.-------------------------------------------------------------------, |\-----------------------------------------------------------------/| || .----, .--, .--, .----, .------------, || || ./ .---' ./ /./ / ./ .-, | `/ .-, .-, /'' || || \\ `--, // /// / // /// / // /./ /./ / || || `==, | \\ `' / // //' / // /// /// / || || .----' / \\====' ``====-/ .// /// /// /. || || `-=====-' ``============' || ||_________________________________________________________________|| |/_________________________________________________________________\| || | || | \\ / \\ / ``' ``' /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\--- - - - - - < .----------------------------------, >--- - - - - - \> | Southern Underground Digest III | <--- - - - - - - < `----------------------------------' >-- - - - - - - - \\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/-- - - - - - ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- |-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= +|= =---------------------------,- - +|- - ||IN THIS ISSUE: |= = +|= = ``===============--- |- - +|- - ~~Beige boxing |= = +|= = ~~Warlords of Hell |- - +|- - ~~Confrencing |= = +|= = |- - +|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= +|=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +`--------------------------------' ```````````````````````````````` ============================================================================ ___ | / | _ __/__ / __/__ o | / ) / /.--, .--, .--,/ . , .---, / . .--, .--, | / / | / / // / / / / / / / // / --- ` ` `--/ `--' `--/ `--/ `---' `---'/ `--'/ / ============================================================================ h0h0h0 This is Z0rpHix, as I am enjoying this zine a lot and need lots and lots of inpho to put in here, I am thinking of getting some co-editors or main submitters etc. [people that would add some info on something specific on a monthly basis] I would like to cover areas aswell, like the computer underground in Cape Town and surrounding areas, and the PWV area (which are about the most active area around, but still as dead as a doornail). I would like more questions from the readers, to give me ideas on what I should write articles on, and I will have a section where I lift my own opinion about this little SA underground movement. MAIL ME!@# =-=-=-=-=[]-=-=-==-==-][=-=-=-=-=-=-][=-=-=-=-[]-=-=-=-=-=-=-][=-=-=--=][-=- From the editor... [h0w 31337] Z0rpHix H0h0h0 Today I feel like complaining, the Southafrican computer underground are dead, there is absolutely nothing happening anywhere. It looks like a Sunday afternoon when everyone has gone off to sleep. Like when I put up my first issue of SuD, nothing happened, only Radix was eleet enuff to say a thing [more power to Radix]. Maybe this is not unfamiliar to you, but to me it's VERY weird. In the old days I was a little Beltel hacker, grabbing accounts and giving them out, and scanning page numbers 'till I turned blue. Ripping off Telkom is still one of my favourates ;) A while ago I felt like the Beltel hacker community needs something to get them going, so I started Warlords of Hell(WoH), and wrote the zine to compliment it, and get it going. Fire broke loose, and everyone was hacking anything, writing virii, spreading them, getting tons of Beltel accounts, I even hacked a Beltel IP to have a WoH info base. And got some Beltel disk space to keep the WoH files on, they are still there, page 337790 and 31119, but Telkom bust the info base, and my friend Ic3 Wat3r and I was made Telkom's scapegoats because he put our handles all over the infobase. The group grew to over 30 members, ah...let me grab my old memberlist... Z0rpHix--me Light Sabre--someone from Witbank, Novell hacker Binmaster--Sysop of Cyberlogic BBS Dr Hex--d00d from PMBurg with Teltrace and g00dies like that Idiot--friend of Binmaster, after your girl if he finds you got one Avatar--now known as Splintcer, also from Witbank Ic3 Wat3r--from JHB, known as X-p0lym0rph now. Xingh b0b--eleet dewd from Harrismith ALIEN 3--he never did anything, he knew anything, but I had to let him in because he was bugging me at school Rawhead--also known as the reindeer from CT Pr1maL sCr3aM--Some dewd from CT, helped me think of the name WoH queenie--eleet girlie member, very good at hacking beltel accounts DJ Aladdin--music dewd from PE Tom.Cruise--some faggy dewd I picked up somewhere, if he still exists PHANTiSMA--From PE, the dewd who started Unitynet Enigma--some kid from Vredenburg or something somewhere in the cape, I think he's dead or something NeW--fag from Margate or something, I think he went back to the girlies Axl--ol' sysop of the Metal Worx BBS P1r4t3s--sum kids from Vryheid, they appear on VP sometime, now known as MicroFox g0larz--someone from JHB (I think) THE OVERFIEND--he typed his name in caps and comes from DBN, what more can I say? HuMaN BeAN--eleet friend of mine, and VMB hacker from JHB z0ltr1x--from JHB or Cape Town, what should happen when I call myself US Robotics? QUICKSILVER--in caps and from dbn, again SLiV3r--eleet sysop of Meltdown BBS in dbn GARFIELD--or now known as Onslaught, from dbn, cool and eleet, and uploaded those lame virii I edited that Ian Douglas mentioned in RF9409 foxy cindy--sum girlie member from JHB nimrod--he came and went and ordered some stuff on Beltel accounts and got busted and went, and came back after 4 months White Panther--you know him from the Clan of the Claw White Lightning--some other dood, from Damelin I think cyberdude--friend of White Lightning and also from Damelin Okay, the rest of the members seem to be lost in space, and all those vanished with Errol Lewis' stunt of strickening Beltel security. Remember...this group to over 30 members in less than a month, it was huge.... why is it dead? well.....easy, it got so big, and I had to take care of it all, and Telkom got a wee bit angry, and I had no time left for my international hacking etcetc. So I killed the group, well....I just quit it, and tada. when I left, everyone left ;) After 7 newsletters, the group was gone, but the fun memories still remain. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& ########################### K-Spiffy !@#!$ ################################ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ | ___ . | | / ) o / o | | /----; .---, . .---,. .---, /---, .---, \ / . .---, .---, | | / / /----' / / / /----'/ / / / \/ / / / / / | | `---' `---' / `---/ `---' `---' `---' / \ / / / `---/ | | / / | | `---' `---' | ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++| I put in this eleet little part due to a little request, so here it comes. Beigeboxing is possibly the simplest form of phreaking known to mankind, but with time people can still do interesting things with it, and as long as you don't have to pay for the phone calls, it's cool. First the instrument... A beigebox is a telephone that is either a lineman's handset, or just used as one. The phones most ideally suited for this purpose, except for the linemans handset, is the Disa Memo and the Venus, because they are both the most commonly found Telkom phones that is switchable between tone and pulse. The reason why this is so usefull is because you will not always know if you will encounter a shitty pulse line, or be so eleet as to run into a DTMF line. Since you don't see telephone plugs all around the city and on all cables you see, you have to either cut off the wire to the plug of the phone and connect alligator clips, or just get female socket for that plug where you can connect your wires and clips without messing up the phone's cable. Okay, so you got a little beige box, now you are so eleet and k-spiffy cool. Now go out and box. First find a place where you can get lines... there are various places where you can do this, Telkom isn't lame for nothing ;) You can go into an empty house that was vacated the previous day, where the people forgot to let Telkom know they moved on that specific day, so the line will by alive for a few days, or sometimes up to 2 months. Then you can go to a house where the owners is on holiday and look where the cable runs to the house from the overhead poles. If you are lucky enough to be able to get near the top of these poles, there are nice little cans where you can connect up. Sometimes overhead poles are scarce, but underground cables are still cool.... they usually run like this: .-- pillar joint __ __/ ________||_____ground_______________||______________________________ ||\ //\\ ========''``======================'' ``====================== ^----piece of cable---------^ What Telkom does when they put these cables under the earth is: they dig the place open where they want to have the cable, then they take certain lenghts of cable and put it in there, and close again where they digged the place open, revealing only the ends of the cables. They then join these cables together by connecting the wires inside the cable one by one and closing it with Scotch Locks that contains a certain fluid to make this connection water proof. like this: ____ Made of / \ <-, transparent --->| ##@$ | >--Scotch Lock with connection inside material |/____\| <-' / \ / \ +-----------------' \ >wires< | +-----------------------------' At least 100 of these wires are usually joined together like this. DONT CUT THESE WIRES OR RIP THEM OUT!@# (How would you feel connecting up 100 wires one by one) (maybe this is why Telkom is so slow. They are busy connecting these) (wires all the time) All these wires comes out from underground like this: # % &$@\$ <---Telkom's mess of connections ;) [Scotch Locks] @/$\@ ///\\\ /// \\\ <----wires coming out of cables .-.-. .-. __| || |__ ||| || ||| ____________||| || |||____________ ||| || ||| ||| || |||----pipe `-| || |-' / / | \ cable / / \ \ cable | / / \ \____|_____________ ---------' / \ ____________/ `-------------------- From the cables the wires comes like this: pair #%# <--scotch lock 2 pairs | // | /><><><><><><><><><>\ | \><><><><\ twisted- \\ together #%# This is 4 wires, 2 from the one cable and 2 from the other. They are colour coded with <-> and <+> wires. Base colours Negative legs ------------ ------------- blue white orange red green black brown NoT KNoWN By Me slate NoT KNoWN By Me If you can't go down to the bottom and see which wires are twisted together, you can try to follow that table-o-colours. When Telkom are finished with this they put a lid over the top, usually and asbestos/concrete lid, it looks like this: .----. <---, | | | | | \ | | >--About 50cm high | | / | | | bolt----> :| |; | `+--+' <---' $^$%^&$%^&$%$%|__|#$@#$$@#$%!@#$$%^#$%^$%$ @#@#@#$@#@#$@#//\\@$@#@#@#@#@##$#@#$@##@@# @#@#@#@##@#@//#$\\@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$ These are sometimes painted with black and yellow stripes or blue, and I saw some that are green and red aswell, but the majority are not painted at all. That was Pillar Joints, or referred to as 'polez' by some phreaks, in the USA they are metal. There are areas where they have more cables/phones or where a larger feed runs, then they don't use the pillar joints. In places you have to look for 2 different things: manholes and Boxes First we get the boxes, there are two different types, and a lot of different colours, but the shapes differ only in 2 ways. The older boxes are made of a strong metal, they have rounded corners, unlike the eletrical boxes. And the fun of it all is that fact that they are closed by 3 bolts per door, each side got a door eg: _____________ (XXXXXXXXXXXXX) |.---------,| || (o| <-, || >| \ ||========(o| <--->--- 3 bolts || >| / /\ || (o| <-' /__\ <--bolt's head |`---------'| __________`+---------+'______________ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX As you can see, the bolts got triangular heads, so it could be pretty nice to get a triangular socket, Telkom don't tighten these bolts heavy, but some tend to rust a bit, making it hard to open with you long fingernails or plastic ruler ;) On these boxes you'll find the GPO or PT sign, and where the cable runs they plant GPO signs looking like this: .-----, | G P O | <--about 20cm high, rusted metal, not painted `-+-+-' ____|_|____ I can't tell you what do do inside these boxes because I've never worked with them before, but there are LiNeZ!@# The other type of box are usually grey and made of Fibreglass of PVC. But they don't have bolts, but got nice little Viro locks, good ones too, so you should get a good locksmith before picking that. They usually got a PT or Telkom logo on them. That was boxes, now some manholes... How to spot a Telkom manhole: 1) Look for a manhole, it's a lid that's on the ground, like those the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hide under. 2) When it's round look if it's metal or concrete, Telkom usually use concrete ones, because you can't sell them for scrap metal ;) If it's square, see if it's also concrete, or partially concrete, in 4 little blocks...like this: .----------------, | .-----..-----. | | | || | | | | || | | | `-----'`-----' | | .-----,.-----, | sometimes they got 9 blocks | | || | | | | || | | | `-----'`-----' | `----------------' In this case, make sure you see those GPO sign nearby, or a pillar joint, or if you go down that street you should find a Telkom Box, if not, there's a great chance of finding it's a sewer, or worse, electricute yourself trying to beigebox of electrical feeds. So rather stick to the round lids 3) If the lid is round and concrete, look at the slits ____ ____ / \ / \ |I I| <---Sewer |- -| <---Telkom \____/ \____/ Sometimes it's metal, but the slits at the side tells the story. If you've boxed from under these manholes, let me know, because I haven't done it before. =-=- Now once you found a nice place to box off, and connected your phone, make sure you got some people to phone up, usually overseas, or else it's too much trouble. Remember it's about R600 or so per hour for an overseas all, so they owner of the phone will notice. The best lines to box off are: Payphone lines. They are not special lines or anything, they are normal phone lines, but Telkom usually don't print or calculate an account for them at all, I've made about R3000 of calls of a little lonely payphone, and Telkom still doesn't care shit. Having your own phone on the payphone line got it's advantages.... you don't have to pay... you don't get beep-blop sounds... So you can let people make collect calls to you, as long as there are no peep-pop sound they will let you accept it, but better, you can phone up 0020 and ask for the number to dial to set up a confrence, and the confrence will be billed to that payphone line, just make sure you have dished up a lot of fake information for yourself, and tell your friends on the confrence all the fake details, because Telkom got this silly urge to sometimes phone up the people after the confrence and ask them for the information of the person who set it up, and my best friend that was on the confrence got me busted this way because he gave my real info. Disconnect the payphone from the line when you box off it, especially when it's pulse, because the phone changes the current on the line every few seconds (to put the thing on and off hook when someone left the thing on or off the hook)... that means that pulse dialling gets fucked up all the time. Mail me if you have any more questions -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- k0nphing!@# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here is my little section about telephone confrences: Ways to set up a telephone confrence: 1. By having a PABX with conferencing facilities and a lot of lines to dial out with (Like the one at Dad's office [if you are lucky]) 2. By beigeboxing off a line where you know the phone number of the line you are using. (like the payphone) 3. By using AT&T, having a PBX or cool divertor in the USA ora friend that sets one up for you. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, ASK!@# +_+_+_+_+_+_ I'll put up a section called READER'S MAIL as soon as I get a lot of those. !@#!@#!@#!@#!@#!@#!@#!@#!@#!@#!@# L8R DEWD !@#!@#!@#!@#!@#!@#!@#!@#!@#!@# <---3nD 0f pH1l3 D3wd--->