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- United Kingdom :-
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- Crackdown on BBS Piracy.
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- April, 1990
-
- There were recently 13 arrests in the UK relating to bulletin boards and piracy.
- From what i can gather it looks like the sysop of a multi-line bbs had put a
- 'Black Box' onto one of the phone lines so that people could ring in for free
- and download for hours without incurring any telephone charges.
-
- It looks like a big percentage of the files available for download were com-
- pressed pirate copies of Amiga and other software.
-
- The BBS was raided by the Police on the Black Box premise = but also took FAST
- [Federation Against Software Theft] along for a ride and they found all the
- pirate files.
-
- I do not know whether or not the other twelve were downloaders from the bbs or
- other sysops on a sort of 'network'.
-
- A number of things can be learnt from this :-
-
- 1) Don't use a Black Box.
- 2) Don't put copyright warez on your bbs.
- 3) Don't get caught.
- 4) Move to the USA - they seem a lot more liberal.
- 5) Don't eat Mars Bars on a Tuesday.
-
- National Press 'Reveals' the Tone Dialler Trick [May, 1990.]
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- This month the Daily Mirror has managed to wangle at least two front page
- stories about the Tone Dialler/DTMF Encoder phreak!
-
- Although this has been going on to my knowledge for at least 2 years the Press
- has eventually tagged on to it.
-
- What is this phreak I hear you ask?
-
- Well the way it works is that you get yourself a Tone Dialler/DTMF Encoder and
- go down to your local payphone which will accept tone dialling. Pick up the
- receiver and dial the number you want on the tone-pad/encoder NOT the actual
- payphone, then immediately dial a special number on the actual payphone itself.
- If all has gone as to plan you have got through for free! According to the
- Daily Mirror article you can call anywhere in the world for free using this
- method! Again, according to the article in the Daily Mirror a British Telecom
- spokesman was quoted as saying that the losses would be in the region of 'ten
- million pounds'.
-
- Personally I do not see how this can be the case if it has been going on for
- more than two years! On the one hand, how can they be so sure that they have
- lost 10 million pounds? Would the people who have been using this freak have
- made the calls that they did make if they knew that they would be paying the
- full charges for them? I think not! If this is the case they have just lost the
- cost of the electrical pulses that made the actual physical connection at the
- exchange.
-
- On the other hand, if the amount of losses was calculated by the full value of
- the calls made then it would be many times more than the quoted 10 million
- pounds.
-
- The background to this phreak is that it was a foreign student studying in
- London who worked it out. He got his tone dialler when he opened a new account
- with one of the big Building Societies. They were intended to be used for
- people to be able to check the balance of their accounts by typing their PIN
- number and the required commands using tones once connected to the Building
- Societies service. They can also be used as remote control interrogators for
- telphone answering machines. He and his other student friends were all veteran
- phone phreakers. In the UK and probably the USA too it is usually the foreign
- students who find out the new phreaking methods. Why is that? Well in this case
- it was because he simply could not afford to ring his family and friends back
- home by normal methods. He came across the method by accident. He was about to
- check his account, he was in the phonebox, he picked up the receiver and
- then put the tone dialler over the mouthpiece. Then he accidentally pressed one
- of the buttons on the tone dialler and noticed that the dial tone had cleared
- and that he had actually dialled a number. So he hung up and repeated the pro-
- cess, but this time he tone dialled a working phone number - he got through.
- He was intrigued by this and thought that he could make more of it.
-
- He could!, after many frustrating attempts and he managed to work out the phreak
- and has been using the method ever since to call family friends and anyone he
- can think of on different payphones in different locations. I wonder how long it
- will take him to work out the next phreak when BT have prevented this one from
- working anymore?
-
- But the most ironic part of this story is that these Tone-Diallers/DTMF Encoders
- were actually approved for use by British Telecom!
-
- I someone has had a rollicking for that one!
-
- British Telecom Gets Hacked [May, 1990.]
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-
- In the middle of January this year British Telecom got well and truly Hacked, if
- you wanted to find out how when and where then make sure that you get issue #2
- of H-Net Magazine!
-
- British Hacker Found Guilty [May 26th, 1990.]
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-
- A british hacker has been found guilty of hacking to systems over the JANET
- network.
-
- Evidently he had repeatedly logged into the Essex Uni/Poly computers on the
- JANET network and 'dumped' the system after being refused a legitimate account
- on the system. He had also left messages to the system manager claiming to be
- mad.
-
- He was caught because he had stayed on the line too long allowing BT to trace
- him from the Essex computer to the Janet Pad and back to his computer and phone
- line at his home.
-
- I my opinion this person cannot and should not be called a hacker in the true
- sense of the word.
-
- What he did by crashing the system and wiping files was intensely crass and
- stupid. Anybody can crash a system - but it's only usually a complete idiot
- that does.
-
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- USA :-
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- Phantom Bulletin Board Dupes Hackers and Pirates
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-
- I have heard on the grapevine that a bbs in the USA was running for over a year
- and turned out to be run by the Authorities, not before many hackers and
- pirates had revealed over a period of time their true identities.
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