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Voice Mail Hacking
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Part 1: Brief Summary
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Along about 2 years ago, I would do just about anything to get my own Vmb.
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I would almost sell my soul for one. But alas, at the time almost no one
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was giving any away and I had nothing worthy to trade. So, I started hacking
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my own. At first I hacked people's boxes, guessing their passcodes. This
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of course is stupid, because all they have to do is alert the system manager
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and poof, no more mailbox. So, after I had experianced that, I started to
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discover that no one missed empty boxes. And here I am today - writing a
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file to teach most of you what I know now. So let's begin, shall we?
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The first step to hacking anything - anything at all - is to know what
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you're hacking. The same applys to Vmb hacking. So, let me start off by
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describing some of the prominant voice mail systems.
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Adr
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These are the familiar mailboxes that I am sure all of you have called once
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in your life. These are the systems where you hear some cheesy greeting,
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hit "*" twice, and then enter the mailbox number. When you first press
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the "*", the system thinks that you own that mailbox and are entering it.
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So, it will reply with "Hello xxxx, please enter your passcode." So you
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hit "*" a second time and abort it, and find yourself plopped at the main
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menu, with the friendly greeting of "Welcome to the message center." Some
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notes on this system is that boxes are usually (sometimes not) 4 digits in
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length - as are the passcodes. The message length is usually pretty nice,
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anywhere from 1-5 minutes. But of course this all depends on the nazi
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system manager. Anyway. Adr's are good little systems. Easy to hack - easy to
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use.
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Aspen
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I'm sure that everyone has at one time called this, too. If there is no
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system greeting, you will be welcomed with "Hello, this is Aspen. The
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automated speech exchange network." Pretty self-explanatory, is it not? If
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there is a system greeting set-up, you will have to press "*" once to skip
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that. You will then hear "Please dial the number of the person you're
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calling. If you have a mail box on this system, please press pound."
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Aspen's are clear give-aways. Boxes are either 3-4 digits, passcodes 4-5
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or longer. However, I have never seen any larger then 5 digits, but they can
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be expanded to as much as 9. Message length is usually around the 1 minute
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range, depending on what mailbox you hack. I have one currently on an Aspen
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that is up around the 8 minute range, but that's just because it's like a
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"Cosysop" box. It can do limited system manager functions. Anyway.
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Friendly system, easy to hack.
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Genesis
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Ok, I would suppose. When you call, you'll be greeted with (usually) "Good
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xxxx. Please enter the mailbox number you wish". The "#" key takes you to a
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directory, where you can just hit the first letter (A,B,C,etc.) of someones
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name to hear their mailbox number. Of course, A B & C are all on the same
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number, 2, so that is even easier. Just scribble down some box numbers -
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they may be worth playing around with. After all, it's always fun to delete
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someone else's voice mail. If you press "*" it will usually adjust the
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volume, or just abort to whatever. Boxes are 3-4 digits, 3 is more
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prominant. Passcodes are usually 3-4, with 4 being the more frequent choice.
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While you are listening to someone's greeting, you can press "0" to enter
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the passcode for that mailbox. Overall, it's ok. Not the greatest,
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but not the worst either.
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Part 2: Locating An Empty Box
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This is, for the most part, the major step to Vmb hacking. For if you can't
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find an empty, you'll probably lose your box the next buisness day.
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Anyway. The main pain-in-the-ass about Vmb hacking is that after 3 invalid
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trys the system usually hangs up on you. To make your job even harder,
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they usually space out boxes, leaving little gaps of 3 or 4 in between. That
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way if you scan straight through you get discouraged. But of course, there is
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a way around that nasty little feature. All systems have a nifty
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little "Abort" key. It's usually "*" or "#", and it takes you out of almost
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any situation. That comes in very, very handy while you are looking over
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the system for an empty box. Let me pass on some tricks for each system.
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Adr
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So, you have now found yourself an ADR. You are at the "Welcome to the.."
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prompt. Things to remember are that boxes usually start at 1000 or 2000,
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and there is almost always a system mailbox somewhere in the 9000 range,
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usually at 9999. (That applys for every system, save that some systems
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may be 3 digit boxes, so chop a digit, that's all.) Now, to defeat that nasty
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little 3 try hang-up, you must first find yourself a good box. It dosen't
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matter whose - empty or not. Look in the common places, explained above. As
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soon as you find one, jot it down. Now you can scan freely and after every 2
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bad trys just punch up the good box, abort out of that and scan some more.
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So, ok. Let's say you find a good mailbox. You'll be hearing the
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greeting. Hit "*" twice, you're back at the "Welcome to the.." prompt. Now
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you can scan 2 more invalid trys worth. A hint is that empty boxes are
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always, and I mean always, at the end of the good boxes. To save time I
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suggest scanning by 100's. Of course, going backwards once in awhile a few
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digits.. Anyway. When you find an empty mailbox, instead of a greeting
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you'll hear "Mailbox xxxx" or something. Hit "*" once, and you'll
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hear "Hello mailbox xxxx, please enter your passcode." Whalla, you have
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located an empty. Write the number down, hit "*" and scan by ones above
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and below the number. There is never just one.
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Apsen
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The easiest way to scan Aspen's is to pretend you're going to enter your
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mailbox. Hit "#", then a probable mailbox number, as I outlined in the
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Adr's above. Once you find one, you'll hear something like "John Doe, please
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enter your password." The name will be in the owner's voice - just to make
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everything nice and friendly. Hit "*" and scan around. When you find an
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empty, you'll hear something like "Mailbox xxxx, please enter your
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passcode." The rest is basically the same as the Adr's. Write it down, scan
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around. Gee, this is sure fun, isn't it?
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Genesis
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Well, you get the goofy prompt on this, and the easiest way is just to
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hit "#" and then "2" and write down some numbers. Or, you could do 2-9 and
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find the highest number. Then scan just above that for emptys. When you
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enter someone's box, you'll hear their greeting. Hit "0", then hit "#" to
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abort. As always, remember the 3 strikes rule, and keep going back to a
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good box after 2 faulty tries. When you locate an empty, the greeting will
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be "I'm taking a message for Mmailbox xxxx." Hit "0". Then you'll hear
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something like "Please enter your password." Pretty easy, eh? Do the
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routine.. Write it down, scan around.
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Part 3: Hacking The Empty Box
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Well, now you have your empty's all written down and are ready to jump
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into them. The thing to keep in mind here is to keep it simple! No one
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wants to be troubled with remember a 9 digits totally random passcode. They
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want something small and simple, like a 4 digit year. Remember - think
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stupid. The system manager is usually about as smart as a snail in a bowl
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full of Jello. He wants to work least of all - so he'll make the emptys up
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with cheesy passcodes.
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Adr
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This is a ball-buster to hack. You get 3 passcode trys, then you get dumped.
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After you enter one passcode, that's it - you can't abort anymore. But you
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can (sometimes) hit "*" right when it says "Goodbye" and find yourself back
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at the "Welcome to the.." prompt. So play around some. Remember, passcodes
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are simple. Don't beat your head in trying to guess some outrageous pass,
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just scan another system and move on. Passcodes are usually the same as the
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mailbox number, the current year, 1234, 0, or they sometimes don't have
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one at all. So, play with it.
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Aspen
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Aspen's are always fun. The passcodes are 3 or 4 digits, and ususally no
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longer - thus making it a fun little job to pull off. On most systems after
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2 bad passcodes you can just abort out of the box, and then do it again. Of
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course, on empty boxes you need not waste your time with 4 billion trys,
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so why bother. Passcodes are simple, as on Adr's, and almost every other
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system for that matter. Remeber, think stupid.
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Genesis
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Same as above, but there is a little trick. Most empty boxes have passcodes
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set to "0", so try that first. And I can't stress this enough, think simple
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for christ's sake!
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Part 4: Aftermath
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Once you acheive a box, you can basically figure it out from there. If
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you're having trouble finding emptys on one system, or the emptys have
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twisted passcodes, drop that system. Scan yourself another. They're all
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over the damn place.
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Of course, I know you're all sitting out there asking "Duh, why are there
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emptys anyhow?" Well look at the human race as a whole. We are lazy, each and
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every one of us. Who in god's name wants to sit there every other second
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and sprint to make a new box for some new employee? No one, that's who. So,
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the system manager sets up 5-10 boxes for future expansion. He sets the
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passcodes real cheesy-likem, so that anyone with a 2nd grade education
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can remember them for long periods of time. So, think simple. Think like a
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moron. Think like a man who hangs out at the water-cooler and sells cheesy
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houses for a living.
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Part 5: Closing
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Some notes. If you should happen to stray across the system manager
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passcode, DONT CHANGE ANYTHING, least of which the passcode. Just make a few
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boxes in a nice shady corner of the system and keep a low profile. If the
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manager can't get into his own mailbox, he'll know something's up for
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sure and go looking around.
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To better help you identify these systems, call these. Try to remember
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the voice, too. They are clear give-aways.
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Adr
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1-800-326-5477 (24 Hours, System box at 5000.)
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Aspen
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1-800-800-1239 (24 Hours, System box at 9999. Hit "*" then box numbers.)
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Genesis
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1-800-999-2328 (24 Hours, Boxes start at 200 and go up.)
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Well, have fun. And don't give all your friends too many mailboxes now, eh?
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And remember - don't waste your time on an old system. The newer, the
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better. The old ones have been hacked to hell and back, and the managers
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make everything difficult. Scan exchanges like mad, gather virgin
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systems, hack them. They don't know what they're up against, so they make
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everything nice and friedndly. Nice and open. Nice and easy.
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Well, laters.
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-Hairy Leech
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Typed on 2/22/91.
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