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Hi all,

Been busy for a while and was distracted by other facets of life. Signed in today was reading some of the posts to see if anything major or interesting has happened and not much has changed as I expected (no offence). So it seems no harm there in being temporarily gone.

Now as I was reading some of the posts and a reply to my "Everything is Assumed" thread I noticed I had been down rep to -6 so I checked the Binary Revolution forum index page where it has a list of where you were down repped and which it was in like each thread over a long past with no replies as to why...I in some ways don't care but was wondering has another spam bot got lose or some dumb-ass, or did I make a thread that offended some community and they say it and one of them joined and down repped me for that. Anyway I was also wondering if this had happened to anyone else as well.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Truth is i found the Laptop and intend keeping it but can't access the system without the password. In this case whats the best tool to use to hack the password?

After seeing your post #4, I withdrawal my advice.

After reading your comment #4 I also got really annoyed. I agree with Berzerk on this. Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems you don't know the difference between petty theft and hacking.

Here is what I consider the difference:

HACKING -

• Taking a computer, and figuring out a way to bypass the password.
• Disseminating the contents of the drive to find the owner's name, address, and pictures of them to identify them.
• Being nice and installing programs to help them find their PC if they lose it again.
  
  • VNC - (to view the system)
  • An SSH server - (to help retrieve their files)
  • An IP beacon - (To say when the PC is online and what the IP address is)
• Returning the laptop to the owner.
• Occasionally checking in on the PC to make sure the system is ok, and they didn't lose it again. (What a good citizen!!!)

PETTY THEFT -

• Not using google to find a simple kiddie script.
• Being an idiot and telling everyone you are committing a crime.

I swear to God that if you ever mature you'll look at this post in a couple of years with SHAME.

Hey Samo! Good to hear from you again. Sorry to give you a wall of text here, there's really no concise way to explain this.

In short, if you want to explore a long distance tandem, your best bet is to use a PIC code. There's a very simple trick that lets you push any destination you want directly into the tandem. We'll use Worldcom as an example, since it works from basically anywhere in the United States.
Ready? Dial 101-0555. That's it; no zero, nothing. What you get next is a dialtone straight from the tandem. In the case of the ex-Worldcom tandems, it's not quite as fun as it could be; it wants an authorization code a-la 950 calling card.

Here's an example of what you might find - http://thoughtphreak..._800223110.flac

That's from a DMS (500, I think) owned by Integra, one of the local CLECs. Most long distance tandems (AT&T's aside - we'll get into that in a bit) don't like terminating toll-free calls, so you'll end up getting weird messages that you'll never be able to hear normally unless your switch loses it's mind. What's so great about this is you're completely free from the dialing restrictions of a normal end office. Want to dial an NXX starting with 1 or 0? A code starting with #? *? There's nothing standing in your way. Sprint in particular stuck a speed dial function on their tandem for some weird reason in the #xx range. #99+anything seems to be it's own little exception - it'll wait for a very large amount of digits before eventually giving you a generic CBCAE recording. This might indicate they're hiding something else here.

There's one downside to this technique; if you're not subscribed to a carrier, they won't always let you play with the tandem. ex-MCI (0222) and Sprint are a couple good examples of this, but Sprint will give you a cool message as a consolation prize. Depending on your area, you might have better luck too. For example, the Qwest long distance network has a combination of DMS-250 and Sonus switches.

Sonus isn't fond of letting people have fun on the phone, so you'll just get a generic error recording. If you encounter Global Crossing's Sonus switches, you won't even get a custom recording, you'll get the Sonus stock one. It's worth a laugh if you ever hear it. It's under three seconds, and was clearly made last minute by an engineer.

Speaking of Global Crossing, like MCI/0222, they have a number of Alcatel DEX switches floating around. Dialing 101-0444 will just get you an error, though. The solution? 950-1044! What dialplan they're using is absolutely beyond me, though, so you're on your own there. There's suggestions - like 800-223-1104 (but only without a 1) going to an invalid code recording that suggest it might be for calling card use, but most things I can think to try just go to a CBCAD.

And then we come to AT&T's 0288 network. I'll level with you, this is something I haven't figured out at all. Whenever I've been fortunate to get a dialtone back, it's always been from one of their 5ESS toll tandems. If there's such thing as a pushy phone switch, this is it. It'll let you know right away if it thinks you're doing something wrong. And putting a 1 in front of your destination number is wrong. I haven't had time or an opportunity to just sit down and investigate this, but what I do know is it's unique from a lot of other switches. For one, it'll terminate toll-free calls, but only on specific carriers. I believe just AT&T and Global Crossing toll-frees. Sometimes, it gets a little weirder - like, if you dial 800-244-1111, you'll get a recording from a McLeodUSA DMS. What this means I'm not sure exactly, but my guess is since the 5E toll tandems are responsible for lending a hand in connecting toll-frees, they'll store translations for those toll-frees. If it happens to have one - outdated or not, it'll just use that instead of doing an SMS-800 dip.

Also of note on the AT&T tandems is the 600 NPA. Instead of just intercepting it like any invalid NPA, it'll pass this onto the 4ESS. This might indicate AT&T stashed something in there.

As for your question - is SS7 relevant to phreaks?

Absolutely. The very core practice of phreaking - introducing unorthodox input into the phone network - is fair game to everything, in or out of the speech channel. In the past, we've proved ISDN cause codes can trigger calls to take a different route, and it's been demonstrated that originating a ghost call (in short, an ANI fail on steroids - a call originated with no field other than the destination number) can be enough trouble that phone companies would probably scratch their heads as to whom they should send the bill to. It's understandable that figuring these things out is a challenge, but if anything, that should be a motivator. We're phone phreaks, we've got the resourcefulness to identify a piece of telco hardware by nothing more than vague sounds, and have fun in the process. This should be a reminder that there's always more to explore, and always another limit to break.

It's a mindset.

You hack to learn, you don't learn to hack.

That sounds like a lot of work! Can I just send you my bank account numbers and social and have you help me out?

Not to stir shit up, but I certainly agree that this forum shouldn't be a place where fake accounts come along and post allegations which result in people being terminated from their employment.

If "unlucky" was indeed the victim of a violation of his privacy by an employee of trapcall/spoofcard then he should have contacted them.

Also, if Lucky was fired without any evidence of a particular account being accessed by an employee, then he worked for a piece of shit company.

If I were a mod, i would have deleted this thread because even if the allegations were true, there was not a shred of evidence provided, and I do not believe that this is a place for such things. perhaps if "unlucky" simply voiced a concern over the privacy expectations when dealing with a particular service, but he didn't - he made an accusation directed at one man, without anything to back it up.

That being said, it's probably all true.    ...seriously.

Every time i needed a channel on my cable tv, the company always ask for more money. Is there a way i could manipulate my cabletv without a hole in my pocket? Oh, i have direct tv.

Stop paying for tv service

Look into "FTA" or "FTA Receivers" Etc.

Just read up on the "Free to Air broadcasts"

You just buy a receiver, point your satellite at the orbiting satellite and you can get over 1,000 channels

Free.

SCO doesn't own UNIX, at least not yet. The actual "ownership" and copyright to UNIX is a very complicated issue. All this court decision did was "reverse material aspects" of the earlier verdict from 2007 that found Novell to be the rightful copyright owner. Now there's going to be yet another trial case to determine whether SCO does in fact own the copyright.

I don't think anybody seriously gives a shit about System V UNIX, UnixWare or any of SCO's other crappy, outdated products.

But a company like SCO, which has been in bankruptcy for over 2 years, has virtually no market share and appears to exist these days only for the purpose of suing other companies, might well gain legal ownership of the original System V UNIX code. In other words: they might gain a legal "leg to stand on" and cause more trouble for like IBM and Novell which produce Linux-based software and distribute Linux as an OEM OS. They have disseminated propaganda to Linux users, accusing them of copyright infringement and alleging they could be liable for damages simply by running Linux. They have sued their own (former) customers who switched from using their products to using Linux. SCO is also known to have received financial backing from other, far more powerful interests whose goal is to ruin the open source software movement by any means possible. At this point, SCO clearly has nothing to lose, and Microsoft doesn't have to dirty their hands or risk hurting their own public image by attacking open source developers in court. Microsoft can just sit back and bash the OSS movement in the press, allege IP infringements, negotiate cross-licensing agreements and provide financial support to companies like SCO to file anti-OSS suits.

This may not be a potent threat to the very existence of Linux, but it could definitely harm Linux in the business market and lead to some very bad precedents regarding OSS and software copyright/patents in general.


BTW, I'm not the one who voted down your post. It's an interesting bit of news on a case I haven't really followed in awhile. Thanks for posting it.

Ohm, you obviously get off on policing binrev. Seriously, I've seen you crush countless topics with your sense of superior morality. The only thing that impresses me about you is that you always find some way to condescend. You've got a real talent.

Clearly the best was Windows 95.  Don't you miss 3 reboots a day?

As for XP, it was received pretty badly at first.  Pre-SP1, XP was quite buggy.  Also, for the time it was resource heavy, so a lot of people complained they couldn't run it on their current machines.  I always got a chuckle when people bashed Vista, yet praised XP which had similar problems at the start.  Of course people were willing to bite the bullet since the alternative was Windows 98 (or for the enlightened few, Windows 2000).  Now, you have XP which works and is stable, so you can sit back and poo Vista all you want.

I've also had no problems with Vista.  If you have a fast enough machine, there's just not much to complain about.  It works, what more do you want?

As long as you're listing future OSs, why not list Ubuntu 9.10?

He doesn't want his prof to see

Hey guys, I am rather new to hacking but I am looking to step into the world.  I've done some basic stuff like getting a war-dialer (thc-scan) to work and messing around with Low Orbit Ion Cannon (I wouldn't call that hacking) but I want more.  I would like to try setting up a botnet/getting involved in DDOS but I am not sure what software I need or which is the best.  I also am not sure how put packets onto other users computers.  I would greatly appreciate any help.  Thanks!

Hrmph.  DDoS isn't "hacking" and it's lame.   Botnets can be interesting,  but not for what you want to do (malicious activity).   You'd be better off spending your time on better ventures.  IE - "real hacking".   There's a ton of ways you can get involved which don't involve destruction and disturbance of services.  Hardware hacking,  System & network security,  etc.

Afterm4th and serrath said it right. Apple may have it's own proprietary version of Unix (OS X) but the differences between OS X and any modern Linux/Unix OS are negligible at best. In other words, Macintosh computers are just as vulnerable, if not more vulnerable than Windows based PCs. The big difference in number of exploits, and number of viruses, etc, is due to something known as "security through obscurity". Since so many more people use Windows, attackers spend their time targeting PCs rather than targeting Macs.

As far as security holes go, there are plenty. For example Lion is vulnerable to an LDAP exploit.
LDAP Problems Here

Ultimately, it's not that Macs are invincible to malware, it's that there's not much malware out there that was written with OS X in mind.

While our holiday specials are indeed something to get hysterical about, there's no reason why we have to behave like the WalMart crowds. We're better than that. So if you decide to visit our online store to take advantage of prices so low we're practically giving it all away, please remain calm and remember that others are also in the store trying to get the best value. There's no need for denial of service attacks, buffer overflows, or pepper spray exploits. We will do our best to accommodate everyone.

http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/12162

Something for us to keep in mind when these chips become popular and to stick to credit cards as overall in some ways it is just safer.

How about sticking to cash? Or even better, Gold and silver.

yet once again 2600 has a trouble with their internet service, and instead of understanding that troubles happen, the copper infrastructure is old and fucked - they blame that their ISP is intentionally damaging their connection, or dragging their heels in making the repairs.

makes for a great conspiracy story - perhaps you can get alex jones to write for your publication, as 2600 seems to live with the same paranoia as he does about everyone and everything...

as i have mentioned before when you had an outage -
1- it is not very professional to host a server in your office - you really should rent rack space at a co-location
2- if you continue to feel the need to host the server in your mothers basement, then at least get a multi-WAN router and a secondary internet provider.. with all of the money that 2600 saves by having the community submit articles, and not having to pay writers you should not find it difficult to come up with around $200 for a multi-WAN router, and the $30-40 per month for a cable modem as a back-up...

as an X-verizon tech i will tell you, i highly doubt that the techs are fuX0ring with your connection, nor do i believe that it is intentional that they showed and were not able to gain access... even if the trouble is in the underground, or block facilities, many techs will no access a job if there is no access to the NID. perhaps they tested the line in the basement terminal of your building and found that the trouble was going back towards the central office, but the terminal was a block terminal, and they needed access to the underground facilities, and were unable to gain access to that terminal - i know that if i encountered a trouble like this when i worked for them i would have just turned the job back as no access other, depending on my mood i may or may not have advised the customer of the situation but more than likely i would have just kept it moving...

as this appears to be a recurring trouble, it is obvious to me that there is a cable failure issue with the cabling feeding your internet connection - there is a lot of old cable out their.. so why you have not switched to FiOS, cable modem, or lightpath by now, at least for back up, is beyond me...

http://www.google.ca...n57@hotmail.com


From a post he made on another forum he called himself "leo"


This looks like it might be his live journal: http://smarten57.livejournal.com/ (i base this assumption on the fact that hes trying to sell "gold" coins)


Possible Ebay (both smarten57s appear to be from china)
http://myworld.ebay.com/smarten57/


Possible info from live journal:

Birthdate: 05-30
Location: haerbin, China
Listed ICQ number: 274-894-888

ICQ lookup gives me this: http://www.icq.com/people/274894888/

Name: liu qingyuan, from haerbin, China  (Liu sounds like Leo)


With this info I can now use pipl

http://pipl.com/search/?FirstName=liu&LastName=qingyuan&City=haerbin&State=&Country=CN&CategoryID=2&Interface=1

http://www.facebook.com/people/Liu-Qingyuan/748231341 Possibly him?

Possible twitter account: http://twitter.com/#!/MaRtinLAuQingyu (no tweets)



The ICQ number he provides in his post points to this ICQ profile : http://www.icq.com/people/606777527/

In his profile he calls himself 刘 丰志  and hes using a stock photo of some actor i've never heard of (determined this through tineye search)

刘 丰志 translates to Zhi Feng Liu

This is Zhi Feng Liu:


his resume: http://www.cs.toront...ume_zhifeng.doc


webpage from when he studied in toronto ontario: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~zliu/

for a guy who's got a degree in comp sci he does a really shitty job at making a webpage.


http://cn.linkedin.com/in/zhifengliu




This may be him, it might not. Im going to guess that it is him.

IDK about DDR2 and DDR3 compatibility, and am too lazy too google it right now. Just thought I'd add my 2 cents on liquid cooling.

I'd not recommend it, unless you're gonna do some serious overclocking and need it. IMO, the more complicated stuff is, the less reliable it is. I've overclocked a 2.8 Q9550 to 3.5GHZ (pics were in the gallery) and it was stable as heck. That was with and nVidia chipset, that was known to run extra hot, too. Of course with the two 250mm side-fans, two internal 120mm fans, and a third-party zalman heatsink/fan it sounds like small vacuum when running full throttle on hot summer days....

EDIT: thermal compound; I've yet to find anything affordable as good as arctic silver 5. A small tube for about $20.00 will last 10 or so builds. Just be sure to learn to apply it properly! I've seen so many people that just splurge, thinking extra compound will work better. When in fact, too much, will actually insulate the CPU.

Put about the size of a grain of rice on the heatsink. Then spread it evenly with a razor blade or exacto knife. The coat should be thin and even across the entire copper placement of the heatsink. You could put it on the CPU, but I just hate handling them too much, as pricey as the damn things are... The heatsinnk can usually withstand a static discharge that would fry the CPU. You could also use rubber, medical gloves to spread it with your fingers. Just don't touch the heatsink copper placement or cpu with bare hands, though. I've read the oils from human contact will degrade the compound prematurely...

Can anyone point me in the right direction for a reference on abbreviations on a PCB board?

I know R means resistor and TB means terminal block.  What are the other letters that can show up on a PCB and what do they stand for?

*Edit*

Just found this:

A = Assembly
B = Fan
BT = Battery
C = Capacitor
CB = Circuit Breaker 4-1
CR = Diode
D = Diode
DL = Delay Line
DS = Lamp
E = Terminal
F = Fuse
FL = Filter
J = Connector, Recept
K = Relay
L = Inductor
M = Meter
P = Connector, Plug
Q = Transistor, Semiconductor
R = Resistor, Potentiometer
RT = Temperature Sensing Element
S = Switch
T = Transformer
TB = Terminal Block
TP = Test Point
U = Integrated Circuit
V = Vacuum Tube, Neon Bulb, Photocell, etc.
VR = Zener Diode
W = Wire, Cable
X = Socket
Y = Crystal Unit