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Note from Elric: This file was written by the sysop of a board for computer
security people (run on a CoCo), as far as I know the board no longer exists,
it was being crashed by hackers too much... (hehe).
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FOR SEVERAL YEARS, I ACCEPTED CERTAIN BITS OF MISINFORMATION AS
TECHNICALLY ACCURATE, AND DIDN'T PROPERLY PURSUE THE MATTER. SEVERAL FOOLS
GAVE ME FOOLISH INFORMATION, SUCH AS: A TAP INTERRUPTS COMPUTER DATA
TRANSMISSIONS; DATA COULD BE PICKED UP AS RF EMANATIONS BUT IT WAS A MASS OF
UNINTELLIGIBLE SIGNAL CAUSED BY DATA MOVING BETWEEN REGISTERS; ONE HAD TO BE
IN 'SYNC' WITH ANY SENDING COMPUTER; DATA COULDN'T BE READ UNLESS YOU HAD A
DIRECT MATCH IN SPEED, PARITY & BIT PATTERN; AND ONLY A COMPUTER OF THE SAME
MAKE AND MODEL COULD READ THE SENDING COMPUTER. THIS IS ALL PLAIN SWILL. IT
IS IN FACT, AN EASIER CHORE TO TAP A COMPUTER THAN A TELEPHONE. THE TECHNIQUE
AND THE EQUIPMENT IS ALMOST THE SAME, BUT THE COMPUTER LINE WILL BE MORE
ACCURATE (THE TWO COMPUTERS INVOLVED, HAVE ERROR CORRECTING PROCEDURES) AND
CLEARER (DIGITAL TRANSMISSIONS HAVE MORE DISTINCT SIGNALS THAN ANALOG
TRANSMISSIONS).

FIRST, RECOGNIZE THAT NEARLY ALL DATA TRANSMISSIONS ARE SENT IN CLEARTEXT
ASCII SIGNALS. THE LINES CARRYING OTHER BIT-GROUPS OR ENCIPHERED TEXTS ARE
RARE. SECOND, THE SIGNAL APPEARS ON GREEN AND RED (WIRES) OF THE PHONE LINE
('TIP' AND 'RING'). THE DATA IS MOST LIKELY ASYNCHRONOUS SERIAL DATA MOVING
AT 300 BAUD. NOW THAT 1200 BAUD IS BECOMING MORE CHIC, YOU CAN EXPECT TO FIND
A GROWING USE OF THE FASTER TRANSMISSION RATE. FINALLY, YOU DON'T NEED TO
WORRY ABOUT THE PROTOCOL OR EVEN THE BAUD RATE (SPEED) UNTIL AFTER A TAPED
COPY OF A TRANSMISSION IS OBTAINED.

IN A SIMPLE EXPERIMENT, A TAPED COPY OF A DATA TRANSMISSION WAS MADE
WITH THE CHEAPEST OF TAPE RECORDERS, TAPPING THE GREEN AND RED LINES BEYOND
THE MODEM. THE RECORDING WAS THEN PLAYED INTO A MODEM AS THOUGH IT WERE AN
ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION. AT THAT POINT, HAD IT BEEN NECESSARY, THE PROTOCOL
SETTINGS ON RECEIVING TERMINAL COULD HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO MATCH THE TAPE. NO
ADJUSTMENTS WERE NECESSARY AND A NICE, CLEAR ERROR-FREE DOCUMENT WAS RECEIVED
ON THE ILLICIT VIDEO SCREEN AND A NEAT HARD-COPY OF THE DOCUMENT CAME OFF THE
PRINTER. THE MESSAGE WAS INDEED CAPTURED, BUT HAD IT BEEN AN INTERCEPTION
INSTEAD OF A SIMPLE MONITORING, IT COULD HAVE BEEN ALTERED WITH A SIMPLE WORD
PROCESSOR PROGRAM, TO SUIT ANY PURPOSE, AND PLACED BACK ON THE WIRE.

WERE I TO HAVE AN INTEREST IN INFORMATION ORIGINATING FROM A
PARTICULAR COMPANY, AGENCY, OR OFFICE, I THINK THAT I WOULD FIND IT FAR MORE
PRODUCTIVE TO TAP A DATA TRANSMISSION THAN TO TAP A VOICE TRANSMISSION, AND
EVEN MORE REWARDING THAN GETTING HARDCOPY DOCUMENTS.

*SIGNIFICANT & IMPORTANT INFORMATION IS MORE CONCENTRATED IN A DATA
TRANSMISSION.
*SIGNIFICANT & IMPORTANT INFORMATION IS MORE EASILY LOCATED IN DATA
TRANSMISSIONS THAN IN MASSES OF FILES OR PHONE CALLS.
*TRANSMITTED DATA IS PRESUMED TRUE, AND WHEN ALTERATION IS DISCOVERED,
IT'S READILY BLAMED ON THE EQUIPMENT.
*THE LAWS CONCERNING TAPS ON UNCLASSIFIED AND NON-FINANCIAL COMPUTER
DATA ARE EITHER QUITE LACKING OR ABJECTLY STUPID.

THE POINT OF ALL THIS IS THAT THE PRUDENT MANAGER REALLY OUGHT TO ENCRYPT ALL
DATA TRANSMISSIONS. ENCRYPTION PACKAGES ARE CHEAP (A 'DES' PROGRAM IS NOW
PRICED AT $30) AND ARE EASY TO USE.

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==Phrack Inc.==

Volume Two, Issue 18, Phile #1 of 11

Index
=====
June 7, 1988

Well, Phrack Inc. is still alive but have changed editors again. I,
Crimson Death am now the new editor of Phrack Inc. The reason why I am the
new editor is because of the previous editors in school and they did not just
have the time for it. So, if you would like to submit an article for Phrack
Inc. please contact: Crimson Death, Control C, or Epsilon, or call my BBS
(The Forgotten Realm) or one of the BBSes on the sponsor BBS listing (Found in
PWN Part 1). We are ALWAYS looking for more files to put in upcoming issues.
Well, that about does it for me. I hope you enjoy Phrack 18 as much as we at
The Forgotten Realm did bringing it to you. Later...
Crimson Death
Sysop of The Forgotten Realm

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This issue of Phrack Inc. includes the following:

#1 Index of Phrack 18 by Crimson Death (02k)
#2 Pro-Phile XI on Ax Murderer by Crimson Death (04k)
#3 An Introduction to Packet Switched Networks by Epsilon (12k)
#4 Primos: Primenet, RJE, DPTX by Magic Hasan (15k)
#5 Hacking CDC's Cyber by Phrozen Ghost (12k)
#6 Unix for the Moderate by Urvile (11k)
#7 Unix System Security Issues by Jester Sluggo (27k)
#8 Loop Maintenance Operating System by Control C (32k)
#9 A Few Things About Networks by Prime Suspect (21k)
#10 Phrack World News XVIII Part I by Epsilon (09k)
#11 Phrack World News XVIII Part II by Epsilon (05k)
==============================================================================
==Phrack Inc.==

Volume Two, Issue 18, Phile #10 of 11

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Note from Elric: This file was written by the sysop of a board for computer

security people (run on a CoCo), as far as I know the board no longer exists,

it was being crashed by hackers too much... (hehe).

---------------------

FOR SEVERAL YEARS, I ACCEPTED CERTAIN BITS OF MISINFORMATION AS

TECHNICALLY ACCURATE, AND DIDN'T PROPERLY PURSUE THE MATTER. SEVERAL FOOLS

GAVE ME FOOLISH INFORMATION, SUCH AS: A TAP INTERRUPTS COMPUTER DATA

TRANSMISSIONS; DATA COULD BE PICKED UP AS RF EMANATIONS BUT IT WAS A MASS OF

UNINTELLIGIBLE SIGNAL CAUSED BY DATA MOVING BETWEEN REGISTERS; ONE HAD TO BE

IN 'SYNC' WITH ANY SENDING COMPUTER; DATA COULDN'T BE READ UNLESS YOU HAD A

DIRECT MATCH IN SPEED, PARITY & BIT PATTERN; AND ONLY A COMPUTER OF THE SAME

MAKE AND MODEL COULD READ THE SENDING COMPUTER. THIS IS ALL PLAIN SWILL. IT

IS IN FACT, AN EASIER CHORE TO TAP A COMPUTER THAN A TELEPHONE. THE TECHNIQUE

AND THE EQUIPMENT IS ALMOST THE SAME, BUT THE COMPUTER LINE WILL BE MORE

ACCURATE (THE TWO COMPUTERS INVOLVED, HAVE ERROR CORRECTING PROCEDURES) AND

CLEARER (DIGITAL TRANSMISSIONS HAVE MORE DISTINCT SIGNALS THAN ANALOG

TRANSMISSIONS).

FIRST, RECOGNIZE THAT NEARLY ALL DATA TRANSMISSIONS ARE SENT IN CLEARTEXT

ASCII SIGNALS. THE LINES CARRYING OTHER BIT-GROUPS OR ENCIPHERED TEXTS ARE

RARE. SECOND, THE SIGNAL APPEARS ON GREEN AND RED (WIRES) OF THE PHONE LINE

('TIP' AND 'RING'). THE DATA IS MOST LIKELY ASYNCHRONOUS SERIAL DATA MOVING

AT 300 BAUD. NOW THAT 1200 BAUD IS BECOMING MORE CHIC, YOU CAN EXPECT TO FIND

A GROWING USE OF THE FASTER TRANSMISSION RATE. FINALLY, YOU DON'T NEED TO

WORRY ABOUT THE PROTOCOL OR EVEN THE BAUD RATE (SPEED) UNTIL AFTER A TAPED

COPY OF A TRANSMISSION IS OBTAINED.

IN A SIMPLE EXPERIMENT, A TAPED COPY OF A DATA TRANSMISSION WAS MADE

WITH THE CHEAPEST OF TAPE RECORDERS, TAPPING THE GREEN AND RED LINES BEYOND

THE MODEM. THE RECORDING WAS THEN PLAYED INTO A MODEM AS THOUGH IT WERE AN

ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION. AT THAT POINT, HAD IT BEEN NECESSARY, THE PROTOCOL

SETTINGS ON RECEIVING TERMINAL COULD HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO MATCH THE TAPE. NO

ADJUSTMENTS WERE NECESSARY AND A NICE, CLEAR ERROR-FREE DOCUMENT WAS RECEIVED

ON THE ILLICIT VIDEO SCREEN AND A NEAT HARD-COPY OF THE DOCUMENT CAME OFF THE

PRINTER. THE MESSAGE WAS INDEED CAPTURED, BUT HAD IT BEEN AN INTERCEPTION

INSTEAD OF A SIMPLE MONITORING, IT COULD HAVE BEEN ALTERED WITH A SIMPLE WORD

PROCESSOR PROGRAM, TO SUIT ANY PURPOSE, AND PLACED BACK ON THE WIRE.

WERE I TO HAVE AN INTEREST IN INFORMATION ORIGINATING FROM A

PARTICULAR COMPANY, AGENCY, OR OFFICE, I THINK THAT I WOULD FIND IT FAR MORE

PRODUCTIVE TO TAP A DATA TRANSMISSION THAN TO TAP A VOICE TRANSMISSION, AND

EVEN MORE REWARDING THAN GETTING HARDCOPY DOCUMENTS.

*SIGNIFICANT & IMPORTANT INFORMATION IS MORE CONCENTRATED IN A DATA

TRANSMISSION.

*SIGNIFICANT & IMPORTANT INFORMATION IS MORE EASILY LOCATED IN DATA

TRANSMISSIONS THAN IN MASSES OF FILES OR PHONE CALLS.

*TRANSMITTED DATA IS PRESUMED TRUE, AND WHEN ALTERATION IS DISCOVERED,

IT'S READILY BLAMED ON THE EQUIPMENT.

*THE LAWS CONCERNING TAPS ON UNCLASSIFIED AND NON-FINANCIAL COMPUTER

DATA ARE EITHER QUITE LACKING OR ABJECTLY STUPID.

THE POINT OF ALL THIS IS THAT THE PRUDENT MANAGER REALLY OUGHT TO ENCRYPT ALL

DATA TRANSMISSIONS. ENCRYPTION PACKAGES ARE CHEAP (A 'DES' PROGRAM IS NOW

PRICED AT $30) AND ARE EASY TO USE.

-------------------------------

==Phrack Inc.==

Volume Two, Issue 18, Phile #1 of 11

Index

=====

June 7, 1988

Well, Phrack Inc. is still alive but have changed editors again. I,

Crimson Death am now the new editor of Phrack Inc. The reason why I am the

new editor is because of the previous editors in school and they did not just

have the time for it. So, if you would like to submit an article for Phrack

Inc. please contact: Crimson Death, Control C, or Epsilon, or call my BBS

(The Forgotten Realm) or one of the BBSes on the sponsor BBS listing (Found in

PWN Part 1). We are ALWAYS looking for more files to put in upcoming issues.

Well, that about does it for me. I hope you enjoy Phrack 18 as much as we at

The Forgotten Realm did bringing it to you. Later...

Crimson Death

Sysop of The Forgotten Realm

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This issue of Phrack Inc. includes the following:

#1 Index of Phrack 18 by Crimson Death (02k)

#2 Pro-Phile XI on Ax Murderer by Crimson Death (04k)

#3 An Introduction to Packet Switched Networks by Epsilon (12k)

#4 Primos: Primenet, RJE, DPTX by Magic Hasan (15k)

#5 Hacking CDC's Cyber by Phrozen Ghost (12k)

#6 Unix for the Moderate by Urvile (11k)

#7 Unix System Security Issues by Jester Sluggo (27k)

#8 Loop Maintenance Operating System by Control C (32k)

#9 A Few Things About Networks by Prime Suspect (21k)

#10 Phrack World News XVIII Part I by Epsilon (09k)

#11 Phrack World News XVIII Part II by Epsilon (05k)

==============================================================================

==Phrack Inc.==

Volume Two, Issue 18, Phile #10 of 11

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