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[SLi 23/12/94]
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Welcome to the X-Mas edition of SLi MAG.
This is issue `III'. A 3 or 4 month delay
between issues is what we are now working
for. Oh, before I forget, READ SLi 1 and 2 if
you dont understand some terms used in this.
.. INDEX
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. Welcome .............................. Eon
. The Rules ............................ Eon
Hacking - A Plan of Attack ........... Eon
. Primes ............................... Siggy
Credit Cards ......................... CyntaxEra
Books 2 Read ......................... CyntaxEra / Eon
Gun Control .......................... Thorium
Smyte List ........................... SLi
. KMnO4 ................................ Thorium
Cryptography ......................... Siggy
SLi .................................. Eon/CyntaxEra
Fun with REDOX ....................... Thorium
[In]Famous Quotes .................... Eon
Muzik ................................ Thorium
Aunty Cyntax'Z nutty noteZ ........... CyntaxEra
Movies 2 See ......................... CyntaxEra
Fucking Telcos........................ Compiled by Eon
Linux ................................ Siggy
New Generation Pipe Bomb ............. Thorium
Official SLi members ................. CyntaxEra
Flame Thrower ........................ Eon
Editorz knotez ....................... Eon
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Ok here are the rules about this mag.
(1)
If you are working for a bisness that has some intrest in the information
contained in this mag you must send WRITTEN notification that you are in
possesion of this <or any of the other SLi mags> to the following adress
SLi-Comp
PO Box 3030
Onekawa
Napier
New Zealand
Inclose your name your comps name,adress,phone/fax number.
If you send a ibm formated 720 disk and a SASE we will send you the next
SLi mag . a donation of $5 is asked for however! as YOU can aford it unlike
SOME of our readers.
(2)
This mag may not be edited and no SINGULAR part may be quoted in any way!
However the ENTIRE mag may be reproduced a charge of $1000 NZ will be
expected to be payed to the following BEFORE any such reprodution.
This EXCLUDES electronic reprodution or reprodution of ONE hard copy.
SLi-Payment
PO Box 3030
Onekawa
Napier
New Zealand
Inclose your name your comps name,adress,phone/fax number.
The fee must be payed in CASH. I <the editor> resurve the right
to revoke your rights to reproduce this Mag at ANY time.
(3)
This Mag may NOT me sold except after express written permission from
the chairman <ie Eon> of SLi.
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Well we've talked about trashing, social enginering, and other stuff,
but what if none of it works? Well .....
Call up the company...
You> Hello is this [the company name]?
Them> Yes, it is.
You> Yeah, umm, look. I'm doing a school project about [what the
company sells or the service it provides].
Them> Oh well, umm, I'll put you through to our PR people.
You> Thanks.
[Click bleep ring <elevator music> etc..]
You> Hello?
Them> [Company Name], Public Relations. How can I help?
You> Ahh, yes, hi. I'm doing a school project and was wondering if
it's possible to have a look around your company.
Them> Well, we are happy to show you around, but you need a group of
at least five people.
You> Cool, thanks.
Them> Glad to help.
[Give them the information they want and go see them]
Once you're in the company building, have a look around. Study their en-
vironment and the people. If there's a computer around, stare at it and you
will soon get a demonstration from one of the people standing around.
Try to get there password or at least the way their user names are defined
on the system. Note down what type of computer and what type of operating
system they are using.
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PRIMAL SCREAM: an interesting way to find prime numbers.
There are many numbers in the world. Some of them are special; some of
them are hard to find. One such class of numbers are known as "prime."
A prime number has the quality of being indivisible by any other number
but for itself, and one. Thus 5 is an example of a prime number; 15 is not,
because it is divisible by both 5 and 3. 15 is instead an example of a
"composite" number, one that can be expressed as the product of prime
factors. All numbers not prime are composite. On average, there are very
many more composite numbers than there are prime.
Prime numbers are increasingly hard to find as they themselves increase.
There are 25 primes under 100; if you were to choose any number under 100,
there'd be a 1 in 4 chance that the number you choose would be prime. But
once in the thousands of millions, the likelihood of picking a prime
declines to less than 1 in 20.
If they are so hard to find, why bother finding them? For one thing, they
have very broad applications in computer science, and more generally,
information science. In the case of computer science, prime numbers can be
used in the construction of hash-functions; ways of indexing data so that
they may be stored and retrieved with rapidity. They also have everyday
applications in error-checking - cheque and credit card numbers, bar codes -
wherever there is scope for data-entry error. Small prime numbers are
useful for quickly computing functions that will catch such errors.
Perhaps the most arresting applications of prime number theory are in
cryptography. Cryptography, by nature, requires functions that are
relatively easy to compute in one direction given a key, but are far too
hard to reverse without the key, even if we should have available limitless
computing resources. Presently, it is difficult to reduce a large number
into its prime factors - so, several much relied-upon modern cryptosystems
use this to their advantage. Some public-key systems are of the latter.
I became seriously interested in cryptography in mid-1990, when I read an
article from the then-current Encyclopedia Brittainica, describing in vague
conceptual terms the class of German Second World War cipher machines known
as Enigma. Much of the conclusions drawn of cryptanalysis of this group of
machines remains classified by the British government, at least, directly;
puzzling, considering the age of the material - until you consider that
present-day cryptography has its roots in that broken ground.
In late-1990, I implemented variously Enigma machines in software, and set
about determining their weaknesses. Briefly, I felt I was able to
demonstrate that, given certain assumptions about the way the machines were
wired - attributable to laziness of the part of German cipher clerks - large
amounts of plain text were recoverable from the cipher text, even if the key
was not nearly correct. I was able to write a simple, heuristic
"Enigma-breaker" that given enough time was able to recover enough key
fragments to completely recover the entire cipher text. I was to later
learn that this function was executed by "bombes," electromechanical
symbol-manipulators, built from telephone switching equipment and operated
during the War by the Allies.
It was after the War that the computational arms-race had begun; the
Allies having a head start by designing cryptosystems that relied upon for
their security prime number theory. The American M-209 cipher machine was
an operational prototype of the type of technology we were to see emerge.
From then until now, cryptographic research has tended toward double-edged
research; in one direction, to find functions that are difficult to reverse,
and in the other, to find faster ways of reversing or just computing
existing functions.
A fast way of finding prime numbers would go quite a way toward breaking
some modern cryptosystems. The editor of this magazine remarked such to me;
I was helpless to resist - I was hooked. Within a few days I was working on
finding my own method to improve upon the ones I had discovered in the
computer science and mathematics text I had access to.
The simplest methods I found for finding primes consisted mainly of
division; numbers under test were variously divided, the more efficient
methods involving less division, since division is computationally
expensive. I was most dissatisfied with these methods for two reasons; one,
their reliance upon such time-consuming things as division, and two, their
lack of an ability to use the considerable storage resources of the modern
computer.
I was more greatly attracted to sieving methods, particularly the simple
Sieve of Erastothenes. Though fast, particularly the latter method required
inordinate storage, precluding sieves for any great distance.
The method I eventually came up with is a dynamic-extension of the
canonical Sieve of Erastothenes - Primal Scream. It involves no arithmetic
but for addition, and simple addition at that; having a machine with a
coprocessor makes very little difference to the speed of the program. Also,
Primal Scream makes the assumption that most computers worth playing with
today have quite a few hundred kilobytes of storage, preferably memory,
available - so why shouldn't it be used to speed our purpose?
Specifically, Primal Scream's memory requirements are in a direct
relationship with the number of primes under the square root of the highest
number to be considered. For instance, when sieving to one million, the
number of nodes allocated in the algorithm's search tree is (the number
of primes under the square root of one million, which is one thousand), just
168. This relative conservation improves with a square-root relationship as
the upper limit increases, making long sieves with even quite modest
computers practical.
Memory is dynamically-allocated as needed, and is recycled as much as
possible - there are no significant algorithmic restrictions that would
preclude its implementation on any common operating system. It makes no
assumptions about the speed that memory can be allocated, nor does it place
any reliance on the speed that difficult calculations may be made; these two
aspects making the only real limit the speed of the processor.
As an example, the production version that I have written (which collects
quite a few interesting statistics in the course of its run), can exhaust a
32-bit unsigned integer of candidates within a day on a 486DX-40 running
Linux. That is, all the primes almost up to 4500 million. By way of
example, here is an extract from the log file of one of the later versions:
Fri Dec 2 16:49:57 1994 DONE 98.0 completed
Fri Dec 2 16:49:57 1994 HIGH highest prime so far 4209067897
Fri Dec 2 16:49:57 1994 LAST 3877719 found since last report
Fri Dec 2 16:49:57 1994 HITS 4.514 of those since last report prime
Fri Dec 2 16:49:57 1994 TOTL 199405845 found so far
Fri Dec 2 16:49:57 1994 AGGR 4.738 of so far prime
Fri Dec 2 16:49:57 1994 ITIM 1662.8 seconds since last report
Fri Dec 2 16:49:57 1994 IPPS 2332.0 primes per second since last report
Fri Dec 2 16:49:57 1994 TTIM 80449.3 seconds so far
Fri Dec 2 16:49:57 1994 TPPS 2478.7 primes per second so far
Fri Dec 2 16:49:57 1994 DUMP dumping sieve at 4209067905
Fri Dec 2 16:49:58 1994 FLAT 99.7 sieve structure optimality
Note particularly the "primes per second value;" this does not decline
much in the course of most long sieves - meaning that the number of numbers
considered per second does not decrease significantly either. Primal
Scream's runtime is thus quite stable and has a very strong linear component.
Primal Scream may not be the fastest, nor the best, but I believe the
implementation to be unique and my approach to be interesting. I would be
happy to talk with anyone else interested in the program or in its obvious
applications - I will consider distributing it to anyone who should ask, and
naturally any comments are welcome, though of course the algorithm itself is
copyrighted by me - unless it has as I suspect it has been innumerably
reinvented.
Please direct your inquiries to:
Siggy of SLi
PO Box 3030
Onekawa
Napier
New Zealand
inet: josh@tutor.co.nz
Enjoy your Christmas; I know I will.
- "Siggy."
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Okay, I noticed that we received a few complaints about the carding and
stuff so I thought I'd go about writing a more detailed article for those
of whom aren't yet experienced enough as of late.
Firstly, I'd like to say - this is for INFORMATIONAL purposes ONLY and I,
nor any part of Southern Lights inc. takes ANY responsibility for anything
which may happen in conjunction with you using this information for anything
other than what it was designed for.
For starters - checking back on the past couple of issues - we didn't quite
explain what to do once you had possession of the cards you may have acquired,
ie. we never explained in detail what you COULD do.
... hopefully, this may be of interest to you.
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Okay, you've gone trashing, used your social-engineering skills or found
a card just sitting somewhere (I'd feel sorry for the poor (hehehe, if you're
reading this, the person will definitely become poor in no time if I explain
it right - I'm not saying that you SHOULD use the card... It's all up to
you! =) ) bugger who the card belongs to .. ;) )
Step One: Find a card-phone and say to the operator that you'd like to
place a credit card call ; to make sure the card works.
Step Two: Give the operator the number of the local Pizza Hut rest-
aurant - I, personally, prefer Pizza Hut as there aren't too
many pizza parlors out in the Wellington region which accept
credit cards over the phone without seeing the piece of plastic
when the pizzas arrive (well, sometimes they'll ask to see the
card, but the pizza deliverers get paid for how long it takes
for the consumer to receive the pizza/s so you probably wont
need to worry about it).
Step Three: After quoting the Pizza Hut number, the operator will ask for
the card number and expiry date. Tell him/her the card type
(if the card starts with: 3 - American Express (Amex), 4 - Visa,
5 - MasterCard and 6 - Discover.)
[NB: This can be done with any number, whatsoever, not only just
Pizza Hut, so take y'pick.]
Step Four: Okay, you're listening to the ringing tone as your call to
Pizza Hut is being placed.. <CLICK> One of the Pizza Hut
employees picks up the telephone.
Conversation w/ employee should go SOMETHING like this:
THEM: Hi, Pizza Hut.
YOU: Hi, I was wondering whether you do Pizza Deliveries.
[Knowing full well they do - you gotta appear to be at least
a little ignorant (not too ignorant tho', mind you)..]
THEM: Where are you wanting the pizzas to be delivered to?
YOU: Karori thanks. [or wherever you're planning on picking 'em up
from.]
THEM: Yup, we deliver there - just gotta check because we can't
deliver to some places.
YOU: Yeah, I know what ya mean.
THEM: Uh, how are you paying for your order?
YOU: Credit card okay?
THEM: Yup, that's fine. What type of credit card?
YOU: Visa. (or Mastercard, American Express.. etc)
THEM: Yup, we take Visas. What's your card number and expiration
date?
YOU: 4732-7492-7122-9237. Expiration date, 09/95. [That's not a
valid number (unless I'm extremely lucky, and that's definatly
one thing I'm not...) so you'll have to find one y'self.]
THEM: Now, what's the name of the cardholder?
YOU: [Some fake name which doesn't sound too unbelievable - Joe
Bloggs isn't ranked amongst the best ones to use.]
THEM: Okay, thanks. What would you like to order?
YOU: [Make your order - Don't forget to be polite and friendly.. =)
Oh, and don't OVERSPEND! Be realistic.]
THEM: Now, what address would you like the pizzas to be sent to?
YOU: [Give them some address which isn't too far away - walkwise -
but not too close or, if someone knows what you do, you may be
picked out (or up, depending on the circumstances. ;) ).
Also, if possible, make it somewhere with a long drive so you
can just wait at the bottom of the drive so not to "cause the
pizza deliverer any problems".]
THEM: Okay, is there any time you'd prefer us dropping it in, other-
wise we'll be there in about 30 minutes.
YOU: [If you live a distance from your drop site, or if your tele-
phone is a distance from the drop site (depending on where you
are at the time) then it's advisable to allow yourself time to
get there, but once you've got the pizzas, get the hell outta
there!]
THEM: Okay, we'll be right there.
YOU: Thanks. [You gotta be polite! ;)]
Step Five: Now that you've made the call, you're about halfway there -
all ya gotta do now is the hardest part of it all.....
Waiting for the pizzas to arrive to the drop site. Now, it's
not a good idea to hover around the drop site looking suspicious
as it would be likely that the neighbors will get a bit anxious
as to what you're actually doing there - especially if the house
is owned by an elderly couple and there are a bunch of people
who aren't usually there hangin' about.
Step Six: Okay, you see the pizza delivery car drive up - hopefully you
have managed to get that far. The likelyhood of a cops car
comin' around to check up on it is pretty dim, although, you
shouldn't always think that it's never going to happen, or maybe
it just might. The pizza deliverer jumps out and asks you if
you're, say, Michael Jones (The name you gave the person who
answered your call earlier). At this point, it's advisable, if
you're the one who was planning on signing for it, you say some-
thing along the lines of a "yes". The person delivering the
pizzas should hand you a slip of paper and ask you to sign your
name next to the X. You sign the paper and take off with the
pizzas and make your way up this long drive - maybe stay and
chat for a bit if you really want to, just don't make yourself
look suspicious. Get the hell out of there as soon as the pizza
delivery car is out of sight.
Step Seven: Eat pizza. (Not too hard, is it?) ... oh, and destroy the
docket - y'never know when/if the copz come snooping.. =)
Any queries/questions - you know where to send it... =)
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Oh no! Yet MORE books/mags to read!!
The Wasp Factory ----------- Iaan Banks
Cobra, Cobra Bargin, Cobra Strike ----------- Timothy Zahn
Islands in the Net ----------- Bruce Sterling
Queen of Angels ----------- Greg Bear
Neuromancer ----------- William Gibson
Max Headroom ----------- Steve Roberts
Earth ----------- ??? <good book tho>
The Amiga ROM Kernal Manuals ----------- Commodore =)
[S.P.O.T (excuse the pun) the Amiga user.. ;)]
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Gun Control
By "Susej, son of Lucifer", with bits by "Thorium".
A member of SLi has had a few problems with the law lately (who hasn't?
hehe) but this is a little different. It makes for a good story, so why
don't ya take a read...
It all started during Calculus a long time ago... About 6 months anyway.
Well, there's this real lame shit who is in the same class as this SLi
member, and so the SLi member and his mates hassled the crap out of this
lamer (whose sexuality is questionable). Well, one time hassles as usual,
the transcript follows. We shall call the lamer "Herbert" and the member
"Thorium"...
< General Hassles >
Herbert: "Ya wanna step outside for five minutes then?"
(trying to be tough)
Thorium: "What, so you can shove your dick up my arse?"
Herbert: "No, so I can shove my fist up your arse!"
(again trying to be tough)
Thorium, to whole class: "Herbert just said he wants to shove his fist up
my arse!!! Faggot Alert!"
< Herbert then looks real stupid and lame, whole class laughs at him etc.
Teacher walks back in, then leaves again 5 mins later. >
< General Hassles >
Herbert: "One more comment about me being a homo and I'll fucking deal to
you!" (still trying to be tough)
Thorium: "Whatever, faggot."
Herbert: "O.k. then, in the car park after school"
< More General Hassles, class ends without much more of interest >
< In the carpark >
Thorium: "Hey, Faggot! You forgetting something?"
Herbert: "Oh, I'd like to go somewhere more private..." (lamely looking to
get out of it)
< Herbert gets into his car and drives off >
Now Thorium and his friend have a most excellent idea! Thorium's brother
has a totally real looking _FAKE_ UZI replica, which they decide to go home
and get, then wait outside Herb's place. They wait in the car for about
five minutes then Herbert arrives, with one of his lameshit friends in his
car, and 2 (fairly fat) girls (about 2 years younger than Herb and his
mate).
< Herbert sees Thorium and his mate in their car, gets out and starts
walking over tough like >
< Thorium gets out of car with UZI behind him >
Thorium: "You want it Herb"
Herbert: "Yup!" (fists across his chest, looking tough to impress these
slags)
< Thorium pulls out the UZI, extends the stock and cocks it, which looks
really excellently real >
Thorium: "Well fucking come and get it then!!!"
Herbert: "...eeehehnn..." (Really funny high-pitched sound)
Thorium: "C'mon, you wanted a fight!"
< now here comes the classic all-time stupid thing to say to a psychopath
with a gun >
Herbert: "Well shoot me then"
Thorium: "I won't shoot you unless it's in self defense. I get less time
that way"
Herbert: "."
Thorium: "Well, if you're not man enough to fight, don't ask for it
faggot."
< Thorium gets into the car with his friend, drive off. NB: One of these
fat chicks made the second worst comment to a psychopath with a gun:
"Dick" >
Another day goes past, Herbert comes to school in the morning after Thorium
and his mate had just told the whole class about the previous day's
happenings. Herbert walks into class, the whole class (well about 3/4 of
them) all simultaneously say "Dit Dit Dit Dit" - Herbert looks a complete
Herbert.
This appeared to be the end of this until that Friday night (3 days later)
when mister policeman turns up on Thorium's doorstep with a search warrant.
"Humm.." thinks Thorium - is this for phreaking, hacking, or bomb making?
Thorium sees Mr. Policeman while he is talking to Thorium's (VERY
surprised) mother - Thorium splits for a few mins and stashes all his gear
and backups, then starts the HPA partition of his HDD on formatting. Then
goes back...
Mr Policeman then totally surprises Thorium when he shows him a "search and
seizure" notice for an "UZI semi or fully automatic pistol".
A train of thought goes very quickly through Thoriums mind, something like
"One of the neighbors saw it? Naah, no-one did. He can't have narked.
Could he? Is he lame enough? Fuckwit, he probably is!"
Of course Mr. Policeman knows what he's looking for, so there's no point in
bullshit, besides which Thorium's mother has already said it's his
brothers gun. Thorium goes and gets it, hands it over. Mr. Policeman
tells Thorium to come down to the police station the next morning (it could
be worse - Mr. Policeman could have arrested Thorium then and there...)
Thorium gets a huge massive lecture from his old lady, the goes back to his
room and finds that OH SHIT it was formatting! Aaah well, good job those
backups were only about 2 weeks old... Some time early the next morning
recovery is complete...
Meanwhile Thorium has to explain the fact that big brother's UZI just
walked out the door with a policeman attached when big brother gets home...
The next morning (Saturday) Thorium goes down to the station, and has a
videotaped interview with Mr. Policeman. This takes about an hour of
otherwise perfectly good hacking time. Apparently according to New Zealand
law, a firearm is ANY OBJECT WHICH CAN FIRE, OR CAN BE MADE TO FIRE THROUGH
THE ADDITION, REMOVAL OR FIXING OF PARTS, AND BULLET, MISSILE OR PROJECTILE
- which means a pound of butter could be a firearm - all you have to do is
add the guts of a pistol...
Thorium gets home again (to another lecture etc). Things are fine for the
rest of the weekend...
On Monday Thorium tells quite a few people about Herbert calling the cops
on a FAKE gun in a REAL SMALL argument... Herb comes to school, and most
people point out to him what a fuckwit he is.
Anyway, as yet there has been no further action (the police still have the
UZI replica) but the case has been handed up to Mr. Policemans "Superiours"
and Thorium will eventually be sent a summons or whatever. Herbert is
thought of as even more of a fuckwit than usual. That's about it.
As a result of this: Thorium will probably never be able to own a firearm.
Not a problem however, as he regularly makes his own guns and bombs in
preparation for when "They" come (naah, only for fun really...). He will
also probably end up with a few hundred hours community service, and if he
ever gets busted (even slightly) for HPA stuff, then he will probably be
classed as a repeat offender and go to prison for a stay at "Her Majesty's
Pleasure".
The morals of this are:
1) The police get almost as upset about fake guns as real ones, stupid as
it may seem.
2) Never assume a fuckwit won't go to the police even for a small
illegality. He thought it'd get Thorium back, but all it did is make
Herbert look even more of a fuckwit than usual. However, Thorium will
now probably have to do community service and pay fines, none of which
help Herbert, but certainly fuck Thorium right off.
[Editors Note: "Herbert" in this article is actually "Jason Collins" who's
vital info will be disclosed (I requested it from Thorium) so you may do
as you wish with it. Thorium consents to all persons hassling Herbert.]
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Here it is again. Another list of people that have fucked SLi off:
Name Info Reason
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Jason Collins +64-6-844-4848 Refer: "Gun Control"
7 Lowther Place
Taradale
Napier
NEW ZEALAND
[Note: We apologize for the lack of people on the hit list in this issue
as not too many people have got in our way lately... =) ]
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Potassium Permanginate Starters:
Most anarchists know the Potassium Permanginate lighter, but for those who
don't, here it is:
Potassium Permanginate (Condyes Chrystals) are a strong oxidising agent,
and when mixed with glycerine (normal cooking glycerine is suitable) it
will spontaneously combust. Depending on the ambient temperature and the
ratios, there may be a delay of a couple of seconds to several minutes
before combustion occurs. If a _SMALL_ amount of water is mixed with the
glycerine, the time will increase.
This way you can almost "set" a specified time for detonation of any other
flammable substance (or wick or whatever). To speed up the reaction, change
the temperature (a little change does a _LOT_ - what takes 5 secs in summer
can take a minute in winter - so, you can make a LONG time delayed mix,
then put this somewhere it will heat up at a given time (like to body temp
or a bit above) then this will set it off. VERY handy!
Potassium Permanginate is available from most chemical supply companies,
and is not a restricted substance in New Zealand, but if asked what you
want it for say "REDOX (ree-dox) Titrations" - it might help to give the
name of a local high-school or university .
Glycerine is available from almost all supermarkets as "Cooking Glycerine"
and is used in baking.
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CRYPTOGRAPHY: A terribly brief introduction.
There are quite a few ways of notating information so
that its meaning is not immediately obvious. Some of the more
interesting ways require altering surprisingly few aspects of
the information to be described.
I will describe one simple method I used for the first
time in the fourth-form at College. I experimented with the
two main classes of substitution ciphers, both monoalphabetic
and polyalphabetic. Monoalphabetic ciphers are functions in
which each symbol in the plaintext is replaced with only one
other cipher equivalent; "a" might always encipher to "z," for
instance. Polyalphabetic ciphers can be quite a bit more
complex - "a" might encipher to any other symbol depending on
your arbitrary method.
The most well-known monoalphabetic substitution cipher is
called the "Caesar" cipher. Its first use has been connected
to the Roman Empire. In this cipher, each letter of the
alphabet is shifted along an arbitrary distance. For
instance, you might decide to pick the letter following your
plaintext one by three places - you would write "a" as "d,"
for example, when enciphering. When deciphering, you would
write an "a" when you saw a "d" in the ciphertext.
Such ciphers are regarded today as childish and
uninteresting. However, combined with some transposition,
they can be made quite fun to play with.
In the cipher we used, which I believe was suggested by a
friend of mine (and I suspect the cipher was not originally
from him), we did just monoalphabetic substitution on vowels.
So if we saw an "a," or an "e," for instance, we'd write them
down as "b," or "f," respectively. All the other letters we
left unchanged.
However, we introduced a transposition twist; spaces
between words were replaced by the unenciphered form of the
last vowel used. Say the last vowel we enciphered was an "a,"
which we would've written as a "b." The space between that
word and the next we would've then replaced with an "a."
Throughout the ciphertext, we scattered spaces at random,
since spaces no longer had any significance.
So, wherever there is a vowel in ciphertext, there is
really a space, and spaces as written in the ciphertext have
absolutely no meaning whatsoever.
An example, then. Take the plaintext, "My name is
Siggy." Here's the enciphered version:
Myan bmfejs iSjgg y.
My n ame is Sigg y.
Notice how the random spacing serves to confuse the
issue. Note also how I have replaced every space with the
vowel last used; for the first space, since I had not yet
enciphered a vowel, I just arbitrarily picked an "a."
With only a little practice this cipher can be read and
written as fluently as normal English. There is point of
particular importance, in writing a program to implement this
cipher; it is impossible to say, without knowing the correct
deciphered version of a word, whether a letter following a
vowel is a vowel or really only the letter as it appears. For
instance, a program has no easy way of telling whether the "j"
in "Sjggy" is really an "i," or if it is really just a "j."
To the human eye the correct translation is obvious in
context, anyway.
In closing, I should say that this sort of cipher really
drives teachers and people with IQs less than room temperature
up the wall with alacrity. Perhaps in another issue I will
discuss other pieces of cryptography that are both interesting
and simple - I suppose this will really depend on how strongly
the world in general dislikes my articles, hint, hint.
Hbvfef vn,u bndad pn'to brf bkab nythjn giJIw pvln't.
- "Siggy."
[CE: Wow, even _I_ managed to figure out the last sentence after reading
the article, so I can't see how anyone else wouldn't be able to after a
little read.. =)]
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What is SLi?
Well, SLi stands for Southern Lights incorporated. We are a
Hack/Phreak/Anarchy (H/P/A) group.
Nick : [Members Nick]
Location : [Where the Member is]
Personal Code of Ethics : [Their Ethics]
Outlook on Life : [Outlook on Life]
Goals : [Personal Goals]
Plans : [Personal Plans]
Position in Group : [READ BELOW]
History of their H/P/A Life : [Short H/P/A History]
Other Nicks : [Other Nicks Member has]
[Position in group: Although SLi has no REAL group positions,
some members are special in some way.]
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Nick : Eon
Location : Wellington, NZ
Personal Code of Ethics : I believe EVERYONE has rights and that
as long as another person does not break
someone else rights anything is okay.
Outlook on Life : Lets make sure people remember me.
Goals : Live to see the year 2001 and look after my gf (girlfriend).
Plans : Party, make a mess of those that stand in my way.
Position in Group : Founding member and head of SLi.
History of their H/P/A Life : Started H/P/A in 1990, done a few hacks,
some phreaking and nearly burned down my
house with /A stuff. :)
Other nicks : Switch Blade, Aztex, R-A-D
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Nick : CyntaxEra
Location : Wellington, NZ
Personal Code of Ethics : I will stand up for anyone/anything who can't
fend for themselves, depending on the circum-
stances. I can't STAND demoralization of
ANYone...not even of my worst enemies. Well,
sometimes anyway.... ;) I don't like to see
discrimination, and will do all that I can to
decrease the cases. =)
Outlook on Life : Maybe I'm manic-depressive [ED: maybe she's just manic]
nahhh... hmmm, well, maybe... sometimes people think
I'm too optimistic... other times they keep sayin'
I'm too pessimistic.. I wish they'd make up their
minds.. =) Would like to see world peace, but that's
pretty much impossible.. oh well.. I can still wish..
Goals : Argh! I hate questions like this.. uh, I guess... to be success-
ful, like everyone else - I just haven't decided on what I want
to be successful at.. oh well.. maybe I'll figure that out for
next years issue... (Just a word of warning: check out my col-
umn - it might end up in there .. perhaps... All these in-
decisions.. I guess I'll have to figure 'em out, huh?) ... oh,
and I'm gonna try not to get hit by parked cars..... =)
Plans : I plan not to die from a nuclear explosion tomorrow...or the next
day for that matter.. nah, seriously.. (well, yeah.. I don't want
to die from the nukes, but that's not the point.....)
Seriously, I guess I just want to live a nice, boring life.. =)
... with SEX, parties, drugs, fast cars, money..... ;)
Position in Group : Co-Chairperson, Peace-Maker/Trouble-Maker, to give a
female perspective on different topics... can't be
sexist now, can we? That would be discrimination..
History of their H/P/A Life : Hmmmm.... I've only been around a couple of
years, but that's long enough to see the
sights and taste the tastes of life in the
H/P scene.. I've hacked, phreaked and blown
things up... what more do you want?
Other Nicks : Mad Max, Eternity
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Nick : BT
Location : Planet Tatou, NZ
Personal Code of Ethics : My word is final! but everthing else is
worth crap!
Outlook on Life : Sex, Drugs, Rock'in roll not nesiclary in that order
Goals : CNE, ECNE, Lotsa dosh!
Plans : Be a rich dude when I die and always party hard!
Position in Group : Retired Chairperson , but still ready to fight for SLi
History of their H/P/A Life : Was around when Eon was, and started H/P/A
with him. Helped him nearly blow up his
house, got busted with him while trashing.
Me and Eon have looked after one another
and watched each others back.
Other Nicks : [This information is unavailable at this time]
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Nick : Thorium
Location : Hawkes-Bay
Personal Code of Ethics : No Ethics.
Outlook on Life : Death is inevitable. So have fun!
Goals : To destroy the world (Only Kidding... Or am I?)
Plans : See above
Position in group : Head of HB cell of SLi
History of their H/P/A Life : Pulled a UZI on someone Hacked , Phreaked
and done a lot of Anarchy
Other Nicks : Not many worth mentioning
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Nick : Digital Omega
Location : Wellington, NZ
Personal Code of Ethics : Dont watch your back till you fucked me off
Outlook on Life : Why get bored - PARTY!
Goals : Live for the moment
Plans : Make friends not enemies and destory the latter
Position in Group : H/P
History of their H/P/A Life:[This information is unavailable at this time]
Other Nicks : [This information is unavailable at this time]
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Nick : Siggy
Location : Wellington, NZ
Personal Code of Ethics : Pain looks good on other
people that what they're for.
Outlook on Life : Chlor-promazine really sucks.
Goals : To find a brand of dye that doesn't wash out of my hair;
To learn to play any other chord but G on the guitar.
Plans : To get to work on time today.
To figure out how to beat anyone at air hockey. [ED: Cheat??]
Position in Group : Eon's Technical advisor.
History of their H/P/A Life : "That information is not available"
Other Nicks : [This information is unavailable at this time]
[ED: Can we see a patern evolving here? You think he don't want
you to know what he has done/who he is? :)]
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Nick : Grasshopper
Location : Wellington, NZ
Personal Code of Ethics : Dont piss people off they will return the
favor than have fun
Outlook on Life : life is for living and having heaps of fun not a slave
to the system
Goals : To do as little work as possable and get the best result
Plans : Cause little troubble to people but have fun and to live
a fucking long time
Position in Group : Runs support BBS at the moment
History of their H/P/A Life : Blown to many things up ?
Other Nicks : [This information is unavailable at this time]
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Nick : Cardinal
Location : Wellington NZ
Personal Code of Ethics : One goes down. Not all go down.
Outlook on Life : Sucks
Goals : none
Plans : N/A
Position in Group : Coda
History of their H/P/A Life : Was a key member of SLi when we first
started, Speciality - Coading, BBS nuking
asshole if you piss me off
Other Nicks : S-A-M
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Nick : Gwythion
Location : Wellington, NZ
Personal Code of Ethics : Putting YOURSELF first. You only have
x amount of years to get it right.
Outlook on Life : Pessimist. But believes anything is possible.
Motto: "Watch your back."
Motto2: "Bad to worse, worse to worst."
Goals : To overshadow Ludwig van Beethoven, and be remembered for it.
Plans : To become someone.
Position in Group : Phreak
History of their H/P/A Life : Cant bother typping it
Other Nicks : N/A
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So there's an indepth look at the people in SLi. We have only a few
members because we only use the best, and my people are that (or close to
to it). They are all friends and comrades. We fight for freedom, and the
right to live how we want. We fight for information and we fight against
corps that think they can control us.... or anyone.
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Things to do with Redox Bombs: Thorium
As a follow up to my article in the last mag on "Redoxon Bombs" (a type of
fairly safe pipebomb for those who missed it), here is a number of fun uses
I have put them to:
1) Exhaust poppers. The Redoxon Tubes are just the right size to put down
someones exhaust with some space for the gas to escape. So, here's a
fun activity:
Read the article on Potassium Permanginate Starters. Right, now you know
how to get something to go off when it gets hot.
All you have to do it sit the Redoxon Bomb inside the exhaust tube of your
opponents car, and place a small amount of your "Infinate Time" Pot.
Permanginate mix over the wick.
When you opponents car is going for a while it will go off, and either
scare the hell out of them, or split the exhaust pipe open!
Note - My friends and I tried this on an old car that a mate was taking to
the wreckers, and the bomb split the exhaust, but I think this was only
because it was quite old and rusty. You may wish to do similar stuff with
bigger bombs, it's up to you.
2) Bomb Fishing. The Redoxon Bombs are made of metal and plastic, and
therefore are pretty waterproof, except for the small hole for the wick.
The wick itself is the wick off some old firework, I find those REAL cheap
mini-skyrocket wicks best. The green wick from most Chinese fireworks will
actually burn underwater. So, get a length of this wick (About 5cm is in
the mini skyrockets) and use this.
Put vasaline, wax or whatever over the hole. Now go to your favorite
fishing spot (Ponds in Public Parks are GREAT) and light it and chuck it
in.
BOOM. SPLASH. You have just send a huge shockwave through the water.
Like in a depthcharge, the air inside anything underwater is compressed and
expands with the shock, and ruptures weak containers.
Fish have oxygen in their blood, as well as many soft body parts, so after
about 2 minutes, they all start floating to the surface on their backs
(Dead of course).
Now, if you feel like it you can collect your catch, or just wait till some
mother and kid go to feed 'em! "Mummy, why are all the fish upside down?"
A group of my friends and I got into the local paper with this trick by
doing all the fish ponds in a park in one night. The article said they
thought it was pollution... HEHEHEHE...
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Here are some MORE quotes from people we have bumped into at some stage:
"You have taught me more this year ----------------- My Computer Teacher
than I have taught you (I think)." - He was Cool.
Helllp ive fallen down and ----------------- Brain Dead ?
I cant get up
"It has been an interesting year. ----------------- My other Computer
I hope you get a positive Teacher - He was
direction for yourself." Weird but Cool
"Alcohol and firearms don't mix. ----------------- Thorium
They compliment each other!"
"Fuck....FUCK..........FUCK!!!!" ----------------- BT and I just found
the log of our hacks.
"Pain looks good on other people; ----------------- Siggy
thats what it's for."
"I wonder if you can get nailed for ----------------- Thorium
being 'under the influence' of
computers..."
what would john lennon be doing ----------------- Siggy
if her were alife right now??
Calwing like crazy at the lid of his
coffin......
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How to Rip Off Music Stores - Thorium
Sick of paying $20 for a tape??? Feel like just copying it, but find that
the copy isn't even close in quality? Try this, but not too often:
Got to your music shop and buy that tape you want. (You can afford CDs?
well you can afford to pay.) Since you can't do this too often, it would
be a good idea to buy a double or tripple album and do this to it. Also,
for reasons that become clear below, make sure you and a friend both want
it. You each pay half of the cost of the tape and a blank of the same
length - poor quality, of course...
Now buy a blank tape of the same length, and copy side A of your tape.
Wait till the source has fully unwound. Now cut the destination tape
there. Undo the destination tape, and chuck out any remaining tape. Now
open the SOURCE tape, and take it off it's spool, and put it aside. Open
the spool of the destination tape and attach this to the original tape
end. Now attach the original spool to the copied tape. You have now
swapped 1 spool, and cut the copied tape to the correct length.
Record side B and then swap spools as described above. Now swap the COPIED
tape with ORIGINAL spools into the ORIGINAL case and the ORIGINAL tape
with COPIED spools into the COPIED case. Do them both up again.
Now take the "original" tape back to the shop as complain that the tape
has a lot of hiss. The will play it and find that there is, because all
copies have this. Ask for a replacement copy, which you first "Test" to
see if it is different, which it is. Take the replacement copy home, and
keep it. Give the "copy" which is actually the original MEDIA to your
friend, since you did all the hard work.
Don't do this too often because they may catch on. However it is most
effective if a group of you that all want the same tape pair off and do it
(with a reasonable amount of time between so as not to arouse suspicion).
That way the store thinks it's a semi-dud batch...
Have fun, and half-price tapes!
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Hey there yet again! Yup, you guessed it..... time for me to spill my guts
to you all - gotta talk to someone, so it may as well be EVERYONE... ;)
This magazine has been a bit of a rush, but, as per usual, it doesn't take
me long to spill my life story out onto a computer - what is there to say? =)
I don't think I'll include my big 'hi's coz I'll most prolly miss out on some
people, and I wouldn't want that now, would I? =) Okay... what's happened
lately that's worth talking about... hmm.. not a lot really..
Hmm, from word through the grapevine, it appears that Actrix has had a bit
of a hacker problem as of late.. well, maybe I should rephrase that to,
"Actrix's hacker problem seems to be rising rapidly".. =) Now, it seems,
"Mr SysOp" is using 'Crack', or some form of password cracker to check up
on any any accounts which have easily guessable passwords, and take the
account down until the user telephones him and changes the password to some-
thing less guessable. Well, that's what I've heard anyway.
Telecom has been busy over the past few months, and we, SLi, have had a few
run-ins with them - not any which have prompted us to pay any fine, or such,
but they've been interesting. A few members have had a few MORE run-ins
than others, but that's a different story. It seems that Telecom has been
stocking up li'l things they've had the pleasure of finding out - ie. names,
numbers, events.. etc.. - and had only been using those to their advantage
over the past few months. One of the main reasons we haven't got around to
doing much in the phreaking scene (other than carding 'n' stuff) as of late.
They've managed to figure out that there have been a few people trashing
in their bins over the past year or so, and have supposedly done something
to change that - from what I hear, they've removed the bins altogether...
instead of simply chaining and locking them. But, then again, I haven't
been there in a while, so I might go find out for m'self.
Wait just a minute... I feel a deep and meaningful thought come on...
Hmm, maybe I should change this to being the 'Gossip Column'... okay.. so
I never said it was important, or intellegent, just deep and meaningful.. =)
Hmm, well, other than all that, there really isn't all that much going on
of any interest.. well, there isn't anything which I can say which wont
get me into loads of trouble, so I guess I'd better signout... =)