_____________________________________________ / \ | ___________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | _________| | | | | | / \ | | | | / \ | | | | / \ | | | |__________/ \__________| | | / | \ | | / | \ | | / | \ | | /______________|______________\ | | | | Computer Academic Underground | | | | Electronic Magazine | | #0007 | | 0215.97 | \ _____________________________________________ / ############################################################################## %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ============================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ .............................................................................. Table of Contents Foreward General Member Listing Fort Worth 2600 Meeting I)ruid Hacking 817.860.XXXX int3l ScanIt! I)ruid Precautions uv Phreaking Believe it or not, Red Boxes Fizban Payphone Top 10 int3l Not In Service Crimson Assassin Closing ############################################################################## Foreward Okay... well, this is #7, actually pretty good.... but once again, not much new is happening to speak of. I'm always working on new scripts and programs for everyone to use, and I'm also constantly working on the CAU homepage... Much has happened to the website since last month, mainly a complete overhaul as I have learned alot about SSI's and CGI's... A note on the content of this zine and further zines... We are trying to compile a useful publication every month for ALL range of skills among hackers and phreaks, novice and experienced alike. I have recieved a little criticism for printing articles that talk about the basics. I just thought I'd explain a bit why I chose to publish such articles along with the more in-depth articles, and that is why. I'm actually pretty happy with this month's zine, the first one we've had where EVERY member of CAU has contributed... Hopefully this will be a recuring theme... I)ruid ############################################################################## General %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Member Listing Handle IRC Nick E-Mail -------------------------------------------------------------- I)ruid Druid_817 root@cau.dfwisp.net uv uv_ uv@cau.dfwisp.net Crimson Assassin Crimson_A crimson@cau.dfwisp.net Fizban Fizban^ fizban@ttu.edu int3l int3l proto1@computek.net -------------------------------------------------------------- you can also email @cau.dfwisp.net %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Fort Worth 2600 Meeting Yes, that's right. As all the members of CAU (and friends) have been making the hour long pilgrimage to the Dallas 2600 meeting, we have noticed a few things over the past few months, one being that probably 60% of attendee's to the Dallas 2600 meeting are from Fort Worth. Most of us are also tired of driving an hour or so to get there, and then an hour or so back. That is why the members of CAU have decided to begin holding a Fort Worth 2600 meeting. If we get a good response at the new meeting, we will inform 2600 Magazine and hopefully get a listing in the Meetings List. But for now, word of mouth/modem will have to do. Fort Worth 2600 Meeting First Friday of Every Month CiCi's Pizza Phone: 817.485.4647 Rufe Snow, North of Loop 820 6:00pm -- 9:00pm Well, there's the information... hope to see you there! I)ruid %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ############################################################################## Hacking %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 817.860.XXXX -={817/860}=-Arlington-----------------------1996----int3l-- ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` [Number] [Owned by] 860-8210 US Navy Nuclear Regultatory Comission 860-8244 US Navy Nuclear Regultatory Comission 860-8207 US Navy Nuclear Regultatory Comission 860-8228 US Navy Nuclear Regultatory Comission 860-6527 Nuclear Regulartory Commission 860-2751 Pactel Paging Inc 860-5324 Pactel Paging Inc 860-5378 Pactel Paging Inc 860-2824 Pactel Paging Inc 860-5306 Pactel Paging Inc 860-2503 Pactel Paging Inc 860-2773 Pactel Paging Inc 860-2596 Pactel Paging Inc 860-2694 Pactel Paging Inc 860-2784 Pactel Paging Inc 860-5377 Pactel Paging Inc 860-2757 Pactel Paging Inc 860-2549 Paging Network Inc 860-5485 T R Overeynder 860-3946 Automated Technology Machines Inc 860-0180 Health Care Pacs Inc 860-2628 Bank co 860-2065 Pioneer Concrete 860-0983 Radio 860-3405 Aqualand Scubaworld 860-1456 Falk Corp 860-5499 David Clark 860-4497 Jason S Deli 860-4024 Countrywide Funding 860-3626 State 860-1701 WM Bush 860-2674 Creditwatch Inc 860-1808 Mike Vanacek 860-2806 Michael Deavers 860-4396 Creditwatch Inc 860-1437 Roseanna Barraza 860-2685 Metroplex Telecommunication Co 860-5311 Minyard Food Stores 860-3416 First 860-3339 Alan Plummer 860-0045 Grandys Country Cooking Inc 860-0322 Property Consultants 860-0864 Don Davis Oldsmobile Inc 860-1194 Trinity Motors 860-1248 National Health Lab Inc 860-1486 Roche 860-2069 Pioneer Concrete 860-2082 Jenny Craig Weight Loss Center 860-2291 Randol Mill Pharmacy 860-2584 Fort 860-2853 Damon Clinical Labs 860-3105 Why Telecom 860-3391 Arlington Medical Assc 860-3443 County Property Tarrant 860-3776 Deborah Clary 860-3974 T V Team Inc 860-4153 Countrywide Funding 860-5237 Northwest National Bank 860-5300 Steven Hayes 860-5530 S Boenker 860-5750 Corona John J 860-5825 Teleticketing Company 860-6083 Tom Siegenthaler 860-6165 Park Inn Limited 860-6179 Assocciated Milk Producers 860-6282 Micro Fix 860-6377 Remco 860-6429 Arlingt 860-6457 Taco 860-6570 Cash America Inc 860-6768 Deitre Allen 860-7423 Lone Star Payphone Inc 860-9861 Metpath Inc 860-9572 Arlint 860-9300 First Financial Mortgage 860-9418 National Health Lab Inc 860-9715 Park Inn International 860-7943 Stewart Texas Title Co 860-8379 Your Eletronics Solutions 860-9263 TX ST 860-7328 Chris Burditt 860-7088 City Of Arlington 860-9872 City Of Arlington 860-8762 City Of Arlington 860-8751 City Of Arlington 860-8759 City Of Arlington 860-5520 City Of Arlington 860-3937 City Of Arlington int3l %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ScanIt! Okay, ScanIt! is basically an IP block scanner, with a configurable search file. You can mod the code if you feel you have a worthwile improvement, just send me a copy so I can see what you've done (I'm still learning). Okay, Syntax is: scanit *.*.*. Start End Where *.*.*. are the first 3 numbers of an ip block Start is the fourth number of the ip block (where to start) End is the fourth number of the ip block (where to end) So for example: scanit 204.111.143. 0 255 will create an outfile called scanlog, containing scanned IP's that scanit FOUND something from the checkfile, starting with ip 204.111.143.0 and ending at ip 204.111.143.255. NOTE: on some IP blocks that are pretty full, this can take a while. Also note that scanit will not scan .mil or .gov at this time. You can disable this safty feature by removing a few lines of code, but I will not go into that right now. I have included my own checkfile just to include in the package, which searches target systems for phf, nfs exports to evryone, and test-cgi. Just for the hell of it. Files required to run are: Netcat (nc) - You can get this lots of places, sunsite, my ftp site, etc... Perl - Of cource, this is a perl script. checkfile - This describes what to look for. scanit - The perl script. Okay, as for checkfile, it is composed of entries, 5 lines per entry, all squished together in a big mess. Here's how: Line 1: A one letter Describer of the Vulnerablity to look for Line 2: What to output to the screen to describe what it's looking for Line 3: Either YES or NO : YES uses netcat, NO does not... Line 4: Command Sent (explained in a minute) Line 5: What to search the Command's response for. Example: P Testing for phf... YES echo GET /cgi-bin/phf? Qalias Is an entry that will search for Phf. P being what will be sent to the scanlog file, "Testing for phf..." will be shown to whoever runs scanit, YES tells scanit to use netcat for this search, "echo GET /cgi-bin/phf?" is the command (in this case, piped to netcat), and "Qalias" is what to search the results for for a successful find. An example not using netcat would be: N Testing for NFS Mountability... NO showmount -e everyone I'm sure you can figure this one out... only diference is that Line 4 (the command) is not piped to netcat. COMMAND LINE ------------ If Line 3 = YES, Line 4 ($syscall) is formulated like this: $syscall | nc -v -w 15 $target 80 Where $target is the target ip... So, in the first example above, the entire command would read: echo GET /cgi-bin/phf? | nc -v -w 15 (targetip) 80 and the output would be searched for "Qalias"... If Line 3 = NO, Line 4 ($syscall) is formulated like this: $syscall $name Where $name is the domain name/ip... So in the second example above, the entire command would read: showmount -e (targetip) and the output would be searched for "everyone"... SCANLOG ------- Scanlog is created based on how many entries you have in checkfile... for my example checkfile, output would look like this: P-- - Phf proves to be TRUE PT- - Phf and Test-cgi proves to be TRUE PTN - Phf,Test-cgi, and NFS proves to be TRUE The letters are derived from Line 1 of each entry in the checkfile. Well, hope you have fun with it, let me know how it works, bugs, modifications you have added, etc. Thanks Okay, well, here's the code... You can also obtain the entire package from the CAU ftp server or, the CAU Homepage... ---------------------------------CUT HERE------------------------------------ #!/usr/bin/perl ### ScanIt v.1.0.0 by I)ruid $ip=$ARGV[0]; $start=$ARGV[1]; $end=$ARGV[2]; if ($ip eq "") { print "First argument must be the first 3 numbers of an ip...\n"; goto end; } if ($start eq "") { print "Second argument must be the last number of the ip to start on...\n"; goto end; } if ($start lt "0") { print "Second argument must be greater than -1\n"; goto end; } if ($end eq "") { print "Third argument must be the last number of the ip to end on...\n"; goto end; } if ($end gt "255") { print "Third argument must be less than 256...\n"; goto end; } if (-e scanlog) { system("mv scanlog scanlog.old"); system("cat /dev/null > scanlog"); } else { system("cat /dev/null > scanlog"); system("echo Okay... to read this file, its similar to file perm>> scanlog"); system("echo the perms are next to the ip they relate to... P is>> scanlog"); system("echo test-cgi, and if you wanna play with the file, you >> scanlog"); system("echo ...................................................>> scanlog"); ##########INFORMATION CROPPED TO FIT INSIDE ZINE########################### } print "Looking for netcat...\n"; $temp=`whereis nc`; if ($temp eq "nc:") { print "I'm sorry, you must have netcat in your paths to run ScanIt!\n"; print "If you don't have netcat, you can get it here:\n"; print "\n"; print "ftp: cau.psyberlink.net:/pub/utils/unix/netcat.tar.gz\n"; goto end } $temp="Y"; $last=$start; while ( $last <= $end ) { $target=join("",$ip,$last); system("clear"); print "ScanIt! v.1.0.2 by I)ruid -=] CAU [=- Enjoy... \n"; print "----------------------------------------------------------------\n"; $name=`nslookup $target | grep Name: | cut -d ' ' -f 5`; print "Target: $target $name\n"; chop($name); $g="NO"; if ($name eq "") { goto skip1; } $tempt=-1; $tempt=index($name,".gov"); if ($tempt != -1) { print "Skipping domain... '.gov' detected!\n"; goto skip1; } $tempt=-1; $tempt=index($name,".mil"); if ($tempt != -1) { print "Skipping domain... '.mil' detected!\n"; goto skip1; } $fps=" "; open (STDIN, "checkfile"); $id=; chop($id); $message=; chop($message); $netcat=; chop($netcat); $syscall=; chop($syscall); $lookfor=; chop($lookfor); while ($message ne "") { if ( -e phftemp ) { system("rm phftemp"); } $fp="-"; print "\n"; print "$message\n"; if ($netcat eq "YES") { system("$syscall | nc -v -w 15 $target 80 > phftemp"); } else { system("$syscall $name > phftemp"); } $v=""; $v=`grep $lookfor phftemp`; print "Result: $v\n"; if ($v ne "") { $fp=$id; $g="YES"; } $fps=join("",$fps,$fp); $id=; chop($id); $message=; chop($message); $netcat=; chop($netcat); $syscall=; chop($syscall); $lookfor=; chop($lookfor); } close STDIN; if ($g eq "YES") { system("echo $fps $target $name >> scanlog"); } print "----------------------------------------------------------------\n\n"; skip1: $last++; } system("echo .................................................. >> scanlog"); if ( -e phftemp ) { system("rm phftemp"); } end: ---------------------------------CUT HERE------------------------------------ I)ruid %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Precautions Ok, in todays scene (if you want to call it that) kids that 'hack' or 'phreak' do it w/o precaution.. this is probbally one of the biggest reasons ppl do get busted.. cuse they aren't careful. If you know Unix, if you know how to disconnect a fone 13 billiion different ways.. I'd like to think while kickin it in others systems or messin with fone stuff you'd have the insight to protect your self.. I guess I'll be going over reall basic stuff on local and inet hacking and what to do to keep your but outa trouble.. Diverting First though most new skewl kids with all their 336 modems (unlike good ole 300 baud days) think they are the shyt and they can do more then any one back in the day.. they may be right.. they can catch a pw file faster and get around in general alot quicker.. that doesn't justify their (our Im one of yall, too) lazyness.. I for one think that attempting to get PBX or just good ole diverters like 950's pins n stuff is an extreamly time consuming thing.. I for one think that if we would sit down, stop playing computer games, and get our heads out of our asses for the first time in our lives.. we might get some stuff done.. Trust me.. if you think taking the time to crack a diverter(whatever you wish to call it) is dumb.. your wrong.. the only easy way to get pins, access codes whatever is to get it from some one who took the damn time to get it them selfs.. they are worth much much more then most of you would think.. I really can't think of a reason why not to start cracking at 950's everyone thinks they are DEATH or auto-fed numbers or whatever.. they aren't.. I'v left a 'cracker' written buy muh friend Undone on for 2 days straight.. and I don't have a tap or nothing out of the ordinary on my line.. (don't ask how I know this) anyway..(course Im gonna feel dumb when I get a call from the feds.. 'we know your a hacker we own you' clik) anyway..:) call up a few 950's push pound and poof_)($&*_(@Q$&@ you have another CC diverter...though not a great Idea... ISP Lucky CAU has had the opportunity to chill with some really kewl kids.. and met alot of root@isp whatever.. that helps.. but other wise you need to find a really kewl isp.. I would give out a name of a great one.. but Im not sure if he could get into trouble so for now i'll keep his anonymity (I can't spell) I allso would advise op assist dialing your isp.. there are more hitech ways of op assist dialing that does really neat stuff to Caller ID but thats another txt.. anyways.. you need to dial the good ole 0 or whtaever.. get them to dial your isp's number " muh cat pissed on my fone. Could you dial a numebr for me?" (warning this cost $ I forget howmuch.. but don't be fooled use only when you wnat to fuck around). ACCOUNTS ok Alot of kids I know just can't afford inet accounts there are a couple ways to get around this.. FIRST: I like this way.. everyone chip in like 3 bucks and pay for a months service for a good OLD ppp account.. who cares if it dies.. it was only three bucks.. btw use false info and if the place will allow it try to pay cash.. second: dumb of course good ole carding.. Im not saying carding is the antichrist of hacking (what would I care Im not christian) but I dislike it in the way that most CC numbers are gotten buy scamming and stealing little white ticket stubs from pay at the tank things:) not good ole trashing.. or various other places that can supply CC numbers.. But if you must give them all false info.. Hell you can make up a name on the card.. most isp's do such a bland check that they call in the merchant number or whatever it is and just check the CC number and exp date.. also of course giv 'em dumb info.. bob joe werk for shoe co.. blah blah.. WARNING!!!:!: if u MUST card the damn account PLEASE at least op divert.. cuse they don't like it when you card accounts.. Inet Next, when you finnally get on the net.. you need a few shell accounts or something simular.. http://infinite.loop.org offers free shell accounts.. (must give the kid your email add to get loging and such) and I'm sure once you are on you can find a way of getting a few more shells (Since you are a "hacker" and all :) ) trust me make sure the shell your going through has finger disabled.. cuse other wise root know's who and where you are coming from.. Also.. if you decide your the shit and are a real hacker and bust root on a isp or something capable of creating ppp or shell accounts.. don't go crazy.. I did and the damn place doesn't even allow shell access any more.. Access granted After you are nice and un-tracable (yea right :) ) then you find your target.. I really can't help with this.. just pick something.. I really wont go into actually getting access just what you need to do after you have it.. (your a hacker figure it out) Id recomend the following: at your first #> who (or w) depending and look for this.. User tty From login@ idle JCPU PCPU what root tty1 Sat 8pm 2623:03 sniffer pretty self exploitabel(err) the what is usually what I look at.. and idle time.. if root has been sitting there idle for three days.. don't werry.. less the 'what' collum has like a sniffer or somtehing to that extent.. allso just cuse its not root logged in doesn't mean its not.. being root has its file privledges one of those being: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 740 Jan 11 18:16 /etc/passwd ya`know :) anyway.. allso do this at the #> prompt #> ps aux (allso depending on os and such) look for logers or stuff that is monitoring ttys and stuff.. one of the least used 'sniffer typet hing' is ttysnoop.. welp thats pretty much it.. -uv ps: "just because your paranoid, don't mean they're not after you" -KC %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ############################################################################## Phreaking %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Red Boxes for the Novice Redboxes are simple devices that that are used to make free phone calls on a payphone. There are several ways to build one; however, the most common way is using two Radio Shack parts that are easily obtained. First, from Rat Shak is the 33-memory tone-dialer [druid, if you can get the part number, please insert it here] be careful though, Rat Shak has two tone dialers, one is the 33 memory tone dialer, around $30.00, and a cheaper one with no memory, around $20.00... do not buy the one without the memory, since the memory is the key part of the redbox. Second is a 6.5536 hz crystal. This is the harderst of the two items to get, and usualy the Rat Shak salemans are dumbasses, and don't know that this crystal even exists, you will probably have to give them the part number [again, if you have it insert it here] or talk to someone that has worked there for a while to get it. And when you buy these two items, do not buy them together, do not by them under the same name, and do not tell the salesman why you really want the items. The best excuse for the tone dialer is that you travel a lot, and the cyrstal is for a crystal radio set you are building. Anywayz, now on to the fun part... You will need a small philips head screw driver, the cross shaped one, a sodering iron (and if you have one, a de-soldering iron comes in handy) and of course solder. Now, open the back of the tone dialer... be careful with the switches... and lay it down flat... now, on the left hand side of the open dialer you will notice a crystal, it is a cylinder shaped shiny thing... this will have to go... heat up your soldering iron, and remove the crystal... if you can tell which lead is positive and which is negative mark them... now insert the new 6.5536 crystal into its new home, if you saw the pos/neg of the leads then insert it correctly, and solder the new crystal in place... now, look and make sure the solder connections are good, and replace the back of the tone-dialer, it will not sit all the way down, it will bulge up on the side of the crystal, do not try to force it flat, and re-insert the batteries, turn it on, and hit a few buttons, if you can hear it you did good, if nothing is heard, open it up and check your solder connections, if they appear to be good, try de-soldering the crystal and soldering it on after flipping the leads. Now, to program it... program any one of the buttons with 5 stars... as in, say you want to program the P1 key... press * 5 times, and then save it to the P1 key... now you are ready to go... goto the nearest BELL payphone dial 10288-1-(area code)-(phone number) do this even if it is local (not using the "1")... then, when the nice AT&T computer comes up and says, please insert so much money, everytime you play the P1 button into the receiver it thinks you entered a quarter, so give the nice lady all the money she asked for... now go have fun... Other ways to make a red-box... if you have one of those small tape recorders or a keychain that takes memos... DO NOT USE the tone files going around the net, these do not work... you have to find someone with a working Rat Shak redbox... and all you do, is record the tone that the programmed P1 button makes onto your tape recorder or keychain memo... Now, use it just as you would a regular redbox... but most of all, HAVE FUN... And remember kids, this is for informational purposes only... NEVER try this at home... -Fizban %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Ten Ways to make Free Calls From Pay Phones 1. Call the Operator and Be Friendly to her... Something Like this: Make sure, it's a female too... Cause, Male Op's Fucking Suck Shit. Op: Operator May I help you? You: Hey, whats goin on? What Are you up to Today? Havin' Fun?!@@##?? Op: Not Much.. Is there something I can help you with?.. . You: Yeah, Guess What? Op: What? You: Your gonna Dial a number... For Me.. . Ya' know? Works for me.... Outa like ten, eight of them have done it.. Local, And 800 Only So far though.. . =) Won't work on COCOT'S.. 2. Snip the Yellow and Black Wire going to the phone, And Proceed to make your call.. Or leave it Snipped and Come back the Next day, Hook them back up and Press Coin Release... Fun Time Stuff happens ;) 3: Haxor a Voice Mail and For the Greeting put: Hello? (pause, pause, pause, pause...,...,.) Yeah,... Yeah, I'll Accept it. (pause, Pause,) Yeah, Yeah... Okay... Yeah, By. (click Sound) Have Loud Music or something playing in the Background.. Make it sound like you're Strugling to hear her... Talk loud.. [EDITORS NOTE: The purpose of this is so you can 3rd party bill a call.] 4: 800-CALL-ATT.... 100% Savings, Anytime... Anywere.. ;) The Company that will bring it to you... AT&T.. Extrapulate Credit Cards, And Make up the Experation Date.. bla..bla..... Just make sure you Extrapulate from a Valid Card.. 5: Humm... The old, Im Loosing my shit, Trick.. I lost my Money in the Phone... If She Will not Dial the Number, Threaten to Take the Payphone with you... If that does'nt work Beat the Recever, against the Phone.. Still nothing?... Tell here your gona run it over with yer' pick up truck.. Ask her to hold then, put Walk towards your Automobile and start Reving the Engine and Laugh REAL Loud, so she'll hear you.. 6: Call your local Frame And have them Change the Line class of the phone to a POTS line... (Plain Old Telephone Service) This is VERY involved and could cause bodily harm,.. (dont ask) You will need a Cable, and Pair of someone (Residince) in the General area of the Payphone,.. . You'll also need the Cable and Pair of that payphone.. (SouthWestern Bell Payphone of, Course) Basicly, you will just have them Swap the Cable and Pair, of the Two phones Turning the Payphone into A Residentual Phone... The Process takes about, 10 - 15 min. If they give you any shit, Just tell them you can't find your Trouble Ticket, And that Your Supivisor Gave you this information,.. It also sometimes helps to act like a new Week Old Technician.. If they don't do it, tell them your a Manager at AT&T and your going to Bomb there fucking Building if they don't do it... 7: 6.5536 MHz Crystal.. ;) 8: This one may sound kinda funny but it works alot of the time... KICK THE FUCKING SHIT OUTA THE PAYPHONE!.. Kick it like you feared it.. Kick it like it scares the shit outa you. . Most of the time you'll get $0.25... 9: Hide behind the phone, and wait for someone to put a quarter in it, then scare them away.. 10: Steal a Quarter from a Mexican. Mexican: Jo' Main... How yo' doien main... You: BAAM, WHAAP,. SHOE!@#%$!! WHOO WHOO WHOO WHOO WHOO up the butthole.. Rape: Rape, the Mexican of his Quarter. int3l %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Not In Service With the rise in popularity of cellular phones in recent years, cellular phones are not that hard to come by in this day. Many allready have 2 or 3 maybe sitting in a garage or attic somewhere. Either their from a phone upgrade or termination of service. Many people think it is impossable to make a phone call off one of these "Not In Service" cellular phones with out modifying the frameware for the phone. That is not entirely true. When trying to make phone calls, the phone will ussally give you a message saying that the phone is not currently activated and to dial customer service for help. The customer service number sometimes depends on the service you had on the phone prior to its cancelation, either A or B line classes. In "MOST" cases, the number will be *611. In some odd cases i've seen some phones work with *211, *111, etc. The main point is to get to a live operator from your phone. Once there tell them that you need them to dial a toll free number for you. If they say they can't, keep on trying. Say that there is something wrong with your phone and this is a emergency and you need to make a credit card call, That usually breaks them. When they ask for the number tell them 1-800-225-5288 (1-800-CALL-ATT). I've had some operators give me hell and completly refuse to dial a number, rare but on occasion it happens. Most operators will be kewl about it, and dial the number for you. Once at AT&T its all sm00th from there, just select credit card call and enter the credit card number you wish to use. One cool thing about using AT&T is that once you finish one call, you can hit '#'. It will then allow you to dial other numbers up to 20 times. This method of using your old cellular phone to make phone calls does not work on all cellular phones and some parts of the country. For example, i've noticed when the phone is out of it home area also known as roaming, it will not get you to a live operator. Wierd, but i've seen it happen. Also for some reason you cannot do this in all parts of the US. I don't know exactly why yet, but im working on it. Crimson Assassin %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ############################################################################## Closing Well, another month, another zine... We're getting alot of feedback in the way of letters, etc. Just a quick reminder, send response to: letters@cau.dfwisp.net articles@cau.dfwisp.net zine@cau.dfwisp.net Allrightythen... See ya next month! ############################################################################## ____ ____ __ __ / \ / \ | | | | ----====####/ /\__\##/ /\ \##| |##| |####====---- | | | |__| | | | | | | | ___ | __ | | | | | ------======######\ \/ /#| |##| |#| |##| |######======------ \____/ |__| |__| \______/ Computer Academic Underground