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THE WATER COUNTER BUG
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How To Get Free Water
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2010 - by cyberinfo
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This little file here will show you a bug in the water counter which
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belongs to probably every household on this planet. With this bug you have
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the ability to stop the counting of your water counter which means exactly
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you can run warm and cold water as much as you want without paying for it.
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The bug was tested - and it *works perfectly*. This paper was written for
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educational purposes only, it is not written to incite people to use this
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information to do what is described in this paper - though i think that
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the public has the right to know about the existence of this bug. I dont
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know what this information will cause and if the industry has to develop a
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new mechanism to count the water they sell with huge profits.
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The manipulation of the water counter is also done without to destroy or
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open the counter itself - also we will do it in a way it is hard to
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detect up to no detection at all. To detect the exploit of the bug if you
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have done it really good is only possible if the person who looks at the
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water counter has the knowledge about this bug or forgot his glasses at
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home if you know what i mean. (-; Also: this hardware experiment was done
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with a special water counter - they are not all the same - but probably
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for the rest of the others there are other tricks to get it done.
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So lets get started - how is it done you may ask now? So first i will
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give you an ASCII picture of the water counter as a small illustration for
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a better imagination with the description of some details:
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[ 1) ]
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[ [00012.739]m. ]
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[ 2) ]
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[ ] 1) transparent plastic screen
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[ ] 2) the count of the used water
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[ ] 3) a little wheel ( the bug )
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[ \|/ ] 4) a sticker with a date on it
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[ --o-- ----- ]
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[ /|\ ( 007 ) ]
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[ 3) -----4) ]
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[ ]
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So you can see our little ASCII art. 1) is the water counter itself, it is
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often also round and is covered by a hard transparent plastic screen 2) is
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the analog screen (counter) of the used water 3) is a little "useless" (-;
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wheel on the outside of the water counter, it is behind the plastic screen
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and this is the bug itself as will we see later, 4) a sticker with a date
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on it - which shows to when the counter is authenticated or when the
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authentication has started. Some other water counters often have even more
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outside wheels which function as small analog counters also, i dont know
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if you can use these wheels too to exploit the water counter - in this
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case like said we will use wheel 3) which is our bug.
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So now here is how it is really easy done with a few small steps. First we
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remove the little sticker with the date on it and put it aside with the
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glue side on top because we will use it again on another place to hide the
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manipulation of the water counter. Now we take a sewing needle and make a
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very little hole in the sticker - and not on a random place - no, we make
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the hole right into one of the numbers, so on black color because you will
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not see the hole when you make it there. Here is the illustration for our
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example zoomed in -- look above, "007" was our example date:
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.--------------------.
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the sticker: / -- -- .----- \
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(4) ( //\\ //\\ "---+/ )
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[ (( )) (( )) // ]
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( \\// \\// // ) + = needle hole
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\ -- -- -- /
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"--------------------"
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As you can see, the " + " marks our very tiny sewing needle hole which is
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made *into* the black ink of the number 7 (seven). Now we need a lighter
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to heat the sewing needle on the top of it to the point where it glows a
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bit red. And then while it is so hot we make carefully another tiny hole
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into the transparent plastic screen above the little wheel (3), look here:
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- -
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the wheel: \\ //
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(3) \\// +
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====()====
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//\\
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// \\ + = tiny hole in the plastic
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- -
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Just use the tip of the glowing sewing needle to make the hole in the
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transparent plastic then it will be as tiny as we want it to be. Now take
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the sticker with the date on it up again and place it that both tiny holes
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are above each other and that the sticker sits optically perfectly. So far
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so good. Now our manipulated water counter looks something like this where
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the wheel is:
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- .-
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manipulated: \\ -----
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\( 007 )
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====()----
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//\\
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// \\
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- -
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And now comes the exploit itself, maybe you already can imagine what
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follows. We now stick the thin needle carefully through the hole that it
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will not become bigger till the needle is between two ( of the six ) small
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plastic sticks of the wheel. And that is really all to do. Now when we
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start using warm or cold water there is a quiet sound to hear like "klak
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klak" and you will hear it all the time because the inner mechanism of the
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water counter has stopped counting our used water - due to the stop of the
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outside plasitc wheel which we stopped rotating with the help of the
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needle the inner gearwheels also stopped and that means: water for free as
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long as the needle is inside the hole of course. So you can easy hide your
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activities with just pulling out the needle - the hole is really just to
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thin and small, if done right, to detect it.
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So this is the end of the information. To totally end the manipulation to
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completely hide what you have done you could change the transparent
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plastic front of the water counter or just put a bit of superglue on the
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hole in the plastic or destroy it and say it was by accident - nobody can
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really proof what was going on. Sounds harsh and yes, sadly it is.
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This file was written for educational purposes only - the writer of this
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textfile is not responsible for your actions - remember that. You have the
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right to copy this file to share the information included. ( Copyleft )
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-- written by cyberinfo
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in 2010
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_EOF_
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