TEXT FILE VERSION OF T E L E C O M P U T I S T ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Newsletter PART I OF II Typed in September 1, 1986 This is a typed up sample of the Telecomputist newsletter. Telecomputist is a monthly 4 page newsletter that deals with information pertaining to the phreak/hack/anarchy world. If, after reading this sample, you would like to subscribe to this newsletter, refer to the info at the end of file II. SECRET SERVICE FREQUENCIES By DATA LINE The Secret Service, a branch of the Treasure, is responsible for enforce- ment of laws realting to US currency and negotiable instruments (e.g. bonds and postage stamps) in addition to providing security for the Executive Branch. They have offices in most cities with a population of over 30 thousand or so. Most communications is "in the clear," although digital voice encryption has shown up in the larger cities and will continue to spread. Agents use their last name in initiating contact; for example "flahrety, Flahrety, St. Louis Base." Or, when a dignitary is in town, "Flahrety, Flahrety, Command Post." Few code words are used. "Rawhide" is the President, "Rainbow" is the First Lady, "Snowstorm" is the Vice President. These will change from time to time, but are easy to figure out. Following is an alphabetical list of the frequencies in use around the nation. for daily use, stick with Charlie (165. 375). When the President comes to town, plug in all you have room for. Channel Freq. Use Alpha 165.235 Repeats 166.435 Baker 165.7875 Escort channel Charlie 165.375 Primary Delta 169.925 Echo 407.85 Fox 415.7 Repeats Echo Golf 166.4 Input to Charlie Hotel 166.2125 Repeater India 407.925 Treasury guards Juliet ??? Kilo 167.825 Mobile Lima 168.79 " Mike 165.2125 Visiting dignitaries November 167.025 Radio technicians Oscar 164.8875 Presidential staff Papa 164.4 Input to Mike Quebec 166.7 Romeo ??? Sierra 166.5125 Executive Secretary Tango 164.65 Repeater Uniform 414.95 Victor 164.1 Whiskey ??? X-ray 166.4625 Yankee 162.69 Repeater Zulu 171.29 The following are unnamed SECSERV channels and may be useless. 163.81 165.685 164.75 165.9 165.675 166.615 168.45 168.4 168.575 Try some of them next time Ronnie pays a visit. Remember, the motorcades are the responsibilities of local departments and the Highway Patrol/State Police. If Secret Service comes up with stuff like "Passing point 4", listen to the locals and they'll spell it out in plain words. CONFIDENTIAL AND CLASSIFIED RADIO FREQUENCIES By CHRIS JONES We all know that the government listens in on just about everything we do. So why shouldn't you listen in on the government? The following is a list of CIA and foreign classified radio frequencies including call sign, and times of best access. A short wave receiver is almost always necessary especially with the CIA. CIA (CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY) Due to the sensitive nature of this super-secret branch of the US government, information regarding radio communication facilities is very scarce. The listing below is a combination of ITU data and off-the-air monitoring. According to the ITU, a power of 15 kilowatts is used for both CW and RSR/RTTY kHz Call kHz Call 6924.5 KKN50 15,540 KKN36,KKN51 7470 KKN33,KKN50 17,390 KKN50 10,470 KKN50 17,662 KGA60,KKN50 11,095 KKN42,KKN50,KGA61 18,525 KGA60,KGA675,KKN50 12,022.5 KGA62,KKN43 20,365 KGA67,KKN48 12,112.5 KGA59,KKN50 23,442.5 KGA61 13,646 KKN50 23,862.5 KKN51 13,715 KKN51 23,975 KKN49,KGA68 15,492.5 KKN35 23,982.5 KKN52 15,540 KKN36,KKN51 26,760 KKN50,KGA71 (other possible callsign in use: KGB22, KCT78, KCA30, KUO20, KQD86, KLM49) SPY AND NUMBERS STATIONS Nothing you can hear on short wave quite equals the cloak and dagger intrigue of the so-called "Spy and Numbers" stations. As incredible as it may sound, the ordinary listener with modest equipment can hear signals intended to convey vital information to spies, guerilla fighters, and every consider- able type of underground clandestine political organziation. The majority of radio stations broadcasting such signals do so using regular AM. The trick is the spacial numeral code groups -- apparently changed with every transmission. Sophisticated techniques are becoming more common including compressed CW send at speeds of 200 words per minute for tape recording (it's reliably reported that Radio Berlin International transmits compressed CW at various times during regular programming). Obviously no ID is given by the broadcaster and the "spy" is usually the only one who knows what to listen to in terms of positive ID. The list below contains some of the more frequently heard stations at the time of the publication of this file (1-20-86). Frequencies and schedules are subject to erratic and sudden changes. kHz Language Broadcastingg Schedule 3060 Spanish 5 digits per group Tues, Thur, & Fri at 2215 3249.3 German 5 digits per group 0435-0510 (daily?) (frequent "Achtung!") 4700.5 unknown music and phrases 1200-1500 (daily?) 5140.6 unknown gypsy music and single 0500 to 0540 (daily?) word repeated 3 times 5660V Chinese music & number groups no fixed schedule 6670 unknown unknown Saturdays at 0000 6725 English 4 digits per group Wed, Thurs, & Fri at 0300; Sat at 0100 & Sun at 0000 I hope you get as much information from these stations as I have, and remember that certain people tend to frown on eavesdroppers so exercise some caution. Technical assistance by James Meeker (The Pyro) INTEGRATED SERVICES DIGITAL NETWORK - ISDN By AX MURDERER Until recently, talk and information about ISDN has been limited to docu- ments such as "What the Future Holds." Over the past few years, discussion about ISDN has moved into the present tense. In fact, Siemens AG predicts that narrowband ISDN services should be available in most major US cities. Rather than a specific technology, ISDN is a set of evolving standards whose formulation began in the late 1970s by telecommunications industry's interna- tional standard-setting body, the Comite Consultatif Internation Telepho- niqueet Telegraphique (CCITT). For political reasons, the standards are not expected to be set until at least 1989. The purpose of these standards is to provide a framework for the acquisition of new technology by the world's phone networks. Leading to the adoption of ISDN was an industry-wide realization which would demand on phone networks increasing their potential between now and the enxt century. Tele- phone companies were going to make large scale investments in new technology to keep up with the growing demands of digitized data, and if something wasn't done soon, the world's phone systems were in danger of becoming an obsolete hodgepodge of incompatibility. Currently, ISDN standards span many layers in the technical tangle of phone transmission from the protocols used for routing messages within the network to types of switches used by telephone exchanges. The first step on the path to ISDN is to replace all the central office analog switches in the telephone network to digital switches. Delivering ISDN services to the telephone user requires only the lowest level switches, rather than using the upper ones which constitute the long-distance switching bureau- cracy. Providing ISDN is the job of the Bell Operating companies (BOC's), the regional castaways from the breakup of AT&T. Every time you dial a number, you call is routed through the local sub- scriber loop to the local central office switch. The switch acts as an envoy, routing your call either straight to its destination, if the destination is local, or through a hierarchy of numerous other switches. The United States has approximately 12,000 local central office switches. The switches in operation today range from the primitive step-by-step, to the dominant switching technology - high-speed electronic analog, controlled by software built and integrated circuits and semiconductors. But the first step in ISDN relies on the installation of a new generation of switches now making their appearance - state-of-the-art digital switches such as Northern Tele- com's DMS, AT&T's 5ESS, and Siemens' EWSD. The current digital switches vary greatly in design, but all include a central communications processor that handles serializing, error management, synchronization, and code conversion. The processors' memory banks contain information such as the numbers dialed by a particular caller and the services subscribed to by each customer. The communications processor is hooked up to a variety of peripheral units that may include processors for message priori- tization, secondary routing, internal failure detection, diagnostic routines, and multi-plexing functions. The switching system may have a capacity of 100, 000 or more trunks that connect to other switching centers, and be able to switch over a half a million calls per hour. About one quarter of all phone switches in the US already have some digi- tal capabilities, with about 10 percent of the local subscriber loops that originate with them being digital lines. The price of replacing an analog central office switch varies with the of subscriber lines the switch can sup- port. A switch may support anywhere from 2500 to 50,000 customer lines, with digital upgrade costs ranging from $1500 to $2000 per line. All this comes to about $6 million a switch. Once a digital central office switch is in place in your area, what next? To get from there to the narrowband ISDN, the system is upgraded through soft- ware and sometimes hardware add-ons. AT&T's 5ESS switch and Siemens' EWSD are upgraded solely through software enhancements and upgrades, while Northern Telecom's DMS requires both hardware and software add-ons and upgrades. In a typical upgrade, the software handles message protocol conversion, encodes the data-packeting and depacketing it, and converts it into a format accepted by the central office's switch interface. Since the standards for so many aspects of ISDN are still not set, such as the interface between an ISDN equipped local subscriber loop and an in-house PBX system, many obstacles still await. It is known, though, what the telephone user will get: high-speed, inte- grated voice and data digital communications over an ordinary phone line broken into three distinct channels- a service know as basic access. The ISDN standards define it as two 64K-bps digital circuit-switched bearer channels carrying data and voice, and one 16K-bps channel primarily devoted to carrier signaling but also capable of transmitting voice and packet-switched data. The 64K-bps channels carry data more than twice as fast as data can theoretically travel over analog channels of ordinary twisted-pair copper cable, and almost seven times as fast as 9600-bps asynchronous modem communi- cations. The digital signaling also enables voices to be transmitted more clearly, and data can reach its destination with far greater accuracy than in the traditional analog scheme. ISDN's ability to turn existing single phone lines connected to conven- tional wall jacks into triple-lane thoroughfares comes from its wide trans- mission bandwidth as well as its tripartit channeling arrangement. The wide bandwidth ensures that voices and data do not cross paths and pick up from a neighboring channel that signal pollution known as talk. To take advantage of ISDN, computer users will need a terminal adapter and a network terminator. Similar to a modem but not much bigger than a pack of cigareetes, the network terminator is equipped with modulation and multi- plexing functions, provides for fault partitioning, and handles other network maintenance jobs. The network terminator is plugged into a standard wall jack and contains eight plugs, which can accomodate PC's, phones, and other equip- ment. Since data can be exchanged between various devices attached to the term- inator as well as with the outside world, the terminator can almost be consid- ered a local area network (LAN) in miniature. Even better than a LAN, the terminator requires no rewiring of the premises for installation, and term- inals and equipment can be moved with contacting the vendor or phone company. As to whether the terminator will ever challenge the popularity of its distant cousins, the LAN and the PBX, there are still too many unknowns. GOVERNMENT SYSTEM EXCHANGES By MAD MOLESTER (Edited by The Smuggler) PART 2 I - M Introduction: This file contains NPA's, exchanges, and AutoVon prefixes for most of the government systems in the US. Have fun war dialing... IDAHO- Boise AV:941-xxxx (208) 385-xxxx Idaho Army National Guard ILLINOIS- Chicago AV:459-xxxx (312) 735-xxxx Army Aviation Support Facility -2/Illinois Army National Guard Decatur AV:555-xxxx (217) 422-xxxx Army Aviation Support Facility -1/Illinois Army National Guard Fort Sheridan AV:459-xxxx (312) 926-xxxx Fourth US Army/Aviation Office Glenview NAS AV:932-xxxx (312) 657-xxxx 86th Army Reserve Command/Aviation Flight Facility -26 Scott AFB AV:638-xxxx (618) 256-xxxx 102d Army Reserve Command/Aviation Support Facility -44 Springfield AV:555-xxxx (217) 785-xxxx Illinois Army National Guard INIDIANA- Fort Benjamin Harrison (317) 240-xxxx TRADOC Flight Detachment Shelybville AV:699-xxxx (317) 835-xxxx Indiana Army National Guard/Army Aviation Support Facility IOWA- Boone AV:946-xxxx (515) 432-xxxx Iowa Army National Guard/Army Aviation Support Facility -1 Cedar Rapids (319) 395-xxxx Davenport AV:793-xxxx (319) 391-xxxx Iowa Army National Guard/Army Aviation Support Facility -3 Des Moines (515) 284-xxxx 88th Army Reserve Command/Aviation Flight Facility -60 Johnstown AV:946-xxxx (515) 278-xxxx Iowa Army National Guard Waterloo AV:946-xxxx (319) 233-xxxx Iowa Army National Guard/Army Aviation Support Facility -2 KANSAS- Fort Levanworth AV:552-xxxx (913) 684-xxxx US Army Combined Arms Center Fort Riley AV:856-xxxx (913) 239-xxxx 1st Aviation Battalion (Combat)/1st Infantry Divison (mech) Olathe AV:552-xxxx (913) 782-xxxx 89th Army Reserve Command/Aviation Support Facility -37 Topeka AV:720-xxxx (913) 862-xxxx Kansas Army National Guard KENTUCKY- Fort Campbell AV:635-xxxx (502) 798-xxxx Division Support Command/101st Air Assault Airborne Division (615) 798-xxxx Task Force 160/1st Special Operations Command/101st Aviation Battalion/158th Helicopter Assault Aviation Battalion/159th Aviation Battalion/229th Aviation Battalion Fort Knox AV:464-xxxx (502) 624-xxxx US Army Armor Center/Aviation Division/Directorate of Plans Frankfort AV:366-xxxx (502) 564-xxxx Kentucky Army National Guard/Army Aviation Support Facility LOUISIANA- New Iberia (318) 365-xxxx 122nd Army Reserve Command/Aviation Flight Facility -75 New Orleans AV:485-xxxx (502) 278-xxxx Louisiana Army National Guard/Lakefront Airport MAINE- Bangor AV:476-xxxx (207) 947-xxxx Maine Army National Guard/Bangor International Airport MARYLAND- Aberdeen Proving Ground AV:584-xxxx (301) 671-xxxx Army Aviation Division/National Guard Bureau/Avn Logistical Bureau/Aviation Operations Bureau/Safety Branch/Multi Media Bureau/Maryland Army National Guard/Army Aviaton Support Facility Fort George G. Meade AV:923-xxxx (301) 677-xxxx First US Army Fort Meade AV:923-xxxx (301) 679-xxxx 97th Army Reserve Command/Aviation Support Facility -85 Fort Ritchie AV:277-xxxx (301) 878-xxxx US Army Air Traffic Control Combat Support Activity/7th Signal Command Hagerstown AV:988-xxxx (301) 797-xxxx 79th Army Reserve Command/Aviation Support Facility -111 MASSACHUSETTS- Boston AV:557-xxxx (617) 782-xxxx Massachusetts Army National Guard Fort Devens AV:256-xxxx (617) 796-xxxx 94th Army Reserve Command/Aviation Support Facility -64 Otis Air National Guard Base AV:557-xxxx (617) 968-xxxx Massachusetts Army National Guard/Army Aviation Support Facility Westover AFB AV:589-xxxx (413) 557-xxxx Massachusetts Army National Guard/Aviation Support Facility /State Army Aviation Flight Activity MICHIGAN- Grand Ledge AV:623-xxxx (517) 483-xxxx Michigan Army National Guard/State Army Aviation Office/ Army Aviation Support Facility Selfridge Field AV:273-xxxx (313) 466-xxxx 123rd Army Reserve Command/Aviation Flight Facility -61/ Hangar 10 MINNESOTA- St. Paul AV:825-xxxx (612) 296-xxxx Minnesota Army National Guard/Army Aviation Support Facility MISSISSIPPI- Gulfport AV:363-xxxx (601) 693-xxxx Mississippi Army National Guard/Aviation Classification Repair Jackson AV:637-xxxx (601) 949-xxxx Mississippi Army National Guard/State Army Aviation Office/ Aviation Support Facility -1 Meridian AV:694-xxxx (601) 693-xxxx Mississippi Army National Guard/Army Aviation Support Facility -3 Tupelo AV:731-xxxx (601) 842-xxxx Mississippi Army National Guad/Army Aviation Support Facility- 2 Vicksburg (601) 638-xxxx Mississippi Army National Guard MISSOURI- Jefferson City AV:940-xxxx (314) 751-xxxx Missouri Army National Guard/State Army Aviation Office/ Army Aviation support facility -2/Memorial Airport St. Louis AV:693-xxxx (314) 263-xxxx US Army Aviation Systems Command Aricraft Survivability Equipment Project Manager's Office Advanced Scout Helicopter Project Manoer's Office Weapon System Management Office for Scout Observation Directorate for Advanced Systems Balck Hawk Engineering Directorate for International Logistics Directorate of Maintenance Directorate for Material Management Directorate for procurement and Producstion Weapon Systems Management Office for Aviation Ground Support Weapon System Management Office for Multi-application items Synthetic Flight Training Systems Offices Weapon System Management Office for Utility Helicopters Directorate for Systems and Cost Analysis LHX Project Managers Office Public Management Tactical Airborne Remotely Piloted Vehicle Drone Systems product Management Aviation Life Support Equipment Management APACHE Helicopter Program Manager's Office Target Acquisition Designation System Pilot Night Vision Project Manager's Office Springfield AV:581-xxxx (417) 862-xxxx Missouri Army National Guard/Army Aviation Flight Facility/ Aviation Classification Repair Activity USPS FUN Most anarchists know next to nothing about how the USPS works and how to exploit the organization to its fullest. As an ex-clerk and present letter carrier I have a bit of an advantage. Now you do too. The most widely known trick is to file a change of address for the victim. If you do this a couple of times in a series (e.g. from home to a PO Box in Los Angeles to an APO in New York), it will be at least a month before the PO straightens out the mess. Each carrier will have to fill out a form negating the previous forwarding order originated on. Two sequential orders will mean three carriers have to get in on the act; each is likely to screw up simply be- cause of the pressure put on them to get out and start the delivery FAST. The first cut a carrier will take is to skip the changes of address and simply take out all of the mail destined for an address, regardless of the person it's addressed to. If your victim lives in an apartment or townhouse, this scheme will work perfectly. People disappear constantly out of these places and a change of address isn't questioned. If the carrier screws up and delivers some, so much the better. The victim will think he's just not getting much mail. On the other hand if the person has lived at the same residence for over five years or so the regular carrier may question a sudden change of address. The solution is to file the cahnge for only the individual you want to bug. Children leave home and spouses divorce all the time and an individual change is not suspicious. Getting Rid of Mail Let's say YOU want to disappear from a bill collector or any particular asshole. Get some standard size YELLOW sticky lavels about 15/16'ths by 3 inches and put them in your dot matrix printer. Print up as follows: NAM ## 12345678 mm/dd/yy RETURN TO SENDER UNDELIVERABLE AS ADDRESSED UNABLE TO FORWARD Center the text. NAM refers to the first three letters of your last name, ## is the LAST 2 digits of your street address. 1234567 is any 7 digit number. Put the date you got the notice as the date on the label. Cross out your old address with one diagonal slash and place the label so it doesn't cover your name or street. Drop in a heavily used collection box. The use of mail covered by postal authorities is increasing. Basically, a mail cover consists of a form given to your carrier to fill out each day the cover is in effect. He/She copies down the return address, postmark, class of mail (bulk, first class) and anything else on the outside of the envelope. The mail is NOT opened or delayed. In short, if you think someone is reading your mail, think again. When a letter is sent to you it gets collected, cancelled and sorted by ZIP code to its destination. The volume of mail is so heavy that even if they wanted to, NO ONE could separate out your letter from the others. St. Louis alone cancels about 1/2 million pieces of first class mail nightly. The clerks and mail handlers could care less about an individual letter. At the receiving end, the letter is sorted by street and block number to your route. The clerks here sit at a machine that feeds fifty letters a minute to them. They have to know up to 600 different streets, block numbers and indi- vidual businesses that get a lot of mail (e.g. some big stores, cable TV com- panies, and trash haulers). They simply don't have the time to look for YOUR name. The only place where a person looks at your name is when your carrier get the letter. Mail cover or not, your carrier knows more about you than all but your best friends. Your interests, occupation, if you are behind in your bills, and to an extent, who your correspondents are. Carriers aren't nosy, but they see your mail at least twice a day (once as they case it and once as they deliver it) for years, and they naturally pick up a lot of information out of sheer repetition. The moral: Be kind to whoever delivers your mail, they have a rough job and any small favor (a cold drink in the summer or a small Christmas gift) just may lead to the carrier going out of his or her way to help you out of a bad spot. This is not the end of TeleComputist sample text file version. This is file I of II files... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------