Phreaking / Hacking...
djsheep
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Anyone get into this shit...I actually was aprehended by the Federal Police back in the day for Blue Boxing... when Australia got a new telephone company, they left the hole right open on the 1-800 gateway to international operators. We were breaking the lines and gettin' busy on BBS' with warez on the 1400 baud modems.Damn, I did a lot of crazy shit back in the day... at&t calling cards, divertors, payphone scams... I was pretty heavy into the shit from the late 80s - mid 90s...Anyone else even know what I'm talkin' about... Can I get a 2600 Cap'n Crunch whistle??peace.
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he got no ass.
I got a fair bit of ass during that time... once I got busted, they kinda put me on this probabtion deal thingy... so I gave up, once I gave up the pussy just kept comin'
Warez and MP3 diggin' will ruin your mackin' skillz...
peace.
First trick I learned was how to make any phone call you back. When ur 9, shit like getting the phone to ring and have ur parents bug out is funny shit.
For a minute here I thought this was record related
Anyone ever use the Captain Crunch whistle?
Another scam in Australia was that you used be able to dial "199" then hang the handset up, it would ring back, telephone company technicians used to use it to test the phone was working... anyhow if you picked the handset up, hung it up for a milisecond, then picked it up again, it would lock the phone up **BUT** the handset would still work and have an open dialtone. So we rolled down to Tandy (Radio Shack) to pick up a "tone dialler" (a device used to generate phone tones for people who used to use Voice Mail boxes back when rotary phones were still around)... and we held that shit up on the handset with the open dialton and could call as long as we wanted anywhere!!!! That shit worked for like 5 years!! People were getting suspect near my house tho, cuz the phone would ring back constantly hahah...
I remember one time I scanned a whole range of 1-800 numbers for Voice Mail boxes...
peace.
Believe that's a redbox...
I was involved with this stuff in high school. Thankfully this was in the BBS days so there's nothing online.....
......I have pictures though. I will post if o-dub posts his prom pic!
Yes--more pics!
Yeah, thats what I was talking about above. There was even a code to put in that would make it so the phone would never stop ringin' until it was unplugged.
We use to do it on payphones all the time.
This was what I was busted for.
I was heavy into that shit for most of highschool and before. Just kept pushing and pushing till eventually I got caught. My biggest success was that I wrote a set of script files for my phoneprogram (I forget the name), that would automatically try a huge number of common passwords. So I'd put on my wardialing program, which would dial exchanges all night and all day while i was at school. Then I'd get home from school and have a list of computers that the wardialer found. I'd feed that list into my phone prog, and my scripts would check them out for simple passwords. Usually based on whether they were a well known system (like Unix, VAX or System75s). System75s were like gold back then. They were the computers that controlled companies PBX's. So you take control of that and you can charge free phone calls to the System75. Long distance BBSing for free. sweet.
I got caught for the Circuit Court of Appeals sytem (as it says in the article), but I definately had all the passwords for it. They were in an unencrypted text file sitting in the directory of one of the users! It was a sweet system, cause certain users were all menu driven, so I could actually look through the sytem just like they would. Unfortunately it was so cool I went back one too many times and someone noticed a 'last login' had changed. I didn't cover my tracks, so...whatcanyoudo.
They put a DNR on my line and recorded all my activity for a month. Caught me making thousands and thousands of phone calls (wardialing). Caught me breaking into Sheraton Hotels. Which was a SWEET unix system. This was pre-internet days, and all Sheraton hotels were connected via a network. So you get into one unix system and you can get into them all. HUNDREDS of hotels too. And each one had the credit card numbers and information of the new guests that checked in that day in an unencrypted file. So that was 300 or so virgin credit card numbers PER DAY I could get access to. I never used them myself, tho. They also caught me breaking into bank computers (technically bank fraud), wire fraud, computer fraud...oh you name it they had a charge for it.
But my dad worked with the FBI alot at his job at the National Archives, so they knew him and came to bust me before my 18th birthday. Most the charges were just dropped cause i was a minor. They could have waited a month, and busted me post-18, in which case I would have definately gone to jail.
When they busted me I was downstairs with my girlfriend at the time, making out on the couch. I never got ass then, but we dry humped like mad. My brother comes rushing in (luckily she had put her shirt back on), and was like "The cops are at the door!". I freaked....haha. I had picked up my girl, so she didn't have her car with her. She got driven home by the feds. That must have been an interesting conversation with her parents. My dad was called, and he was on the golf course. He comes home, and rather than being mad, he was practically laughing and all proud of me.
The feds sent in a dude from washington to interview me for some task force or something, and he was like "I never want to see your name on my desk again, unless its on a job application". haha
-pj
Did you get banned from puter or phone use? What was ur sentence?
Where's the pic of you? Mugshot??
Man...yup...they got their titles from me... I was online with Japan 5-6 hours a night from 90-93. They key to all of this was I had a friend who worked for EA, so I'd get all the BETA SEGA and SNES 1-2 months before it hit the store. We were the first to hack SF2 on the SNES. We supplied it back to Japan.
I used to do a bit of couriering for HYBRiD (towards the end of their legacy), I did a bit of shit for German group aFL (Alpha Flight)... + some other groups...
Anyone remember iNC, ThG? The P.I.T.S. BBS, the ACiD packs... man, I could just go on forever with this shit... people on the net these days just don't know about that old shit... such great times...
I pulled out an old text file a couple of years back which had a few virgin AT&T calling cards I got from an operator who would write them down for me at work when people would place calls... those shits still worked about 8 years after the fact!! Felt a bit weird using them... just tried they worked and forgot about fuckin' with it... i'd probably get busted quick... back in the day, that shit didn't matter, you would just go rank. I remember when AT&T threatened that they were going to use VOICE PRINTING to catch dudes using fraudulant cards...
I miss those days sometimes... 24oo baud, 2 nodes and shit, Celerity BBS...
peace.
No one ever got caught, but the phone company must have figured out what we were doing since they came by and put a ton of epoxy on the phone so you couldn't remove the cover.
Are people still into phreaking, or have digital networks changed the game completely?
HA... I have no idea how we never talked before SS. Especially since we have some good friends in common.
Rakords/Games/Flix...
Not a mugshot....just my high school pic. I got booked, and held in the drunk tank to scare me, thats all. Ended up getting a misdemeanor and a big fine.
I was never into warez heavy tho, just hacking & phreaking. And definately more into hacking. Although back then the two were hand and hand. I remember being on these huge coast to coast teleconference calls where dudes would just kill time and 3way prank call people, junk like that. Best part of that was when this kid 'silver fox' from new york told us about this new local hiphop group 'Wu Tang Clan' that was gonna take over everything, and realizing a year later that we had heard their first single on a telecom call way back.
-pj
I was big into hacking from 93-99. Never got into phreaking. I was mostly trying to using unix and exploits to get into as much shit as possible. My high school computers were cake. Grade changing, and test deleting was pie. Of course I got greedy, and remotely connected my home computer to the school computers. In typing class I was playing Doom or Quake eventually I let the teacher in on it.
I thought I was fairly obvious to our computer administrators, but security was pretty lax. I aced every computer class they taught. They eventually gave me cybercorp access to fix the computers for the teachers, and I would catch would be hackers, and kids trying to get past the internet filter (bessie?). I always used it as an excuse to leave lame classes or go home early. I never got caught, just kinda grew out of the lifestyle.
I still nerd out to 2600, and that cheeseball movie hackers.
- spidey
heroine addicted snuffy nosed pouty lipped elf look is hott!
in grade 10 computer class we learned programming on Turing. One day our teacher told us how to compose music on it (ie just type in "A" to play an A note)
the next day i had a friend transcribe the "Come As you are" riff by Nirvana into notes so i could type that shit into Turing. So that was my program...and it also scrolled a jester in ascii characters over and over because I liked Jesters. Then i learned how to make an infinite loop.
The next day we had a supply teacher, so before the end of class i installed my program on all the computers (there were like 40 in the room). and turned off all the screens and ran the program.
As we left we could see the supply teacher freaking out "where the hell is that coming from" running towards all the different computers. Now I'm no anjelina jolie, but that was funny.
ps: remember having to run a program called cshow (cshow.exe) just to look at .gifs and jpegs? man people on the net take a lot of shit for granted.