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Nuclear Phreakers/Hackers/Carders
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Information File #6 - Tracing/ANI Explained
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October 14, 1989
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Written by The Oxidizer - Information Supplied by Sir Hackalot
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It is absolutely essential for all phreakers to know as much as possible
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about tracing. However tracing, as it is known, does not exist anymore.
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Tracing consisted of people going out onto telephone wires and placing several
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devices on phone lines to determine which line the call was coming in on and
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that got hectic for LD companies. Now, tracing is only a matter of catching
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you when you are talking, or using your line, when a Bell official is on SCCS
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directly, and not using Cosmos. He simply enters in a small program to
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retrieve your number in a subpacket of sorts, or from a datafile [on larger
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ESS, IE - 3ESS+]. Then, they will put a Trap on a line to record everytime
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a certain number calls in (yours) to the site that "traced". Plain and simply,
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that stuff that said like "2 minutes for a trace" is no longer true, and your
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number can be aquired in a number of seconds if you are in an ESS area, and not
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Xbar, or (ack) Step X Step switching areas.
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ANI - Automatic Number Identification. It is very essential for you to know
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the different classes and which companies have which so you can always be safe.
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There are 4 "classifications" of ANI, labeled A, B, C, and D respectively.
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Level A - Gets your area-code. No big deal at all and you can feel perfectly
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safe with thesess some narc knows you.
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Level B - This gets your area-code and city, bring the threat closer to home.
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If you don't abuse the company that has level b, you should be quite
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safe unless of course again, some narc knows you.
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Level C - This gets your area-code, city, and local switching prefix. (Central
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office stuff so they can catch you.) This is when it starts to get
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really dangerous. With this, they can practically track it down to
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just your local neighborhood!
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Level D - Everything. Just think of this as full ANI, as in all of Sprint's
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800s. I strongly recommend that if you are aware a company has this,
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don't even touch it!
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Beware of 950s/800s that only serve a certain area. They can have the
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telephone company set up ESS recording features which give the number of
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everyone who uses the 950/800 and when. See N.A.R.C. #4 for a sample
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ESS recording list.
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How does sprint nab your number? Well, right now they can only nab your
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number if you have equal access, by requesting your number fromcal
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switch by sending a request through some sort of subtone, sometimes sent
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as an equal access sub-packet (set of tones) and receives it via a set of
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tones from an equal access packet. (I know that may not make sense, but it
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works.) So instead of sending 10488+ac+number.. etc.. you will send 1_ac_num,
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sprint will send something, and they will get an elongated packet that says:
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XXXxxxx+1+ac+num, XXXxxx containing your number, mines the area code, but they
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can get the area code easily. This is the way 800-877-8000/950-0033 work.
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Beware of calling international with AT&T - They use a digital switch. A
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digital switch is essentially ESS, which is semi intelligent, and can go
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thru several LANs to get your number, even if you go thru a 1-800.
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______________________________________________________________________________
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Well, I hope I answered most of your questions about tracing in general in
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the last couple of N.A.R.C. infofiles. If you have more questions about this
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or would like to see a certain topic for us to write about in the future then
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let us know a get on it write away. Please spread this file, and other
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NARC files, as much as possible. Thanx for your support.
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(C)opyright 1989 N.A.R.C.
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You can reach N.A.R.C. members at
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The Nuclear Wasteland
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Balanced pH
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Critical Condition
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Lost Souls Domain ][
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