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THE SYNDICATE REPORT
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Information Transmittal No. 15
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(Part 1)
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Released September 21, 1987
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Featuring:
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New Editors In Phrack Inc. (pwn.xv i 9\12)
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Bank Couples PCs, Micro Card to Increase Security (i.wld 7\5)
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CompuSystems Mail-Order Firm Under Investigations for Fraud (i.wld 7\17)
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LightNet Announces Major Expansion To West Coast (bps 7\22)
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FCC Leans to Price-Cap Regulation; US West Approves Proposal (n.wk 8\28
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Meter Reader on Phone...Literally (n.wk 9\13)
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Tech Access Network Speeds I&R at Bell COs (otsd.plnt 9\15)
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Cable TV Ban Eyed (n.wk 9\19)
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$5 Billion Dollar Contract Out For New Government Phone System (bs.wk 7\11)
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by The Sensei
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Exposition:
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Once again, TSReport now excepts outside sources. Anyone can write/provide
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information to the Syndicate Report. The Syndicate Report is also altering
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format. Rather than concentrating mainly on BELL orientated information,
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the Syndicate Report now has a more broad interest. Thus, TSR now handles
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all types of news gatherings. All articles have been presented by me
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unless shown at the end of the article as the information provider(s). TSR
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Transfer Line I 612-829-8509 ------ TSR Transfer Line II 612-829-8508
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TSR NewsLine ------- 612-829-8503/04
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Author's Note:
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Welcome Syndicate Report Readers. Many different things are happening.
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As most of you know, the Phreak World is slower than ever. This is of course
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due to the rash happenings of busts. Users are finally realizings that "HEY, I
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COULD BE CAUGHT." Thus, many Phreaks and Hackers are laying low only coming
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online when necessary. The main reasons for getting caught appear to be abusing
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access codes to MCI/Sprint/ITT/Metro or whatever your service. There are
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alternatives. It's up to you make think about them and act.
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I just recently released a seperate file on 3rd Party Fraud and VMS's.
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This is one alternative to using big business company codes. This file may be
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found on TSR Transfer Line II 8508 (see above).
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Keep in mind, that this transmittal has a second part to it.
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NEW EDITORS IN PHRACK INC.:
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Original Founders of Phrack Inc.: Knight Lightning and Taran King, are
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attending college currently. Thus, this note was sent from Knight Lightning
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in Phrack World News Introduction Issue XV...
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"TK and KL have put the editorship of Phrack in the hands of Elric of
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Imrryr and Sir Francis Drake. SFD is primarily responsible for PWN." -As of yet
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we have no 'Official Phrack BBS.'
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BANK COUPLES PCs, MICRO CARD TO INCREASE SECURITY:
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A Canadian bank is now using microchip-bearing "smart cards" to access
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PCs in order to increase service and security while strengthening its
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competitive edge.
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These credit card style items carry a nickel-size chip in one corner and
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can be decorated with company logos or employee photos. The memory chip can
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store passwords and codes that trigger software sequences, which in turn allow
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customers or eomployees access to varying levels of confidential data.
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Applications with PCs have passed the test phase and are being
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implemented in government, health care, financial services, and banking
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industries.
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With assets o an estimated 99.6$ billion, the Royal Bank of Canadian
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distributes its own brand of smart card to customers and bank employees. As
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Canada's largest bank and the sixth largest in North America, the Royal Bank
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provides electronic cash management services to an undisclosed number of
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Canadian firms, U.S.-owned subsidiaries based in central Canada, and multi-
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national companies.
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Since September '85, the Royal Bank Secutrity Card has been giving
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customers access to financial data from specially equipped remote PCs. A user
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inserts the smart card into card reader that's attached to a PC via a serial
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port. The chip on the card contains some access codes, while other codes are
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stored in the PC. The user uses the keybaord to enter a self-defined personal
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ID Number to access the system. The card contrains needed information including
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log-on routines and other software sequences to move quickly to the level and
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type of data needed.
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For bank employees and customers, the smart card specifies who has access
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to what kind of data files during what time. A growing number of smaller
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businesses are turning to smart cards as a way to integrate the electronic
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office. PCs with smart card capabilities give owners and managers time to devote
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to the mainstream of their businesses.
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Using cards manufactured by Micro Card Technologies Inc. of Dallas, the
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Royal Bank finds the card completely secure from tampering. It also
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strengthens back systems that prevent illegal entry to the mainframe.
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COMPUSYSTEMS MAIL-ORDER FIRM UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR FRAUD:
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WARNING: If you placed an order to a computer mail-order firm called
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Compusystems Co. of Beverly Hills, CA, you may have been the victim of fraud.
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Government investigators are looking for a man who placed an apparently
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fraudulent advertisement in InfoWorld and other magazines. A federal
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Investigator said Compusystems Co. is apparently not a mail-order operation,
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but rather a "bust-out scam." The checks sent to the firm to buy products will
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be cashed, but no merchandise will be sent. The ad on page 12 of the August 10
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issue of InfoWorld was placed by aman calling himself Robert McConihay.
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McConihay sent credit document to InfoWorld's advertising Dept., stating that
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his company was founded in July 1979. An "audited" financial report and bank
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records, based on references fromfirms that apparently never existed, showed
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the company to have assets of over 6$ million, including 4.9$ million in
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inventory. The credit department at IDG, InfoWorld's parent company, approved
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the credit application.
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What wasn't immediately apparent was that all the records were fakes.
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The bank's phone number and a business reference rang to special lines used by
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the advertiser, investigators said. In effect, he "played banker" and issued
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his own net worth statement, said on investigator. He confirmed that
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Compusystem's credit was clean. He "played CPA" and verified his net worth.
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Once the ad appeared, the phone lines were disconnected.
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LIGHTNET ANNOUNCES MAJOR EXPANSION TO WEST COAST:
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LIGHTNET, one of the nation's largest fiber optic telecommunications
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companies, announced it will begin providing coast-to-coast service in September
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through an interconnect agreement with Williams Telecommunications Co.
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(WilTel).
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Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will interconnect facilities
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in Chicago and New Orleans to provide their respective customers with access to
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a 10,000-mile coast-to-coast network.
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According to Arthur E. Parsons, president and CEO of LIGHTNET, the agreement
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represents a major strategic move for LIGHTNET which has been committed to
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expanding service to the West Coast.
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"LIGHTNET customers will now be able to access 27 cities west of the Mississippi
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along WilTel's routes including Minneapolis; Omaha; Kansas City;
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St. Louis; Tulsa; Oklahoma City; Dallas; Houston; Denver; Salt Lake City; Los
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Angeles; and many others," said Parsons.
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WilTel will also be able to access cities on the LIGHTNET network. LIGHTNET
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currently serves 38 major metropolitan markets east of the Mississippi through
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a 5,000-mile fiber optic network which it owns and operates. WilTel's 5,000-
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mile fiber optic network reaches more than 40 cities west of the Mississippi.
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WilTel, formed in 1985, is unique in its use of decommissioned transmission
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pipelines as conduits, and burial of lines near operating pipelines. The company
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is a subsidiary of Tulsa-based Williams Telecommunications Group Inc.
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(WTG). WTG is a subsidiary of The Willi
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ams Cos. Inc. The network is considered to be one of the most secure and highly
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protected fiber optic systems in the country.
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LIGHTNET, formed in 1983, is owned by subsidiaries of CSX Corp. and Southern
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New England Telecommunications (SNET). The company provides interstate private
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line telecommunications service to other common carriers (OCC's) such as US
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Sprint, businesses and government agencies for voice, data, and video
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communications.
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THE SYNDICATE REPORT
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Information Transmittal No. 15
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(Part 2)
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Released September 21, 1987
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Featuring:
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Exposition / Author's Note (sr 9\20;30-48)
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UNIX System Newsletter (i.wld 9\6;71)
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Fiber Optics In The Home (bs.wk 9\11;83)
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More Global Clout For MCI (bs.wk 9\14;118)
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Horse-Racing Fanatics Bet Via Modem (bs.wk 9\14;131)
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The IBM-MCI Partnership Fanally Takes Off (bs.wk 9\20;154)
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Syndicate Report Brief Notes (digest 9\17;175)
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by The Sensei
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Exposition:
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TSR
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Once again, TSReport now excepts outside sources. Anyone can write/provide
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information to The Syndicate Report. Articles/Information may be provided
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through TSR Newsline (see below), via voice VMS System. Any info such as
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Busts, Phreaking, Hacking, Data / TeleCommunications, and new developments
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on any the previous mentioned specialities will be: accepted, labeled, and
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given full actual credit by the article/info provider(s), or writer(s). --
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All articles have been presented by me unless shown at the end of the
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article as the information provider(s), or writer(s).
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TSR Transfer Line I 612 829-8509 ------ TSR Transfer Line II 612 829-8508
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TSR Newsline 612 829-8503
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Author's Note: TSR
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Hello and WELCOME to 'Part 2' of The Syndicate Report Transmittal #15/2.
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Part 2 was brought on for many reasons. The amount of news this month, and the
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latter part of August brought a lot of extra articles and the such. I'd like to
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thank people for submitting news/articles, it helps.
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I've also set up another VMS system. This is not dial direct such as the
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above VMS's. The number is 612-831-0888. When you hear the female instructions
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voice, simply dial: 404. You will then hear my voice with instructions on
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leaving name and number etc. Retrieval of messages is 90% faster on this VMS
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since there is an online pager built in. So if there is a need to contact me
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quick, leave your message with contacting information and the VMS will page me
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and transmit your message. Use this only for emergency type situations. The
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pager can be turned off by me. -Thank you.
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Personal Comment: As most of you know, LOD/H is publishing Technical
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Journals. I recommend reading and storing the Tech. Journals for they prove to
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be good for past and future reference. LOD/H Technical Journals may be
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downloaded from any of the various systems reviewed at the end of this Report.
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UNIX SYSTEM NEWSLETTER: TSR
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Usr/Group, the International Association fo Unix Systems Users, began
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publishing a beweekly newsletter last month to cover the Unix Systems
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Marketplace.
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The Usr/Digest summarizes product introductions and enhancements,
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corporate announcements, industry projections, and other time-sensative events
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that relate specifically to the Unix OS.
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FIBER OPTICS IN THE HOME: TSR
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Like many real estate developers, packaged-goods poineer Jeno F.
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Paulucci, the founder of both Jeno's Inc. and Chung King, is betting big on
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newfangled telecommunications system. He thinks tha fiber-optic cable will help
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him lure businesses to what he envisions as a 3,500 acre, $1 billion "city of
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the future" just outside Orlando. (Sounds like my type of city -- but not along
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with the newfangled security systems.) But in a new twist, Paulucci's Heathrow
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Development Co. is teaming up with Southern Bell and Northen Telcom to take
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fiber optic-cable one step further than it has gone before -- directly into the
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subscribers' homes.
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Eventually, that partnership will allow the first 250 residents moving
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into Heathrow next year to enjoy the benefitsof cable TV, movie rentals,
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security and energy-management systems, computerized data, and phone service
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through a single telecommunications line.
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Other U.S. phone companies also are plunging into residential trials with
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optical-cable. American Telephone & Telegraph and southwestern Bell are
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teaming up on a pilot project involving 100 homes in Leewood, Kan., while GTE
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has request regulatory aproval to wire more than 5,000 homes in Cerritos,
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outside Los Angeles.
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"These are the first serious experiments in the U.S.," says John P.
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Ryna, manager of the fiber-optics group at Electronicast Corp., a San Mateo
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(Calif.) markey resercher. Ryan thinks the home market for fiber-optics
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technology is poised to take off early in the next decade. He figures some
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900$ million worth of fiber-otic cable and equipment wil be sold to regional
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phone comanies this year, though almost exclusively for business applications.
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But by 1995, Ryan anticipates residential sales could account for 75% of a
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market worth some 4$ billion. "Ultimately, these trials will drive the
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technology," he says. "It's where the exonomics will be sorted out."
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MORE GLOBAL CLOUT FOR MCI: TSR
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It was the right deal at the right price. MCI Communications Corp.
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announced on Sept. 3 that it wil buy telex giant RCA Global Communications Inc.
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from General Electric Co. for 160$ million. While newer communications services
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are supplanting telex, MCI seems to have gotten a bargain. It picked up a crack
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engineering staff and a host of medium-size business customers. But the biggest
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value may be Globecom's world presence: MCI's share of the international data
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transmission business will jump to about 45% from roughly 20%, giving MCI more
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clout in future negotiations with foreign governments.
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HORSE-RACING FANATICS BET VIA MODEM:
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TSR
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More then 360,000 horse-racing fanatics have special accounts for
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placing telephone bets with the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club. But on busy race
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days the phone lines get jammed -- even with 1,600 operators on duty. To cope,
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the Hong Kong Club is buying handheld portable betting terminals, so members can
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bypass the operators and post their bets, via modem, directly to the club's
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computer network. The "portabet" terminals were developed jointly by Kiel Corp.
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in Amherst, N.H., and Varitronix Ltd. of Hong Kong, which will be the actual
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manufacturing. After a test period next spring, the Jockey Club hopes to offer
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the units to as many as 100,000 bettors for less than 100$ each.
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Allowing outsiders to dial directly to the compuer will present hazards.
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No doubt some horse-happy hackers will try to place bets from their own
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comptuers, evesdrop on expert bettors, alter bets, or otherwise tap into the
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7$ million that flows in dialy via phone bets. To foil them, the Jockey Club has
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dired several other U.S. companies, including San Diego's International
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Totalizator Systems, to develop security far more tamperproof than any
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home-banking system no in use.
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THE IBM-MCI PARTNERSHIP FINALLY TAKES OFF: TSR
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When International Business Machines Corp. bought a 16% share of MCI
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Communications Corp. in early. in early 1986, it looked as if American Telephone
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& Telegraph Co. was in for some tough competition. Its chief rival in the
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long-distance business had teamed up with the leading computer maker, and
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together they were pithcing network services to major corporations. But they
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never seemed to get anywhere -- until now.
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On Sept. 1 the MCI-IBM team landed its first big customer: United
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Airlines Inc. The contract, valued at more then 10$ million, will increase MCI's
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share of United's long-distance phone business to 20% from 5%, the airline says.
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AT&T will stil provide the rest. IBM's contribution is NetView, a system that
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will let United route its own voice and data traffic -- both internally and to
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the MCI network. This gives United control of what was done by an outside
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carrier. United, a longtime IBM customer, was also one of the first to place big
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orders for IBM's 9370 minicomputers and PS/2 personal computers.
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SYNDICATE REPORT BRIEF NOTES: TSR
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A computer hacker was apprehended recently for gaining access to Pacific
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Northwestern Bell data banks, with information he gathered by raiding dumpters
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outside CO buildings. The incident promptly reminded PNB Officials to remind
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employees to put discarded records that contain priotary information in boxes
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destined for shredding.
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MCI is planning to replace the 5 Digit Access Code Ports with cards and
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advanced digit coding. Rumor length is 8 digits. The move was brought upon by
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excessive fraud. MCI plans to have the new format effective by the end of the
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year 1988.
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WARNING -- For Hackers of State University New York/St. Francis.
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Security has been stepped up recently, according to NY Times. Apparently, New
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York State Police caught Lebanon Terrorists using the mainframe to do illegal
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dealings. Officials have been scanning the accounts for content. 1 of the 3
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Terrorists went by the name of Haidar Dhanas. An Electrical Engineering Dept.
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Chairman stated, "Given the security system around here I am not very suprised
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that someone used our Labs at will."
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Officials also recovered information on stolen military hardware, 15,000$
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worth of video recorders, TVs, and microwaves apparently being bought with
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stolen credit cards.
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Those of you that don't know, I've produced a new file. It was released
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on September 7th '87. The file was titled: 3rd Party Fraud and Voice Mail
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Systems. Since Voice Mail Systems are becoming so common, there had to be
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another advantage to them, rather than leaving message remotely with PWs/Codes
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and the like. This file introduces you to another use for VMS's. I'm thinking of
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setting out a 'Part 2' for the 3rd Party Fraud/VMS file, since new ideas and
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developments on VMS's have recently came to my attention. Expect Part 2. and
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Enjoy The Syndicate Report. -The Sensei / TSR
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301 Area -- Freeworld // Private is an official Syndicate Report sponsor
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BBS. The system operator is Major Havoc, and CoOp is Disk Jockey. The system
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runs from 300 to 9600 Baud. It has a remote AE line also in the 301 Area, ran
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by The Rodent. Both systems offer the best in professional telecommunications.
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Phrack Inc. Newsletters, LOD/H Technical Journals, Misc. Philes, and complete
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TeleCom SubBoards are also featured on Freeworld // Private.
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Freeworld // Private, see below \ Freeworld // Transfer System :: 301-337-2194
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TSR will accept additional sponsor/support
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Systems. If you have an interest in the Report, and wish to provide support to
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TSR -- Leave your BBS number and any other information to TSR VMS Lines listed
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above.
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Brewery 314-394-8259 : Freeworld // 301-668-7657 : Lunatic Labs 612-645-7132
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Realm of Reality 612-420-6486 : Osuny* 914-725-4060 : Exec. Inn 915-581-5145
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This concludes this Transmittal No. 15
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(Part 2)
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by The Sensei of The Syndicate Report
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Released September 21st, 1987
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[Mother Earth BBS]
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