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| MCI Working With BOCs | |
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| PacBell and MCI have combined forces to make the Security Pacific Data | |
| Transmission Corporation. Also it has been announced that field trials are | |
| currently being held for Project Victoria: an integrated voice-data-video | |
| service for homes and small businesses. | |
| BOC stands for Bell Operating Company, and it refers to the small companies | |
| that were formed after the breakup of AT&T. | |
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| 2600 Magazine Vs. Computel Wednesday, February 26, 1986 | |
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| The following post was seen on Stronghold East Elite on the above date. | |
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| We're seriously thinking of taking some action against those nasty people at | |
| Computel. We published a letter this month which implied that the whole | |
| operation was really a fairly sophisticated FBI scam. | |
| We need to know as many facts as possible. Please contact us on Stronghold East | |
| thru e-mail, in person, or call (516) 751-2600. If we're not around, leave a | |
| message saying when you'll call back and we'll try to be there. | |
| Tell us if you've had personal experience with Computel or if you know others | |
| who have. If anyone has cancelled checks or the equivalent, let us know! | |
| Also, if anyone can send us a Computel ad, which somehow everyone here at 2600 | |
| managed to miss, it would be helpful. Send that to: | |
| 2600 | |
| PO Box 99 | |
| Middle Island, NY 11953 | |
| Note: That's not our subscription address. Subscriptions are at PO Box 752. | |
| We may not be able to get these people prosecuted, but we can sure raise one | |
| hell of a stink trying. | |
| 2600/eg | |
| Let it be said that hackers and phreaks will never stand aside | |
| and be ripped off! | |
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| At this time we at Phrack have been able to uncover nothing more about the | |
| Computel situation. | |
| Information provided by (of course) | |
| 2600 Magazine | |
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| Mister Carding Busted | |
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| Mister Carding first started in the profession of which his name comes forth in | |
| the summer of 1984. Since then he has accumulated roughly $45,000 worth of | |
| merchandise. | |
| He was caught once before in the summer of 1985 by Federal agents. However, as | |
| the investigation went on, they didn't have enough material and dropped the | |
| charges. | |
| Somewhere around the fourth week of February he was caught again, this time by | |
| local authorities. Here is how it all started: | |
| "Two months ago, I had tons of stuff coming in and had another guy picking it | |
| up. One night two weeks or so ago I had him go out to pick up a 20 meg 3 1/2 | |
| inch hard drive. It was only the second time I had used that place as a drop | |
| spot. Unfortunately, he walked right into a police stakeout and he was | |
| followed, first to my house and then to his own." | |
| The next day the police went to the house of the friend and arrested him. He | |
| willingly signed an affidavit stating that Mr. Carding was the mastermind | |
| behind the whole operation and that he was just an accomplice. | |
| The court date has not yet been set but his crimes are as follows: | |
| - Fraudulent use of a credit card. | |
| - Possession of stolen merchandise in excessive amounts. | |
| - Computer Invasion (Hacking). | |
| On March 6, 1986: | |
| - The police confiscated his modem. It had been carded. | |
| - He had a meeting with the detectives, in which he had to take a lie detector | |
| test. They asked him if he was lying about any part of the case, if he | |
| hacked into computers, and if he was using one specific person's card. | |
| - He failed the test. | |
| The police believe he hacked into the computer of a bank in New Jersey, Mr. | |
| carding denies all of it. However it is the truth. | |
| Most people didn't know it but Mr. Carding was one of the better hackers around | |
| and should be remembered. | |
| He is pleading innocent to all charges and has signed a reverse affidavit | |
| stating that the other guy was the mastermind. | |
| He, as of this writing, has not been arrested but expects to have full charges | |
| brought on him within the next week. | |
| Information provided by Mister Carding | |
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| Boston Strangler Caught Scanning | |
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| The Boston Strangler was caught scanning, he wasn't scanning an extender, he | |
| was scanning a prefix in his home town. The phone company shut his line off and | |
| now Boston Strangler may have to go to court, he claims he is under 1XB but | |
| this is doubtful. | |
| An employee of the phone company actually called him and told him to not use | |
| the phone because his supervisor was checking for trouble on the line. | |
| Apparently Boston Strangler scanned the entire prefix and once he was finished | |
| the phone company called and said that he was in a lot of trouble. | |
| Information provided by taRfruS | |
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| AT&T Suing The BOCs | |
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| American Telephone and Telegraph is allegedly filing an 80 million dollar | |
| lawsuit on the Bell Operating Companies. They filed a complaint with the FCC | |
| in January 1986 that claims that certain BOCs owe AT&T 80 million dollars | |
| because they failed to perform specific duties which were part of their billing | |
| and collection contracts. | |
| It is not known how much each company owes with the exception of Northwestern | |
| Bell who owes $2 million. | |
| Information provided by Jester Sluggo | |
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| Speed Demon Elite; Will It Return? | |
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| The rumors are true, Radical Rocker did forget to pay his phone bill, and as a | |
| result Speed Demon Elite was shut down. | |
| Any talk about SDE being busted for having credit card information on the board | |
| should be ignored as it is completely false and only one phreak's | |
| interpretation of past events. | |
| Radical Rocker has stated that everyone should expect Speed Demon Elite to | |
| return in the near future. | |
| Speed Demon Elite | |
| 415-522-3074 | |
| Information provided by Radical Rocker | |
| Thanx to Investigative Reporting by Taran King | |
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| Private Sector Damaged/Returning | |
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| The Private Sector, which was supposed to have been returned by the 16th of | |
| February, 1986 had been damaged in the hands of the authorities. According to | |
| them, "one of the cards blew up." They say that this happened before they had | |
| the chance to erase the two "illegal" files they found on the hard drive. So | |
| now then they had to hold onto it a bit longer. Naturally 2600 Magazine | |
| suspected intentional foul play and stepped up the pressure on them to return | |
| Private Sector. 2600 suspected the card they authorities were referring to was | |
| the hard disk controller. They wouldn't stick another controller from another | |
| machine in and they wouldn't let 2600 Magazine even look at the machine. What | |
| an outrage! | |
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| On Friday, February 28, 2600 Magazine announced the following. | |
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| Private Sector has finally been returned, and is in the process of being | |
| repaired. It will be back up in the near future at the same number as before; | |
| 201-366-4431. Call 2600 Magazine at 516-751-2600 for more details. | |
| At the current writing of this article, Private Sector is up and running. Only | |
| time will tell if it will ever be the great bbs it once was. | |
| Information provided by 2600 Magazine | |
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| TelePub'86 | |
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| The 1986 TelePub meeting (originally planned up by Sigmund Fraud) was held on | |
| the second floor of the Days Inn Hotel at 440 W.57th St. New York, NY. | |
| Supposedly the first Telepub meeting since 1980, when one was held in | |
| Washington DC. The meeting room was called by some "The Colosseum." | |
| There was a $10 admission fee to the meeting room. Supposedly Chesire | |
| Catalyst's girlfriend (who some said was blind and had a seeing eye dog) was | |
| collecting the money and handing out the name tags. | |
| Some say there were about 25-30 people there in total, but Broadway Hacker | |
| stated that there was only 23. This included: | |
| Broadway Hacker | |
| Chesire Catalyst + girlfriend | |
| Dr. PHATE (P>hreaks H>ackers A>nd T>elecom E>nthusiasts) | |
| Karl Marx | |
| Lou Dolinar (reporter from Newsday Magazine in Long Island) | |
| Ninja NYC | |
| Private Sector + girl (Incidentally the programmer of the NEW Private Sector | |
| BBS) | |
| Sammy Junkins | |
| Scan Man | |
| Sigmund Fraud + friend | |
| Slave Driver | |
| The Bootleg | |
| The Cracker | |
| The Lineman | |
| 2600 Magazine - Tim and Paul | |
| Most noted for not showing up were TUC and TWCB Inc. Since this meeting was | |
| generally supposed to be about the revival of TAP Magazine, it was VERY | |
| surprising to some that TWCB didn't go. To others however, this was expected. | |
| Their reason (excuse) has something to do with late plane arrivals and legal | |
| problems (probably dealing with restrictions due to their probation. Supposedly | |
| TUC's phone number was posted on the board at the front of the meeting room for | |
| those who wanted to get in touch with him. | |
| There was basically chit chat until around 11:15 am when Chesire Catalyst began | |
| talking about CCIS (Common Channel Inter-Office Signaling). His speech really | |
| told nothing new but the best part of the discussion came out of the many | |
| questions that were asked by the audience. Also around 11:15 is when Tim and | |
| Paul from 2600 Magazine showed up. | |
| A little later, Scan Man and The Bootleg started to discuss the possibilities | |
| of satellite phreaking, and up & down linking. | |
| A little later, Private Sector appeared and with him came an ad from Personal | |
| Computing Magazine. The ad was from none other than Computel. Computel, the | |
| supposed and almost definite fed operation magazine was discussed for quite a | |
| long time. | |
| Chesire Catalyst began to distribute the final issue of TAP. It was issue #91, | |
| Spring 1984. It included articles about credit agencies and UNIX, from BIOC; | |
| Hacking Western Union, by TUC; Phreaks and hackers Morality, by Big Brother; | |
| Passport check sums, and Bell Pie, among others. | |
| 2600 Magazine gave out their latest issue, February 1986, Volume 3 Number 2 as | |
| well as other promotional items. | |
| Sigmund Fraud was giving out older issues of TAP. | |
| Among other things, BBS numbers were passed and there were all sorts of | |
| telecommunication magazines lying around. | |
| There was a break for lunch. When they returned Scan Man started in on Chesire | |
| about the money that MANY had sent in to TAP and never received the magazine or | |
| their money back. Chesire replied, "It went to pay my bills." He also made | |
| other remarks about how he hasn't spent it all and how he may send it back but | |
| he really didn't ever answer the questions that Scan Man put to him. | |
| Much of this information came from Slave Driver and Sigmund Fraud | |
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| Co-sysop: Cheap Shades | |
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| System Configuration: | |
| - IBM PC with 2 Half Height Teac 360k Floppy Drives | |
| - 20Meg MiniScribe Hard Drive | |
| - Hayes SmartModem 1200 | |
| - Epson LQ-1500 Printer | |
| - Total of 448k of RAM and expecting 2 Meg soon | |
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| While Metal Shop Brewery is mainly an IBM Pirate Board, it also has interesting | |
| message bases. | |
| Some of them include these topics: | |
| - New Users | |
| - Bulletin Boards | |
| - General Schtuff | |
| - Programming | |
| - Things that go BOOM! (Anarchy) | |
| - Hacking | |
| - Phreaking | |
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