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| Volume Two, Issue Ten, Phile #9 of 9 |
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| On The Home Front December 25, 1986 |
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| Happy Holidays to all from everyone at Phrack Inc. and Metal Shop Private! |
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| Well, here we are at that time of year again and before too long we will have a |
| new wave of self appointed hackers who got their modems for Christmas. |
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| Some important dates to point out: |
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| November 17, 1986............1st Anniversary of Phrack Inc. |
| January 2, 1987..............1st Anniversary of Metal Shop being a PRIVATE BBS. |
| January 10, 1987.............1st Anniversary of Metal Shop AE, now Quick Shop |
| January 25, 1987.............1st Anniversary of Phrack World News |
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| The Phrack Inc./Metal Shop Private Voice Mailbox is now back in operation. If |
| you have a question for Taran King, Cheap Shades, or myself and cannot reach us |
| through regular means, please leave us a message on our VMS. |
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| Thanks to the efforts of Oryan Quest, an upcoming Phrack Pro-Phile will focus |
| on Steve Wozniak. |
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| Plans are already underway for Summer Con '87. It is to be held in St. Louis, |
| Missouri during the last week of June. It is being sponsored by TeleComputist |
| Newsletter, Phrack Inc., and Metal Shop Private. Forest Ranger is in charge of |
| planning and is putting out a lot of front money for the necessary conference |
| rooms and such. There will be a mandatory $10 admittance at the door to Summer |
| Con '87. If you will be attending this conference, please as an act of |
| good faith and to save 50% send $5 in early to: |
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| J. Thomas |
| TeleComputist Newsletter |
| P.O. Box 2003 |
| Florissant, Missouri 63032-2003 |
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| Also, Letters to the Editor and anything else dealing with TeleComputist can be |
| sent to the same address. TeleComputist can also be reached through Easylink |
| at 62195770, MCI Telex at 650-240-6356, CIS at 72767,3207 and PLINK at OLS 631. |
| Try MCI and Easylink first. |
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| Not much else to say... so keep learning and try not to get into any trouble. |
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| :Knight Lightning |
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| Computer Hackers Beware! - Senate Passes Computer Fraud And Abuse Act |
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| On October 2, 1986, the US Senate unanimously passed the Computer Fraud and |
| Abuse Act of 1986. The bill, S. 2281, imposes fines of up to $500,000 and/or |
| prison terms of up to 20 years for breaking into government or financial |
| institutions' computers. |
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| The Federal Government alone operates more than 18,000 medium-scale and |
| large-scale computers at some 4,500 different sites. The Office of Technology |
| Assessment estimates the government's investment in computers over the past |
| four years at roughly $60 million. The General Services Administration |
| estimates that there will be 250,000 to 500,000 computers in use by the Federal |
| Government by 1990. |
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| In 1984, legislators' attention to and concern about computer fraud was |
| heightened by a report by the American Bar Association task force on computer |
| crime. According to the report, based on a survey of 1,000 private |
| organizations and public agencies, forty-five percent of the 283 respondents |
| had been victimized by some form of computer crime, and more than 25 percent |
| had sustained financial losses totaling between an estimated $145 million and |
| $730 million during one twelve month period. |
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| To address this problem, the Senate and House enacted, in 1984, the first |
| computer statute (18 U.S.C. 1030). Early this year both the House and Senate |
| introduced legislation to expand and amend this statute. |
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| In the current bill, which is expected to be signed by President Reagan next |
| week, penalties will be imposed on anyone who knowingly or intentionally |
| accesses a computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access and: |
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| (1) Obtains from government computers information relating to national defense |
| and foreign relations. |
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| (2) Obtains information contained in financial records of financial |
| institutions. |
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| (3) Affects the use of the government's operation of a computer in any |
| department or agency of the government that is exclusively for the use of |
| the U.S. Government. |
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| (4) Obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing |
| obtained consists only of the use of the computer. |
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| (5) Alters, damages, or destroys information in any federal interest computer, |
| or prevents authorized use of any such computer or information. |
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| Under the bill, a person would be guilty of computer fraud if he or she causes |
| a loss of $1,000 or more during any one year period. |
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| Depending on the offense, penalties include fines up to $100,000 for a |
| misdemeanor, $250,000 for a felony, $500,000 if the crime is committed by an |
| organization, and prison terms of up to 20 years. |
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| The bill also prohibits traffic in passwords and other information from |
| computers used for interstate or foreign commerce. This part of the bill makes |
| it possible for Federal Prosecutors to crack down on pirate bulletin boards and |
| similar operations because the bill covers business computers, online networks, |
| and online news and information services, all of which are considered |
| interstate commerce. |
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| GTE News December 20, 1986 |
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| "GTE Develops High-Speed GaAs Multiplexer Combining Four Data Channels" |
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| In an effort to achieve data communication rates of several gigabits per |
| second, GTE Labs (Waltham, MA) is combining the high-capacity of fiber optics |
| with the high speed of gallium arsenide circuits. The research arm of GTE has |
| designed a GaAs multiplexer that can combine four data channels, each with a |
| communication rate of 1 gigabit per second, into one channel. GTE has also |
| recently developed a technique called MOVPE (metal-organic vapor-phase |
| epitaxy) for efficiently growing thin-film GaAs crystals. |
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| The new devices should play an important role in future communication systems, |
| which will involve high-capacity fiber-optic cables connecting houses and |
| offices through telephone switching centres. Data rates on these cables could |
| be as high as 20 gigabits per second. In addition to standard computer data, |
| numerous video channels could be supported, each with a data rate of almost |
| 100 megabits per second. The GaAs multiplexers will probably be the only |
| devices fast enough to interface houses and offices through this fiber-optic |
| grid. In future supercomputers [misuse of the word -eds.] these multiplexers |
| will also be used for high-speed fiber-optic transmissions between various |
| boards in the computer, replacing copper wires. Because of the high-speed |
| nature of the fiber-optic link, such techniques may even be used for chip-to- |
| chip communication. |
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| GTE said it has completed a prototype of the GaAs multiplexer and a final |
| version should be ready in less than a year. |
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| Comments: And meanwhile, while GTE's been building gigabit/second |
| multiplexers, AT&T Bell Labs is still experimenting with the neuron |
| webs from slug brains... |
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| Information from Byte Magazine, December 1986, Page 9 |
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| Typed & Commented on by Mark Tabas |
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| The LOD/H Technical Journal |
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| The Legion Of Doom/Hackers Technical Journal is a soft-copy free newsletter |
| whose primary purpose is to further the knowledge of those who are interested |
| in topics such as: Telecommunications, Datacommunications, Computer & Physical |
| Security/Insecurity and the various technical aspects of the phone system. |
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| The articles are totally original unless otherwise stated. All sources of |
| information for a specific article are listed in the introduction or conclusion |
| of the article. They will not accept any articles that are unoriginal, |
| plagiarized, or contain invalid or false information. Articles will be |
| accepted from anyone who meets those criteria. They are not dependant upon |
| readers for articles, since members of LOD/H and a select group of others will |
| be the primary contributors, but anyone can submit articles. |
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| There is no set date for releasing issues, as they have no monetary or legal |
| obligation to the readers, but they predict that issues will be released |
| every 2 or 3 months. Thus, expect 4 to 6 issues a year assuming that they |
| continue to produce them, which they intend to do. |
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| The bulletin boards sponsoring the LOD/H TJs include: |
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| Atlantis |
| Digital Logic Data Service |
| Hell Phrozen Over (HPO) |
| Metal Shop Private |
| Private Sector |
| The Shack // |
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| The first issue will include these articles; |
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| - Introduction to the LOD/H Technical Journal and Table Of Contents |
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| - Editorial: "Is the law a deterrent to computer crime?" by Lex Luthor |
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| - Local Area Signalling Services (LASS) by The Videosmith |
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| - Identifying and Defeating Physical Security and Intrusion Detection Systems |
| Part I: The Perimeter by Lex Luthor |
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| - Traffic Service Position System (TSPS) by The Marauder |
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| - Hacking DEC's TOPS-20: Intro by Blue Archer |
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| - Building your own Blue Box (Includes Schematic) by Jester Sluggo |
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| - Intelligence and Interrogation Processes by Master Of Impact |
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| - The Outside Loop Distribution Plant: Part I by Phucked Agent 04 |
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| - The Outside Loop Distribution Plant: Part II by Phucked Agent 04 |
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| - LOH Telenet Directory: Update #4 (12-9-86) Part I by LOH |
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| - LOH Telenet Directory: Update #4 (12-9-86) Part II by LOH |
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| - Network News & Notes by "Staff" |
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| That's a total of 13 files... |
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| That ends the preview, the newsletter is due to be released by January 1, 1987 |
| so watch for it! |
| Information Provided by |
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| Texas Rumors Run Rampant December 24, 1986 |
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| Remember all that controversy about Sir Gamelord being Videosmith? |
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| Well here's the story... |
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| It all started on a conference bridge, where a number of people including Evil |
| Jay, Line Breaker [who, indirectly started all of this], and Blade Runner among |
| others were having a discussion. |
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| Line Breaker was telling a story of how Videosmith was a fed, how Videosmith |
| had busted everyone at a phreak con (or something like that), and how he [Line |
| Breaker] and some other people called Videosmith up, pretending to be feds, and |
| got him to admit that he did these things. |
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| Blade Runner was terribly pissed at Sir Gamelord (who had recently attempted to |
| take over P.H.I.R.M., which is Blade Runner's group). As a retaliatory strike |
| and after hearing this slander upon Videosmith's name, Blade Runner started |
| telling people that Sir Gamelord was Videosmith. The stories have been getting |
| more and more exaggerated since then but that is all that really happened. |
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| [They say everything is bigger in Texas...I guess that includes bullshit too!] |
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| Information Provided by Evil Jay |
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| The Cracker Disappears December 27, 1986 |
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| The rumors and stories are flying around about the disappearance of one |
| Bill Landreth aka The Cracker. |
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| Bill Landreth is the author of "Out Of The Inner Circle," a book on hackers |
| that was published a few years back. |
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| According to newspaper articles in the San Francisco area, Bill was at a |
| friend's home working on some computer program. His friend stepped out for a |
| while and when he returned, there was a lot of garbage on screen and a suicide |
| message. |
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| On Ripco BBS, message was posted about Bill Landreth, stating that he had |
| disappeared, and was once again wanted by the FBI. The message asked that |
| anyone in contact with Bill would tell him to contact his "friends." |
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| Most of what is going on right now is bogus rumors. There may be a follow up |
| story in the next PWN. |
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| The Prophet/Sir Frances Drake/Elric Of Imrryr |
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| U.S. Sprint Screws Up December 24, 1986 |
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| Taken From the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinal |
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| "He got a 1,400 page bill!" |
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| In Montrose, Colorado, Brad Switzer said he thought the box from the U.S. |
| Sprint Long Distance Company was an early Christmas present until he opened it |
| and found that it contained a 1,400 page phone bill. |
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| The $34,000 bill was delivered to Switzer's doorstep Monday. He called U.S. |
| Sprint's Denver office, where company officials assured him he was "Off the |
| Hook." A spokesman for U.S. Sprint said that Switzer had mistakenly received |
| U.S. Sprint's own phone bill for long distance calls. |
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| Typed For PWN by The Leftist |
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