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==Phrack Inc.==
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Volume Three, Issue 27, File 1 of 11
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Phrack Inc. Newsletter Issue XXVII Index
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June 20, 1989
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Greetings and welcome to Issue 27 of Phrack Inc. The pressure is on with
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SummerCon '89 just a couple short days away. We're sorry it has taken so long
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to get this issue out, but summer break has created more responsibilities and
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busy schedules than we have ever had to deal with while in school. Still, I
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think you will agree that this issue was worth the wait.
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This issue we feature a new updated NUA and Datex-P list from Oberdaemon
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of Switzerland and Chapter 7 of the Future Transcendent Saga (taking into
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account that the SPAN and NSFnet files were chapters 5 and 6). We also present
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the second part of the COSMOS file written by King Arthur.
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Before we get to the main contents of the issue, we have a few comments to
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make regarding security and Phrack Inc.'s Internet access;
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Thanks to a friend, we at Phrack Inc. have become aware of one of the main
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techniques that the National Security Agency (NSA) uses to perform surveillance
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on the wide area networks.
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In certain messages that certain government agencies distribute, special
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phone numbers are included; WATS (800) numbers, to be more specific. As these
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messages are distributed around the continent via various netmail and file
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transfer schemes, they are passed through several surveillance stations. All
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of their stations perform one function, and in Unix terms, that function is
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called "grep."
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Grep stands for G>lobal R>egular E>xpression search and P>rint. The grep
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does simple string matching. Every instance of these special 800-numbers in an
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email message (or batch of them) is flagged, recorded, and the record is mailed
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to certain intelligence agencies by the surveillance stations.
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Here are the networks that we are reasonably certain that this practice is
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performed on:
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* USEnet : Email is only checked in certain places, but ALL netnews (including
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alt and any other nonstandard newsgroups) are flagged by a single
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government domain SUN-3 that shall remain nameless.
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* ARPAnet : All mail going through a standard BBN (Bolt, Bernack, and
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Neumann... a Cambridge/MIT spinoff) Internet controller will be
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flagged, but the only information recorded by the controller is the
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source and destination TCP/IP addresses of the message. But when
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you consider that this involves ***ALL*** DARPA mailing lists, you
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get a visualization of the magnitude. The reason more complex
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information is NOT recorded is that this network is the only
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AUTHORIZED place that these messages with the hot WATS are supposed
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to appear. You will see what this means in a moment.
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* BITnet : Large IBM mainframe with I/O channel cycles to spare should have no
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problem scanning mail from one of the most publically accessable
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"free" networks.
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* Fidonet : The Secret Service scans this for credit card and other violations.
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It is not too hard for them to check for the (800)'s, too.
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* W.Union : All international telex lines are scanned to match a whole lot of
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stuff, especially drug-related information. The phone numbers are
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on their list.
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We have other suspicions, but we are withholding them for now.
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The other news is equally disturbing because it strikes us a little close
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to home. We are temporarily losing our network access. As of June 27, 1989
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through August 28, 1989 we will not have access to our accounts on UMCVMB
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mainframe system. Make no attempt to mail us to our addresses there until
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August 28, 1989. However, every cloud has a silver lining and this is no
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exception. For networks people who wish to submit files to Phrack Inc. during
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this time period we proudly present our friend and associate, Hatchet Molly.
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He can be reached at "TK0GRM2@NIU.BITNET" and/or
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"TK0GRM2%NIU.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU".
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So here is to another great issue of Phrack Inc!
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Taran King Knight Lightning
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Hatchet Molly
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TK0GRM2@NIU.BITNET
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TK0GRM2%NIU.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
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_______________________________________________________________________________
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Table of Contents:
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1. Phrack Inc. XXVII Index by Taran King and Knight Lightning
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2. Operating The IBM VM/SP CP by Taran King
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3. Introduction To MIDNET: Chapter Seven Of The FTS by Knight Lightning
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4. NUA List For Datex-P And X.25 Networks by Oberdaemon
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5. COSMOS: COmputer System for Mainframe OperationS (Part Two) by King Arthur
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6. Looking Around In DECnet by Deep Thought
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7. The Making Of A Hacker by Framstag
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8. Sending Fakemail In Unix by Dark OverLord
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9. The Postal Inspection Service by Vendetta
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10. Phrack World News XXVII/Part 1 by Knight Lightning
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11. Phrack World News XXVII/Part 2 by Knight Lightning
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12. Phrack World News XXVII/Part 3 by Knight Lightning
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