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Miscellaneous Information
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By: The Magician......
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The following are miscellaneous bits of information, reviews, and trivia which
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are of interest to our readers:
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BOOKS
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Abbie Hoffman's infamous "Steal This Book" is now back in publication! Though
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some of the material is dated, the ideas are still there and worth considering.
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The book even contains a schematic for one of the first black box's designed by
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TAP's own Al Bell.
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The book is being republished by Abbie Hoffman's brother Jack. You can get a
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copy by sending $5.95, plus $2.00 shipping to:
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Jack Hoffman Presents
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Box 15
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Worcester, MA 01613
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Or the book can be ordered (perhaps a bit more safely?) from Michael Hoy's
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Loompanics. Write them at:
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Loompanics Unlimited
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P.O. Box 1197
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Port Townsend, WA 98368
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Speaking of Loompanics, they have a new book out entitled: "The Code Book,
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All About Unbreakable Codes and How To Use Them" by Michael E. Marotta. The
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books provides an excellent overview of most ciphering and coding techniques.
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Strengths and weakness's of various techniques are given along with several
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computer programs (most in BASIC) to make use of the techniques (the programs
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have a few typos though.....). It's $7.95 plus $2.00 shipping.
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Last, but not least, a book that is amazing in that it was published by a
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major publisher and was somehow not suppressed!!! The book is called "The
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Puzzle Palace" by James Bamford, and published by Houghton Mifflin Company. It
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deals with America's MOST secret agency. The National Security Agency. For you
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NSA buffs, you will find a wealth of information. You will know your way around
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NSA headquarters, (for the next time you visit, I guess), you will learn all
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about "Carillon" and "Loadstone" (computer centers in the basement of NSA). It
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will tell you about internal telephone systems that are truly secret, unlike
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AUTOVON which is not really secret at all. You will even learn the name of
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NSA's official barber. For those of you who don't know about NSA, I suggest you
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read the book to learn about an agency who makes the CIA look like a bunch of
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rookies. Learn how NSA intercepts ALL of your overseas data traffic, and a good
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portion of your overseas voice traffic. At the time of writing, The Puzzle
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Palace is available at all bookstores for $16.95 or write the publishers
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directly. Next time you are talking overseas, say a few target words and tell
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the guys down in SIGNIT CITY hello!!!
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TELEPHONES
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A word of WARNING: I have stated this before, but will repeat it to all
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newcomers and forgetful old-timers alike. Recently TAP has printed info on
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hacking with SPRINT, MCI, etc. This is good, in that TAP is the proper (only
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except for GROUND ZERO) forum for free open discussion of such topics. But
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Beware! It is absolute gospel FACT that calls to the local access ports of
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these networks, drop a card (print a record in ESS) containing the calling
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number. While these cards (records) are usually ignored, they could mean
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trouble. The original purpose of this was because some phreaks were dialing
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into these services and then whipping to another location, and dialing into Bell
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ESS computers, extremely difficult for Bell to nail them because they could only
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trace back to the local MCI or Sprint office. Thus, a two way "informal deal"
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was made. If Bell had trouble, SPC or MCI would tell Bell what local access
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number was used to dial the carrier. Bell could then go back, pull the record
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and find out the phone number of the caller. The deal works the other way also:
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If MCI or SPC detect a fraudulent call (customer complains he didn't call
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Oshokosh, Wisconsin 57 times), they will first try to resolve it by checking
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with the called number. If that doesn't pan out, then they will request Bell to
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tell them the number that called the originating port. The card could only trap
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the calling number if it is called from within the same c.o. If from the
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outside, it only pointed to the next c.o. in the chain. But now with ESS
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running with CCIS they will be able to trace the originating number anywhere.
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Thus if you MUST play with SPC, MCI, or any of the others, be VERY VERY careful
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and do so only from discreet pay phones. On other telephone topics, many
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electronic stores are now selling wireless remote control telephones, and have
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demos hooked up in the stores for salesmen to use and demonstrations. Most of
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these phones operate at or near the same frequencies (usually around 49 Mhz).
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If you buy one of these, try to get one the same frequency as the stores. Then
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it is a simple matter to pull your car in their parking lot after they close,
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and to pick up your handy "car phone" triggering their base unit. You can then
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make all the long distance calls you want courtesy of the store. HAPPY
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DIALING!!! A mass calling number that a lot of our more "perverted" readers
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might like to call, features recordings of young ladies from porno magazines
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talking about themselves, etc. The recordings change a couple of times a day.
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DIAL: 212-976-2727 Also, Jackie Martlings infamous X-rated dial- a-joke has
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been running for about 3 years now! It changes daily. DIAL: 516-922-9463
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