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/fhi' is,the very fi.... l is,ue of 1600. We will,on this
p.ge, nplaiR OUr motive, and what the galli, are
which we hope 10 achieve Wilh thi, publication.
The id.a for 1600 wa:; born early in 1983, We saw a
lremend'ou! need for 'orne form of communication
between those who truly appreciate the concepl of
communication' technological enthu,iasts. Of cou"".
others havo different way, of describing such pe<>plt_
these rang< from word, like hacker or phreaker to
strongor tonos .U<:h a. criminar or anarchi.t. Our
purpo'" i' not to pass judgemont. 2600 o~i". to
provide information all<! idea. I" individual, who Jive
for both. All oilhe iteJ115 ~ontained "n tbeso ...geur.
provided for informational purpuses "Diy. 1600
...umes 'no responsibility for any u... "'hleh thl.
Information may be put to. • and of course contributing articles and information,
Of eourse. a lot has changed ,inee our first day,.
War Games came out, And then Ihe 414 gang got
caught. Sl>ddenly everyono was talking ab<>ut
phreakers and hackers. And while ihere were ,om'e
that sort ofjumped ,nto the limelight, others were a bit
more cantiow;, in fact, ,ome were quite np,et. Snre.
'he publicity was fuo. But what would be the cost?
Wdl. time has passed and th. cost has been high,
Phreakers and hackers have beenJorced into virtual
i,olation, Raids by the FBI have b<!;ome almo.1
commonplaee. The one magazine that wa, geared
t"wards phone phreaks (TAP) my'teriously disap-
ppred at the height of the crisis. ,parking rumours
tllat they, too, had been raided. Ho"""ver. in
November, the m'ago.ine rosurfaced. with an
e~planation that a fire had dostroyed part of their
mailing list. (lnc,dentally. if your name wa' one of tho
ores that was lost. you can claim the issues you are
entitled to by sending lAP a copy of their mailing
label or a cancelled check.1
And then'there wo, the Iegendarycomp~terbulleti'n
O ", d known a, OSU..'V y, Enth~,iaot' from all across
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[ 0 couotry called' up thi, board and left messages
r nging from the I,ato't in..sprint code' 10 how to cro,h
an RSTS ry,Jcm tO'what to do once you've flnally
gained .ccess 10 Autovon, Within a wee~ after being
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m'en'ioned in 11',."..':','..... OSUN Ywa, disconnecled.
Word ha, it that the)iare 'till in e',i"ence somewhere.
but by'invitalion only, A truly ,,,,,,it move',ifthal is
the,c'''c.
Maoy hackers were keeping'" I"w profile even
hcf"", ,he O<i"bcr raid,. Whe" [hc 1'111 coufi,cuted
'''0 VOLUME ONE. NUMBER ONE
his phone. For som~ r~aso~, il nne, caught 011 ..j
equipment from 15 ,ile. aCrOSS the COUn"}' un the
twelfth and thirteenth of Ihe month (.pon.ored' by a
grant from the folk' al GTE). many of our conlect,
were los,t beca~,e they feared the consequencc, of
continuing. Two organization,. the Inner Circlo and
PHA LSE. """ro deeply affected by the raid,. The laUor
group (whese initials signify Phreakers, Hackers. and
Laundromat Service Employeo,) i' 'till in contact with
i l l 00 occa.ion and has promised to comribute many
articles devoted 10 just what was really going On.
So iuoem, that the events of 1983 have.on.pired to
actually $lung/hen the ,resolve of hack." and
phreakers across,the c"uotry to put "ut thi. moMhly
newslettor. We hope you will help u. contin~e by
"~bscribing. ,preading the word ameng your friend',
Since we are non-profil, i't roally doesn't mal1orlO uS if
you xer"x your copy and sond it to someone el.. -all
we ~sk i. that you let u, know so thaI we can hayt a
rough idea of how many people we're reaching.
2600 ha, ..veral section., SOJIle of which will appear
every mon'h. others on an irregular basis. On thl" the
front page. and on, page IW", you' will always fInd
informative full-Ienglh foatur6 on relevant subject'.
FUI~re 'opics include: "A Guide to Long Distance
Telephone Service, and Their 'Villnerabililie,n. «DEC
and Theil' Many Mi,tak..··. ~Phrealting in the
Sixties'''' and "Tracing Methods Used by the Law~, as
wclla. any la,e-broaking items. "FLASH"appears on
page 3 and proviriCs a roundup of limely new, items
wrineo from a lechnological e"thu,ia"', perspective.
Page 4 is used for a variety of things .. _interesting
stories from Ihe pa't. ,chemes and plot, that just might
work. and feedback from 'nbscribe", Tho I." 'wo
pages of 2600 are coml'ri.ed of data, Just whal 'Ort of
data. we CannOt say. However. if it is ,omething [hat
you ore looking for. the" you "'ill prob.bly recogni,e
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The throe hole, on eaoh page ",rvc a purpo,". We
'ugge't Ih., )'''U ohtnin a loo.. -Ieaf book '0 that ;'00
can neatly file every i"ue "f !~(lfl Y"u recei"e.
Ma"y thank, '0 [h",e of yon wl,o ,ubscrihcd
wi[hout even ,eeing an i."uc A word of ad"i,,".
tl"'ugh' do,,'t do it ag"in or y(llI'lI p",b"bly gel ripped
"tfI Wo'd "I", like ", [I",nk th",c wh" w"k advan'agc
of n" r free i.",," "Iler. If in[cr"'ted or' '''h,,''ihiag. tho
rate, and '''ldre'' ean be round a[ [he 'op "fthi' page,
Welc"me [n !Mifi. Tur" the p"g~ "nd heen",e" pm'
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FBI GOES AFTER ADS HACKERS
HM must press charges before action can be taken - Feds reveal their tactics, blow source
On this fXIge we had originally planned to run an L.A. .to Denver to upstate New York. So we hovc a
article entitled: ESS - Orwell" Prophecy_ A I the lasl ~nre of individuals that we are still looking at that
minute, however, we recej~ed this bombShell from an are using your system and then we have this peri·
anonyma",. contributor. It seems that a group of phe'al that we are not a, concerned about because
had,e" wm making use of on" of IBM's ADS sy!J. they are not part of an out & out conspiracy or an
lems. (Audio Dis/rib", tion Systems "Mole users with organized network, per se. I know of at least 8 or 10
touch.tone phones to send !JOIce messages baak and that are the central figures in this, the carryover
forrl, If) each, other. Look {or an 'n.depth article on hom TelemaiL And we keep hearing information of
them in a future is.ue.) Unfortunately, as f. all too other people who are calling in with junk message;-
often the case, oM of these hackers was really an there's no real substance to their messages, Now the
FBI in(ormanl who was taking not'; of all of the reason I know that is that they have indudcd one of
Weg/timat" users (aumnd 40 or so). Luckily for my sources of information orito their system and ,0
this pan/culer gro.tP, the '''formant was sloppy ""d he gets messagCll from the other parties.
I,,(t many telltaM' clues whiCh gave them literally
months of warni"!. So, whe." the, 'informant de.- The Communist Connection
cIded to send a mesMI1""to 'the system operator, In a way we're somewhat fortunaw that it', 16-
adu,.ing IBM to take actinn 'against the hackers year.olds or 26-year.olds as opposed to ,people from
and to call the FBI for more inform<ttion., the behind the Iron Curtain. It gives us th.e opportunity
hackers were ready, The .ystem 0p,erntor's account to see how these systems work and see if we can plug
had also been penetrated by, them and heMe, the lllIy loophole. before somebody hom a not-friendly
mes8~ge Was received by the hackers first! One of mltion ,would try the same thing. I personally fully
them actWJlly (allowed the in.tructions in ,the expect it - I'm surprised it h.asn't happened in the
·mesMge and called the FBlI And for some reason, past; It may have, We just haven't caught it; But the
the inuestigator there thought he was t4/hing to kids are a little bIt sloppier and they're getting
an IBM elCecuttue. This is some o{what he Mid. caught., . I hate to sound paranoid, but we're sup·
posed .to be considering the big picture as far as is
One of the indiViduals that supplies me with In- there anything sensitive in nature. For us within the
formation from time to time has uncovered a lot of bureau, sensitive in nature first off meanS national
abuse within the ADS systems, not only here in 'the security and you've got corporate trade secrets and
United States, but ill England and Italy. I talk to ,the like that you don't need being distributed.
this illdividual on a private hutietin board..•
We have no ability to come in as lllI outside in- How the FBI Win. Trust and Gels Info
vestigative or law enforcement agency lllId do any· The .ubjects have an ego problem and they love to
thing about it because, first off, we don't have a talk to other individuais about what they are capable
complainant, We don't want to step on lllIybody's of doing and bragging about it. They'have a tendency
toes, but it's beell our pohcy to monitor bulletin to trade information. Everything is negotiable with
boards and the phone phreaking activity acrOSS the them. We have never had to barwr away II\'cess to
oountry and advise commercial computer systems "lid sy.tems - we do it more On the technical infohnation
oorporat\om if we 'do discover certain computers of phone networks, computer systems, and the like
.:long with the passwords and account numbers being to where it's mOre of a technical information tradeoff
oublished On the board. We do this on a One on one as opposed to an access tradeoff, [An example would
oasis. be the] login procedure for a PDP-H. You integrate
The GTE Telemail Connection yourself Within their confidence'and their drcle of
That was my baby, too! As a matter of fact, that's friends. You feed them a little bit of bait a"ld a lot
tOw we came across the ADS sy.tem - through the of times they'll go for ft. You enter into a dialogue
3TE investigation. [ThClle) people are not just in- with them,and they end up taking you for a ride;
;ere,ted in data communication, through. terminals- These people are very hungry for technical avenue,
bey will leave voice mCllsages on an ADS. We have through which they can communicaw, It used to be
,een slowly uncovering mOre and more on the ADS the personal computer bulletin ,boards - public
n the last two months. messagCll that anybody can read. You start finding
The major phase of [the Talemail investigation] out that they leave a phone number or lllI address -
vas about 20 individuals that we had located' and lllId you start finding out who ,the parties are, There's
dentified and we're looking for indictments on most thousand. of these bulletin boards acro;" the country
,f them coming down in the ne"t month or two. and you narrow in on maybe twenty or so that are
Ve're talking about a group' of highly organized the more hardcore bulletin boards that are being used
'eople that do communicate On a daily basis all the for exchange of illicit information. Then they mOve
,ay across the country - from San Francisco alld from there to an electronic mail 'ervice. namely GTE
(C"",lm,,'" on ,,,,,'k f,age)
 GTE raids still have many unanswered
questions-computer owners concerned
On W~dn ..day, October 12, al 6:00 AM, the FBI started
to raid the hom.. of ov~r fifteen indlvidusls for allegedly
breaking imo T~lemsil,. GTE Telenet's massive ele<:tronic
mail service. While much of Ihe publicily"as now died
down, queslions remain conceming the legality and Ibe
overall implications of sucb compuler seizure•.
At a December 16 meeting of ihe Long Islaod Compuler
A.sociation, Ihis lopic was addressed. Some members could
nol understand Ihe ralionale for taking away the compulers
in Ih. firsl place. "It .ound,lik. scare tactic$ to me. .. to keep
these kids off ofcomputers,~one commenled, "To hold the
equipment seems like .omething tbal sbould be unlawful
and it's ,omething Ihat lhe public should look at, Ifit's not
justified, we should .ay Ihat we won't put up wilh it anymore
and to return Ihe equipmenl." He did nol elaborate on
pr""i,ely what kind of action Jl computer group such as
L1CA could take.
Legally, the computers can,be kepi for as .Jong a. Ihey are
needed in Ihe investigalion. Ultimately, a judge wilr decide
bow long Ihat can be. ' numbers ol'lhe cards would be sent out on the same day in a
'"The aUegalion, ~ said an all ..rney familiar wilh the case,
"is thallbe .ervice. of the Telemail bullelin boards were used
and the theory that tbe g..vernment is proceeding under is
that it was a violation of Seetion 1343, wire fraud (a .cheme
wilh inlention 10 defraud someone else using either
lelevision, telephone, or some olher communicalions
means). They're s.ayinltbal if there was use of Ihe huUelin
h04rd service, then thafWaS a 'thefl ofservice' and there w'as
intention 10 defraud GTE." •
One member took GTE's side. '1"hese are aU nice games
these people are playing. but lhey are a theft of service,
Somebody is in the busin.., ..f providing lhal service and
they're deliberately interfering with thek providing Ihat
service. They're trying to get ....mething for nOlhing."
Another disagreed. "You may he on Iheir computer, but
ii'S not costing them anything. if you're not taking up time.
Unless Ihe ,,!,hole system i, fully u,ed and you were the last
user on, are' you .really using any of their lime? Really and
truly1" , company to teil·them that ,he w... going to he away for twn
Many hackers felt they were unju,t1y accused. One even
said he'd never used the Telemail ly5tem. Others said they
had looked around once or twice but had never hurt
anything. Others. though, admitted I" deleting mail and
playing tric,,", like sending obscene me....ges back and forth
hetween Iwo innoa:ni e"",,utives.
Whether ornot the Telemail S}'Item.wUU$ed fraudulently
did nOI seem to he the overriding i~.allheLlCA meeting.
What had memben'fhere worrlod wasthe way in whiCh the
investigation wa. beillg -Carried oUI. When dealing with
computers as evidence, different rule. apply, rule.·that for
the most part have not heen"written yet. "Data ean he
manilfactured jolt a. easily as il can he erased from a
personal compltter," one member commented. "And th~
I..nger thatlhey have the'computer in lheir custody, the less
likely that the informalion that lhey claim'is on it was
actually U>ore. Beca",e, a. we know, you could en.ter any
date, any time into the computer and have il date- and time-
<tamp the file•. w
MeanWhile, a GTE Telenet spoke' person said that Ihe
corporation atill intends to prosecute and denied thaI Ihe
whole thing was being put on for Ibe deterrenteffectlbal it
might have on nther people. The .pokesperson also said thaI
abuse on the system. was di.cover.d in the past, but they
didn't prosecute at that time. Tbi< time, though, they're
,eriou•.
AT&T Credit Cards Make Debut
""'" N.~ <on'''''
There's .now another way to pllce telephone calls without
dime•. Th", month, lhe "tmew AT&T credit card phones are
rna.king their debut in variou.,.airports around Ihe cO""lry.
Th'" new phone actually take. an AT&T credit card (not
tho.e wimpy ~calJjng cards" or "PIN cards." We're talking
aboul a rea' hunk of plast.ic, witb a magnetic strip and
everything.) - and tbere'. even a lillie viden sereen that
gives you direction,.
Unles, some sort of a bug can be found within tltesislem
itself, phone phreaks won't accomplish very much here,
unless IheX can actually get their hand. on other people'.
card •. Th,s, 10 it,elf, wnuldn'l be too difficult, since large
particular area. Slealing out of personal mailboxes. though,
IS an act lPost phone plu-eaks would never SlOOp to. And the
folks al AT&T are well aware of this.
Wireless phones spell trouble
--- With cordle.. phones popping up all over the place,
prohlems were bound to arise. lt'l not al all unC0mmon to
hear another cordless conversation on ynur phone or 10hear
,the ele<:tronic pulse-beeping when you're not even dialing.
Then there are cordle.. phone phteah to deal Wilh, who
drive into heavily populated zones holding one of Ihe
commOn cordless modeb. It's 'caUed "cruising for
diallones. w ~nd some phones are nice enough 10 broadcasi
your conversation on ao AM frequency. This feature iso't
very good for privale conversalion,. It helped shape a recent
drug bustin lhe stale of New York~
Recently... lady in the Midwest caUed up ber local electric
montllS. A member of the 2600 Club heard this on his radio
and, being in a goO<l moO<l, called her and told her that
important, personal bU$iness sbould neoe, he discussed on
cordles. phones. AfteJ Ihanking bim, she eXclaimed, '"That
thing's,going righl back 10 the Phonecenter Store!"
1-984 arrives in Hong Kong
'''j.oo ~""", n_
In an effort to "dilcourage people from drivmg their cars
in heavily congesled are..... all 350,000 of Hong Kong"
motor vehicles will be fitted with tracking devices that will
let government eomputers know exactly where e.eh car hM
traveled so thai the owner can he billed for road u,e. This
system could he in full implementation by 1987, if lhe
governmenl has its way. Such asystem would .lloaliowthe
police to quickly pinpoint lhe whereabouts of any vehicle.
Tampering with the 145 tracking devices will be illeg.1 and
any allempt to do so will" lrigger ,treet earner., to
photograph the Iicen.e plate of the ear.
 THE TRUTH BEHIND THOSE 9999 NUMBERS
by Mark Bluebux
Once upun a time. I was talking to One of my favurite
friend•. une of the natiun', uldest and most experienced
telephone enthnsia"'~··some might refer to him as a phone
ph reak. In this particular conversation, he mentioned to me
that I might want to experiment with a ,erie, of 800
numbe", 'exchange, starting with 9, followed by Ihe suffix
9999 (800·9x.-W99). And '0 I did, and a whole new world
hcgan to npen up in frOnl of me.
They were mu.t1y weather and time numbe" in variou'
localion, throughout the country. And, ,ince the,e were 800
numbers. there was NO CHARGE! One number ;n
particular was of a great deal of interest to me and to many
nthe". This .wa. 801).957-9999. which hooked up tu WWV,
the radio "atiu'n operated' by the Natiunal Bureau of
Standard. thaI does nuthing hnt tell the time and give
.horlwave repurts. ThiU~ the.·most accurate. clock in Ihe
entire world! You either have 10 lune WWV in on a
,hortwave recei,er or dial 303--499-71 I J ;n Fort Collin"
Colorado, Vel, here I was withan 800acce.. ! Beinga bit ola
shortwave enthusiast, 1 don't have to tell you how
convenient this was for me, Unfortunately, ;t got too
cunvenient for to<> many people. '
I guess I made the mistake of giving it tu a former
pre.ident of a large amateur radio dub in the Dallas area.
He, in lurn, printed it in the Amateur Radio NeWsbulletin
where thousand. of people probably ·saw it. Another
'tatewide new. bulletin picked it up and printed it. Through
an amaleur radio new. network whieh·.this bulletin was a
part of, the news got as far a. California:',
One day, lealled up Ihe West Link AmatelJr Radio New.
Service at 2J3-768_7)33. (This is a ,ervice loe)ue<! in Wesl
Link, California that broadcast' new, over amateur radio,
VHF, UHF, etc.) Their lale't report had Ihis lillie item,
~Speaking of interesting things, the National Bureau of
Slandard, has got a very convenient time number for Ihose
of yon that are not constanlly at a ,hortwave re""iver. Vou
can dial 1-800-957-9999 for WWV. It's just another good
toll-free ,ervice fur u. tu ""e." The avalanche had really
begun now.
The Wl'St Link repurl.was heard un bulletin station. all
around the world and, apparently, One .Ialiun in Nashville,
Tenne""" broadca.t it. From there it fell into the hands of
one of the writers for the OX program on Radio South
Africa! I happened lu be listening to a program wherelheY
were talking ahuut pnlling in distant time stations, .weather
stations, elc. He then mentioned, ~For those of you tbatlive
in the United Stales, a convenient toll-free 800 number hil,
Ahoy, folks! If any of you have ever
used an extender that goes by the name
of8006213129, you'd better give it a call
now! The people running it have a:
message for you.
been pro.ided by the National Bureau of Standards for
WWV and that number is 1_800_951_9999," Imagine my
surpriscr Once again. the number had been broad e."
all
around the world. People in many, many nation. now had
tbat number. Of course, the number only worked ;n,idethe
United States, but Ihe word was being spread by shortwave
li.teners and QS L people' ".erywhere,
The number waS gelling swamped. Needle.. lOsay, il was
busy much of the lime. A government official, who olso had
thi, number, thinking thaI i, was legitimate, called up WWV
and complained. He told them thatlhey needed 1<> add .Ome
'0
more lines their new 800number. Thegeneralmanagetof
lhe "ation ,aid, "I don', know whm you',.., lalkingaboul. I
don', know of any 800 number that gel. you WWY,"
The government officiat lold him what Ihe telephone
number was. The ge",,,al manager called il and heard his
own station. Astounded, he contacted the Mountain BeU
Telephone Company in Denver. Coiorado. They said,
"Vou're not paying for any 800in-WA TS number. We,how
3-O3-499-7111 for WWV, but we don't have any 800-957-
""" Mountain Bell checked it out and ,ure enough, the
number existed bUI not on Iheir records. No one was getting
cha'1led for thisl Now, of course, you know a monopoly as
well" I do-they're sure not going to let anyone havea free
ride, Sn they told the WATS coordinator to find nut what
happened, He finally made ·the discovery Ihat some
tec~nician. had hooked that number up fnr transmission
testing, [lbe...witching teehnicians are toll technician.,
AT&T Long Lines switching lechnician" and carrier "~
system. technician•. In Olher word., they're the group of
people who link .witching cenle" together, from New Vork
to Los Angele., for example. In this ca.e, Ihe whole
e.capade was a kind of group effort. The switchmen and Ihe
carrier people gOt together and set up this number for
testing, finding noi.y carriers, carriers with cross-talk on
them, etc.)
The WAT$ coordinalor told Ihem they'd bener get this
number off-,-IO<> many people knew about it, He told them
10 erase every 800 test line number Ihat was on the ,ystem.
Not surprisingly, someone also gOI ehewed out very
'".everely.
So, consequently, 800-957-9999 i. nO longel in existence,
, But sin"" Ihen, Ie.. than Iwo weeks later, several ollhe 800
; test numbers have begun to defiantly reappear, Check
around, you']] probably /iod a few interesting ones. But I
'doubl if WWV', brief stint as a loll_free .e",ice will ever be
! repeated,
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 This her,' paKe is usualfl" a continuation ofpage 5. However, when wt' Kef a blockbuster HOlT
like the one below. we have to reallocate our space. We know vou'ltimdersnmd. B.~' the Wo,l',
as tong as we've got you looking up at this pari oflhe page, Whl' not take the time tosendus
sumemail?Letfers.articles.informallon.oldlelephones.paintings.an.\.thinK. really. You
'~
know the address (it's on thefront page). Let's hear-from YOu.

FBI VS. HACKERS

rcominul''' .f'0m suon" page)
Telemail. They caused fits within Telemail when Or for ,ervice, rendered or whatever to the client
they decided to get a little bit cocky and see if they company -,it stays on his r~cord for a year, he's on
could shut down accounts and change passwords of probation for a year and at the end of that, his record
tire administrate", and things like that. From there is wiped clean. Rarely do they get the maximum
they have moved one step further to where they are penalty. It just doesn't happen.
now the same individual,s communicat,ing through the
ADS systems and they also. set up conference calls Do Mea Favor
through the Bell System, sc they're not just attacking Please do not disclose any geographic location be-
one particular system or one individual 'avenue of cause we are kind of unique in that we do not have
cominunication ~ they try to hit them all. It's an any other,source available in any other part of the
~go trip for all of them. country that could supply us with information like
this. ,He may 'be one of 200 people, but if you iden-
Pen Registen tify Michigan you identify between 2 or 3 individuals
We wouid put a pen register On the phone,line of and it may hurll the source.
the individual (suspect) and it would record only the
digits dialed on his telephone - We would not use ,a We'd like to make it dear' thai we don't {nlend to
full blown wiretap to record hi. voice. We can Oli.ly do this'lrind of thing very often. since rumours about
put a pen register On an individual's phone for Iik"" certain people being informants are uery common in
thirty days before we have to go back to a judge and this bf'sin..... But this is no rumour. This, [rlends, is
try to get an extension and we try to minimize the wild tact - we wouid not haue printed this story If
Ulle of our electronic surveillance equipment so the I we weren't 'able to substantiate the cl4lms it makes,
public does not think we're the. Big Brother of 1984. and we had no trouble at all doing that., Our intenl
(laughter) It's coming. Actually, we're already in making tkis information known was not to screw
there! (hearty laughter)' up ,the FBI's fun (they"re really not doing all tkat
We have not utilized any pen re'g;.,ters fQl" the spe, .much out of tke ordinary anyway), bul ralher to
dfic purposes of going after abusera of the ADS expose a very dangerous indiui<luai who goes by
systems. First off, we have to have an actual case Ihe name of Cable Pair (some say his real name is
presented' to us Or a complaint, It's 'a roundabout John Maxfield). This person has been posing as all
way of doing it, but it's the way that we, in the extremely friendly hacker who lives in Detroit and
bureau, bave to have somebody outside come to is jusl bubbling over with technieai information in
us. Otherwise we can carry on the whole investi- exchange fQr your secrets. He, claims to have been
gation without IBM even being aware that we are one of the nation's first phreaks, which mayor may
monitoring activity within their system and we not be true. He gives out his telephone numbers
don't want to become that secret police, 'or ,any· freely, will do anything to commullicate with some·
thing like that. We want to be above board lind work body (lIke place conferenas caUs from his oWn
with the corporations in, the community.

Just How Mueh Trouble Are These Hacken In?

I prilNJte PBX system, provided you give him YOUR
phone Ilumber), alld gellerally will use allYthing you
ISaY to him against you ill the futurs. Our adufse Is
On the federal level we can prosecute them for simple: stay the hell away from this persoll. Even if
telephone fraud (fraud by wire) if we can determine you havell't done all)lthing wrong yourself.. your life
that the ADS is an ongoing business operation and can still be' made miserable b)l him if you 'l:e euell SUII-
that you B1'e being denied your. just revenues by them peeled of havlllg contact with wrongdoers.
sneaking onto your s~tem and abusing your,system. This'latest turn of ,events has saddened us - we
The strictest penalty is a $1000 fine end Ii years in thought Cable Pair would be a promising' COil tributor
jail for an actual conviction of 'fraud by wire vio- to this publicatKm alld Instead we learned a oolt«>ble
lation. Those are always In - a more common lessoll; dOll't trud anybody. Have fUll, Cable Poir.
sentence may -ee for an adult maybe a year in jail, Enjoy yourself. Just don't -expect to see allY of us
18 months, or a fine, ,sometimes they get probation, . Oller at theChestllut Tree Cafe with )IOU. You're
or agrH to pay back any fraudulent money obtained On your OWIl now.