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HEY KIDZ!!!
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It's the R0DENTS guide to PHREAKING!
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/ THE R0DENTS GUIDE TO /
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/ PHREAKING! /
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/ /
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/ by Weapons Master /
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Feel like a R0DENT because you don't know what a 950 is? Do you pretend
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to be ELITE all day and then cry at night as you realize you're just a R0DENT
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P0SER? Well, look on the bright side... you'll get the LAST LAUGH when your
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friends get BUSTED FOR 950s!!! But if you still want to learn something
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anyway, read this file and learn the basics.
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btw this file isn't just for RODENTS, of course, it's for anyone who wants to
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learn a little more about phreaking. Just to set something straight,
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phreakings not really my thing. I'm a kid programmer who knows a zillion
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computer languages. Next, I'm an aspiring hacker. I just picked up phreaking
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along the way. However, it seems like every week I get a call from some runt
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who wants to know how to phreak, so it seems there's definately a demand for
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this sort of thing. And anyway, I don't mind helping runts... how are they
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ever going to grow up, give me codes and info, and eventually get BUSTED while
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I get off scot free if I don't get them started?
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Hey, another thing, this file isn't going to have too many specifics, so
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if you're just gonna scan it for code templates and extenders, don't bother.
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Talk to me directly if you want that sort of info.
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okay, so let's say you're really a rodent, and don't even know what phreaking
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is. I'll explain phreaking and give some historical background on it. If
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you're too cool for this section, go ahead and skipt it, but you'll sure feel
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like a T0TAL L00ZER when someone posts "Hey, whatever happened to Captain
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Crunch", and you reply "Well, my favorite's the crunchberries." Then you
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wonder why you've been given SLUG access on all the elite boards. (That's
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where you call, and the only main menu option you can select is 'G' for
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goodbye.)
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The original definition of phreaking was "exploring the phone system",
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but since it's degenerated into just making free fone calls. I guess a good
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working definition of phreaking is 'phone tricks'.
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Phreaking started with Captain Crunch, the cereal. In the late 70s,
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Captain Crunch cereal was giving away a whistle in its cereal, one of those
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free toys that you get. Well, a group of blind kids learned that the whistle
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made a perfect 2600hz tone, and if one of them blew the whistle into the fone,
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they could do all sorts of amazing things, such as get free fone calls to
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anywhere. They shared this secret with a man named John Draper, who would
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from this moment on be called Captain Crunch. He was the first fone phreak.
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Not long after the blue box was invented, a box that made several different
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tones. Later in life you could find Captain Crunch driving down roads and
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pulling up to payfones in his vw bug loaded with electronics equipment, and
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just staying there for days at a time, calling places, tapping people's lines
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and doing all sorts of arcane things I can't begin to imagine. btw he was
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eventually busted for Fone Fraud.
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Anyway, lots of people got into the blue box thing.. the founders of
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Apple would hold demonstrations in their dorm (before the made the famous
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Crapple II) where they would use a blue box and a payfone and box the call
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around the world to a payfone right beside them.
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btw Blue Boxing doesn't work anymore, so don't rush out and download a
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blue box plan. Using a blue box from home is one of the surest ways to have
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the Gestapo (Fone police) at your door. Try it next time you're having fone
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trouble if you want to get good service... just have a lawyer handy.
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So when blue boxing got dangerous, people turned to code hacking. Code
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hacking was great, you could just set up a good code hacker all night when you
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slept, and have a bunch of codes by morning. Almost noone got caught, and the
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phreakers had a field day, making calls wherever they wanted. It wasn't quite
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as easy as blue boxing, and you couldn't do quite so many things (such as
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tapping people's lines or boxing calls around the world), but it still was
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easy.
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People may disagree with me, but I think that the code hacking days are
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over. Nowadays the companies are getting smarter, and an extender that once
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was thought of as safe suddenly busts four people. Sure, there are still some
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safe extenders, but you never know which ones they are without putting your
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freedom at risk. Nowadays a good pbx is worth its weight in gold, and a
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reliable outdial can also do wonders. For those into ninja/espionage shit,
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there's also beige boxing, but that's a little much for me.
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What's the future? To me it looks like a cellular fone with the rom
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reprogrammed. I don't have a cellular fone, but from what I understand, get a
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nice supply of proms, and rom programmer, and you'll be making free fone calls
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off your cellular fone for years. Unfortunately, it'll be a few years before
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most of us can afford a cellular fone.
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okay, HISTORY LESSON'S OVER. Now let's talk about phreaking. What can
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you do with phreaking?
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1. Make free fone calls. (If you didn't know this, please SLAM your
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keyboard into your SKULL.)
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2. Get somebody's address and name from their phone number.
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3. Tap other people's fone lines.
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4. Make conference calls.
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5. Take over voice mail boxes.
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I'll discuss each of these briefly, except the first. I'll reserve a
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whole section for that.
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GET SOMEONE'S NAME AND ADDRESS FROM THEIR FONE NUMBER
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It's called a CNA. CNA stands for customer name and address. Bell has
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certain super/secret departments called CNA bureaus. You can call one of
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them, and get the name and address for any fone number you want. How do you
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find CNA numbers? Get yourself a copy of Professor Falken's Phreak Tools, and
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it has a list of them. If the number's out of date, then you're out of luck.
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The way it works is there's one number for each area code.
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What do you say when you call? I'm not quite sure, but "I'm David Ross
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from Customer Service in Detroit. Can you give me the name and address on
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xxx-xxxx? Thanks." They may ask you a password. In that case, you're shit
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out of luck. But I hear they usually don't.
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TAP OTHER PEOPLE'S FONE LINES
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This is ninja shit, hardly phreaking. Build yourself an FM wireless mike,
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and go to their house, and install it on the bell box outside their house. I
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really haven't tried this, and probably won't, unless I suspect my
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girlfriend's cheating on me or something.
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MAKE CONFERENCE CALLS
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Simple, call ALIANCE TELECONFERENCING, and tell them you want to make a
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conference call. They'll be more than happy to help you. WAIT, but you don't
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want to pay for it? Well, use a pbx. More on these below.
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TAKE OVER VOICE MAIL BOXES
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Wouldn't it be fun to have a voice mail box (VMB) so all your friends
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around the country could leave you messages for free? Well, maybe it would,
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but I haven't tried it. But get yourself a few numbers to VMBs, and just
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start hacking codes. (When it asks you to leave the message, enter in your
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four or five digit code, and if you're right, you'll get control of it.)
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They're all different, though, so it's hard to make generalizations about
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VMBs.
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okay, now what you've all been waiting for HOW TO MAKE FREE FONE CALLS!
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nope. not yet, anyway. Before I get into that, let me explain the two
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things every phreaker should know. I don't care what kind of rodent you are,
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you should know this. It's for your own safety.
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SO READ THIS!!!
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#1. Trace times. TV has indoctrinated in us the myth that it takes
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forever to trace a call. How long do you think it takes to trace a call?
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Fill in your answer here _____________. Okay, it's a trick question. ALL
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CALLS ARE ALREADY TRACED!!! Every single digit you enter into the fone is
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recorded somewhere in the fone company dungeons. Normally, they never check
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them. I've heard varying stories of how long they keep these printouts, some
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say a couple days, some say months. But if they suspect fraud on a number,
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they can just set up a trace for a week, and have the numbers of everyone who
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called, as well as the times and the length of the calls. So watch those
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local calls from your home fone. When in doubt, use a payfone.
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#2. 800 exception flag. Jimmy Phreaker finds a really good extender
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that he hacks the hell out of all month. "Haha, they won't bust me on
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950-1087 like everybody else, I'm hacking 1-800-xxx-xxxx!!!" The next month
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Jimmy Phreaker comes home to find FBI agents putting his computer in boxes,
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and keeping it for six months. What happened? Did his pal SUPERRODENT rat on
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him? No, his hacking triggered the 800 exception flag. When you call an
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excessive amount of 800 numbers (more than you usally do every month), then a
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trouble card shows up at your local fone company with your name and address.
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Not good. 800s can also trace fairly easily, btw, though they usually can't
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find all your digits.. probably just your area code and exchange. So feel
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free to call a few 800 numbers every month, but if you're calling more than 50
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or 100 from your home fone, than you'll proabaly have some explaining to do.
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MAKING FREE FONE CALLS/BEATING THE TRACE
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I've included this together as most ways of making free fone calls also
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beat the trace. Here's the main ways to make free fone calls:
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1. Blue Boxing (Don't try it.)
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2. Stealing Long Distance Services
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3. Using 800 pbxs
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4. using local pbxs
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5. using a pc pursuit outdial
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6. using a telenet outdial
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7. beige boxing
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8. reprogramming a cellular fone
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BTW in all of this, I will assume the phreaker is using his home fone.
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There's another section later on making calls when you don't have to worry
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about safety, like from a payfone or institution.
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BLUE BOXING - Not worth mentioning, except for the fact that it doesn't work
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anymore, and is very dangerous. Don't try it.
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STEALING LONG DISTANCE SERVICES - okay, Joe Q. Salespig is in Miami, and he
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wants to make a long distance call. He dials 950-1022, his MCI port number,
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and enters in his code and then the number he wants to call. "k-kool", you're
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saying, "can I do that?" Sure you can. Get yourself a good extender
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(950-1087 is the extender), a template (XXX6XX is a template, and it means the
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first 3 digits can be any number, the fourth is a six, and the fifth and sixth
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can be any number), and a good code hacking program. Try to hack two ports or
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extenders at once for safety. Is it risky? Well... I wouldn't do it. Then
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there are some people who have been hacking codes for years with no problems.
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Talk to one of them if you want to go this route.
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USING 800 PBXs - Remember my describing the 800 exception flag above? Well,
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hacking anything starting with 800 should be avoided at all costs... way too
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dangerous. You don't want to trip a BELL trouble card. So don't hack these.
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Shouldn't be a big deal to use them though.
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USING LOCAL PBXs - Okay, this is the way to go. Takes a lot of work though.
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Every pbx is a little different, but basically you call, dial a 9 or a code +
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9, and then you're on THAT COMPANIES fone line. Call anywhere, they get the
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bill. Use it sparingly, and you'll have free calls for months. If it's a
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flat rate pbx, you can probably use it without a problem. Otherwise they'll
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get pissed and change the code when they find you out. Rehack the code, if
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you're a dick, or just move on to another pbx. Okay, what's the catch to
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local pbxs? Well, you have to find them, which is a pain in the ass. There's
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been rumors of a pbx scanner going around, but I haven't seen anything that
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works reliably on a hayes compatible. So the only method of finding them is
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to leave your computer on with a wardialer program, and sit there and listen.
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Find some companies in the fone book with their numbers all grouped together,
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and scan a range of likely numbers. Listen for a funny tone, and that may be
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the pbx. They also may just give you a dial tone (like you dial... ring...
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ring... click... dial tone...). So local pbxs are the way to go, if you can
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find them.
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USING A PC PURSUIT OUTDIAL - This is complicated. There's a service called
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telenet and it has a service called pc pursuit. If you can access the outdial
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modems, you can call most places in the country. To access these you need
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either..
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1. an nui (network user id) (also called PC pursuit id and password)
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2. a method of making non-collect calls, such as a private telenet pad.
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Telenet is to big a topic for me to go into in this file, as it is worth at
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least a file on it's own, and there's no way I could do it justice here.
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maybe in another file.
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USING A TELENET OUTDIAL - Basically you call a computer on telenet, and it
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gives you access to it's modem. You csan make calls, and they'll be charged
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to this computer. Again, telenet is worth a file of it's own.
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BEIGE BOXING - More ninja shit. You go to somebody's house, and bring your
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own fone (or laptop) and splice into their line, and make fone calls that wind
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up on their bill. No, you don't have to break into their house, just find a
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bell "can", on of those green boxes that say fone company, and bust in.
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REPROGRAMMING YOUR CELLULAR FONE - I don't have a cellular fone, so I don't
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know much about this, but cellular fones have a built in ROM which sends the
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switching office a certain id. Program it to give other people's ids, and
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you're on other people's accounts. Get a vw microbus, bring a laptop, a
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cellular phone, and some proms and programmers. Drive cross country picking
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up chicks, calling boards, and hacking into computers, all risk free. Sounds
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like fun, huh? I have some files on this (reprogramming cellular fones, not
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picking up chicks), so if anyone does have a cellular fone, and wants a guy to
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drive cross country with, or just some info on making free calls, let me know.
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PHREAKING WHERE SAFETY ISN'T AN ISSUE
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okay, you're one of those lucky bastards with a laptop, or you have
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access to your schools modem, and you know there's no way they can catch you.
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Use old codes, that's the best way. Just use them until they die. I call all
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my college friends every week with an old 800 pbx I have... perfectly safe, as
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long as you do it from a payfone. I've heard of people programming phone
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dialers to hack codes from payfones, but I think that's just a rumor. But
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feel free to hack 1087s if you're using a laptop form a payfone. There are
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lots of good templates around, and safety doesn't mean anything from a
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payfone. Just don't use the same one. So if you have a laptop, hack 1087s or
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whatever's easiest, and just use the codes until they die. Don't start using
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these codes from home though.. stick to payfones.
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Okay, that's the file. I was pretty general in this file, but I had a
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lot of ground to cover. If you want specifics, get in touch with me directly.
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I'm always willing to help people. If I screwed up, let me know too. Don't
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bug me for codes, though, as I hate that. (That means you, Batman...)
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GREETS!!! - to The Noid for letting me on your board when I was a PD l00zer,
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to Basket Case for doing the same, to The Excommunicator and Laughing Gas for
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getting me started, to Batman for bugging me for codes every day (don't call
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me until you have some information for ME, and stop giving out my info as your
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own.), to Coroner for being a nice guy and beating me every time in Global
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War, to BaD for taking other people's cracks and putting their name on them
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(talk about lame.)
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GRAFFITI!!! - That gum you like is coming back in style. Al's abortion's, you
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rape em, we scrape em. Would you like fries with that? HOMIE DON'T PLAY
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THAT! "Yeah, I've been hacking 1087s, what's the big deal?" "Did the dial
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tone sound fainter than normal?" "Remember that 3 gig board that was going
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up?" Somebody, SHOOT ME!!! "I'm writing ZooMaster." "Just give your hard
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drive a good shake, that'll fix it." Bob. So manly he's Danly.
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I can be reached on the following boards:
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The Digital Underground (NAP/PA home)
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Hall of Illusion
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(c) 1990 by Weapons Master. You may distribute this file to any baord without
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modifications.
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