Re: [LUAU] You know this world famous hacker?
Karen Lofstrom wrote: On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Tim Newsham wrote: He was a phone hacker.You need to have been around in telephony for a little while. Lemme guess - likes to offer back massages to young boys at cons? Boyohboy this makes me feel like an old fut. Captain Crunch. Cereal. Free whistles in boxes of cereal. Whistle just happens to make the very tone that, blown into a telephone handset, gives you a FREE long-distance phone call. Back before e-mail made having friends in Mumbai a matter of course. You needed a Blue Box to get a freeLD phone call, and you needed to close up one of the holes in the whistle to make 2600 Hz. The 2600Hz tone would only get you a trunk seize. When you placed a long-distance call in those days, the system was quite simple. You would connect first to your local telephone exchange. When it detected that you were dialing long-distance, it would scan the outgoing trunk lines for an idle tone-the 2600 Hz frequency. To exploit the hack, a phone phreak would dial an 800 number, which would trigger the local exchange to connect an idle trunk line and tag the call as free. Then the phreaker sent the 2600 Hz tone down the line. The long-distance exchange would interpret that as an indication that the call was complete, but the local exchange would still consider the trunk to be in-use for a free call. You needed a blue box (and its ability to generate MF) to do anything after that, using the now-outmoded in-band signaling of the phone system of yore. Blue boxes commonly generated 2600 Hz all by themselves anyway, so the whistle was moot. It was, at best a stupid hack. Draper didn't actually discover that the whistle could be used to generate 2600 Hz, nor did he discover that 2600 Hz could be used to sieze a trunk, a blind phone phreak named Joe Engressia (aka Joybubbles) did, five years before I was born. Draper admits this now, but always took a lot of credit back in the day. Jim -- who won't admit that he has a complete 'brick' of TAP and a Bud set somewhere, or that he ever got TAP in the mail while he was in Jr. High, (likely putting him on the FBI watch list for life) or that he once, back when computers consumed his life, coded a DSP to generate not only a complete set of blue, red and black boxes, but also one end of a UUCP startup sequence from detecting dial tone and generating the DTMF to 'dial' 'the 'phone', through Shere just to see if it could be done (as a 1200 baud modem) Perhaps one of the first soft modems... You could do the same thing with a decent sound card and a P3 today, but hardly anyone talks UUCP anymore.
Re: [LUAU] You know this world famous hacker?
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Jim Thompson wrote: Jim -- who won't admit that he has a complete 'brick' of TAP and a Bud set somewhere, or that he ever got TAP in the mail while he was in Jr. High, (likely putting him on the FBI watch list for life) or that he once, back when computers consumed his life, coded a DSP to generate not only a complete set of blue, red and black boxes, but also one end of a UUCP startup sequence from detecting dial tone and generating the DTMF to 'dial' 'the 'phone', through Shere just to see if it could be done (as a 1200 baud modem) Perhaps one of the first soft modems... You could do the same thing with a decent sound card and a P3 today, but hardly anyone talks UUCP anymore. Uphill, both ways, in the snow ... :) -- Karen Lofstrom my brother was once a leaf node
Re: [LUAU] You know this world famous hacker?
Karen Lofstrom wrote: Uphill, both ways, in the snow ... :) No, that was my father, and he used his belt to carry his books. I mostly rode the bus, and it didn't snow (much) in 'vegas. jim
Re: [LUAU] You know this world famous hacker?
Jim -- who won't admit that he has a complete 'brick' of TAP and a Bud set somewhere, or that he ever got TAP in the mail while he was in Jr. High, (likely putting him on the FBI watch list for life) or that he once, back when computers consumed his life, coded a DSP to generate not only a complete set of blue, red and black boxes, but also one end of a UUCP Phrack magazine published some code to generate (encode) and detect (decode) DTMF tones: http://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=50a=13 The code detected blue box MF, but didn't generate them (although its fairly easy to modify it to add that functionality). Tim Newsham http://www.lava.net/~newsham/
Re: [LUAU] You know this world famous hacker?
Matt Darnell wrote: http://www.bethephonecompany.com/documents/itexpo_la/DSC00495.JPG He was a phone hacker.You need to have been around in telephony for a little while. Its Captin Crunch! http://www.webcrunchers.com/crunch/ Scott, fire up the model search software. Obviously Matt *must* have a booth at TPOSSCON!
Re: [LUAU] You know this world famous hacker?
http://www.bethephonecompany.com/documents/itexpo_la/DSC00495.JPG He was a phone hacker.You need to have been around in telephony for a little while. Lemme guess - likes to offer back massages to young boys at cons? Matt Tim Newsham http://www.lava.net/~newsham/
Re: [LUAU] You know this world famous hacker?
On Wed, 2005-11-02 16:54, Matt Darnell wrote: http://www.bethephonecompany.com/documents/itexpo_la/DSC00495.JPG He was a phone hacker.You need to have been around in telephony for a little while. 2600Hz -- All information and transactions are non negotiable and private between the parties. All rights reserved without prejudice. Copyright 2005 Angela Kahealani http://www.kahealani.com/
Re: [LUAU] You know this world famous hacker?
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Tim Newsham wrote: He was a phone hacker.You need to have been around in telephony for a little while. Lemme guess - likes to offer back massages to young boys at cons? Boyohboy this makes me feel like an old fut. Captain Crunch. Cereal. Free whistles in boxes of cereal. Whistle just happens to make the very tone that, blown into a telephone handset, gives you a FREE long-distance phone call. Back before e-mail made having friends in Mumbai a matter of course. -- Karen Lofstrom old fut
