==Phrack Inc.== Volume One, Issue Eight, Phile #8 of 9 PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN Phrack World News PWN PWN PWN PWN Issue Seven/Part One PWN PWN PWN PWN Compiled and Written by Knight Lightning PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN On The Home Front ----------------- Well lots of things have been happening around here in the past few weeks. For starters, I received a call from Ralph Meola. Apparently someone had left his secretary with a message that I had called. Prior to this, someone named Steve had left a message as well which Ralph had assumed was Slave Driver. He called Steve first, mainly to discuss the letter that was sent to him via PWN issue V. Well eventually he got around to calling me. Not too much was said, but he wanted to clear up some misconceptions about his encounter with Sigmund Fraud. Meola claims that he never threatened Sigmund Fraud about getting his account to Stronghold East. Futhermore, he claims only to have called him because SF had posted several AT&T Calling Cards on an unnamed west coast bbs. Sigmund Fraud still publicly claims that what he said originally was true, but privately admitted that he was lying. Some other developments would include an imposter of myself who is running around on bulletin boards. Two of the boards that he is on include Elite Connection (303) and Green Galaxy (714). I have never called these boards and I advise the sysops to remove "my" accounts as this is not me. On the lighter side, Metal Shop Private now has 20 Megs of online storage. The G-phile library has been re-installed including most of the files from Metal Shop AE and Metal Shop Private is once again the official Phrack distribution center. Metal Shop AE is down for the time being because Cheap Shades has left for college, but he has since brought forth a new system known as the Quick Shop. All former MS AE members have been entered into QS's bbs log. Metal Shop Brewery has lost its modem and its hard drive is fried, so it will be gone for a while. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >From TeleComputist Staff: We apologize for the unoriginality of the free issue. The free issue was put out with the intentions of gaining the trust of the public and in doing so we neglected to come up with completely original material. However, future issues will be much shorter and contain only original information from the editor's themselves. TeleComputist no longer consists of set writers and anyone may submit articles. Please note that if you submit an article, make sure that it has not been distributed or seen by anyone else, otherwise we will not accept it. For subscription information and submission of articles; TeleComputist Newsletter P.O. Box 2003 Florissant, Missouri 63032 _______________________________________________________________________________ Boston Busts August 9, 1986 ------------ A couple of weeks prior to the above date, Dr. Who came to visit Recent Change and The Clashmaster. Well, he apparently had cashed roughly 16 checks belonging to one John Martino (a man who lives down the street from him). Around August 4, 1986, Dr. Who and Telenet Bob were picked up in a store in North Adams, Massachusetts. They were trying to pass off another check. The police were on the scene very shortly and they were taken in. Dr. Who told the police inspector about a PDP-11/23 when asked about it. He had frauded this at Harvard University and told them that RC Modeler (also known as Recent Change) had it. They converged on a sleeping RC who confessed everything. Dr. Who is being charged with 16 counts of theft. RC Modeler is being charged with larceny & possibly as an accomplice to theft. Telenet Bob is being charged with 1 count of attempted theft. Dr. Who and RC Modeler are reportedly out of the scene permanently and Dr. Who may be serving some prison time. Also, RC Modeler, when being questioned, was asked about Legion of Doom. This is VERY strange since we cannot figure out quite WHY this was asked. Sysops are asked to clear their accounts form any bbs they were on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following is the interpretation of the same events as described by the Concord Journal. The real names of the phreaks involved have been censored. Computer Theft Charge --------------------- An 18-year-old Concord man was charged on August 5, 1986 with stealing a $3,300 computer [PDP-11/23 with Venix software] from Harvard University and a portable stereo from an unknown store by using checks, police allege he knew to be forged, to pay for the items, police said. RC Modeler, was charged with two counts of larceny over $100, police said. [Also, accessory to the crime, RC says.] Police issued a warrant for RC's arrest after being tipped-off by the North Adam's police that he had allegedly made purchases with checks they alleged to be stolen and forged. North Adam's police, according to reports, arrested Doctor Who, of Lenox, MA. [and Telenet Bob], and charged him with using stolen and forged checks earlier this month. Police said Who told them about RC's purchases. They said Who wrote checks for the purchase of the computer equipment and the stereo for RC. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, RC might get off with 3 years of probation (including possible drug testing according to RC.). Dr. Who's court set is set for August 25, 1986. He will most likely be doing some prison time unfortunately. Please address all further questions to The Clashmaster. Information Provided By The Clashmaster _______________________________________________________________________________ Portrait Of The Typical Computer Criminal August 11, 1986 ----------------------------------------- from PC Week Magazine In studying the typical computer criminal, the National Center for Computer Crime Data, in L.A., may have recently shattered some common myths. Rather than being some genius computer programmer, according to the center's recently published report, the typical computer criminal is just that: quite typical. He's most often a male, with an average age of 22, and if not, he's next likely to be 19. Chances are he's a programmer, but if that job description doesn't fit, he's most likely a student or an input clerk. Less than 5% of the time, this criminal will be either unskilled or unemployed, and less than 2% of the time will he be a computer executive. In more than 40% of the cases that the center studied, criminals stole money, and if cash wasn't their style, they split between stealing information or programs and damaging software. For these crimes, 4/5ths of those caught had to pay a fine or do community service or both, or serve less than 6 months in jail. In close to 1/5th of the cases, the criminal's only punishment was to make restitution. Some notes from Sally Ride:::Space Cadet ---------------------------------------- Pisses me off! How dare they suggest we are not GENIUS computer programmers! Oh wait a minute, I know why they screwed up the statistics! They haven't caught the geniuses, so we throw off the statistical skew since we're still free. Also I think it's high time computer executives start accounting for their fair share of computer crime! They probably don't get in the statistics either since they pull off the really big money rip-offs and it doesn't get published by the high power companies they work for so the public keeps faith in them. Information Provided By Sally Ride:::Space Cadet _______________________________________________________________________________ Dan Pasquale: Still Hostile or Ancient History? September 8, 1986 ------------------------------------------------ Some updated information on Sergeant Dan Pasquale (Fremont, CA Police Department) aka The Revenger here. Supposedly he has been calling Oryan QUEST on several occasions and filling in Oryan as to his plans on whom to bust. However, an investigation into the truth of this matter shows otherwise. Most recently, Oryan QUEST informed me that Dan Pasquale was trying to gain information on The Yakuza. I told The Yakuza about this and had him call Dan himself to find out what was going on. Apparently he had no idea of who he was and had no idea of what he was talking about. He just said he'd no idea what I was talking about. He also said that he'd heard about a Shooting Shark incident much like this one. The Rocker of Speed Demon Elite also has called him claiming a similar story. The weird thing is, he also claims to not have talked to Oryan QUEST since around the beginning of summer. [Please note that Shooting Shark and The Rocker have been disliked by Oryan QUEST for some time and that situation has not changed]. Dan seemed pretty lax, didn't get excited, and seemed like a decent person all around. He said he hadn't been on a board for at least 3 months and that board was a legit one at that. He concluded by saying he didn't know who or why these rumors were starting up. Some last things to add, Dan said that he isn't into busting phreaks/hackers and all that stuff anymore. He just proved his point with Phoenix Phortress, took his raise, and got out of the deal. He is now teaching at the academy and is doing patrols. But, aside from that, he claims to have nothing at all to do with the modem world. Information Provided By [%] The Yakuza [%] Please refer to past issues of Phrack World News for more information on Dan Pasquale and/or Phoenix Phortress _______________________________________________________________________________ Zigmond Exposed September 1, 1986 --------------- Finally after months of confusion and question, the truth about Daniel Zigmond is out. It would appear that Zigmond is not an on-staff programmer at Carnegie Mellon University after all, but instead was a sort of part time worker there. Indeed, Daniel just graduated high school with the class of 1986 and currently attends the University of Pittsburgh this fall. He started part time work at CMU on April 1, 1984 (April Fools? Not this time). He does have a book coming out on Lisp programming which is what he did at Carnegie Mellon. All of this information came from his boss at CMU. As for Amiga World, Daniel has submitted a few articles, but he isn't "on staff." This came from his Amiga World editor. The reason there is nothing listed in his TRW account now is obvious since he is not old enough to have obtained credit cards, bought a car/house, or much of anything else. Zigmond says he lied about his age because he thought he would get more respect. He thought that people would think he was a rodent if they knew he was only 17 years old. Daniel Zigmond received(s) quite a lot of prank phone calls, including a bomb threat that brought the police to his house, and I ask everyone to stop. He tried to screw around with the phreak/hack community, but no damage was done. Its time to leave him alone because ragging serves no purpose. As for his article...only time will tell, but the general idea is that he made that up too just so he could become involved with the phreak/hack community. Information Provided and Researched by Lucifer 666 _______________________________________________________________________________ Maxfield Strikes Again August 20, 1986 ---------------------- --------------- Many of you probably remember a system known as "THE BOARD" in the Detroit 313 NPA. The number was 313-592-4143 and the newuser password was "HEL-N555,ELITE,3" (then return). It was kind of unique because it was run off of an HP2000 computer. On the Private Sector BBS (Sponsored by 2600 Magazine), Bill From RNOC had posted a list of numbers that were related to John Maxfield and while none of the numbers were anything close to the bbs number listed above, Bill reminded us that Maxfield was the proud owner of an HP2000 computer. This started started several people (including Sally Ride:::Space Cadet and myself) thinking that there might be a connection. Using resources that I cannot reveal, I was able to prove that "THE BOARD" was indeed a Maxfield/BoardScan operation. I also had learned that the BBS number itself really had call forwarding to one of Maxfield's own numbers. On August 15, 1986 I made this knowledge semi-public and warned Sally Ride:::Space Cadet and Ax Murderer (who lives locally to Maxfield). Unfortunately these warnings were in vain because on August 20, 1986 the following messages were found and sent to me by Sally Ride. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Welcome to MIKE WENDLAND'S I-TEAM sting board! (Computer Services Provided By BOARDSCAN) 66 Megabytes Strong 300/1200 baud - 24 hours. Three (3) lines = no busy signals! Rotary hunting on 313-534-0400. Board: General Information & BBS's Message: 41 Title: YOU'VE BEEN HAD!!! To: ALL From: HIGH TECH Posted: 8/20/86 @ 12.08 hours Greetings: You are now on THE BOARD, a "sting" BBS operated by MIKE WENDLAND of the WDIV-TV I-Team. The purpose? To demonstrate and document the extent of criminal and potentially illegal hacking and telephone fraud activity by the so-called "hacking community." Thanks for your cooperation. In the past month and a half, we've received all sorts of information from you implicating many of you to credit card fraud, telephone billing fraud, vandalism, and possible break-ins to government or public safety computers. And the beauty of this is we have your posts, your E-Mail and--- most importantly ---your REAL names and addresses. What are we going to do with it? Stay tuned to News 4. I plan a special series of reports about our experiences with THE BOARD, which saw users check in from coast-to-coast and Canada, users ranging in age from 12 to 48. For our regular users, I have been known as High Tech, among other ID's. John Maxfield of Boardscan served as our consultant and provided the HP2000 that this "sting" ran on. Through call forwarding and other conveniences made possible by telephone technology, the BBS operated remotely here in the Detroit area. When will our reports be ready? In a few weeks. We now will be contacting many of you directly, talking with law enforcement and security agents from credit card companies and the telephone services. It should be a hell of a series. Thanks for your help. And don't bother trying any harassment. Remember, we've got YOUR real names. Mike Wendland The I-team WDIV, Detroit, MI. Board: General Information & BBS's Message: 42 Title: BOARDSCAN To: ALL From: THE REAPER Posted: 8/20/86 @ 12.54 hours This is John Maxfield of Boardscan. Welcome! Please address all letter bombs to Mike Wendland at WDIV-TV Detroit. This board was his idea. The Reaper (a.k.a. Cable Pair) Board: General Information & BBS's Message: 43 Title: BOARDSCAN To: ALL From: AX MURDERER Posted: 8/20/86 @ 13.30 hours Hey guys, he really had us for awhile. For any of you who posted illegal shit, I feel sorry for you. I just can't wait to see his little news article. Cable Pair, do you have some sort of problem? If you've noticed, just about *everything* posted on this board is *legal*!!! So fuck off! You wanna get nasty? Well go ahead, call my house! Threaten me! HaHaHa, so what are you gonna do, take me to court for calling a bbs? Freedom of speech. YOU lose! Ax Murderer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your guess is as good as mine as to what happens next. For those of you who are interested, Mike Wendland can be reached at WDIV-TV, 313-222-0444, 313-222-0540, 313-222-5000, 313-222-0532. Information Provided by Ax Murderer/John Maxfield/Sally Ride:::Space Cadet/Knight Lightning and the PWN Special Investigation Team - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Maxfield is in general pretty proud of his efforts with THE BOARD. He says that a lot of the people that he voice verified should have known it was him. However, it is believed that he had a kid helping him do some of the validations. According to John F. Maxfield the only reason this sting board was done was to show "What is currently happening in the phreak/hack community." He said no legal action will be taken at all, and besides, its fattened his "dossiers" on a lot of people! _______________________________________________________________________________ PWN Quicknotes -------------- There is a bulletin board called Alpha Center in the 514 NPA (Canada) that is being run by a guy named Mike Holmes who is writing a book on the personalities of phreakers and hackers. Mike will ask for your real name, address, phone number and other things, but it is not completely required. The board is 300 baud only. The name of the book is reported to be "Phreak me out!" and it is supposed to be "not about how to phreak or hack, but about hackers lives and their trials and tribulations." If you would like to find out more about this board or the book before calling, either contact Attila the Hun or leave Mike Holmes a message at his voice mailbox (214)733-5283. For the general password contact anyone of the below contributors, myself or Taran King. Information Provided By (8/1/86) Attila The Hun/Ryche/Sticky Fingers/The Pyro ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- People in foreign countries will soon be able to have the benefits of our famous 800 (toll free) numbers. In place of the 800 number, foreign callers will dial 196. This will be followed by a unique prefix and the line number from the company's domestic 800 service. It would work like this: 196-NXX-XXXX. AT&T will bill and record all these calls. This will give our overseas (and maybe Canada too) friends the opportunity to take advantage of the US toll network. Information Provided By Sally Ride:::Space Cadet (8/1/86) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mountain States Telephone and Pacific North West Bell are trialing work stations to be used to allow operators to work from home via the personal computer. Mountain States Telephone has over 100 people in various occupations working from home now, while Pacific North West has just built one entire operating office equipped with IBMs and have several employees working remotely using the same technology. Information Provided By Sally Ride:::Space Cadet (8/8/86) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Supposedly, Bug Byter, Soft Jock, Street Urchin, the Bandit, the Gray Elf, Sea-Saw, and Quick Zipper have all were busted on August 5, 1986. It has also been reported that Street Urchin has to pay $7000 in restitution. Information Provided By Silent Assault (8/8/86) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Commodore Hacker, Hackin Hank was busted for abusing MCI codes and had to pay a $2000 phone bill. He was caught after a person he called was called by MCI Investigations. This person got scared and told them everything he knew. Information Provided By Red Baron (8/8/86) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following two phreaks were sentenced about 2 months prior to the date. MOB RULES, who was busted for MF Scanning that he had done 2 years previous, got 90 days in jail, 360 hours of community service, and 5 years probation. Video Vance has been given a flat 90 days in jail for being caught with 11 cases of dynamite. Information Provided By (8/8/86) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a bulletin board in Australia with many users interested in learning to phreak and hack. They need experienced people to converse with. Tell the sysop that you are calling from America. The number is 61-3-509-9611. Information Provided By Mad Madness (8/14/86) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shadow Hawk 1 was busted for hacking two RSTSs in Chicago. They acquired all of his printouts and disks with information on it. Info by Shadow Hawk 1. (8/11/86) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Prophet, formally of the PhoneLine Phantoms, was recently contacted by authorities for as yet unknown reasons. He has had his computer equipment confiscated, but as of this writing he has not been formally charged. And to clear up the rumor, I did not have anything to do with it. Information Provided By Solid State (8/23/86) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some notes about Night Stalker's bust here, I haven't really talked much to him because his phone line is bugged, I could tell that much from all of the clicks that I heard after he had hung up while I was still on the line. Some of the reasons that he may have been busted were that credit Card numbers were frequently posted on The Underground and two months ago a member of the Underground called the White House with a bomb threat and was later visited by the U.S. Secret Service. They knew this person had used illegal extenders and codes to make the call. They inquired to where he obtained them and he told them all about The Underground. He is currently under surveillance, the Secret Service thinks he is transferring funds and have been following him and taking pictures, especially when he visited his bank. That's about all I know...end of the investigation. Information Provided By Night Stalker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the last week of July, Cyclone II mistakenly was playing with a local VAX and became a bit careless with his methods. He was caught. You may have noticed that he hasn't been calling around for quite awhile. He won't be until this mess is cleared up, which should be in the near future. His computer was confiscated, as well as all of his files, papers, notes, and anything else the authorities could find that was illegal. He is laying low and would prefer not to receive too many calls. Information Provided by Cyclone II (8/4/86) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For those of us that subscribe to Home Box Office (HBO), did any of you see the HBO movie, Apology? Well the movie was based on fact and being that Apology can be accessed from a phone line I feel that it could be considered as possibly having something to do with phreaking. This Apology differs a little from the movie, because with this one you can hear other people's Apology's as well including the statements made from two phreaks in the Southern Bell area. These two phone phreaks/hackers/credit carders/anarchists as they described themselves apologized for all sorts of crimes including $200,000 phone bills to their phone company, bomb threats to their school, and prank calls to Hong Kong, Egypt, and London. One of the phreaks identified themselves as "The Cop." Just thought you might be interested to know about it...-KL _______________________________________________________________________________