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| ==Phrack Inc.== |
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| Volume Three, Issue 27, File 1 of 11 |
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| Phrack Inc. Newsletter Issue XXVII Index |
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| June 20, 1989 |
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| Greetings and welcome to Issue 27 of Phrack Inc. The pressure is on with |
| SummerCon '89 just a couple short days away. We're sorry it has taken so long |
| to get this issue out, but summer break has created more responsibilities and |
| busy schedules than we have ever had to deal with while in school. Still, I |
| think you will agree that this issue was worth the wait. |
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| This issue we feature a new updated NUA and Datex-P list from Oberdaemon |
| of Switzerland and Chapter 7 of the Future Transcendent Saga (taking into |
| account that the SPAN and NSFnet files were chapters 5 and 6). We also present |
| the second part of the COSMOS file written by King Arthur. |
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| Before we get to the main contents of the issue, we have a few comments to |
| make regarding security and Phrack Inc.'s Internet access; |
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| Thanks to a friend, we at Phrack Inc. have become aware of one of the main |
| techniques that the National Security Agency (NSA) uses to perform surveillance |
| on the wide area networks. |
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| In certain messages that certain government agencies distribute, special |
| phone numbers are included; WATS (800) numbers, to be more specific. As these |
| messages are distributed around the continent via various netmail and file |
| transfer schemes, they are passed through several surveillance stations. All |
| of their stations perform one function, and in Unix terms, that function is |
| called "grep." |
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| Grep stands for G>lobal R>egular E>xpression search and P>rint. The grep |
| does simple string matching. Every instance of these special 800-numbers in an |
| email message (or batch of them) is flagged, recorded, and the record is mailed |
| to certain intelligence agencies by the surveillance stations. |
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| Here are the networks that we are reasonably certain that this practice is |
| performed on: |
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| * USEnet : Email is only checked in certain places, but ALL netnews (including |
| alt and any other nonstandard newsgroups) are flagged by a single |
| government domain SUN-3 that shall remain nameless. |
| * ARPAnet : All mail going through a standard BBN (Bolt, Bernack, and |
| Neumann... a Cambridge/MIT spinoff) Internet controller will be |
| flagged, but the only information recorded by the controller is the |
| source and destination TCP/IP addresses of the message. But when |
| you consider that this involves ***ALL*** DARPA mailing lists, you |
| get a visualization of the magnitude. The reason more complex |
| information is NOT recorded is that this network is the only |
| AUTHORIZED place that these messages with the hot WATS are supposed |
| to appear. You will see what this means in a moment. |
| * BITnet : Large IBM mainframe with I/O channel cycles to spare should have no |
| problem scanning mail from one of the most publically accessable |
| "free" networks. |
| * Fidonet : The Secret Service scans this for credit card and other violations. |
| It is not too hard for them to check for the (800)'s, too. |
| * W.Union : All international telex lines are scanned to match a whole lot of |
| stuff, especially drug-related information. The phone numbers are |
| on their list. |
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| We have other suspicions, but we are withholding them for now. |
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| The other news is equally disturbing because it strikes us a little close |
| to home. We are temporarily losing our network access. As of June 27, 1989 |
| through August 28, 1989 we will not have access to our accounts on UMCVMB |
| mainframe system. Make no attempt to mail us to our addresses there until |
| August 28, 1989. However, every cloud has a silver lining and this is no |
| exception. For networks people who wish to submit files to Phrack Inc. during |
| this time period we proudly present our friend and associate, Hatchet Molly. |
| He can be reached at "TK0GRM2@NIU.BITNET" and/or |
| "TK0GRM2%NIU.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU". |
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| So here is to another great issue of Phrack Inc! |
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| Taran King Knight Lightning |
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| Hatchet Molly |
| TK0GRM2@NIU.BITNET |
| TK0GRM2%NIU.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU |
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| Table of Contents: |
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| 1. Phrack Inc. XXVII Index by Taran King and Knight Lightning |
| 2. Operating The IBM VM/SP CP by Taran King |
| 3. Introduction To MIDNET: Chapter Seven Of The FTS by Knight Lightning |
| 4. NUA List For Datex-P And X.25 Networks by Oberdaemon |
| 5. COSMOS: COmputer System for Mainframe OperationS (Part Two) by King Arthur |
| 6. Looking Around In DECnet by Deep Thought |
| 7. The Making Of A Hacker by Framstag |
| 8. Sending Fakemail In Unix by Dark OverLord |
| 9. The Postal Inspection Service by Vendetta |
| 10. Phrack World News XXVII/Part 1 by Knight Lightning |
| 11. Phrack World News XXVII/Part 2 by Knight Lightning |
| 12. Phrack World News XXVII/Part 3 by Knight Lightning |
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