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The Official UK edition of 2600 magazine (milwaukee). If you've
got any *INTERESTING* articles, please upload them, or leave a msg
to the SysOp (in the appropriate area) on THE ARNNA BBS infomation
centre (0625) 539 063. This magazine NEEDS SUPPOTT !
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PLEASE NOTE:
Certain articles contained within this magazine deal with various
activities and devices which would be a violation of the law if
they were to be carried out or constructed. 2280 Magazine does NOT
advocate the breaking of the law. This magazine is distributed for
informational purposes ONLY. We reccomend that you contact your
local Law enforcement officials before undertaking any project based
upon information in this magazine. We are not responsible for, nor
do we assume any liability for, damages resulting from the use of
any information contained within this magazine.
THIS MAGAZINE IS DISTRIBUTED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY
This magazine is for the use of Adults ONLY. Under no circumstances
should a child view or possess it.
=========2280 MAGAZINE========
INDEX!
[2] .. Christmas Virus - Yup it's the history of that
Christmas virus!
[6] .. Bugging Transmitter - A little bug from the 2280
electronics crypt.
[7] .. Microlink upgrades - What is Microlink doing ??
[7] .. Hacks - The file that is being passed
around, without Control codes!
[9] .. Numbers - Some interesting numbers for
you to "play about" with!
[15] . Membership form - Join the British Hackers
Association!
[19] . "Freebies" - A full list of all the Free
telephone numbers.
[51] . Potentially nasty - Micronet article on Hacker BBs
[55] . Tracking Transmitter - Another delve into the crypts!
[56] . The necessity of deviance - The New world, hell.
[71] . USA BBS numbers - Those interesting US BBS's
--Page 2--
THE CHRISTMAS VIRUS
It all began as a joke for Christmas. A student in West Germany wrote
a little program called "Christma" and sent it to all his friends on
the network of Claustahal Technical University, south of Hanover.
Sending it through the network was simple: the program handled that by
reading a couple of files containing lists of all regular corres-
pondents and all recently sent and received mail: Names and Netlog.
When the program was run the recipients saw a festive Christmas tree
appear on their screens. Very nice too. However Christma also secretly
read the recipients Names and Netlog files, moved forward on its
merry way and, rather ungratefully, then deleted itself from the host.
The next, rather larger, batch of recipients (who were of course all
used to unknown programs appearing through the network) ran Christma
as well and saw the pretty graphics come and go. Of course they all had
Names and Netlog files too...
That was December 9th 1987.
No Hard discs scrambled, no system lockups, no discs infected with
AIDS... no harm done surely? Just a seasonal greeting transmitted by
--Page 3--
good ol' Info Tech. Well that's what the writer of Christma thought
too and he was very mistaken.
The problem lay in the speed of communication and the increased
linking of computer networks in many fields. And continents.
The virus program spread with accelerating speed throughout Europe
via its link into EARN: the European Academic Research Network.
EARN is also linked to universities in the US via Bitnet...hundreds of
automatic mailers busily consulted Netlogs and the volume of traffic
grew exponentially.
Within TWO DAYS networks were seriously overloaded on both continents.
By the 11th December the jamming was so serious that system
programmers from EARN and Bitnet came together to try to track and kill
Christma. For the first time in the history of Virus hunting a Seeker
program was developed (by Eric Thomas of the Ecole Centrale de Paris)
which traced the flow of Christma by reading Netlog files, chasing and
then erasing it. Meanwhile systems on which Christma had appeared
were taken off the network while discs were checked.
By the 14th December the academic networks were free.
But Christma was not yet dead, although the author probably wished
that he was. IBM has a private network VNET, which is linked to
Bitnet...VNET corporate users tend to hold very large Names files.
--Page 4--
The entire IBM corporate E-mail system was closed down for 72 hours
until the infection was eradicated!
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Horrifying or amusing, depending on your point of view, Christma
really happened and very recently. The implications for users and
manufacturers are profound. We have all heard of Trojan files on
Bulletin Boards, the Amiga Virus and others not so widely publicised.
Hardware designers and manufacturers have viewed the issues as
unimportant to their business. In other words it's the users problem.
IBM for one may well be rethinking this strategy!
Technically, it has been possible for many years to design safer
systems. A program should not be able to run in a system that is
completely unprotected. It should operate in isolation until tested
and known. There should be no way that a program can read files without
the users knowledge and express permission. Equally, users should be
more careful about running programs on systems which are vital to us.
Easier said than done.
At present it seems there are no simple solutions except never to down
load...
Sid Hancock
--Page 5--
"BUGGING" Transmitter
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Where - R1: 3.3k Resistor C1: .001 Capacitor M1: Microphone
R2: 4.7k Resistor C2: 1-10pF Variable Capacitor B: 15V battery
R3: 300 Resistor C3: Coil N1: NPN Transistor
C4: 10pF Capacitor : Antenna
C5: 10uf Capacitor
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High power Transmitter. Uses 15 Volt Photoflash battery.
Adjust C3 for desired frequency. Microphone is condenser type.
NPN Transistor is BC 169.
--Page 6--
---MICROLINK---
Microlink have improved their Telecom Gold service considerably, to take
advantage of the July Prestel price increase. Microlink is offering new
facilities free for PC users.
A major change in the microlink user interface makes it possible to recieve
colour Graphics, making Microlink the first colour system on Telecom Gold.
New Microlink facilities are to include an online library containing hardware
& Software reviews (for PC), also keyword searching. The telex service has
also been modified, to become more user-friendly. PC users access the
facilities through a re-designed menu.
HACKS ?
---------
This text has been going round all the BBSs. Several people have had trouble
reading the text due to (ASCII upload) control characters.
I have removed them, so you can read the text normally!
> FOR THOMAS COOK TRAVEL SERVICE DIAL (01) 408 2179 (SPEED:1200/75V)
--Page 7--
> TO CONNECT WITH THORN-EMI,DIAL 061-453 1200.THE ID IS *910565789# AND THE
PASSWORD IS *ACCESS# (SPEED:1200/75V)
> TRY 01-831-6181 AND USE ID:ULLC.NS WITH THE PASSWORD ENTER
(SPEED:1200/75)
> TO BOOK HOLIDAYS(!?) PHONE 32-432111 ,SELECT INT
Cheers............ EMP
--Page 8--
Hacking Numbers
---------------
Some of these numbers have passwords/id's for them. If you are a
member of Password Passers II (Sig 12) [CCUK] then you will have the
option to download them. If you are not a member,why not join!!!
V=Viewdata:S=Scrolling
Name Tel V/S
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ABTA 01 493 9555 V
ABTA 0532 470611 V
ACS Network 021 427 9911 S
AGB Viewdata 01 991 2254 V
Airtel 01 200 3439
Apricot 04544 616448
Archie 061 499 3388 V
BBC 01 749 6921
Baric 01 890 6621
Baric 01 844 1401
Baric 0274 871511
Barclays Bank 01 844 1401 V
Beelines mbx 01 661 8978 S
--Page 9--
Bham Uni. 021 471 2101-7 S
Bloxam 02957 20812
Bradford Cpoint 0800 590111 V
Bradford Univ. 0274 731909 S
Brit. Airways 01 897 4646/7 V
British Gas 01 821 9484
Brit. Mail Ord.Cat. 061 273 4066
Cambridge Uni 0223 338888
Central London Poly 01 637 7732
Comet 01 242 9806
Commercial Union 0883 23311
Comshare 01 351 4300 S
Comshare 1200 061 834 4143
Comshare 300 061 834 2848
Coventry Uni 0203 51912 S
Credit Network 0272 298888
Datasolve v21 09327 81111
Datasolve v23 09327 81144
Dow Jones 01 353 1515
Epnitex 0526 861138 V
Essex University 0206 864534
Ethernet GW 0443 480902
European Space Agen 01 630 9466
--Page 10--
EYP 0734 586255
FastTrack 0532 432111
FastTrack 061 236 7676
FastTrack 051 709 6565
Financial Times 01 251 9231
Ford Motor Co. 0277 255666
Ford Motor Co. 0277 254345
Gandalf PX 0800 590196
Golden Wonder 0858 33668
GRE 061 834 5288
Hatfield Poly 0462 677177 S
Hatfield 07072 79858
Holiday Fax 01 870 8333
Honeywell 0268 44011 S
Horizon 061 833 9889
Hull University 0482 859169
I P Sharp 01 730 4567
IBM 021 455 9311 V
IBM 061 969 3681 V
IBM 041 226 5533 V
ICL 01 253 7888 S
ILCC Network 01 581 1444 S
Intasun 01 298 1800
--Page 11--
Istel Network 0203 691102 V
Istel Network 061 941 5111 V
Janet 01 831 6181 S
John Menzies 0602 430039
Kays Catalogoue 021 236 7429
Lancs Poly 0772 21418/9 S
Leeds Uni 0532 461514 S
Lucas 021 744 3500 V
Lunn Poly 01 387 3448
Manchester Poly 061 236 4772/3 S
McDonald Douglas 0442 218455
Midland Bank 01 450 9170/1
MUD 01 998 8899 S
Multistream VPAD 061 834 1414
National Comp Cen. 061 228 6334 S
Natwest Bank 01 480 7777
One to One 021 214 5139 S
Open University 0908 643298
Open University 061 881 7251 S
Open University 01 794 0611
Open University 0908 71188
Ordering Service? 01 863 3000
Oxford Poly 0867 74980
--Page 12--
Oxford Uni 0766 77792
Owens PAD 061 273 5212
Prestel Duke 01 583 9610 V
Prestel Test 01 583 9412 V
Prestel IRC 01 248 0348 V
Radio Soc. 0707 52242 V
Rank Xerox 0927 65652
Royal Soc of Chem 0602 507411
Sealink 0734 869077 V
SeeBoard 0903 39946
Severn Trent Water 0203 22182
Talbot Cars 0203 694747/474645 V
Talbot Cars 01 235 5488
Telecom Gold 01 583 1275 S
Thomas Cook 01 408 2179 V
Thompson 021 233 1399 V
Thompson Travel 061 833 0010/16/17
Thorn EMI 01 453 1200
Today 01 812 7401 S
Today 0800 282301/2 S
Topic 01 628 4061 V
Tops Travel 051 789 2464
Trw Credit Agency 1-714-776-4511 ** USA NUMBER **
--Page 13--
TSB bank 0621 892565 EXT 82/Mr Davies Office
UCK 01 388 2333 S
UMIST 061 228 6601
VAPT Infolink 01 688 4488 V
Vax Multistream 01 6886 2262
Vidtel 010 3170151515 ** IDD NUMBER **
West Mids Council 021 300 6300 V
Whitbread Brew 0462 37811
Whitehouse 1-202-456-1414 ** USA NUMBER **
Unknown 0800 891198 v22 IBM VM/370
Yellow Pages 0734 585151
Yellow Pages 0734 586255
Unknown 01 247 9671
Unknown 0222 21051
Some passwords are available... advise us of any other numbers or
changes especially if the numbers have been changed...
- **Corrupt Computing 0203 76831 v21/23 8N1 TTY***
Updated by N. Woods.
--Page 14--
The British Hackers Assocation
--------------------------------
The British Hackers Assocation is a user group for Hackers,Fone
Phreakers and Software Pirates.
Whilst the BHA does not condone the activity of it's members but
purely provides a forum for the exchange of idea's, via the Embassy and The
BHA Newsletter that is published every 2 months.
To join the BHA complete the form and send it together with a cheque
or postal order 20 pounds sterling made payable to D.Jones to:-
The BHA.
The Embassy,
152 Lonsdale Drive,
Enfield,
Middx.
EN2 7NF.
--Page 15--
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
British Hackers Assocation
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Membership Application Form
-----------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
All information requested is purely for the eyes of the membership secretary
and will be treated in the strictest Confidence.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Full Name:-_____________________________________________________________
Full Postal Address:-___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
Postcode:-____________________________
--Page 16--
Home Telephone Number:-_________________________________
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Which computer do you use?:-_____________________________________________
Which Modem do you use?:-________________________________________________
Which speeds does your modem support?:-__________________________________
Does your modem support Bell Tones?:-____________________________________
Which comms software do you use?:-_______________________________________
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I, the undersigned, fully understand the conditions of membership of the
British Hackers Assocation and will abide by the few rules that do
--Page 17--
exist, and that my membership can be revoked at any time without prior
notice, and that all information received from the BHA will be treated
as confidential and will not be passed on to any third party.
Signed__________________________________ Date____________
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--Page 18--
L I N K L I N E 0 8 0 0
Compiled by System Network News
(020-376-831 v21/23 8N1 scrolling)
Note. some lines may have opened in the 'no service' listings and
some may have closed. Some of the names may be mis-spelt due to
aural inaccuracies heard over the telephone lines. If there any
corrections,additions and deletions to be made please let us know
either by the system or Prestel #011110903.
0800-890-nnn
System X exchange
000-010 No services
011 AT&T US Dial Direct
012-030 No services
031 Holland Telecom
032 No service
033 French Telecom,Paris
034 Spanish Telecom,Madrid
035-045 No services
046 Stockholm Telecom
047-060 No Services
--Page 19--
061 Australia Telecom,Sydney
062-080 No Services
081 Japan Telecom,Tokyo
082-099 No services
100 Bank of America,Tokyo
101-110 No services
111 BTI marketing,London
112-210 No services
211 AT&T US Dial direct
212-302 No services
303 International Telex
304-329 No services
330 Shuder Wine
331-799 No services
800 BTI international 800
801-807 No services
808 Unknown
809 BTI customer services
810-999 No services
0800-891-nnn
System X exchange
--Page 20--
000 Reservations
001 Unknown
002 Unknown
003 No service
004 Unknown
005 No service
006 Bank of America Travellers Cheques
007 fault on line
008-010 No services
011 Unknown
012 Credit Union loanline
013 No service
014 Elliot answering service
015 No service
016 Federal Brokers,NY
017-021 No services
022 MTS software helpling
023 No service
024 Bell savings bank
025 Unknown
026 No service
027 Unknown
028 Unknown
--Page 21--
029-030 No service
031 Travel service
032 Security Pacific
033 No service
034 LF Rothschild,NY
035-036 No services
037 Unknown
038 RacomNet
039 Delta A.
040 No services
041 Unknown
042-043 No services
044 Alex Brown
045 Unknown
046 No service
047 Unknown
048 Unknown
049-051 No services
052 NY lotteries
053-054 No services
055 Fault on line
056-057 No services
058 AT Edwards
--Page 22--
059-060 No services
061 Air Ambulance
062 AMC
063 ABC television
064 Unknown
065 Forflex
066 Texas fid. trust co.
067 Robinson,Colliers and Stevens.
068 Prescion Visual
069 Unknown
070-071 No services
072 Long and Foster Real Estate
073 No service
074 Faulty Line
075-076 No services
077 Faulty Line
078 No service
079 Roscher-Spears
080 No service
081 Faulty Line
082 TTI
083 Edwards and Turner
084 Beakman travel
--Page 23--
085-086 No service
087 Unknown
088 No service
089 Performance software group
090 DataNet
091 No service
092 Honning CO
093 Montgomery...
094 Unknown
095 Telemarketing despatch centre
096 Some call circuit..asks for id
097 USRA
098 No service
099 Unknown
100 MCA
101 No service
102 Unknown
103-106 No services
107 Unknown
108-109 No services
110 Unknown
111 No service
112 Unknown
--Page 24--
113-115 No services
116 Unknown
117 No service
118 Derwent Co.,New Orleans
119 Berisford Capital Market
120-122 No services
123 Unknown
124-125 No services
126 Fundemental Brokers
127 No service
128 Johnson,Riley & CO.,New Orleans
129 No service
130 McDonald Co.
131 No service
132 Inbound Service centre
133 No service
134 Wilson & Co.
135 No service
136 Unknown
137 Unknown
138 J. P. Bradford Co.
139 Unknown
140-144 No service
--Page 25--
145 24hr travel service
146-147 No services
148 Unknown
149-150 No services
151 Telenational
152 No service
153 Travel Service Desk
154 No service
155 Phoenix Imperial
156 No service
157 First Securities
158 Unknown
159 No service
160 Medical Centre
161 Faulty line
162-163 No services
164 Sunset Marque Hotel
165 No service
166 Dain Bosworth Inc.
167 Unknown
168 Unknown
169 Air Ambulance
170 Unknown
--Page 26--
171-173 No services
174 Faulty line
175 The Office Network
176 No service
177 CableHouse Regan
178 No service
179 Robinson
180 Computer Scientists Corp
181 Unknown
182 Unknown
183 Subway
184 No service
185 Howard Weil
186-188 No service
189 Faulty Line
190 Exus Communications
191-192 No service
193 Unknown
194 No service
195 Unknown
196 Travel Service
197 No service
198 DataTone
--Page 27--
199-200 No service
201 Delta Airlines,Atlanta
202 Unknown
203-218 No services
219 InterClaim Inc
220-224 No services
225 DB View Inc
226-232 No services
233 Reservations
234-235 No services
236 Unknown
237-256 No services
257 Faulty Line
258 No service
259 Unknown
260 No service
261 TSR Inc., NY
262 Unknown
263 No service
264 Unknown
265-266 No service
267 Faulty Line
268 No service
--Page 28--
269 Faulty Line
270 Faulty Line
271-273 No service
274 Tradewinds.Conneticut
275 Cee Ray Customer Services
276-280 No services
281 Unknown
282 No service
283 ICS Network
284-287 No service
288 Unknown
289 Lemmy Customer Help Desk
290-335 No services
336 Unknown
337-356 No services
357 Western Hotel
358 No service
359 Unknown
360 Unknown
361-365 No service
366 Unknown
367-382 No services
383 Faulty Line
--Page 29--
384-388 No services
389 NASDAQ
390-459 No services
460 International Reservations
461-583 No services
584 BT International,Cambridge
585-799 No services
800 ITI
801 Unknown
802 Unknown
803 Int Relations
804 Unknown
805 Unknown
806 No service
807 Faulty Line
808-999 No services
0800-892-nnn
System X exchange
000 Int Re.
--Page 30--
001 No service
002 AT&T
003-027 No services
028 Morgan & Keenan
029-039 No services
040 Eagle City
041-999 No services
0800-893-nnn
System X exchange
0800-010 No services
011 Unknown
012-025 No services
026 Recording
027 Unknown
028-031 No services
032 Unknown
033-042 No services
043 Recording
044 No services
045 Unknown
--Page 31--
046-066 No services
067 Unknown
068-079 No services
080 Unknownvancouver
081-425 No services
426 Unknown
427-999 No services
0800-894-nnn
System X exchange
No services currently in operation on this node
0800-895-nnn
System X exchange
000-599 No services
600 OTC Supervisor,Sydney,Australia
601-610 No services
--Page 32--
611 Unknown
612 No service
613 Unknown
614-615 No services
616 McAwdrey Bank
617 Data Tone
618-620 No services
621 The Age Newspaper,Australia
622 No service
623 Unknown
624-628 No service
629 International Medical Assistance Network
630-645 No service
646 Unknown
647 Unknown
648-649 No services
650 Quantas Airlines
651-659 No services
660 Faulty Line
661-666 No services
667 MedicAid
668-677 No services
678 Auantas Airlines
--Page 33--
679-688 No service
689 World Wide Assistance
690-699 No service
700 Recording
701 ditto
702 ditto
703-999 No services
0800-896-nnn
System X exchange
000-375 No services
376 Unknown
377-999 No services
0800-897-nnn
System X exchange
000-040 No services
--Page 34--
041 Unknown
042-099 No services
100 Recording
101 Unknown
102-999 No services
0800-898-nnn
System X exchanges
000 No service
001 Unknown
002 No service
003 Unknown
004 French Recording
005 Unknown
006 Unknown
007 French Recording
008 No service
009 Unknown
010 No service
011 Telecom,Sweden
--Page 35--
012 Unknown
013 Unknown
014 Unknown
015 Unknown
016 Unknown
017 United Airlines
018 Unknown
019 Unknown
020 Unknown
021 No service
022 Unknown
023 Unknown
024 Unknown
025 Unknown
026 Unknown
027 No service
028 Unknown
029 Unknown
030 Unknown
031 Unknown
032 Unknown
033 Unknown
034 Unknown
--Page 36--
035 Recording
036 No service
037 Recording
038 Unknown
039 Unknown
040 Recording
041 Unknown
042 Unknown
043 Unknown
044 Unknown
045 Unknown
046 Unknown
047 Unknown
048 Recording
049 Unknown
050 Unknown
051 Unknown
052 Unknown
053 Unknown
054 Unknown
055 Unknown
056 Unknown
057 Unknown
--Page 37--
058 Unknown
059 Unknown
060 Recording
061 Unknown
062 Unknown
063 Unknown
064 Unknown
065 No service
066 Unknown
067 Unknown
068 Unknown
069 Unknown
070 Unknown
071 Recording
072 ditto
073 ditto
074 Unknown
075-088 No service
089 Recording
090-199 No service
200 Unknown
201-209 No service
210 Unknown
--Page 38--
211-265 No service
266 German Recording
267-288 No service
289 Unknown
290-319 No service
320 Unknown
321-332 No service
333 Unknown
334-399 No service
400 Unknown
401 Unknown
402-403 No services
404 Unknown
405 Unknown
406-407 No service
408 Unknown
410 Unknown
411 Unknown
412 Unknown
413 Unknown
414 Holland
415 Unknown
416 Unknown
--Page 39--
417 Unknown
418 No service
419 Unknown
420 Unknown
421 No service
422 Unknown
423 German Recording
424-429 No service
430 Unknown
431 Unknown
432-476 No service
477 Unknown
478-513 No service
514 Dakar,Holland
515-516 No services
517 Unknown
518-701 No services
702 Unknown
703-799 No services
800 German Recording
801 Faulty Line
802-825 No services
826 Faulty line
--Page 40--
827-832 No services
833 ItalyUnknown
834-849 No services
850 Unknown
851-869 No services
870 Unknown
871-999 No services
0800-899-nnn
System X exchange
000 No service
001 Dublin.Ireland
002-999 No services
If you find any changes please contact SNN or the supplier of this list....
Thank god its over.......
--Page 50--
MICRONET (c) 800111503a 0p
NEWS: Potentially Nasty Sun
SG
A potentially damaging article appears in today's Observer entitled
'Computer Nasties are on the Line.' Written by Observer investigative reporter
John Merritt, the article reveals that several bulletin boards in the UK are
actively disseminating anarchical information. The Open File report claims
that the following information can be read online on BBSs.
= Top 10 ways to kill a cop
= How to make oxyacetylene balloon bombs.
= Breaking into houses
= An introductory guide to shoplifting
= How to make tear gas
The article then goes to give a thumbnail sketch of the UK's BBSs, including
a character profile of Darren Ingram, sysop of 'Corrupt Computing,' a bulletin
board specialising in the darker side of society.
Ingram's board contains several areas, one of which is called 'Defence of...
... the Realm,' which contains several home defence files covering the topics
outlined earlier in this news story. The article has off-the-cuff quotes
from computer industry luminaries such as John (BBOA) Wallbridge and Alistair
--Page 51--
Kelman, the computer barrister.
Unfortunately for the online world, the
Observer article portrays the typical BBS user as armed to the teeth and
trained in 'survivalist techniques.' This will almost certainly reflect
badly on BBS and UK online systems,
Micronet included, and effectively undoes much of the PR work carried
out by organisations such as the Bulletin Board Operators Association.
Interestingly, reporter Merritt has been in contact with the Department of
Trade and Industry and Oftel in a bid to discover who - if anyone - is
'responsible' for BBSs.
The DTI is quoted as not knowing which government department should be
looking at BBSs, but said BBS files and messages would come under Section
43 of the Telecommunications Act 1984. The Act prohibits the transmission...
... of grossly offensive, indecent or obscene messages over the PSTN (public
switched telephone network). The anti-obscenity provisions of the
1984 Act were originally aimed at the 'dial-a-porn' services which have
proliferated in the US. Some watered down services have appeared in the UK
on 0898 value-added numbers. The Net will be taking a look at the
Observer article in more depth tomorrow, when we'll discuss the
ramifications of what could result in the government taking an interest in
BBSs and other online systems.........
- ******************************************************************************
--Page 52--
MICRONET (c) 800111512a 0p
NEWS: Potentially Nasty (Pt 2) Mon
Steve Gold
Following on from The Observer's revelations yesterday about the UK's
modem users being corrupted by BBSs (GOTO 5 for the full SP), the Net has
talked to several comms luminaries, many of whom were quoted in The
Observer article.
"The Observer chap phoned me up last week for a few comments," said Alistair
Kelman, the computer barrister. Kelman revealed that the Daily
Telegraph has also been chatting to comms-oriented establishment people as
well as The Observer. Despite the article's emphasis on the darker...
... side of BBSs, Kelman thinks that the majority of readers will take the
views of the writer with a pinch of salt.
Len Stuart, ClubSpot and Netreach supremo, thinks otherwise.
"The article could be very damaging for modem users generally, as people who
don't know about comms will assume that Ingram's BBS is typical of all
boards," said Stuart, adding that the same people will assume that all
modem users regularly access such BBSs. "Not knowing any differntly, readers..
... will make the wrong assumptions about modem users," he added.
John Collins, ex-Commodore and now freelance programmer on the Atari ST
and Commodore Amiga, thinks the same. Like Len Stuart, Collins 'phoned the
Net to draw our attention to the article.
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"I was horrified by the article," he told the Net. "It's just the sort of
publicity that we can all do without."
John Wallbridge, BBOA founder, who is also quoted in The Observer article,..
... is equally disparaging about the article.
"The Observer reporter left out my key comment which was that BBSs are like
any other medium," he told the Net. "The problem is that all media,
including BBSs, can be used to print almost anything about anything. I just
hope that Observer readers don't get the wrong impression about bulletin
boards generally," he said.
Wallbridge is so incensed by The Observer article that - in common
with several other comms industry figures - he feels that a response
from the online community is called for.
"At the very least, I think that a letter to The Observer is called for,"
he said.
All the comms industry figures the Net has spoken to this weekend have
agreed that The Observer article was 'over the top' and not typical of BBSs
generally. It's likely that the article will have stirred up enough public
outrage to generate governmental interest in how BSSs are run. It is to be
hoped that - as with all exposes of this nature - the furore dies down quickly.
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"TRACKER" Transmitter
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Where - R1:10k Resistor C1:.001 Capacitor B:9V Battery
R2:470 Resistor C2:Coil S:Switch
C3:5-30pF Variable capacitor N:NPN Transistor
:Crystal
:Antenna
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Tracking transmitter which could be built very compact. Unmodulated signal,
must be used with BFO-reciever. Transmitting on 6-meter (50-54 MHz).
C2 is 9 turns on 1/2" dia., 1/2" long, #18. is 52 MHz
Antenna is 6", N is a BC 169.
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THE NECCESITY OF DEVIANCE
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By Jack Stevenson
In the Ideal utopia, individual freedomflourishes. In such a state of
existence there would be no deviants since there would be nothing to deviate
from. Everyone would bloom like a beautiful flower according to their own
precaurioyus individual natures. There would be no stifling society codes, no
predjudice, no repression, no crime.
Unfortunately, or rather fortunately, Utopia is unobtainable. Deviation is
the only thing that's kept the human race from dying off from bad ideas, lack
of style or just plain boredom, not to mention tyranny, incompetence or
stupidity.
As it is, within every religion, within every country, within every city and
small town, deviance springs up unwanted like some ugly evil mushroom, much to
the horror of civil and moral "authorities." It is the one irrepressible,
ineludable constant of human existence. Thank God.
It is the deviant, at first persecuted, then martyred and worshipped, who
changes society, starts all the new religions and philosophies. It is the
deviant virus buzzing around in the rotted innards of established countrys and
belief systems that keeps the decaying carcass on it's feet until something
paramutates off, and it crashes to the ground a stinking corpse... although
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sometimes it actually takes a few centuries to fall over.
On a less grandoise scale, deviation worms it's way into fashion, art, and
every other form of human conduct, often while the guise of perfect
respectability is maintained. Deviance is a neccesity of life, on a par with
food, shelter and clothing. And like any other activity, it can be pursued in
a cowardly, or courageous fashion.
Society seeks to maintain the status quo out of pure bloated inertia.
Industrialization gave rise to the middle class in all developed countries,
and soon the middle class had began it's own culture: a culture of cowardice,
conformity and sterility whose holy ground became the suburbs. Conformity was
required, the Status quo worshipped.
Yet the stricter the status-quo is enforced by social codes, the more
widespread the deviant urge becomes: today the suburbs are hot-beds of
deviance and depravity, while inner cities - admittedly more violent - are
staid in comparison.
Look through any window in suburbia to see men dressed in leotards or neo-
nazis in full regelia drowning kittens in bath tubs while through ghetto
windows, you see earnest young dope dealers and pimps chasing the standard
capitalist dream. Sexual and other deviations are shunned in the ghettos while
the suburbs provide the privacy, leisure time and money to engage in such
activities.
It is the pointlessness and boredom of middle class life more than anything
that spurs and motivates people into a life of deviance. Poor people are too
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busy trying to "make it", chasing commercial images of success, and rich
people hide all their glorious deviance behind the impenetrable wall of
discretion propriety. It is out of the belly of the middle class that pulls a
virtual army of "deviance" as they are quick to be called. Punk rockers are
drop-outs from suburbia, with their anti-beauty esthetics. Before them the
Hippies were the drop-outs with their drugs and anti-materialism. Many Gays in
New York, San Fransisco and other big cities are escapees from middle class
conformity. A thousand bizarre cults worldwide are gourged on the children of
the middle class. It is the greatest contribution of the middle class to
culture.
Deviance in it's most spectacular, sensational and violent forms has become
a new religion, merging Punk rock with Satanism, Nazism and modern death
technology. Mark Pauline, a San Fransisco artist, builds engine powered
contraptions, that animate the corpses of chickens and rabbits in a grotesque
fandango. Autopsy videos are all the latest rage, and a small mouvement of
Xeroxed fanzines that idolize mass-murderers is cropping up, reflecfting wider
interest in this new industrial death culture that has in fact been well
recieved in the art world.
Mass murderers are replacing football players as focal points of youthful
fascination. Gilles de Rais emerges from the muck of his history as the John
The Baptist of this new order. The richest noble and bravest knight of early
15th century France, de Rais won a prominent place in French history books for
his battlefield heroism in the cause of Joan Of Arc, personally rescuing her
--Page 58--
from the English at least twice. His later career as a lunatic, devil
worshipper and sex murderer of hundreds of young peasant children won him a
place in the wax museums.
Ed Gein, killer and cannibal of the American 1950s, exploded as a blinding
supernova in the holy firmament of sexual deviance. Inhabiting an unworked
farm in rural Wisconsin, Gein impressed neighbors as a mildly retarded
simpleton who hung out with kids and was good for handyman chores and helping
road crews chop weeds along the highway. Yet Gein's peaceable manner concealed
the soul of a freinzied deviant: by night he engaged in murder, graverobbing
and necrophilia, as well as the manufacture of human lampshades, chair seats,
nipple belts and skull caos. All of Gein's crimes were traced back to a desire
to revive his dead mother from her grave and driven out of control by a
twisted sexual urge. Perhaps the ongoing celebration of Ed Gein is a reaction
to the sterile sexual teases of Pop icons such as Doris Day and Annete
Funicello who purveyed a dehumanized aura of sex that Gein actually came to
practice.
Charles Manson is certainly well enough known, both by the myth and reality
(if in fact they can be seperated). Yet while Manson dabbled in Satanism and
admired the Nazis, he was a different phenomenon than either medieval castle-
dwelling de Rais or farmboy idiot/introvert Gein. Manson became the great
hollywood killer and his ledgend has been enshrined by media circus parole
hearings and annual televising of Helter Skelter that are as eagerly awaited
as The Wizard of Oz. "I live in my world," said Manson in prison in 1970, "and
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I am the king of my world, wether it be in a garbage dump or if it be in the
desert or wherever it be, I am my own human being. You may restrain my body
and you may tear my guts out, do anything you wish, but I am still me and you
can't take that." Is it any wonder Manson strikes a chord with teenagers,
deviants and outcasts constantly bucking the norm?
Finally there is John Gacy. If mass-murderers are considered the ultimate
deviants then John Gacy is an ironic contradiction. While Gacy was a killer,
a more average, normal, successful and respected member of the community you
could not find. He was the quintessential suburban "well respected man." His
taste in everything from houses to cars to backyard barbeques was middle class
suburban. None of this cult-worship commune jazz for him, his world revolved
around the gravity core of middle class respectable. Because of this, he could
never admit, and in fact to this day denies, that he is gay. He has been
called by some "The Ultimate closet Queen" and the results of his reppresion
and self-loathing became national headlines in 1979.
While Gacy is a pretty poor role model for any self-respecting deviant, he
is the current mass-murder record holder and hence earns the respect of the
pure-mided death cultists who despise any hint of insanity or cultism. Manson
and Gein on the other hand were more flamboyant and colourful characters and
have enjoyed popularity on a wider scale, inspiring movies and songs and even
bleeding a little bit into pop culture. Gilles de Rais, though, remains almost
unknown to the population, with their fast-food slaughters and shopping-centre
massacres while in history-concious France, he is known to every schoolboy.
--Page 60--
Other mass killers have made the jump from police reports into pop ledgend.
Jim Jones was the ultimate cult leader and fake Mohammed. Charles Starkweather
was the 1950's own white-trash James Dean/Rebel without a cause, and Lizzi
Borden slaughtered her parents - What red-blooded Teenager hasn't thought
about it? Today there are endless Hillside Stranglers, Highway killers,
Nightstalkers, mad Slashers, berserk snipers holed up in schoolhouses, and
walking time bombs exploding in post offices and fast-food restaurants.
And so, much to the horror of their parents, our young people find heroes
aplenty in today's "world". Or perhaps I should say anti-heros. To today's
youth, getting stabbed to death or getting blown apart in an explosion dosn't
seem much worse than dying of boredom, and certainly it's quicker, you might
even get on TV.
Modern society seems a faceless, homogenized, sterile place... predictable,
circumcised, pre-conditioned. The impulsive, the violent, the anti-social is
admired and at times emulated. The deviant is our new hero.
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