Title : Introduction
Author : Erik Bloodaxe
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Volume Four, Issue Forty-Two, File 1 of 14
Issue 42 Index
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P H R A C K 4 2
March 1, 1993
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~ Happy Anniversary Bill Cook & Tim Foley, we love you both! ~
Here it is. Amidst all the fanfare and hoopla, Phrack 42 leaps from
your electronic mail box to infect your very soul. It was just a few
short years ago on this day that one of the greatest abuses of
governmental authority took place in the happy little town of Austin,
Texas. This issue marks the three year anniversary of these raids and a
hearty hello goes out to Bellcore, The United States Secret Service, and
the US District Attorney's Office.
As many of you have read previously, or otherwise heard through the
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new editor, as I was most recently referred to so lovingly by
my long-time friend John Lee on the alt.cyberpunk Usenet group:
"the long hair and heavy metal beer drinking Texan that
Bruce Sterling finds so .. ahem.. 'attractive'." In case you don't get
the joke, my name is Erikb, and I'm a hacker.
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Editor-In-Chief : Erik Bloodaxe (aka Chris Goggans)
3L33t : K L & T K
News : Datastream Cowboy
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Rack, NOD, G. Tenet, Frosty
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Phrack Magazine V. 4, #42, March 1, 1993. ISSN 1068-1035
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Table Of Contents
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1. Introduction by The Editor 14K
2. Phrack Loopback / Editorial Page / Line Noise 48K
3. Phrack Pro-Phile on Lord Digital 22K
4. Packet Switched Network Security by Chris Goggans 22K
5 Tymnet Diagnostic Tools by Professor Falken 35K
6. A User's Guide to XRAY by NOD 11K
7. Useful Commands for the TP3010 Debug Port by G. Tenet 28K
8. Sprintnet Directory Part I by Skylar 49K
9. Sprintnet Directory Part II by Skylar 45K
10. Sprintnet Directory Part III by Skylar 46K
11. Guide to Encryption by The Racketeer [HFC] 32K
12. The Freedom Of Information Act and You by Vince Niel 42K
13. HoHoCon from Various Sources 51K
14. PWN by Datastream Cowboy 29K
Total: 474K
Phrack 42 is dedicated to John Guinasso, director of global
network security, BT North America, without whose immortal comments,
many would have never been motivated to write.
"If you mess with our network and we catch you -- which we always
do -- you will go down." (John Guinasso, Information Week, July 13, 1992)
"Hell, WE owned Tymnet before BT did!"
(Anonymous hacker-type, Random Telephone Call, 1993)
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