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2600 Magazine - Volume 1, Number 1 


2600 January, 1984! 


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VOLUME ONE NUMBER ONE 



AHOY! 

(That's how Alexander Graham Bell used to answer his phone- For some reason, it never caught on.„) 


. This is the very firs l issue of 2600. We will, on this 
page, explain our me lives and what the goals are 
which we hope to achieve with this publication. 

The idea for 2600 was born early in 1983. We saw a 
tremendous need for some form of communication 
between those who truly appreciate the concept of 
communication: technological enthusiasts. Of course, 
others have different ways of describing such people— 
these range from words Like hacker or phreaker to 
stronger terms such as criminal or anarchist. Our 
purpose is not to pass judgement, 2600 exists to 
provide information and ideas to individuals who live 
for both. All of the items contained on these pages are 
provided for informational purposes only. 2600 
assumes no responsibility for any uses which this 
Information may be put to. ■ * 

Of course, a Jot has changed since our first days. 
War Games came out. And then the 414 gang got 
caught. Suddenly everyone was talking about 
p breakers and hackers. And while there were some 
t hat so rt of jum ped into t he I imel ight , at hers were a bit 
more cautious, in fact, some were quite upset. Sure, 
the publicity was fun. But what would be the cost? 

Well, time has passed and the cost has been high. 
Phreakers and hackers have been forced into virtual 
isolation. Raids by the FBI have become almost 
commonplace. The one magazine that was geared 
towards phone p breaks { TAP) mysteriously disap- 
peared at the height of the crisis, sparking rumours 
that they + too, had been raided. However, in 
November, the magazine resurfaced, with an 
explanation that a Tire had destroyed part of their 
mailing list: (Incidentally, if your name was one of the 
opes that was lost, you can claim the issues you are 
entitled to by sending TAP a copy of their mailing 
l;*bel or a cancelled check.) 

And then there was the legendary computer bulletin 
hoard known as OSUNY. Enthusiasts from all across 
ne country called up this board and left messages 
ranging from the latest jn. Sprint codes to how to crash 
an R5TS syslenrt to' what to do once you've finally 
gained access lo Autovon, Within a week after being 
mentioned in AVii^kiwA*- OY U N Y was disconnected. 
Word has it that they are still in existence somewhere, 
but by invitation only. A truly smart move, if that is 
the case. 

Many hackers were keeping a ' tow profile even 
he Ion; the October raids. When the FBI confiscated 


equipment from 15 sites across the country on the 
twelfth and thirteenth of the month (sponsored by a 
grant from the folks at GTE), many of our contacts 
were lost because they feared the consequences of 
continuing. Two organizations, the Inner Circle and 
PHALSE, were deeply affected by the raids. The latter 
group [whose initials signify Phreakers, Hackers, and 
Laundromat Service Employees) is still in contact with 
us on occasion and has promised to contribute many 
articles devoted to just what was really going on. 

So it seems that the events of 1 983 have conspired to 
actually strengthen the resolve of hackers and 
phreakers across the country to put out this monthly 
newsletter. We hope you will help us continue by 
subscribing, spreading the word among your friends* 
and of course contributing articles and information, 
Since we are non-profit, it really doesn’t matter to us if 
you xerox your copy and send it to someone else — all 
we ask is that you let us know so that we can have a 
rough idea of how many people we're reaching. 

2600 has several sections, some of which will appear 
every month, others on an irregular basis. On this, the 
front page, and on page two, you will always find 
informative full-length features on relevant subjects. 
Future topics include: "A Guide to Long Distance 
Telephone Services and Their Vulnerabilities”, “DEC 
and Their Many Mistakes", "Phreaking in the 
Sixties”, and "Tracing Methods Used by the Law 11 *, as 
well as any late-breaking items. "FLASH" appears on 
page 3 and provides a roundup of timely news items 
written from a technological enthusiast’s perspective. 
Page 4 is used for a variety of things— interesting 
stories from the past, schemes and plots that just might 
work, and feedback from subscribers. The last two 
pages of 2600 are comprised of data. Just what sort of 
data, we cannot say. However, if it is something that 
you are looking for, then you will probably recognize 
i [ . 

The three holes on each page serve a purpose. We 
suggest that you obtain a loose-leaf book so that you 
can neatly flic every issue of 2600 you receive. 

Many thanks to those of you who subscribed 
without even seeing on issue. A word of advice, 
though: don't do it again or you’ll probably get ripped 
off T We’d also like to [hank those who took ad vantage 
of our free issue oiler. If interested in subscribing, the 
rates and address can be found ;u [he top of this page. 

Welcome to 2Afifi. Turn the page and become ii purl 
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FBI GOES AFTER ADS HACKERS 

HM must press charges be/ore action can be taken — Feds reveal their tactics, blow source 


On. this page we had originally planned to run an 
article entitled: ESS “ Orw-eJI's Prophecy. At the last 
minute T however, we received this bombshell from an 
anonymous contributor. It seems that a group of 
hackers wav making use of one of IBM's ADS sys- 
tems. ( Audio Distribution Systems enable users with 
touch-tone phones to send voice messages back and 
forth to each other. Look for an in-depth article on 
them m a future issue.) Unfortunately, as is all too 
often the case, one of these hackers was really an 
FBI informant who was . taking note of all of the 
illegitimate users {around 40 or so). Luckily for 
this particular group, the informant was sloppy and 
left many telltale clues which gave them literally 
months of warning . So, when the informant de- 
cided to send a message- to the system operator, 
advising IBM to take action against the hackers 
and to call the FBI for more information, the 
hackers were ready. The system operator's account 
had also been penetrated by them and hence, the 
message was received by the hackers first! One of 
them actually followed the instructions in the 
- message and called the FBI! And for some reason* 
the investigator there thought he was talking to 
an IBM executive. This is some of what he said. 

One of the individuals that supplies me with in- 
formation from time to time has uncovered a lot of 
abuse within the ADS systems, not only here in the 
United States, but in England and Italy, I talk to 
this individual on a private bulletin board, . + 

We have no ability to come in as an outside in- 
vestigative or law enforcement agency and do any- 
thing about it because, first off, we don’t have a 
complainant We don’t want to step on anybody’s 
toes, but its been our policy to monitor bulletin 
boards and the phone phreaking activity across the 
country and advise commercial computer systems and 
corporations if we do discover certain computers 
along with the passwords and account numbers being 
published on the board T We do this on a one on one 
basis. 

The GTE Telemall Connection 

That was my baby, too! As a matter of fact, that’s 
tow we came across the ADS system — through the 
jTE investigation. [These] people are not just in- 
terested in data communications through terminals — 
hey will leave voice messages on an ADS. We have 
leen slowly uncovering more and more on the ADS 
ti the last two months. 

The major phase of [the Telemail investigation] 
vas about 20 individuals that we had located arid 
dentified and we’re looking for indictments on most 
it them coming down in the next month or two. 
YeVe talking about a group of highly organized 
icopJe that do communicate on a daily basis all the 
^ay across the country — from San Francisco and 


L,A. to Denver to upstate New York. So we hyvc a 
core of individuals that we are still looking at that 
are using your system and then we have this peri- 
pheral that we are not as concerned about because 
they are not part of an out & out conspiracy or an 
organized network* per se, I know of at leasts or 10 
that are the central figures in this, the carryover 
from TelemaiL And we keep hearing information of 
other people who are calling in with junk messages — 
there’s no real substance to their messages. Now the 
reason I know that is that they have included one of 
my sources of information onto their system and so 
he gets messages from the other parties. 

The Communist Connection 
In a way we’re somewhat fortunate that it’s 16- 
y ear-olds or 26-year-olds as opposed to people from 
behind the Iron Curtain. It gives us the opportunity 
to see how these systems work and see if we can plug 
any loopholes before somebody from a not-friendly 
nation would fry the same thing. I personally fully 
expect it - I'm surprised it hasn’t happened in the 
past It may have, We just haven h t caught it But the 
kids are a little bit sloppier and they’re getting 
caught . . I hate to sound paranoid, but we’re sup- 
posed 4 to be considering the big picture as far as i& 
there anything sensitive in nature. For us within the 
bureau, sensitive in nature first off means national 
security and you’ve got corporate trade secrets and 
. the like that you don’t need being distributed. 

How the FBI Wins Trust and Gets Info 
The subjects have an ego problem and they love to 
talk to other individuals about what they are capable 
of doing and bragging about it. They have a tendency 
to trade information. Everything is negotiable with 
them. We have never had to barter away access to 
systems — we do it more on the technical information 
of phone networks, computer systems, and the like 
to where it’s more of a technical information tradeoff 
as opposed to an access tradeoff [An example would 
be the] login procedure for a PDP-11. You integrate 
yourself within their confidence and their circle of 
friends. You feed them a little bit of bait and a lot 
of times they’ll go for ft. You enter into a dialogue 
with them, and they end up taking you for a ride. 

These people are very hungry for technical avenues 
through which they can comm unic ate . It used to be 
the personal computer bulletin boards — public 
messages that anybody can read. You start finding 
out that they leave a phone number or an address — 
and you start finding out who the parties are, There^ 
thousands of these bulletin boards across the country 
and you narrow in on maybe twenty or so that are 
the more hardcore bulletin boards that are being used 
for exchange of illicit information. Then they move 
from there to an electronic mail service, namely GTE 

(Continued on funk page) ■ 



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^ GTE raids still have many unanswered 
questions — computer owners concerned 

■CnifflMitHl N(#i SiHimi 

On Wednesday, October 12, at 6:00 AM, the FBI started 
to raid the homes of over fifteen individuals for allegedly 
breaking into Tele mail, GTE Telenet's massive electronic 
mail service. While much of the publicity has now died 
down, questions remain concerning the legality and the 
overall implications of such computer seizures. 

At a December 16 meeting of the Long Island Computer 
Association, this topic was addressed. Some members could 
not understand the rationale for taking away the computers 
in the First place. “It sounds like scare tactics to me. . . to keep 
these kids off of computers,” one commented. “To hold the 
equipment seems like something that should be unlawful 
and it T s something that the public should look at, If ifs not 
j ust ified , we should say that we won T t put u p with it a ny more 
and to return the equipment, 11 He did not elaborate on 
precisely what kind of action a computer group such as 
L1CA could take. 

Legally, the computers canj>e kept for as Jong as they are 
needed in the investigation. Ultimately, a judge wilf decide 
how Jong that can be, 

"The allegation,” said an attorney familiar with the case, 
“is that the services of the Telemail bulletin boards were used 
and the theory that the government is proceeding under is 
that it was a violation of Section 13 43, wire fraud (a scheme 
with intention to defraud someone else using either 
television, telephone, or some other communications 
means). They're saying that if there was use of the bulletin 
board service, then that - was a ‘theft of service" and there was 
intention to defraud GTE " 

One member took GTE's side. "These are ail nice games 
these people are playing, but they are a theft of service. 
Somebody is in the business of providing that service and 
they're deliberately interfering with their providing that 
service. They’re trying to get. something for nothing.” 

Another disagreed, "You may be on their computer, but 
it's not costing them anything, if you're not taking up time. 
U nless the whole system is fully used and you were the last 
user on, are you really using any of their time? Really and 
truly?** 

Many hackers felt they were unjustly accused. One even 
said he*d never used the Telemail system* Others said they 
had looked around once or twice but had never hurt 
anything. Others, though, admitted to deleting mail and 
playing tricks, like send ing obscene messages hack a nd forth 
between two innocent executives. 

Whether or not the T elemail system svaauied fraudulently 
did not seem to be the overriding issue at the L1CA meeting. 
What had members there worried was the way in which the 
investigation was bcii^g -Carried out. When dealing with 
computers as evidence, different rules apply, rules that for 
the most part have not been written yet, “Data can be 
manufactured just as easily as it can be erased from a 
personal computer,' 1 one member commented. “And the 
L ’ — v Longer that they have the computer in their custody, the less 

likely that the information that they claim is on it was 
■" actually there* Because, as we know, you could enter any 

date, any time into the computer and have it date- and time- 
stamp the files," 


Meanwhile, a GTE Telenet spokesperson said that the 
corporation still intends to prosecute and denied that the 
whole thing was being put on for the deterrent effect that U 
might have on other people. The spokesperson also said that 
abuse on the system, was' discovered in the past, but they 
didn't prosecute at that time. This lime, though, they're 
serious, 

AT&T Credit Cards Make Debut 

J 600 News Scrvicr 

There’s now another way to place telephone calls without 
dimes. This month, the “true" AT&T credit card phones are 
making their debut in various airports around the country. 
This new phone actually takes an AT&T credit card (not 
those wimpy “calling cards" or “PIN cards.” We're talking 
about a recti hunk of plastic, with a magnetic strip and 
everything) — and there's even a little video screen that 
gives you directions. 

Unless some sort of a bug can be found within the system 
itself, phone phreaks won’t accomplish very much here, 
unless they can actually get their hands on other people's 
cards. This, in itself, wouldn't be too difficult, since large 
numbers ofrhe cards would be sent out on the same day in a 
particular area. Stealing out of personal mailboxes, though, 
is an act most phone phreaks would never stoop to. And the 
folks at AT&T are well aware of this. 

Wireless phones spell trouble 

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With cordless phones popping up all over the place, 
problems were bound to arise. It's not at all uncommon to 
hear another cordless conversation on your phone or to hear 
^the electronic pulse-beeping when you’re not even dialing. 
Then there are cordless phone phreaks to deal with, who 
drive into heavily populated zones holding one of the 
common cordless models. It's called “cruising for 
dialiones," And some phones are nice enough to broadcast 
your conversation on an AM frequency. This feature isrft 
very good for private conversations, [t helped shape a recent 
drug bust in the state of New Yorld 

Recently, a, lady in the Midwest called up her local electric 
company to tell them that she was going to be away for two 
months. A member of the 2600 CJub heard this on his radio 
; and, being in a good mood, called her and told her that 
important, personal business should never be discussed on 
cordless phones. After thanking him, she exclaimed, “That 
thing's going right back to the Phonecenter Stoner 

1-984 arrives in Hong Kong 

The J-« Appk* ItlM* 

In an effort to “discourage people from driving their cars 
in heavily congested areas" all 350,000 of Hong Kong's 
motor vehicles will be fitted with tracking devices that will 
let government computers know exactly where each car has 
traveled so that the owner can be billed for road use. This 
system could be in full implementation by 1987, if the 
government has its way. Such a system would also allow the 
police to quickly pinpoint the whereabouts of any vehicle. 
Tampering with the S4 5 tracking devices will be illegal and 
any attempt to do so will' trigger street cameras lo 
photograph the license plate of the car. 


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THE TRUTH BEHIND THOSE 9999 NUMBERS 

hy Mark Bluebux been provided by the National Bureau of Standards for 

Once upon a time, I was talking to one of my favorite WWV and that number is I -8QQ-95 7-9999," Imagine my 
friends, one of the nations oldest and most experienced surprise! Once again, the number had been broadcast all 
telephone enthusiasts --some might refer to him as a phone around the world. People in many, many nations now had 
phreftk. In this particular conversation, he mentioned to me that number. Of course, the number only worked inside the 
that I might want to experMent with a series of 800 United States, but the word was being spread by shortwave 
numbers: exchanges starting with 9, followed by the suffix listeners and QSL people everywhere. 

9999 (800-9xs-9999). And so I did, and a whole new world The number was getLing swamped. Needless to say, it was 
began to open up in front of me, busy much of the time. A government official, who a/so had 

They were mostly weather and time numbers in various this number, thinking that it was legitimate, called up WWV 
locations throughout the country. And, since these were 800 and complained. He told them that they needed to add some 
numbers* there was NO CHARGE! One number in more iines to their new SOQ number. The general manager of 
particular was of a great deal of interest to me and to many the station said* u l don't know what you T re talking about, L 
others. This was 800-957-9999* which hooked up to WWV, don’t know of any 800 number that gets you WWV." 
the radio station operated by the National Bureau of The government official told him what the telephone 
Standards that does nothing but tell the time and give number was. The general manager called it and heard his 
shortwave reports. This i$ the -most accurate clock in the own station. Astounded* he contacted the Mountain Bell 
entire worldl You either have to tune WWV in on a . Telephone Company in Denver* Colorado. They said, 
shortwave receiver or dial 303-499-71 II in Fort Collins* 11 YouTe not paying for any 800 in- WATS number. We show 
Colorado, Yet, here l was with an 800 access! Being a bit of a 303-499-7111 for WWV, but we don't have any 800-957- 
shortwave enthusiast* 1 don’t have to tell you how 9999." 

convenient this was for me. Unfortunately, it got too Mountain Bell checked it out and sure enough, the 
convenient for too many people. ^ t number existed but not on their records. No one was getting 

J guess I made the mistake of giving it to a former charged for this! Now, of course, you know a monopoly as 
president of a large amateur radio club in the Dallas area, well I do — they’re sure not going to let anyone have a free 
He* in turn, printed it in the Amateur Radio Newsbulletin ride. So they told the WATS coordinator to find out what 
where thousands of people probably saw it. Another happened. He finally made the discovery that some 
statewide newsbulletin picked it up and printed it. Through technicians had hooked that number up for transmission 
an amateur radio news network which this bulletin was a testing. [These switching technicians are toll technicians* 
part of* the news got as far as California;, ATAT Long Lines switching technicians* and carrier 

One day, 1 called up the West Link Amateur Radio News systems technicians. In other words, they’re the group of t 
Service at 213-768-7333. (This is a service located in We$t people who link switching centers together* from New York 
Link, California that broadcasts news over amateur radio* to Los Angeles, for example, ]n this case, the whole 
VHF, UHF, etc.) Their Jatesi report had this little item: escapade was a kind of group effort. The switchmen and the 

“Speaking of interesting things, the National Bureau of. carrier people got together and set up this number for 
Standards has got a very convenient time number for those testing, finding noisy carriers* carriers with cross-talk on 
of you that are not constantly at a shortwave receiver. You them* etc.] 

can dial I -800-957-9999 for WWV. It’s just another good The WATS coordinator told them they’d better get this 
toll-free service for us to use," The avalanche had really number off— too many people knew about it. He told them 
begun now, to erase every 800 test line number that was on the system. 

The West Link report was heard on bulletin stations all Not surprisingly* someone also got ehewed out very 
around the world and* apparently* one station in Nashville, / severely. 

Tennessee broadcast it. From there it fell into the hands of So, consequently, 800-957-9999 is no longer inexistence, 

one of the writers for the DX program on Radio South i But since then, less than two weeks later, several of the 800 
Africa! 1 happened to be listening to a program where they : test numbers have begun to defiantly reappear. Check 
were talking about pulling in distant time stations, weather : around, you’ll probably find a few interesting ones. But L 
stations* etc. He then mentioned* “For those of you that Jive 1 doubt if WWVs brief stint as a toll-free service will ever be 
in the United States* a convenient toll-free 800 number has j repeated. 

Ahoy, folks! If any of you have ever 
used an extender that goes by the name 
of 8006213129, you’d better give it a call 
now! The people running it have aT 

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This here page Is usually a continuation of page 5, However, when we get a blockbuster story 
like the one below, we have to reallocate our space. We know you'll understand. By the way, 
as long as we’ve got you looking up at this part of the page f why not take the time to send us 
some mail? Letters * articles r information t old telephones , paintings, anything, really . You 
know the address (it’s on the front page). Let’s hear from YOU \ 

FBI VS. HACKERS 


(Continued from second page) 

Telemail. They caused fits within Telemail when 
they decided to get a little bit cocky and see if they 
could shut down accounts and change passwords of 
the administrators and things like that. From there 
they have moved one step further to where they are 
now the same individuals communicating through the 
AOS systems and they also, set up conference calls 
through the BeU System, so they're not just attacking 
one particular system or one individual avenue of 
communication — they try to l\it them all. It’s an 
ego trip for all of them. 

■V 

Pen Registers 

We would put a pen register on the phone line of 
the individual (suspect) and it would record only the 
digits dialed on his telephone — we. would not use a 
full blown wiretap to record his voice. We can only 
put a pen register on an individuals phone for like, 
thirty days before we have to go back to a judge and 
try to get an extension and we try to minimize the 
use of our electronic surveillance equipment so the 
public does not think we’re the Big Brother of 19S4. 
(laughter) It's coming. Actually, we’re already 
there! {hearty laughter) " 

We have not utilized any pen registers for the spe- 
cific purposes of going after abusers of the ADS 
systems. First off, we have to have an actual case 
presented to us or a complaint, It’s a roundabout 
way of doing it, but it's the way that we, in the 
bureau, have to have somebody outside come to 
us. Otherwise we can carry on the whole investi- 
gation without IBM even being aware that we are 
monitoring activity within their system and we 
don’t want to become that secret police, or any- 
thing like that. We want to be above board and work 
with the corporations in the community. 

Just How Much Trouble Are These Hackers In? 

On the federal level we can prosecute them for 
telephone fraud (fraud by wire) if we can determine 
that the ADS is an ongoing business operation and 
that you are being denied your, just revenues by them 
sneaking onto your system and abusing your system. 
The strictest penalty is a $1000 fine and 5 years in 
jail for an actual conviction of fraud by wire vio- 
lation. Those are always lax — a more common 
sentence may be for an adult maybe a year in jail, 
18 months, or a fine, sometimes they get probation, 
or agree to pay back any fraudulent money obtained 


Or for services rendered or whatever to the client 
company — it stays on his record for a year, he + s on 
probation for a year and at the end of that, his record 
is wiped clean. Rarely do they get the maximum 
penafty. lt just doesn't happen. 

Do Me a Favor 

Please do not disclose any geographic location be- 
cause we are kind of unique in that we do not have 
any other source available in any other part of the 
country that could supply us with information like 
this, : He may be one of 200 people, but if you iden- 
tify Michigan you identify between 2 or 3 individuals 
and it may burn the source. 

IVe’d like to make it deaf that we don n t intend to 
do this' kind of thing very often* since rumours about 
certain people being informants are very common in 
this business. But this is no rumour. This , friends, is 
solid fact — we would not have printed this story if 
i we weren't able to substantiate the claims if makes, 
and we had no trouble at all doing that. Our intent 
in making this information known ujus nof to screw 
up the FBI's fun (they're really not doing all that 
much out of the ordinary anyway )* but rather to 
expose a very dangerous individual who goes by 
the name of Cable Pair (some say his real name is 
John Max field). This person has been posing as an 
extremely friendly hacker who lives in Detroit and 
is just bubbling over witk technical information in 
exchange fqr your secrets. He. claims to hsue been 
one of the nation's first phreaks* which may or may 
not be true. He gives out his telephone numbers 
freely , will do anything to communicate with some- 
body (like place conference calls from his own 
private PBX system , provided you give him YOUR 
phone number ), and generally will use anything you 
!sny to him against you in the future , Our advise Is 
simple: stay the hell away from this person. Even if 
you haven*t done anything wrong yourself,- your life 
can still be made miserable by him if you 're even sus- 
pected of having contact with wrongdoers. 

This latest turn of events has saddened us — we 
thought Cable Pair would be a promising contributor 
to this publication and instead we learned a valuable 
lesson; don*t trust anybody. Have fun. Cable Pair. 
Enjoy yourself, Ju$t don't expect to see any of us 
j over at the Chestnut Tree Cafe with you. You're 
on your own now.