==Phrack Inc.== Volume Two, Issue 18, Phile #10 of 11 PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN >>>>>=-* Phrack World News *-=<<<<< PWN PWN Issue XVIII/1 PWN PWN PWN PWN Created, Compiled, and Written PWN PWN By: Epsilon PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN Intro ===== Welcome to yet another issue of Phrack World News. We have once again returned to try and bring you an entertaining, and informative newsletter dedicated to the spread of information and knowledge throughout the H/P community. ______________________________________________________________________________ TOK Re-Formed ============= A group called Tribunal Of Knowledge, which has undergone previous re-formations has once again re-formed. The person who is currently "in charge" of the group says that he had permission from High Evolutionary, the group's founder, to re-form the organization. Although the group hasn't publicly announced their existence or written any files, we should be hearing from them in the near future. The Current Members of TOK Include - Control C Prime Suspect Jack Death The UrVile The Prophet Psychic Warlord Information Provided By Control C, and Prime Suspect. ______________________________________________________________________________ Phrack Inc. Support Boards ========================== Phrack Inc. has always made it a habit to set up Phrack Inc. sponsor accounts on the more popular boards around. These sponsor accounts are set up, so that the users may get in touch with the Phrack Magazine staff if they would like to contribute an article, or any other information to our publication. Please take note of the boards on which Phrack Inc. accounts are set up. Thank you. The Current List of Phrack Inc. 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Information Provided By The Forgotten Realm. ______________________________________________________________________________ LOD/H Technical Journal ======================= Lex Luthor of LOD/H (Legion of Doom/Hackers) has been busy with school, etc., so he has not had the time, nor the initiative to release the next issue of the LOD/H Technical Journal. On this note, he has tentatively turned the Journal over to Phantom Phreaker, who will probably be taking all contributions for the Journal. No additional information is available. Information Provided By The UrVile and Phantom Phreaker. ______________________________________________________________________________ Congress To Restrict 976/900 Dial-A-Porn Services ================================================= Congress is considering proposals to restrict dial-up services in an effort to make it difficult for minors to access sexually explicit messages. A House-Senate committee is currently negotiating the "dial-a-porn" proposal. Lawmakers disagree whether or not the proposal is constitutional and are debating the issue of requiring phone companies to offer a service that would allow parents, free of charge, to block the 976/900 services. Other proposals would require customers to pay in advance or use credit cards to access the 976/900 services. Some companies are currently offering free services that restrict minors from accessing sexually explicit messages. AT&T and Department of Justice officials are cooperating in a nationwide crackdown of "dial-a-porn" telephone companies. The FCC recently brought charges against one of AT&T's largest 900 Service customers, and AT&T provided the confidential information necessary in the prosecution. AT&T also agreed to suspend or disconnect services of companies violating the commission ban by transmitting obscene or indecent messages to minors. ______________________________________________________________________________ Some Hope Left For Victims Of FGD ================================= US Sprint's famed FGD (Feature Group D) dial-ups and 800 INWATS exchanges may pose no threat to individuals under switches that do not yet offer equal access service to alternate long distance carriers. Due to the way Feature Group D routes its information, the ten-digit originating number of the caller is not provided when the call is placed from a non-equal access area. The following was taken from an explanation of US Sprint's 800 INWATS Service. ************************************************************* CALL DETAIL ************************************************************* With US Sprint 800 Service, a customer will receive call detail information for every call on every invoice. The call detail for each call includes: o Date of call o Time of call o The originating city and state o The ten-digit number of the caller if the call originates in an equal access area or the NPA of the caller if the non-equal access area. o Band into which the call falls o Duration of the call in minutes o Cost of the call This came directly from US Sprint. Do as you choose, but don't depend on this. Information Provided by US Sprint. ______________________________________________________________________________ Telenet Bolsters Network With Encryption ======================================== Telenet Communications Corporation strengthened its public data network recently with the introduction of data encryption capability. The X.25 Encryption Service provides a type of data security previously unavailable on any public data network, according to analysts. For Telenet, the purpose of the offering is "to be more competitive; nobody else does this," according to Belden Menkus, an independent network security consultant based in Middleville, NJ. The service is aimed at users transmitting proprietary information between host computers, such as insurance or fund-transfer applications. It is priced at $200 per month per host computer connection. Both the confidentiality and integrity of the data can be protected via encryption. The scheme provides end-to-end data encryption, an alternative method whereby data is decrypted and recrypted at each node in the network. "This is a recognition that end-to-end encryption is really preferable to link encryption," Menkus said. The service is available over both dial-up and leased lines, and it supports both synchronous and asynchronous traffic at speeds up to 9.6K BPS. Telenet has approved one particular data encryption device for use with the service, The Cipher X 5000, from Technical Communications Corporation (TCC), a Concord, Massachusetts based vendor. TCC "has been around the data encryption business for quite a while," Menkus said. The Cipher X implements the National Bureau of Standards' Data Encryption Standard (DES). DES is an algorithm manipulated by a secret 56 bit key. Computers protected with the device can only be accessed by users with a matching key. The data encryptor is installed at user sites between the host computer and the PAD (Packet Assembler/Disassembler). Installation of the TCC device does not affect the user's ability to send non-encrypted data, according to Telenet. By maintaining a table of network addresses that require encryption, the device decides whether or not to encrypt each transmission. Information Provided by Network World. ______________________________________________________________________________ ==============================================================================