phile #4 - IIU 1990 Hacking on the compuserve information service typed by
darkness
Ever wonder what the hell compuserve is?
Ever wonder how to get into it?
Ever wonder why the russians brought back john denver from outer space?
Any answered yes, this phile is just for you. Except for the third question.
If you answered yes to that, join the crowd.
Compuserve is an information service based out of columbus ohio, with node
locations all over the us. Dialup ports for compuserve are located locally in
every major and minor metropolitan city in the continental us, plus some in
canada. Compuserve is also accessable through tymnet and telenet, giving it
international access. Planned for the future are local dialup ports in certain
sections of europe.
Compuserve offers online shopping, airline reservations, more interest groups
than a cray 2 can count, online games, stock reports, magazine reprints,
company sigs, etc. In other words, it's real fucking big. Huge. Gargantuous.
It's great.
What to get
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Must have:
Compuserve introductory subscription
CC
Loop (fortress phone, if not a loop)
Compuserve subscriptions can be found in many places. One of the easiest is
with your friends. whether they hack or not. just aboutall modems these
days come with these cute little sign-ups, and most peopledo not use them.
some save them for the fuck of it. walla. other (harderstuff) methods are
five-finger discount. you can five-finger discountone out of waldenbooks,
radio shack, and computer stores. but... you haveto go through two or three
seals to get to the damn book. dangerous. theloop/fortress phone is for
call-back verification.
find your cc throughregular methods.(*** note here... if you positively
cannot find the above or cannot wait to start hacking on cis, check out
the compuserve hacking file by shadow lord, esq. deals with going through
ziff accounts. i personally will not go that route due to the fact that so
many hackers do use them. the only info to remember for the phile is that cis
does call-back verify on the voice phone now, so include that in your
plans ***)
the nice things to have.... the beige box is that in case yer really paranoid
about being traced, ya can box onto somebody elses line. preferably,the
neighbors whose fuckings kids wake you up at three oclock in thegoddamned
afternoon. virgin cc is nice because then you don't have toworry about the
cc turning up invalid and killing the account. the mailingaddress is so you
can get your second pw. more later.
how to logon
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first off, you have to dial compuserve up. you can look at the end of the
booklet and find a local access number, or find out how to access it through
tymenet or telenet. (note: tymnet and telenet will provide an extra layer
of protection, but they are horribly slow. text will go normally for 30 or
40 characters, then stop, then start. cuts your speed by 2/3, and is hell on
downloads. line noise too. its a compromise. what's important to ya?)
if you dialed the compuserve port, hit cntrl-c after connecting. the next
part is tedious. have all your info ready to type in immediately. first,
type in the signup info on the inside of the signup kit. then, go on and
enter name, address, cc #, etc. also,��ick the business acct when its
presented to you. gives you more access. type it allllll in. remember
to feed them the loop and mailing address.
you don't neccessarily have to type in correct name and such, but it may
make the account last longer.
how compuserve validates
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compuserve validates new accounts by two methods. first, the easier one.
you only have limited access to your account because the first password
given to you during the signup to temporary. compuserve then mails the
second one out to the address you gave 'em. after a week or two, compuserve
kills whatever password is in there, and requires the second mailed password
for access. the second way is rather new. voice validation.
how to get around them
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first off, ask yourself. do i want a limited account i cant do shit with?
if no, you have to find an address you can send the password to. for help
finding an address, get a text phile on carding. the way around the second
way is a loop. leave feedback telling them that you're quite busy with
business matters and such, or that yttle fucks who tried.
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[Generalities]: has new message(s)
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Subj : T-FILES
From : Grandmaster Ratte' (#1)
Date : 08/03/90 10:51:58 AM
There are about 75 new t-files up in AE.
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Subj : Files..
From : Dark Sorcerer (#115)
Date : 08/03/90 11:16:02 AM
{Is {{ere any decent sour{e for!{finding a way to {ake an alternate identity?
I'm serious.
Numb : 26/30
Subj : Loompanics Catalog...
From : The Nightstalker (#147)
Date : 08/04/90 05:41:27 PM
..has PAGES of books on alternate identities.
Loompanics Unlimited
PO Box 1197
Port Townsend,
Washington 98368
The catalog'll cost you $2.00!
WELL worth it!
Yours in brevity, THE NIGHTSTALKER
Numb : 27/30
Subj : Oh yeah I'm back...
From : Suicidal Maniac (#368)
Date : 08/05/90 02:49:55 PM
Sure, I've been gone a while (hmmm, say about 6 months...) but I'm back and I
still love sex with lawn tools. Anyway, I'll be bringing a BBS up (possibly
multi-line) in a few months... Glad to be back... (Eek, I'm sounding like
AC/DC...)
SM
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Subj : Re: Files..
From : Farmhouse (#399)
Date : 08/07/90 08:23:04 AM
I have a file on Californian Fake-ID's... I dunno of GMR have it too, but if
he hasn't, just drop me a line, ok?
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Subj : Re: Loompanics Catalog...
From : Farmhouse (#399)
Date : 08/07/90 08:24:07 AM
And if you live in Europe it'll cost you $6.00
(Just for the information)
Numb : 30/30
Subj : Re: Oh yeah I'm back...
From : Farmhouse (#399)
Date : 08/07/90 08:25:49 AM
Hey Suicidal Maniac> What kind of board will it be?? Undeground? Normal (eek!)
or Pirate, or Hack/phreak/thrash ?? Nice!!
[Plug-A-Board]: has new message(s)
Numb : 40/40
Subj : Amiga boards
From : Dark Sorcerer (#115)
Date : 08/03/90 11:18:23 AM
Are those tt(he to{ boards right now? I never {an tell, {miga boards{go up and
down so fast..
I really hope you guys don't have to put up with this shitty garbage.
[Fun With...]: has new message(s)
Numb : 37/40
Subj : Re: but at least
From : max headroom (#99)
Date : 08/06/90 01:57:02 PM
Yeah, its about 7 feet tall and about 5 or 6 feet wide..Its pretty long thae
farthest i have been is from the loop to about 60th st. and then i started
running into deep mud. Right after they got through working on them, they left
the holes open so it was wasy to get in and out of, but now the put bars on
them and it is harder to get into..
-me
Numb : 38/40
Subj : Black Powder
From : max headroom (#99)
Date : 08/06/90 02:13:40 PM
I got some black powder(the fine grain stuff) and wanted to make a few fire
works for the fourth of july(ones that would out do m-60 if not dynamite..What
i did was got a few cardboard cylindars about 3-4 inches long each and cut some
circular card spacers a little larger than the diameter of the cylindar. I
would put a double layer on the bottom and glue it with elmers glue.I then
would put some say dust(for extra packing and spacing) and put some in there
and then would push another card board spacer and pack and glue it. Be sure
that you let the glue dry in between adding spacers..I would continue this
process until i was ready to add the black powder..For these I added about a
thimble full of black powder.The I punched a hole in the spacer(with a hole
puncher) and glued it down on top of the black powder(be sure and not to get
the black powder wet with glue). And now for the fuse.I didn't want to have an
external fuse, so i started thinking of a way for an internal one. What i came
up with is: Saw dust and match heads. What i did was put a layer of matchheads
on top of the spacer that was laying on top of the blackpowder. Be sure that a
match head is directly on top of the hole you punched. Then add a little say
dust and a few match heads.Be sure and not add too much sawdust and not enough
match heads because it will stop burning and will never reach the bottom. But
on the other hand, do add to many match heads and not enough saw dust, because
it will burn ttle fucks who tried.
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