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- *******************************Hacking Tripod Accounts**********************
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- ******************************Wednesday, July 23, 1997**********************
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- *********************************by: NegativeRage***************************
- ******************************nrage@hackersclub.com*************************
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- ***~Introduction:~***
- Ever hate someone real badly, or seen a page that you really hate and/or
- find offensive? If it's a tripod page, you're in luck! In this text you
- will find out how to gain control of any tripod account!! It is a very
- simple process... It all happened late one night when I felt the compulsive
- urge to write a text file... I started reading the tripod help files... and
- after a while it hit me! (I'd been wanting to write a text file on tripod
- for a while.. but wasn't sure how easy there pages could be hacked)! After
- reading this, you'll probably say to yourself... "Hey, this has more to do
- with social engineering then hacking!" Well you're right (sort of) because
- social engineering does play a signifiacnt part in hacking! First you'll
- have to know what tripod is. Tripod is a service that allows up to 2MB free
- space for personal home pages (just like geocities, angelfire, etc..)! Now
- on to the important stuff...
-
- ***~What You Need:~***
- To hack a tripod account you will need a few, very basic things. You will
- obviously need to have internet access, you will have to find out the email
- address that your target has registered with tripod, often times it's on the
- persons page. You will also need some time, about a week or two. Then
- you will have to find out the username, this is extremely simple because
- it's part of the url. It looks like his:
- http://members.tripod.com/~username, except "username" would be subtituted
- with the the real username (duh!) The finall thing you will need is the
- person's real name (or the name the person gave as there real name). This
- can be tricky to find out, if it's not on the page you could try searching
- the member profiles! To do this goto
- http://www.tripod.com/planet/profile/search.html and enter everything you
- know about the webmaster of the tripod account! This only works if the
- member has created there own "member profile" (or something like that). If
- he/she hasn't then you will have to try and find out what you need by other
- means! Try emailing them, pretend you liked there page and would like to get
- to know them better, tell them a little (made up stuff) about yourself, try
- and squeeze all the info you can from them (without them realizing it of
- course). If you find your target's member profile, you will see his/her
- First Name, Last Name, The date that they joined, City, State, Country,
- E-Mail, Homepage URL (if it's not given, do not worry, it's kinda obvious if
- you know they're member name!), and a Brief Description. If you're lucky
- enough to find it, you will/should have all the information you need!
- If you are still having trouble finding out their info, see if they have ICQ,
- often times, they'll put some stuff about themselves there! Try everything
- you can think of to get that info!
-
- ***~Now What:~***
- I didn't tell you to go find all of that out for nothing, what you just did
- is actually quite important! The First step in gaining control of the
- account is to have the account "registered" under YOUR email adress! You
- will have to get an account with one of those free email services, for
- example:
- http://www.netaddress.com
- http://www.hotmail.com
- or any of the multiple other ones! To make it less obvious try and keep
- your new email similar, for example if the persons email is dumb@ass.com
- make yours jack@hotmail.com (get the picture?) Now using your new e-mail
- address you have to write a letter to membership@tripod.com, this is exaclty
- what tripod says they want:
- ***************************************quote*******************************
- "If you need to change your email address, please contact us at
- membership@tripod.com with your new email address. Please include your
- member name, old email address, and full name in the message."
- **************************************end quote****************************
- So do Exactly that, say that you have a new email address, and would like
- tripod to update their records! It takes about a week for tripod to respond,
- this is what the letter looked like:
- ***************************************quote*******************************
- Dear "User",
-
- Thank you for informing us of your new email address.
-
- We have updated your membership information:
-
- Tripod member name: membername (unchanged)
- New email address: membername@freemailaddress.com
-
- If you have a homepage with Tripod, you will need to go through and
- update your page to use new email address....
- *************************************end quote*****************************
- If you don't realise it, you now have control of the account (sort of),
- everything the user normally gets from tripod is now sent to you! This
- means, if you send an e-mail to lost@tripod.com with your/their membername
- in the subject line YOU will get their password (be sure that the only
- thing in the entire e-mail is the subject, if you write something as a
- message, you will not get a reply!!! Trust me, I waited three weeks before
- I realised that! hehe)! Well, it's not really their password, what tripod
- does is send you a temporary password (one generated with their password
- generator =]), but it works just the same! Once you have the password, you
- have total control over the account! It will take about 5 minutes or so to
- receive the password!
-
- ***~Don't Be An Idiot:~***
- You realise of course, that as soon as tripod hear's about this text, that
- they'll probably fix the problem! In order to prevent this, don't be an
- idiot! Don't go on a hacking spree, and attack a buch of accounts, only use
- this if you really have too! The more people use this, the more obvious it
- will become to tripod staff and the quicker they'll fix it! It would be
- pretty lame for you to go and hack a buch of sites for no apparent reason,
- and it would piss me off(because like my geocities text, this would become
- outdated!) So use this text cautiously! PLEASE!
-
- ***~Disclaimer:~***
- In no way can you hold me responsible for your actions, if you get in
- trouble for hacking a tripod account, it isn't my fault! I, in no way,
- encourage you to do it! Actually, I discourage you! because of what I have
- said in the ~Don't Be An Idiot~ section! You may reproduce or distribute
- this file as long as it stays the same! There is no copyright on it, but out
- of commen curdisee try not to alter this file without permission! If you
- have any comments or questions, please feel free to email them to me:
- negativerage@hotmail.com !
- I am also not responsible for any spelling errors in this text, or anything
- that occurs because of them! =]
-
- ***~Shoutouts:~***
- -LOU
- -kM
- -miah
- -pROcon
- -all those who have helped me/given me suggestions with/for this file!
- -all the hackers who have gone before me, who have made the computer
- underground what it is today!
- -If I didn't mention you and should have, i'm sorry! Maybe next time!
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