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2600
January, 1984!
~~====~~~=~==== ,. '"0,,, "", m"", ,h "' "'" ,. , ,. 1:" I"" m.'" 0'"",.,.,•. _"''''''",do" VOLUME ONE. NUMBER ONE -.,,-, "" ,,,,,,,"11, ", "'''. ""' "'. M""'I,_ '.,1,,,,. " 'm.' '''0 ,·I,,",~,~,,·
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/fhi' is,the very fi.... l is,ue of 1600. We will,on this p.ge, nplaiR OUr motive, and what the galli, are which we hope 10 achieve Wilh thi, publication. The id.a for 1600 wa:; born early in 1983, We saw a lremend'ou! need for 'orne form of communication between those who truly appreciate the concepl of communication' technological enthu,iasts. Of cou"". others havo different way, of describing such peplt_ these rang< from word, like hacker or phreaker to strongor tonos .Uddenly everyono was talking abut phreakers and hackers. And while ihere were ,om'e that sort ofjumped ,nto the limelight, others were a bit more cantiow;, in fact, ,ome were quite np,et. Snre. 'he publicity was fuo. But what would be the cost? Wdl. time has passed and th. cost has been high, Phreakers and hackers have beenJorced into virtual i,olation, Raids by the FBI have b
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equipment from 15 ,ile. aCrOSS the COUn"}' un the twelfth and thirteenth of Ihe month (.pon.ored' by a grant from the folk' al GTE). many of our conlect, were los,t beca~,e they feared the consequencc, of continuing. Two organization,. the Inner Circlo and PHA LSE. """ro deeply affected by the raid,. The laUor group (whese initials signify Phreakers, Hackers. and Laundromat Service Employeo,) i' 'till in contact with i l l 00 occa.ion and has promised to comribute many articles devoted 10 just what was really going On. So iuoem, that the events of 1983 have.on.pired to actually $lung/hen the ,resolve of hack." and phreakers across,the c"uotry to put "ut thi. moMhly newslettor. We hope you will help u. contin~e by "~bscribing. ,preading the word ameng your friend', and of course contributing articles and information, Since we are non-profil, i't roally doesn't mal1orlO uS if you xer"x your copy and sond it to someone el.. -all we ~sk i. that you let u, know so thaI we can hayt a rough idea of how many people we're reaching. 2600 ha, ..veral section., SOJIle of which will appear every mon'h. others on an irregular basis. On thl" the front page. and on, page IW", you' will always fInd informative full-Ienglh foatur6 on relevant subject'. FUI~re 'opics include: "A Guide to Long Distance Telephone Service, and Their 'Villnerabililie,n. «DEC and Theil' Many Mi,tak..··. ~Phrealting in the Sixties'''' and "Tracing Methods Used by the Law~, as wclla. any la,e-broaking items. "FLASH"appears on page 3 and proviriCs a roundup of limely new, items wrineo from a lechnological e"thu,ia"', perspective. Page 4 is used for a variety of things .. _interesting stories from Ihe pa't. ,chemes and plot, that just might work. and feedback from 'nbscribe", Tho 'wo pages of 2600 are coml'ri.ed of data, Just whal 'Ort of data. we CannOt say. However. if it is ,omething [hat you ore looking for. the" you "'ill prob.bly recogni,e i" The throe hole, on eaoh page ",rvc a purpo,". We 'ugge't Ih., )'''U ohtnin a loo.. -Ieaf book '0 that ;'00 can neatly file every i"ue "f !~(lfl Y"u recei"e. Ma"y thank, [h",e of yon wl,o ,ubscrihcd wi[hout even ,eeing an i."uc A word of ad"i,,". tl"'ugh' do,,'t do it ag"in or y(llI'lI p",b"bly gel ripped "tfI Wo'd like ", [I",nk th",c wh" w"k advan'agc of n" r free i.",," "Iler. If in[cr"'ted or' '''h,,''ihiag. tho rate, and '''ldre'' ean be round a[ [he 'op "fthi' page, Welc"me [n !Mifi. Tur" the p"g~ "nd heen",e" pm' "I' """ "niqtl~ worl~1
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FBI GOES AFTER ADS HACKERS
HM must press charges before action can be taken - Feds reveal their tactics, blow source L.A. .to Denver to upstate New York. So we hovc a article entitled: ESS - Orwell" Prophecy_ A I the lasl ~nre of individuals that we are still looking at that minute, however, we recej~ed this bombShell from an are using your system and then we have this peri· anonyma",. contributor. It seems that a group of phe'al that we are not a, concerned about because had,e" wm making use of on" of IBM's ADS sy!J. they are not part of an out & out conspiracy or an lems. (Audio Dis/rib", tion Systems "Mole users with organized network, per se. I know of at least 8 or 10 touch.tone phones to send !JOIce messages baak and that are the central figures in this, the carryover forrl, If) each, other. Look {or an 'n.depth article on hom TelemaiL And we keep hearing information of them in a future is.ue.) Unfortunately, as f. all too other people who are calling in with junk message;often the case, oM of these hackers was really an there's no real substance to their messages, Now the FBI in(ormanl who was taking not'; of all of the reason I know that is that they have indudcd one of Weg/timat" users (aumnd 40 or so). Luckily for my sources of information orito their system and ,0 this pan/culer gro.tP, the '''formant was sloppy ""d he gets messagCll from the other parties. I,,(t many telltaM' clues whiCh gave them literally months of warni"!. So, whe." the, 'informant de.The Communist Connection cIded to send a mesMI1""to 'the system operator, In a way we're somewhat fortunaw that it', 16adu,.ing IBM to take actinn 'against the hackers year.olds or 26-year.olds as opposed to ,people from and to call the FBI for more inform
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li.teners and QS L people' ".erywhere, The number waS gelling swamped. Needle.. lOsay, il was busy much of the lime. A government official, who olso had thi, number, thinking thaI i, was legitimate, called up WWV and complained. He told them thatlhey needed 1 add .Ome
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more lines their new 800number. Thegeneralmanagetof lhe "ation ,aid, "I don', know whm you',.., lalkingaboul. I don', know of any 800 number that gel. you WWY," The government officiat lold him what Ihe telephone number was. The ge",,,al manager called il and heard his own station. Astounded, he contacted the Mountain BeU Telephone Company in Denver. Coiorado. They said, "Vou're not paying for any 800in-WA TS number. We,how 3-O3-499-7111 for WWV, but we don't have any 800-957-
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Mountain Bell checked it out and ,ure enough, the number existed bUI not on Iheir records. No one was getting cha'1led for thisl Now, of course, you know a monopoly as well" I do-they're sure not going to let anyone havea free ride, Sn they told the WATS coordinator to find nut what happened, He finally made ·the discovery Ihat some tec~nician. had hooked that number up fnr transmission testing, [lbe...witching teehnicians are toll technician., AT&T Long Lines switching lechnician" and carrier system. technician•. In Olher word., they're the group of people who link .witching cenle" together, from New Vork to Los Angele., for example. In this ca.e, Ihe whole e.capade was a kind of group effort. The switchmen and Ihe carrier people gOt together and set up this number for testing, finding noi.y carriers, carriers with cross-talk on them, etc.) The WAT$ coordinalor told Ihem they'd bener get this number off-,-IO many people knew about it, He told them 10 erase every 800 test line number Ihat was on the ,ystem. Not surprisingly, someone also gOI ehewed out very '".everely. So, consequently, 800-957-9999 i. nO longel in existence, , But sin"" Ihen, Ie.. than Iwo weeks later, several ollhe 800 ; test numbers have begun to defiantly reappear, Check around, you']] probably /iod a few interesting ones. But I 'doubl if WWV', brief stint as a loll_free .e",ice will ever be ! repeated,
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