JANUARY, 1986! yOt.OMU THREE, WMfSLROSF. Private Sector Returning BA CK ONLINE NEXT MONTH BUT MANY QUESTIONS REMAIN Tht P i ivaic Sector bu lletm boaid system (the official BBS of IViajWJiiieJ, sc-ii-rd by New Jersey uutborllies on July 12, I9&S, is in flit process of being relumed. However, Tom RSieh, die system bpem lor, feels he is being forced to plead gnihy 10 a token offense. Vv her, 1 h.e board was taken, iS-il- proseculOTy see Tiled io haw I it Lie idea os to wliaL it was ihgy were looking Lot. At a press ton fere noe the following week* they claimed that ttlich and sis brlters were moving satellites iia s pace with their computers and doing stTiinge Ihingtlo the nation's defense dnpUrl men! , Now. six riLonlbs Inlet, ibw, or anything else, lias yen to be proven in T om^ case. Qn DcccnibcSr 6, Judge Mark Epstein gave Assistant Prcisccutor Frank Graves one lins-l month to find something in orrtt 1 1 n prow h is conspi racy cate, ol lit rwise list ease won d be thrown mu Graves only came up with a blue bos program i hut was origim Ijy discovered on the E’rivatc Sector’s lianj disk. back in .July. This program wus consec tie ally defined os a "hurgbi ry tool”. "Cat's Vl-sow'', ;he progra m'-i title, can kit- uv.sj iii generate blue bits Jones (Ml 1 ' tones), as well as regular touch tones, speech synthesis-, and other sound tflCL-is. Middlesex Court l y reportedly sent i be program, along with OlLeh 's whole computer system to Bell 1 j'shs lo see if it cue Id prod r.ee the nastv Mb' tones-: 'Cat's Meow"', written by the Tempest, was approved by EicLI labs us a working bine bos, as long as it was used with a n Applecat modern ESI ieh sa id it was given to h ini by an associate along wiih other programs and that he found ii entertaining, because nf the rtuires ii made and educational in i hat it taught him a Ihtle bii about Ihe phone network. He cla inis i sever tn have used 1 he program to nmi ke free phone rolls ordn anything of a fraudulent nature. The program was mu aece-ssihlc to anyone calling the bulletin board, either. According to the authorities, no illegal calls have ever I wen traced tei Klich and there is no evidence of any i )tqjn | activity on bis pern, In New Jersey, though, under a particular statute, ii is ijlcgal tu possess virtually anything which ran be used 1o |V.a petiJite fraud. Blifih wak Lulxl that if lie pleaded guilty lu the: fourlh degree misdemtsntor which would carry no sentence. hit equipment wiOuld be retu med and all other eW rges agii inst him would he dropped. Rul r. one of iltis explains hew various law enforcement departments could j a si ify searching his home am I sr i/ing his eqnipmctit, especially if it wus based on the possibility thal Bheh was undermining Ihe security of die United Spues by disrupting International telecommunications and ir niton mg the Defease Department , when absolutely nothing, would po int a nyonc with t he inlel llgenrc of a tic ns to th is CbpelussOn . M oi « spec ificaL ly.. Pt 'OSeCOtOT Alan A . Kockoff staled that one ohji rge was that [lie “young ccmputcrniks, IdhrCatCuCd i h i nation's defense' 1 by stealing i n fo r mat i n n on military lank parts manufactured by a Connecticut defense eontractor. Now, after no evidence ts found, m.i coin pla inlands me found, aivd Prosecutor Keck offs outlandish head lines have worn away, Fthch will be on pTobatinn fora year btJCause he had a blue lies d-i program and all lIljs to cover up lor some fools' OVCrrCii loll >UCSS Wilt somebody please wake os up? Gan this- really hr happening'? Almost any computer is capable of producing “illegal’' tunes. Programs thal produce such tones are common plant, m say the least. Many people pwsess them just fur tlie sake of sw! ng what they look I ike a nd huw they work . Arc New .I-l-i » i;v aulhor.ties now punishing people lor being curious'? What il Blieh himself had written this program':' Are l hey now Lulling us it's illegal i.j u -rfre certain things, been use Ihev could potentially be 3n a ti^d way? Cleaity, 1 here’s someilnjtg fundamentally wrong here, li s ciisy to say lha L someone who has 5i blur box program is only going to use it for i lleyg ; uel iviiy. But ii L v simply not i an; and it\ also a very dangerous assumption, ll'a program <3n diaii can be coustmed as a huTgluiy lool, Llicu why rlid ihe pr. ixeru lor send Blselia prinrnui ofthefyurptsge program! 1 Esn> this distribution of a lutrgbny tool? And what of the program-; Hull appeal an Ihe tofomuMtm Hvrcuu section of this ivstat? Possession of a gun is tune i h'.ng. hceause there aren a 1 1 that many thi ugs you ca h do wi I h a gun, unkss yt m 'i e a wtil lector fOf eo i jimt, possessing ;! deadly weapon is legiil, but 'ac won't get i :: i n rJifp'. J W ii h a com purer pro grain . however, the re a re an iiifinik: number of possibilities. Senueonje could ptasscss it for the soJreof huvingan intereiting program, sOIbni they on learn hnw i a make, suuud effects with l Ivei i con ipu ier. so that they can licai' what ihese magical tonev actually sound like, and so on V c.v, i lie re is i he possHtifis\ sonsehod y could use this program fiir illegal purposes. Bur it's really just as easy fin lam, much easeer) to use a standard touch mne phone 1o commit fmatl : here days. E-fow is possession of a loueh tone phone any ksv o f a crime than ihl- program? J hey ean hnth fui used for legitimate purposes as wall ai illegitimate ones, it's noi laird to retrace the Logie that is used m argue this, hut is tins logic Mrrect?Or is it polentLsILy a danger to everyone, not just uv? We fed threat euyod by such actions. How hard would it be to eoucludc that this inaganne ttseh'is a burglary fool? ftetiiuse we diereuM how ’.lie v,i i mi. is networks work and hfiCmse we expose the inadequacies and weaknesses, arc wc nut paving the way for crirnlmi Is? Perhaps we ate. hut at the :sim? i ime we’re wok ing up an awful Lot of people. People who resil^e Lliat their secrets areu'l sale ina jKimculrif computer or people who need to know how their phone system works we extsl for ihe purpose of education alone. We camsdt be' held accountable; fur the potruiiu misbehavior of one of -out subreri hers that is an unns-ist inable expectation. Fnriunutely. we 're not yeL at a stnge where such affronts ean is-ieur at a nuigarim:. Why? Mtigusmes are tangible, pruple gene ral ly undcnsLjud i hem V ou ca rA hold a emmpu air hu I Iren board in Irom of you, Lhough. Vlosl poopk: don’t understand what a BUS is m the Sirs! place. It's vo much easier to get away with something if most pcopIc dnpH understand what y-ou’ic really doing Ihis is whaS the authoiities have accomplished. WcVe made some important emigres-, in ibis case. Wf fcr/Mbiu/'t j i; :v p ,nogf j -H) The Basics: DIVESTITURE: WHAT HAPPENED? It s IraM years now since Lht>- broke up [hu telephone company, and if you ask around, most people seem ip believe it wasij b:.L-d idea. | n the past yon nsretvod ouly one phone bill and you never had Lo worry about Aon’to' place yotir calls. ft seemed su nint h simpler liven, Eur phone plircaks. i ho up hi. the last two' years ha st meant' art inn-easing number of hwts In play with. bew pay phones, :mw I - il n i : z d istancc coin pa a in. new ways of doling what could onl y be rloiH.: nne way before. While many of us miss 1 he days of- that siniile formidable opponent (Mu Bell), we itpnagc to have fan hy i iguring out a IL of tin.: \n r^nnese and being looked upon as t he only people who si i'll understand how to make a pit one eal I, I his is meant to he a brief guide Lu jusL whal has happened Rceause ol il>e divest .Lure aiid whuL I he ram i he at kins may he. Wo'nc not lysing to compare lutes ot the many companies like allofllie newspapers a re doiugand we’re not going lo complain ■ihout hnw difficult it is roenpu wiih phones these days Like all ol the columnists me doing. In plain English, w\Al simply to.' and figure om what i he hell it gning on. The Way II Used To Be L.et s 1 1 1 1 i k a i i ji c way things were. F.SL-epi for some tilde pendent Local com p.i a ies . your loco I phone -company was a pan of 1 he nal ioawidt fir II System. Italhied together nice ly if vhhj wanted lo call long disLnncc, you Vi pkioc the call through your I ij c-e 1 1 company .-i r;d I hey would hi l I you for il , and i hat was it . W nat you most h k sly duin 'I It now (or tare about i wax i hill your Local company had hooked into the national company and in turn hud hooked into (hr local company on the nilicr end. As fur as we were a l| eoncemed, rlie Iii.l.i! company Mill i( al I. Under this system, things worked fairly well. It wus simple I oi customers, ei IL of the ponipiimes bcncfiied {the local companies could Veep tlieii rules lower because the national company would pay them and (he national company got a monopoly rm every long dislanoe cull placed), and there wen; no real problems, l.fo( il wasn V 1 ;j ir. I n nearly a It qounl nes, 1 lie phone comps ny rs run by ibe government and i hut’s it. But kre. the phone company was being run by private enterprise, yei Lherc was no compel it itnr. It was incviiable that this would be challenged, cspeciu I ly when LL stari eel becoming eeomjmieally feasj hie | or aLtcfiwiive tom panics hj offer similar services. Signs Uf Trouble frr (Ire late Sixties, MCI became the Jirsl company to challenge ihr Hell monnpoly. Slowly the rules were changing. As I he years passed , more cbm pa ntes appeared and hega n Lo cry foul Cornu mer services were offered fur ihr first time. As technology gof bigger, it because obvious thai fuse phone company simply shouldn’t do ir all And one day. the government agreed, Uirst Oil, the tut i ionwide nei w< ir k had Lo he d ismaiil led.. So ii was split into seven parts, none of which arc supposed to he related to each other ( however, we. suspect they si.il] see each olI:.li socially). They arc: Paci/iq I e lei is, ITS. West; Southwestern Bell, Amsritedi, RcUSoni h. Lie'Ll Atlimlio, and Nyne.s Each of lIilsi; companies lias n fleeL of local operating companies under its control , in pinch t he sn me way as M a Bell luil nearly otfof Li re local operatiugiompames. under rawing, m Era these seven new companies have heen dubbed "Fkrbv Bells". Hut 1 he rial ionwidc nclwor k was not comp leteiy eliminated , l*-ca use Al AT still ev ists. 1 nsicn-d oi tyi ng together all of 1 be .oe;d compan ies. A E Jfc I is now just anotlier long dLilanoe company, with nn connection to any of the Local companies or ti re uwen regional companies. Of course, having constructed r-c network In the lirsi place. A TAT Lius tremendous 5-2 i id var. Urges in the longdistance mar km, Fh.jUjt Access d'kaily, Lhc emerging long disUmue eompar'iics have to be protected agiiinst ATAT. su ihat they can liave a fighting chance, Il A L A r were ty lower its rates, everyone would use i hem. Lkcfruse of Al A | 'h position, It’s much easier for t liemio do ihis. and re-establish a monopoly. This is prevented by' the divestiture agrccniem, which rcgulains aTAL' more tliar-, the Oliver: cumpanies. Enu weird way. it’s kind uf like affirmative nci ion. A nother way of piowd ing the new companies is to give Ll iem A|ual access- to tlie network that A'E'ATbailt. What pood is it to be allowed to compete for tong distance oiitomcrs Lf by the time fbc customer gelitoyourdi.il tone. :t sounds like it’s on another planei? hut Lo mention ihe fact that to use your service, the customer has to use a tor>;h tone phone and key in, a whole lot o f ^^f- 1 ' 1 - numbers lo identify himself, since yOur company isiif 4ible lo identify hLm as sonn as he picks up tire phone, like A I AT cart, Eh4lM fairness, shouldn't your dial Lone come in as loud and clear as AT&T's? The answer Ls of course. JfnL how can litis be accomplished? There was no easy way, but n had to tm done. And so, “equal access'’ was developed. L-t Hie early stages, thcmosi tlrut could be done under equal -access was tn provide a c jear conned ion to an a hernate Long disUmce service-. In addition, tliL> connection had to be toll-free s nice qu ite a lew customers were hei ng loft because lIu-v had lo Pii y lor a pho ne Cii 1 1 to the dia I tmic of the company i chose, whether or rwit t l K call they were nui king i n the fl r si pW ever got througli. 1 1 couldn’t bean IfdO number liceause ol technical and administrative reasons, not to mention ihc liict that an edia area code AlfHJ) would have to fcu dialed. ?su t be b5(1 CKclrange was created .This is an eiteha njnt; which is nearly the same everywhere in the country, Itdnessr'i really Caisl in any one place: it’s a Ibccird icaE exchange wiihin local central offices. Calling 95U plus four digits, which arc different for L-,ich long d istanue company, connects you with their dial tone with r.o ringing and with a very dear conned ion. Uor msuirne, 55D-rt>?3 gets you MCI anywhere in the country, 950-Hlflfi fteis you Skyline, vie. There are still drawbacks, though. Brim it i vc Locnl companies sornsriimc-s- insist on cbai gingfof thesccalls, as-dosomc hotels. Then there b also i he matter nf slill having ll> input your aitthorixnt ion code and being furred lo use a touch lone phone. Ru i it represents a si a rl llic next and most significant ilep tciward-. achieving equal access was to actually make a possi ble tor somebody to pick up their pi tone and make a long distance call using whatever company i bey wanted without dialing any exi ra numhem, S.u at lasL u would be just as s-.ntple to make ji ciili usieg Sprint or Western Union as i- w JS using AT&T AJE the custotrier had to lI n was tell Ills local Company (when the time came) which long d isia nee company he; she wanted . Tht> is the point where something interesting bergan to hapticn, I 'hone companies all around the country darted to real nre i huit the re are a grail number of people who rwilly don t ear e which Long distance company offers what— iliey just want I n be lefl alone. Some of ( besc folks never ma ke loitg distance dills in Use rust plaee and oLhers don’t lias's ihe time or inclination to I tv and figure out which company Is economically ativantageotes to them. But last yetir a new twist was added, lf yxm don’t chonse a lung dicta ace company. One will be asslgiiei.1 to yon of random! Jn oLher words, if you close your ears to all of I his divestiture mfk, you could find yourself subscribing to a company tlyq Charges a J 15 munlbLy minim nm, which is a )>ii of on affront to -someone who only makes local calls. Vet, this is what's (continued an yxrgi* ,T-£) MKO 6 . . AT&T Does It Again Rodent! y. An miLiild :i u uiho : of residential telephone customers around tlie country have received letters from AT&T s hii n k iu,g iltcni fm choosing AT AT a:-, [heir primary long distance carrkT. The problem b (hat 'hose customers never -circled a carric r, cn i nsicad chore an A ! T competitor. Or.c leiter wax even sene to an MCI executive. f lic wave of rnixd ir-rctcd AT&T letters is the latest in a series oL" similar events that have occurred as AT&T and odicr^irricra n ggressively attempt 1o sign up ruidomora l h rough ihc nationwide “equal access’’ program VG also has had problems, including telling local phone com pa nics that moie than I .EKW customers had chosen M Cl in the Boston and New York areas when ihey did nyi And CITE Sprint was fined 5500, LHXJ for siarting service for residents who hadn't asked for it. M canwhile', in a recent Wall Street Journal; N BC Newts poll, tour nut of every LA Americans say they arc confused by the choice of lung disia nor. phone ea r riers. Yet mn re than half, particularly younger customers, like hiring ahle in chbnse. Nonetheless, most people Continue lo v : cw Hie Pioaknp of AT&1 as a bad thing. Five Aliens Hung Up ■■ | lawn, Srjs v i n S ee re L Sorv i ce age nf s a mum need l l-i a 1 1 i of fi <. e Horn in icon nationals living in Manhattan in a crackdown on iIIim! long distance telephone calling fraud. rjie individuals were charged with using illegal electronic devices known us '’blue fc'pjt'CS" tn tap into the telephone network to avoid V:i ng billed fn f long d istanee ea lib. • I hey were also charged with placing Calls with stolen personal itkniificatinn numbers, and credit card calling numbers oL AT&T, Nc?w York Telephone, MO, 11T, arnl J2 other companies. sUSilinght least St million in phone calls. E-ot E5 to 32U, the Suspeds would allow neighbors to call relatives in South .Amer.ca. 11 convicted of tetetonurr.i niemi ieratois, reducing privacy and traffic capacity, and raising operating costs. The FC'CN only aLltmible alternative, use of persona L I . D . n u mbc rs. requ i res " i nte ra c t ive " eq u i pmem c Capable nf reading the aeoes^ code a caller punches ir. on a touch-tOiKE pliLnf;. Ruch e qiJLpmesi i L>m cost live to ten Linici the cost for “’passive" gpai Lypicii lly used with dial-w-ixirn. In addition, in New York interactivie equipment cannot tie used nn the telephone company Y special dui hit network. Phone Booth Wins Again ■*i-. iil !i ji I i'iIa' ■ I hite men who stole u lelephune booth front a sei vice sen ion lot and tried to pu L iL inside a friend 's upsutmeu i a % u pnsci ical joke were foiled when the booth wouldn't fii 1 b rough live dooiway, police in Maple Nliade. New Jersey said. A | vi 1 1 ohiiaii respond ing ra a n anonymous ca II abor.1 three men trying in carry a phone horah imoanupunmenL. found the pranksiers replacing the front door. The ihrec were icleased on 12.000 bail each oiler being eliargcd with the thel t. OPER OPER 0 0 ABC ■ 2 NOTES FROM YOU Dear 26W\ A good friend of mine colled MCI to get crci erossmlfc On the line. (And. as aside benefit, die call is free). After all, i f t 1 Ley are going to dema ad equality with AT&T. they had b-lntxly wdl better provide equal service! 5n a ny ease. after a bnut I ft of these ra lls, 1 be service operator said (lrat her display showed ihut u majority of my rails were to XXXXX'XXXXN which is in the same calling LAI' A . Therefore, yon migln wish to reconsider your choice of a Inng-d istaoce ra rrier. She continued by saying she was sure Lhat Sprint's rates were not competitive in this instance. Si i mi Lit sito when I signed. up the lady told me that I wuuld save JIG. on ihai exact call. Somebody is Lying somewlicrc! In shoit, they 1 l ied to tbi ipnn annoyingeustomcT. Since then, they have also pulled slants like changing my code and not Lelling me. fl spent two wL-cks getiitig them to admit to that!) I think lhat I'll stay with (and harass) them for another couple of months; then, who knows, it could be MLTX turn! M utC'JLy , Ford Prefect Dmr 2m t t have a question L have often wo nd tied about. II an alternate Ji mg dial n nre serv ice must lirst call ; 1st local Mco i o set op a trace wtiL-ii one oi their I incs is being abused what wi r,i Id be the caw; a Her business hours'.' I mean, arc tlicsc lines actually mon itLn ed ?d hours a day V A Iso. 1 have bee a scan nirvg a few prefixes in rny local aTea for loops. \ have been looking in the X FA -X X X- IJ^XX a tea A Imosr eveiy loop 1 have seen or read a bool in files on scanning loops has had 1 hem located in Lliis aTea. 1 have not had much luck , most have been constant busy signals or ringing and u few residential*. Where else uiighi I lock'.' Arabia Ltur Arabi Wk'fl erJtN/Mttj'e.t nr govemnn-nt r tKcncks have a telephone mittfmn r arrange a trace, stiff mni.tr the team j>i advance. They tivpiy S iW? TjC 1 i'v if— r.rjiVi- yiSuatiry n "If this Code tS tiled. rijtfrt IrXfe that incoming call, or tfthis number is dialed, /hen trace she ctdt to ir.r sour re. " ft'i rue all phone systems rat: 24 hours a d#v and wrist of them run automatically, phones mu Ac monitored 24 hoi try u day. to mtm y eases, it may iv better st> make it call or use a system during >he da r. when phone traffic is high, Hat then again, it A strmetimes Niter to exit at night. when less people are available to notice an vtbing fishy Your loops may N absent bcvatt.se thee have been rntrved elsewhere, yon don't recognize them, or you r Central Off fee is made hy a eompunr other than those you a return i liar v.f/h such us A morainic FJrcirh ■ Dear 26m-. 1 have been listening to the mobile radio -telephone frequencies on my scanner: 1 was just lisiening to a company that acquires o-its l-,ke 1 ''erraris for live very Tich. These channels were used hL-fiire cellular, by the rich, since onlv ihcy could aiiond them (scarcity ra ises pneesly in Los A ngeltw . i hoy ate still used hy people with lois of money. There ore certain tone sequences used to control signaling. I was looking i hrotigh the liilcsL issue of Papular Communications Magazine, and 1 noticed an ad fnun a company selling VHP-' prdgrammabLc transceivers for Ihese cover mobile rad io-lclephone channels us w^|| v,s things Like E. os Angeles Police lacLieal One dispatch trequcncy. Has anyhoety honked op tone generation equipment to a programmable VHF transceiver and made.fiee , cal Is? 1 1 serins i hii i i here would lse no problem doing th is. I’m an electrical engineering student at i|»e University of Southern Californio I jusl broke into the IBM mainframe the administration iov:-. for grades and sLuff. We have ibese new 7, enith-29 ter niina Is on campus, honked up to M iero-60D port LW ^e l e ctor that connect all tiu 1 DLL' and IBM mainfnirpes to I he TTV lines, I t look me a while to ligurc this nut, bm, 1 tuwi 1o set up i he terminal parity 1o SPACE. The Lcrmipals are in V ['100 ■emulation: lo get into the grades system, 1 simply dsd the following: 1JSC-CCC M iern^OO f'on Selector. Which system? AD,(CR). ENTER TF.R'VltN ALTYEli: VI LOO, (CR)' This works dtiring normal busiuess hours near lunch tune or quilting lime. The legil users often don't use a prri|V:r logout command, but just turn I heir to rrn in a la off. About ]l>?i : of H>C time, you can conneet onto flieir jobs this way. 'flic Iftfvf makes a mistake and thinks that tin;: line from one of Lhc student terminal rooms is the legit Liiio. t!?ne lime, they were raiining do nat io.a records fn r people li ko uLomm. aud we lookciJ up t ke umiversity pieodenth dona lions, this method will probably woi k with innsi 111 VI mainframes running die \-lVS operating system, i be outs. ¥ ou can aLso get in by modem around noon or Li pm foi best results using B-hit word I stop bil .and no ixjriiy. A cpiesiLijn mark at the tci'minal prutPpl will list valid types. The < 'reatune Dear On flic even ing of X o'-ember 1 6, 1DH5, the I mnie of Cremiiu, a user of Demented l.luLa Systenis, was raxietl by 2 police nffimns.und two members of the Man itoba Telephone System (\TIS) Security Gestapo. They proceeded lo take all his equipment, all his floppy disks, and all hti printouts. To dale, Ins equipment has mi: ton returned He was charged with "T hett oi 1'elceommuiiicaiLOns Over E^OO." Apparently, poor CremL in was using a ph neak ing program lie had w ritten on h is Atari 800 to make appmxinwioly SJSO in tree long distanei- I one rails. MTh had a tap on Grerrtli n's feme line l or over one month, and was keeping tabs on how much money he didn¥ spend. W lien his total come to well over 5>2(ifi, tlvc M T ft Cn,:si a po and the Winuijx-g Polke Department made their move, Theft oveT IjlOCi is a felony, theft under S2UO is a misdemeanor. L Lmve openly accused MTS of entrapment and SLil l stand ud-Nmanl m opinion of what really went on. Fur insm nee , if the poliee uneover a plan i n rn.order the Prime Minister, do tfiey Let the eonspiratois carry out their plans, so they can gel ihern on a full murder charge, instead of lust a cons piracy rJm i ge': Nol l hey nah the criminals . before the act is carried -nut 1 1 I he V]' | S gave G reml in n w,i ni iug as soon as lie was delected making the fraudulent rails, this mess would never have happened. The M IX big- wigs wonted to make big headlines by nailing^ phreaker. 1 'hiswos supposed 10 scare oil the rema ining phres ks enough so they refrain from I heir hobby. 31 didn't. Since this, M I S had admitted to lettmg poorGierolin get a he fly lone bill before sacking him. He must pav hack die tone company for the S35C1, and should he fretting kick his equipment soon. l hc E3ad News: since tnid November, the Demented Data Systems (DDS) BBS jms been constantly waictaxt by M IS Flunkies, MTXadn'ils that nathlng on (.lie hoard is truly illegal, much like the Private Sector, but would like to keep tu bs on ;1lc boa i d . Tlkey ra used a big hassle when it wus discovered tliaL DDFi I /as the entire inner workings of the VI] S Envoy 1 00 muilipg system iibdoUiilonlhe boaiti. 1 have offered man v limes to give them FREE., FULL SYSTEM ACCESS, with no resuhs. Anyhow, that’s linw it is tip here. lhc Cntb. Canada Dear Riders: TSw Crab ttistt sent ati article from a fat-al paper ih/n described the bit xt It mentioned another perron who was arretted for making H5fs in rads it also mentioned an uni Itu ground program vailed '"Silver Helix" which sends J'dOfi ■G'i'i'- and its presumably a blue box program. Demented I2ata System:/ etui he reached at 2b4bJ2529? at .’ft) u'ii7 ih’i'.'i) baud, and is free for iony distance callers. The 2600 Information. Bureau # TEXAS INSTRUMENT 99/4 {A) j COMMODORE 64: FROM BASIC: 0; CALL 1: CALL 2i CALL 3: CALL 4: CALL 5: CALL 6? CALL 7i CALL Bi CALL 9t CALL KPc CALL KP2J CALL 111 CALL 124 CALL ST i CALL SOUND (IOO, 130Q,0, 1500,0) SOUND < 1 00,700,0, 900,0) SOUND i 1 00, 700,0, 1100,0) SOUND ( 1 00,900,0, 1100,0 > SOUND < 1 00,700,0, 1300,0) SOUND (100,900,0, 1300,0) BOUND (100, 1100,0,1300,0} SOUND (100,700,0, 1500,0) BOUND U 00, 900,0, 1500,0) SOUND (100, 1100,0, 1500, 0) SOUND (1O0, 1100,0, 1700,0) SOUND CiOO, 1300,0, 1700,0) SOUND f TOO, 700, 0,1700, 0) SOUND (100,900,0, 1700, 0> SOUND ( 100, 1500,0, 1700, 0) 2600 {ISSN 0749-3851) Bailor and Publisher? Twenty Six Hijrid'iji.l Associaito Editors Eric Corley Deiv'iCJ HyderWIan Exaeuiivt.: Dtrgct-or H*lHrl Victory SE1S Operator Tom Glich Writers: Paul Efti*.™. Mr. French, Emniarucl Goldsmin The Km ■“< Company, Lurd Phraaker, Mi let; Sukarno, The Shadow. Silen; Switch™ n, and (ho usual anonymous bunch. 1 '' p’ r I I r-d L-1 I'p! 1 : 1 I r 1 1- r P -1 Ii'y ,,, li rr r" .1 r . ,,, Mn ANNUAL SliJNf.ilimU'S RATC**IJ. .jd.iiJujL'ito , :, r . r . w .%K. wrxAi II - 1 1 x i. si HKe uii'f./iv sho. coftpnreA r i nklihkorkii it- yxyh;.. E.A0R IKm ii \ srftxli. ci:ii/aiiwi:^j(i.:!y ....^mif A? MAS i: PH K-r r: v,-', UI.L IO 4 »A 0 l-m'r.:r'kSh I,il. 'A-XIII I (> rtv.. I to hw .'JZ.H.ililtEJind.NV nsuetH. I LI.KI'HOS r- 1 y.M 75 j jme. il*t, ;?iji j ju , 44.11 . 7 IAIHI MNC, nrFPAfd HLJn PX) R*T&J Middle blind. W IN-mjl« ak 1 ie 1 k xti'iMiAMor; .\xi > i • 1 1 ■ h m re. hi', ». Minn, u ,-.„i vr ve pnsTMAM LKPriii-, rrivjiu i™ ; . : m 5 S -54272 6 DIM B (7) , A (7) 10 FDR LB=S TO S+24: POKE LS, 04 NEXT 20 POKE S-h5,64;PDKE B+6, 100 25 POKE 5+-12, 64: POKE S+13,100 30 POKE S+24, 15 40 FOR T=1 TO 7 50 READ A(T>,3(T) 60 NEXT T 70 PRINT ''USE 1-0 FOR DIGITS 1-0" SO PRINT M U5E K FOR KP : USE S FOR ST" SB PRINT "USE -t- FOR 11 i UEE - FOR 12'- 90 PRINT “USE L FOR KP2 1 " 95 PRINT "PRESS SPACE BAR FOR 2600 HI" 100 PRINT "PRESS THE APPROPRIATE KEY AND THE TONE WILL BE EMITTED FROM THE TV" HO BET At? IF At= ,,Jh THEN HO 120 IF A*w"S'' THEN T-5iU-6 125 IF At="L" THEN T^4?U-6 130 IF A*="K” THEN T-3: U=6 140 If At= ,, + " THEN T* ± 2: U=6 150 IF At^"-" THEN T=1:U=6 152 IF At = " I " THEN T-lsU-2 154 IF A*® "2" THEN T=l:U-3 156 IF At-" 3" THEN T-2 i U=3 15B IF At- "4" THEN T- 1 i U=4 160 IF At^"^ 1 THEN T-2 1 U—4 162 SE- At="6' 1 THEN T-3 : U=4 163 IF A*= ,3 7'' THEN T— 1 : U— 5 164 IF At- "6" THEN T=2:U-5 166 IF A*- '’9" THEN T-3:U-5 16G IF A*-'‘0 ,h THEN T— 4? U— 5 169 IF At- 1 11 " THEN T-7t U-7 170 POKE S+l , A (T) l POKE S,B(U> 173 POKE S+B, A (T) t PONE 5+7, B(U) 100 POKE S-i-4, 1 7* POKE S+11,17 190 GET Ztx IF THEN .190 200 POKE S-I-4, 16: POKE S+U , 16 210 GOTO 110 500 DATA 44,0,57,0, 70 , 0 , 93 , 0 , 96 , 0 , 1 OB , 0,16-6,0 510 REM THE ABOVE DATA STATEMENT MAY HAVE TO BE ADJUSTED TO GET THE EXACT TONE, 3-5 ATARI i 1 POKE 82,OiFDKE 755,0 ? Ctp-FW At A O "ki" 50 PRINT “ATARI BLUE BOX PROGRAM 51 PRINT "0-9 * HP 0-9“ 52 PRINT “K-KEYPIJLSE" 53 PRINT H S = START‘D 54 PRINT “SPACE BAR - 2600 HZ aN/OFF" 55 PRINT “You must press the ap^ce bar twice' 1 56 PRINT “fpr the program to work correctly*'* 60 REM 140 DIM N*C1I 144 GET #I,N 143 N*" ,Mh 146 LET N**CHR*(m t7 N*j “ “j 150 IF N9=" “ THEN 7 “2600Hz H ;iGDSiJB 290 160 FDR LDDP=I TO LENIN*) 170 IF LEN(N*>=0 THEN G0TU 300 1 90 CHAR-=ASC f N* i LOOP , LOOP 1 ) -ASC ( »' 0 “ > * TRAP 200 i RESTORE 36O+CHAR*lOiQOT0 220 200 IF N* < LOOP, LOOP) ■ 1, K M THEN RESTORE 460: GOTO 220 210 IF N* (LOOP, LOOP) = Ht S H THEN RESTORE 470 x GOTO 220 215 CLRi GOTO 60 220 READ Pi, B , C, D 230 POKE 53760, At POKE 53762, Bl POKE 53764, CxPDKE 53766, D 240 POKE 53767, 160: POKE 33763,160 250 FOR A-l TD 15: NEXT A 260 POKE 53767, 160: POKE 33763,160 270 NEXT LOOP 280 CLR: GOTO 60 290 SOUND 0, 0, 0, Of POKE 3376S, 120 300 POKE 33760,01 i POKE 33762,1: POKE 537*4,0* POKE 33766 , 0 310 POKE 53767, 160: POKE 33763, 16S 320 GET #1,N:IF N< >32 THEN 32Q 330 POKE 53767, 160: POKE 53763,160 340 N4=“ " 330 RETURN 360 DATA 163,2,00,2 370 DATA 240,4,210,3 3 SO DATA 240,4,40,3 390 DATA 210,3,40,3 400 DATA 240,4,165,2 410 DATA 210,3,165,2 420 DATA 40,3,163,2 430 DATA 240,4,00,2 440 DATA 210, 3, SO, 2 430 DATA 40,3,80,2 460 DATA 40,3,3,2 470 DATA GO, 2, S,2 4B0 FOR A=1 TD 700: NEXT A 490 NEXT LOOP 300 CLftr GOTO 60 510 REM — BY! DEVIOUS XEVIGUS Programs sent in by Ford Prefect, thanks, 3-6 SVSTEMflTJCfMV SPEAKING New Payphones Confuse Callers 'A J I Vs.' J-uii. 1 elcphoncs. i hut read c rcali i ciards n ni v be Lhc wave nt ihe lu[unc. Em you wouldirt know It from watching enlleis ai to C i Liti i lI in Ai rporl lor iwo luii its recently. Wh ifc ddirens of eal Ic rx d ial on conventional fete phones. only people appmaeh t!ia: [isi! ca Td-rcad iny |?h(jTw;s nearby. i'wn bk-iuoc ai the kngt |iy instructions mil walk nj'J m obvious Aisjiu rt. I ‘out (si In i s . buxi nusKirj^^i with AT&T credit ca rd^, itw: •he leicphoncs Inn punch in llrcir acsHuu-.i numbers manunllv mtlier LItu.it usm^ihuir magnetically endod MiT-ds tor uuiomai ic I LV-nnJ I n.e,. I he p ro" It in seems in aii nr oil tlie design of the new pbone machines: Unlike most automated -tuber machines used be tanks where a moJ-or-d riven device whisks the card away find ihen return* it to Ihe cuxrsmicr the phone machi ires require the customer to posit in u Hie cold’s magneiie strip correcLly, xlnlc i he card manually ih rough the slot, and Llren remove it. TIic procedure seems ;o intimidate customers ‘’People drin 1 ! inuiijicl with lhc itiagneiic si rip on their credit «inJs in daily u^b:C." one expert si id W hits the ca rd shon Id be inserted length '.vise ;i lung the edge iWitrest lhc magnetic strip, ‘’everyone i r its m put it endways,'’ suys Roy Rui/, a product manager for Rod l ie Bell, which fiist installed credit-cord phones in 1^X4. ] or the Him month, he says, l - 1 1 ' J v inserted the wrong way woukl gL-i lost ]n the ziTuc hi ne . o nd ;l metal to i r icr Had 1 0 be i nsLal led Irehind i be slot to keep | he cords from heipg inserted too tar. Fhu ha hits yet ro devise's w-,iv to prevent callers' from putting coins in the credit card slot . Security Software riBBiBBivilhvr- Wc »■ % American Tclemunagcmenr Corporation is nusi kcling computer software aimed in preventing LliefL of service from long rflslamre companies by people using stolen cedes, ]'he company's software, colled Network Security Management , combats 1 belt by dcreeiing when codes a re being stolen and monitoring the use of cedes to immediately idea l ift excess ive lifts Three carriers have already pure based licenses to use the program: N FtR Skyline. I cl tec Ravings Communications, and Mieruiel Several others are 'testing the program. Your Own Private Centrex •WV. C P-.K, Pnci He belt is offering new service on ISci I " Premiere' 1 wIil i l wi i h a touch-tone phone one can mo ke an emits/ ia.g amount of sei vices available in your own home — enough services- so that vou could impress your friends by idling them Hint yon have your own private switching system. With Premiere vouch ana It any otlie r I me wit h im your home bv pu-shi ng two toncsi yu u can make any phone a multi-tine phone and answer any line in any room; yon Cost transfer calls within a home front one line to another:, voti get call hold, .l -way calling, colt forwarding; you get something called u Lie mate answering, where one line wdl ung if Lhe cn kc is busy; yon can si ore up to 30 nu mber* that you can call up by hitting 2 turner distinctive ringing, where cisternal f outside [lie home) and internal rings will aetuaLly sound different 3 hese services are available for £1 .50 1 o J S per month P"r ouch service vein request, so tliis adds jp tu qeiic hii nf money for i he I ull sei vices I he on ly req ai i crn'c n't is a I A : !SS . New VAX Announced 4 i ■ la VX S.’iL •■ihiT !■, he Digiitil Lutupment Corporation, the wnrldA wcusti- brjjesi computer maker, anr.btmced a ncv. mp dl-thc-ime s-upcmiini computer capable of processing b'ctwre-'n siv and sever, n ri I lion ins't rue lions ;x:r set tmd. flic riev. machine, eallccl a VAX hf?50. wa- de-vritod bi [>igii;dl officials as the com |-o ny\ fiisL eMcnsion of the VAX brtXi line lie runs abdin 44 perceni facie: md will have an i nicfiiii I memoty then : ,s twice as b,z.. nbian fvh megabytes’. f>P-C is also iiifrOduei ug u 3’f.' eompaLibSc that will he idvo COmpat ibk w itli D F.f "s H m nbow- 3 A ' Cray Maneuvers MriHiT.'iln r. Vn-fc A [.t I I tell Luhs has sold a u figiug Cray-] suixincdniputer in older in P 11 reluise a sleek , new Cr u.v X VI i J 24 su pcnCOmpti tec. E'lic new sycicm 15 valued at about million Olid wilt b; installed carty this year. An A. f ,V I |.lcll Labs s[>ok-esm;m said rJ"': unit wilt be the company b only Cray compurer. Me Mid Lhe X M 1 1 • 14 wi II be used u i M ureay Hill in A r (S I microprocessor chip developnictd and in Unix, opetating svstem iTcseureh and dcveLopnicsii, Overcharge Hunters Needed ■XVMUird I'Vm New jobs arc opening up for individuals who can fcrrel out overelLaigcs in phone hills rbul cun oicocd hundreds of ihousa ihIs ol dollars. "EiV. hasiciillya record keeping failure. “ line yf 1 be delect ives, ,hi nws Lki I . liasi Coan munage r l or Sen \ \ Communications Co. said of the telephone errom. With sy nmmy levels of icluphonc bureaucracy to go tltion^li before a customer’s order is carried out, rtic reipjcsL somerimcs i> not I mnsraitled aecurulcLy . Rsimc ol the consul la nts La ke 5fi pe i tent ut die ovei elvi i gts Urey find. Suc)i in Ve-si igators have spent months lookint. nve: b-ills tor iarge conipimie& and riinnii ipalilies. Rom I Oiernow Communieaiiorj Services tnc saved New Jersey's Lsses County S2lbdK.K) Idr L ie telephone systcin in their couiu CLnnpleX; Cbeuow recalled a case in wtiidr a New Yoik company moved In New Jersey and paid ;i w-called mileagv eharpe for keeping its u3d numtof. lint the company still was being billed lor a swiicti board ibaL no li.itig.er existed, r iic Iclephyire tompetny wanted losend an employee tc> verify lliru ilic r:q tiipmeni was nnt ihere. but the hwilding had been repriced with a pa rk ing loi , Phone Service Via Radio Shack C>tinwi'.n« - ffl Wixfc Rndm Rfiauk iuis sigpoiJ an agreement with Nevada Dell to mu a tcsL program that alleaw customers to sign up for immediate telephone scivior ai Rudio Sliaek siures in the Reno,' Spark sareii of Nevada. The OOuperati vc pr (Tgtflir'i allows customers to buy a phone from Radio Shack, open ,m account with Nevada UelE and receive a phone number on the spot. The stores are connected loNevadu Bell via hoi lines, and the prngMcn is m operation a ny f ime the store-, a re open, not just normil busincstt hours 3-7 DIVESTITURE (eoutiniwd, [torn page currently being dcui.e, Jt>i true you will be witting more ihitn one durek when ic eonuw time to pay .hr phone MIL, Many long distance companies Hill don 1 ! gu through your \oail phone cornpony’s billing office lit.;; AT& I used to (and still doesh so they must bil l you separately. Then, you could choose to make some calls ivith o ne long disla nee company ami others with another. 1 hen again, you could make calls using Visa or American Fs.pres's and get lulled that way. There are so many diffmtnl wavs to make a u-lephone call tlicse da vs. so naturally there will he at least as many ways to ho hil led . Y ou could also wind up paying AT&T for equipment rental, if you're wary of Owning your own phone equipment. So that’s unGLher checl; to write." J'hcn there sue pay phones,, which are Slatting to he deregulated. You may see two totally dlfferem phones chat charge totally difJercnl raies l.o cull the same place, I his will be confusing io most people, because they were rie-veT trained In ihiak about the plumes they use. Kut for phune pbreaks, this represents more ways to have lun. What The Future I folds In theory, what we base today is the beginning of total equality. Unfortunately, icX also total mayhem, but llvil will undoubtedly deai tip in time, as everyone slowly gets used to du: new system. Many mistakes are heing made and ilY fun m iud them. Skyline has a page in chdi bill that says, '"Retain for your records,’' in much the same fashion its other telephone hills. The difference here is that there is no inlonsiLicionon (his page at nil except your in me and the month of the fell. The aninium owed appears on another page. Why would someone want to retain ihis usel^s data? Then tl sc re's U.S, Lei, wlio supposed ly f as a new ere (I it card system — -you dill ji number, then enter yuuieiedh card number, which is isomm hing hke 14 digits long. M iraculoLisly enough . we Ye been toSdjhny series of numlicrs at all allows the call io go thrnughl Km mistakes aren’t the only Lhmg welt he seeing, bincc Sell 1 4i hi is now able to. compete openly, wel I sec a great ream l>::r yf die projects they've been wort ing on secretly lor Ma fteU. I his will be of great benefit Io us. At I he same time, it may get a Jot harder tor authorities and spier tn Insep tubs on certain people, since there’s nn longer a guarantee that a person will use a certain phone or even a certain network Diversity is good for Use individual All ol this ls. only i he beginning. Many more chants a re on the horizon ,i-id technological cmhosuists will have ouile a ejme. Foi the average person who doesn't care, i hi ngs may be unplca sfml , especially if ihe explanations arenY as plentiful as the chants. Hopefully l bitagh, Lhesc folks wil I be comforted by the km iwicdge thai ii‘* nil fair Advertise i n269Q\ Reach over 1,000 selective readers — hackers , security analysts, corporate spies, private consultants, and people who are just interested in what s going on . CaiL 516-751-2600 for iofo. ^ Private Sector {wntauttf} 'from page J-l } succeeded in getting the prosecutors to reveal ihcir true knowledge ol' the mutter in from of the entire world. And we 'convinced the American Civil Liberties Union to lake up tltc eay; of 1 he Private Sector. We eyprecl them to Ire involved in similar eases in tire future. Slowly but surely, we’re getting through to people. We hope to see t Ini;, kind of thing stop once and fo r all I oo many innocent jtcople have ahtsfidy been victimised by ihcse itt Ic-puMieipuJ gestapa tactics Sensitive equipment has been damaged by rare less law enforcement agents, Va luable time has been Jest. voices have !.**□ silenced, ami peopled lives have been adversely affected. Flense, foils, wake up those ardUTsd you wom /"J hath our brightest hope. We apologia about having ^ devote yci another an icte to this distressing subject, flnlil we see some basic changes in attitude and evidence of real protect ion foi all of us. we must continue to speak out. Wc hope vou do tire same, m whenever ways possible. ft flood Mews I lie good rie wa is lhat at Iasi the Private Sector is returning At press time, the estimate for havi ng the board up ;i nd runn ing is --ontetime in February. {Extra time is needed to look for any damage and also to wre if any '’back doom” have been installed while we wcrenY looking.} I he number for the P i v,iic Sector is Jill 3 j01 | . In Ihc interim and as a supplement, 2&V will operate ;i limited access subscriber bulletin board from our New York ^".cc. All subscribers are welcome to call and panreipare in discussions with o-thcireadem an topics such as this. There wilt aLso be u facility for upload ing articles i u us, using X M 0 DliVJ or ASCII transfer methods. This hoard will hi mi: on an flb expcritoC ala I basis and <>nh between the hem m of mid nighi and nooiLOu^uturdayanrl SuiUlity mornings (a Iso known as Fiiday and Saturday nights}, Eastern J .me. 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We're also planning co have iticefings in various cities throughout I yflfi If you l bink u ire n icularcity is will l-suited for this, let us know and wx; will cake ii into account. \\c have a lot of fine articles just waiting to be printed and we ’re always looting fn T more. Fed free to tend us artyf/timot- interest, Are You Rseoc'ing Someooe Else ' 5 Copyo^tOO? WHY NO 7 SUBSCRIBE? • You'll get your ve;y own copy 3f the same time of every month. • You won't i-ose your eyesight trying to road small print mat's oson.copied six tfmes or more! • Ypu'11 oc ho ping 2600 Ixicome financially solvent., which will resuh in a better publication.