Phrack Magazine issue 47

==Phrack Magazine==Volume Six, Issue Forty-Seven, File 1 of 22Issue 47 Index___________________P H R A C K 4 7April 15, 1995___________________"Mind The Gap"This issue is late, so is my tax return, but I have a lot of excuses forboth.Lots of things have happened since last issue. I've been hassled by thepolice for publishing Phrack. I've been to the Pyramids at Giza andthe tombs in the Valley of the Kings. I've been to London several timesand met spies from MI5 and GCHQ. I watched almost everyone I know get busted.I went to check out NORAD and then skiied Breckenridge. And I quit my jobat Dell Computers after almost 3 years.Unemployment is great. One of the best things about it is sleeping till noon.On the other hand, one of the worst things about it is that you sleep untilnoon. It's been interesting anyway. I've been doing a lot of reading: priceevaluation of the forensic chemistry section of the Sigma Chemicals catalog,the rantings of Hunter S. Thompson, the amazing cosmetic similarities betweenInternational Design Magazine and Wired, Victor Ostrovsky's Mossad books, everyUNIX book ever written, every book on satellite communications ever written,and hundreds of magazines ranging from Film Threat to Sys Admin to MonitoringTimes to Seventeen. Lord knows what I'll do with this newfound wealth ofinformation.Anyway, amongst all this, I've been trying to get things organized forSummercon this June 2,3,4 in Atlanta Georgia. One of the other factors inthe delay of Phrack was the hotel contract, so I could include full conferencedetails in this issue. By the way, you are all invited.Wait a minute, someone said something about busts? Yes. There were busts.Lots of them. Raids upon raids upon raids. Some local, some federal. SomeJustice, some Treasury. You probably haven't read of any of these raids,nor will you, but they happened. It has always been my policy not toreport on any busts that have not gained media coverage elsewhere, soI'm not going to go into any details. Just rest somewhat assured thatif you haven't been raided by now, then you probably won't be. (At leastnot due to these particular investigations.)People, if we all just followed one simple rule none of us would everhave any problems: DO NOT HACK ANYTHING IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY. If you areGerman, don't hack Germany! If you are Danish, don't hack Denmark! If youare Australian, don't hack Australia! IF YOU ARE AMERICAN, DON'T HACKAMERICA!The last controversy surrounding this issue came at the last possiblesecond. In the several years that I've been publishing Phrack, we'verevieved all kinds of files, but remarkably, I've never really recieved

any "anarchy" files. However, in the last several months I've been inundatedwith files about making bombs. There were so many coming in, that I reallycouldn't ignore them. Some of them were pretty damn good too. So I figured,I'll put several of them together and put in ONE anarchy file as a kind oftongue-in-cheek look at the kind of stupidity we have floating aroundin the underground.Then the bomb went off in Oklahoma City.Then Unabomb struck again.Then the politicos of the world started spouting off about giving thefederal law enforcement types carte blanche to surveil and detain peoplewho do things that they don't like, especially with regards to terroristlike activites.Normally, I don't really give a damn about possible reprocussions of mywriting, but given the political climate of the day, I decided thatit would really be stupid for me to print these files. I mean,one was REAL good, and obviously written by someone who learned "British"English in a non English-speaking country. I mentioned my concerns toan individual who works with the FBI's counter-terrorism group, and wastold that printing the file would probably be the stupidest thing I couldpossibly do in my entire life...PERIOD.So the file is nixed. I really feel like I'm betraying myself and myreadership, for giving into the underlying political climate of the day, andfalling prey to a kind of prior-restraint, but I really don't need the grief.I'm on enough lists as it is, so I really don't need to be the focus ofsome multi-jurisdictional task-force on terrorism because I publisheda file on how to make a pipe bomb over the Internet. (Hell, I'm now evenon the Customs Department's list of ne'er-do-wells since someone from Europethought it would be funny to send me some kind of bestiality magazinewhich was siezed. Thanks a lot, asshole, whoever you are.) Obviously, themedia think the net is some kind of hotbed for bomb-making info, so I'musually the first to satisfy their most warped yellow-journalisticfantasies, but not this time.I really hate what I see coming because of the mess in Oklahoma. Ifthe American government does what I suspect, we will be seeinga major conservative backlash, a resurgence of Hoover-esque power in theFBI, constitutional amendments to limit free speech, and a bad timefor everyone, especially known-dissenters and suspicious folk likeyours truly. Be very afraid. I am.But anyway, enough of my rambling, here is Issue 47.-------------------------------------------------------------------------READ THE FOLLOWINGIMPORTANT REGISTRATION INFORMATIONCorporate/Institutional/Government: If you are a business,institution or government agency, or otherwise employed by,contracted to or providing any consultation relating to computers,telecommunications or security of any kind to such an entity, thisinformation pertains to you.

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