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Started by francois.grieu
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:51
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Author: francois.grieu
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:51
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:51
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like Loompanix and dealt with such
> things as making bombs and establishing false identities. The other
> damning evidence was a list of Secret Service frequencies (from an
> issue of Monitoring Times), a copy of a magazine article that listed
> Secret Service codenames for President Reagan (dated 1983), and a
> material that the Secret Service had suspected was C4 explosives but
> which later turned out not to be.
>
> For some reason they feel COMPELLED TO MENTION THIS AT EACH HEARING as
> if C4 had actually been found when in fact the substance was something
> dentists use: DENTURE MOLD (the owner of the house was a dentist).
>
> The Secret Service specifically complained about his affiliation with
> 2600 Magazine (not a secret and not a reason to label someone a criminal).
[
The Secret Service is apparently unaware that 2600 magazine is the
world's preeminent above-ground hacker zine, subscribed to by members
of security departments all over Wall Street (at the least).
It is filled with fascinating information, highly useful for securing
one's systems. Here's a random sample factoid from 2600: although
on-site company switches are commonly programmed to block '900' number
calls, there is a hole in the programming logic that always lets '555'
exchange numbers through. ("Information wants to be free") Companies
that advertise 900 numbers take advantage of this.
For example, even though you can't dial most 900 numbers, you can
still call numbers like USA Today's 1-900-555-5555, which are
specifically chosen to get around the 900 programming restrictions.
Oh yeah: I remember another one that triggered firm-wide security
checks: 2600 described a hole in DOS that could allow others to
execute commands on your system by virtue of defining function
key contents (F1, F2..) on the fly AND THEN EXECUTING THEM.
]
> Cummings apologized to the
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