TAP No. 74 - TELENET

TELENET BY Paul Montgomery ' issue "61, A. Ben Dump set fortn the @CCeSSING timesnaring computer fav iiities. in tnis issue I want to Go into gevaiiss exeiaining now to iocin vo various tyres of systems: ana explaininG wnat you can @o one you arg tnere. Tris ana tne otner computer articles in tnis series are written an @ Style assuminc you mave rea issue 1+ or nave a oasic computer knowieace. if you gon’t nave issue #61» BUY IT! In. TAP Dasics of The vest computer network to pnreak arouna on 1s GTE TeleNet. They nave locai diai-urs* in over 250 cities» ano a miiiion computers oniine. To optain your iocai o1ai-ury caii feleNet Customer Assistance on tneir in-WATS ati (B00) 336-0437, ang ask tnem. They are nappy to teli you. linen you cet on TeleNet, as witn any otner computer networks you must Give 1% tne agcress of tne computer you wisn to atcess. Tre peauty of TeleNet is tne fact that they arrange ali tne computers oy Beli System Area Coue! A sampie aadress iooks iike tnis (tne @ 15 tne Ielenet prompt): @ ¢ 212164 Tne C tells teienet tnat tne connection 15 Cohlect (tne computer company pays for your connection). Tne 212 1s tne New York City Area Coder ana 164 16 tne actual iaentafying numper of the computer system, {f you were to Go tnroucn ana attempt a C 21201 throusn €212300 (they never co apove 300) you coula map out ail of tre computers oniine in tne New York City area, When TeleNet connects you to 4 System: ana you Get Sick Of ity anc want to Gump 1% ana Get oack to sne TeleNet Prompt, type @ C/R tunere C/K 1s Carrice Return or Enter key) ano you «111 be back at tne famiisar Telenet ¢ Prompt. Now type DC/R. Dis for Disconect, It, you Get error messaces wniie scanning: such as ILLEGAL ADDRESS: HOST NOI RESPONDING, REJECTING: etc, Tras means tnat tere 16 mo computer associated with that network avaress; or for some reason or anotnery the system goes not want to accept any connections from Te1eNet. ust, iGnore tnese acdresses ano keep scannina. if Teienet shoula nana,» nit BREAK ana you snould oe droprea pack to tne @ prompt. If all else fails: mans up ana call pack. ome of the Companies wnicn nave computers on Tejenet aret Dun & Braostreet: TRW Creaits Barsky * Cy taBank Source ecomputings Diaicom ance Republican Natsonal Farvyr Democratic Party Computers ano thousanos of other Larce ana small ousiness ana inoustrial wWelis Farco firms, coileses ano universities» commercial ComputinG services, data oanks, ang Government acencies. For you tecnno freaks» TeieNe. accepts any any parity/oit configuation you care to seno. TeleNet o1aiurs are for 120/300 oaud. GTE Te:enet Customer Service can aiso Give you a 1200 baua diaiur 1f you neea one. Because TeieNer uses tne CCITS X Packet almost network protocoi stariaray ail users aprear tne same to nust computers, s0 no incompataniiities exssts. TeleNet operates as a multi-ievel nmrerarcmai network consisting of a nian speea Sé Kbps packbone networks ang i10cal aiStrioution netuorks. Everything 1s reauncant, ano eacn intellicent noge 15 eauiPPea witn standoy processor components rea@oy to take over immeciateiy if active components fai» evcr evcs etc. I'm “Pauls your GTE representative. «++ If you age any specific questions» urite me c/o 1 TAP Room 603 147 W. 42 St. New York 10036 TAP wT” apni 1982 No. 74 CENTAPP Central Texas Area Phone Phreaks + Post Office Box 755 + Austin. Texas 78767 + 23 January 1982 ihe, ¥ 22002 Yom Edison, Editor PY ‘4 The ze TLY)E Denes Room 603, 147 West 42nd St. eu juste moetime New York City, NY 10036 Orne = Thee Fates Howdy Tom: Please announce to your group, and to whoever you can send .the word to, that Centapp, the recently created association ‘of Texas Phone Phreaks, is sponsoring a Spring conference. The name of the conference is TexComm 1982, with a theme to dwell on our latest research into penetration of telco and other corporate communications and computer systems. The date of the conference is Saturday March 20, and will be held here in Austin. If you aren't familiar with the Austin area, then hang on; more information on this conference will be reaching. you shortly. Austin is quite enviable in mid-March. The weather is warm, the sun is bright, the city is green, and the chicks are hornier than a Texas longhorn. We have quite a few hot night spots that will introduce you to the real Texas. It's going to be an intoresting day, but moreover, it will be a memorable night! Admission is $3. Advance payment is encouraged. Address inquiries to Centapp, and info on hotels, etc. will be sent. It would be great for the whole TAP crew to make it down to Austin for the best time they'll have this year. Austintaciously; Mountain Bill Director, Centapp ANOTHER WAY 70 "CET LOST" Go to a post office, preferably one out of your ma ort OfVES BOXIES TH regular habitat, and rent a box. ID, etc. will (URE american Telephone ond be required. Fay the box rent for a full year, tart ies Gecslosad ntocereot OF for the longest period they will let. you. Sri tics nen eile” Now, have all your bills and other undesirable frou electronic gadgets forde- mail addressed to you at this box nusber. Let tho mail stay in the box. (It might be wise to empty the box now and then for the first week Hy Et fave ten onsuriitorioscon OF 80 80 the postaaster will have no cause to Seal cea the Bel System Saul suspect your plan). Mail that accumulates in pew slecvonle ovdiaanen * the post office box will stay there until the tive box calls tmmadiataly end BOX Tent next becomes due and until the grace sfotee the phone number Gtbeth period has ended: could be up to or nore than necolley wim a year. The postmaster will then mark all the letters “box closed, unable to forward" and send them back to the senders. By now you can ‘vice will work when bath caller be Jo; ‘and alnos ond receiver phones- ing gone it forgotten about. us nor exploines, (Except by those poor suckers with red faces eDATERPROOUGID Ut. who just got all their bills back!) Zesteident te oyinettke Bocause mail addressed to PO boxes 1s haudled Steed howe ovroged Pune in this manner it is wise to make official Si recipients. They never toyed inquiry ebout any fira using a box and to whom manded that ele spouses be —-YOU have sent money and heard nothing after a . Por ionePea nae. reasonable length of tine, Host fires who use Toe Jamar resulted from g entzup PO box addresses are legit. More and more firas oer sary Belonper sald Soma 8 E using boxes because mail is delivered a tren coled ond demersled.ore: Little quicker and it is more secure. However, wept ae eneimetess don't feel a bit bad about making inquiry if rather woeran sat ve aan. PO box users tend to ignore you. Postal rules sao oan te are now permit you to get the nage and home address eo, a apes of box holders upon verbal request. Wo special forms or written request is required any more. - Nickola Testicle ‘computation lines blank. Gorne protesters will ound the IFS @ ‘message, such as “I plead the Fifth Amendment,” says IRS adds. The Fifth Amendment, for instance, says no one shall be compelled to tetity to get back three ctaesi- Another popular claims that the t6th Amendment doss not ing Ged antitorpedo devices it specitically authorize an income tax. Troe, bat it does give Congress mistakenly sold es surplus Ria pore to lay and cnc ines gatas" Foe erate boat onthe Oe te ‘Tepeatedly beld the language meazs an tocome tax is legal ae A The naked truth ‘back to the navy. HUNTINGTON PARK, Calit, Potice aed tal would bo they caught accused bank robber Daniel Sima with Bs nay discuss dom ae will Inwyers forte When Sims allegedly robbed a bank Tuestay of ‘avy and Steven Seidenglanz $1400 a tele inetd parket of i that contaoed are * ting ot Rd er Sn ran on ot jlanz owns a surplus Pacific ‘Bank, the exploded and his pants were covered with: red dye, ins 3 business in Sun Valley iar vote seat store by, wt. eran poling off his pans, eating & started Accessing PRIME BY: PAUL MONTGOMERY . Computers manufacturea by PRIME Computer Core. nave ratner insucure operating systems, But first» how ao you Know unen you nave come across a PRIME on TeleNet? Simpie, Lets taxe an example. Connect to acdress 21445. This 18 Howe~Baker Engineers in Texas. Wnen TeleNet makes tne connections their computer responas (tne way ail PRIME computers do) like this! PRIMENET 18. 1.003 HBAIER . PRIMENET tells you tne system 1s a PRIME runnins the PRIMOS operatina system» revision 181.003, HBAKER 16 ‘ne system namc, in this cases Howe-Baker Encineers. QPERATING SYSTEM; For those wno don’t know wnat an operating system .(0/S) 15+ lev me Give you the Gefinition: An 0/S is a coilection of computer Procrams that provides for tne Preveration ana execution of the user’s sons. ‘The O/S runs the Snow» chaine to various suo -Frocrams. To Get on tne system you must LOGIN. To do this you tyre LOGIN XXXXXX» unere XXXXXX 18 a user name (called a UFD for User File Directory on a PRIME) from 1 to 6 aipna-numeric characters. Many UFD's nave no passworas, ana this 1s the masor security weakness of the. PRIME. The system aoministrator for a particular system Just doesn't bother to asticn passworas to all of the UFD's, ‘It 1s your yoo as a crack computer cruncner to ficure out a UFD with no passwora. To 86515t you, nere 1s a list of system UFD's wnich Mave .to be on all PRIMES! SYSTEM, SYSCOM, SYSOUL, PRIRUN, PRIME, CMDNCO, CMDNC.. LOGIN; Just connect to tne system Wd type LOGIN SYSCOM. A <C/R> or <ENTER> mu! follow all commands on Alt computers. If SYSCOM 1s a valid UFD with a passswora, the system will respona? INSUFFICENT ACCESS RIGHTS. (LOGIN). If SYSCON does not exist on the system, the computer will NOT FOUND. (LOGIN). If SYSCOM 1s valiar issuorar you will be loncea onto the If tne system sits tnere and asks for iditinal passwords, or project ID's» the system S additional security instalied by the owners: id you Snould try nittina <BREAK> or <CONTROL-P> at aprrorpriate moments in nore of escaping from the security procram. AMES 2 INITIALS: Other that attempting to los .Into the system accounts: you snould try nemesy such aS DAVE» DAVID, MARK, JOHN» JEFF» or initiais, CUR+ JHN, PGM, RSS» FLT or wnatever. If you nit on an existing account, but it has a Password (system responds: INSUFFICENT ACCESS RIGHTS. (LOGIN)? try the mame or intials as the Password, Lots of pPeopie use tneir names) or or wnatever,,.For instance, UFD! JOHN password! JOHN. some really stupid People out there. s how to loain wnen you think you know.tne password! LOGIN DAVE FARRAH finere DAVE is tne UFD) riena’'s names» and FARRAH is the Blank IRS forms’submitted ‘The Internal Revenoe Service expects 200 to 300 Amaricans a year to ‘(0 fe thelr names and addresses on income tax forms and lave the ‘spckeamsn Larry Batdor!. Most arguments are aot applicable, be against bimsel! — but only in criminal cases. ‘The U.S. Navy said it Is try. Andan income tax return is oct a criminal matter unless you cheat. ALL_IHE PASSWORDS; The firey thina you want to’ oo once you manaced to 10Gin 18 Print out a list of ALL the UFD accounts ano.passworas on the system. Trese are stores in a UFD called MFD. MFD (master File Directory) nas a stock Passwora of XXXXXK. Many peopie never ootner to cnance it. And tney Sav Procrammers are smart! HA! Here 1s wnat to type to Get it to print tne fist: FUTIL A MFD XXXXXX 9 (Then go MFD 1 and MFD 2 etc.) \ PASSWD Tne computer wili merriiy print it ali out. If it keeps-sayina tninas like ACCESS VIOLATION - NO RICHT ana not Printins any password, the MFD Passwora 15 mot XXXXXX. If you can Guess tne correct ones you're in pusiness! COMMANDS; Some oasic commanas and tneir usace aret LISTF - prints a list of ali tne UFD SLIST FILE - prints out tne contents of that file RESUME FILE - if file is a procram, this runs it A CnDNCO LISTF - these two commanos wiil cause the system to Print out many of tne avaiiaoie commanas. A UFD - where UFD is any UFD on system, attacnes you there and if vou type LISTF vou can find look at all the prosrams on that UFD. files on that Untill next timer coog luck, and take care. if you have any furtner suestions apout commands, etc. for the PRIME, Please drop me a line C/O TAP! PRECURSOR PRECAUTIONS by Dr. Atomic FLUORESCENT: A new DEA ploy worth mentioning is the “glow powder" trick. The DEA will coat the Precursor containers with a substance that is not visible until exposed to ultra-violet light. Even if one isn't caught with the precursors or other "contraband", glowing hands can result in convic~ tions for possession and conspiracy. MATCHED PRECURSOR LIST: All precursors are watched. Any order that ia at all suspicious to a chemical company “Customer Service Manager" or other sales person may send him scurrying to the phone to call in the report (and your license plate number) to the DEA. Rumor has it that the DEA pays them up te $2,000 per lab busted. Some things which arouse suspicion are new accounts, over-the-counter cash purchases, out of town customers, and large pur- chases, even large purchases of solvents such as ether, acetone, or alcohol, STING: Buckeye Scientific Company, a well know DEA sting operation that sells “watched precur- sore", wae advertising in Mother Barth News Clas- sified recently--still stinging the unwary, I pre- sume, ‘The former owner of Buckeye, the late Dick Hall, was also, in my opinion, a knowing menber of the DEA sting team: Hall was furnishing chem- ists, who were really undercover DEA agents, to unsuspecting technologists who needed technical 7 One would not have to ask for the assistance because Hall was only too glad to provide a DEA Agent; he'd make the offer. Por more details see U.5.v, Katz, vol 509 Federal Supplement at page 398 TiS81}- THE CONTROLLED BUY: This is a situation where an informant is sent by the police to make a purchase of precursors, drugs, or other contraband. ‘The in- formant is searched by the police before he goes to make the purchase; he goes aloge and turns aver the evidence upon his return. Believe-it-or-not, the uncorroborated testimony of the informant is enough for conviction (U.S. v. ns, 354 FP. Supp 634). The case cited isn't recent, but the practice of informer purchasing is continuing. This is a situ- ation anyone can find hinself in because informants rd pressed to provide an arrest for police may resort to providing the contraband themselves: they will leave a “package" with you only to come back later for it (with a cop outside). And take it as gospel from Dr. Atomic that the gov- ernment is selling piperidine, p-2-p, and other pre- cursors on the Black Tere) Market to uncover clan- destine labs. ‘Take care, and watch out for *radio beepers" hidden in your precursor purchases. *Room 603 147 W, 42'St. |, New York 10036 DEAR TAF Here's « few tips from a fellow reader and activist: SMOKE BOMBS: 4 parte of suger to 6 parte potassium nitrat er). Heat over low Clase until it celts, 11. Pour inte ite futu: onteiner (empty milk cartons do very well). Before it solidifies, ed a few wooden matches as fuses into the mixture. One pound fills a block nicely with thick white amoke. CHEMICALS: A garanteed cool source to order any chemicals is CHshTsk, Box 573, Hawkesbury, Untario, Can: K6A-1 2 They will fieh around for anything and gerantes anonymous replies to any order. BAPLOSIVsS: Petroleum jelly and potassium chlorate 1 to 1 by weight, ia totally safe when wet but is highly explosive and shock sensitive when dry. Stir 3 gm potassium iodide and 5 gm iodine in a beaker with 50 nl er. add 20 ol ammonium tridodide.-When wet is very safe but upon drying becomes very explosive and shock sensitive, to the point of a feather setting it off. COUNTZRYITINGs Hexamethylenedismine completely bleaches any ink to a perfect white without harming the paper in any way. VANDALISM: Ethy] ne en and butylseleno mercaptan are the most evil selling substancea on earth, Mixed with kerosene -for long-lasting effect they can be so annoying as to render a building inhebitable. ALARMS: The alarm companies use the phone lines to link the premises under protection with its protector, wether it be the police station or in bigger towns curity office. Sometines the owner ie inoluded’ in the warning like this: when the alarm ia dialing circuit diale the police ourity t cases. One can cut the building, and incapacitate the outside bells and horns, and upon entry the bells and horns will sound the alarn silently while’ the electronic dialer will try unsuccesfully to diel the police, owner and security office to warn them of the illegal entry. GUNS: Canadian Pire sells a handy starting pistol, revolver type, the barrel and revolving magazine of which can be easily drilled to 22 caliber size using o simple drill, bit and @ table vise to hold the piece. This mekes @ cheap and easy to gat saturday night apecial. TAP THs MAD SCIENTIST Those little “weather” radios offered at $9.95 to about $19.95 can be “tweaked” a bit to cover the DEA and FBI radio channels very well. Sone will cover these frequencies without adjustment. Only problem 1s they have ro squelch control and the hiss could drive you bananas. If you are in a fringe area you might have to improvise an outeida or attic antenna to pull in the mobiles when they are not working through a repeater. DEA is into CB pretty heavily along the coast. They aonitor this service continually and on occasion switch to CB for 2-wy work. A little listening on VHF (on your weather radio!) will teach you their lingo and pretty soon you'll be saarter than they are! Nickolai Testicle Cie CSET Ce ae 2 2 ‘A pair of fake $20 bills, above, were discovered after being passed at © South Plainfield tavern between Sunday night ‘and early Monday morning. The counterfeits, which are ‘actually 31 bills on which are taped the ends of $20 bills, are usually passed with the counterfellers hand placed over the picture of Washington, police sald. Bogus $20 bills passed at tavern ‘SOUTH PLAINFIELD - Bor- bill bave been taped to the ends ‘ough police officials are warning of a $1 bill. 10 Bullock, local merchants, especially bar a counterfelter will attempt to ‘owners, to be on the Lookout for pass the fake bill by: he ‘Phony $20 bills. picture of Washington as he 4 bartender at Norman's Bar ants over be bil and Gril Bars are usually dimty lit 30 it is diffieutt to spot the irregu- larity, he said, ‘This is the time af year, he sometime between 6 p.m, Sunday and 2 a.m, Monday, according to police. At first the bills took reat, according to Lt, Thomas Boltoek. 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