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to get slandered. Now, with the new alias, out-of-town post office box
address, Iiving with a bit more paranoia
format. everybody likes it a lot better.
in my day to day living style then versus
Keep it up!
now, since I receive your magazine
Criticism under my own name at my residence. I
Dear 2600: am certain that you may view my
Liked the old format better as it was conservative approach with a bit of
convenient to file in a 3 ring binder. skepticism since this is the land of the
A shame to waste so much space on free and all of that type of thing.
"TAP the Legend" in the J anuary Nonetheless, I am reasonably well
issue. I doubt that many of your read and carefully monitor the trends
subscribers are history buffs. in our society, especially those which
Russell Grant's advertisement is deal with governmental intervention,
better left to the mags that cater to that and those issues which I call
type of crap. I don't think it has a place "perceived threats" to t h e aver age
in 2600. man. You, my dear friends, are in my
The left side of page 11 showing a opinion, just such a source of perceived
TAP sample was also a waste of space threat to many because of the contents
since it is unreadable even with a high of y o u r p u b l i c a t i o n . O u r s o c i e t y
power glass. remains computer illiterate with much
There are many publications on fear about the black boxes which are
computers. You would do better to taking over our way of life. You dare to
make phones the main subject of your publish mildly technical information
publication. dealing with the operations of the
Wi s h you s u c ce s s on your system-not for the intelligentsia of
endeavors. co m p u t e r c i r c l e s , i .e . s c h o l a r s ,
RDM computer literate, o r business user
Texas those who may have a need or right to
We didn't print the picture of TAP for know about such things, but for people
people to read, but rather for people to who want to know more about what
get an idea of what it looked like. For (continued on page 20)
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gOIngs on
An 1 8-year-old computer whiz who Would you recognize Anrika as Enrique,
cracked the access codes to the York as Jurek, Churcha as Jorge, Ovri
computers of the Technion and the as Aubrey and Olina as Evelvne? Have
Weizmann Institute (Israel), and who you ever heard of first name� like
p lanted a fabricated story in Yediot Vabatris. Varusi. Vaznet. Vambel or
Aharonot by sneaking it into the pa per's Vahager? Well. they are names of ladies
computer, was sentenced recently to a when they appear after their husbands'
two-year period of p robation by the names with the Hebrew prefix v added
p resident of Israel's juvenile court, which stands for "and': Thus they
Aharon M elamed. mean-and Beatrice, and Rosie, and
The judge described the youth from Jeanette. and Mabel. and Hagar!
Kiryat Tivon as an extremely intelligent, Institutions did not do better. Where
positive person who let his p rankish urge would you look for the Palace of
get the best of him. Last June, on a dare Hisham in Jericho? Why. under A. It is
from his friends, the youth planted a listed as Ancient Hisham Palace. What
story in Yediot that a businessman and is Konsula Amerikea? Do you know the '
an electronics teacher from his town had Bible Evenjelistik Mission?
been arrested in the U . S . on drug How did we. a supposed�v po�vglot
charges. M ischief isn't his only hobby, and cosmopolitan society, end up with
though. Over the past few years, he's such a product?
organized computer clubs in his school The editor noted that Bezek
and develo ped a computerized telephone (a pparently their telco) sent out forms to
message service for the deaf, all on a all subscribers requesting them to return
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voluntary basis. them with the correct s pelling of their
And while we're over in Israel, it's names in Latin characters. Few did, so
hard to imagine the p roblems those poor the translation was then entrusted to a
folks are having when they o pen up a computer. And, as another reader
telep hone book! This letter appeared in pointed out, "how can anyone teach a
The Jerusalem Post last year: com puter to decide whether the H ebrew
The Jerusalem telephone directory in letter peh should be rendered as P or as
English is a real disappointment. What a F, the letter bet as B or Y, the letter waw
waste of time. energy and money! Many as W, Y, U or 0, etc.? H ow would it
hundreds. nay thousands. of names are choose a vowel if none appears in
distorted. many of them beyond H ebrew?"
recognition. We should keep this in mind the next
It is conceivable that when looking for time we call international information
names like Breitbart. Gelernter. (which is still free, by the way) and ask
Schnabel or Kugelmass you might still for a listing under a particular name.
find them. although they are listed as Plain English just doesn't come easily in
Britbrat. Galranter. Shanbal and some places.
Kogelms. But where would you find S peaking of English. British Telecom
Foerster. Spitz. Pereira. Corinaldi. has launched a service called TextDirect,
Procaccia or Preuss. when they are listed which provides a link between the telex
as Parster. Shafitz. Friera. Korindeli. network and personal computers.
Fruktzia and Frois? M essages can be typed directly or
Nor did Arab names escape prepared in advance and stored in the
mutilation. What is Chochmat. TextDirect computer in London.
Avdelala. Tzantzor. Fried. Griss and M essages are then delivered to the telex
Allentesha but Hikmet. Abdallah. network via BTl's Telex Plus service.
Sansur. Farid. Jaris and Elnatshe? which provides store-and-forward
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facilities. Incoming messages are stored Quite a different story in the Soviet
on the TextDirect computer and Union, where finding Soviet-made
retrieved by the user when convenient. A software is nearly impossible. Soviet
password will help give the impression children are actually playing games like
of security. "Rambo" and 'The Battle of 1917".
BTl is also working on the first Two reporters from Komsomolskaya
worldwide satellite telephone service for Pravda met with officials, programmers,
air travellers. BTl and the and hackers, known as "sinklerists",
telecommunications authorities in apparently after the British-made
Norway and Singapore will begin testing Sinclair computer.
the system. which BTl will launch on One sinklerist showed them a list of
transatlantic routes in 1988. A special 277 computer programs that he was
antenna mounted on the aircraft will selling for five rubles (about $8) apiece.
transmit the signals to the INMARSAT "There was not one nationally made
satellite, where they will be downlinked program," they said.
to the earth station, and then switched Meanwhile, we may all be in danger
to the public telephone network. A from Open Systems Incorporated.
dedicated earth station at Goonhilly They're a Minnesota-based software
Downs in Cornwall, England will be house that's offering free software to
used for BTl Skyphone, as will other anyone who provides information about
stations in Norway and Singapore for coworkers who copy software. As if that
their phone service. wasn't enough, they're threatening to
And they're not stopping there. British take legal action against people who
Telecom is introducing CentellOO in know about illegal copying but don't say
Augusl, providing all the facilities of a anything! Computer users around the
modem electronic switchboard. It will country are surely trembling. Even the
be run from a new digital public sinklerists are concerned.
exchange British Telecom is installing in A slightly friendlier approach is being
London. taken by Pride Software Development
And residents of Tokyo now have Corp. of Oakland Park, Florida. They
"answering machines" tied into their claim to have come up with the ultimate
touch tone phones! The Nippon weapon against software piracy. It's a
Telegraph and Telephone Corp. has program called "Smarty Arti".
made this option available to every Pride President Wayne Wolfe has
touch tone phone in Tokyo, even pay strapped Arti to a $100 amortization
phones. Customers can record up to 10 program called the "Loan Ranger" and
messages, each 30 seconds long. will give $25,000 to the first hacker who
Over in Scotland, the Scottish Law breaks through the protection.
Commission is setting out to plug a gap According to Wolfe, Arti stops.
in the law which could allow hackers to attempts to decipher it by fighting back
practice openly. A spokesman says, "We when it senses hackers using tools
looked at how a computer can be
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needed to inspect and crack protection �
misused and then looked at existing schemes. S·
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computer crimes. We came to the And spies who can read data on a �
conclusion that one area which was most computer screen from another building §
clearly not covered by the law was or from a van parked outside may be �
hacking. Other areas, for example, logic thwarted by a new device being
bombs, are covered by criminal damage
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developed by Luton (England) based
law."
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EMC-Datacare Ltd. who specialize in �
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interference suppression.
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gO Ings on (continued)
A p rototype module, code-named person you get to sign up must become
Datacover, confuses the signals emitted an "Allnet Customer", which they define
from the screen making them unreadable as someone who chooses A llnet as their
.
by an interceptor. primary carrier, not someone who
If you're a hacker or a s py, then the simply signs up for an account . So, if
Telecom Security G roup of Wallkill, NY your friend becomes dissatisfied with
wants you to participate in its first On- Allnet, they'must pay a fee to change to
Line Hacker/ Phreaker Survey. U ntil another company. A fee of $5, to be
May 4th, when you call the ITSG BBS exact.
at 9 1 4-LOG-ONIT (9 1 4-564-6648 ) and Speaking of phones, Chicago is now
type "SURVEY" at the last name an all-ESS town. Their 46th and final
prompt you will be brought into the switching center has been converted to
survey portion of the board . Once on electronic switching from
you will be asked questions about electromechanical. This makes Chicago
yourself, your interests, attitudes, etc. the nation's largest all-electronic
Each survey will be closely read and telephone city, ending an 1 8-year
beginning M ay 4th the results will be conversion process.
gathered . The final conclusions will be Then there is the story of a man
published in a national security wandering around getting alternate pay
magazine and distributed to security phone manufacturers awfully upset . H is
peo p le. name is Marc Tobias and he is on a one-
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Slowly but surely, Telenet seems to be man crusade to expose the ease of
getting the message. First, they defrauding most customer-owned coin-
introduced PC-Pursuit, which allowed operated telephones (COCOT's).
modem users unlimited access to bulletin By publishing an art icle on fraud in
boards all over the country for a set fee. Pay Phone Magazine, Tobias has caused
Now, they're selling individual an uproar. He's being accused of getting
mailboxes for their electronic mail pUblicity so he can sell more of his own
system, Telemail. For a $20 monthly phones.
minimum, regular peo p le can have Tobias says he's called the U . S .
electronic mailboxes too. Embassy in London without using coins
Allnet has a new service that is lasting or cards from several alternate
through A p ril. It's called Tell-A-Friend. payphones. " I f a phone can be beaten, it
If you're an Allnet customer and you tell will be, and often , " he says. Other
someone to sign u p for A llnet and t hey manufacturers d isagree with his
actually listen to you, you stand to make methods, claiming Tobias, by
$5 ! But the offer is a bit deceiving. The pUblicizing the specifics is doing the
(continued on page 23)
(continued/rom page 9)
and General Mobile Radio Service are issue of 2600 for a common breakdown
not protected. of the cellular channels, which are
"Fixing" Your Radio Shack between 800 and 890 megahertz. N ot all
PRO·2004 Scanner cellular networks have this number of
The release of the Radio Shack PRO- channels, but they can be easily figured
2004 scanner was delayed until the out by careful listening to a scanner.
passing of the Electronic M ost cellular conversations can be
Communications Privacy Act. Radio listened to in their entirety without
Shack is a major marketer of cellular losing them due to cell site switching
phones, and thus lobbied hard for the hand off. H owever, even when this
passage of the bill so purchasers of their occurs to the call you are listening to,
cellular phones could feel that the you can easily pick it up again by merely
privacy of calls was secure. Therefore scanning the frequencies again for the
the release of their PRO-2004 scanner next cell. In this way and with a car one
was delayed for four months in order to can follow a conversation in its entirety.
see if the bill would be passed. When the A few words of warning though. This
scanner was finally released, the use of a scanner clearly violates the
"forbidden" 800 megahertz region was Electronic Communications Privacy
unable to be accessed. All Radio Shack Act. The use of a scanner (or often the
did was connect an extra diode to the mere presence of a scanner) within a car
circuit board to prevent reception of the violates laws in many states and
"forbidden frequencies. " Below are localities, so check this out before you
instructions reprinted from page 48 of let one into your car. Using any
the M arch 1987 (Volume 6, Number 3) infonnation gathered off of the airwaves
issue of Monitoring Times on how to for personal gain violates federal law. As
remedy the situation. this activity is clearly illegal, 2600 does
I . Remove the four cabinet screws and not condone or encourage listening to
the cabinet. cellular calls.
2. Turn the receiver upside down and
locate circuit board PC-3.
3. Remove seven screws holding board
and plug CN-501.
4. Carefully lift up the board and locate
diode soldered in place below the
module.
5. Snip one lead of the diode carefully,
leaving it suspended by the other lead
for later reattachment if desired, such as
warranty repair.
6. Reverse first four steps above for
reassembly. Radio will now cover 825-
845 and 870-890 M H z and search in 30
K H z increments for no-gap 760-1300
M H z reception.
The "Forbidden Frequencies"
N ow the more adventurous readers
may want to go listen to these forbidden
frequencies. Check the February 1987 At least one good use for those cheap phones.
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CNA LIST 10
LETTERS 12
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