Ubiquitous

Final Comments: OK! Still with us? Good! Well much of that shit was written quite a while ago. I was waiting a one person to write up an article on defeating character traps on FTP sites (especially warez sites!!). Well I never got the article, so the mag's kinda late! Oh well shit happens!! Now before you start saying that I'm plagiarizing Red Knight for his Zapping and Vending Machine articles, let me say that "THAT WAS ME!!". I changed that handle cause it was so lame!!! I used to have another handle which I used when I first wrote those articles but changed it when I started uploading it. An interesting observation to make is...

CLASSIC TEXTS This section of ubiquitous is dedicated to classic texts that you all should have read. (If not then that's why they are here!). It will be a regular section of Ubiquitous, providing I don't run out of texts!! (Sometimes if the classic text is rather short, then I will include two for that issue.) This issue is the classic BOFH by Simon Travaglia: BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL #1 It's backup day today so I'm pissed off. Being the BOFH, however, does have it's advantages. I assign the tape device to null - it's so much more economical on my time as I don't have to keep getting up to change tapes ever...

In Introduction to Australian Telephone Exchanges - By mE! If you don't know what a telephone exchange is, then you really shouldn't be reading this magazine! But in any case, I will give a brief history of the exchange as well as the different exchange types. The first exchanges started springing up before the end of the 19th century. Melbourne was to boast the first telephone exchange in Australia, run by the Melbourne Telephone Exchange Company - managed by a man called H. Byron Moore. This was merely two years after the first American exchange and only four years since Bell had first talked on the telephone. (C'mon you mu...

Commandeering an Optus Voice Mail Box for yourself: Many of you will have heard of Voice mail services. They are becoming quite popular. All they simply are, is an advanced form of answering machine. These days many mobile fones are diverted to them when they are turned off, and (this is the good bit), when the phone is turned back on again, it will ring and tell you that you have voice mail waiting. Now due to the actual existence of this and other files, you probably correctly guessed that there are ways of getting yourself a simple mailbox. For the hacker or any person in the underground, a VMB is very useful for keeping in contact an...

Ripping Food and Drink Vending Machines - in Australia: By mE! I suppose most of you have heard about getting free shit from vending machines one way or another, well I will go into detail about a usually guaranteed way of scoring big time. But first: There are many ways to rip a machine some of the more popular ways are as follows: On a food machine you can.... ....rock the shit out of it until all the chip packets and candy bars fly out of their little holders into the chute where you (the dirtball who pulled the filthy low down scumbag of a trick) stock up on the goods. :-) ....stick a coat hanger into the slot and swipe the food by h...

Simple Shit on Unix - By Joe Lunchbucket: Unix is a pretty standard operating system. You can find a unix implementation for just about any platform, ranging from your basic IBM PC, to a state of the art SUN Workstation. These different systems have little in common, except for the operating system they use: Unix. In general, unix systems are all the same. The same set of basic commands, the same software, and the same routine for hacking them. The following is a short list of some of the most basic and obvious flaws/openings in unix. Not all of them will work on your system - maybe most of them won't. The main thing is that some...

New TCP/IP software (mainly sendmail) that can identify a user on a calling system. Typed by mE! (I will write more about this when I find out more!) W A R N I N G NEW TCP/IP software developed, is now in use that can not only determine the originating host, but the fucking user as well. This is a scary thought for all hackers. I first came across this in the sendmail program (telnetting to port 25). I typed "HELO" as you do and instead of getting something like: hello <myhost.mydomain.edu.au> pleased to meet you. I recieved something along the lines of: hello <MYUSERNAME@myhost.mydomain.edu.au> Fuck me they can identi...

This is a file I typed up years ago. It still works and most of you should know about it but I included it for those of you who don't. Zapping Free Fone calls: Now I suppose you are all thinking - not another fucking lame text file on getting phree fone calls, well maybe, maybe not. But the method I am to discuss I have never seen mentioned b4. Could be that I have been looking in the wrong places but whatever the reason I decided to type up this text phile in the hope that it will benefit all humankind..... .....except TeleScum! To do this all you need is a spark zapper. Something like the gas igniters found in a household gas hot wa...

(See http://apt.usa.globalnews.com/unigram for more details on Unigram.X) about the new Cray T3E parallel processor. In brackets are comments by myself :-) Cray claims Firsts in New Parallel T3E Machine Cray research Inc has duly unveiled its new Cray T3E scalable parallel processor and claimed $92m (fuck!!!) in advance orders for the system. The Digital Equipment Corporation Alpha RISC-based machines scale to 2,048 processors for a theoretical peak performance of 1.2 TFLOPS (jesus fucking christ!!); the entry price is lowered and upgrades can be made in smaller increments than with the T3D. It comes with a new Unicos/mk U...

Editor: mE! Welcome to Issue 1 of Ubiquitous, a new Australian E-Zine aimed at the computer underground. My reasoning for producing yet another E-Zine is because I'm sick and tired on seeing zines (especially Australian ones) go up and down all the time never usually producing more than one or two issues. How about the American scene? Phrack never gets published any more, neither does CoTNo or a million others I could mention. WHO† CARES anyway the underground scene is shot to shit and recent zines are simply a reflection of this state of affairs. So am I here to save the day? Yeah right!! Not without feedback and input from the rest ...