CATSLash Magazine issue 1 - August, 1996 ------ --- -------- ------ / / \ | / / /-----\ | ------ \ / \ | / \----- o / \ o | o ------- o The Canadian Anarchy and Technology Society Presents... ********************************************************************* * CATSlash Magazine * * * * Issue #1, August 1996 * ********************************************************************* By Jeriatrick and Poison Ice From Edmonton - The City of Champions in Alberta,Canada Welcome to the first issue of CATSlash magazine dedicated to Phreaking, Hacking and other Anarchy like material. We will be publishing it monthly (or every second month if there is not enough information or testing time) in TXT format so Mac, Atari, and PCs can read it. There also may be a better version available for Macs in Docmaker format (if we get it out). We are reader supported, so if you write an article or phile that you would like published in this magazine (and it is suitable) we will publish it.Articles can be mailed to CATS on the Bethlehem Board. (see the add at the end of the magazine). Distribute our magazine! Send it wherever. The more who read it, the more people will know. Our main puprose is to inspire people to try these ideas. Now a bit about our names:If anyone starts using our names on boards and stuff we will get really pissed off.Don't be a Lamer and think up your own name.If you take a piece of this magazine, leave our names in the article as they are.Otherwise, we have nothing else to say on the subject of aliases. Below is the table of contents, every month we will have at least one Hacking/phreaking article, one weapon/explosive article, and one Anarchist article.Plus, Poison Ice's Top Ten.We will also throw in some other articles, and if people mail us, theirs too. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Contents | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |1. The Beige Box | |2. Cable Box Fun | |3. Basic Phone Pranks with No Money | |4. Hairspray Gun | |5. Tapping Cordless Phones | |6. Chemical Equivelency List | |7. Connection Corner | |8. The Vengence Column | |9. Poison Ice's Top Ten | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- CATSLash Magazine issue 1 - August, 1996 ----------------------------------------------------------- | Building The Beige Box | | ---------------------- | | By:Jeriatrick | ----------------------------------------------------------- For all you people that want to be able to use someone else's phone or tap into their lines, heres how: The Beige Box (you may also have heard it called the Modu-Box, but this is the more popular name). The phone company uses something like them to check lines called a lineman's handset, basically, thats what this is. Great! how do I build it? ------------------------- Take a phone, we used a code-a-phone (keys and mouthpieces in one rectangular unit), try to keep it touch tone (although the phone company uses rotary dials) and plug it into a modular jack (like the ones in your wall, except this is not in your wall) Then find the screws marked R or T (for Ring and Tip). Screw in a wire in each, preferably Red for R and Green for T (those are the colors the phone company uses).Then fasten alligator clips on the end of the wires. In the end it should be like this: Phone - 000 Wire - --- Alligator Clip - < Modular Jack - () 000------()---------< 000 ()---------< If you want it to look more professional, wrap the modular jack in electrical tape, I once tricked a guy into thinking there was some complex circuitry inside. Usage... --------- To use the box, find a phone box and open it up. In it there will be lines running in with bunches of wire. Match two wires like Blue and white, these are one "pair".Strip a part of the wires . One is Ring (red) one is Tip(Green) switch around untill you get a dialtone, then use it like a regular phone. Another way is to go to to someone's house. Find their gas meter. Beside it there will be a silver pipe with an oval shaped end like this: _ ( ) Open it up and you will see a black wire.Strip it. |-| You will see your red and green wires inside. | | | | Tapping ------- When the guy is in a conversation, pick it up and listen in.Just don't make any noise. Trouble ------- If the guy picks up while you are boxing, just hang up.He will most likely think he missed a number and dial again. If you do get busted, most people will settle for the price of the bill you gave them. If the phone company catches you it is trouble.A tip: put scotch tape over the door.If it is broken when you come back, get away from there!!! Also watch out for suspicious looking people. We once had a phone company guy in his own car continually drive around the block watching us, thinking we hadn't noticed him! Well thats all. If your really into it and want a professional lineman's handset, steal one from a Phone Company truck. Have Phun!!! CATSLash Magazine issue 1 - August, 1996 --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Cable Box Fun | | by:Jeriatrick | --------------------------------------------------------------------- The first thing to do is find a cable box outside an enemy's house. These are everywhere and in many shapes and sizes and are usually light green or grey. Some may need a 7/16 hex driver to open.Open it.Inside it should look like this: HHHHHHHH - splitter box (big and grey) !!!- Main cablevision input (thick black wire, reads CABLEVISION) | - Small cable line (thin black wires read PROPERTY OF whoever) --- - also small cable line (really crappy text drawing) |||||||| |||||||| HHHHHHHH !!! The main cablevision input is the line from the cable company (it is a very thick black cable marked CABLEVISION with serial numbers). The splitter box splits the signal from the Cablevision input out to smaller lines (the splitter box is big and grey with cable connectors sticking out of it).From the sp litter box runs the smaller cable lines (marked PROPERTY OF whatever company). These run to houses. The address is usually marked on white tabs on the lines.These unscrew from the splitter box. Now to set to work.To get free cable: 1.buy a 2-way cable splitter from a Dollar store 2.Find your box 3.Take the line of someone who is paying for cable and attach the 2-way splitter's input end to the Splitter box in the cable box. (do this when they aren't watching TV or they will come out to inspect) 4.Attach yours and his lines to the output ends of the 2-way splitter 5.Close up the box and watch TV It should look like this: HHHHH-Main splitter box III - 2-way splitter --- - your cable **** - neighbours cable ^^^^ - 2-wat splitter cable H^^^^IIII-------- H IIII******** H H Another way is just to attach your line back onto the splitter box, but when they do a ratings sweep, you might be found. To get Pay-TV, switch your line with someone getting Pay-TV. This is especially effective because when the cable people open it and see everythings attached and OK they miss it. Revenge ------- To disconnect someone's cable: 1.Find their box and their cable line 2.Cut it near the bottom of the box and in many pieces 3.Close up the box If it is cut up too badly, the cable company will have to replace the whole line which could mean digging up the victim's whole yard... To dissconnect the cable, but make everything look ok: 1.Disconnect his cable from the splitter box 2.Take out the Copper wire that sticks out of the middle so that it doesen't stick out at all 3.Screw the line back in This will give them fuzzy or no reception at all, and the cable people won't even notice it. These ought to help with your knowledge of the TV systems, and give you something to do too! CATSLash Magazine issue 1 - August, 1996 --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Basic Prank Calls With no Money | | By:Jeriatrick | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Since people can be traced, prank calls must be done in a way that can't be traced.A number rerout box would be fine, but they can cost A LOT of money. Boxing works, but it is a lot of trouble and some people might not want to build/use a box.So heres some suggestions: A Payphone ---------- Do these in sequence or by themselves, it works. 1.Make a collect call (use the AGT long distance 0-403-XXX-XXXX (X being the number you are calling).Say a normal name like John.When the person picks up they will ususally accept the charges. Swear loudly. 2.If they won't accept the charges keep making collect calls. When it asks for a name - swear or make some crap up.He won't accept the charges, but by the tenth time he will let his answering machine pick up. 3. Call collect by dialing straight '0'. Then the operator will say your name, and the victim won't reconise your voice.He may accept charges (even after doing #2).Swear loudly. 4.If you get his answering machine, let it pick up your name (say your name is Fuck Off) or convince the operator to let you leave a message or your number. Sooner or later he may even disconnect his machine. 5.Call the phone repair service (611).Say that he's been vandalizing phones, and you followed him home.Give them his address. DON'T GIVE HIS NAME OR NUMBER.Remember keep cool and make up answers to their questions. 6.Call collect.Use the payphone number as your name.See if he calls 7.If he pays for call block or call display, it helps out the phone company and him. Find another payphone or get into boxing. Remember, if he traces the call, he dosen't know it is from a payphone, only the phone company knows. Plus he gets charged $3.00 for each trace. With a Dead or stolen Cell Phone -------------------------------- With a "dead'(not hooked up to any service) or stolen cell phone, the fun is endless. TIP: you can still dial all numbers with *XXX (three digit star numbers) even when you are not hooked up. This is for hookup assistance, but we can still call the radio station (Power 92 at *925). 1.dial *611 and harass the operators 2.dial *611 and bullshit with the operators for information or for fun. Then when they are about to catch you yell something obscene and hang up.Poison Ice kept an operator on for about an hour with a story about flying to the US and giving his son his phone.These operators can trace you, so make sure it is not registered in your name. 3.Make a collect call from *611. Some operators will do it for you. Then prank away. 4.Call *611 at one o'clock in the morning. Say you are having phone problems. Then say you battery is going dead and to please call you back at your home number.Give them your victim's number. The victim will wake up to the phone, only to have to explain to AGT that he dosen't even own a Cell. 5.Call and harass other *XXX numbers. 6. If the operators say they are tracing you, ask them questions about the trace, eg: How long does a trace take? Who am I then? How do you trace a call? Remember: They say they can trace your location, but they can't unless they drive up and down the blocks with a scanner, so don't worry. Well thats all for now. Have Phun. CATSLash Magazine issue 1 - August, 1996 --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Hairspray Gun Plans | | Brought to you by Jeriatrick | --------------------------------------------------------------------- I picked up this article from a gun enthusiast not too long ago. Potato Bazooka Plans -------------------- You may want a couple of buddies to go in buying the material with you, or make 3 at the same time, as the pipe comes in 10 foot chunks. I bought all material at a local "Home Depot" for about $15. Note on choice of material: I have seen and heard of plans for spud guns using PVC pipe. In fact, an article in the February issue of "Modern Gun" uses PVC. I chose to use schedule 40 ABS plastic. The black pipe usually used for sewerage. If you want to know why I chose ABS, take a chunk of PVC pipe. Hit it with a 25 lb sledge hammer. It fragments into many *sharp* pieces. Try this with ABS. The sledge hammer bounces off the pipe and smashes into your foot. But it didn't break! (The pipe, that is, I don't know about your foot). PVC also gets brittle with exposure to sunlight. ABS just gets hot. Only ever use schedule 40! That's the thick stuff. It costs a little more, but not that much more. The bill of material says 10 foot lengths, only because that's as small a piece as is normally sold. Bill of material: 1 10 foot piece of 2 inch diameter schedule 40 ABS pipe 1 10 foot piece of 3 inch diameter schedule 40 ABS pipe 1 3 inch to 2 inch reducing bushing 1 3 inch coupling 1 3 inch threaded (one side) coupling 1 3 inch threaded end-cap 1 can ABS solvent-weld pipe glue. NEVER USE PVC GLUE on ABS!!! 1 Coleman sparker - these are easily found in any sporting goods store that has a decent camping section. They are normally made for putting inside a Colman lantern or stove so you don't need matches. Step 1 - Cut the combustion chamber to size. Cut off a 14 inch section of the 3 inch diameter pipe. You don't need the rest of the 10 foot length, so save it for future bazookas, or make one with a couple of buddies splitting the cost. Step 2 - glue the 3inch to 2 inch bushing into one side of the 3 inch coupling, glue the other side of the coupling to one end of the 14 inch combustion chamber. Make sure the joints are clean first and be liberal with the glue. Step 3 - glue the threaded coupling to the other end of the combustion chamber (using the slip-joint side, obviously) make sure the glue doesn't run into the threads. Step 4 - Cut the "barrel" to size. Cut off a 36 inch (3 foot) length of the 2 inch pipe. Glue this into the other end of the bushing you've glued to the combustion chamber. You should now have the complete gun, but it's not ready for firing just yet. Step 5 - Using a file, taper the "muzzle" for the last half an inch on the outside. This will serve to cut the potato as it's rammed in. Step 6 - You'll need to mount the sparker inside the end cap. If you got the Coleman one, it is threaded and has two nuts with it. There is also an angled piece of metal meant to hold the ignitor inside a lantern. Take the knurled knob off the end of the shaft. Be careful - there's an extra flint inside the knob. Unscrew the nut and discard the angled bit of metal. Drill a hole dead center in the ABS end cap of a diameter to take the shaft of the ignitor. Mount the ignitor inside the end cap, put the nut on the outside of the shaft and tighten until the ignitor is held in place. The shaft will slide back and forth, but won't come out. Put the end knob back on and tighten the lock screw. Step 7 - Make sure the glue has "cured". I left mine overnight before firing. Step 8 - make a ram rod. I used surplus 1/2 inch PVC pipe, 4 feet in length. A broomhandle, etc. will do. Measure and make a mark about 2 feet 8 inches down the ram rod. To fire: remove end cap. Ram a potato from the muzzle end. The tapered end will cut the potato to size. Make sure it has a good seal as you ram it down with the ramrod. Ram to the mark you made. I've found most misfires happen when there are gaps between the potato and the barrel where gasses can escape. Spray 2 - 5 seconds worth of cheap hair spray (white rain, aqua net) I'd use an "unscented" one if you can, or the gun stinks after a few shots! Start at 2 seconds and build up! After the hair spray, quickly screw in the end cap. One twist of the ignitor knob sends the spud skyward! Safety: Once you shoot this, you'll see the potato comes out with enough force, you wouldn't want to be on the wrong side! Usual safety about pointing the muzzle etc. still apply. This is for fun only. I don't make any guarantee you won't blow your arse off. (You may laugh it off, however). Personally, I'd never use acetylene, starting fluid (ether), black powder, lighter fluid, gasoline etc. as a propellant, but you may not value your body parts as much . You can get 3 shots off a big spud. Partially baked ones are fun - they seal in better and shoot farther, but they do break up and the barrel is a mess to clean up afterwards. Clean up: soap and water. Push a small towel through (here's a case where it's OK to clean from the muzzle). I've been shooting mine since 12/94 and have been having a barrel of laughs. The spuds will go nearly 200 yards! I plan to make the "220 swift" variety by coupling a one inch barrel to the three inch combustion chamber. I wonder if you put the barrels on threaded couplings you could have interchangeable barrels. Sort of an "Idaho Contender". Other tricks: ram in a cardboard container from McDonalds from an order of large fries. Leave the fries in the container. The cardboard serves as a sabot and voila - a shotgun! They don't make much noise, so I fire mine in an empty field at the end of my street. Warning: These things have a tendency to attract every 8-12 year old boy in the neighborhood. Have fun! - Remember: Anything that can fit in the barrel snugly will fire! CATSLash Magazine issue 1 - August, 1996 --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Tapping into Cordless Phone Signals | | by: Jeriatrick | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Heres how to tap into the cordless phone signals. *NOTE*:Not Cellular phones, just the ones that you can walk around your house with.There are three easy ways. The first - Get one of those Fisher Price baby monitors. We want only the receiving end. Set it to C. Now turn it on and ride around your neighbourhood.This dosen't work with all the cordless phones, but with a lot. The nice thing about this style is you can pick up a very clear signal.You can also use one of those $10 kids walkie talkies, but they don't pick up as good.One thing you will notice though is that when the walkie talkie's send button is pressed it will cause interference and sometimes what you say will appear on their phone.That is because they all work of FM. The second - For the older phones, is a bit tougher. Get an AM radio and open it up. Find the small plastic box inside and adjust the screws (not too much at a time) you want to try to get the frequency down a few thousand KHz.If it desen't work, find the little silver boxes with the colored screws on top and play with them. The Third: Buy some expensive walkie talkies (eg.the $60 ones from Radio Shack).Make sure they are FM.Open it and play with the little silver boxes with colored screws, or if you are really into electronics and really need this, change the crystal... Well, those are my tips on tapping cordless phones. There are other ways, but I either haven't heard of them yet, or decided it wasn't worth it to include them in this article. CATSLash Magazine issue 1 - August, 1996 --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Chemical Equivelency List | | By:Jeriatrick | --------------------------------------------------------------------- A lot of chemicals required in explosives and such are sold under brand names or are made from things easier to get. This saves a lot of money, as well as saving you the trouble of going to a chemical store and signing the forms and shit.So I made a list. Actually most of this list comes from the Jolly Roger Cookbook, so he should get a lot of the credit. We just added in things here and there. This will be a base for the next few issues so you can look up the ingrediants here. Acacia..................................................Gum Arabic Acetic Acid................................................Vinegar Aluminum Oxide..............................................Alumia Alcohol......................................Rubbing Alcohol (85%) Aluminum Potassium Sulphate...................................Alum Aluminum Sulfate..............................................Alum Ammonia.......................................Clear window cleaner Ammonium Carbonate.......................................Hartshorn Ammonium Hydroxide...................................Clear Ammonia Ammonium Nitrate........................................Salt Peter .........................................Cold Paks .......................................Fertilizers Ammonium Oleate.......................................Ammonia Soap Amylacetate............................................Bananna Oil Barium Sulfide...........................................Black Ash Bromethymol Blue (BTB)..........................Aquarium pH Tester Calcium Carbide.................................Carbide Lamp Rocks Carbon Carbinate.............................................Chalk Carbontetrachloride.................................Cleaning Fluid Calcium Hypochloride..............................Bleaching Powder Calcium Oxide.................................................Lime Calcium Sulfate...................................Plaster of Paris Carbonic Acid..............................................Seltzer Caustic.....................................Mechanic's Caustic Bin ............................Certain Brands of Polaroid Film Cellulose...................................................Cotton Cetyltrimethylammoniumbromide........................Ammonium Salt Copper ..............................................Copper Wiring ................................................Copper Pipe .................................Pennies (made before 1983) Copper Acetoarsenite..................Certain Insectisides(unpure) Copper Sulphate..........Blue Vitriol(ask at an agriculture store) Ethyl Alcohol........................................Solvents(95%) .....................................Alcoholic Drinks Ethylinedichloride.....................................Dutch Fluid Ferric Oxide.............................................Iron Rust Formaldehyde..............................................Cleaners .......................................Resorcinal Glue Furfuraldehyde............................................Bran Oil Glucose.................................................Corn Syrup Glycerine................................................Glycerine Graphite...............................................Pencil Lead Hexamethylenetetramine (HMT)...................Camping Fuel Sticks Hexamine...........................................Hexamine Stoves Hydrochloric Acid....................................Muriatic Acid Hydrogen Peroxide.........................................Peroxide Iodine.....................................Tinticure of Iodine(5%) Iron Oxide....................................................Rust Lampblack........................................Oil Refinery Soot Lead Acetate.........................................Sugar of Lead Lead Tero-oxide...........................................Red Lead Lecithin..................................................Vitamins Maganese Dioxide..............................Black Battery Powder Magnesium.............................................Firestarters Magnesium Silicate............................................Talc Magnesium Sulfate.......................................Epsom Salt Mercury.......................................Mercury thermometers ........................................Mercury Thermostats Mercury Fulminate.......................Paper Cap Powder (Cap Gun) Methenamine........................................Hexamine Stoves Methylsalicylate..................................Winter Green Oil Naphthalene..............................................Mothballs Nitrocellulos...........................................Guncotton Nitrous Oxide...........................Pressurized Whipped Cream Phenol...............................................Carbolic Acid Phosphorus..................................Rocket Engine Igniters Potassium Bicarbonate..............................Cream of Tarter Potassium Chloride.................................Salt Substitute Potassium Chromium Sulfate..............................Chromealum Potassium Nitrate.......................................Salt Peter Potassium Permanganate..........................Water Purification ...............................Snakebite Kit Red Gum..................................................Tree Bark Sodium Oxide..................................................Sand Sodium Bicarbonate.....................................Baking Soda Sodium Borate................................................Borax Sodium Carbonate......................................Washing Soda Sodium Chloride...............................................Salt Sodium Hydroxide...............................................Lye Sodium Nitrate..........................................Fertilizer Sodium Perchlorate.................................Solidox Pellets Sodium Silicate..............................................Glass Sodium Sulfate......................................Glauber's Salt Sodium Thiosulfate.............................Photographer's Hypo Strontium Nitrate......................................Road Flares Sulphur..................................................Gardening ............................................Woodchuck Bombs Sulfuric Acid.........................................Battery Acid Sucrose.................................................Cane Sugar Zinc Chloride.......................................Tinner's Fluid Zinc Sulfate .......................................White Vitriol Whatever you can't find you can always try to get at a drug store. Here in Edmonton I suggest IDA Drugs. Their prices are steep and go up with demand (so don't all go to the same one) but they offer quite a lot of chemicals. Otherwise you can go to a Chemical Store (like the Edmonton Chemical Wharehouse).You can also read up on how to make certain chemicals in later issues of this magazine. CATSLash Magazine issue 1 - August, 1996 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Connection corner | | by: poison ice | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello out there in cyberspace, where ever you are. In this column, you'll hear the latest buzz from some high schools! No, not really private stuff, and not real nerd shit, like some guy putting a new bbs or whats gonna happen on star trek voyager, but normal inside information. But many connections still needed! Connections from the following high schools are needed : Eastglen, M.E Lezerte, Ross sheppard, Queen Elizabeth, and any other high schools in edmonton (exept Victoria, that ones my post)the schools we have base (just 1) connections in victoria, ross sheppard, queen elizabeth, M.E lezerte, and eastglen so send in your schools inside (but not private) buzz to the bbs listed at the end of this magazine. Remember, we need you!!!! CATSLash Magazine issue 1 - August, 1996 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | The Vengence column | | by: poison ice | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This column will be on how one would get revenge on a teacher, yes, a teacher. Note that they are the darkest form of evil in the universe as we know it, but they can be terrorized easily and enjoyingly, it's just a matter of how you approach the blood sucking faggots. When I started harrasing my math teacher, I started simple, I looked up the name in the phonebook( remember to find out the first name) and showered him with prank calls untill the bastard changed his phone no. personally you can annoy your teacher any way you desire but first you must start simple,dont let your rage get ahead of your concious thoughts. Send in your idea's to the bbs listed at the end of the magazine. CATSLash Magazine issue 1 - August, 1996 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Poison Ice's --------------- --------- ----------- | | | / _____ \ \ | ----- \ \ ------ ----- | | | | | | | | | \ | | | | / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |_|___| | | | | | | | | | | | | --------/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ----- | | | | | ----/ \_________|/ |__|/ ---------------- ------------ ------------ ---- | | | | --------/ | \ \ | | | ----- ------/ | | |___ | |-\ \ \ | | | | | | | -----/| | | |\ \ \| | | | | | | |/ | | | \ \ | | | | | | | ----- | | | \ \ | | | | | | | |-------- | | | \ | | | | | | -------/| | | | \ |/ -----/ -----------|/ -----/ ------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Top ten ways to tell you spend too much time on your modem. | --------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.Every time someone speaks to you ,you try to detect a carrier. 9.You do your homework in binary numbers. 8.You try to call a bbs with your tv and vcr. 7.You tried to make dinner with the Jolly Roger Cookbook. 6.You sculpted a working modem out of your mashed patatoes. 5.Every time you open your mouth, that strange-modem sound comes out. 4.Every bbs in the province knows your alias, phone number, and favorite "Star Trek" episode. 3.Your phone bill is marked : 1 of 5. 2.You can play inter-modem games by yourself ! 1.Your alias is "Bluefire" ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | The Disclaimer | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ C.A.T.S or CATS Magazine are not responsible for any actions occuring from this magazine or others.This is for informational purposes only and any actions described in this magazine are not meant to be done by the reader.So if you blow off your fingers, we aren't responsible. 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