| ---[ Phrack Magazine Volume 8, Issue 54 Dec 25th, 1998, article 01 of 12 |
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| --------[ Living in SYN |
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| Things that we want for Christmas: Functional remote operating system |
| detection. Functional remote promiscuous mode detection. Functional agent |
| based intrusion detection. |
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| A note about this issue. Loyal and perceptive readers will notice this issue |
| is a bit smaller. There are two reasons for this. The first is swift |
| delivery. We are attempting to make Phrack issues a bit more svelte in |
| order to pump them out on a more timely basis. The other reason is quality. |
| There is enough garbage out there. We turn down at least half of all |
| submissions to bring you the good stuff. Enjoy. |
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| Rewind to August 1998. |
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| It's Sunday morning in Las Vegas, about 5:00am-ish. Angstrom and I decide |
| to leave the Hard Rock Hotel. It's been a long night of drinking and |
| gambling. I am up maybe $200. He's up about $30. We're both inebriated |
| beyond repair. We return to Jackie Gaughan's Plaza Hotel and Casino, a |
| wretched place where the old go to get older and everyone's got at least one |
| foot in the grave. Back to the Future II? Biff's Pleasure Palace? Welcome |
| to the Plaza Hotel. |
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| Anyhow, we saunter on in, make our way over to the lounge and find Artimage, |
| Asriel, Glyph, and Alhambra.* After some random dialogue (the specifics of |
| which I have completely forgotten) Asriel tells me I should play some more |
| Blackjack. |
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| "I only have hundreds." was my reply. I didn't want to play anymore |
| anyhow. This was the 6th day of my Vegas stint and I was burnt on |
| gambling. |
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| "<shrug> Bet a hundred then." says As. |
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| "<shrug> Ok." I caved. |
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| I plop down on a unoccupied blackjack table and plunk my hundred down. The |
| dealer was a gentle looking 200 year old man from Laos. |
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| "MONEY PLAYZ!" I say. I remember being very drunk. |
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| "Money plays?" He questions? The pit boss wakes up. |
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| "Money plays." I confirm |
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| "Money plays!" He announces to the pit boss. The pit boss scribbles in his |
| book. |
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| Here's where the details get fuzzy. I can't remember the hand I was dealt, nor |
| any subsequent cards. All I know is I played textbook blackjack. That's all |
| you need to know here. I played according to the `book`. I lost that hundred. |
| At that point, my blackjack betting system kicked in. I lay down 2 more |
| bills. |
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| "Money playz." I repeat. |
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| "Money plays!" He announces to the pit boss. The pit boss scribbles |
| something else in his little book. |
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| My system is simple and almost foolproof. Bet small when you are just fucking |
| around. Bet big when you want to win big. Lose a big hand? Double your bet. |
| Lose again? Double it again. Lose again? Goto 1. The odds in blackjack |
| tend to hover around .05% house favor (this can vary widely depending on |
| several factors including the type of blackjack, the number of decks, the |
| skill of the player, whether or not the player counts cards, the card counting |
| scheme used, etc**). Eventually, odds are, you will win all your money back, |
| AND THEN SOME!*** Of course, this relies on both your bankroll and the table |
| maximum being unlimited. Small details I usually overlook. |
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| So I lose the 2 hundred. |
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| THE SYSTEM IS STILL IN FULL EFFECT. I plunk down another 4 small. |
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| "Money plays?" The dealer musses? I nod. |
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| "Money plays." The pit boss scribbles. |
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| I lose another hand. Bye-bye 4 hundred. |
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| Asriel is laughing at this point. |
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| "Dude, I think you should quit now." He offers. |
| "Nah. I'm not done yet." |
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| Hrm. Time to gather my thoughts. No more namby-pamby. Time to separate |
| the armchair gamblers from the hard-core haggard idiot types who end up having |
| to live in Vegas. I peel off 10 hundreds. 1 large is placed in that little |
| betting circle thingy. |
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| "Money plays." The pit boss scribbles, Onlookers gawk, I pray. |
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| Now this hand I remember distinctly. First card: an 8. Hrm. Second card: a |
| 6. Ugh. Dealer shows an 8. FUCK. Oh. Good. Well, that's $1700 well spent |
| in about 2 minutes. Well. I had to hit. I get a 6. Wow. WOW! Dealer |
| flips his hold card. A 10. |
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| "HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA" I proclaim. |
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| "10 blacks out" The dealer shouts. The pit boss stops writing. |
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| "Want to be rated?" He asks. |
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| "Nope! Bye!" And off I went to cash out. |
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| * http://www.infonexus.com/~daemon9/PIX/Misc/defcon6/r00tdinner%2b/latenite3.jpg |
| ** Actually, playing basic strategy alone can sometimes give you a pretty |
| close to even odds (or even better then even). Usually, however, you will |
| find that you will need to count cards in addition to basic strategy to have a |
| real advantage. |
| *** Assoc. Editor's note: If you take this advice, chances are you'll be |
| a very upset and angry gambler come next Defcon. Whine to route when you |
| can't afford a hotel room, not me. Maybe he'll let you sleep on his floor. |
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| A special shout-out to Ron Rivest. It has worked its way down the grapevine |
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| A word of caution about P54-06 and P54-10: If you attempt to apply the kernel |
| patches for these articles in succession on the same system, the second one |
| will fail at the syscalls.master file. You will need to patch this by hand. |
| It's not hard. Go ahead and try it. I trust you. |
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| Enjoy the magazine. It is by and for the hacking community. Period. |
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| Phrack Magazine V. 8, #54, Dec 25th, 1998. ISSN 1068-1035 |
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| - xanax on #phrack, 10-13-1998, when asked to comment on Antionline. |
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| "This is not a tool we should take seriously, or our customers should take |
| seriously..." |
| - Edmund Muth, Microsoft, as reported by the New York Times, |
| referring to Back Orifice. (How many thousands of machines were |
| owned with BO?) |
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| *deraadt* your style is so unlike anyone elses, that is makes no sense that |
| you have this "style" |
| - Theo Deraadt, OpenBSD project leader, refering to route's code in |
| this issue. |
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| "So I thought of something useful I could do with the money. I bought |
| a Nintendo 64 for one of my sisters, who has a slight mental retardation. |
| The reason for this was because the doctors have always told us that |
| things to stimulate her hand eye coordination would help her." |
| - Chameloen of the `masters of downloading` "hacking group", |
| commenting on why he didn't spend money on medical care for his |
| sister. |
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