home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- .-. . .--. .--. .--.
- : : : :--: :-:' :
- ' ' ' ' -'
-
- Nuclear Phreakers/Hackers/Carders
- ===========================================
- Information File #6 - Tracing/ANI Explained
- October 14, 1989
-
- Written by The Oxidizer - Information Supplied by Sir Hackalot
-
-
- It is absolutely essential for all phreakers to know as much as possible
- about tracing. However tracing, as it is known, does not exist anymore.
- Tracing consisted of people going out onto telephone wires and placing several
- devices on phone lines to determine which line the call was coming in on and
- that got hectic for LD companies. Now, tracing is only a matter of catching
- you when you are talking, or using your line, when a Bell official is on SCCS
- directly, and not using Cosmos. He simply enters in a small program to
- retrieve your number in a subpacket of sorts, or from a datafile [on larger
- ESS, IE - 3ESS+]. Then, they will put a Trap on a line to record everytime
- a certain number calls in (yours) to the site that "traced". Plain and simply,
- that stuff that said like "2 minutes for a trace" is no longer true, and your
- number can be aquired in a number of seconds if you are in an ESS area, and not
- Xbar, or (ack) Step X Step switching areas.
-
- ANI - Automatic Number Identification. It is very essential for you to know
- the different classes and which companies have which so you can always be safe.
- There are 4 "classifications" of ANI, labeled A, B, C, and D respectively.
-
- Level A - Gets your area-code. No big deal at all and you can feel perfectly
- safe with thesess some narc knows you.
- Level B - This gets your area-code and city, bring the threat closer to home.
- If you don't abuse the company that has level b, you should be quite
- safe unless of course again, some narc knows you.
- Level C - This gets your area-code, city, and local switching prefix. (Central
- office stuff so they can catch you.) This is when it starts to get
- really dangerous. With this, they can practically track it down to
- just your local neighborhood!
- Level D - Everything. Just think of this as full ANI, as in all of Sprint's
- 800s. I strongly recommend that if you are aware a company has this,
- don't even touch it!
-
- Beware of 950s/800s that only serve a certain area. They can have the
- telephone company set up ESS recording features which give the number of
- everyone who uses the 950/800 and when. See N.A.R.C. #4 for a sample
- ESS recording list.
-
- How does sprint nab your number? Well, right now they can only nab your
- number if you have equal access, by requesting your number fromcal
- switch by sending a request through some sort of subtone, sometimes sent
- as an equal access sub-packet (set of tones) and receives it via a set of
- tones from an equal access packet. (I know that may not make sense, but it
- works.) So instead of sending 10488+ac+number.. etc.. you will send 1_ac_num,
- sprint will send something, and they will get an elongated packet that says:
- XXXxxxx+1+ac+num, XXXxxx containing your number, mines the area code, but they
- can get the area code easily. This is the way 800-877-8000/950-0033 work.
-
- Beware of calling international with AT&T - They use a digital switch. A
- digital switch is essentially ESS, which is semi intelligent, and can go
- thru several LANs to get your number, even if you go thru a 1-800.
- ______________________________________________________________________________
-
- Well, I hope I answered most of your questions about tracing in general in
- the last couple of N.A.R.C. infofiles. If you have more questions about this
- or would like to see a certain topic for us to write about in the future then
- let us know a get on it write away. Please spread this file, and other
- NARC files, as much as possible. Thanx for your support.
-
- (C)opyright 1989 N.A.R.C.
-
- You can reach N.A.R.C. members at
- ---------------------------------
- The Nuclear Wasteland
- Balanced pH
- Critical Condition
- Lost Souls Domain ][
-