The Hacker Chronicles - A…the Computer Underground/The Hacker Chronicles - A Tour of the Computer Underground (P-80 Systems).iso/misc/taps

Text File | 1992-03-03 | 12KB | 359 lines

 P A P
/ / /
 prime
  anarchist
   productions
                       presents:

       '''''''''''''''''''''''
           --TAP-- excerpts.
       '''''''''''''''''''''''
Chosen and edited by the Infomaniack.
It reads smoothly, and should give you
all ideas to come up with your own
great schemes.

....................................
.        ***disclaimer***          .
. These are excerpts from old TAPS .
. and YIPLS. Nowhere here online   .
. are there entire issues. For the .
. most part, there arent even that .
. many complete articles. Just     .
. excerpts.                        .
.   So, please, TAPsters. Dont get .
. mad at me and change my credit   .
. rating, or card sneakers to my   .
. house, or make my rent payment   .
. late, or anything like that.     .
. Prime says, hehehe.              .
....................................

  TECHNICAL INFORMATION As long as
you're paying your bill, the phone
company will tend to let you be. We
all know that you might have extra
phones you want connected as freebies.
Not Western Electric phones, of
course. Remember, the phone company
frowns upon hooking them up yourself,
so we suggest you have a friend do it.

  IN NEED how do we communicate with
our people serving time in Nam? WPAX
has a way. They're putting rock and
soul and rap and education tapes on
the air through Radio Hanoi, who is
donating free air time to broadcast
these "subversive" sounds, now banned
by our government stations. But WPAX
needs your blank and recorded tapes,
and of course, bread. Send what you
can. If you want to record your own
show to be aired, ask them for details
and they'll be happy to supply them.
  MINEOLA, LI--Armed with a court
order, detectives of the prosecutor's
rackets bureau and telephone company
personnel searched the home at 26
Henhawk Road last night. They said
they found a small box measuring 5 by
6 by 3.5 inches attached to a youth's
room.
  The prosecutor did not say who had
made the box. The telephone company
said similar devices had been used
elsewhere in the country before.
  The telephone company became
suspicious when computer cards showing
the amount of time used for
information calls indicated that some
calls were taking much more than the
usual one to three minutes.
  CAUTION (from issue 2) July 1971.
YIPL does not advocate making free
calls. However, YIPL doesnt believe in
paying for calls either. If caught,
you may be charged with fraud and
theft of services. So consider
carefully whether you need to make
long distance calls, and if you do,,
consider whether of not you believe in
   f r e e   s p e e c h.
  (tuning your organ; or how to blow
26)1=700+900
2=700+1100
3=900+1100
4=700+1300
5=900+1300
6=1100+1300
7=700+1500
8=900+1500
9=1100+1500
0=1300+1500
kp=1100+1700
st=1500+1700
disc=2600
  (file these numbers away. they may
work again at anytime)
Richard M Nixon 202-456-1444
Spiro T Agnew       265-2000
John N Mitchell     965-2900
Melvin R Laird  301-652-4449
Henry Kissenger 202-337-0042
William P Rogers301-654-7125
Earl G Wheeler  703-527-6119
  "Until AT&T and the other
corporations really become public
services rather than power and profit
goblers, we'll continue to rip them
off every chance we get. If you want
to discuss this further, call me up
sometime. Because of all the agencies
claiming to have me under
surveillance, it's one of the fastest
ways to speak directly to your
government."
      --Abbie Hoffman--
  BELL EMPLOYEES!!! (FROM ISSUE 3-
AUGUST/71)  If you are a Bell System
employee, you know well enough just
what a skinflint company you work for.
Write us your documented experiences
about working for the largest most
powerful piece of shit in the whole
world. If you don't work for the phone
company but know someone who does,
tell them to write us.
Other suggestions would be to post
issues of YIPL inside the telephone
building of key places where pissed-
off workers are likely to see it.
We want to have specific examples of
sexism, racism, anti-semitism, pigism,
and any other ism you can think of.
  ANYONE SUBSCRIBING to YIPL should be
aware that they are probably under
observation by the FBI, the phone
company, and their local precinct. For
that reason, we strongly urge that you
be wary of your telphone, (hey sorry
about the fuckin typo) because if
you're doing anything that's against
the law, that's how they'll try to get
you. They've got your number.
  When sending in phone bills, or
income tax returns, forgetting to put
a stamp on the envelope won't hold up
delivery. So when you do such things,
save 8 cents.
  HE HAD THEIR NUMBER (issue 8) A Los
Angeles man who figured out how to tap
himself into PacTel's computer by
using his pushbutton fone was arrested
Tuesday for stealing more than $1M
worth of the company's equipment.
Police said Jerry N Schneider, 21, had
been ordering the computer to have
equipment sent to a company warehouse
where he had acquired keys, and he
picked it up early in the morning
hours before warehousemen arrived. The
gambit became so successful, police
said, that Schneider started his own
business selling telephone equipment,
and had hired 10 employees to help
him.
  Dear YIPL, here's a toll free loop
around no. in Miami. 821-9005 or 821-
9006 (often busy). You can get free
local service by calling the operator
and saying "Operator I just lost my
dime in the fucking fone" and she'll
either give a free call or she'll send
you a dime in the mail. By the way,
always call the operator after a fone
call and ask her to refund the 45
cents you lost before you found out
the phone was buster (the one across
the street) or when at home, after you
made a cheap call, call the operator
and say you didnt get thru but got a
recording instead and you want credit
for the call. Many Bell offices accept
collect calls, as do some pig
corporations.
  Sunday I tried to call London and
the overseas operator got suspicious
and put a recorder on the line so I
hung up the phone and ran across the
street and a pig car came within 30
seconds. Whew! I didnt know you could
get a pig that fast even if you called
for one. Tell everyone about being
careful with overseas operators! Keep
on dialing. MF. Somewhere, USA.
  Here's a little trick I picked up
and I'm letting you know in case there
is a need to stop traffic in LA. The
signal boxes on streetcorners can be
opened by a sharp blow with ones fist
on the side of the box even level with
the keyhole. Now the door will swing
open and one can control or stop or
freeze the signal. Can be useful if
you're in a hurry.
  Here is a tip for people who are
going across country. Take along phone
numbers on both coasts that wont
answer. Whenever you stop near a pay
phone tell the operator you want to
call the further away of the numbers,
and put the coins in the phone. After
she returns the money, insist that it
didnt come back. Give her the address
you're going to and when you get there
you'll have lots of refunds waiting. I
also think it's a good idea to dial
operatore whenever you're near a
payphone and say you lost a dime and
already made the call, so would they
send you the dime. Then select a
random name for them to send it to
from the phone book.
  Readers who missed the Phirst
International Phone Phreak Convention
will be able to read about it in the
latest issue of Ramparts Magazine, and
in Telephony, the magazine of the
Telephone industry. The Telephony
article, though somewhat biased,
plugged our address for company execs,
advising them not to reveal identities
when writing us. Cute, huh? Now we've
got AT&Ts execs reading YIPL! However,
we applaud Telphony on the rediculous
accuracy of their name, and salute
their new readers with finger upheld!
  If fone freaks want to get in touch
with each other, try these Colorado
loops. They are not free, so dont call
from a home fone cause they'll cost
ya.
area code: 303
343-0009 & 343-0068  One of each has a

355-8414 & 355-8424  tone, which stops

758-0009 & 758-0000  if someone then
calls the other number, and then you
and they can talk. We suggest not
giving out numbers because they are
monitored, but exchange info if you
want. Don't stay on long.
  If you are approached by the phone
co., do not tell them a thing, but try
to find out what they want, and after
they ask you that first question, kick
them out. Refuse to say a word. They
are not police. They cannot arrest,
subpeona, question or even ejaculate.
Speak to a lawyer, one who you can
relate to. Even if they come with
police or campus officials, you dont
have to answer any questions or let
them in, if they dont have a warrant
to search or arrest you, which they
usually wont. Too many people have
been screwed by trying to outguess or
lie to them when they come to talk, so
DONT TALK. TELL THEM YOU WILL NOT
SPEAK TO THEM, AND THEY SHOULD GET
OUT. This infuriates them more than
anything. Make sure your friends read
this issue, and understand that when
you deal with pigs, you're bound to
step in it.
  -always sound middle aged, and in a
hurry and pissed at operators, but
willing to give her one chance.
  DONT GET BUSTED (march/april '73)
Phone phreaking, perhaps more than any
other pastime, requires a great deal
of savoir faire. If you want to be
free to phreak, you have to know how
to watch your step. There is a
definite art to speaking on the
telephone. For example: it simply isnt
cool to call up a friend and speak
openly about illegal activities. The
chances of a phreak's call being
tapped are significant, and your
friend wont appreciate it either. Wait
for operators to click off before
beeping. Other common sense rules
include not giving out the names and
numbers or those places where phone
phreaks hang out or buy their
equipment. Listen always for the
operator to click off, and even then
never assume the line is completely
cool. Also remember short frequent
calls are more effective than long
calls. The fewer times you continue to
use the same phone location the cooler
it is also.
  Many of the phone phreaks whom we
know have been busted have known
common sense rules in general, but
trusted too many people into their
confidence. As a rule, never let too
many people know you are a phone
phreak; informing by others is the
most common bust. Sometimes these
informants turn out to be "friends".
If you suspect someone is going to
bust you stop phreaking for a while.
This goes for any suspicions you
mmight have. If you feel heat merely
stop phreaking or find a totally new
location.
  Remember above all that using your
home phone for blueboxes is the
easiest way to have Ma Bell come
knocking at your door. Play it cool,
and dont pay.
  Dear YIPL, While on the phone with a
friend, I heard clicks on the line.
Then an operator came in and told me
that there was another party trying to
reach me and that it was an emergency.
I heard the clicks a long time and
when I asked her why she was listening
in so long she told me she was trying
to find out if my conversation was
important enough to break into. And
when I asked her her name, she hung
up.  -RK, NY-
  Toll restrictors are usually used at
motels that have direct dial out type
phones. 9 or 8 gets an outside line.
Try this. Dial the one digit required
to get a dialtone (usually 8 or 9)
then dial the first two digits of the
exchange you're in plus the digit 1
and you will find a new dialtone and
the world at your fingertips. You may
dial direct and the motel line is
charged for the call, or you may use
your favorite box without worry,
assuming you have used another name at
the register.



This has been yet another Prime Anarchist Production.
PAP
///    is an affiliate of Infomaniack Suste~~~~~Systems Inc. And can be gotten ahold of thru various bbs's.

66666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666