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Closing and Various Thoughts and Comments -Digital Defiance Staff Protection is an Illusion - Xenos 1. Introduction Here it is the first issue of Digital Defiance. Let me provide some background info, On June 13th of 1999 after the PLA 919 site had been taken down due to the fact that Code Zero it's former founder had moved I decided to put PLA 919 back on the net. July 1st of 1999 Pyro joined up with PLA 919, it was the start of a good friendship. germ a friend of mine had joined but was not prodominantly in the scene and so she left, Spy109 started PLA 252 and so he left. On July 5th of 1999 I put out the first issue of PLA 919 along with an article or two from Pyro and two from germ. After months of diliberation I decided I would freeze PLA 919 as a "zine" and keep it up as a page for NC phreaks to meet. I didn't like the negative connotations that arose with the acronym PLA and I felt that after some time I would do better also with an independent organization. Me and Pyro decided on Digital Defiance. As of now the staff members of Digital Defiance are myself(Xenos), Pyro and a boy by the name of Toxis. Digital Defiance is situated at digital-defiance.hypermart.net but if you have this article you probally know that. After the available funds are aquired I will be registering www.digital-defiance.org. As for now hypermart is great. I hope that the readers of Digital Defiance are satisfied and will continue to be. Now the cheezy part, SHOUTS: Pyro, Toxis, Geo, Tory, Kimmie, Ivy, Twinjames, Oktium, oreo, Claudia(better luck next time), Gibson, Nikita, nite, Courtney, Yerba, heX, Subconcious, Myth, peak, Beaty, lots of other people that are going to beat me up after they see they aren't on here. Now on with the show. 2. Feature of the Month: DialPad Well, I first came upon this one when I was looking for a way to get my computer to record my prank calls directly, instead of to a tape recorder and then to my computer. One of my friends suggested a service called DialPad so I checked it out. I was never able to DialPad to work that way because the computer only records my side of the conversation well but the other side is left sounding faint and distant but the service is still kick-ass. So, what is DialPad? DialPad is a free online service that allows you to make uncharged calls to about anywhere. It does not allow 900 numbers from what I can tell, so you phone sex freaks will have to take it elsewhere. Basically what happens is when you log into your account is this nifty Java applet pops up which allows you to make phonecalls. You punch in the numbers and then press dial and there you have it. You can even call someone else who is on the service if they are using dial pad at the same time but it sounds real messed up. Some other problems I have encountered is that your voice seems kinda lowered and distorted to people on the phone that you call with DialPad but they can still make out what you are saying. In many ways that is almost a plus as it makes for hilarious pranking. My personal favorite is calling 1-800-COLLECT and getting operator assistance. It's real fun to just trying to get into conversations with the operators. Now, you would probably hold back from pranking because you don't feel like getting in trouble, right? Well, actually, the ANI always seems to return an "Unknown Number" and I have tested this on many different ANI's and VMB's and even the freaking operators seem to be stumped. For example, a couple times, I have called up an operator and in the background, in the bakaround I heard a lot of funny stuff. Some of them were saying "God damn it, who is this guy!?" and "Man, where are those little fuckers calling from?!". I laughed my ass of while they bitched to their coworkers and then hung up on me. One time, I called an operator and I mentioned that I had been pranking them a lot that night (jist to piss her off) and she said "Well, yes. We have been getting a lot of reports of that kinda thing." So, I asked what my number that I was calling from was and well I could practically hear her head almost explode as she said that it "was none of my business!" This made me laugh because it was my business. I mean, I was calling from that number. It goes to show you that they really cannot trace you. So, stop by DialPad.com and have fun. One thing I suggest is that you give 'em fake info so if they do get that far, they wont get any further. Have fun and be careful! 3. Intercom Fun So hmmm its rainy today and you are really bored? I have the remedy, your not paying the money for long distance calls to friends, your tired of TV, being a conf. whore just isn't settling with your stomach so, you give stuff away free at K-Mart. Wait you say, I don't want to go to K-Mart and those of you underage are saying you can't drive, so why not take the PA. The Planning: There isn't much planning on my case cause I come up with fake names like that and fake titles and posistions in companys like that so just go grab your phone book(if you don't have on and say your a phreak go get one now before I beat you up)and look for the addresses of two different K-Marts(you can substitute Target, Wal-Mart, etc..) Dial the target K-Mart and repeat something similar to the following, "Hi this is Jake Watson over at the Hamilton store, are you guys having some problems with your PA system(some people say intercom)" be sure to have gotten the manager first most of the time the other employees are just plain dumb. He will tell you know of course at which point you will say "Well we have been and I don't know what is going on, usually we use #50 and I remember the old manager said you guys had the same type system as us. I was just wondering" Let him get some words in it makes him feel special he will probally just tell you that its working fine for him he doesn't know what's wrong. You might even want to make up a sympton first like its giving you static when you press #50 or something like that. Then say "Well what is the extension you guys over their use?". Hey will tell you after all you are over at the Hamilaton street store why would he suspect you are just some no good punk trying to give away his store? Say well thanks anyway and say you will try that and have a good day and all that. The Strike: Later on call the store back, you will probally get the help desk or something, I recommend getting transfered to gardening or toys or something cause the help desk will probally say no when you asked to be transfered to extension #8090 and they recongize its the PA extension. Some places like Target I have heard will just transfer you back to the help desk if you ask to be transfered. Sometimes you get places that are like just hit #something when I put you on hold. Then hit the intercom extension. You can stuff all sorts of stuff. At a BeyondHope convention they told everyone in the store that everything on Isle 4 was free, maybe say you are the manager and spout racist statements. In the end no one really gets hurt and you are happy. I once thought of getting a friend to be in electronics and then say everything there was free. I knew that if everyone grabbed stuff the alarms would go off like mad and your friend could slip by un-noticed. I don't recommend theivery though. Ok so I have told you what to do with K-Mart. What about school fun. This was actually an idea I had early on when I first went to school and it was actually done as a senior prank by some other guys. Most schools if not all schools have an intercom system to page teachers and students when they need them to suspend them or bitch at them for showing bad movies or something of that nature for either students or teachers. Fortunate for the average student most school employees are really stupid when it comes to the technological aspect of their work. For instance, my school allows use of all extensions from any phone hooked up to the school's phone line. So say you were a senior and you drilled a hole in the side of the trailor and ran it out to the parking lot and played some vulgar tape after pressing #00 you would have it played throughout the school just because you have an extension. You might try a manual hand scan of the phone numbers that your school owns, just a tip on that. Get any number of your school and the first five digits are the ones it owns like 856-79XX or something like that. Sometimes you might find that your school runs a PBX and that you can abuse them further. Getting the extension numbers isn't hard they are probally posted behind the desk in the office just because the secretarys are too dumb to remember them. So just try to find a number for the school that will give you and outside line or beige off the side or something like that. A lot of diff. places use paging systems that are often times tied into the PBX system or have the phone systems integrated into them. Try using the line "Can I get an outside line" a lot and mention you are from so and so department or you are testing such and such. Sorry for the brief cut off of information I had started this in the mood to write a really large article but I had stopped half-way through and had to come back to the zine and keep writing so its not as good as I planned it to be. 4. COCOTS and other privately owned payphones === Introduction === Many of you have probably heard of COCOTs at one time or another. Maybe somebody mentioned it briefly but you didn't know what one was. Well, simply put, COCOTs are privately owned payphones not controlled by Ma Bell. COCOT stands for Customer Owned Coin Operated Telephone. Sounds neat, eh. But where are these "COCOTs?" They are everywhere! They are at convenience stores, malls, schools, clubs, and tons of other places like that. A convenience store down the street from me happens to have three but how do I know that these phones are COCOTs? Well, some of a COCOT's distinguishing features include: -The COCOTs never have their phone number listed on them (they don't like you to have it) -They will not have the AT&T logo or whatever on them. This is mainly because they use expensive rip-off carriers so they can cash in. -They have some nifty stuff inside em (not visible but very detectable as I will explain later) -They are run on standard telephone loop lines instead of the "special" payphone loops There are some other unique things about them but those seem to stand out in my mind the most. Plus, those are the best ways to identify them. The not having the local phone company logo on them is probably enough to pick one out by it self alone already but I have been tricked by this one GTE phone at my High School. The GTE logo was hidden but I did see that it's phone number was listed so you can see that they are pretty easy to pick out of a lineup by checking for the features I listed above. In this article, I will try to keep the information as factual as possible but I may get into theory a little bit with the things IM not sure of. === The different types of COCOTs === I've done some major research on COCOTs and I have gotten the most common ones you'll find and I will describe them here. -The Elcotel series 5 Elcotell phones are pretty simple. They run on line power and will not do anything if disconnected. They are pretty common and you could probably pick one out right after you had dialed a number because faintly in the background you can hear the number being redialed (and pretty slowly too). These phones take the money after your call is over and they will ask for more if it is required in a fairly human like voice. It is pretty fun to call them and mess around because when you call and their modem shuts up you can dial number and it thinks that it is placing that call. If you call it and do nothing it will read out it's number and how much money it has acquired. I have heard of another type Elcotel phone being used but I have never seen one. -The Ernest Telecom D1 Once again this phone is not the only made by the company but it is the most common. This COCOT is unique in that it uses a fake dial tone which is hard to distinguish from a real one but it's there. These guys work on a supplied power line and wont work if the power is out. These particular phones have a nasty sounding robotic voice that gets kind of distorted sometimes and when you call them a modem answers. Another model I have seen of theirs is the D3 which uses a real dial tone but I wont get into to much depth with this one... -The Protel models There are a couple different protel phones in use today. Those are the Protel 2000, 4000, 7000, and 8000, models. From what I hear the 8000 and 4000 are fairly similar. I have personally never run into these but I hear that they are more widely used along the western half of the US. I don't know too much about them so I will just mention their existence. -The Intellicall phones The first of two models commonly used is the ultratel. These things are pretty old but you can still find em in rural areas. they aren't to much to look at and they have an annoying computerized voice. These phones are pretty fickle about dialing procedures and they will get on your nerves pretty quickly. When you place a call and the receiving party answers the phone will play the 1 tone a couple times to prevent fraud but I have not heard of anyone doing anything to mess with those anyway. The other model made by intellicall is the astrotel. it is newer and has a less annoying voice that sounds more like an actual human. Now these phones happen to have a 14,400 baud modem which is not bad for an ugly payphone. These phones also do the 1 tone thing when the phone is answered so if you plan on scamming these your out of luck. Well, there are probably a bunch more COCOT type phones out there but I mainly know of these. If you know of any others of significance, send some info on them in and I may alter this article to include that phone. === So what's so cool about these phones? === As you have read there are varied types of COCOTs and each is slightly different. And with each phone there are certain flaws. On some phones (I have not got the documentation of which) you can get real easy free calls, providing that the phone does not mute the microphone in the handset after you are hung up on. Getting any ideas? Well, on those nifty little phones you can call up some random 800 number and when the number answers you, just keep quiet. They will get tired of listening to nothing and will then hang up on you. Now, instead of setting the phone back down you would wait and then hear a second dial tone. Now, you would be able to punch in your real number and call up your friend. Well, not exactly. When the person on the other line hangs up on you, the phone deactivates the keypad so you have to hang up to use it again. I have actually heard that in some instances the buttons will be locked in place. I thought that was weird but it is still somthing you can bypass and in the same way too. You would whip out your trusty Radio Hack tone dialer and dial away. Yep, free calls. I have done it a few times but at the time I could not pick out different types of COCOT models, so I don't remember which models allow that kind of thing. It can be done, all I need to do is keep searching. Now, I have only heard other people's stories but they suggest to me that are easy to red box. Since it is a regular line and the phone deals with everything by it self, the phone company cannot catch you. I have not boxed a COCOT myself or even seen it done first hand but I will probably try to box a COCOT someday. Another nifty thing you can do with many COCOTs involves the modems that they have inside. When a customer purchases a COCOT, they receive a couple things along with it. They will get a manual of course but in addition to that they will get a cool software package. With this, the owner can dial into the COCOT and communicate with the modem. That way, they can remotely find out how much money it has and maybe some other stuff depending on the model. If someone could get their hands on that software, they would have some fun with it, IM sure. === Alliance Teleconferencing === Another cool thing to do with COCOTs is to set up an alliance teleconference. It is fairly simpler than the name suggest with it's 5 dollar words and all. To set one up on a COCOT, you would probably want some ulterior, nontraceable way of getting in touch with you (yep, this requires social engineering). One method that comes to mind is setting up a Ureach account. All you do is go to www.Ureach.com and you can get a 100% free VMB. Now getting back to setting up that conference. So after you pick a target phone, you call the AT&T teleconference setup number at 1-800-232-1234 (there are others but this one is the single best I know of). They will ask you for info and you just give them what you want them to know. After they ask all that stuff they might want to know and they ask for the number they can reach you at, tell them that you are calling from your business phone (yes, it is suggested that you say it is for a business conference) but you will be out for the next few days (or around how long it may take to set up the conference) and that they may reach you at your VMB (yep, the one you set up and also try to make the VMB greeting sound legit as it will add to credibility). Now you wait and they will call your VMB in a while with all the info you need. Once this is done you have a conference waiting to happen. Note: It is not suggested that you use the admin. code to access the conference so that they cannot prove that you were the one to have set it up in the first place. So when you get in there and they ask you how you got into the "fraudulent" conference you simply say that some guy online said to. === Closing === Well, I hope this was informative for you. I actually learned some stuff too while I was gathering info. I would like to thank toxis for inadvertently giving me the idea to write this article and I would also like to thank El Jefe for having an informative payphone website at which i gathered info on specific COCOT models and Xenos for the info on dialing into the COCOT modems. 5. Various Call Tracing Devices and Services Caller ID - CNA - ANI - ANAC -- How does the telco trace all those prank calls you've been making to that op who really turns you on? Well, if you're smart, they won't be able to use CallerID to get your number, but it is a possibility, so let's examine that first. The technical workings of CallerID are very easily found. A good text on it is available at http://www.flinthills.com/~hevnsnt/newbie/callerid.txt and tells you everything you'd never need to know is there. And it really would not make sense to write it all here, but here are the basics. When you make a call, it has a header (not unlike an ICMP header) which tells the CallerID box which every yuppie owns that you are calling from 1800-P00P-SEX and your name is Tom. This way, they can call you back, or bitch you out. But what if you're blocking CallerID info? How does that sexy op at Bell know your phone number? Well, either you gave it to her, or they used a service called ANI. ANI stands for Automatic Number Identifier. You can use ANI too. What ANI does, is it reads back your number. That simple. Don't worry about HOW it works, but know it does. ANI numbers are useful for you naughty beige boxers because it tells you the number you are calling from. This way, you can set up a conf for everyone in #2600. A close relative of ANI is ANAC. ANAC is really just ANI but local to an area code, and sometimes open to the public. ANAC stands for Automatic Number Announcement Circuit. In most areas, ANAC numbers are like Directory Assistance and have a 3 digit code. In some places, it is 711 or 200. Dialing it will read back your number. Same uses as above. And one thing useful for messing with people along with these is CNA. CNA is Customer's Name and Address. Any guesses as to what it does? It tells you the name of address of a specified phone number. I have successfully used 411 to do this, without a true CNA service, or something like infospace.com which I recommend highly. If you're (God forbid) stalking someone, and you are calling them constantly, and want to know where they live, you could get their CNA and then go to teir house and show them your willy. Note: CNAs are almost never open to the public, so you can try to get the bitch at 411 to do it for you, or you could use one, albeit illegal. Something many people overlook is the ability to mess with someone through a combination of these, or get free 3-way-calling. What you do is, first, go to phreakers university in Canonsburg PA, remember, the Phone Fraud Fox says we are 'taught'. Take Social Engineering 1, 2, and 3. Now go to your neighbor's telco box, and hook up your beige box. Now call an ANI or ANAC and now you got their number. Next, get the CNA for that number. Now, call up the telco, its GTE here, soon to be Bell Atlantic ;-), and get them to add three way calling or ask them if its been installed yet, saying the service was giving you trouble. Act like the person whose name you got in the CNA record, and you're set. Now just run some line (you can get this by going with a friend, distracting the lineman, and having one of you grab a spool and toss it into a bookbag) to your house, and hook it into the rack of modular jacks, patch cable, and switches, and the light which tells if the line is in use. Now, whenever you want to three way call, clip after where you connected your line (could install a device which open/closes the circuit) so they cant pick up, and three way call your 31337 friends. 6. Closing and Various Thoughts and Comments I wanted to appologize for the fact that Toxis' article isn't like the rest of the zine, its just the difference between him using his text editor and me and Pyro ours and I don't feel much like fixing it out being as I have a lot of stuff to do aside from this. - Xenos I am sorry for the slow upgrading I suppose of the Digital Defiance site like I said I have lots to do aside from this. I have had some conflicts with other online related events that turned out to be fine but for a night I didn't get online. I think that once the vacations come etc... I will have time to pay more attention to the zine and the site and I will have my laptop then so I can work on the articles everywhere. - Xenos We do accept article submissions for review and possible publishing them in Digital Defiance later issues. This first issue only has a couple of articles because we wanted to start small and build up. Feel free to send questions, comments, mail you want in the issues to DigitalDefiance@juno.com - Xenos Hey, this is Pyro. I would like to thank the other members of Tele-Hell and Digital Defiance for their continuing support in my efforts. I hope you all really like our first issue. This has got to be one of the best things I have ever taken part in and IM glad I had the opportunity to meet Xenos and be able to construct out very own zine, he truly is 13370. Well, that's about it for now. Oh, and if you want personalized graphics (smell a shameless plug?) drop me a line. Thanks again... -Pyro (C) Copyright, Xenos 1999 Unless special permission is obtained from Xenos none of the pre-ceeding information can be used without the name of the original writer on it.