155 lines
7.3 KiB
Plaintext
155 lines
7.3 KiB
Plaintext
|
HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN
|
|||
|
|
HWN HWN
|
|||
|
|
HWN H - N e t W o r l d N e w s HWN
|
|||
|
|
HWN ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ HWN
|
|||
|
|
HWN HWN
|
|||
|
|
HWN Volume One, Issue 1, File #17 of 20 HWN
|
|||
|
|
HWN HWN
|
|||
|
|
HWN Created, Written, and Edited HWN
|
|||
|
|
HWN by Bauderline, Hackernet BBS HWN
|
|||
|
|
HWN HWN
|
|||
|
|
HWN Special Thanks to The Caretaker. HWN
|
|||
|
|
HWN HWN
|
|||
|
|
HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN HWN
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
United Kingdom :-
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Crackdown on BBS Piracy.
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
April, 1990
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There were recently 13 arrests in the UK relating to bulletin boards and piracy.
|
|||
|
|
From what i can gather it looks like the sysop of a multi-line bbs had put a
|
|||
|
|
'Black Box' onto one of the phone lines so that people could ring in for free
|
|||
|
|
and download for hours without incurring any telephone charges.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It looks like a big percentage of the files available for download were com-
|
|||
|
|
pressed pirate copies of Amiga and other software.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The BBS was raided by the Police on the Black Box premise = but also took FAST
|
|||
|
|
[Federation Against Software Theft] along for a ride and they found all the
|
|||
|
|
pirate files.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I do not know whether or not the other twelve were downloaders from the bbs or
|
|||
|
|
other sysops on a sort of 'network'.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A number of things can be learnt from this :-
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1) Don't use a Black Box.
|
|||
|
|
2) Don't put copyright warez on your bbs.
|
|||
|
|
3) Don't get caught.
|
|||
|
|
4) Move to the USA - they seem a lot more liberal.
|
|||
|
|
5) Don't eat Mars Bars on a Tuesday.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
National Press 'Reveals' the Tone Dialler Trick [May, 1990.]
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This month the Daily Mirror has managed to wangle at least two front page
|
|||
|
|
stories about the Tone Dialler/DTMF Encoder phreak!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Although this has been going on to my knowledge for at least 2 years the Press
|
|||
|
|
has eventually tagged on to it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
What is this phreak I hear you ask?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Well the way it works is that you get yourself a Tone Dialler/DTMF Encoder and
|
|||
|
|
go down to your local payphone which will accept tone dialling. Pick up the
|
|||
|
|
receiver and dial the number you want on the tone-pad/encoder NOT the actual
|
|||
|
|
payphone, then immediately dial a special number on the actual payphone itself.
|
|||
|
|
If all has gone as to plan you have got through for free! According to the
|
|||
|
|
Daily Mirror article you can call anywhere in the world for free using this
|
|||
|
|
method! Again, according to the article in the Daily Mirror a British Telecom
|
|||
|
|
spokesman was quoted as saying that the losses would be in the region of 'ten
|
|||
|
|
million pounds'.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Personally I do not see how this can be the case if it has been going on for
|
|||
|
|
more than two years! On the one hand, how can they be so sure that they have
|
|||
|
|
lost 10 million pounds? Would the people who have been using this freak have
|
|||
|
|
made the calls that they did make if they knew that they would be paying the
|
|||
|
|
full charges for them? I think not! If this is the case they have just lost the
|
|||
|
|
cost of the electrical pulses that made the actual physical connection at the
|
|||
|
|
exchange.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
On the other hand, if the amount of losses was calculated by the full value of
|
|||
|
|
the calls made then it would be many times more than the quoted 10 million
|
|||
|
|
pounds.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The background to this phreak is that it was a foreign student studying in
|
|||
|
|
London who worked it out. He got his tone dialler when he opened a new account
|
|||
|
|
with one of the big Building Societies. They were intended to be used for
|
|||
|
|
people to be able to check the balance of their accounts by typing their PIN
|
|||
|
|
number and the required commands using tones once connected to the Building
|
|||
|
|
Societies service. They can also be used as remote control interrogators for
|
|||
|
|
telphone answering machines. He and his other student friends were all veteran
|
|||
|
|
phone phreakers. In the UK and probably the USA too it is usually the foreign
|
|||
|
|
students who find out the new phreaking methods. Why is that? Well in this case
|
|||
|
|
it was because he simply could not afford to ring his family and friends back
|
|||
|
|
home by normal methods. He came across the method by accident. He was about to
|
|||
|
|
check his account, he was in the phonebox, he picked up the receiver and
|
|||
|
|
then put the tone dialler over the mouthpiece. Then he accidentally pressed one
|
|||
|
|
of the buttons on the tone dialler and noticed that the dial tone had cleared
|
|||
|
|
and that he had actually dialled a number. So he hung up and repeated the pro-
|
|||
|
|
cess, but this time he tone dialled a working phone number - he got through.
|
|||
|
|
He was intrigued by this and thought that he could make more of it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
He could!, after many frustrating attempts and he managed to work out the phreak
|
|||
|
|
and has been using the method ever since to call family friends and anyone he
|
|||
|
|
can think of on different payphones in different locations. I wonder how long it
|
|||
|
|
will take him to work out the next phreak when BT have prevented this one from
|
|||
|
|
working anymore?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
But the most ironic part of this story is that these Tone-Diallers/DTMF Encoders
|
|||
|
|
were actually approved for use by British Telecom!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I someone has had a rollicking for that one!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
British Telecom Gets Hacked [May, 1990.]
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In the middle of January this year British Telecom got well and truly Hacked, if
|
|||
|
|
you wanted to find out how when and where then make sure that you get issue #2
|
|||
|
|
of H-Net Magazine!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
British Hacker Found Guilty [May 26th, 1990.]
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A british hacker has been found guilty of hacking to systems over the JANET
|
|||
|
|
network.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Evidently he had repeatedly logged into the Essex Uni/Poly computers on the
|
|||
|
|
JANET network and 'dumped' the system after being refused a legitimate account
|
|||
|
|
on the system. He had also left messages to the system manager claiming to be
|
|||
|
|
mad.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
He was caught because he had stayed on the line too long allowing BT to trace
|
|||
|
|
him from the Essex computer to the Janet Pad and back to his computer and phone
|
|||
|
|
line at his home.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I my opinion this person cannot and should not be called a hacker in the true
|
|||
|
|
sense of the word.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
What he did by crashing the system and wiping files was intensely crass and
|
|||
|
|
stupid. Anybody can crash a system - but it's only usually a complete idiot
|
|||
|
|
that does.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
USA :-
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Phantom Bulletin Board Dupes Hackers and Pirates
|
|||
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I have heard on the grapevine that a bbs in the USA was running for over a year
|
|||
|
|
and turned out to be run by the Authorities, not before many hackers and
|
|||
|
|
pirates had revealed over a period of time their true identities.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
IF YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO THE ABOVE STORIES OR NEW HACKING
|
|||
|
|
STORIES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD THEN PLEASE UPLOAD THEM TO THE HACKERNET
|
|||
|
|
BBS OR POST THEM TO THE ADDRESS GIVEN ELSEWHERE IN H-NET MAGAZINE.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BAUDERLINE.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
===============================================================================
|
|||
|
|
[Hackernet BBS,LEEDS,UK(0532)557739, 24hrs. Home of H-Net Hacking magazine]
|
|||
|
|
|