This file is intended for the newcomer to Internet and people (like
me) who are not enrolled at a university with Internet access. It covers the
basic commands, the use of Internet, and some tips for hacking through
Internet. There is no MAGICAL way to hacking a UNIX system. If you have any
questions, I can be reached on a number of boards.
- The Crypt - - 619/457+1836 - - Call today -
- Land of Karrus - - 215/948+2132 -
- Insanity Lane - - 619/591+4974 -
- Apocalypse NOW - - 2o6/838+6435 - <*> AXiS World HQ <*>
Mail me on the Internet: gats@ryptyde.cts.com
bbs.gatsby@spies.com
The Gatsby
*** Special Thanks go to Haywire (a/k/a Insanity: SysOp of Insanity Lane),
Doctor Dissector, and all the members of AXiS.
3 Glossary, Acronyms, and Abbreviations
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ACSE - Association Control Service Element, this is used with ISO to help
manage associations.
ARP - Address Resolution Protocol, this is used to translate IP protocol
to Ethernet Address.
ARPA - Defense Advanced Research Project Agency
ARPANET - Defense Advanced Research Project Agency or ARPA. This is an
experimental PSN which is still a sub network in the Internet.
CCITT - International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee is a
international committee that sets standard. I wish they would set
a standard for the way they present their name!
CERT - Computer Emergency Response Team, they are responsible for
coordinating many security incident response efforts. They have
real nice reports on "holes" in various UNIX strands, which you
should get because they are very informative.
CMIP - Common Management Information Protocol, this is a new HIGH level
protocol.
CLNP - Connection Less Network Protocol is OSI equivalent to Internet IP
DARPA - Defence Advanced Research Project Agency. See ARPANET
DDN - Defence Data Network
driver - a program (or software) that communicates with the network itself,
examples are TELNET, FTP, RLOGON, etc.
ftp - File Transfer Protocol, this is used to copy files from one host
to another.
FQDN - Fully Qualified Domain Name, the complete hostname that reflects
the domains of which the host is a part.
Gateway - Computer that interconnects networks.
Host - Computer that is connected to a PSN.
Hostname - Name that officially identifies each computer attached
internetwork.
Internet - The specific IP-base internetwork.
IP - Internet Protocol which is the standard that allows dissimilar
host to connect.
ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol is used for error messages for
the TCP/IP.
LAN - Local Area Network
MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
MILNET - DDN unclassified operational military network.
NCP - Network Control Protocol, the official network protocol from 1970
until 1982.
NIC - DDN Network Information Center
NUA - Network User Address
OSI - Open System Interconnection. An international standardization
program facilitate to communications among computers of different
makes and models.
Protocol - The rules for communication between hosts, controlling the
information by making it orderly.
PSN - Packet Switched Network
RFC - Request For Comments, is technical files about Internet protocols
one can access these from anonymous ftp at NIC.DDN.MIL.
ROSE - Remote Operations Service Element, this is a protocol that is used
along with OSI applications.
TAC - Terminal Access Controller; a computer that allow direct access to
Internet.
TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
TELNET - Protocol for opening a transparent connection to a distant host.
tftp - Trivial File Transfer Protocol, one way to transfer data from one
host to another.
UDP - User Datagram _Protocol
Unix - This is copyrighted by AT&T, but I use it to cover all the
look-alike Unix systems, which you will run into more often.
UUCP - Unix-to-Unix Copy Program, this protocol allows UNIX file
transfers. This uses phone lines using its own protocol, X.25 and
TCP/IP. This protocol also exist for VMS and MS-DOS.
uucp - uucp when in lower case refers to the UNIX command uucp. For
more information on uucp read files by The Mentor in the Legion of
Doom Technical Journals.
WAN - Wide Area Network
X.25 - CCITTs standard protocol that rules the interconnection of two
hosts.
In this file I have used several special charters to signify certain
things. Here is the key;
* - Buffed from UNIX itself. You will find this on the left side of the
margin. This is normally "how to do" or just "examples" of what to do
when using Internet.
# - This means these are commands, or something that must be typed in.
4 What is the Internet?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To understand the Internet you must first know what it is. The Internet
is a group of various networks, ARPANET (an experimental WAN) was the first.
ARPANET started in 1969, this experimental PSN used Network Control Protocol
(NCP). NCP was the official protocol from 1970 until 1982 of the Internet (at
this time also known as DARPA Internet or ARPA Internet). In the early 80's
DARPA developed the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol which is
the official protocol today, but much more on this later. Due to this fact,
in 1983 ARPANet split into two networks, MILNET and ARPANET (both are still
part of the DDN).
The expansion of Local Area Networks (LAN) and Wide Area Networks (WAN)
helped make the Internet connecting 2,000+ networks strong. The networks
include NSFNET, MILNET, NSN, ESnet and CSNET. Though the largest part of the
Internet is in the United States, the Internet still connects the TCP/IP
networks in Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada, and Mexico.
5 Where You Can Access Internet
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Internet is most likely to be found on Local Area Networks or LANs and
Wide Area networks or WANs. LANs are defined as networks permitting the
interconnection and intercommunication of a group of computers, primarily for
the sharing of resources such as data storage device and printers. LANs cover
a short distance (less than a mile) and are almost always within a single
building complex. WANs are networks which have been designed to carry data
calls over long distances (many hundreds of miles). You can also access
Internet through TymNet or Telenet via gateway. You'll have to find your own
NUAs though.
6 TAC
~~~~~~~
TAC (terminal access controller) is another way to access Internet. This
is just dial-up terminal to a terminal access controller. You will need to
get a password and an account. TAC has direct access to MILNET. One example
of a TAC dialup is (800)368-2217, but there are several out there to be found.
In fact, CERT has a report circulating about people attempting to find these
dialups through social engineering.
If you want the TAC manual you can write a letter to:
Defense Communications Agency
Attn: Code BIAR
Washington, DC 2o3o5-2ooo
Be sure to write that you want the TAC User Guide, 310-p70-74.
In order to logon, you will need a TAC Access Card. You would probably
get it from the DDN NIC. Here is a sample logon:
Use Control-Q for help...
*
* PVC-TAC 111: 01 TAC uses to this to identify itself
* @ #o 124.32.5.82 Use ``O'' for open and the internet
* / address which yea want to call.
*
* TAC Userid: #THE.GATSBY
* Access Code: #10kgb0124
* Login OK
* TCP trying...Open
*
*
7 Basic Commands
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
a: Basic TELNET Commands
Situation: You have an account on a UNIX system that is a host on
Internet. Now you can access the entire world! Once the UNIX system you
should see a prompt, which can look like a '$' or '%' (it also depends on what
shell you are in and the type of Unix system). At the prompt you can do all
the normal UNIX commands, but when on a Internet host you can type 'telnet'
which will bring you to the 'telnet' prompt.
*
* $ #telnet
* ^ ^
| |
| the command that will bring you to the telnet prompt
|
a normal UNIX prompt
You should get this:
*
* telnet>
*
At this prompt you will have a whole different set of commands which are
as follows (This comes from UCSD, so it may vary from place to place).
*
* telnet> #help
*
* close close current connection
* display display operating parameters
* open connect to a site
* quit exit telnet
* send transmit special character
* set set operating parameters
* status print status information
* toggle toggle operating parameters
* ? to see what you are looking at now
*
close - this command is used to 'close' a connection, when multitasking
or jumping between systems.
display - this set the display setting, commands for this are as follow.
^E echo.
^] escape.
^H erase.
^O flushoutput.
^C interrupt.
^U kill.
^ quit.
^D eof.
open - type 'open [host]' to connect to a system
*
* $ #telnet ucsd.edu
*
or
*
* telnet> #open 125.24.64.32.1
*
quit - to get out of telnet and back to UNIX
send - send files
set - set
echo - character to toggle local echoing on/off
escape - character to escape back to telnet command mode
The following need 'localchars' to be toggled:
erase - character to cause an Erase Character
flushoutput - character to cause an Abort Output
interrupt - character to cause an Interrupt Process
kill - character to cause an Erase Line
quit - character to cause a Break
eof - character to cause an EOF
? - display help information
b: ftp ANONYMOUS to a remote site
ftp or file transfer protocol is used to copy files from a remote host to
the one that you are on. You can copy anything. Security has really clamped
down on the passwd file, but it will still work here and there (always worth a
shot).
This could be useful when you see a Internet CuD (Computer Underground
Digest) site that accepts a anonymous ftps, and you want to read the CuDs, but
do not feel like wasting your time on boards downloading them. The best way
to start out is to ftp a directory to see what you are getting.
Example: The CuD archive site has an Internet address of 192.55.239.132
and my account name is "gats".
*
* $ #ftp
* ^ ^
| |
| ftp command
|
UNIX prompt
*
* ftp> #open 192.55.239.132
* Connected to 192.55.239.132
* 220 192.55.239.132 FTP Server (sometimes the date, etc)
* Name (192.55.239.132:gats): #anonymous
* ^ ^ ^
| | |
| | This is where you type 'anonymous' unless
| | you have a account on 192.55.239.132.
| |
| This is the name of my account or [from]
|
This is the Internet address or [to]
*
* Password: #gats
* ^
|
For this just type your username or anything you feel like typing
in at that time. It doesn't matter.
*
* % ftp 192.55.239.132
* Connected to 192.55.239.132
* ftp> #ls
* ^
|
You are connected now, thus you can ls it.
Just move around like you would in a normal unix system. Most of the
commands still apply on this connection. Here is a example of me getting a
copy of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Effector (issue 1.04) from
Internet address 192.55.239.132.
*
* % #ftp
* ftp> #open 128.135.12.60
* Trying 128.135.12.60...
* 220 chsun1 FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.
* Name (128.135.12.60:gatsby): anonymous
* 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
* Password: #gatsby
* 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
* ftp> #ls
* 200 PORT command successful.
* 150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (132.239.13.10,4781) * (0 bytes).
* .hushlogin
* bin
* dev
* etc
* pub
* usr
* README
* 226 ASCII Transfer complete.
* 37 bytes received in 0.038 seconds (0.96 Kbytes/s)
* ftp>
_________________________________________________________________________
|
| This is where you can try to 'cd' the "etc" dir or just 'get'
| /etc/passwd, but grabbing the passwd file this way is a dieing art.
|_________________________________________________________________________
* ftp> #cd pub
* 200 PORT command successful.
* ftp> #ls
* ceremony
* cud
* dos
* eff
* incoming
* united
* unix
* vax
* 226 ASCII Transfer cmplete.
* 62 bytes received in 1.1 seconds (0.054 Kbytes/s)
* ftp> #cd eff
* 250 CWD command successful.
* ftp> #ls
* 200 PORT command successful.
* 150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (132.239.13.10,4805) (0 bytes).
* Index
* eff.brief
* eff.info
* eff.paper
* eff1.00
* eff1.01
* eff1.02
* eff1.03
* eff1.04
* eff1.05
* realtime.1
* 226 ASCII Transfer complete.
* 105 bytes received in 1.8 seconds (0.057 Kbytes/s)
* ftp> #get
* (remote-file) #eff1.04
* (local-file) #eff1.04
* 200 PORT command successful.
* 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for eff1.04 (909 bytes).
* 226 Transfer complete.
* local: eff1.04 remote: eff1.04
* 931 bytes received in 2.2 seconds (0.42 Kbytes/s)
* ftp> #close
* Bye...
* ftp> #quit
* %
*
To read the file you can just 'get' the file and buffer it. If the files
are just too long, you can 'xmodem' it off the host you are on. Just type
'xmodem' and that will make it much faster to get the files. Here is the set
up (as found on ocf.berkeley.edu).
If you want to: type:
send a text file from an apple computer to the ME xmodem ra <filename>
send a text file from a non-apple home computer xmodem rt <filename>
send a non-text file from a home computer xmodem rb <filename>
send a text file to an apple computer from the ME xmodem sa <filename>
send a text file to a non-apple home computer xmodem st <filename>
send a non-text file to a home computer xmodem sb <filename>
xmodem will then display:
*
* XMODEM Version 3.6 -- UNIX-Microcomputer Remote File Transfer Facility
* File filename Ready to (SEND/BATCH RECEIVE) in (binary/text/apple) mode
* Estimated File Size (file size)
* Estimated transmission time (time)
* Send several Control-X characters to cancel
*
Hints- File transfer can be an iffy endeavor; one thing that can help is to
tell the annex box not to use flow control. Before you do rlogin, type
stty oflow none
stty iflow none
at the annex prompt. This works best coming through 2-6092.
Some special commands used during ftp session are cdup (same as cd ..) and
dir (gives a detailed listing of the files).
c: How to tftp the Files
tftp (Trivial File Transfer Protocol, the command is NOT in caps, because
UNIX is case sensitive) is a command used to transfer files from host to host.
This command is used sometimes like ftp, in that you can move around using
UNIX commands. I will not go into this part of the command, but I will go
into the basic format, and structure to get files you want. Moreover, I will
be covering how to flip the /etc/passwd out of remote sites.
There is a little trick that has been around a while. It helps you to
"flip" the /etc/passwd file out of different sites, which gets you the passwd
file without out breaking into the system. Then just run Brute Hacker (the
latest version) on the thing and you save time and energy. This 'hole' (not
referring to the method of obtaining Unix superuser status) may can be found
on SunOS 3.X, but has been fixed in 4.0. It has sometimes appeared in
System V, BSD and a few others.
The only problem with this 'hole' is that the system manager will often
realize what you are doing. The problem occurs when attempts to tftp the
/etc/passwd is happen too many times. You may see this (or something like
this) when you logon on to your account. This was buffered off of
plague.berkeley.edu. I guess they knew what I was doing.
*
* DomainOS Release 10.3 (bsd4.3) Apollo DN3500 (host name):
* This account has been deactivated due to use in system cracking
* activities (specifically attempting to tftp /etc/passwd files from remote
* sites) and for having been used or broken in to from <where the calls are
* from>. If the legitimate owner of the account wishes it reactivated,
* please mail to the staff for more information.
*
* - Staff
*
The tftp is used in this format:
tftp -<command> <any name> <Internet Address> /etc/passwd <netascii>
Command -g is to get the file, this will copy the file onto
your 'home' directory, thus you can do anything with
the file.
Any Name If your going to copy it to your 'home' directory, it needs a
name.
Internet This is the address that you want to snag the passwd file from.
Address There are hundreds of thousands of them.
/ETC/PASSWD THIS IS THE FILE THAT YOU WANT. You do not want John Smith's
even though it would be trivial to retreive it.
netascii This how you want the file to be transferred.
& Welcome to the power of UNIX, it is multitasking, this little
symbol place at the end will allow you to do other things (such
as grab the passwd file from the UNIX that you are on).
Here is the set up: We want to get the passwd file from
sunshine.ucsd.edu. The file in your 'home' directory is going to be named
'asunshine'.
*
* $ #tftp -g asunshine sunshine.ucsd.edu /etc/passwd &
*
d Basic Fingering
Fingering is a real good way to get an account on remote sites. Typing
'who' or just 'finger <account name> <CR>' you can have names to "finger".
This will give you all kinds information on the person's account. Here is a
example of how to do it:
*
* % #who
* joeo ttyp0 Jun 10 21:50 (bmdlib.csm.edu)
* gatsby ttyp1 Jun 10 22:25 (foobar.plague.mil)
* ddc crp00 Jun 10 11:57 (aogpat.cs.pitt.edu)
* liliya display Jun 10 19:40
/and fingering what you see
* % #finger bbc
* Login name: ddc In real life: David Douglas Cornwall
* Office: David C. Co
* Directory: //aogpat/users_local/bdc Shell: /bin/csh
* On since Jun 10 11:57:46 on crp00 from aogpat Phone 555-1212
* 52 minutes Idle Time
* Plan: I like to eat apples and bananas.
* %
*
Now you could just call (or Telnet to) 'aogpat.cs.pit.edu' and try to
hack out an account. Try the last name as the password, the first name, the
middle name, and try them all backwards. The chances are real good that you
WILL get in because people are stupid.
If there are no users online for you to type "who" you can just type
"last" and all of the users who logged on will come rolling out. Now "finger"
them. The only problem with using the "last" command is aborting it.
You can also try telephoning individual users and tell them you are the
system manager (i.e. social engineer them). However, I have not always seen
phone numbers in everyone's ".plan" file (the file you see when you finger the
user).
8 Other Networks
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AARNet - Australian Academic and Research Network. This network supports
research for various Australian Universities. This network
supports TCP/IP, DECnet, and OSI (CLNS).
ARPANET - We've already discussed this network.
BITNET - Because It's Time NETwork (BITNET) is a worldwide network that
connects many colleges and universities. This network uses many
different protocols, but it dose use the TCP/IP.
CREN CSNET - Corporation for Research and Educational Network (CREN) or
Computer + Science research NETwork (CSNET). This network links
scientists at sites all over the world. CSNET providing access
to the Internet, CREN to BITNET. CREN is the name more often
used today.
CSUNET - California State University Network (CSUNET). This network
connects the California State University campuses and other
universities in California. This network is based on the CCITT
X.25 protocol, and also uses TCP/IP, SNA/DSLC, DECnet, and
others.
The Cypress Net - This network started as a experimental network. The use of
this network today is as a connection to the TCP/IP Internet
as a cheap price.
DRI - Defense Research Internet is a WAN that is used as a platform
from which to work from. This network has all kind of services,
such as multicast service, real-time conference and more. This
network uses the TCP/IP (also see RFC 907-A for more information
on this network).
ESnet - This is the new network operated by the Department of Energy's
Office of Energy Research (DoE OER). This net is the backbone
for all DoE OER programs. This network replaced the High Energy
Physics DECnet (HEPnet) and also the Magnetic Fusion Energy
network (MFEnet). The protocols offered are IP/TCP and also
DECnet service.
JANET - JANET is a Joint Academic NETwork based in the UK, connected to
the Internet. JANET is a PSN (information has pass through a
PAD) using the protocol X.25 though it does support the TCP/IP.
This network also connects PSS (Packet Switched Service is a PSN
that is owned and operated by British telecom).
JUNET - Japan's university message system using UUCP, the Internet as its
backbone, and X.25 (see RFC 877). This network is also a part of
USENET (this is the network news).
Los Nettos - Los Nettos is a high speed MAN in the Los Angeles area. This
network uses the IP/TCP.
MILNET - When ARPANET split, the DDN was created and MILNET (MILitary
NETwork) is also a part of the network. MILNET is unclassified,
but there are three other classified networks that make up the
DDN.
NORDUNet - This net is the backbone to the networks in the Nordic Countries,
Denmark (DENet), Finland (FUNET), Iceland (SURIS), Norway
(UNINETT), and Sweden (SUNET). NORDUnet supports TCP/IP, DECNet,
and X.25.
NSN - NASA Science Network (NSN). This network is used by NASA to send
and relay information. The protocols used are TCP/IP. NSN has a
sister network called Space Physics Analysis Network (SPAN) for
DECNet.
ONet - Ontario Network is a TCP/IP network used for research.
NSFNet - National Science Foundation Network, this network is in the
IP/TCP family, but in any case it uses UDP (User Diagram
Protocol) and not TCP. NSFnet is the network for the US
scientific and engineering research community. Listed below are
all the NSFNet Sub-networks:
BARRNet - Bay Area Regional Research Network is located in the San
Francisco area. This network uses TCP/IP.
CERFnet - California Education and Research Federation Network is
a research based network supporting Southern California
Universities communication services. This network uses
TCP/IP.
CICNet - Committee on Institutional Cooperation. This network
services the BIG 10, and University of Chicago. This
network uses TCP/IP.
JvNCnet - John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center. This
network uses TCP/IP.
Merit - Merit connects Michigan's academic and research
computers. This network supports TCP/IP, X.25 and
Ethernet for LANs.
MIDnet - MIDnet connects 18 universities and research centers in
the midwest United States. The support protocols are
TELNET, FTP and SMTP.
MRNet - Minnesota Regional Network, this network services
Minnesota. The network protocols are TCP/IP.
NEARnet - New England Academic and Research Network, connects
various research/educational institutions. You
can get more information about this net by mailing
'nearnet-staff@bbn.com'.
NCSAnet - The National Center for Supercomputing Applications
supports the whole IP family (TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc).
NWNet - North West Network provides service to the Northwestern
United States and Alaska. This network supports IP and
DECnet.
NYSERNet - New York Service Network is a autonomous nonprofit
network. This network supports the TCP/IP.
OARnet - Ohio Academic Resources Network gives access to the
Ohio Supercomputer Center. This network supports TCP/IP.
PREPnet - Pennsylvania Research and Economic Partnership is a
network operated and managed by Bell of Pennsylvania. It
supports TCP/IP.
PSCNET - Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center serving Pennsylvania,
Maryland, and Ohio. It supports TCP/IP, and DECnet.
SDSCnet - San Diego Super Computer Center is a network whose goal
is to support research in the field of science. The
Internet address is 'y1.ucsc.edu' or call Bob at
(619)534-5060 and ask for a account on his Cray.
Sesquinet - Sesquinet is a network based in Texas. It supports
TCP/IP.
SURAnet - Southeastern Universities Research Association Network
is a network that connects institutions in the Southeast
United States.
THEnet - Texas Higher Education Network is a network that is run
by Texas A&M University. This network connects to hosts
in Mexico.
USAN/NCAR - University SAtellite Network (USAN)/National Center for
Atmospheric Research is a network for information
exchange.
Westnet - Westnet connects the western part of the United States,
but not including California. The network is supported
by Colorado State University.
USENET - USENET is the network news (the message base for the Internet).
This message base is quite large with over 400 different topics
and connecting to 17 different countries.
9 Internet Protocols
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
TCP/IP is a general term relating to the whole family of Internet
protocols. The protocols in this family are IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, ROSE, ACSE,
CMIP, ISO, ARP and Ethernet for LANs. If if you want more information, get
the RFCs.
TCP/IP protocol is a "layered" set of protocols. In this diagram taken
from RFC 1180 you will see how the protocol is layered when connection is
made.
Figure is of a Basic TCP/IP Network Node:
-----------------------------------
| Network Application |
| |
| ... | / .. | / ... |
| ------- ------- |
| | TCP | | UDP | |
| ------- ------- |
| / | % Key %
| ------- --------- | ~~~~~~~
| | ARP | | IP | | UDP User Diagram Protocol
| ------- ------*-- | TCP Transfer Control Protocol
| | | IP Internet Protocol
| | | ENET Ethernet
| ------------- | ARP Address Resolution
| | ENET | | Protocol
| -------@----- | O Transceiver
| | | @ Ethernet Address
-------------- | ------------------ * IP address
|
========================O=================================================
^
|
Ethernet Cable
TCP/IP: If connection is made is between the IP module and the TCP module the
packets are called a TCP datagram. TCP is responsible for making
sure that the commands get through the other end. It keeps track of
what is sent, and retransmits anything that does not go through. The
IP provides the basic service of getting TCP datagram from place to
place. It may seem like the TCP is doing all the work, this is true
in small networks, but when connection is made to a remote host on
the Internet (passing through several networks) this is a complex
job. Say I am connected from a server at UCSD to LSU (SURAnet) the
data grams have to pass through a NSFnet backbone. The IP has to
keep track of all the data when the switch is made at the NSFnet
backbone from the TCP to the UDP. The only NSFnet backbone that
connects LSU is the University of Maryland, which has different
circuit sets. The cable (trunk)/circuit types are the T1 (a basic
24-channel 1.544 Md/s pulse code modulation used in the US) to a
56 Kbps. Keeping track of all the data from the switch from T1 to
56Kbs and TCP to UDP is not all it has to deal with. Datagrams on
their way to the NSFnet backbone (at the University of Maryland) may
take many different paths from the UCSD server.
All the TCP does is break up the data into datagrams (manageable
chunks), and keeps track of the datagrams. The TCP keeps track of
the datagrams by placing a header at the front of each datagram. The
header contains 160 (20 octets) pieces of information about the
datagram. Some of this information is the FQDN (Fully Qualified
Domain Name). The datagrams are numbers in octets (a group of eight
binary digits, say there are 500 octets of data, the numbering of the
datagrams would be 0, next datagram 500, next datagram 1000, 1500
etc.
UDP/IP: UDP is one of the two main protocols of the IP. In other words the
UDP works the same as TCP, it places a header on the data you send,
and passes it over to the IP for transportation throughout the
Internet. The difference is that it offers service to the user's
network application. It does not maintain an end-to-end connection,
it just pushes the datagrams out.
ICMP: ICMP is used for relaying error messages. For example you might try to
connect to a system and get a message back saying "Host unreachable",
this is ICMP in action. This protocol is universal within the
Internet, because of its nature. This protocol does not use port
numbers in it's headers, since it talks to the network software itself.
Ethernet: Most of the networks use Ethernet. Ethernet is just a party line.
When packets are sent out on the Ethernet, every host on the
Ethernet sees them. To make sure the packets get to the right
place, the Ethernet designers wanted to make sure that each address
is different. For this reason 48 bits are allocated for the
Ethernet address, and a built in Ethernet address on the Ethernet
controller.
The Ethernet packets have a 14-octet header, this includes address
"to" and "from." The Ethernet is not too secure, it is possible to
have the packets go to two places, thus someone can see just what
you are doing. You need to take note that the Ethernet is not
connected to the Internet. A host on both the Ethernet and on the
Internet has to have both an Ethernet connection and an Internet
server.
ARP: ARP translates the IP address into an Ethernet address. A conversion
table is used (the table is called ARP Table) to convert the addresses.
Therefore, you would never even know if you were connected to the
Ethernet because you would be connecting to the IP address.
The following is a real sketchy description of a few Internet protocols,
but if you would like to get more information you can access it via
anonymous ftp from several hosts. Here is a list of RFCs that deal with
the topic of protocols.
|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
| RFC: | Description: |
| | |
|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
| rfc1011 | Official Protocols of the Internet |
| rfc1009 | NSFnet gateway specifications |
| rfc1001/2 | netBIOS: networking for PC's |
| rfc894 | IP on Ethernet |
| rfc854/5 | telnet - protocols for remote logins |
| rfc793 | TCP |
| rfc792 | ICMP |
| rfc791 | IP |
| rfc768 | UDP |
| | |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10 Host Name and Address
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Internet addresses are long and difficult hard to remember (i.e.,
128.128.57.83) so we use host names. All hosts registered on the Internet
must have names that reflect them domains under which they are registered.
Such names are called Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs). Lets dissect a
name and see the domains:
lilac.berkeley.edu
^ ^ ^
| | |
| | |____ "edu" shows that this host is sponsored by an
| | education related organization. This is a top-level
| | domain.
| |
| |___________ "berkeley" is the second-level domain. This shows
| that it is an organization within University of
| Calironia at Berkeley.
|
|__________________ "lilac" is the third-level domain. This indicates the
local host name is 'lilac'.
Common Top-Level Domains
COM - commercial enterprise
EDU - educational institutions
GOV - nonmilitary government agencies
MIL - military (non-classified)
NET - networking entities
ORG - nonprofit intuitions
A network address is the numerical address of a host, gateway, or TAC.
The addresses are made up of four decimal numbered slots, which are separated
by a period.
There are three classes that are used most, these are Class A, Class B,
and Class C.
Class A - from '0' to '127'
Class B - from '128' to '191'
Class C - from '192' to '223'
Class A - Is for MILNET net hosts. The first part of the address has the
network number. The second is for the physical PSN port number.
The third is for the logical port number, since it is on MILNET,
it is a MILNET host. The fourth part is for which PSN it is on.
On 29.34.0.9. '29' is the network it is on. '34' means it is on
port '34'. '9' is the PSN number.
Class B - This is for the Internet hosts, the first two "clumps" are for the
network portion. The second two are for the local port.
128.28.82.1
\_/ \_/
| |_____ Local portion of the address
|
|___________ Potation address.
Class C - The first three "clumps" are the network portion and the last one
is the local port.
193.43.91.1
\_|_/ |_____ Local Portation Address
|
|__________ Network Portation Address
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==Phrack Inc.==
Volume Three, Issue Thirty-Three, File 4 of 13
________________________________________________________
| |
| FEDIX |
| On-Line Information Service |
| |
| Written by the people at FEDIX |
| |
| Like Fedix Upix |
|________________________________________________________|
What is FEDIX?
FEDIX is an on-line information service that links the higher education
community and the federal government to facilitate research, education, and
services. The system provides accurate and timely federal agency information
to colleges, universities, and other research organizations.
There are NO REGISTRATION FEES and NO ACCESS CHARGES for using FEDIX. The
only cost is for the phone call.
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eligibility, funding, deadlines).
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- New funding for specific research and education activities from
the COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY, FEDERAL REGISTER, and other sources.
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- NEWS & CURRENT EVENTS within participating agencies
- GENERAL INFORMATION such as agency history, budget, organizational
structure, mission statement, etc.
PARTICIPATING AGENCIES
Currently FEDIX provides information on 7 federal agencies broken down into 2
general categories:
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- The Department of Energy (DOE)
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
2. Minority Assistance Information
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
- Department of Commerce (DOC)
Additional government agencies are expected to join FEDIX in the future.
REQUIRED HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
Any microcomputer with communications software (or a dumb terminal) and a modem
operating at 1200 or 2400 baud can access the system.
HOURS OF OPERATION
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Although FEDIX provides a broad range of features for searching, scanning, and
downloading, the system is easy to use. The following features will permit
quick and easy access to agency databases:
Menus
-- Information in the system is organized under a series of branching menus.
By selecting appropriate menu options (using either the OPTION NUMBER or the
two-character MENU CODE), you may begin at the FEDIX Main Menu and work your
way through various intermediate menus to a desired sub-menu. However, if you
already know the menu code of a desired menu, you may bypass the intermediate
menus and proceed directly to that menu by typing the menu code at the prompt.
Help screens are available for key menus and can be viewed by typing '?'
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Capturing Data
-- If you are using a microcomputer with communicaions software, it is likely
that your system is capable of storing or "capturing" information as it comes
across your screen. If you "turn capture on", you will be able to view
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printed later. This may be desirable at times when downloading is not
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Downloading
-- Throughout the system, options are available which allow you to search,
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United States telephone LATA official designation numbers:
STATE NAME NUMBER
AK ALASKA 832
AL BIRMINGHAM 476
AL HUNTSVILLE 477
AL MONTGOMERY 478
AL MOBILE 480
AR FORT SMITH 526
AR LITTLE ROCK 528
AR PINE BLUFF 530
AZ PHOENIX 666
AZ TUCSON 668
AZ NAVAJO RESERVATION 980
CA SAN FRANCISCO 722
CA CHICO 724
CA SACRAMENTO 726
CA FRESNO 728
CA LOS ANGELES 730
CA SAN DIEGO 732
CA BAKERSFIELD 734
CA MONTEREY 736
CA STOCKTON 738
CA SAN LUIS OBISPO 740
CA PALM SPRINGS 973
CO DENVER 656
CO COLORADO SRPINGS 658
CT CONNECTICUT <SNET> 920
DC WASHINGTON 236
FL PENSACOLA 448
FL PANAMA CITY 450
FL JACKSONVILLE 452
FL GAINESVILLE 454
FL DAYTONA BEACH 456
FL ORLANDO 458
FL SOUTHEAST 460
FL FORT MYERS 939
FL GULF COST 952
FL TALLAHASSEE 953
GA ATLANTA 438
GA SAVANNAH 440
GA AUGUSTA 442
GA ALBANY 444
GA MACON 446
HI HAWAII 834
IA SIOUX CITY 630
IA DES MOINES 632
IA DAVENPORT 634
IA CEDAR RAPIDS 635
ID IDAHO 652
ID COEUR D'ALENE 960
IL CHICAGO 358
IL ROCKFORD 360
IL CAIRO 362
IL STERLING 364
IL FORREST 366
IL PEORIA 368
IL CHAMPAIGN 370
IL SPRINGFIELD 372
IL QUINCY 374
IL MATTOON 976
IL GALESBURG 977
IL OLNEY 978
IN EVANSVILLE 330
IN SOUTH BEND 332
IN AUBURN/HUNTINGTON 334
IN INDIANAPOLIS 336
IN BLOOMINGTON 338
IN RICHMOND 937
IN TERRE HAUTE 938
KS WICHITA 532
KS TOPEKA 534
KY LOUISVILLE 462
KY OWENSBORO 464
KY WINCHESTER 466
LA SHREVEPORT 486
LA LAFAYETTE 488
LA NEW ORLEANS 490
LA BATON ROUGE 492
MA WESTERN MASSACHUSETT 126
MA EASTERN MASSACHUSETT 128
MD BALTIMORE 238
MD HAGERSTOWN 240
MD SALISBURY 242
ME MAINE 120
MI DETROIT 340
MI UPPER PENINSULA 342
MI SAGINAW 344
MI LANSING 346
MI GRAND RAPIDS 348
MN ROCHESTER 620
MN DULUTH 624
MN ST CLOUD 626
MN MINNEAPOLIS 628
MO ST LOUIS 520
MO WESTPHALIA 521
MO SPRINGFIELD 522
MO KANSAS CITY 524
MS JACKSON 482
MS BILOXI 484
MT GREAT FALLS 648
MT BILLINGS 650
MT KALISPELL 963
NC ASHEVILLE 420
NC CHARLOTTE 422
NC GREENSBORO 424
NC RALEIGH 426
NC WILMINGTON 428
NC FAYETTEVILLE 949
NC ROCKY MOUNT 951
ND FARGO 636
ND BISMARCK 638
NE OMAHA 644
NE GRAND ISLAND 646
NE LINCOLN 958
NH NEW HAMPSHIRE 122
NJ ATLANTIC COSTAL 220
NJ DELAWARE VALLEY 222
NJ NORTH JERSEY 224
NM NEW MEXICO 664
NV RENO 720
NV PAHRUMP 721
NY NEW YORK METRO 132
NY POUGHKEEPSIE 133
NY ALBANY 134
NY SYRACUSE 136
NY BINGHAMTON 138
NY BUFFALO 140
NY FISHERS ISLAND 921
NY ROCHESTER 974
OH CLEAVELAND 320
OH YOUNGSTOWN 322
OH COLUMBUS 324
OH AKRON 325
OH TOLEDO 326
OH DAYTON 328
OH CINCINNATI BELL 922
OH MANSFIELD 923
OK OKLAHOMA CITY 536
OK TULSA 538
OR EUGENE 670
OR PORTLAND 672
PA CAPITAL 226
PA PHILADELPHIA 228
PA ALTOONA 230
PA NORTHEAST 232
PA PITTSBURG 234
PA ERIE 924
PR PUERTO RICO 820
RI RHODE ISLAND 130
SC GREENVILLE 430
SC FLORENCE 432
SC COLUMBIA 434
SC CHARLESTON 436
SD SOUTH DAKOTA 640
TN MEMPHIS 468
TN NASHVILLE 470
TN CHATTANOOGA 472
TN KNOXVILLE 474
TN BRISTOL 956
TX EL PASO 540
TX MIDLAND 542
TX LUBBOCK 544
TX AMARILLO 546
TX WICHITA FALLS 548
TX ABILENE 550
TX DALLAS 552
TX LONGVIEW 554
TX WACO 556
TX AUSTIN 558
TX HOUSTON 560
TX BEAUMONT 562
TX CORPUS CHRISTI 564
TX SAN ANTONIO 566
TX BROWNSVILLE 568
TX HEARNE 570
TX SAN ANGELO 961
US MIDWAY/WAKE 836
UT UTAH 660
UT NAVAJO RESERVATION 981
VA ROANOKE 244
VA CULPEPER 246
VA RICHMOND 248
VA LYNCHBURG 250
VA NORFOLK 252
VA HARRISONBURG 927
VA CHARLOTTESVILLE 928
VA EDINBURG 929
VI US VIRGIN ISLANDS 822
VT VERMONT 124
WA SEATTLE 674
WA SPOKANE 676
WI NORTHEASST 350
WI NORTHWEST 352
WI SOUTHWEST 354
WI SOUTHEAST 356
WV CHARLESTON 254
WV CLARKSBURG 256
WV BLUEFIELD 932
WY WYOMING 654
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The following indicates access codes and numbers used within various countries
for toll-free and special paid services. The dialing codes shown represent how
they would be dialed within the country involved. Generally, it is not
possible to access another country's domestic toll-free or specialty network
directly. Where an international access is available, it is normally done by
using the domestic services which then forward the call to the destination
country.
Where possible, the number of digits has been indicated with 'n' (a number from
2 to 8) or 'x' (any number). An ellipsis (...) indicates that there are a
variable number of extra digits, or possibly a conflict in the reports of
numbers of digits used.
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Toll-free or equivalent local charge services
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A u s t r a l i a
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008 xxx xxx That is how Phrack Inc. recomends it be written
to differentiate it from STD area codes
which are written with area codes (0x) thru
(0xxx) and numbers n xxxx through nxx xxxx.
0014 ttt xxx xxx International Toll free access from Australia
(ttt is reported as "800" or other toll-free
access code; or, ttt may not be present at all.
(Canada Direct uses 0014 881 150)
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B e l g i u m
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11 xxxx
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D e n m a r k
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800 xxxxx
8001 xxxx (charged as local call)
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F i n l a n d
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9800 xxxxx (...) (PTT as local service provider)
0800 xxxxx (...) (Private phone company as local service provider)
9800 costs the same as a local call (dialable from
all areas in Finland), while 0800 are truly toll-free and
dialable from all private telco areas.
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F r a n c e
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05 xxxxxx This is outside area code 1, so from Paris 16 05.
05 19 xx xx These numbers terminate outside France.
36 63 xx xx (local call rate)
'11' is computer directory information.
'12' is voice directory information (equivalent to 411).
===========================
G e r m a n y ( w e s t )
===========================
0130 xxxx (...xx) The number to use AT&T is 0130-0010 and U.S. Sprint is
0130-0013. For a general toll-free number listings, pick up
a copy of the International Herald newspaper and look in the
sports section is for an AT&T add. You will find a number
for dialing the US from various countries. Mearly, chop
off the exchange and only use the "area code" number.
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I r e l a n d
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1800 xxxxxx
1850 xxxxxx (local rate)
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I t a l y
=========
167 xxxxx (digits length)
We're not 100% sure about the length of digits for Italy.
One way to check these is to get a copy of an *international*
edition of the weekly magazines like TIME, all ads and little
contents. But they do goof up regularly, like printing Paris
numbers as (01) xxxxxxxx when they mean (1) xxxxxxxx.
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M e x i c o
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91 800 xxxxx....
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N e t h e r l a n d s
=====================
06-0xxx
06-0xxxxxx
06-4xx(x) 06-2229111 is AT&T USA direct and Sprint & MCI have operator
services on 06-022xxxx. It used to be possible to call
06-022xxxx to Denmark, and then use the CCITT no. 4
signalling system to phreak calls to anywhere in the
world.
06-11 This is the Dutch equivalent of 911, it is free when
dialled from a phone company operated payphone, otherwise the
charge is one unit, DFL 0.15, about US $ 0.08. There were
discussions about making such calls free from any phone, but
I haven't followed them recently. Calling a toll-free number
from a payphone requires a deposit of one coin, which is
returned after the call.
The total length of the numbers varies from 4 to 10 digits
and the dash indicates the secondary dial tone. It is not
possible to reach 06 prefixed numbers from abroad.
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N e w Z e a l a n d
=====================
0800 xxx xxx That is through the state telco, Telecom New Zealand. Clear
Communications, the recently started alternative LD carrier,
does not offer a toll-free service as yet. When Clear offer
one, it will more than likely be to the subscribers existing
number (eg Dial toll free 050-04-654-3210) as they are not
in control of number issue. 0800 is strictly Telecom at this
stage.
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N o r t h A m e r i c a
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1 800 nxx xxxx Access to toll free numbers can vary according
to region, state or country (ie. not all 800
numbers are accessible to all regions).
The nxx prefix portion of the 800 number presently
determines which long distance carrier or 800
service company will handle the call (and in
some cases determine the geographical region).
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S p a i n
=========
900 xxxxxx The number for ATT direct in Spain is 900-99-00-11. The
payphones are all push-button but generate pulses. It takes
forever to get connected.
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S w e d e n
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020 xxxxxx (without dialtone after '020').
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S w i t z e r l a n d
=====================
04605 xxxx (not toll-free but metered at lowest rate)
155 xx xx ("green number")
In Switzerland there is nothing exactly like the equivalent
to United States "800" service. The PTT is now encouraging
the use of "green numbers" beginning with 155. The direct
marketing ads on TV often give the order number for
Switzerland as a number such as 155 XX XX. The access number
for MCI Call USA is for example 155 02 22. There are two
problems with this:
1] When calling from a model AZ44(older model) payphone all
numbers which begin with a "1" are treated as "service"
numbers and the payphone begins to sound a "cuckoo clock
noise" once the 155 is entered. The "cuckoo clock noise" is
to alert operators on the "service numbers" that the caller
is using a payphone (fraud protection). This noise is quite
a distraction when calling someone in the USA using MCI Call
USA.
2] The newer style TelcaStar phones are programmed to block
the keypad after 3 digits are dialed of a "service number".
It used to be that the only numbers beginning with "1" were
"service numbers" and all "service numbers" were 3 digits.
The PTT is aware of this problem and are said to be
considering what instructions to give the manufacturer of the
payphones.
AT&T USA Direct has an access number of 046 05 00 11. This
is not a free call, but the time is metered at the lowest
rate. This number does not suffer the "cuckoo clock noise"
problem.
Canada Direct uses 046 05 83 30.
===========================
U n i t e d K i n g d o m
===========================
0800 xxx xxx (Toll-free)
0345 xxx xxx (Local rate)
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Tolled/Specialty Pay services
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A u s t r a l i a
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0055 x yxxx where y=0-4,8 means the number is Australia
wide (and costs more),
y=5 means the number is only state wide,
y=6,7,9 means the number is for the
capital city only.
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F i n l a n d
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9700 xxxxx (PTT-operated)
0700 xxxxx (Private telco-operated)
The cost ranges from about 0.5 USD to 5 USD per minute.
===========
F r a n c e
===========
36 65 xx xx (5 message units each call for up to 140 seconds)
These are for various information services as well as chat
lines.
=====================
N e t h e r l a n d s
=====================
06-9 xx...
06-321 xx...
06-8 xx... (3 to 40ct/min)
Other codes (such as 06-9) precede special tariff calls
(similar to 900 in the US). The highest special rate is
(currently) DFL 0.50 / minute.
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N o r t h A m e r i c a
=========================
1 900 nxx xxxx (various rates, depending on provider)
1 (npa) 976 xxxx (in many area codes, connected through regional telco;
in some areas, the call requires the area code where
depending on the intra-area dialing used)
(other exchange prefixes within area codes such as 540, 720
or 915 are used for other pay services such as group chat,
other types of recorded messages, etc. These vary depending
on the area code within North America, and not all regions in
North America have these.)
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S w e d e n
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071 x xxxxx
The Swedish answer to the United States "900"-number, 071 are
as follows.
(Charges are related to the next digit)
code SEK/minute
0712xxxxx 3,65
0713xxxxx 4,90
0714xxxxx 6,90
0715xxxxx 9,90
0716xxxxx 12,50
0717xxxxx 15,30
0719xx varying fees, cannot be dialled directly but needs operator
Numbers starting with 0713-0717 can only be dialled from
phones connected to AXE exchanges. At present about half of
all phones in Sweden are connected to such exchanges.
Another special toll number is domestic number information:
07975 (6,90 SEK/minute).
===========================
U n i t e d K i n g d o m
===========================
0836 xxx xxx
0898 xxx xxx
The rate seems to be uniform as 34p per minute cheap rate,
45p at all other times.
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|| -=+Ninja Master+=- ||
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|| -[The Hellfire Club]- ||
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Phreaking in Germany at this moment is at an all time high. The main reason is
because of the German reunification. Most, if not all, of the equipment in
Germany is still mechanical (especially on the former Communist side). So
Boxing is VERY easy to do, as are line taps.
Tracing on the other hand, is still hard to do. This is because with the
mechanical switches they need many technicians who look at the switches and
follow the wires on their own. They usually don't know where the wire leads,
so they have to physically follow the wire to trace it.
There are two main ways of phreaking in Germany at the moment. One is Boxing
and the other is through Cordless Phones, both of which I will describe.
//------\
|| Boxing ||
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Boxing in Germany is somewhat similar to the US, but I will describe to you
the whole process.
Most boxing in Germany is started with a call to a toll free number (most of
which produce a connection to a firm in the US, AT&T.) To initiate the call,
you dial 0130 - 81 and the number. Germany's toll free net starts with 0130.
81 is for connection to the US. You wait for the connection, and blast the
dissconect signal. As we all know, in the US it's 2600 Hz, but in Germany it's
a mixture of 2400 and 2600 Hz. After that, you send a single 2400 Hz frequency
to hold the line. Then you decide if you want a local US call, or an
International call. Don't forget, you are connected to the US now, so it looks
as if anything out of it as International, even though your calling from
Germany. Calls within the US are done normally, with KP+0+AC+NNNNNNN.
To make the international call, it's KP2+internalional code+0+number.
You have to drop the zero though from the number you care calling. For
example, in Germany all numbers start with a 02366.
One big difference between boxing in the US and Germany, are the laws. In
Germany, they look very strictly at data-security, but the laws are not clear
in
the area of phreaking. No one knows if a phreak is really stealin something
from the German phone company, since he is using a normal phone number. This
may sound stupid to us, but that's how they view it. Phreaks getting busted
for in Germany is usually a rare occassion, if ever.
//---------------\
|| Cordless Phones ||
\---------------//
When I am refering to "cordless phones", I'm not talking about portable phones
in the cellular phone system. I'm talking about simple cordless phones that
you have in your home. Cordless phones broadcast on a speciffic radio
frequency (around 46MHz) to a "base unit" that is connected to the wall jack.
What the you do now is put a long antenna on the roof of your car. Then
connect the antenna to your handset. The length of the antenna is usually
best around 1.5 meters long. You only need the handset, because you are going
to be connecting to another persons base, but make sure the batteries in the
handset are fully charged. Now, the next step is to drive around in your car,
until you hear a free line. Then, mearly call anywhere you like! Usually you
have to situate yourself, and find where the best postion is to recieve the
signal clearly, and that the person who's base your connected to can't see you.
One reason this works quite well, is because most cordless phones in Germany
don't have the code feature that is so prominent here (where you can
select a scrambling code on the handset and base).
One of the incentives to phreak in this manner is because, cordless phones
being illegal, the person, who's dial tone you used, would much rather pay a
few high long distance bills than the even higher fines for geting caught with
a cordless phone.
Cordless phones are forbidden in Germany, although you can buy them almost
anywhere. What is illegal is to physically connect them to the phone
system. The phone company there actually searches for people with cordless
phones, by using a specially equiped van. Once they find that you have a
cordless phone connected, they come with two policmen and a search warrant.
You can be charged with anything from illegal connection of nontested equipment
to forging of a document.
//----------\
|| Conclusion ||
\----------//
Well, I hope this gave you a little bit of understanding of how disorganized
the phone system is in over there, and gave you a few helpfull hints in case
you ever happen to find yourself in Germany.
If you have any comments, corrections, or additions, you can reach me through
Phrack, or the following boards:
Lightning Systems 9th Dimension
414-363-4282 818-783-5320
Until next time!
-=+Ninja Master+=-
-[The Hellfire Club]-
"Tell Telco We're Phreaking, Phreaking USA!"
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==Phrack Inc.==
Volume Three, Issue Thirty-Three, File 8 of 13
A TCP/IP Tutorial : Behind The Internet
Part One of Two
September 12, 1991
by The Not
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. TCP/IP Overview
3. Ethernet
4. ARP
1. Introduction
This tutorial contains only one view of the salient points of TCP/IP,
and therefore it is the "bare bones" of TCP/IP technology. It omits
the history of development and funding, the business case for its
use, and its future as compared to ISO OSI. Indeed, a great deal of
technical information is also omitted. What remains is a minimum of
information that must be understood by the professional working in a
TCP/IP environment. These professionals include the systems
administrator, the systems programmer, and the network manager.
This tutorial uses examples from the UNIX TCP/IP environment, however
the main points apply across all implementations of TCP/IP.
Note that the purpose of this memo is explanation, not definition.
If any question arises about the correct specification of a protocol,
please refer to the actual standards defining RFC.
The next section is an overview of TCP/IP, followed by detailed
descriptions of individual components.
2. TCP/IP Overview
The generic term "TCP/IP" usually means anything and everything
related to the specific protocols of TCP and IP. It can include
other protocols, applications, and even the network medium. A sample
of these protocols are: UDP, ARP, and ICMP. A sample of these
applications are: TELNET, FTP, and rcp. A more accurate term is
"internet technology". A network that uses internet technology is
called an "internet".
2.1 Basic Structure
To understand this technology you must first understand the following
logical structure:
----------------------------
| network applications |
| |
|... | / .. | / ...|
| ----- ----- |
| |TCP| |UDP| |
| ----- ----- |
| / |
| -------- |
| | IP | |
| ----- -*------ |
| |ARP| | |
| ----- | |
| | |
| ------ |
| |ENET| |
| ---@-- |
----------|-----------------
|
----------------------o---------
Ethernet Cable
Figure 1. Basic TCP/IP Network Node
This is the logical structure of the layered protocols inside a
computer on an internet. Each computer that can communicate using
internet technology has such a logical structure. It is this logical
structure that determines the behavior of the computer on the
internet. The boxes represent processing of the data as it passes
through the computer, and the lines connecting boxes show the path of
data. The horizontal line at the bottom represents the Ethernet
cable; the "o" is the transceiver. The "*" is the IP address and the
"@" is the Ethernet address. Understanding this logical structure is
essential to understanding internet technology; it is referred to
throughout this tutorial.
2.2 Terminology
The name of a unit of data that flows through an internet is
dependent upon where it exists in the protocol stack. In summary: if
it is on an Ethernet it is called an Ethernet frame; if it is between
the Ethernet driver and the IP module it is called a IP packet; if it
is between the IP module and the UDP module it is called a UDP
datagram; if it is between the IP module and the TCP module it is
called a TCP segment (more generally, a transport message); and if it
is in a network application it is called a application message.
These definitions are imperfect. Actual definitions vary from one
publication to the next. More specific definitions can be found in
RFC 1122, section 1.3.3.
A driver is software that communicates directly with the network
interface hardware. A module is software that communicates with a
driver, with network applications, or with another module.
The terms driver, module, Ethernet frame, IP packet, UDP datagram,
TCP message, and application message are used where appropriate
throughout this tutorial.
2.3 Flow of Data
Let's follow the data as it flows down through the protocol stack
shown in Figure 1. For an application that uses TCP (Transmission
Control Protocol), data passes between the application and the TCP
module. For applications that use UDP (User Datagram Protocol), data
passes between the application and the UDP module. FTP (File
Transfer Protocol) is a typical application that uses TCP. Its
protocol stack in this example is FTP/TCP/IP/ENET. SNMP (Simple
Network Management Protocol) is an application that uses UDP. Its
protocol stack in this example is SNMP/UDP/IP/ENET.
The TCP module, UDP module, and the Ethernet driver are n-to-1
multiplexers. As multiplexers they switch many inputs to one output.
They are also 1-to-n de-multiplexers. As de-multiplexers they switch
one input to many outputs according to the type field in the protocol
header.
1 2 3 ... n 1 2 3 ... n
| / | | | / ^
| | / | | | / |
------------- flow ---------------- flow
|multiplexer| of |de-multiplexer| of
------------- data ---------------- data
| | | |
| v | |
1 1
Figure 2. n-to-1 multiplexer and 1-to-n de-multiplexer
If an Ethernet frame comes up into the Ethernet driver off the
network, the packet can be passed upwards to either the ARP (Address
Resolution Protocol) module or to the IP (Internet Protocol) module.
The value of the type field in the Ethernet frame determines whether
the Ethernet frame is passed to the ARP or the IP module.
If an IP packet comes up into IP, the unit of data is passed upwards
to either TCP or UDP, as determined by the value of the protocol
field in the IP header.
If the UDP datagram comes up into UDP, the application message is
passed upwards to the network application based on the value of the
port field in the UDP header. If the TCP message comes up into TCP,
the application message is passed upwards to the network application
based on the value of the port field in the TCP header.
The downwards multiplexing is simple to perform because from each
starting point there is only the one downward path; each protocol
module adds its header information so the packet can be de-
multiplexed at the destination computer.
Data passing out from the applications through either TCP or UDP
converges on the IP module and is sent downwards through the lower
network interface driver.
Although internet technology supports many different network media,
Ethernet is used for all examples in this tutorial because it is the
most common physical network used under IP. The computer in Figure 1
has a single Ethernet connection. The 6-byte Ethernet address is
unique for each interface on an Ethernet and is located at the lower
interface of the Ethernet driver.
The computer also has a 4-byte IP address. This address is located
at the lower interface to the IP module. The IP address must be
unique for an internet.
A running computer always knows its own IP address and Ethernet
address.
2.4 Two Network Interfaces
If a computer is connected to 2 separate Ethernets it is as in Figure
3.
----------------------------
| network applications |
| |
|... | / .. | / ...|
| ----- ----- |
| |TCP| |UDP| |
| ----- ----- |
| / |
| -------- |
| | IP | |
| ----- -*----*- ----- |
| |ARP| | | |ARP| |
| ----- | | ----- |
| | | / |
| ------ ------ |
| |ENET| |ENET| |
| ---@-- ---@-- |
----------|-------|---------
| |
| ---o---------------------------
| Ethernet Cable 2
---------------o----------
Ethernet Cable 1
Figure 3. TCP/IP Network Node on 2 Ethernets
Please note that this computer has 2 Ethernet addresses and 2 IP
addresses.
It is seen from this structure that for computers with more than one
physical network interface, the IP module is both a n-to-m
multiplexer and an m-to-n de-multiplexer.
1 2 3 ... n 1 2 3 ... n
| | / | | | / ^
| | / | | | / |
------------- flow ---------------- flow
|multiplexer| of |de-multiplexer| of
------------- data ---------------- data
/ | | | / | | |
/ | | v / | | |
1 2 3 ... m 1 2 3 ... m
Figure 4. n-to-m multiplexer and m-to-n de-multiplexer
It performs this multiplexing in either direction to accommodate
incoming and outgoing data. An IP module with more than 1 network
interface is more complex than our original example in that it can
forward data onto the next network. Data can arrive on any network
interface and be sent out on any other.
TCP UDP
/
/
--------------
| IP |
| |
| --- |
| / |
| / v |
--------------
/ \n / \n data data
comes in goes out
here here
Figure 5. Example of IP Forwarding a IP Packet
The process of sending an IP packet out onto another network is
called "forwarding" an IP packet. A computer that has been dedicated
to the task of forwarding IP packets is called an "IP-router".
As you can see from the figure, the forwarded IP packet never touches
the TCP and UDP modules on the IP-router. Some IP-router
implementations do not have a TCP or UDP module.
2.5 IP Creates a Single Logical Network
The IP module is central to the success of internet technology. Each
module or driver adds its header to the message as the message passes
down through the protocol stack. Each module or driver strips the
corresponding header from the message as the message climbs the
protocol stack up towards the application. The IP header contains
the IP address, which builds a single logical network from multiple
physical networks. This interconnection of physical networks is the
source of the name: internet. A set of interconnected physical
networks that limit the range of an IP packet is called an
"internet".
2.6 Physical Network Independence
IP hides the underlying network hardware from the network
applications. If you invent a new physical network, you can put it
into service by implementing a new driver that connects to the
internet underneath IP. Thus, the network applications remain intact
and are not vulnerable to changes in hardware technology.
2.7 Interoperability
If two computers on an internet can communicate, they are said to
"interoperate"; if an implementation of internet technology is good,
it is said to have "interoperability". Users of general-purpose
computers benefit from the installation of an internet because of the
interoperability in computers on the market. Generally, when you buy
a computer, it will interoperate. If the computer does not have
interoperability, and interoperability can not be added, it occupies
a rare and special niche in the market.
2.8 After the Overview
With the background set, we will answer the following questions:
When sending out an IP packet, how is the destination Ethernet
address determined?
How does IP know which of multiple lower network interfaces to use
when sending out an IP packet?
How does a client on one computer reach the server on another?
Why do both TCP and UDP exist, instead of just one or the other?
What network applications are available?
These will be explained, in turn, after an Ethernet refresher.
3. Ethernet
This section is a short review of Ethernet technology.
An Ethernet frame contains the destination address, source address,
type field, and data.
An Ethernet address is 6 bytes. Every device has its own Ethernet
address and listens for Ethernet frames with that destination
address. All devices also listen for Ethernet frames with a wild-
card destination address of "FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF" (in hexadecimal),
called a "broadcast" address.
Ethernet uses CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense and Multiple Access with
Collision Detection). CSMA/CD means that all devices communicate on
a single medium, that only one can transmit at a time, and that they
can all receive simultaneously. If 2 devices try to transmit at the
same instant, the transmit collision is detected, and both devices
wait a random (but short) period before trying to transmit again.
3.1 A Human Analogy
A good analogy of Ethernet technology is a group of people talking in
a small, completely dark room. In this analogy, the physical network
medium is sound waves on air in the room instead of electrical
signals on a coaxial cable.
Each person can hear the words when another is talking (Carrier
Sense). Everyone in the room has equal capability to talk (Multiple
Access), but none of them give lengthy speeches because they are
polite. If a person is impolite, he is asked to leave the room
(i.e., thrown off the net).
No one talks while another is speaking. But if two people start
speaking at the same instant, each of them know this because each
hears something they haven't said (Collision Detection). When these
two people notice this condition, they wait for a moment, then one
begins talking. The other hears the talking and waits for the first
to finish before beginning his own speech.
Each person has an unique name (unique Ethernet address) to avoid
confusion. Every time one of them talks, he prefaces the message
with the name of the person he is talking to and with his own name
(Ethernet destination and source address, respectively), i.e., "Hello
Jane, this is Jack, ..blah blah blah...". If the sender wants to
talk to everyone he might say "everyone" (broadcast address), i.e.,
"Hello Everyone, this is Jack, ..blah blah blah...".
4. ARP
When sending out an IP packet, how is the destination Ethernet
address determined?
ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) is used to translate IP addresses
to Ethernet addresses. The translation is done only for outgoing IP
packets, because this is when the IP header and the Ethernet header
are created.
4.1 ARP Table for Address Translation
The translation is performed with a table look-up. The table, called
the ARP table, is stored in memory and contains a row for each
computer. There is a column for IP address and a column for Ethernet
address. When translating an IP address to an Ethernet address, the
table is searched for a matching IP address. The following is a
simplified ARP table:
------------------------------------
|IP address Ethernet address |
------------------------------------
|223.1.2.1 08-00-39-00-2F-C3|
|223.1.2.3 08-00-5A-21-A7-22|
|223.1.2.4 08-00-10-99-AC-54|
------------------------------------
TABLE 1. Example ARP Table
The human convention when writing out the 4-byte IP address is each
byte in decimal and separating bytes with a period. When writing out
the 6-byte Ethernet address, the conventions are each byte in
hexadecimal and separating bytes with either a minus sign or a colon.
The ARP table is necessary because the IP address and Ethernet
address are selected independently; you can not use an algorithm to
translate IP address to Ethernet address. The IP address is selected
by the network manager based on the location of the computer on the
internet. When the computer is moved to a different part of an
internet, its IP address must be changed. The Ethernet address is
selected by the manufacturer based on the Ethernet address space
licensed by the manufacturer. When the Ethernet hardware interface
board changes, the Ethernet address changes.
4.2 Typical Translation Scenario
During normal operation a network application, such as TELNET, sends
an application message to TCP, then TCP sends the corresponding TCP
message to the IP module. The destination IP address is known by the
application, the TCP module, and the IP module. At this point the IP
packet has been constructed and is ready to be given to the Ethernet
driver, but first the destination Ethernet address must be
determined.
The ARP table is used to look-up the destination Ethernet address.
4.3 ARP Request/Response Pair
But how does the ARP table get filled in the first place? The answer
is that it is filled automatically by ARP on an "as-needed" basis.
Two things happen when the ARP table can not be used to translate an
address:
1. An ARP request packet with a broadcast Ethernet address is sent
out on the network to every computer.
2. The outgoing IP packet is queued.
Every computer's Ethernet interface receives the broadcast Ethernet
frame. Each Ethernet driver examines the Type field in the Ethernet
frame and passes the ARP packet to the ARP module. The ARP request
packet says "If your IP address matches this target IP address, then
please tell me your Ethernet address". An ARP request packet looks
something like this:
---------------------------------------
|Sender IP Address 223.1.2.1 |
|Sender Enet Address 08-00-39-00-2F-C3|
---------------------------------------
|Target IP Address 223.1.2.2 |
|Target Enet Address <blank> |
---------------------------------------
TABLE 2. Example ARP Request
Each ARP module examines the IP address and if the Target IP address
matches its own IP address, it sends a response directly to the
source Ethernet address. The ARP response packet says "Yes, that
target IP address is mine, let me give you my Ethernet address". An
ARP response packet has the sender/target field contents swapped as
compared to the request. It looks something like this:
---------------------------------------
|Sender IP Address 223.1.2.2 |
|Sender Enet Address 08-00-28-00-38-A9|
---------------------------------------
|Target IP Address 223.1.2.1 |
|Target Enet Address 08-00-39-00-2F-C3|
---------------------------------------
TABLE 3. Example ARP Response
The response is received by the original sender computer. The
Ethernet driver looks at the Type field in the Ethernet frame then
passes the ARP packet to the ARP module. The ARP module examines the
ARP packet and adds the sender's IP and Ethernet addresses to its ARP
table.
The updated table now looks like this:
----------------------------------
|IP address Ethernet address |
----------------------------------
|223.1.2.1 08-00-39-00-2F-C3|
|223.1.2.2 08-00-28-00-38-A9|
|223.1.2.3 08-00-5A-21-A7-22|
|223.1.2.4 08-00-10-99-AC-54|
----------------------------------
TA
BLE 4. ARP Table after Response
4.4 Scenario Continued
The new translation has now been installed automatically in the
table, just milli-seconds after it was needed. As you remember from
step 2 above, the outgoing IP packet was queued. Next, the IP
address to Ethernet address translation is performed by look-up in
the ARP table then the Ethernet frame is transmitted on the Ethernet.
Therefore, with the new steps 3, 4, and 5, the scenario for the
sender computer is:
1. An ARP request packet with a broadcast Ethernet address is sent
out on the network to every computer.
2. The outgoing IP packet is queued.
3. The ARP response arrives with the IP-to-Ethernet address
translation for the ARP table.
4. For the queued IP packet, the ARP table is used to translate the
IP address to the Ethernet address.
5. The Ethernet frame is transmitted on the Ethernet.
In summary, when the translation is missing from the ARP table, one
IP packet is queued. The translation data is quickly filled in with
ARP request/response and the queued IP packet is transmitted.
Each computer has a separate ARP table for each of its Ethernet
interfaces. If the target computer does not exist, there will be no
ARP response and no entry in the ARP table. IP will discard outgoing
IP packets sent to that address. The upper layer protocols can't
tell the difference between a broken Ethernet and the absence of a
computer with the target IP address.
Some implementations of IP and ARP don't queue the IP packet while
waiting for the ARP response. Instead the IP packet is discarded and
the recovery from the IP packet loss is left to the TCP module or the
UDP network application. This recovery is performed by time-out and
retransmission. The retransmitted message is successfully sent out
onto the network because the first copy of the message has already
caused the ARP table to be filled.
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==Phrack Inc.==
Volume Three, Issue Thirty-Three, File 9 of 13
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|| A Real Functioning RED BOX Schematic ||
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|| Written by: R.J. "BoB" Dobbs ||
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::What is a Red Box?::
Essentially, the Red Box is a device used to fool the phone company's
computer into thinking coins are deposited into a payphone. Every time you
drop a coin into a payphone, the phone signals the type of coin inserted with
one or more bursts of a combination of 1700hz and 2200hz. The tone bursts are
coded as follows:
Nickel : One 60 millisecond pulse
Dime : Two 60 millisecond pulses separated by 60 milliseconds
Quarter: Five 35 millisecond pulses separated by 35 milliseconds
::How to use it::
Simply dial a long distance number (some areas require you to stick in
a genuine nickel first), wait for the ACTS computer to demand your cash, and
press the "deposit" button on the red box for each coin you want to simulate.
The coin signals are coupled from the red box into the phone with a small
speaker held to the mouthpiece. For local calls, either you must first deposit
a genuine nickle before simulating more coins or place your call through the
operator with 0+xxx+yyyy. Use some care when the operator is on the line -
sometimes they catch on to your beeper ploy.
::Circuit Operation::
Each time the pushbutton is pressed, it triggers half of IC1, configured
as a monostable multivibrator to energize the rest of the circuit for a length
of time determined by the setting of the coin selector switch. This in turn
starts the other half of IC1, configured as an astable multivibrator, pulsing
on and off at regular intervals at a rate determined by the 100k pot between
pins 12 and 13. The output of the astable thus alternately powers of IC2,
configured as a square wave oscillator, providing the required 1700hz and
2200hz to the op amp which acts as a buffer to drive the speaker.
::Alignment & Testing::
When you are making this thing by no means should you use a 9v AC to DC
adapter! I also suggest not using a bread board. So be careful with that
sodering iron. Both of these things will cause you problems.
For alignment, a frequency counter is desired but you can use a good
oscilloscope as well. (These are not ABSOLUTELY necessary, but to help.) In
order to figure frequency in Hz with your scope you can use the following
formula.
1 S = The measurement of the wave that is on the display
Hz = -----------
S*(T*10^-6) T = The setting of the time selector (milliseconds)
1
Hz = ------------------ Hz = 2198
9.1 * 50ms * 10^-6
Carefully remove IC1 from it's socket. Install a temporary jumper from
+9v supply to pin 14 of IC2 and temporarily disconnect the 0.01uF capacitors
from pins 5 and 9 of IC2. Power up the circuit. Measuring the output from pin
5 of IC2 with the frequency counter or scope, adjust the 50k pot between pins 1
and 6 for an output of 1700hz. Now adjust the 50k pot between pins 8 and 13
for an output of 2200hz from pin 9 of IC2. Remove the temporary jumper and
re-attach the capacitors to pins 5 and 9 of IC2, and re-insert IC1. (Note: if
no frequency counter is available, the outputs can be adjusted by ear one at a
time by zero-beating the output tone with a computer generated tone of known
precision.)
Next, using a multimeter, adjust the 10K pot at the cathode of the
"quarter" diode for resistance of approximately 8K ohms. (This sets the
difference between the duration of the quarter pulses and those of the
nickel/dime -- fine tuning of this ratio may be necessary durring the latter
stages of alignment; this can be done by ear.)
Now, temporarily disconnect the wire between pins 5 and 10 of IC1. Set
coin selector switch in the "N" (nickel) position. With the oscilloscope
measuring the output from pin 9 of IC1, adjust the 100k pot between pins 12 and
13 of IC1 for output pulses of 60 millisecond duration. Reconnect the wire
between pins 5 and 10. (Note: If no scope is available, adjust the pulse rate
by ear using computer generated tones for comparison.)
Leave the selector switch in the "N" position. Adjust the 50K pot
labeled "Nickel" for a single beep each time the deposit pushbutton is pressed.
Next set the coin selector switch to "Dime". Adjust the 50k pot labelled
"Dime" for a quick double beep each time the pushbutton is pressed.
Finally, set the selector to "Quarter". Adjust the 50k pot labelled
"Quarter" until exactly 5 very quick beeps are heard for each button
press. Don't worry if the quarter beeps sound shorter and faster than
the nickel and dime ones. They should be.
::Conclusion::
If all went well to this point, your red box should be completely
aligned and functional. A final test should now be conducted from a payphone
using the DATL (Dial Access Test Line) coin test. Dial 09591230 and follow the
computer instructions using the red box at the proper prompts. The computer
should correctly identify all coins "simulated" and flag any anomalies. With a
little discretion, your red box should bring you many years of use. Remember,
there is no such thing as spare change!
::Parts list for Red Box::
2 556 Dual Timer IC's 8 0.01uF Caps
1 741 Op Amp IC 2 0.1uF Cap
2 1N914 Diodes 1 1.0uF Electrolytic Cap
5 10k Resistors 2 10uF Electrolytic Caps
1 4.7k Resistor 1 3 Position Rotary Switch
2 100k Resistors 1 SPST Toggle Switch
1 100k PC Mount Pots 1 Momentary Push Button Switch (n/o)
3 50k PC Mount Pot 1 9v Battery Clip
1 10k PC Mount Pot 2 14 Pin Dip Socket
2 50k Multi-Turn Pots 1 8 Pin Dip Socket
::Schematic::
_
+9__S1/ _____________________________________________________________
| | | | | S3 |
R1 R2 | R3 o @ o |
|___C1___| _____| |_________|/___ / o \___ |
| ____|_____|_____|____ | | | | | _| |
_| o | 6 4 14 | R4 R5 D1 | | R9< |
S2 | o _|5 13|_____| | | |__ | |
| | | | |__ g | _| | |
g |_|10 IC1 8|_ _| | R8< | |
| 556 | |__R6< |__ | | |
_|9 12|_| _| | | |
| | | |__C2__g R7< | | |
| |_11___3___7___2___1__| | | | |
| | | | |___|_______________________|____|____| |
| | C3 | | |
|__|/| | | C4 |
| | | | | |
| D2 g g g |
|_____________________ |
| | | |
___ R10 | R11 ___ |
v | | | | | v |
__R12 |__| ___|___ |__| R13__ |
| _|___|___|___|____|_ | |
| | 1 4 14 10 13 | | |
| | | | |
|_______|6 8|_______| |
| | | IC2 | | | |
C5 |__|2 556 12|__| C6 |
| | | | |
g __|3 11|__ g |
| |_____7___5___9______| | |
C7 | | | C8 |
| | C9 C10 | |
| | |___| | |
g g | g |
| |
| ________________________________|
| | |
| R14 |
| | | |
| | | |
|___________|___________|3 |
| | | 7 \n C11 R15 |IC3 \n | | |741 6/___
g g | 4 / |
| /| |
g_[speaker]___C12______|2 / | |
| |/ g |
|_______________|
::Schematic Parts Code::
R1:10K R4:10K R7:50K pot R10:10K R13:50K pot
R2:10K R5:10K R8:50K pot R11:10K R14:100K
R3:4.7K R6:100K pot R9:50K pot R12:50K pot R15:100K
C1:0.01uf C4:10uf C7:0.01uf C10:0.01uf
C2:1.00uf C5:0.01uf C8:0.01uf C11:0.10uf D1 :1N914
C3:0.01uf C6:0.01uf C9:0.01uf C12:10uf D2 :1N914
S1 - SPST toggle
S2 - Momentary push button Normally Open
S3 - 3-position rotary switch g - Ground
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==Phrack Inc.==
Volume Three, Issue Thirty-Three, File 10 of 13
PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN { CyberView '91 } PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN
^*^ ^*^
PWN P h r a c k W o r l d N e w s PWN
^*^ ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ^*^
PWN Special Edition Issue Four PWN
^*^ ^*^
PWN "The Hackers Who Came In From The Cold" PWN
^*^ ^*^
PWN June 21-23, 1991 PWN
^*^ ^*^
PWN Written by Bruce Sterling PWN
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PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN { CyberView '91 } PWN ^*^ PWN ^*^ PWN
The Hackers Who Came In From The Cold
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Millionaries and vandals met at the computer-underground convention
to discuss free information. What they found was free love."
by Bruce Sterling : bruces @ well.sf.ca.us
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** A slightly shorter version of this article appears in Details Magazine
(October 1991, pages 94-97, 134). The Details article includes photographs
of Knight Lightning, Erik Bloodaxe, Mitch Kapor, and Doc Holiday.
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They called it "CyberView '91." Actually, it was another "SummerCon" --
the traditional summer gathering of the American hacker underground. The
organizer, 21 year old "Knight Lightning," had recently beaten a Computer Fraud
and Abuse rap that might have put him in jail for thirty years. A little
discretion seemed in order.
The convention hotel, a seedy but accommodating motor-inn outside the
airport in St Louis, had hosted SummerCons before. Changing the name had been
a good idea. If the staff were alert, and actually recognized that these were
the same kids back again, things might get hairy.
The SummerCon '88 hotel was definitely out of bounds. The US Secret
Service had set up shop in an informant's room that year, and videotaped the
drunken antics of the now globally notorious "Legion of Doom" through a one-way
mirror. The running of SummerCon '88 had constituted a major count of criminal
conspiracy against young Knight Lightning, during his 1990 federal trial.
That hotel inspired sour memories. Besides, people already got plenty
nervous playing "hunt the fed" at SummerCon gigs. SummerCons generally
featured at least one active federal informant. Hackers and phone phreaks
like to talk a lot. They talk about phones and computers -- and about each
other.
For insiders, the world of computer hacking is a lot like Mexico. There's
no middle class. There's a million little kids screwing around with their
modems, trying to snitch long-distance phone-codes, trying to swipe pirated
software -- the "kodez kidz" and "warez doodz." They're peons, "rodents."
Then there's a few earnest wannabes, up-and-comers, pupils. Not many. Less of
'em every year, lately.
And then there's the heavy dudes. The players. The Legion of Doom are
definitely heavy. Germany's Chaos Computer Club are very heavy, and already
back out on parole after their dire flirtation with the KGB. The Masters of
Destruction in New York are a pain in the ass to their rivals in the
underground, but ya gotta admit they are heavy. MoD's "Phiber Optik" has
almost completed his public-service sentence, too... "Phoenix" and his crowd
down in Australia used to be heavy, but nobody's heard much out of "Nom" and
"Electron" since the Australian heat came down on them.
The people in Holland are very active, but somehow the Dutch hackers don't
quite qualify as "heavy." Probably because computer-hacking is legal in
Holland, and therefore nobody ever gets busted for it. The Dutch lack the
proper bad attitude, somehow.
America's answer to the Dutch menace began arriving in a steady confusion
of airport shuttle buses and college-kid decaying junkers. A software pirate,
one of the more prosperous attendees, flaunted a radar-detecting black
muscle-car. In some dim era before the jet age, this section of St Louis had
been a mellow, fertile Samuel Clemens landscape. Waist-high summer weeds still
flourished beside the four-lane highway and the airport feeder roads.
The graceless CyberView hotel had been slammed down onto this landscape
as if dropped from a B-52. A small office-tower loomed in one corner beside a
large parking garage. The rest was a rambling mess of long, narrow, dimly lit
corridors, with a small swimming pool, a glass-fronted souvenir shop and a
cheerless dining room. The hotel was clean enough, and the staff, despite
provocation, proved adept at minding their own business. For their part, the
hackers seemed quite fond of the place.
The term "hacker" has had a spotted history. Real "hackers," traditional
"hackers," like to write software programs. They like to "grind code,"
plunging into its densest abstractions until the world outside the computer
terminal bleaches away. Hackers tend to be portly white techies with thick
fuzzy beards who talk entirely in jargon, stare into space a lot, and laugh
briefly for no apparent reason. The CyberView crowd, though they call
themselves "hackers," are better identified as computer intruders. They don't
look, talk or act like 60s M.I.T.-style hackers.
Computer intruders of the 90s aren't stone pocket-protector techies.
They're young white suburban males, and look harmless enough, but sneaky.
They're much the kind of kid you might find skinny-dipping at 2AM in a backyard
suburban swimming pool. The kind of kid who would freeze in the glare of the
homeowner's flashlight, then frantically grab his pants and leap over the
fence, leaving behind a half-empty bottle of tequila, a Metallica T-shirt, and,
probably, his wallet.
One might wonder why, in the second decade of the personal-computer
revolution, most computer intruders are still suburban teenage white whiz-kids.
Hacking-as-computer-intrusion has been around long enough to have bred an
entire generation of serious, heavy-duty adult computer-criminals. Basically,
this simply hasn't occurred. Almost all computer intruders simply quit after
age 22. They get bored with it, frankly. Sneaking around in other people's
swimming pools simply loses its appeal. They get out of school. They get
married. They buy their own swimming pools. They have to find some replica
of a real life.
The Legion of Doom -- or rather, the Texas wing of LoD -- had hit Saint
Louis in high style, this weekend of June 22. The Legion of Doom has been
characterized as "a high-tech street gang" by the Secret Service, but this is
surely one of the leakiest, goofiest and best-publicized criminal conspiracies
in American history.
Not much has been heard from Legion founder "Lex Luthor" in recent years.
The Legion's Atlanta wing; "Prophet," "Leftist," and "Urvile," are just now
getting out of various prisons and into Georgia halfway-houses. "Mentor" got
married and writes science fiction games for a living.
But "Erik Bloodaxe," "Doc Holiday," and "Malefactor" were here -- in
person, and in the current issues of TIME and NEWSWEEK. CyberView offered a
swell opportunity for the Texan Doomsters to announce the formation of their
latest high-tech, uhm, organization, "Comsec Data Security Corporation."
Comsec boasts a corporate office in Houston, and a marketing analyst, and
a full-scale corporate computer-auditing program. The Legion boys are now
digital guns for hire. If you're a well-heeled company, and you can cough up
per diem and air-fare, the most notorious computer-hackers in America will show
right up on your doorstep and put your digital house in order -- guaranteed.
Bloodaxe, a limber, strikingly handsome young Texan with shoulder-length
blond hair, mirrored sunglasses, a tie, and a formidable gift of gab, did the
talking. Before some thirty of his former peers, gathered upstairs over
styrofoam coffee and canned Coke in the hotel's Mark Twain Suite, Bloodaxe
sternly announced some home truths of modern computer security.
Most so-called "computer security experts" -- (Comsec's competitors) --
are overpriced con artists! They charge gullible corporations thousands of
dollars a day, just to advise that management lock its doors at night and use
paper shredders. Comsec Corp, on the other hand (with occasional consultant
work from Messrs. "Pain Hertz" and "Prime Suspect") boasts America's most
formidable pool of genuine expertise at actually breaking into computers.
Comsec, Bloodaxe continued smoothly, was not in the business of turning-in
any former hacking compatriots. Just in case anybody here was, you know,
worrying... On the other hand, any fool rash enough to challenge a
Comsec-secured system had better be prepared for a serious hacker-to-hacker
dust-up.
"Why would any company trust you?" someone asked languidly.
Malefactor, a muscular young Texan with close-cropped hair and the build
of a linebacker, pointed out that, once hired, Comsec would be allowed inside
the employer's computer system, and would have no reason at all to "break in."
Besides, Comsec agents were to be licensed and bonded.
Bloodaxe insisted passionately that LoD were through with hacking for
good. There was simply no future in it. The time had come for LoD to move on,
and corporate consultation was their new frontier. (The career options of
committed computer intruders are, when you come right down to it, remarkably
slim.) "We don't want to be flippin' burgers or sellin' life insurance when
we're thirty," Bloodaxe drawled. "And wonderin' when Tim Foley is gonna come
kickin' in the door!" (Special Agent Timothy M. Foley of the US Secret Service
has fully earned his reputation as the most formidable anti-hacker cop in
America.)
Bloodaxe sighed wistfully. "When I look back at my life... I can see I've
essentially been in school for eleven years, teaching myself to be a computer
security consultant."
After a bit more grilling, Bloodaxe finally got to the core of matters.
Did anybody here hate them now? he asked, almost timidly. Did people think the
Legion had sold out? Nobody offered this opinion. The hackers shook their
heads, they looked down at their sneakers, they had another slug of Coke. They
didn't seem to see how it would make much difference, really. Not at this
point.
Over half the attendees of CyberView publicly claimed to be out of the
hacking game now. At least one hacker present -- (who had shown up, for some
reason known only to himself, wearing a blond wig and a dime-store tiara, and
was now catching flung Cheetos in his styrofoam cup) -- already made his
living "consulting" for private investigators.
Almost everybody at CyberView had been busted, had their computers seized,
or, had, at least, been interrogated -- and when federal police put the squeeze
on a teenage hacker, he generally spills his guts.
By '87, a mere year or so after they plunged seriously into anti-hacker
OBenforcement, the Secret Service had workable dossiers on everybody that
really
mattered. By '89, they had files on practically every last soul in the
American digital underground. The problem for law enforcement has never been
finding out who the hackers are. The problem has been figuring out what the
hell they're really up to, and, harder yet, trying to convince the public that
it's actually important and dangerous to public safety.
From the point of view of hackers, the cops have been acting wacky lately.
The cops, and their patrons in the telephone companies, just don't understand
the modern world of computers, and they're scared. "They think there are
masterminds running spy-rings who employ us," a hacker told me. "They don't
understand that we don't do this for money, we do it for power and knowledge."
Telephone security people who reach out to the underground are accused of
divided loyalties and fired by panicked employers. A young Missourian coolly
psychoanalyzed the opposition. "They're overdependent on things they don't
understand. They've surrendered their lives to computers."
"Power and knowledge" may seem odd motivations. "Money" is a lot easier
to understand. There are growing armies of professional thieves who rip-off
phone service for money. Hackers, though, are into, well, power and
knowledge. This has made them easier to catch than the street-hustlers who
steal access codes at airports. It also makes them a lot scarier.
Take the increasingly dicey problems posed by "Bulletin Board Systems."
"Boards" are home computers tied to home telephone lines, that can store and
transmit data over the phone -- written texts, software programs, computer
games, electronic mail. Boards were invented in the late 70s, and, while the
vast majority of boards are utterly harmless, some few piratical boards swiftly
became the very backbone of the 80s digital underground. Over half the
attendees of CyberView ran their own boards. "Knight Lightning" had run an
electronic magazine, "Phrack," that appeared on many underground boards across
America.
Boards are mysterious. Boards are conspiratorial. Boards have been
accused of harboring: Satanists, anarchists, thieves, child pornographers,
Aryan nazis, religious cultists, drug dealers -- and, of course, software
pirates, phone phreaks, and hackers. Underground hacker boards were scarcely
reassuring, since they often sported terrifying sci-fi heavy-metal names, like
"Speed Demon Elite," "Demon Roach Underground," and "Black Ice." (Modern
hacker boards tend to feature defiant titles like "Uncensored BBS," "Free
Speech," and "Fifth Amendment.")
Underground boards carry stuff as vile and scary as, say, 60s-era
underground newspapers -- from the time when Yippies hit Chicago and ROLLING
STONE gave away free roach-clips to subscribers. "Anarchy files" are popular
features on outlaw boards, detailing how to build pipe-bombs, how to make
Molotovs, how to brew methedrine and LSD, how to break and enter buildings, how
to blow up bridges, the easiest ways to kill someone with a single blow of a
blunt object -- and these boards bug straight people a lot. Never mind that
all this data is publicly available in public libraries where it is protected
by the First Amendment. There is something about its being on a computer --
where any teenage geek with a modem and keyboard can read it, and print it out,
and spread it around, free as air -- there is something about that, that is
creepy.
"Brad" is a New Age pagan from Saint Louis who runs a service known as
"WEIRDBASE," available on an international network of boards called "FidoNet."
Brad was mired in an interminable scandal when his readers formed a spontaneous
underground railroad to help a New Age warlock smuggle his teenage daughter out
of Texas, away from his fundamentalist Christian in-laws, who were utterly
convinced that he had murdered his wife and intended to sacrifice his daughter
to -- Satan! The scandal made local TV in Saint Louis. Cops came around and
grilled Brad. The patchouli stench of Aleister Crowley hung heavy in the air.
There was just no end to the hassle.
If you're into something goofy and dubious and you have a board about it,
it can mean real trouble. Science-fiction game publisher Steve Jackson had his
board seized in 1990. Some cryogenics people in California, who froze a woman
for post-mortem preservation before she was officially, er, "dead," had their
computers seized. People who sell dope-growing equipment have had their
computers seized. In 1990, boards all over America went down: Illuminati,
CLLI Code, Phoenix Project, Dr. Ripco. Computers are seized as "evidence," but
since they can be kept indefinitely for study by police, this veers close to
confiscation and punishment without trial. One good reason why Mitchell Kapor
showed up at CyberView.
Mitch Kapor was the co-inventor of the mega-selling business program LOTUS
1-2-3 and the founder of the software giant, Lotus Development Corporation. He
is currently the president of a newly-formed electronic civil liberties group,
the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Kapor, now 40, customarily wears Hawaiian
shirts and is your typical post-hippie cybernetic multimillionaire. He and
EFF's chief legal counsel, "Johnny Mnemonic," had flown in for the gig in
Kapor's private jet.
Kapor had been dragged willy-nilly into the toils of the digital
underground when he received an unsolicited floppy-disk in the mail, from an
outlaw group known as the "NuPrometheus League." These rascals (still not
apprehended) had stolen confidential proprietary software from Apple Computer,
Inc., and were distributing it far and wide in order to blow Apple's trade
secrets and humiliate the company. Kapor assumed that the disk was a joke, or,
more likely, a clever scheme to infect his machines with a computer virus.
But when the FBI showed up, at Apple's behest, Kapor was shocked at the
extent of their naivete. Here were these well-dressed federal officials,
politely "Mr. Kapor"- ing him right and left, ready to carry out a war to the
knife against evil marauding "hackers." They didn't seem to grasp that
"hackers" had built the entire personal computer industry. Jobs was a hacker,
Wozniak too, even Bill Gates, the youngest billionaire in the history of
America -- all "hackers." The new buttoned-down regime at Apple had blown its
top, and as for the feds, they were willing, but clueless. Well, let's be
charitable -- the feds were "cluefully challenged." "Clue-impaired."
"Differently clued...."
Back in the 70s (as Kapor recited to the hushed and respectful young
hackers) he himself had practiced "software piracy" -- as those activities
would be known today. Of course, back then, "computer software" hadn't been a
major industry -- but today, "hackers" had police after them for doing things
that the industry's own pioneers had pulled routinely. Kapor was irate about
this. His own personal history, the lifestyle of his pioneering youth, was
being smugly written out of the historical record by the latter-day corporate
androids. Why, nowadays, people even blanched when Kapor forthrightly declared
that he'd done LSD in the Sixties.
Quite a few of the younger hackers grew alarmed at this admission of
Kapor's, and gazed at him in wonder, as if expecting him to explode.
"The law only has sledgehammers, when what we need are parking tickets and
speeding tickets," Kapor said. Anti-hacker hysteria had gripped the nation in
1990. Huge law enforcement efforts had been mounted against illusory threats.
In Washington DC, on the very day when the formation of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation had been announced, a Congressional committee had been formally
presented with the plotline of a thriller movie -- DIE HARD II, in which hacker
terrorists seize an airport computer -- as if this Hollywood fantasy posed a
clear and present danger to the American republic. A similar hacker thriller,
WAR GAMES, had been presented to Congress in the mid-80s. Hysteria served no
one's purposes, and created a stampede of foolish and unenforceable laws likely
to do more harm than good.
Kapor didn't want to "paper over the differences" between his Foundation
and the underground community. In the firm opinion of EFF, intruding into
computers by stealth was morally wrong. Like stealing phone service, it
deserved punishment. Not draconian ruthlessness, though. Not the ruination of
a youngster's entire life.
After a lively and quite serious discussion of digital free-speech issues,
the entire crew went to dinner at an Italian eatery in the local mall, on
Kapor's capacious charge-tab. Having said his piece and listened with care,
Kapor began glancing at his watch. Back in Boston, his six-year-old son was
waiting at home, with a new Macintosh computer-game to tackle. A quick
phone-call got the jet warmed up, and Kapor and his lawyer split town.
With the forces of conventionality -- such as they were -- out of the
picture, the Legion of Doom began to get heavily into "Mexican Flags." A
Mexican Flag is a lethal, multi-layer concoction of red grenadine, white
tequila and green creme-de-menthe. It is topped with a thin layer of 150 proof
rum, set afire, and sucked up through straws.
The formal fire-and-straw ritual soon went by the board as things began to
disintegrate. Wandering from room to room, the crowd became howlingly rowdy,
though without creating trouble, as the CyberView crowd had wisely taken over
an entire wing of the hotel.
"Crimson Death," a cheerful, baby-faced young hardware expert with a
pierced nose and three earrings, attempted to hack the hotel's private phone
system, but only succeeded in cutting off phone service to his own room.
Somebody announced there was a cop guarding the next wing of the hotel.
Mild panic ensued. Drunken hackers crowded to the window.
A gentleman slipped quietly through the door of the next wing wearing a
short terrycloth bathrobe and spangled silk boxer shorts.
Spouse-swappers had taken over the neighboring wing of the hotel, and were
holding a private weekend orgy. It was a St Louis swingers' group. It turned
out that the cop guarding the entrance way was an off-duty swinging cop. He'd
angrily threatened to clobber Doc Holiday. Another swinger almost punched-out
"Bill from RNOC," whose prurient hacker curiosity, naturally, knew no bounds.
It was not much of a contest. As the weekend wore on and the booze flowed
freely, the hackers slowly but thoroughly infiltrated the hapless swingers, who
proved surprisingly open and tolerant. At one point, they even invited a group
of hackers to join in their revels, though "they had to bring their own women."
Despite the pulverizing effects of numerous Mexican Flags, Comsec Data
Security seemed to be having very little trouble on that score. They'd
vanished downtown brandishing their full-color photo in TIME magazine, and
returned with an impressive depth-core sample of St Louis womanhood, one of
whom, in an idle moment, broke into Doc Holiday's room, emptied his wallet, and
stole his Sony tape recorder and all his shirts.
Events stopped dead for the season's final episode of STAR TREK: THE NEXT
GENERATION. The show passed in rapt attention -- then it was back to harassing
the swingers. Bill from RNOC cunningly out-waited the swinger guards,
infiltrated the building, and decorated all the closed doors with globs of
mustard from a pump-bottle.
In the hungover glare of Sunday morning, a hacker proudly showed me a
large handlettered placard reading PRIVATE -- STOP, which he had stolen from
the unlucky swingers on his way out of their wing. Somehow, he had managed to
work his way into the building, and had suavely ingratiated himself into a
bedroom, where he had engaged a swinging airline ticket-agent in a long and
most informative conversation about the security of airport computer terminals.
The ticket agent's wife, at the time, was sprawled on the bed engaging in
desultory oral sex with a third gentleman. It transpired that she herself did
a lot of work on LOTUS 1-2-3. She was thrilled to hear that the program's
inventor, Mitch Kapor, had been in that very hotel, that very weekend.
Mitch Kapor. Right over there? Here in St Louis? Wow.
Isn't life strange.
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Those known best by handles: Those not:
Bill From RNOC / Circuit / The Conflict / Dead Lord Dorothy Denning
Dispater / Doc Holiday / Dr. Williams / Cheap Shades Michael Godwin
Crimson Death / Erik Bloodaxe / Forest Ranger / Gomez Brad Hicks
Jester Sluggo / J.R. "Bob" Dobbs / Knight Lightning Mitch Kapor
Malefactor / Mr. Fido / Ninja Master / Pain Hertz Bruce Sterling
Phantom Phreaker / Predat0r / Psychotic Surfer of C&P
Racer X / Rambone / The Renegade / Seth 2600 / Taran King
Tuc <Tuc gets his own line just because he is cool!>
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Sir Hackalot Raided By Georgia State Police
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"They were pretty pissed because they didn't find anything on me."
Those were Sir Hackalot's remarks to Crimson Death shortly after his run
in with the authorities. Sir Hackalot was raided by Georgia State Police in
connection with Computer Fraud. The odd thing about it is that Sir Hackalot
has been inactive for over a year and no real evidence was shown against him.
They just came in and took his equipment. Although Sir Hackalot was not not
arrested, he was questioned about three other locals bbs users who later found
themselves receiving a visit the same day. Sir Hackalot is currently waiting
for his equipment to be returned.
Could this recent raid have anything to do with the infamous seizure of
Jolnet Public Access Unix from Lockport, Illinois in connection with the Phrack
E911 case? Sir Hackalot was a user on the system and in the mindset of today's
law enforcement community, that may well be enough for them to justify their
recent incursion of SH's civil rights.
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Square Deal for Cable Pirates
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by David Hartshorn
National Programming Service has signed an agreement with 12 programmers
representing 18 channel for an early conversion package for consumers with
illegally modified VideoCipher II modules. The deal will be offered only to
customers who convert their modified VideoCipher II modules to VC II Plus
Consumer Security Protection Program (CSPP) modules. The program will be an
option to NPS' current five-service minimum purchase required for conversion
customers.
Participating programmers have agreed to offer complimentary programming
through the end of 1991 for conversion customers. To qualify, customers must
buy an annual subscription which will start on January 1, 1992 and run though
December 31, 1992. Any additional programming customers want to buy will start
on the day they convert and will run for 12 consecutive months.
NPS president Mike Schroeder said the objective of the program is to get
people paying legally for programming from the ranks of those who are not. If
a customer keeps his modified unit, he will be spending at least $600 for a new
module in late 1992, plus programming, when he will be forced to convert due to
a loss of audio in his modified unit. If a customer converts now to a VC II
Plus with MOM (Videopal), then the net effective cost to the customer will be
only $289.55 (figuring a $105 programming credit from Videopal and about $90
complimentary programming).
Included in the deal are ABC, A&E, Bravo, CBS, Discovery Channel, Family
Channel, NBC, Lifetime, Prime Network, PrimeTime 24, TNN, USA Network, WPIX,
WSBK, and WWOR. The package will retail for $179.99.
Details: (800)444-3474
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Clark Development Systems Gets Tough
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by Crimson Death (Sysop of Free Speech BBS)
Most of you have heard of PC-Board BBS software, but what you may not have
heard is what Clark Development Systems are trying to do with people running
illegal copies of his software. The Following messages appeared on Salt Air
BBS, which is the support BBS for PC-Board registered owners.
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Date: 08-19-91 (11:21) Number: 88016 of 88042
To: ALL Refer#: NONE
>From: FRED CLARK Read: HAS REPLIES
Subj: WARNING Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
Conf: SUPPORT (1) Read Type: GENERAL (A) (+)
********************************** WARNING **********************************
Due to the extent and nature of a number of pirate PCBoard systems which have
been identified around the US and Canada, we are now working closely with
several other software manufacturers through the SPA (Software Publisher's
Association) in order to prosecute these people. Rather than attempting to
prosecute them solely through our office and attorney here in Salt Lake, we
will now be taking advantage of the extensive legal resources of the SPA to
investigate and shut down these systems. Since a single copyright violation
will be prosecuted to the full extent of $50,000 per infringement, a number of
these pirates are in for a big surprise when the FBI comes knocking on their
door. Please note that the SPA works closely with the FBI in the prosecution
of these individuals since their crimes are involved with trafficking over
state lines.
The SPA is now working closely with us and the information we have concerning
the illegal distribution of our and other software publisher's wares. Please
do not allow yourself to become involved with these people as you may also be
brought into any suits and judgements won against them.
We are providing this information as reference only and are not pointing a
finger at any one specific person or persons who are accessing this system.
This message may be freely distributed.
Fred Clark
President
Clark Development Company, Inc.
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Date: 08-19-91 (08:28) Number: 47213 of 47308
To: AL LAWRENCE Refer#: NONE
>From: DAVID TERRY Read: NO
Subj: BETA CODE IS NOW OFFLINE Status: RECEIVER ONLY
PLEASE NOTE! (This message is addressed to ALL!)
The beta code is now offline and may be offline for a couple of days. After
finding a program which cracks PCBoard's registration code I have taken the
beta code offline so that I can finish up work on the other routines I've been
working on which will not be cracked so easily. I'm sorry if the removal
inconveniences anyone. However, it's quite obvious that SOMEONE HERE leaked
the beta code to a hacker otherwise the hacker could not have worked on
breaking the registration code.
I'm sorry that the few inconsiderates have to make life difficult for the rest
of you (and us). If that's the way the game is played, so be it.
P.S. -- We've found a couple of large pirate boards (who we have not notified)
who should expect to see the FBI show up on their doorstep in the not
too distant future. Pass the word along. If people want to play rough
then we'll up the ante a bit ... getting out of jail won't be cheap!
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Seems to me they are trying to scare everyone. I think the FBI has
better things to do than go around catching System Operators who didn't
purchase PC-Board. At least I hope they do. First they put in a key that was
needed to run the beta version of PCB and you could only get it by typing
REGISTER on Salt Air, it would then encrypt your name and give you the key so
you could register you beta. Expiration date were also implemented into the
beta code of 14.5a, but the first day this was released on Salt Air, pirates
already designed a program to make your own key with any name you wanted. It
appears that with this "new" technique that Clark Systems are trying failed
too. As it is cracked already also. Maybe they should be more concerned on
how PC-Board functions as a BBS rather than how to make it crack-proof. As
most pirate system don't run PC-Board anyway!
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Georgia's New Area Code
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Telephone use in Georgia has increased so rapidly -- caused by increased
population and the use of services like fax machines and mobile telephones that
they are running out of telephone numbers.
Southern <Fascist> Bell will establish a new area code -- 706 -- in
Georgia in May 1992. The territory currently designated by the 404 area code
will be split.
Customers in the Atlanta Metropolitan local calling area will continue to
use the 404 area code. Customers outside the Atlanta Metropolitan toll free
calling area will use the 706 area code. The 912 area code (South Georgia)
will not be affected by this change.
They realize the transition to a new area code will take some getting used
to. So, between May 3, 1992 and August 2, 1992, you can dial EITHER 706 or 404
to reach numbers in the new area. After August 2, 1992, the use of the 706
area code is required.
They announced the the new area code far in advance to allow customers to
plan for the change.
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Unplug July 20, 1991
~~~~~~
>From AT&T Newsbriefs (and contributing sources; the San Francisco Chronicle
(7/20/91, A5) and the Dallas Times Herald (7/20/91, A20)
A prankster who intercepted and rerouted confidential telephone messages
from voice mail machines in City Hall <of Houston, Texas> prompted officials to
pull the plug on the phone system. The city purchased the high-tech telephone
system in 1986 for $28 million. But officials forget to require each worker to
use a password that allows only that worker to retrieve or transfer voice
messages from their "phone mailboxes," said AT&T spokesman Virgil Wildey. As a
result, Wildey said, someone who understands the system can transfer messages
around, creating chaos.
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The Bust For Red October
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By Stickman, Luis Cipher, Orion, Haywire, Sledge, and Kafka Kierkegaard
At 8:00 AM on August 7, 1991 in Walnut Creek, California the house of
Steven Merenko, alias Captain Ramius, was raided by Novell attorneys
occompanied by five federal marshals. All of his computer equipment was
confiscated by the Novell attorneys; including disks, tape backups, and all
hardware.
Novell officials had filed an affidavit in the United States District
Court for the Northern District of California. They charge Merenko had
illegally distributing Novell NetWare files.
A Novell investigator logged on to Merenko's BBS as a regular user 11
times over a period of a several months. He uploaded a piece of commercial
software from another company, with the company's permission, in order to gain
credibility and eventually download a file part of Novell NetWare 386 v3.11,
which with a full-blown installation costs more than $10,000.
Novell issued a Civil suit against The Red October BBS, and because of
that Merenko will not go to jail if he is found guilty of letting other people
download any copyrighted or commercial software. The maximum penalty in a
civil case as this one is $100,000 per work infringed.
The Red October BBS was THG/TSAN/NapE Site with four nodes, 4 gigabytes of
hard drive space online and had been running for four years.
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Novell's raid on the Red October BBS on August 7, 1991 is the latest in a
two-year ongoing anti-piracy venture. In the same week as the Red October
bust, the original Wishlist BBS in Redondo Beach, California was also raided.
Last April (1991), Novell sued seven resellers in five states that were accused
of illegally selling NetWare. In the fall of last year they seized the
computer equipment of two men in Tennessee accused of reselling NetWare over
BBSs. According to David Bradford, senior vice president and general counsel
at Novell and chairman of the Copyright Protection Fund of the Software
Publisher's Association, the crackdown on software piracy has paid off.
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Lottery May Use Nintendo As Another Way To Play September 1, 1991
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Taken from Minneapolis Star Tribune (Section B)
"Several kinks have yet to be worked out."
Minnesota gamblers soon could be winning jackpots as early as 1993 from
the comfort of their own living rooms. The state will begin testing a new
system next summer that will allow gamblers to pick numbers and buy tickets at
home by using a Nintendo control deck. The system, to be created by the state
and Control Data Corporation, would be somewhat similar to banking with an
automated teller machine card. Gamblers would use a Nintendo control deck and
a state lottery cartridge. The cartridge would be connected by phone to the
lottery's computer system, allowing players to pick Lotto America, Daily 3 and
Gopher 5 numbers, and play the instant cash games. Players would gain access
to the system by punching in personal security codes or passwords. Incorrect
passwords would be rejected. Only adults would be allowed to play.
A number of kinks, including setting up a pay-in-advance system for
players to draw on, computer security and adult registration, must be worked
out. 32% of Minnesota households have Nintendo units. About half of those who
use the units are older than 18. Those chosen to participate in the summer
experiment will be given a Nintendo control deck, phone modem and lottery
cartridge.
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15,000 Cuckoo Letters September 8, 1991
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Reprinted from RISKS Digest
>From: Cliff Stoll
In 1989, I wrote, "The Cuckoo's Egg", the true story of how we tracked
down a computer intruder. Figuring that a few people might wish to communicate
with me, I included my e-mail address in the book's forward.
To my astonishment, it became a bestseller and I've received a tidal wave
of e-mail. In 2 years, about 15,000 letters have arrived over four networks
(Internet, Genie, Compuserve, and AOL). This suggests that about 1 to 3
percent of readers send e-mail.
I've been amazed at the diversity of the questions and comments: ranging
from comments on my use of "hacker" to improved chocolate chip cookie recipes.
Surprisingly, very few flames and insulting letters arrived - a few dozen or
so.
I've tried to answer each letter individually; lately I've created a few
macros to answer the most common questions. About 5% of my replies bounce, I
wonder how many people don't get through.
I'm happy to hear from people; it's a gas to realize how far the book's
reached (letters from Moscow, the South Pole, Finland, Japan, even Berkeley);
but I'm going to spend more time doing astronomy and less time answering mail.
Cheers, Cliff Stoll cliff@cfa.harvard.edu
stoll@ocf.berkeley.edu
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Legion of Doom Goes Corporate
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The following is a compilation of several articles from by Michael
Alexander of ComputerWorld Magazine about Comsec Data Security, Inc.
Comsec Data Security, Inc.
Chris Goggans a/k/a Erik Bloodaxe 60 Braeswood Square
Scott Chasin a/k/a Doc Holiday Houston, Texas 77096
Kenyon Shulman a/k/a Malefactor (713)721-6500
Robert Cupps - Not a former computer hacker (713)721-6579 FAX
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Hackers Promote Better Image (Page 124) June 24, 1991
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HOUSTON -- Three self-professed members of the Legion of Doom, one of the
most notorious computer hacker groups to operate in the United States, said
they now want to get paid for their skills. Along with a former securities
trader, the members launched a computer security firm called Comsec Data
Security that will show corporations how to keep hackers out.
"We have been in the computer security business for the last 11 years --
just on the different end of the stick," said Scott Chasin who said he once
used the handle Doc Holiday as a Legion of Doom member. The group has been
defunct since late last year, Chasin said.
The start-up firm plans to offer systems penetration testing, auditing,
and training services as well as security products. "We have information that
you can't buy in bookstores: We know why hackers hack, what motivates them,
why they are curious," Chasin said.
Already, the start-up has met with considerable skepticism.
"Would I hire a safecracker to be a security guy at my bank?" asked John
Blackley, information security administrator at Capitol Holding Corporation in
Louisville, Kentucky. "If they stayed straight for 5 to 10 years, I might
reconsider, but 12 to 18 months ago, they were hackers, and now they have to
prove themselves."
"You don't hire ne'er-do-wells to come and look at your system," said Tom
Peletier, an information security specialist at General Motors Corporation.
"The Legion of Doom is a known anti-establishment group, and although it is
good to see they have a capitalist bent, GM would not hire these people."
Comsec already has three contracts with Fortune 500 firms, Chasin said.
"I like their approach, and I am assuming they are legit," said Norman
Sutton, a security consultant at Leemah Datacom Corporation in Hayward,
California. His firm is close to signing a distribution pact with Comsec,
Sutton said.
Federal law enforcers have described the Legion of Doom in indictments,
search warrants, and other documents as a closely knit group of about 15
computer hackers whose members rerouted calls, stole and altered data and
disrupted telephone service by entering telephone switches, among other
activities.
The group was founded in 1984 and has had dozens of members pass through
its ranks. Approximately 12 former members have been arrested for computer
hacking-related crimes; three former members are now serving jail sentences;
and at least three others are under investigation. None of the Comsec founders
have been charged with a computer-related crime.
(Article includes a color photograph of all four founding members of Comsec)
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An Offer You Could Refuse? (Page 82) July 1, 1991
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Tom Peletier, an information security specialist at General Motors in
Detroit, says he would never hire Comsec Data Security, a security consulting
firm launched by three ex-members of the Legion of Doom. "You don't bring in
an unknown commodity and give them the keys to the kingdom," Peletier said.
Chris Goggans, one of Comsec's founders, retorted: "We don't have the keys to
their kingdom, but I know at least four people off the top of my head that do."
Comsec said it will do a free system penetration for GM just to prove the
security firm's sincerity, Goggans said. "All they have to do is sign a
release form saying they won't prosecute."
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Group Dupes Security Experts (Page 16) July 29, 1991
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"Houston-Based Comsec Fools Consultants To Gather Security Information"
HOUSTON -- Computer security consultants are supposed to know better, but
at least six experts acknowledged last week that they were conned. The
consultants said they were the victims of a bit of social engineering by Comsec
Data Security, Inc., a security consulting firm recently launched.
Comsec masqueraded as a prospective customer using the name of Landmark
Graphics Corporation, a large Houston-area software publisher, to gather
information on how to prepare business proposals and conduct security audits
and other security industry business techniques, the consultants said.
Three of Comsec's four founders are self-professed former members of the
Legion of Doom, one of the nation's most notorious hacker groups, according to
law enforcers.
"In their press release, they say, 'Our firm has taken a unique approach
to its sales strategy,'" said one consultant who requested anonymity, citing
professional embarrassment. "Well, social engineering is certainly a unique
sales strategy."
Social engineering is a technique commonly used by hackers to gather
information from helpful, but unsuspecting employees that may be used to
penetrate a computer system.
"They are young kids that don't know their thumbs from third base about
doing business, and they are trying to glean that from everybody else," said
Randy March, director of consulting at Computer Security Consultants, Inc., in
Ridgefield, Connecticut.
The consultants said gathering information by posing as a prospective
customer is a common ploy, but that Comsec violated accepted business ethics by
posing as an actual company.
"It is a pretty significant breech of business ethics to make the
misrepresentation that they did," said Hardie Morgan, chief financial officer
at Landmark Graphics. "They may not be hacking anymore, but they haven't
changed the way they operate."
Morgan said his firm had received seven or eight calls from security
consultants who were following up on information they had sent to "Karl
Stevens," supposedly a company vice president.
SAME OLD STORY
The consultants all told Morgan the same tale: They had been contacted by
"Stevens," who said he was preparing to conduct a security audit and needed
information to sell the idea to upper management. "Stevens" had asked the
consultants to prepare a detailed proposal outlining the steps of a security
audit, pricing and other information.
The consultants had then been instructed to send the information by
overnight mail to a Houston address that later proved to be the home of two of
Comsec's founders. In some instances, the caller had left a telephone number
that when called was found to be a constantly busy telephone company test
number.
Morgan said "Stevens" had an intimate knowledge of the company's computer
systems that is known only to a handful of employees. While there is no
evidence that the company's systems were penetrated by outsiders, Landmark is
"battering down its security hatches," Morgan said.
Posing as a prospective customer is not an uncommon way to gather
competitive information, said Chris Goggans, one of Comsec's founders, who once
used the handle of Erik Bloodaxe.
"Had we not been who we are, it would be a matter of no consequence,"
Goggans said.
"They confirm definitely that they called some of their competitors," said
Michael Cash, an attorney representing Comsec. "The fact they used Landmark
Graphics was an error on their part, but it was the first name that popped into
their heads. They did not infiltrate Landmark Graphics in any way."
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"LEGION OF DOOM--INTERNET WORLD TOUR" T-SHIRTS!
Now you too can own an official Legion of Doom T-shirt. This is the same
shirt that sold-out rapidly at the "Cyberview" hackers conference in St. Louis.
Join the other proud owners such as award-winning author Bruce Sterling by
adding this collector's item to your wardrobe. This professionally made, 100
percent cotton shirt is printed on both front and back. The front displays
"Legion of Doom Internet World Tour" as well as a sword and telephone
intersecting the planet earth, skull-and-crossbones style. The back displays
the words "Hacking for Jesus" as well as a substantial list of "tour-stops"
(internet sites) and a quote from Aleister Crowley. This T-shirt is sold only
as a novelty item, and is in no way attempting to glorify computer crime.
Shirts are only $15.00, postage included! Overseas add an additional $5.00.
Send check or money-order (No CODs, cash or credit cards--even if it's really
your card :-) made payable to Chris Goggans to:
Chris Goggans
5300 N. Braeswood #4
Suite 181
Houston, TX 77096
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Steve Jackson Games v. United States of America
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Articles reprinted from Effector Online 1.04 and 1.08
May 1, 1991 / August 24, 1991
"Extending the Constitution to American Cyberspace"
To establish constitutional protection for electronic media and to obtain
redress for an unlawful search, seizure, and prior restraint on publication,
Steve Jackson Games and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a civil suit
against the United States Secret Service and others.
On March 1, 1990, the United States Secret Service nearly destroyed Steve
Jackson Games (SJG), an award-winning publishing business in Austin, Texas.
In an early morning raid with an unlawful and unconstitutional warrant,
agents of the Secret Service conducted a search of the SJG office. When they
left they took a manuscript being prepared for publication, private electronic
mail, and several computers, including the hardware and software of the SJG
Computer Bulletin Board System. Yet Jackson and his business were not only
innocent of any crime, but never suspects in the first place. The raid had
"been staged on the unfounded suspicion that somewhere in Jackson's office
there "might be" a document compromising the security of the 911 telephone
system.
In the months that followed, Jackson saw the business he had built up over
many years dragged to the edge of bankruptcy. SJG was a successful and
prestigious publisher of books and other materials used in adventure
role-playing games. Jackson also operated a computer bulletin board system
(BBS) to communicate with his customers and writers and obtain feedback and
suggestions on new gaming ideas. The bulletin board was also the repository of
private electronic mail belonging to several of its users. This private mail
was seized in the raid. Despite repeated requests for the return of his
manuscripts and equipment, the Secret Service has refused to comply fully.
More than a year after that raid, the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
acting with SJG owner Steve Jackson, has filed a precedent setting civil suit
against the United States Secret Service, Secret Service Agents Timothy Foley
and Barbara Golden, Assistant United States Attorney William Cook, and Henry
Kluepfel.
"This is the most important case brought to date," said EFF general
counsel Mike Godwin, "to vindicate the Constitutional rights of the users of
computer-based communications technology. It will establish the Constitutional
dimension of electronic expression. It also will be one of the first cases
that invokes the Electronic Communications Privacy Act as a shield and not as a
sword -- an act that guarantees users of this digital medium the same privacy
protections enjoyed by those who use the telephone and the U.S. Mail."
Commenting on the overall role of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in
this case and other matters, EFF's president Mitch Kapor said, "We have been
acting as an organization interested in defending the wrongly accused. But the
Electronic Frontier Foundation is also going to be active in establishing
broader principles. We begin with this case, where the issues are clear. But
behind this specific action, the EFF also believes that it is vital that
government, private entities, and individuals who have violated the
Constitutional rights of individuals be held accountable for their actions. We
also hope this case will help demystify the world of computer users to the
general public and inform them about the potential of computer communities."
Representing Steve Jackson and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in this
suit are Harvey A. Silverglate and Sharon L. Beckman of Silverglate & Good of
Boston; Eric Lieberman and Nick Poser of Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky
& Lieberman of New York; and James George, Jr. of Graves, Dougherty, Hearon &
Moody of Austin, Texas.
Copies of the complaint, the unlawful search warrant, statements by Steve
Jackson and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a legal fact sheet and other
pertinent materials are available by request from the EFF.
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Also made available to members of the press and electronic media on
request were the following statement by Mitchell Kapor and a legal fact sheet
prepared by Sharon Beckman and Harvey Silverglate of Silverglate & Good, the
law firm central to the filing of this lawsuit.
"Why the Electronic Frontier Foundation Is
Bringing Suit On Behalf of Steve Jackson"
With this case, the Electronic Frontier Foundation begins a new phase of
affirmative legal action. We intend to fight for broad Constitutional
protection for operators and users of computer bulletin boards.
It is essential to establish the principle that computer bulletin boards
and computer conferencing systems are entitled to the same First Amendment
rights enjoyed by other media. It is also critical to establish that operators
of bulletin boards -- whether individuals or businesses -- are not subject to
unconstitutional, overbroad searches and seizures of any of the contents of
their systems, including electronic mail.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation also believes that it is vital to hold
government, private entities, and individuals who have violated the
Constitutional rights of others accountable for their actions.
Mitchell Kapor,
President, The Electronic Frontier Foundation
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"Legal Fact Sheet: Steve Jackson Games v. United States Secret Service, et al"
This lawsuit seeks to vindicate the rights of a small, successful
entrepreneur/publisher to conduct its entirely lawful business, free of
unjustified governmental interference. It is also the goal of this litigation
to firmly establish the principle that lawful activities carried out with the
aid of computer technology, including computer communications and publishing,
are entitled to the same constitutional protections that have long been
accorded to the print medium. Computers and modems, no less than printing
presses, typewriters, the mail, and telephones -being the methods selected by
Americans to communicate with one another -- are all protected by our
constitutional rights.
Factual Background and Parties:
Steve Jackson, of Austin, Texas, is a successful small businessman. His
company, Steve Jackson Games, is an award- winning publisher of adventure games
and related books and magazines. In addition to its books and magazines, SJG
operates an electronic bulletin board system (the Illuminati BBS) for its
customers and for others interested in adventure games and related literary
genres.
Also named as plaintiffs are various users of the Illuminati BBS. The
professional interests of these users range from writing to computer
technology.
Although neither Jackson nor his company were suspected of any criminal
activity, the company was rendered a near fatal blow on March 1, 1990, when
agents of the United States Secret Service, aided by other law enforcement
officials, raided its office, seizing computer equipment necessary to the
operation of its publishing business. The government seized the Illuminati BBS
and all of the communications stored on it, including private electronic mail,
shutting down the BBS for over a month. The Secret Service also seized
publications protected by the First Amendment, including drafts of the
about-to-be-released role playing game book GURPS Cyberpunk. The publication
of the book was substantially delayed while SJG employees rewrote it from older
drafts. This fantasy game book, which one agent preposterously called "a
handbook for computer crime," has since sold over 16,000 copies and been
nominated for a prestigious game industry award. No evidence of criminal
activity was found.
The warrant application, which remained sealed at the government's request
for seven months, reveals that the agents were investigating an employee of the
company whom they believed to be engaged in activity they found questionable at
his home and on his own time. The warrant application further reveals not only
that the Secret Service had no reason to think any evidence of criminal
activity would be found at SJG, but also that the government omitted telling
the Magistrate who issued the warrant that SJG was a publisher and that the
contemplated raid would cause a prior restraint on constitutionally protected
speech, publication, and association.
The defendants in this case are the United States Secret Service and the
individuals who, by planning and carrying out this grossly illegal search and
seizure, abused the power conferred upon them by the federal government. Those
individuals include Assistant United States Attorney William J. Cook, Secret
Service Agents Timothy M. Foley and Barbara Golden, as well Henry M. Kluepfel
of Bellcore, who actively participated in the unlawful activities as an agent
of the federal government.
These defendants are the same individuals and entities responsible for the
prosecution last year of electronic publisher Craig Neidorf. The government in
that case charged that Neidorf's publication of materials concerning the
enhanced 911 system constituted interstate transportation of stolen property.
The prosecution was resolved in Neidorf's favor in July of 1990 when Neidorf
demonstrated that materials he published were generally available to the
public.
Legal Significance:
This case is about the constitutional and statutory rights of publishers
who conduct their activities in electronic media rather than in the traditional
print and hard copy media, as well as the rights of individuals and companies
that use computer technology to communicate as well as to conduct personal and
business affairs generally.
The government's wholly unjustified raid on SJG, and seizure of its books,
magazines, and BBS, violated clearly established statutory and constitutional
law, including:
o The Privacy Protection Act of 1980, which generally prohibits the
government from searching the offices of publishers for work product and
other documents, including materials that are electronically stored;
o The First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, which guarantees freedom
of speech, of the press and of association, and which prohibits the
government from censoring publications, whether in printed or electronic
media.
o The Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable governmental searches
and seizures, including both general searches and searches conducted
without probable cause to believe that specific evidence of criminal
activity will be found at the location searched.
o The Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the Federal Wiretap
statute, which together prohibit the government from seizing electronic
communications without justification and proper authorization.
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STEVE JACKSON GAMES UPDATE:
THE GOVERNMENT FILES ITS RESPONSE
After several delays, the EFF has at last received the government's response to
the Steve Jackson Games lawsuit. Our attorneys are going over these documents
carefully and we'll have more detailed comment on them soon.
Sharon Beckman, of Silverglate and Good, one of the leading attorneys in the
case said:
"In general, this response contains no surprises for us. Indeed, it
confirms that events in this case transpired very much as we thought
that they did. We continue to have a very strong case. In addition,
it becomes clearer as we go forward that the Steve Jackson Games case
will be a watershed piece of litigation when it comes to extending
constitutional guarantees to this medium."
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Feds Arrest "Logic Bomber" July 1, 1991
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by Michael Alexander (ComputerWorld)(Page 10)
SAN DIEGO -- Federal agents arrested a disgruntled programmer last week
for allegedly planting a logic bomb designed to wipe out programs and data
related to the U.S. government's billion-dollar Atlas Missile program.
According to law enforcers, the programmer hoped to be rehired by General
Dynamics Corporation, his former employer and builder of the missile as a
high-priced consultant to repair the damage.
Michael J. Lauffenburger, age 31, who is accused of planting the bomb, was
arrested after a co-worker accidentally discovered the destructive program on
April 10, 1991, disarmed it and alerted authorities. Lauffenburger had
allegedly programmed the logic bomb to go off at 6 p.m. on May 24, 1991 during
the Memorial Day holiday weekend and then self-destruct.
Lauffenburger is charged with unauthorized access of a federal-interest
computer and attempted computer fraud. If convicted, he could be imprisoned
for up to 10 years and fined $500,000. Lauffenburger pleaded innocent and was
released on $10,000 bail.
The indictment said that while Lauffenburger was employed at the General
Dynamics Space Systems Division plant in San Diego, he was the principle
architect of a database program known as SAS.DB and PTP, which was used to
track the availability and cost of parts used in building the Atlas missile.
On March 20, he created a program called Cleanup that, when executed,
would have deleted the PTP program, deleted another set of programs used to
respond to government requests for information, and then deleted itself without
a trace, according to Mitchell Dembin, the assistant U.S. attorney handling the
case.
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Pentagon Welcomes Hackers! September 9, 1991
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>From USA Today
The FBI is investigating an Israeli teen's claim that he broke into a
Pentagon computer during the gulf war. An Israeli newspaper Sunday identified
the hacker as Deri Shraibman, 18. He was arrested in Jerusalem Friday but
released without being charged. Yedhiot Ahronot said Shraibman read secret
information on the Patriot missle -- used for the first time in the war to
destroy Iraq's Scud missles in midflight.
"Nowhere did it say 'no entry allowed'," Shraibman was quoted as telli
police. "It just said 'Welcome.'" The Pentagon's response: It takes
"computer security very seriously," spokesman Air Force Capt. Sam Grizzle said
Sunday. Analysts say it isn't the first time military computers have been
entered. "No system of safeguards exists ... that is 100% secure," says Alan
Sabrosky, professor at Rhodes College in Memphis.
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Telesphere Sued By Creditors; Forced Into Bankruptcy
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Compiled from Telecom Digest (comp.dcom.telecom)
On Monday, August 19, Telesphere Communications, Inc. was sued by a group
of ten creditors who claim the company best known for its 900 service isn't
paying its bills. The group of creditors, all information providers using 900
lines provided through Telesphere claim they are owed two million dollars in
total for services rendered through their party lines, sports reports,
horoscopes, sexual conversation lines and other services. They claim
Telesphere has not paid them their commissions due for several months. The
group of creditors filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Maryland asking that an
Involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy (meaning, liquidation of the company and
distribution of all assets to creditors) be started against Telesphere.
The company said it will fight the effort by creditors to force it into
bankruptcy. A spokesperson also said the company has already settled with more
than 50 percent of its information providers who are owed money. Telesphere
admitted it had a serious cash flow problem, but said this was due to the large
number of uncollectible bills the local telephone companies are charging back
to them. When end-users of 900 services do not pay the local telco, the telco
in turn does not pay the 900 carrier -- in this case Telesphere -- and the
information provider is charged for the call from a reserve each is required to
maintain.
But the information providers dispute the extent of the uncollectible
charges. They claim Telesphere has never adequately documented the charges
placed against them (the information providers) month after month. In at least
one instance, an information provider filed suit against an end-user for
non-payment only to find out through deposition that the user HAD paid his
local telco, and the local telco HAD in turn paid Telesphere. The information
providers allege in their action against the company that Telesphere was in
fact paid for many items charged to them as uncollectible, "and apparently are
using the money to finance other aspects of their operation at the expense of
one segment of their creditors; namely the information providers..."
Telesphere denied these allegations.
Formerly based here in the Chicago area (in Oak Brook, IL), Telesphere is
now based in Rockville, MD.
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Theft of Telephone Service From Corporations Is Surging August 28, 1991
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by Edmund L. Andrews (New York Times)
"It is by far the largest segment of communications fraud," said Rami
Abuhamdeh, an independent consultant and until recently executive director of
the Communications Fraud Control Association in McLean, Va. "You have all
this equipment just waiting to answer your calls, and it is being run by people
who are not in the business of securing telecommunications."
Mitsubishi International Corp. reported losing $430,000 last summer,
mostly from calls to Egypt and Pakistan. Procter & Gamble Co. lost $300,000 in
l988. The New York City Human Resources Administration lost $529,000 in l987.
And the Secret Service, which investigates such telephone crime, says it is now
receiving three to four formal complaints every week, and is adding more
telephone specialists.
In its only ruling on the issue thus far, the Federal Communications
Commission decided in May that the long-distance carrier was entitled to
collect the bill for illegal calls from the company that was victimized. In
the closely watched Mitsubishi case filed in June, the company sued AT&T for
$10 million in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, arguing that not only had
it made the equipment through which outsiders entered Mitsubishi's phone
system, but that AT&T, the maker of the switching equipment, had also been paid
to maintain the equipment.
For smaller companies, with fewer resources than Mitsubishi, the problems
can be financially overwhelming. For example, WRL Group, a small software
development company in Arlington, Va., found itself charged for 5,470 calls
it did not make this spring after it installed a toll-free 800 telephone
number and a voice mail recording system machine to receive incoming calls.
Within three weeks, the intruders had run up a bill of $106,776 to US
Sprint, a United Telecommunications unit.
In the past, long-distance carriers bore most of the cost, since the
thefts were attributed to weaknesses in their networks. But now, the phone
companies are arguing that the customers should be liable for the cost of
the calls, because they failed to take proper security precautions on their
equipment.
Consumertronics, a mail order company in Alamogordo, N.M., sells brochures
for $29 that describe the general principles of voice mail hacking and
the particular weaknesses of different models. Included in the brochure is a
list of 800 numbers along with the kind of voice mail systems to which they are
connected. "It's for educational purposes," said the company's owner, John
Williams, adding that he accepts Mastercard and Visa. Similar insights can be
obtained from "2600 Magazine", a quarterly publication devoted to telephone
hacking that is published in Middle Island, N.Y.
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Proctor & Gamble August 22, 1991
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Compiled from Telecom Digest
On 8-12-91, the "Wall Street Journal" published a front page story on an
investigation by Cincinnati police of phone records following a request by
Procter & Gamble Co. to determine who might have furnished inside information
to the "Wall Street Journal". The information, ostensibly published between
March 1st and June 10th, 1991, prompted P&G to seek action under Ohio's Trade
Secrets Law. In respect to a possible violation of this law, a Grand Jury
issued a subpoena for records of certain phone calls placed to the Pittsburgh
offices of the "Wall Street Journal" from the Cincinnati area, and to the
residence of a "Wall Street Journal" reporter. By way of context, the
Pittsburgh offices of the "Wall Street Journal" allegedly were of interest in
that Journal reporter Alecia Swasy was principally responsible for covering
Procter & Gamble, and worked out of the Pittsburgh office.
On 8-13-91, CompuServe subscriber Ryck Bird Lent related the Journal story
to other members of CompuServe's TELECOM.ISSUES SIG. He issued the following
query:
"Presumably, the records only show that calls were placed between
two numbers, there's no content available for inspection. But
what if CB had voice mail services? And what if the phone number
investigations lead to online service gateways (MCI MAil, CIS),
are those also subject to subpoena?"
At the time of Mr. Lent's post, it was known that the "Wall Street
Journal" had alleged a large amount of phone company records had been provided
by Cincinnati Bell to local police. An exact figure did not appear in Lent's
comments. Thus, I can't be certain if the Journal published any such specific
data on 8-12-91 until I see the article in question.
On 8-14-91, the Journal published further details on the police
investigation into possible violation of the Ohio Trade Secrets Law. The
Journal then asserted that a Grand Jury subpoena was issued and used by the
Cincinnati Police to order Cincinnati Bell to turn over phone records spanning
a 15-week period of time, covering 40 million calls placed from the 655 and 257
prefixes in the 513 area code. The subpoena was issued, according to the "Wall
Street Journal", only four working days after a June 10th, 1991 article on
problems in P&G's food and beverage markets.
Wednesday [8-14-91], the Associated Press reported that P&G expected no
charges to be filed under the police investigation into possible violations of
the Ohio Trade Secrets Law. P&G spokesperson Terry Loftus was quoted to say:
"It did not produce any results and is in fact winding down". Lotus went on to
explain that the company happened to "conduct an internal investigation which
turned up nothing. That was our first step. After we completed that internal
investigation, we decided to turn it over to the Cincinnati Police Department".
Attempts to contact Gary Armstrong, the principal police officer in charge
of the P&G investigation, by the Associated Press prior to 8-14-91 were
unsuccessful. No one else in the Cincinnati Police Department would provide
comment to AP.
On 8-15-91, the Associated Press provided a summary of what appeared in
the 8-14-91 edition of the "Wall Street Journal" on the P&G investigation. In
addition to AP's summary of the 8-14-91 Journal article, AP also quoted another
P&G spokesperson -- Sydney McHugh. Ms. McHugh more or less repeated Loftus'
8-13-91 statement with the following comments: "We advised the local Cincinnati
Police Department of the matter because we thought it was possible that a crime
had been committed in violation of Ohio law. They decided to conduct an
independent investigation."
Subsequent to the 8-14-91 article in the Journal, AP had once again
attempted to reach Officer Gary Armstrong with no success. Prosecutor Arthur
M. Ney has an unpublished home phone number and was therefore unavailable for
comment on Wednesday evening [08-14-91], according to AP.
In the past few weeks, much has appeared in the press concerning
allegations that P&G, a local grand jury, and/or Cincinnati Police have found a
"novel" way to circumvent the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In its
8-15-91 summary of the 8-14-91 Journal article, AP quoted Cincinnati attorney
Robert Newman -- specializing in First Amendment issues -- as asserting:
"There's no reason for the subpoena to be this broad. It's cause for alarm".
Newman also offered the notion that: "P&G doesn't have to intrude in the lives
of P&G employees, let alone everyone else".
The same AP story references Cincinnati's American Civil Liberties
Union Regional Coordinator, Jim Rogers, similarly commenting that: "The
subpoena is invasive for anyone in the 513 area code. If I called "The Wall
Street Journal", what possible interest should P&G have in that?"
In a later 8-18-91 AP story, Cleveland attorney David Marburger was quoted
as observing that "what is troublesome is I just wonder if a small business in
Cincinnati had the same problem, would law enforcement step in and help them
out?" Marburger also added, "it's a surprise to me," referring to the nature
of the police investigation.
In response, Police Commander of Criminal Investigations, Heydon Thompson,
told the Cincinnati Business Courier "Procter & Gamble is a newsmaker, but
that's not the reason we are conducting this investigation." P&G spokesperson
Terry Loftus responded to the notion P&G had over-reacted by pointing out: "We
feel we're doing what we must do, and that's protect the shareholders. And
when we believe a crime has been committed, to turn that information over to
the police."
Meanwhile, the {Cincinnati Post} published an editorial this past
weekend -- describing the P&G request for a police investigation as "kind of
like when the biggest guy in a pick-up basketball game cries foul because
someone barely touches him." Finally, AP referenced what it termed "coziness"
between the city of Cincinnati and P&G in its 8-18-91 piece. In order to
support this notion of coziness, Cincinnati Mayor David Mann was quoted to say:
"The tradition here, on anything in terms of civic or charitable initiative, is
you get P&G on board and everybody else lines up." As one who lived near
Cincinnati for eight years, I recall Procter & Gamble's relationship with
Cincinnati as rather cozy indeed.
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Hacker Charged in Australia August 13; 1991
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The Associated Press reports from Melbourne that Nahshon Even-Chaim, a
20-year old computer science student, is being charged in Melbourne's
Magistrates' Court on charges of gaining unauthorized access to one of CSIRO's
(Australia's government research institute) computers, and 47 counts of
misusing Australia's Telecom phone system for unauthorized access to computers
at various US institutions, including universities, NASA, Lawrence Livermore
Labs, and Execucom Systems Corp. of Austin, Texas, where it is alleged he
destroyed important files, including the only inventory of the company's
assets. The prosecution says that the police recorded phone conversations in
which Even-Chaim described some of his activities. No plea has been entered
yet in the ongoing pre-trial proceedings.
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Dial-a-Pope Catching on in the U.S. August 17, 1991
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>From the Toronto Star
The Vatican is reaching out to the world, but it looks as if Canada won't
be heeding the call. In the U.S., if you dial a 900 number, you can get a
daily spiritual pick-me-up from Pope John Paul II. The multilingual, Vatican
-authorized service, affectionately known as Dial-a-Pope, is officially titled
"Christian Messaging From the Vatican." A spokesman from Bell Canada says
there is no such number in this country. But Des Burge, director of
communications for the Archdiocese of Toronto, says he thinks the service, for
which U.S. callers pay a fee, is a good way to help people feel more connected
to the Pope. (Toronto Star)
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PWN Quicknotes
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1. Agent Steal is sitting in a Texas jail awaiting trial for various crimes
including credit card fraud and grand theft auto.
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2. Blue Adept is under investigation for allegedly breaking into several
computer systems including Georgia Tech and NASA.
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3. Control C had his fingerprints, photographs, and a writing sample
subpoenaed by a Federal Grandy Jury after Michigan Bell employees,
and convicted members of the Legion of Doom (specifically The Leftist
and the Urvile) gave testimony.
Control C was formerly an employee of Michigan Bell in their security
department until January 1990, when he was fired about the same time
as the raids took place on Knight Lightning, Phiber Optic, and several
others. Control C has not been charged with a crime, but the status
of the case remains uncertain.
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4. Gail Thackeray, a special deputy attorney in Maricopa County in Arizona,
has been appointed vice president at Gatekeeper Telecommunications Systems,
Inc., a start-up in Dallas. Thackeray was one of the law enforcers working
on Operation Sun-Devil, the much publicized state and federal crackdown on
computer crime. Gatekeeper has developed a device that it claims is a
foolproof defense against computer hackers. Thackeray said her leaving
will have little impact on the investigation, but one law enforcer who
asked not to be identified, said it is a sure sign the investigation in on
the skids. (ComputerWorld, June 24, 1991, page 126)
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5. Tales Of The Silicon Woodsman -- Larry Welz, the notorious 1960s
underground cartoonist, has gone cyberpunk. He recently devoted an entire
issue of his new "Cherry" comice to the adventures of a hacker who gets
swallowed by her computer and hacks her way through to the Land of Woz.
(ComputerWorld, July 1, 1991, page 82)
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6. The Free Software Foundation (FSF), founded on the philosophy of free
software and unrestricted access to computers has pulled some of its
computers off the Internet after malicious hackers <MOD> repeatedly deleted
the group's files. The FSF also closed the open accounts on the system to
shut out the hackers who were using the system to ricochet into computers
all over the Internet following several complaints from other Internet
users. Richard Stallman, FSF director and noted old-time hacker, refused
to go along with his employees -- although he did not overturn the decision
-- and without password access has been regulated to using a stand-alone
machine without telecom links to the outside world.
(ComputerWorld, July 15, 1991, page 82)
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7. The heads of some Apple Macintosh user groups have received a letter from
the FBI seeking their assistance in a child-kidnapping case. The FBI is
querying the user group leaders to see if one of their members fits the
description of a woman who is involved in a custody dispute. It's unclear
why the FBI believes the fugitive is a Macintosh user.
(ComputerWorld, July 29, 1991, page 90)
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8. Computer viruses that attack IBM PCs and compatibles are nearing a
milestone of sorts. Within the next few months, the list of viruses will
top 1,000 according to Klaus Brunnstein, a noted German computer virus
expert. He has published a list of known malicious software for MS-DOS
systems that includes 979 viruses and 19 trojans. In all, there are 998
pieces of "malware," Brunnstein said.
(ComputerWorld, July 29, 1991, page 90)
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9. High Noon on the Electronic Frontier -- This fall the Supreme Court of the
United States may rule on the appealed conviction from U.S. v. Robert
Tappan Morris. You might remember that Morris is the ex-Cornell student
who accidentially shut down the Internet with a worm program. Morris is
also featured in the book "Cyberpunk" by Katie Hafner and John Markoff.
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10. FBI's Computerized Criminal Histories -- There are still "major gaps in
automation and record completness" in FBI and state criminal records
systems, the Congressional Office of Technology has reported in a study on
"Automated Record Checks of Firearm Purchasers: Issues and Options." In
the report, OTA estimates that a system for complete and accurate "instant"
name checks of state and federal criminal history records when a person
buys a firearm would take several years and cost $200-$300 million. The
FBI is still receiving dispositions (conviction, dismissal, not guilty,
etc.) on only half of the 17,000 arrest records it enters into its system
each day. Thus, "about half the arrests in the FBI's criminal history
files ("Interstate Ident-ification Index" -- or "Triple I") are missing
dispositions. The FBI finds it difficult to get these dispositions." The
OTA said that Virginia has the closest thing to an instant records chck for
gun purchasers. For every 100 purchasers, 94 are approved within 90
seconds, but of the six who are disapproved, four or five prove to be based
on bad information (a mix-up in names, a felony arrest that did not result
in conviction, or a misdemeanor conviction that is not disqualifying for
gun ownership) (62 pages, $3 from OTA, Washington, D.C. 20510-8025,
202/224-9241, or U.S. Government Printing Office, Stock No.052-003-01247-2,
Washington, D.C. 20402-9325, 202/783-3238).
(Privacy Journal, August 1991, page 3)
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