| ==Phrack Inc.== |
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| Volume Three, Issue Thirty-four, File #2 of 11 |
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| ^[-=:< Phrack Loopback >:=-]^ |
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| By: The Phrack Staff |
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| Phrack Loopback is a forum for you, the reader, to ask questions, air |
| problems, and talk about what ever topic you would like to discuss. This is |
| also the place The Phrack Staff will make suggestions to you by reviewing |
| various items of note; magazines, software, catalogs, hardware, etc. |
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| What's on Your Mind |
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| >Date: Fri, 20 Sep 91 01:22:30 -0400 |
| >To: phracksub@stormking.com |
| > |
| >So what exactly DID happen to Agent Steal? There was a small blurb in |
| >PWN for 33, but gave no details. Why was he arrested, what was confiscated, |
| >and how long will he probably be away for. |
| > |
| >Mind you, this is a tragic loss, since Agent Steal was a gifted hacker and |
| >had a whole lotta balls to boot. |
| > |
| > Sincerely, |
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| > A concerned reader |
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| To be honest, it would not in his best interest to say much about his |
| case before his trial. What we have written comes from a very reliable source. |
| Some people close to him are denying everything. This is most likely to keep |
| from happening to him what happened to people like Mind Rape, who have basically |
| been "convicted" by the media. |
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| >From: Drahgon |
| >Date: Thu Sep 26 06:00:35 1991 |
| > |
| > Dear Dispater, |
| > |
| > My name is Drahgon unless, of course. I have several things to blow |
| > from my mind here.... |
| > |
| > How is the progress of Phrack 33? I am not really up on all the |
| > hoopla surrounding it, but I am curious. In high school I often |
| > published "underground newsletters" about the manufacture of drugs and |
| > explosives, etc. The computer underground is a new territory for me |
| > and I have just begun. I would love to hear about your mag....I would |
| > perhaps have something to offer. |
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| We at Phrack Inc. are here to publish any kind of information you the |
| reader are interested in. We, unlike many other people out there, will not |
| judge you and can call you a "lamer" if you submit something to us that we |
| might think is a little elementary. We might not necessarily run it in Phrack, |
| but we aren't the kind of people that are going to call you up in the middle |
| of the night on an Alliance Teleconference and harass you. In fact, there are |
| many text files out there that are out-dated and need to be corrected! |
| Simply put, if you are interested in it, there are probably two hundred others |
| out that are afraid to ask, because some El1Te person will call them |
| "stupid." Here at Phrack Inc., WE ARE NOT El1Te, WE ARE JUST COOL AS HELL! |
| We want to help everyone in their quest for knowledge. |
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| > Secondly, I want to start my own bbs up here in my town. This |
| > town is dead, but there is still a glint of life, it needs to be |
| > kindled. There are currently no BBS's up here that carry information |
| > of an "alternative nature", and there is in fact laws that prevent |
| > them from springing up. (whatever happened to freedom of the press?), |
| > Well, anyway, I would like to know if you would support a BBS of |
| > mine, and maybe you could give me some pointers... |
| > |
| > Thanx ALOT |
| > DRAHGON |
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| That's great! We're always glad to see new faces that are truly interested |
| in helping people by becoming a source of information. If you |
| have any questions about BBS's you should ask the expert, Crimson Death. He |
| will be more than happy to help you out. |
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| Corrections |
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| In V.3, I#33, File 9 of 13, there was a error. R5 Should have been a |
| 10K pot and not just a resistor. The corrected part of the schematic |
| should look like this: |
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| Hardware Catalog Review |
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| by Twisted Pair |
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| You can never get enough catalogs. One reason is because you never know what |
| off-the-wall parts you'll be needing. From time to time I'll be reviewing |
| catalogs so you'll be able to learn where to get the really good stuff as far |
| as computer equipment, telco test equipment, and IC chips are concerned. In |
| this issue, we study two of them... |
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| SYNTRONICS |
| 2143 Guaranty Drive |
| Nashville, Tennessee 37214 |
| (615) 885-5200 |
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| I recently saw an issue of "Nuts and Volts" magazine which had a Syntronics ad |
| in it. I sent the dollar they wanted for a catalog. Apparently, demand for |
| the catalogs was so great that they're having some more printed up. They sent |
| my dollar back with an explanation and a partial photocopy of the catalog. |
| An associate on the left coast and I want to build a tone decoder and have been |
| looking for a particular chip for a long time. We found it in this catalog. |
| It's an SSI-202 Tone Decoder IC for $12. Not bad for a chip I was unable to |
| locate in about 30 catalogs I've searched through. A fellow phreak was told by |
| a zit-faced Radio Shack employee over their 800 number, "They had only 3 left |
| and they would cost $100 each." I don't think so. |
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| Syntronics is selling plans for an interesting device you hook up to the phone |
| line. With it you can call it and turn on any one of three 110VAC outlets. |
| To turn them on you use simple DTMF commands. This would be useful for |
| turning on your computer, modem, room bug, security lights, etc from a remote |
| location. Plans for this device cost $9 and you'd need the above-mentioned IC |
| chip to build it with. |
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| Syntronics carries: |
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| Project Plans Software Unusual Hardware Kits IC's Transistors |
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| Telephone International (The marketplace for |
| PO BOX 3589 communications equipment, |
| Crossville, Tennessee 38557 services, and employment) |
| (615) 484-3685 |
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| This is a monthly publication you can receive free. It's usually about 30 pages |
| printed on large yellow-pages paper. To save yourself the $50 a year |
| first-class yearly subscription rate, just tell them you're a telephone |
| technician. Tell them you need to often buy PBX's, Terminal Blocks, etc. |
| They'll send it to you free, because you're special! |
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| Here's a sampling of stuff you can find in there: |
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| A Complete Digital Switching System with 3200 lines on a flatbed trailer !!!!!! |
| Repaired Payphones Optical Fiber xmission system |
| Operator's Headsets CO Digital multiplexers |
| AT&T teletypes Used FAX machines |
| AT&T Chevy bucket trucks Hookswitches |
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| Digital error message announcers Central Office Coin System Processor Cards |
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| Telephone International lists a bunch of telco seminars happening around the |
| country on their "Calendar of Events" page. They also list conferences for |
| security organizations including dates and phone numbers you'd need to register. |
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| That's it for this edition of Hardware Hacking. Keep an eye out for good |
| suppliers to the Phreak world. Pass'em along to Phrack. |
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| -T_W-I_S-T_E-D_ |
| -P_A-I_R- |
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| A Review of the Killer Cracker V.7.0 |
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| by The Legion of d0oDez |
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| As every hacker worth his/her salt knows, the Unix operating system has major |
| security problems when it comes to it's passwd file. Although this may be |
| good as some people think information should not be hoarded, others think |
| information should be kept to be people who can use it best, the one's with |
| the most money. The passwd file is the Unix file that stores the user |
| information which included username, home directory, and passwords among |
| others. I will not go into the basics of Unix as this is not a Unix |
| how-to hack file. It is a review of Killer Cracker 7.0 (aka KC7.) |
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| KC7 is a Unix password hacker that is portable to most machines. It is |
| written by Doctor Dissector and is free software as the terms of the GNU |
| General Public License (By the Free Software Foundation <address at end of |
| file>) states. The version 7.0 is not the latest version but seems to be |
| the best to use. It is dated as 6/1/91 which makes it pretty recent. 8.0 |
| is rumored to be out but we have not had the opportunity to review it yet as |
| we are still testing it. ;-) |
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| The best thing about KC7 is that you can run it on most machines that will |
| run C programs which happens to include MS-DOS machines. With this in |
| mind, you can now let your PC do the work of hacking passwords in the privacy |
| of your own home without having to use a mainframe which might be a bit |
| risky. The distribution copy of KC7 comes with the following files: |
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| KC.EXE -- MS-DOS executable |
| KC.DOC -- Documents |
| Source.DOC -- The source code to KC |
| KC.C -- The Turbo C source code |
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| And other files that pertain to DES and word files. |
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| KC7 works by taking an ascii file composed of words and encrypting them so |
| that it can compare the encrypted words with the passwords in the PASSWD file. |
| It is pretty efficient but if running on an MS-DOS system, you will probably |
| want to use a machine that is at least a 286-12 or higher. The time to |
| complete a PASSWD file is directly proportional to how large the file is |
| (max size of PASSWD must be less than 64K on an MS-DOS machine) and what |
| speed of machine you are using. There are options which allow you to take |
| words (aka guesses) from other sources as well as a words file. These |
| sources can be words from the PASSWD file such as the username, single |
| characters, and straight ascii characters such as DEL or ^D. It can also |
| manipulate the guesses in various ways which might be helpful in guessing |
| passwords. |
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| Another useful option is the RESTORE function. KC7 has the ability to |
| allow the user to abort a crack session and then resume cracking at a |
| later date. This is very nice since one does not always have the time |
| nor patience to crack a 50k passwd file without wanting to use his/her |
| machine for other uses such as trying out new passwords. |
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| We have found that the best way, as suggested by the author, to crack is by |
| using the default method which is to crack by word and not by username. |
| You will understand when you get a hold of the software. |
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| You can get KC7 at most H/P oriented bbs's as everyone thinks he/she is |
| a Unix wizard nowadays. |
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| Overall, KC7 is an excellent program and we suggest it to all Unix hackers. |
| We also hope you have enjoyed this file and we look forward to bringing |
| more interesting reading to your terminal. Until then.... Happy hacking. |
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