| ==Phrack Inc.== |
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| Volume Three, Issue 29, File #5 of 12 |
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| [-] Covert Paths [-] |
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| [-] by [-] |
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| [-] Cyber Neuron Limited and Synthecide [-] |
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| [-] November 1, 1989 [-] |
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| When cracking a system, it is important for you to use a path to the system |
| that will not lead the authorities to your door step. |
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| There are several methods for doing this and all of them will depend on your |
| destination, available time, goal and the phase of the moon. This article |
| deals mostly with cover attacks via a connected network. |
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| If attacking via a phone link: |
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| o Tap in to your local payphone line and red box or "sprint" the call. |
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| o Using a long haul service (like Sprint or MCI) to dial into systems in |
| remote cities. [This should hinder a track by a good order of |
| magnitude.] |
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| o Use a midnight packet switching network (eg: PC-Pursuit, Tymnet, et. al.) |
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| o All the above. |
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| If attacking from a network (eg: the Internet) there are ways of spoofing the |
| packet headers, but this requires superuser privileges on the system you are |
| attacking from and a fair amount of 'C' programming expertise. Therefore, this |
| will not be discussed here in any more detail. |
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| Another obvious trick is to use network routers and gateways along with guest |
| accounts to "route" your data path. This will cause the person tracking you to |
| have to go though more red tape and hassle to track you. This gives you more |
| time to cover your tracks. |
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| Some useful paths I know of are: |
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| accuvax.nwu.edu |
| cory.berkeley.edu |
| violet.berkeley.edu |
| headcrash.berkeley.edu |
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| host: violet.berkeley.edu host: headcrash.berkeley.edu |
| account: nobody account: netgate |
| net address:128.32.136.22 net address: 128.32.234.31 |
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| host: cory.berkeley.edu host accuvax.nwu.edu |
| account: terminal account: telnet |
| net address: 128.32.134.6 net address: 129.105.49.1 |
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| host: lightning.berkeley.edu host: score.stanford.edu |
| port: 8033 account: guest |
| net address: 128.32.234.10 net address: 36.8.0.46 |
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| The accounts nobody, netgate, and terminal at Berkeley are accounts that were |
| installed so that people can use the system to rlogin or telnet to an account |
| elsewhere without a local login (or so I am told by the local hackers [Hi |
| Audrey...]). The lightning path/method can be accessed by the command: |
| "telnet lightning.berkeley.edu 8033". |
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| I am interested in hearing about other Internet access accounts that are |
| available out there. If you know of any please send them in. |
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| Tymnet is also a useful method of gaining access to systems. From Tymnet, you |
| can hook up to just about any computer and use the other methods to go one step |
| further. It's not until you are traced back to the computer you linked to from |
| Tymnet that they can even begin to follow you back. My understanding is that |
| for a systen to find your Tymnet node, they must contact Tymnet personally and |
| ask them to put a trap on their connection. |
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| For more infomation concerning Tymnet see the article "Hacking & Tymnet" by |
| Synthecide in Phrack Inc. Newsletter Issue XXX. |
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