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| Intro |
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| Welcome to yet another issue of Phrack World News. We have once again |
| returned to try and bring you an entertaining, and informative newsletter |
| dedicated to the spread of information and knowledge throughout the H/P |
| community. |
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| TOK Re-Formed |
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| A group called Tribunal Of Knowledge, which has undergone previous |
| re-formations has once again re-formed. The person who is currently "in |
| charge" of the group says that he had permission from High Evolutionary, the |
| group's founder, to re-form the organization. Although the group hasn't |
| publicly announced their existence or written any files, we should be hearing |
| from them in the near future. |
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| The Current Members of TOK Include - |
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| Control C |
| Prime Suspect |
| Jack Death |
| The UrVile |
| The Prophet |
| Psychic Warlord |
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| Information Provided By Control C, and Prime Suspect. |
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| SummerCon '88 Preliminary Planning |
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| Planning for SummerCon '88 is underway. So far, we have decided on four |
| tentative locations: New York City, Saint Louis, Atlanta, or Florida. Since |
| this is only tentative, no dates have been set or reservations made for a |
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| LOD/H Technical Journal |
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| Lex Luthor of LOD/H (Legion of Doom/Hackers) has been busy with school, etc., |
| so he has not had the time, nor the initiative to release the next issue of |
| the LOD/H Technical Journal. On this note, he has tentatively turned the |
| Journal over to Phantom Phreaker, who will probably be taking all |
| contributions for the Journal. No additional information is available. |
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| Information Provided By The UrVile and Phantom Phreaker. |
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| Congress To Restrict 976/900 Dial-A-Porn Services |
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| Congress is considering proposals to restrict dial-up services in an effort to |
| make it difficult for minors to access sexually explicit messages. A |
| House-Senate committee is currently negotiating the "dial-a-porn" proposal. |
| Lawmakers disagree whether or not the proposal is constitutional and are |
| debating the issue of requiring phone companies to offer a service that would |
| allow parents, free of charge, to block the 976/900 services. Other proposals |
| would require customers to pay in advance or use credit cards to access the |
| 976/900 services. |
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| Some companies are currently offering free services that restrict minors from |
| accessing sexually explicit messages. AT&T and Department of Justice |
| officials are cooperating in a nationwide crackdown of "dial-a-porn" telephone |
| companies. The FCC recently brought charges against one of AT&T's largest 900 |
| Service customers, and AT&T provided the confidential information necessary in |
| the prosecution. AT&T also agreed to suspend or disconnect services of |
| companies violating the commission ban by transmitting obscene or indecent |
| messages to minors. |
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| Some Hope Left For Victims Of FGD |
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| US Sprint's famed FGD (Feature Group D) dial-ups and 800 INWATS exchanges may |
| pose no threat to individuals under switches that do not yet offer equal |
| access service to alternate long distance carriers. Due to the way Feature |
| Group D routes its information, the ten-digit originating number of the caller |
| is not provided when the call is placed from a non-equal access area. The |
| following was taken from an explanation of US Sprint's 800 INWATS Service. |
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| CALL DETAIL |
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| With US Sprint 800 Service, a customer will receive call detail information |
| for every call on every invoice. The call detail for each call includes: |
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| o Date of call |
| o Time of call |
| o The originating city and state |
| o The ten-digit number of the caller if the call originates in an |
| equal access area or the NPA of the caller if the non-equal access |
| area. |
| o Band into which the call falls |
| o Duration of the call in minutes |
| o Cost of the call |
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| This came directly from US Sprint. Do as you choose, but don't depend on |
| this. |
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| Information Provided by US Sprint. |
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| Telenet Bolsters Network With Encryption |
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| Telenet Communications Corporation strengthened its public data network |
| recently with the introduction of data encryption capability. |
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| The X.25 Encryption Service provides a type of data security previously |
| unavailable on any public data network, according to analysts. For Telenet, |
| the purpose of the offering is "to be more competitive; nobody else does |
| this," according to Belden Menkus, an independent network security consultant |
| based in Middleville, NJ. |
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| The service is aimed at users transmitting proprietary information between |
| host computers, such as insurance or fund-transfer applications. It is priced |
| at $200 per month per host computer connection. Both the confidentiality and |
| integrity of the data can be protected via encryption. |
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| The scheme provides end-to-end data encryption, an alternative method whereby |
| data is decrypted and recrypted at each node in the network. "This is a |
| recognition that end-to-end encryption is really preferable to link |
| encryption," Menkus said. |
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| The service is available over both dial-up and leased lines, and it supports |
| both synchronous and asynchronous traffic at speeds up to 9.6K BPS. |
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| Telenet has approved one particular data encryption device for use with the |
| service, The Cipher X 5000, from Technical Communications Corporation (TCC), a |
| Concord, Massachusetts based vendor. TCC "has been around the data encryption |
| business for quite a while," Menkus said. |
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| The Cipher X implements the National Bureau of Standards' Data Encryption |
| Standard (DES). DES is an algorithm manipulated by a secret 56 bit key. |
| Computers protected with the device can only be accessed by users with a |
| matching key. |
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| The data encryptor is installed at user sites between the host computer and |
| the PAD (Packet Assembler/Disassembler). |
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| Installation of the TCC device does not affect the user's ability to send |
| non-encrypted data, according to Telenet. By maintaining a table of network |
| addresses that require encryption, the device decides whether or not to |
| encrypt each transmission. |
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| Information Provided by Network World. |
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