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phile #4 - IIU 1990 Hacking on the compuserve information service typed by
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darkness
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Ever wonder what the hell compuserve is?
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Ever wonder how to get into it?
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Ever wonder why the russians brought back john denver from outer space?
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Any answered yes, this phile is just for you. Except for the third question.
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If you answered yes to that, join the crowd.
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Compuserve is an information service based out of columbus ohio, with node
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locations all over the us. Dialup ports for compuserve are located locally in
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every major and minor metropolitan city in the continental us, plus some in
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canada. Compuserve is also accessable through tymnet and telenet, giving it
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international access. Planned for the future are local dialup ports in certain
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sections of europe.
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Compuserve offers online shopping, airline reservations, more interest groups
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than a cray 2 can count, online games, stock reports, magazine reprints,
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company sigs, etc. In other words, it's real fucking big. Huge. Gargantuous.
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It's great.
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What to get
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Must have:
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Compuserve introductory subscription
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CC
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Loop (fortress phone, if not a loop)
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nice to have:
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Beige box + nearby gte access
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Virgin CC
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Mailing address
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Explanations....
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Compuserve subscriptions can be found in many places. One of the easiest is
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with your friends. whether they hack or not. just aboutall modems these
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days come with these cute little sign-ups, and most peopledo not use them.
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some save them for the fuck of it. walla. other (harderstuff) methods are
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five-finger discount. you can five-finger discountone out of waldenbooks,
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radio shack, and computer stores. but... you haveto go through two or three
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seals to get to the damn book. dangerous. theloop/fortress phone is for
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call-back verification.
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find your cc throughregular methods.(*** note here... if you positively
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cannot find the above or cannot wait to start hacking on cis, check out
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the compuserve hacking file by shadow lord, esq. deals with going through
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ziff accounts. i personally will not go that route due to the fact that so
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many hackers do use them. the only info to remember for the phile is that cis
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does call-back verify on the voice phone now, so include that in your
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plans ***)
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the nice things to have.... the beige box is that in case yer really paranoid
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about being traced, ya can box onto somebody elses line. preferably,the
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neighbors whose fuckings kids wake you up at three oclock in thegoddamned
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afternoon. virgin cc is nice because then you don't have toworry about the
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cc turning up invalid and killing the account. the mailingaddress is so you
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can get your second pw. more later.
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how to logon
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first off, you have to dial compuserve up. you can look at the end of the
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booklet and find a local access number, or find out how to access it through
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tymenet or telenet. (note: tymnet and telenet will provide an extra layer
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of protection, but they are horribly slow. text will go normally for 30 or
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40 characters, then stop, then start. cuts your speed by 2/3, and is hell on
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downloads. line noise too. its a compromise. what's important to ya?)
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if you dialed the compuserve port, hit cntrl-c after connecting. the next
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part is tedious. have all your info ready to type in immediately. first,
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type in the signup info on the inside of the signup kit. then, go on and
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enter name, address, cc #, etc. also,<2C><>ick the business acct when its
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presented to you. gives you more access. type it allllll in. remember
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to feed them the loop and mailing address.
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you don't neccessarily have to type in correct name and such, but it may
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make the account last longer.
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how compuserve validates
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compuserve validates new accounts by two methods. first, the easier one.
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you only have limited access to your account because the first password
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given to you during the signup to temporary. compuserve then mails the
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second one out to the address you gave 'em. after a week or two, compuserve
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kills whatever password is in there, and requires the second mailed password
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for access. the second way is rather new. voice validation.
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how to get around them
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first off, ask yourself. do i want a limited account i cant do shit with?
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if no, you have to find an address you can send the password to. for help
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finding an address, get a text phile on carding. the way around the second
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way is a loop. leave feedback telling them that you're quite busy with
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business matters and such, or that yttle fucks who tried.
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(c) 1990 IIU publications - all rights shat upon
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s provided in
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this report come from Telenet's own International Users Guide, accessible
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with a free call to @C MAIL, where you can log in . Try using this UN/PW:
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User name? INTL/ASSOCIATES
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Password? INTL
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