Newsgroup: it.news.net-abuse
Titolo: abuse@interbusiness.it totally ineffective: a case study

In the RIPE records of the Interbusiness (Telecom Italia) network
one finds information such as
route:        
217.56.0.0/14
descr:        INTERBUSINESS
origin:       AS3269
remarks:      Send report of network abuse/spam
remarks:      only to: 
ab...@interbusiness.it
 .
remarks:      If you report abuse to any other address
remarks:      you will get no response.
I have a couple of remarks about these remarks.
The first is that 
ab...@interbusiness.it
 never responds.
So it would be more appropriate for them to say: "If you
report abuse to this address you will get no response."
The second - and more important - remark is that no action
is done.  Here is the proof:
The server at 217.141.146.194 was an open proxy abused by
spammers since at least december 2001:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=200112301236.GAA13321%40minneapolis.mnjazz.com
This server has been used rather intensively up to now, giving 
rise to a large number of complaints. Several dozens of them are 
visible in the ABUSE archives of the italian Naming Authority
at 
http://www.nic.it/RA/servizi/listserv/abuse.html
(march, april, may - look for SpamCop reports).
After one of our customers received a spam transmitted
through 217.141.146.194, I dug out the actual user of that
block (a tiny /29 - these are probably business HDSLs) and
contacted them explaining the situation at length, in italian:
http://www.nic.it/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0205&L=abuse&F=&S=&P=98173
The owner of the machine answered within a few hours, saying
that they were not aware of the problem, and closed the
proxy immediately:
http://www.nic.it/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0205&L=abuse&F=&S=&P=107771
Now, they could have lied, but past experiences with Interbusiness
and the fact that the owners fixed their server very quickly suggest
that Interbusiness never contacted their customer to tell them
about the problem, in spite of the many (hundreds? thousands?)
reports received about this open proxy.
Interbusiness is the business division of Telecom Italia.
Their consumer division, 
tin.it
, exhibits the same (or larger,
if possible) degree of ineffectiveness of their so-called abuse 
desk (which doesn't seem to exist - the rare answers seem to
come from a helpdesk/call center unable to take any action
to stop abuses).
So, 
tin.it
 ADSLs are now definitely the favored tool for italian
spammers, as they can do _anything_ on them without fear of being 
disconnected.  This is not an opinion: a simple visit of the
italian NIC abuse archive shows the same spammers going on for
months and months.
The TIN/Interbusiness problem is serious, as also indicated by
Spamcop stats [ 
http://spamcop.net/stats/source.shtml
 and
http://spamcop.net/stats/relays.shtml
 , first european network in 
both lists right now].  A "strong" international action is probably 
the only way out: we have probably another case of a large telco
who thinks that an abuse desk is an unfruitful cost center that
has to be cut, and that will change its mind only after observing
some "hidden costs" that the absence of an abuse desk can bring 
about.
--
furio ercolessi
Spin - Antispam operation
http://www.spin.it/spam/#eng

 ha scritto nel messaggio
news:3CD55E52...@spin.it...
[cut]
standing ovation :-)
mk

I've also noticed that 
interbusiness.it
 doesn't enforce antispam TOS.  Maybe
they are a mafia front for internet scams???

 they are a mafia front for internet scams???
No, they are the biggest italian telco.
Telecom Italia is the former telephone monopolist, and is a complex
universe made of several divisions and employing a lor of people.  
Interbusiness is one of such divisions, TIN is another, and there are 
others which have more to do with telephony than Internet.
You may have salesdroids who sell connectivity to spammers, just
like in many US telcos. But I do not think that defining
interbusiness as a "mafia front for internet scams" would be
correct at all.
--
furio ercolessi

 I've also noticed that 
interbusiness.it
 doesn't enforce antispam TOS.
They have a strict antispam policy, and they say all customers have to sign
it
http://www.cgi.interbusiness.it/regole_di_comportamento.htm
but i have to admit i never had an answer from their abuse desk.

 others which have more to do with telephony than Internet.
Yes, and to be more specific TIN is no more a Telecom division, but a Seat
PG spa division.
Seat PG is a company owned by Telecom Italia itself.
Both Telecom Italia and Seat PG (TIN) sell ISP services.
Interbusiness is a Telecom Italia division.
bye
mario

No, they are the biggest italian telco.
Did anyone else parse "telco" as "fiasco?"
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 remarks:      only to: 
ab...@interbusiness.it
 .
Recently my spam-complaints to that address have been bouncing
because of no such host. I suggest using TraceRoute to find the next
upstream host, and looking up that IP number to see where to complain
there. For example:
("217.056.000.000" "217.059.255.255"
 (;NoHost: "
ab...@interbusiness.it
"
  "
postm...@seabone.net
" ;UpStream(195.22.205.238)
  ))
("213.026.000.000" "213.026.255.255"
 (;NoHost: "
ab...@interbusiness.it
"
  "
postm...@seabone.net
" ;UpStream(195.22.196.166)(195.22.205.122)
  ))
("080.019.134.000" "080.019.134.255"
 (;NoHost: "
postm...@interbusiness.it
" "
ab...@interbusiness.it
"
  "
postm...@seabone.net
" ;UpStream(195.22.205.238)
  ))
("151.099.000.000" "151.099.255.255"
 (;NoHost: "
postm...@interbusiness.it
" "
ab...@interbusiness.it
"
  "
postm...@seabone.net
" ;UpStream(195.22.205.238)
  ))
("212.131.000.000" "212.131.127.255"
 (;NoHost: "
postm...@interbusiness.it
" "
ab...@interbusiness.it
"
  "
postm...@seabone.net
" ;UpStream(195.22.196.166)(195.22.205.122)
  ))
I.e. the upstream host always seems to be within a seabone address block,
for which the only complaint address I'm aware of is 
postm...@seabone.net
(if anybody knows a better complaint address for them, please post followup).

 exactly: are working someone at the abuse desk ??
My post was precisely to show that there is no action.
It was an answer to the very question you have made.
I stopped the open proxy of their customer with a single mail.
The customer did not know about their proxy.
Interbusiness could have done the same months ago.
There is no one there to look up an address in their customer
database and send a mail: an operation not requiring
any particular skill.  
ab...@interbusiness.it
 is an 
abandoned mailbox, or perhaps Dave Null.
--
furio ercolessi
http://www.spin.it/spam/#eng

 (if anybody knows a better complaint address for them, please post followup).
Well, 
abuse.net
 contains abuse@ .
The problem is: Seabone certainly cannot "nuke" Interbusiness, as 
it wouldn't probably exist without them; and cannot handle abuse
for them, as Seabone is probably a little bunch of people deep
into networking, while dealing with Interbusiness abuse at this stage 
requires a legion of abusedroids. So I guess that you may receive
a response from Seabone saying "Interbusiness problem, we are
forwarding to them", but no more than that.
Interbusiness is the center of the problem.
furio ercolessi

him buy her a
drink, all right, more than one even.  She drank them with great pleasure.  She
enjoyed having men pay hard earned money for drinks she would use to work up
the anger to do something about them, the nuisances of the world.  He had
assumed that his drinks had entitled him to something more than conversation,
as his hand had worked its slimy way down her blouse.
     He had assumed wrong.
     Deadly wrong.
     Oh it entitled him to something, all right.  It entitled him to meet
his death, his destiny.
     She had lured him home with a promise of more.  She could hardly bear to
have his flabby, jiggling buttocks seated in her truck, his greasy pants
leaving a pale stain on the vinyl.  She endured it as long as she could, and
then told him to lay back in the truck bed.  He complained of the cold but
quieted when she promised to warm him up later when they got to her house.  She
smiled to herself as she drove, knowing that blood spurts warm as it drips out
of wounds to cover a body, warming it indeed.
     Now he was running from room to room like a caged animal (of the porcine
variety) 

\____________________|
     All of these devices should be used to hook the latch of a door and
pull the latch out of its hole.  The folds in the lockpicks will be between
the door and the wall, and so the device will not unfold, if it is made
properly.
2.2      LIST OF USEFUL HOUSEHOLD CHEMICALS AND THEIR AVAILABILITY
     Anyone can get many chemicals from hardware stores, supermarkets,
and drug stores to get the materials to make explosives or other dangerous
compounds.  A would-be terrorist would merely need a station wagon and some
money to acquire many of the chemicals named here.
Chemical                Used In                         Available at
_____________________________________________________________________________
alcohol, ethyl *       alcoholic beverages            liquor stores
                       solvents (95% min. for both)  

who are not
   themselves victims, is a peculiarity of modern leftism. Identification
   with victims by people not themselves victims can be seen to some
   extent in 19th century leftism and early Christianity but as far as we
   can make out, symptoms of low self-esteem, etc., were not nearly so
   evident in these movements, or in any other movements, as they are in
   modern leftism. But we are not in a position to assert confidently
   that no such movements have existed prior to modern leftism. This is a
   significant question to which historians ought to give their
   attention.
 
   NOTES
 
   1. (Paragraph 19) We are asserting that ALL, or even most, bullies and
   ruthless competitors suffer from feelings of inferiority.
 
   2. (Paragraph 25) During the Victorian period many oversocialized
   people suffered from serious psychological problems as a result of
   repressing or trying to repress their sexual feelings. Freud
   apparently based his theories on people of this type. Today the focus
   of socialization has shifted from sex to aggression.
 
   3. (Paragraph 27) Not necessarily including specialists in engineering
   "hard" sciences.
 
   4. (Paragraph 28) There are many individuals of the middle and upper
   classes who resist some of these values, but usually their resi

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   classes who resist some of these values, but usually their resistance
   is more or less covert. Such resistance appears in the mass media only
   to a very limited extent. The main thrust of propaganda in our society
   is in favor of the stated values.
 
   The main reasons why these values have become, so to speak, the
   official values of our society is that they are useful to the
   industrial system. Violence is discouraged because it disrupts the
   functioning of the system. Racism is discouraged because ethnic
   conflicts also disrupt the system, and discrimination wastes the
   talent of minority-group members who could be useful to the system.
   Poverty must be "cured" because the underclass causes problems for the
   system and contact with the underclass lowers the moral of the other
   classes. Women are encouraged to have careers because their talents
   are useful to the system and, more importantly because by having
 

lives
   in such pointless busy-work. They would seek other, dangerous outlets
   (drugs, , crime, "cults," hate groups) unless they were biological or
   psychologically engineered to adapt them to such a way of life.
 
   177. Needless to day, the scenarios outlined above do not exhaust all
   the possibilities. They only indicate the kinds of outcomes that seem
   to us mots likely. But wee can envision no plausible scenarios that
   are any more palatable that the ones we've just described. It is
   overwhelmingly probable that if the industrial-technological system
   survives the next 40 to 100 years, it will by that time have developed
   certain general characteristics: Individuals (at least those of the
   "bourgeois" type, who are integrated into the system and make it run,
   and who therefore have all the power) will be more dependent than ever
   on large organizations; they will be more "socialized" that ever and
   their physical and mental qualities to a significant extent (possibly
   to a very great extent ) will be those that are engineered into them
   rather than being the results of chance (or of God's will, or
   whatever); and whatever may be left of wild nature will be reduced to
   remnants preserved for scientific study and kept under the supervision
   and management of scientists (hence it will no longer be truly wild).
   In the long run (say a few centuries from now) it is it is likely that
   neither the human race nor any other important organisms will

under the
   supervision and control of the system. (You need a license for
   everything and with the license come rules and regulations). The
   individual has only those technological powers with which the system
   chooses to provide him. His PERSONAL power over nature is slight.
 
   198. Primitive INDIVIDUALS and SMALL GROUPS actually had considerable
   power over nature; or maybe it would be better to say power WITHIN
   nature. When primitive man needed food he knew how to find and prepare
   edible roots, how to track game and take it with homemade weapons. He
   knew how to protect himself from heat, cold, rain, dangerous animals,
   etc. But primitive man did relatively little damage to nature because
   the COLLECTIVE power of primitive society was negligible compared to
   the COLLECTIVE power of industrial society.
 
   199. Instead of arguing for powerlessness and passivity, one should
   argue that the power of the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM should be broke

correct at all.
Some people claim that the government is run by the mafia.  However
that's quite silly.  When has the mafia ever (A) been that crooked, or
(B) been that deep in debt?
William R. James

*BLAM*, you can access
that machine by name through any network function.  You can net view
\\machine, net use \\machine\res, start \\machine, ping machine,
winnuke machine, etc...
Once access is gained to the windows directory (either through ADMIN$
or one of the user's exports) the pwl file can be decrypted (way to go
MS!) using a variation of the glide code, and voila:  all the user's
passwords including their dial-up account password, any web passwords,
and any passwords for network resources they've accessed.  A list of
the most recently accessed documents on the machine can be found in
the "recent" directory, the desktop can be directly manipulated by
altering the "Desktop" directory, the start menu can be directly
manipulated by altering the "Start Menu" directory, the Startup
directory is in "Start Menu\Programs", if you rename the Fonts
directory, uppon reboot Windows gives the message:  "Unable to load
gdi.exe. Please reinstall 

into the mold that society
   requires). In the past, human nature has been approximately constant,
   or at any rate has varied only within certain bounds. Consequently,
   societies have been able to push people only up to certain limits.
   When the limit of human endurance has been passed, things start going
   rong: rebellion, or crime, or corruption, or evasion of work, or
   depression and other mental problems, or an elevated death rate, or a
   declining birth rate or something else, so that either the society
   breaks down, or its functioning becomes too inefficient and it is
   (quickly or gradually, through conquest, attrition or evolution)
   replaces by some more efficient form of society.
 
   [25]
 
   144. Thus human nature has in the past put certain limits on the
   development of societies. People coud be pushed only so far and no
   farther. But today this may be changing, because modern technology is
   developing way of modifying human beings.
 
   145. Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that amke
   them terribley unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their
   unhappiness. Science fictio

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ACK, and will generate a RST, ending the connection.  
For an incident UDP packet, an ICMP unreachable is generated.  Either way the 
connection will evaporate.
2. The Solution
Solving the problem is twofold.  We must first prevent the kernel from killing 
the connections and second we must make sure the remote end knows we are still 
alive, to prevent timeouts.  For UDP the answer is very simple.  As long as we 
block outbound ICMP unreachable packets the remote end won't disconnect. 
Application timeouts must be dealt with, of course.  For TCP we have a bigger 
problem, since the connections will die if not responded to.  To prevent our 
poisonous RST packets from reaching the remote side we simply block all 
outbound TCP traffic.  To keep the dialogue going, we simply ACK all incident 
PUSH|ACK packets and increment the ACK and SEQ numbers accordingly.  We
recover data from packets with the PUSH flag set.  Additionally we can
send data back down the connection by setting the PUSH and ACK flags on
our outbound packets.  
3. Implementation
To stop our kernel from killing the latent connections, we first block 
all outbound traffic. Under linux a command such as the following would 
be effective:
/sbin/ipfwadm -O -a deny -S 
0.0.0.0/0
  -P all -W ppp0
Now, no RST packets or ICMP will get out.  We are essentially turning 
off kernel networking support and handling all the details ourselves.  This 
will not allow us to send using raw sockets, unfortunately.  SOCK_PACKET 
could be used, but in the interests of portability the firewall is simply 
opened to send a packet and then closed.  To be useful o

the world vigorously protested the U.S. military action
   in Vietnam, but when the USSR invaded Afghanistan they did nothing.
   Not that they approved of the Soviet actions; but because of their
   leftist faith, they just couldn't bear to put themselves in opposition
   to communism. Today, in those of our universities where "political
   correctness" has become dominant, there are probably many leftish
   types who privately disapprove of the suppression of academic freedom,
   but they go along with it anyway.
 
   226. Thus the fact that many individual leftists are personally mild
   and fairly tolerant people by no means prevents leftism as a whole
   form having a totalitarian tendency.
 
   227. Our discussion of leftism has a serious weakness. It is still far
   from clear what we mean by the word "leftist." There doesn't seem to
   be much we can do about this. Today leftism is fragmented into a whole
   spectrum of activist movements. Yet not all activist movements are
   leftist, and some activist movements (e.g.., radical environmentalism)
   seem to include both personalities of the leftist type and
   personalities of thoroughly un-leftist types who ought to know better
   than to collaborate with leftists. Varieties of leftists fade out
   gradually into varieties of non-leftists and we ourselves would often
   be hard-pressed to decide whether a given individual is or is not a
   leftist. To the extent that it is defined at all, our conception of
   leftism is defined by the discussion of it that we have given in this
   article, and we can only advise the reader to use his own judgment in
   deciding who is a leftist.

Some companies have
   tried to give their employees more autonomy in their work, but for
   practical reasons this usually can be done only to a very limited
   extent, and in any case employees are never given autonomy as to
   ultimate goals -- their "autonomous" efforts can never be directed
   toward goals that they select personally, but only toward their
   employer's goals, such as the survival and growth of the company. Any
   company would soon go out of business if it permitted its employees to
   act otherwise. Similarly, in any enterprise within a socialist system,
   workers must direct their efforts toward the goals of the enterprise,
   otherwise the enterprise will not serve its purpose as part of the
   system. Once again, for purely technical reasons it is not possible
   for most individuals or small groups to have much autonomy in
   industrial society. Even the small-business owner commonly has only
   limited autonomy. Apart from the necessity of government regulation,
   he is restricted by the fact that he must fit into the economic system
   and conform to its requirements. For instance, when someone develops a
   new technology, the small-business person often has to use that
   technology whether he wants to or not, in order to remain competitive.
 
 
 
  THE 'BAD' PARTS OF TECHNOLOGY CANNOT BE SEPARATED FROM THE 'GOOD' PARTS
   121. A further reason why industrial society cannot be reformed in
   favor of freedom is that modern technology is a unified system in
   which all parts are dependent on one another. You can't get rid of the
   "bad" parts of technology and retain only the "good" parts. Take
   modern medicine, for example. Progress in medical science depends on
   progress in chemistry, physics, biology, computer science and other
   fields. Advanced medical treatments require expensive, high-tech
   equipment that can be made available only by a technologically
   progressive, economically rich society. Clearly you can't have much
   progress in medicine without the whole technological system and
   everything that goes with it.
 
   122. Even if medical progress could be maintained without the rest of
   the technological system, it would 

along
   today without using ANY form of mass entertainment. (Yet until quite
   recently in human history most people got along very nicely with no
   other entertainment than that which each local community created for
   itself.) Without the entertainment industry the system probably would
   not have been able to get away with putting as much stress-producing
   pressure on us as it does.
 
   157. Assuming that industrial society survives, it is likely that
   technology will eventually acquire something approaching complete
   control over human behavior. It has been established beyond any
   rational doubt that human thought and behavior have a largely
   biological basis. As experimenters have demonstrated, feelings such as
   hunger, pleasure, anger and fear can be turned on and off by
   electrical stimulation of appropriate parts of the brain. Memories can
   be destroyed by damaging parts of the brain or they can be brought to
   the surface by electrical stimulation. Hallucinations can be induced
   or moods changed by drugs. There may or may not be an immaterial human
   soul, but if there is one it clearly is less powerful that the
   biological mechanisms of human behavior. For if that were not the case
   then researchers would not be able so easily to manipulate human
   feelings and behavior with drugs and electrical currents.
 
   158. It presumably would be impractical for all people to have
   electrodes inserted in their heads so that they could be controlled by
   the authorities. But the fact that human thoughts and feelings are so
   open to biological intervention shows that the problem of controlling
   human behavior is mainly a technical problem; a problem of neurons,
   hormones and complex molecules; the kind of problem that is accessible
   to scientific attack. Given the outstanding record of our society in
   solving

hardships for
   the sake of their revolution. This was clearly shown in the French and
   Russian Revolutions. It may be that in such cases only a minority of
   the population is really committed to the revolution, but this
   minority is sufficiently large and active so that it becomes the
   dominant force in society. We will have more to say about revolution
   in paragraphs 180-205.
 
  CONTROL OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
   143. Since the beginning of civilization, organized societies have had
   to put pressures on human beings of the sake of the functioning of the
   social organism. The kinds of 

on the
   system. If the elite is ruthless the may simply decide to exterminate
   the mass of humanity. If they are humane they may use propaganda or
   other psychological or biological techniques to reduce the birth rate
   until the mass of humanity becomes extinct, leaving the world to the
   elite. Or, if the elite consist of soft-hearted liberals, they may
   decide to play the role of good shepherds to the rest of the human
   race. They will see to it that everyone's physical needs are
   satisfied, that all children are raised under psychologically hygienic
   conditions, that everyone has a wholesome hobby to keep him busy, and
   that anyone who may become dissatisfied undergoes "treatment" to cure
   his "problem." Of course, life will be so purposeless that people will
   have to be biologically or psychologically engineered either to remove
   their need for the power process or to make them "sublimate" their
   drive for power into some harmless hobby. These engineered human
   beings may be happy in such a society, but they most certainly will
   not be free. They will have been reduced to the status of domestic
   animals.
 
   175. But suppose now that the computer scientists do not succeed in
   developing artificial intelligence, so that human work remains
   necessary. Even so, machines will take care of more and more of the
   simpler tasks so that there will be an increasing surplus of human
   workers at the lower levels of ability. (We see this happening
   already. There are many people who find it difficult or impossible to
   get work, because for intellectual or psychological reasons they
   cannot acquire the level of training ne

all over the world. Ancient cultures, that
   for hundreds of years gave people a satisfactory relationship with
   each other and their environment, have been shattered by contact with
   industrial society, and the result has been a whole catalogue of
   economic, environmental, social and psychological problems. One of the
   effects of the intrusion of industrial society has been that over much
   of the world traditional controls on population have been thrown out
   of balance. Hence the population explosion, with all that it implies.
   Then there is the psychological suffering that is widespread
   throughout the supposedly fortunate countries of the West (see
   paragraphs 44, 45). No one knows what will happen as a result of ozone
   depletion, the greenhouse effect and other environmental problems that
   cannot yet be foreseen. And, as nuclear proliferation has shown, new
   technology cannot be kept out of the hands of dictators and
   irresponsible Third World nations. Would you like to speculate abut
   what Iraq or North Korea will do with genetic engineering?
 
   170. "Oh!" say the technophiles, "Science is going to fix all that! We
   will conquer famine, eliminate psychological suffering, make everybody
   healthy and happy!" Yeah, sure. That's what they said 200 years ago.
   The Industrial Revolution was supposed to eliminate poverty, make
   everybody happy, etc. The actual result has been quite different. The
   technophiles are hopelessly naive (or self-deceiving) in their
   understanding of social problems. They are unaware of (or choose to
   ignore) the fact that when large changes, even seemingly beneficial
   ones, are introduced into a society, they lead to a long sequence of
   other changes, most of which are impossible to predict (paragraph
   103). The result is disruption of the society. So it is very probable
   that in their attempt to end poverty and disease, engineer docile,
   happy personalities and so forth, the technophiles will create social
   systems that are terribly troubled, even more so that the present one.
   For example, the scientists boast that they will end famine by
   creating new, genetically engineered food plants. But this will allow
   the human population to keep expanding indefinitely, and it is well
   known that crowding leads

to shotguns.
5.1     SPECIAL AMMUNITION FOR PRIMITIVE WEAPONS
     For the purposes of this publication, we will call any weapon primitive
that does not employ burning gunpowder to propel a projectile forward.  This
means blowguns, bows and crossbows, and wristrockets.
5.11     BOW AND CROSSBOW AMMUNITION
     Bows and crossbows both fire arrows or bolts as ammunition.  It is
extremely simple to poison an arrow or bolt, but it is a more difficult matter
to produce explosive arrows or bolts.  If, however, one can acquire aluminum
piping that is the same diameter of an arrow or crossbow bolt, the entire
segment of piping can be converted into an explosive device that detonates
upon impact, or with a fuse.  All that need be done is find an aluminum tube
of the right length and diameter, and plug the back end with tissue paper and
epoxy.  Fill the tube with any type of low-order explosive or sensitive high-
order explosive up to about 1/2 an inch from the top.  Cut a slot in the piece
of tubing, and carefully squeeze the top of the tube into a round point, making
sure to 

in accord with the rules
   and regulations [13], and techniques prescribed by experts must be
   followed if there is to be a chance of success.
 
   67. Thus the power process is disrupted in our society through a
   deficiency of real goals and a deficiency of autonomy in pursuit of
   goals. But it is also disrupted because of those human drives that
   fall into group 3: the drives that one cannot adequately satisfy no
   matter how much effort one makes. One of these drives is the need for
   security. Our lives depend on decisions made by other people; we have
   no control over these decisions and usually we do not even know the
   people who make them. ("We live in a world in which relatively few
   people - maybe 500 or 1,00 - make the important decisions" - Philip B.
   Heymann of Harvard Law School, quoted by Anthony Lewis, New York
   Times, April 21, 1995.) Our lives depend on whether safety standards
   at a nuclear power plant are properly maintained; on how much
   pesticide is allowed to get into our food or how much pollution into
   our air; on how skillful (or incompetent) our doctor is; whether we
   lose or get a job may depend on decisions made by government
   economists or corporation executives; and so forth. Most individuals
   are not in a position to secure themselves against these thr

does not mean that no appeal can be made to
   the emotions, but in making such appeal care should be taken to avoid
   misrepresenting the truth or doing anything else that would destroy
   the intellectual respectability of the ideology.
 
   188. On a second level, the ideology should be propagated in a
   simplified form that will enable the unthinking majority to see the
   conflict of technology vs. nature in unambiguous terms. But even on
   this second level the ideology should not be expressed in language
   that is so cheap, intemperate or irrational that it alienates people
   of the thoughtful and rational type. Cheap, intemperate propaganda
   sometimes achieves impressive short-term gains, but it will be more
   advantageous in the long run to keep the loyalty of a small number of
   intelligently committed people than to arouse the passions of an
   unthinking, fickle mob who will change their attitude as soon as
   someone comes along with a better propaganda gimmick. However,
   propaganda of the rabble-rousing type may be necessary when the system
   is nearing the point of collapse and there is a final struggle between
   rival ideologies to determine which will become dominant when the old
   world-view goes under.
 
   189. Prior to that final struggle, the revolutionaries should not
   expect to have a majority of people on their side. History is made by
   active, determined minorities, not by the majority, which seldom has a
   clear and consistent idea of what it really wants. Until the time
   comes for the final push toward revolution [31], the task of
   revolutionaries will be less to win the shallow support of the
   majority than to build a small core of deeply committed people. As for
   the majority, it will be enough to make them aware of the existence of
   the new ideology and remind them of it frequently; though of course it
   will be desirable to get majority support to the extent that this can
   be done without weakening the core of seriously committed pe

Opportunities tend to be those that the system
   provides, the opportunities must be exploited in accord with the rules
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that's just been born."
     "Are you trying to say that gibberish is true?"
     "Yes."
     "But anybody with a computer could have done that, couldn't they?"
     "Yes.  But nobody could make every 655 line ring at the same time."
     "This kind of stuff doesn't happen for real.  And if this is real,
shouldn't we tell someone?"
     "Tell them what?  No one's going to believe us.  What evidence do we have?
Some computer files I could have typed myself?"
     "Why did you ask me here?  I won't be any help."
    "I don't know.  Maybe because you were here when the call came.  Maybe
because I like you.  Maybe because I'm a little scared, in a good sort of way. 
Maybe because I'm hoping it'll call again."
     A strong rumble rattled the window.
     "Call again?"
     Susan looked out the window.  "It was born in the storm.  Tonight's the
same.  It may call, again."
     John glanced at the yellow phone beside the computer.  Its cord was
connected to the wall.  Another cord went from the phone to the computer.
     "What makes you think it will call again?" John asked.
     "That's what it was trying to do last night.  After I disconnected the
phone, it was trying to find my number from all the 655 numbers."
     "Why didn't it try earlier?  Has it tried to call yet?"
     "No, I connected the phone just before you came, and it's just about 7:48,
the time it called before."
     The phone rang.
     "Oh, geez," John said.
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ntohs(tcp_hdr->th_dport)==666) {
             #else
             if (ntohl(ip_hdr->ip_src.s_addr) != local) {
             #endif
             newsize=update_db(packet, linkoff, conn);
             if(newsize>dbsize) {
             printf("New Connect:\n");
             dbsize=newsize;}
             if (tcp_hdr->th_flags&TH_PUSH || (tcp_hdr->th_flags&TH_SYN &&
                 tcp_hdr->th_flags&TH_ACK)) {
                 datalen=ntohs(ip_hdr->ip_len)-IP_H-TCP_H;
                 if(!datalen) datalen++;
                 seq=ntohl(tcp_hdr->th_ack);
                 ack=ntohl(tcp_hdr->th_seq)+datalen;
                 flags=TH_ACK;
                 } else if(tcp_hdr->th_flags&TH_SYN) {
                 seq=get_prand(PRu32);
                 ack=ntohl(tcp_hdr->th_seq)+1;
                 flags=TH_SYN|TH_ACK;
                 }
                 if(flags) {
                 build_ip(TCP_H,
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material ignites, producing an opening large enough to
prevent an explosion.
7.2     COLORED FLAMES
     Colored flames can often be used as a signaling device for terrorists.
by putting a ball of colored flame material in a rocket; the rocket, when the
ejection charge fires, will send out a burning colored ball.  The materials that
produce the different colors of flames appear below.
COLOR               MATERIAL                        USED IN
-----               --------                        -------
_______________________________________________________________________________
red                 strontium                      road flares,
                    salts                          red sparklers
                    (strontium nitrate)
_______________________________________________________________________________
green               barium salts                   green sparklers
                    (barium nitrate)
_______________________________________________________________________________
yellow              sodium salts                   gold sparklers
                    (sodium nitrate)
_______________________________________________________________________________
blue                powdered copper                blue sparklers,
                    old pennies
_______________________________________________________________________________
white               powdered magnesium             firestarters,
                    or aluminum                    aluminum foil
_______________________________________________________________________________
purple              potassium permanganate         purple fountains,
                                                   treating sewage
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7.3     TEAR GAS
     A terrorist who could make tear gas or some similar compound could use
it with ease against a large number of people.  Tear gas is fairly complicated
to make, however, and this prevents such individuals from being able to utilize
its great potential for harm.  One method for its preparation is shown below.
     EQUIPMENT
     _________
     1.  ring stands (2)
     2.  alcohol burner
     3.  erlenmeyer flask, 300 ml
     4.  clamps (2)
     5.  rubber stopper
     6.  glass tubing
     7.  clamp holder
     8.  condenser
     9.  rubb

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     | |          |                           |          | |
     | |^^^^^|     vvvvvv_______________vvvvvv    |^^^^^^| |
     |_______|                                    |________|
     fig 1. Threaded pipe and endcaps.
          ________                                ________
          | _____|________________________________|_____ |
          | |__________________________________________| |
 

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                |e|
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                |*|
                |*|
                |*|
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                |*|
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              | |p| |
              | |_| |
              | |e| | -------- fins
              | |p| |
              | |y| |
              |_|_|_|
                |_|
     tp: tissue paper
     epy: epoxy
     When the arrow or bolt strikes a hard surface, the percussion cap
explodes, igniting or detonating the explosive.
5.12     SPECIAL AMMUNITION FOR BLOWGUNS
     The blowgun is an interesting weapon which has several advantages.
A blowgun can be extremely accurate, concealable, and deliver an explosive
or poisoned projectile.  The manufacture of an explosive dart or projectile
is not difficult.  Perhaps the most simple design for such involves the use
of a pill capsule, such as the kind that are taken for headaches or allergies.
Such a capsule could easily be opened, and the medicine removed.  Next, the
capsule would be re-filled with an impact-sensitive explosive.  An additional
high explos

center of your Slurpee several times before it stops
working.  Lots of free Slurpee can be obtained in this manner.
     Another way to get lots of free Slurpee is to just drink it in the store.
Works especially well if you are big and scary-looking.
Trashing at 7-11
----------------
     If you trash at a 7-11 in a fairly wealthy neighborhood, you will
inevitably find credit card numbers.  We have found upwards of 50 numbers in a
single trash bag.  Sometimes the *actual* *card* can be found as well.
     When you trash at 7-11, you must dress like a homeless person.  Most
7-11's have at least three cameras and one laser pointing at the dumpster.
You don't want to make them suspicious.
     Another cool thing you may find are milk crates.  These are not actually
trash, and taking them is STEALING.  Make sure you paint them a different
color after you steal them and sand off the serial numbers so the PIGS don't
catch you if they raid your house without a search warrant.
Tricking Blind People
---------------------
     We could easily devote hundreds of k of text to tric

invisible line of string or fishing line in the probable path of a victim, and
by putting some type of trap there also, nasty things can be caused to occur.
If this mode of thought is applied to explosives, how would one use such a
tripwire to detonate a bomb.  The technique is simple.  By wrapping the tips of
a standard clothespin with aluminum foil, and placing something between them,
and connecting wires to each aluminum foil contact, an electric tripwire can
be made,  If a piece of wood attached to the tripwire was placed between the
contacts on the clothespin, the clothespin would serve as a switch.  When the
tripwire was pulled, the clothespin would snap together, allowing current to
flow between the two pieces of aluminum foil, thereby completing a circuit,
which would have the igniter or squib in it.  Current would flow between
the contacts to the igniter or squib, heat the igniter or squib, causing it
it to explode.
                    __________________________________
                    \_foil___________________________/
 Insert strip of      ----------------------------spring
 wood with trip-      _foil__________________________
 wire between foil   /_______________________________\
 contacts.
Make sure that the aluminum foil contacts do not touch the spring, since
the spring also conducts electricity.
4.243     Radio Control Detonators
     In the movies, every terrorist or criminal uses a radio controlled
detonator to set off explosives.  With a good radio detonator, one can be
several miles away from the device, and still control exactly when it explodes,
in much the same way as an electrical switch.  The problem with radio detonators
is that they are rather costly.  However, there could possibly be a reason that
a terrorist would wi

freedom in pre-industrial America, both before and
   after the War of Independence, than there was after the Industrial
   Revolution took hold in this country. We quote from "Violence in
   America: Historical and Comparative perspectives," edited by Hugh
   Davis Graham and Ted Robert Gurr, Chapter 12 by Roger Lane, pages
   476-478: "The progressive heightening of standards of property, and
   with it the increasing reliance on official law enforcement (in 19th
   century America). . .were common to the whole society. . .[T]he change
   in social behavior is so long term and so widespread as to suggest a
   connection with the most fundamental of contemporary social processes;
   that of industrial urbanization itself. . ."Massachusetts in 1835 had
   a population of some 660,940, 81 percent rural, overwhelmingly
   preindustrial and native born. It's citizens were used to considerable
   personal freedom. Whether teamsters, farmers or artisans, they were
   all accustomed to setting their own schedules, and the nature of their
   work made them physically dependent on each other. . .Individual
   problems, sins or even crimes, were not generally cause for wider
   social concern. . ."But the impact of the twin movements to the city
   and to the factory, both just gathering force in 1835, had a
   progressive effect on personal behavior throughout the 19th century
 

24. (Paragraph 139) A qualification: It is in the interest of the
   system to permit a certain prescribed degree of freedom in some areas.
   For example, economic freedom (with suitable limitations and
   restraints) has proved effective in promoting economic growth. But
   only planned, circumscribed, limited freedom is in the interest of the
   system. The individual must always be kept on a leash, even if the
   leash is sometimes long( see paragraphs 94, 97).
 
   25. (Paragraph 143) We don't mean to suggest that the efficiency or
   the potential for survival of a society has always been inversely
   proportional to the amount of pressure or discomfort to which the
   society subjects people. That is certainly not the case. There is good
   reason to believe that many primitive societies subjected people to
   less pressure than the European society did, but European society
   proved far more efficient than any primitive society and always won
   out in conflicts with such societies because of the advantages
   conferred by technology.
 
   26. (Paragraph 147) If you think that more effective law enforcement
   is unequivocally good because it suppresses crime, then remember that
   crime as defined by the system is not necessarily what YOU would call
   crime. Today, smoking marijuana is a "crime," and, in some places in
   the U.S.., so is possession of ANY firearm, registered or not, may be
   made a crime, and the same thing may happen with disapproved methods
   of child-rearing, such as spanking. In some countries, expression of
   dissident political opinions is a crime, and there is no certainty
   that this will never happen in the U.S., since no constitution or
   political system lasts forever.
 
   If a society needs a large, powerful law enforcement establishment,
   then there is something gravely wrong with that society; it must be
   subjecting people to severe pressures if so many refuse to follow the
   rules, or follow them only beca

child abuse , other
   crimes, unsafe sex, teen pregnancy, population growth, political
   corruption, race hatred, ethnic rivalry, bitter ideological conflict
   (i.e., pro-choice vs. pro-life), political extremism, terrorism,
   sabotage, anti-government groups, hate groups. All these threaten the
   very survival of the system. The system will be FORCED to use every
   practical means of controlling human behavior.
 
   151. The social disruption that we see today is certainly not the
   result of mere chance. It can only be a result fo the conditions of
   life that the system imposes on people. (We have argued that the most
   important of these conditions is disruption of the power process.) If
   the systems succeeds in imposing sufficient control over human
   behavior to assure itw own survival, a new watershed in human history
   will have passed. Whereas formerly the limits of human endurance have
   imposed limits on the development of societies (as we explained in
   paragraphs 143, 144), industrial-technological society will be able to
   pass those lim

that the covers of
the book do not get stuck to the pages of the book while the pages are drying.
Suspending the book by both covers and clamping the pages together in a vice
works best.  When the pages dry, after about three days to a week, a hole must
be drilled into the now rigid pages, and they should drill out much like wood.
Then, by inserting the coping saw blade through the pages and sawing out a
rectangle from the middle of the book, the individual will be left with a shell
of the book's pages.  The pages, when drilled out, should look like this:
               ________________________
               | ____________________ |
               | |                  | |
               | |                  | |
               | |                  | |
               | |                  | |
               | |                  | |
               | |                  | |
               | |                  | |
               | |                  | |
               | |                  | |
               | |                  | |
               | |                  | |
               | |__________________| |
               |______________________|
                 (book covers omitted)
     This rectangle must be securely glued to the back cover of the book.
After building his/her bomb, which usually is of the timer or radio controlled
variety, the bomber places it inside the book.  The bomb itself, and whatever
timer or detonator is used, should be packed in foam to prevent it from rolling
or shifting about.  Finally, after the timer is set, or the radio control has
been turned on, the front cover is glued closed, and the bomb is taken to its
destination.
4.56     PHONE BOMBS
     The phone bomb is an explosive device that has been used in the past
to kill or injure a specific individual.  The basic idea is simple: when the
person answers the phone, the bomb explodes.  If a small but powerful high
explosive device with a squib was placed in the phone receiver, when the
current flowed through the receiver, the squib would explode, detonating the
high explosive in the person's hand.  Nasty.  All that has to be done is
acqui

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7.3     TEAR GAS

     EQUIPMENT
     _________

     9.  rubber tubing
     10.  collecting flask
     11.  air trap
     12.  beaker, 300 ml
     MATERIALS
     _________
     10 gms  glycerine
     2 gms sodium bisulfate
     distilled water
1.)  In an open area, wearing a gas mask, mix 10 gms of glycerine with 2 gms
     of sodium bisulfate in the 300 ml erlenmeyer flask.
2.)  Light the alcohol burner, and gently heat the flask.
3.)  The mixture will begin to bubble and froth; these bubbles are tear gas.
4.)  When the mixture being heated ceases to froth and generate gas, or a brown
     residue becomes visible in the tube, the reaction is complete.  Remove the
     heat source, and dispose of the heated mixture, as it is corrosive.
5.)  The material tha