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: File !
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: Intro to Issue 4
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: Billy Biggs <ae687@freenet.carleton.ca>
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: Zine Review: Inquisitor
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: Billy Biggs <ae687@freenet.carleton.ca>
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: File #
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: First Nation in Cyberspace: the Time magazine article and the Internet
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: Billy Biggs <ae687@freenet.carleton.ca>
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: Hacking your way in *NIX systems
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: Silicon Johnny <anonymous>
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: Science Fiction: Third Floor Garden of Eden
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: Andrew Mays <maysa@knuth.mtsu.edu>
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File - !
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Merry Christmas!!!!!!
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Welcome to Line-Noiz Issue 5. I'm sorry this took so long to get out, but
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I hit a wall without any articles. I would like to see more opinion articles.
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If you want to write a column, or just one article, send it to me.
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Please mail me if you don't like something in this issue.
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Merry Christmas!!!!!!
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Subscriptions can be obtained by sending mail to:
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dodger@fubar.bk.psu.edu
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With the words:
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Subscription LineNoiz <your address>
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In the body of the letter.
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Back Issues can be recieved by sending mail to the same address with the
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words BACK ISSUES in the subject.
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--Da editor nerd, Billy Biggs
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Z I N E R E V I E W
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i n q u i s i t o r modus
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------------------- informata
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extrahere
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T E C H * A R T * C U L T U R E
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Gee, interesting cover. $5?? Pretty steep. Volume 1, Issue 1,
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hmmm, what's in it??
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"
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Table of Contents:
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3 data, errata informata, etcetera
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vast resevoirs of unnecessary knowledge
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4 editorial
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the last word goes to the vermin
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5 new york diary
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real-life trauma
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6 the tracts of my peers
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i gotta hand it to ya...
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8 apocalypso
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the dance of death
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16 iconography
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oh my godzilla
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18 networker
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media-hyper-cyber-spiel
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32 horrorscope
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can you bear your fate?
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"
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"The Inquisitor is produced 100% electronically on a Macintosh
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IIfx computer. Typefaces include the Sabon, Helvetica Compressed and Univers
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families among others, as well as those created specifically for the
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Inquisitor. All graphic images are from the public domain or as credited.
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Software includes Quark Xpress, Microsoft Word, Adolbe Illustrator,
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Typestyler, and Photoshop among others. No X-acto knife, no rubber cement
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was used anywhere at any time."
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"The Inquisitor does not endorse any eschatology of any religion
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or ism, but rather exploits the possibilities of many. The Inquisitor is
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concerned with secular armageddon."
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My thoughts:
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Well, it's pretty interesting. First of all, it's not in colour,
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which makes it pretty bland. The format includes few dark lines to separate
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articles, making it hard to read. I was personnaly unimpressed by the
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articles dealing with religion. They were awfully anti-religious, although
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Dany tells me he does not intend to be offensive. "I dont think that it is
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irreverant or blasphemous in the sense that I feel a need to actively refute
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God or deny God or denigrate God. [...] I was raised in Catholic
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schools...my outlook is more one of just tongue in cheek humor. I find the
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trappings of the church to be Highly Campy humor wise. [...] People can
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decide for themselves who or what to worship, even if i don't worship at
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all."
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The articles themselves were pretty strange, which is either good
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or bad. The article on Appocalypse is a good read if you're into that.
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New York diary to me is kinda stupid. It's a humorous life of the author
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in New York. Kinda dumb (sorry Dany). There is a little editorial,
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entitled Cockroach Apocrypha. The first line is "God must be a cockroach".
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You can guess the rest.
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Iconography (good idea), about Godzilla. A big scanned picture
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of toy Godzillas, interesting info about Godzilla and the line "monster
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with a message".
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Networker."Welcome to networker. A collaborative effort created
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by those on the edge (cutting and otherwise) of reality (virtual and
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otherwise). Completely devoted to getting beyond the hype of VR, AI,
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hyperinteractivity and other forms of mega-multi-meta-media-spiel." Sort
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of interesting stuff dealing with copyright, the trouble with Mondo and
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otherwise. I just glanced, but it was short yet informative.
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Then the tech article. Great stuff. The best thing in this issue.
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how to build an "alternate interface". Generally, it's a card for your
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computer that gives you 8 I/O connectors to add whatever you want to
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your computer. It's up to you to think up something. I am planning to
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build it but havent started looking for parts yet so I can't give you
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advice yet. The article itself was fairly easy to understand, but I'm
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not sure weather he should have given more info about how he intends people
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to use it. Not many specifics on that side, but I'm still interested.
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Global telecom. An article by Dany Drennan about telecommunications
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and the globe (duh). A good read. 4 pages long.
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Horrorscope. Good for a few laughs. Here's a sample:
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"gemini: you will be trapped in an elevator with your new boss on
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the first day at your new job. You are claustrophobic, have the
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flu, and no kleenex."
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Next Issue of the Inquisitor:
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"In the next issue we will focus on people using microcontrollers
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and the like in their artwork: I am REAL selective about this kind of
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stuff so there will be no pseudo-Laurie Anderson imitators. There will be
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an article on women online in terms of language; an article will look at
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the current state of "interactivity" , written by the woman who put
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together the Virtual Museum CDROM for Apple; We will be getting into
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technomusic and computer based music with articles written by a rather
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famous British musician whose name I cannot disclose at this point; he
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will also be writing on sampling and the Fear of Creation; some articles
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on copyright; on the marketing of pop culture; more New York Diary; and if
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I can convince the guy an article going into the inner workings of the PXL
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2000 kid vid camera by Fisher Price."
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The INQUISITOR is available at a newsstand near you, or for $5.00 from:
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Dany Drennan, Inquisitor, PO Box 132, NYNY 10024
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* Opinion
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* By: Billy Biggs
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C Y Y B B E R R S P P A A C E
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CCC Y BBB EEE R R SSS P A A CCC EEE
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-- TIME magazine and the Internet --
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"Twenty million strong and adding a million new users a month, the InterNet
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is suddenly the place to be"
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The Internet is growing like mad, people are getting connected by
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the thousands, services are springing up everywhere and everybody is talking.
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Unfortunately (fortunately??), the media is taking note. In the
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December 6th issue of Time magazine they talk about the Internet as "the
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mother of all networks", "an anarchistic electronic freeway that has spread
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uncontrollably" and "the place to be". The Time magazine article tells
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people about the Internet, how it is used and what it is used for. I
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personally was impressed by the article; it was informative and facinating.
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Yet it also wields a message. The Internet is being regarded as the new wave
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of communications. The Internet is rapidly entering into the offices of
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employees and the homes of teenagers across the globe. Soon it will be
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tamed, domesticated and brought into the home.
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The media attention is not only in Time. The InterNet has been
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featured in many large newspapers, television documentaries and has even
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spawned a few magazines. Internet World <@world.std.com>, a magazine devoted
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to Internet users (and soon to be users), shows the extent of
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comercialisation and the Internet. Companies are realizing the size and power
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of the Internet, and getting connected. Big name modem services, like Prodigy,
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America On-line and Delphi, are entering themselves into the network, because
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that's where people want to go and what they are willing to pay for.
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Of course, this changes the look of the Internet. What was once
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an uncharted region of cyberspace is becoming a user-friendly land of
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newbies and wannabes. It used to be more fun to have to scan through
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hundreds of systems looking for obscure pieces of information. The Internet
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hasn't lost that yet, but more and more, it is being catalogued, divided,
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packaged and sold.
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The once barren landscape of the computer network is beginning to be
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mapped, and exploited. Is this commercialization and media-hype to be the
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begining of a new form of communication, or the end of a once cherished
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dream of a free frontier ?
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P.S. You don;t remember my real name, and my internet address is:
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sijohnny@???????.????????.???????.???
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Got it?
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Here it is:
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******* Hacking your way in *NIX systems *******
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Written by:
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Chapter 1: Gaining access to accounts.
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1: Starting in a system you already have access to.
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This is perhaps the best and easiest way to get started. There
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are many ways to gain access other than yours. The easiest way is to
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search for unpassworded accounts on your system. With an unpassworded
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account, you are free to experiment without a direct link to you.
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The way to do this is quite simple: Passwords, account names,
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uid (User ID), gid (Group ID), finger information, home directory,
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and home/default shell are stored in a file containing everyone's. This
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file is located in the /etc directory. The file is simply "passwd". Some
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/etc/passwd files are written in standard form, other with yp (Yellow
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Pages) form. Yellow Page form is often used on systems with large
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numbers of users.
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In order to search for an unpassworded account, let's look at
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how the infomation is stored in the /etc/passwd file:
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User Name:Encrypted Passwd:UID:GID:Finger info:Home dir:Home Shell
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A typical entry would look as follows:
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Joe_Fubar:yTHe28(e+&e:32:13:Joe Fubar,5551212,5551213:/u/fubarj:/bin/csh
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Now, an unpassworded account would look as follows:
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Joe_Stupid::33:13:Joe Stupid,5551214,5551215:/u/stupidj:/bin/csh
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Note the "::". This is what we search for. Depending on how
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the /etc/passwwd file is stored (yp or normal) depend on the search
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used. To search for a unpassworded account, simply go to the /etc
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directory and type:
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cat passwd | grep "::" <-- For normal passwd storage -OR-
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ypcat passwd | grep "::" <-- For yp'ed passwd storage
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The grep command pulls out all lines containing what's in the
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quotes. The quotes are optional on most machines, however, so you could
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just put " grep :: " instead of the " grep "::" " part. This command
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will give you account ids that are unpassworded and that you can log in
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as without needing a password.
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2. Gaining access on a system that you don't have access
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This part is a little more tricky than the first part. This
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involves either:
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1. Default account/password hacking.
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2. Knowledge of an account/password so that you can look for
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unpassworded accounts.
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3. Backdoors.
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Number two is not much of a challenge, and numbers one and three
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require knowledge about the particular system. Number three is vastly
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difficult and requires great knowledge about TCP/IP, *NIXs, et cetera.
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We will concentrate on number one here.
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Default accounts: (Listed in order of preference of access)
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root
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guest
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visitor
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other misc. accounts.
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These accounts are often found on all *NIXs. Default passwords
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are usually the acount name.
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That's all for this installment. In the next, we'll talk about shadow
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passwords, what to do when you get an account, and how to cover up your
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tracks.
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L8r,
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Silicon Johnny!
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Third Floor Garden of Eden
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1993. Andrew Mays
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It was a technologically controlled garden; complete with automated
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climate control and artificially intelligent walls that manufactured rain, wind,
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clouds and sun. Yet it was the closest thing to nature that we had, hidden
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safely on the third floor; tucked away between the gaming area and the food
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court. And what a wonderful little slice of man-made nature it was! Reportedly
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modeled after President Medjiama's South Tennessee Estates, it came complete
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with a fish stocked lake and with hundreds of species that were supposed to be
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extinct. Word had it that the Medjiama Corporation had investigated the globe
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for decades, searching for DNA samples so they could give birth to colonies of
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such animals. Somewhere is a well guarded compound was Medjiama's Ark, a
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stockpile of thousands of animal furs and parts, mixing both natural and
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BioEngeniered pelts to create the largest gene pool of DNA strands known to man.
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I remember in Medjiama's early days as a politician, his promises to
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repopulate the barren earth with Bioengineered animals and with an unnatural
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kind of man made nature. He made it all the way to the president of the United
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States, had his proposals fly through congress and approved; soon on their way
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to the House when the assassination occurred. I remember sitting there
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watching the news as the events unfolded around me. The crowd bumped and
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shoved around me and passed ghostly through my coffee table, to clutter there
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around the terminal. His body was there, still plugged into a small black box,
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eyes burned open in a frantic twitching of searching, pain and realization.
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It had been the first neural assassination of a president, the first time
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anyone's conscience had been separated from their body. The news said that the
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Barniods did it, had trapped his consciousness in an undisclosed location of
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netspace, and left it there to rot.
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But Medjiama was never one to just give up, and the next the thing the
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government knew Medjiama's consciousness showed up on disk, asking to be
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reconnected to his body. The Government had already held the termination of
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biological functions though, they'd already burned the empty shell of a body
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and spread the ashes across Silicon Valley; so Medjiama was given a fiber-
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optic driveway, a supercomputer home and a CD/ROM storage facility that would
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store twice as much information as the old Library of Congress could store on
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it's shelves. So Medjiama was given freedom from the physical, and allowed to
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explore cyberspace at his leisure.
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That's when he got the idea for this complex I'm in, The University of
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Hiako Medjiama. He decided that everyone should have the ability to choose
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freedom in the net and he built this enormous block of brick and steel and
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chrome and opened the gates to eternity. Those who wanted a NeuralSeperation
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were welcomed in and then killed so that they could live freely in the net.
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However, Medjiama saw the need to allow people to explore the net
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freely, without having the NeuralSeperation and so he renovated this mile long,
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stories high fortress into what it is today. That's when Medjiama installed
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this wing of the complex, with this wonderful little third floor garden of eden
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in it. I come here often to think or to relax, as if I'm drawn here by some
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strange magnetism in my soul. My mother tells me that this is the place where
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the first met my father, twenty years ago next September. I know that this is
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true because I've watched the security tape of September 04, 2012 over and over
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and over again. Yet, every time I see the two of them together here I notice
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something new. My mother is always in the typical red jumpsuit of the
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System Operators Division and my father is in a white shirt and black pants
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that are ironed to a sharp crispness. His eyes are full of life and I like
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these moments best in his life because he looks so young and alive and caring.
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My father went digital about three years ago. Said he was sick of the
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IV tubes and machines that monitored his brain and heart and so he went to see
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the NeuralSeperationist. We got a note that flashed across the VR viewer. He
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said he loved us, that he'd stop in and visit often and that he'd be watching.
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He does watch, I can feel his green eyes on me often in school, or while I
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sleep in here on this soft green grass, and sometimes I hear his voice blowing
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softly across the cool wind. He whispers to me from within the matrix,
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his voice as full of compassion as it ever was, his words kissing my ears with
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caring.
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"I love you," he says.
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"I love you too, Dad." I reply.
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Dad and I have chatted before on the network, but since I'm not
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old enough to get a neural web installed we can't do the real time Virtual
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Reality interface. The neural web was invented back at the turn of the
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century by some scientist by the name of Williams. Gained her almost
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instant fame and riches, but those were the days of low res VR graphics
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and helmets and gloves; so such a radical development in the hardware
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revolutionized what people could do. The network exploded with new users
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who wanted to led virtual lives that were better then their own. A few
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were burned or flatlined in VR Constructs that teen hacs had built as
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games or jokes. That sort of thing was common though supposed to be
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illegal, but no one really paid much attention to the law until the
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government set up NetProtect. NetProtect was a bunch of vigilantes with
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neural webs and a deadly arsenal of programs designed to fry the hacs that
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broke the law. When the Government heard about NetProtect they followed
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them all over the net, monitored their actions and then took them in as a
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division of the Federal Bureau of Investigations. My dad works with the
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local division of NetProtect as an information retrieval specialist; he
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tells me all about his work and the dangers of the net.
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I've been assured a job with NetProtect if I should decide to go
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digital, and my dad told me that the government would pay for my
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NeuralSeperation. That's a free surgery and a ticket to eternity; but this
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garden is what is keeping me here though. I've decided that it is to special
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for me, and so leaving it behind for a virtual representation would be a
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bad decision. Mom told me that if I kept my grades up she could probably get
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me a job in the Systems Operations Division of the university. A job which
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would not be bad for my future, but perhaps boring all the same. It is
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my hopes that I can enroll in the Bioengineering courses here at the university
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and after graduation apply for a job here in the BioGarden. That way I could
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remain close to what is important to me here in this glow of sun and snow and
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sparrows.
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Yes, I think I'd like to stay here in this little third floor garden of
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eden; from now untill eternity.
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I have other work as well if you'd be interested in seeing it.
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One foot in the future,
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-Andrew Mays
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maysa@knuth.mtsu.edu
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>> Next Issue too be out Jan. 1 <<
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Anybody wanna write a 'Year in Review' article??
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I'm still looking for a review of Virtual Light.
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Or any other book or CD review (relating to CyberPunk).
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Till next issue.
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Billy Biggs Ottawa, Canada "When all else fails,
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ae687@Freenet.carleton.ca read the instructions"
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