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# _________________________________ #
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# /he Remote Informer Newsletter! #
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# November TRI Issue: 03 #
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# The Editors: Tracker, Ye Cap'n, Norman Bates, and The Reporter #
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= Introduction =
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It's been a month now, and ALOT has happened. So much, in fact, that the
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infromation will be split into several issues. This should be no shock since
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I mentioned in the first issue that we may put several issues out sometimes.
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I want to congratulate the readers for finally contributing to the
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newsletter. This first two issues were all on information that I, myself,
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obtained. Several people gave me information for these issues, and their
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handle and information is included in the articles.
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= In The News! =
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ITT has 9 digits! | Phreaky Phones Go Down! |Information!
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For those of you who did| The famed Phreaky Phones are down| We have
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not know this, ITT has nine|again. Modem Man, the original person|so much info
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digit codes. They are said|that started them, has said that they|to put out,
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to give better connections|will be down until further notice. In|that we are
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to some extent. This info.|the meantime, other independent boxes|putting out
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was originally given to us|are being started. A listing can be|many issues
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by Party Beast. |made of current ones on request. |at one time.
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=================================================================|If you want
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Magnus Adept Gets Busted | Sprint Codes Are Dying Fast! |all issues
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=================================================================|that are out
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Fellow Atarian and well-| Sprint codes are hard to get and|now, then
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known phreak Magnus Adept|when they are obtained, they tend to|call one of
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got caught by MCI. Details|die rather quickly. Phreakers have|the boards
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of the how, when, and where|been saying that the 950-0777 port|at the end
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are not known at this time.|is dead, but on the contrary, it is|of the issue
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He got caught with 150 codes|still available in states that are|or look for
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and may have to pay up to|not highly abused by phreaks. Here|an editor on
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50 dollars for each code.|again, rumors are being spread. |a hack BBS.
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= The Best BBS of the Month =
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Starting from now on, we will have a BBS of the month. We will choose a
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BBS, ragardless of computer type, and look at the user participation in phreak
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related matters, as well as quality discussions on the various illegal topics.
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A BBS can remain the BBS of the month as long as they reside above the rest of
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the BBS systems. Even though we will sometimes bring out more than one issue
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in a month, the board will remain BBS of the month until the first issue in
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the next month comes out.
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This month's BBS of the month is FBI PirawU9QsvU2Z[.,H:his board
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because of the large numbers of posts in the bases, and not only information,
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but discussions as well, with a minimum number of posts from raggers and
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braggers. The number for it is 516-661-7360. The SysOp of FBI PirateNet is
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The Phantom, not to be confused with an earlier narc.
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= US Sprint Expected to Trim Staff, Consolidate Divisions =
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New York -- US Sprint Communications Corp., the troubled long distance
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carrier, is expected to announce soon that it will cut its work force by
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several hundred people and reduce its seven regional divisions to 3 operating
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groups, sources familiar with the company said.
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The company's Pacific division is based in Burlingame, CA. The layoffs
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and reorganization are par4@O61y US Sprint's new president, Robert H.
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Snedaker, to reduce heavy operating losses, which analysts expect to reach
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more than $800 million this year.
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Snedaker replaced Charles M. Slibo, who was forced to resign in July
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because losses were running much higher than the parent companies had
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expected. Problems with the company's computerized billing system also
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contributed to Skibo's ouster. US Sprint is owned and operated by the GTE
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Corp. and United TeleCom.
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According to sources close to Snedaker, who was vice chairman and chief
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operating officer of United TeleCom, he is planning to consolidate the
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company's 7 divisions, which operate in the same geographical regions as the
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seven regional Bell operating companies, into 3 divisions.
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The rationale for the move, according to idustry analysts, is that the
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company will need a much smaller work force once it begins handling all it's
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phone traffic on it's new fiber optic network, which can carry a greater
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number of telephone calls at less cost. Company officials have said that
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they expect to have most of the traffic on the network by early next year.
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One source said that there would be more than one round of layoffs in the
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coming months and that the company ultimately plans to reduce its 14,000
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member work force by 15 percent.
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Several top managers are expected to resign as soon as US Sprint
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centralizes its marketing and support operations as its headquarters in Kansas
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City, MO., according to a report in the latest issue of Business Week
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magazine.
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A spokesman for US Sprint said on Friday that the company would not
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comment on the rumors. The company is the nation's third largest long
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distance company, after the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (AT&T) and
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MCI Communications Co.
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Last year, Washington based MCI undertook a similar reorganization in
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which it posted a $502.5 million loss to write down old inventory and
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restructure operations.
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Analysts said that is US Sprint is to turn a profit, the company must
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increase its market share. "To do this, US Sprint must gain more large
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business customers, which account for about 80 percent of industry revenues,"
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said Robert B. Morris III, Sec]r6ties in San Francisco.
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Morris said that by using a slick marketing campaign to differentiate its
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all-fiber telephone network from those of competitors, US Sprint more than
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doubled its customer base last year. But "most of these customers were
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residential and small business users that added little to Sprint's bottom
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line," he added. "If the company expects to be profitable, it will have to
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concentrate on providing the best service to volume users."
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] This information was supplied by Ye Cap'n
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= Secret Service Cracks Down on Teen Hackers =
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Mount Lebanon, PA -- The US Secret Service and local police departments
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have put a scare into the hacker community with a nationwide crackdown on
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computer crime that has resulted in the arrests of teenage hackers is atleast
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three cities.
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"People who monitor the bulletin boards say there are a lot of nervous
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hackers out there, wondering who will be arrested next," says Ronald E.
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Freedman, vice-president of Advanced Information Management, a Woodbridge, VA
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base computer security firm.
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Nine teenagers from Mount Lebanon Junior-Senior High School near
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Pittsburg, PA, were arrested recently and charged with computer fraud. The
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juveniles allegedly used home computers to gain illegal access to a credit
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card authorization center. They obtained valid credit card numbers and used
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them to purchase thousands of dollars worth of mail order merchandise, the
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police said.
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Freedman says it appears the hackers used some relatively sophisticated
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techniques in the scheme, including specially written software that enabled
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them to bypass security controls and navigate through credit records to obtain
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key information.
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Police officials say that the hackers also obtained access codes from
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pirate bulletin board systems to make free long distance calls and gain access
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to various business and government computers.
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The arrests were the result of a 6 week investigation by the Secret
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Service and the Mount Lebanon police. The police were tipped off by parents
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who were suspicious about how their son managed to obtain a skateboard valued
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at $140.
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The Secret Service was also involved in investigations that led to the
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arrests of several hackers in San Francisco and New York last July.
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Secret Service spokesman William Corbett says that although some reports
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have portrayed the hackers as part of a national crime ring, the cases are
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unrelated. "It's just that a few of these computers hacking cases came to a
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head at about the same time," he says.
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Federal Legislation enacted in 1984 gives the Secret Service, part of the
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Department of the Treasury, a major role in investigating computer crimes.
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Under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986, computer fraud is a
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felony that carries a maximum penalty of 5 years for the first offense, and 10
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years for the second. Displaying unauthorized passwords on hacking bulletin
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boards carries a maximum penalty of 1 year in prison for the first offense,
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and 10 years for the second.
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] This information was supplied by Ye Cap'n
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= German Teens Crack NASA =
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Washington, D.C. -- A group of West German teenagers from the Chaos
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Computer Club penetrated a NASA network recently, saying they were doing it to
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"test the security."
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What they got into was SPAN Net, a computer network with about 700 notes,
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whi10 is actually based at the Goddard Space Center in Maryland. All that's
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in there is unclassified data, space science information, and post-flight data
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anaysis. "Anyone with NASA related research can apply for access to SPAN"
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says a spokesman, who adds that the network runs on DEC VAX hardware. "We
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picked up three attempts to gain access and put in security precautions so it
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would't happen." His personal opinion is, "We're happy that they couldn't get
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back in, and decided to go public." He also added that NASA has many other
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networks, many of the classified and "probably inpenetrable. But I do not
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want to challenge anybody."
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How'd they get in? Probably they got a West German NASA licensee, which
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gave them a visitor's pass, then they created new passwords with unlimited
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security for themselves, after which getting around the network was easy.
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] Supplied by Ye Cap'n
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We look for information in anyway related to the newsletter. If you have
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something of interests, or something that you saw on television, or in the
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newspaper, then upload it to one of the boards listed below. You will receive
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full credit.
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Pirate's Hollow..................................................(415)593-6784
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Bate's Motel.....................................................(619)267-0293
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