guide to hack

............GUIDE TO (mostly) HARMLESS HACKING.........PART-1...

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Beginners Series #1

So you want to be a harmless hacker?
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You mean you can hack without breaking the law?"

That was the voice of a high school freshman. He had me on the phone because
his father had just taken away his computer. His offense? Cracking into my
Internet account. The boy had hoped to impress me with how "kewl" he was.
But before I realized he had gotten in, a sysadmin at my ISP had spotted the
kid’s harmless explorations and had alerted the parents. Now the boy wanted
my help in getting back on line.

I told the kid that I sympathized with his father. What if the sysadmin and
I had been major grouches? This kid could have wound up in juvenile
detention. Now I don’t agree with putting harmless hackers in jail, and I
would never have testified against him. But that’s what some people do to
folks who go snooping in other people’s computer accounts -- even when the
culprit does no harm. This boy needs to learn how to keep out of trouble!

Hacking is the most exhilarating game on the planet. But it stops being fun
when you end up in a cell with a roommate named "Spike." But hacking doesn't
have to mean breaking laws. In this book we teach safe hacking so that you
don’t have to keep looking back over your shoulders for narcs and cops.

What we're talking about is hacking as a healthy recreation, and as a free
education that can qualify you to get a high paying job. In fact, many
network systems administrators, computer scientists and computer security
experts first learned their professions, not in some college program, but
from the hacker culture. And you may be surprised to discover that
ultimately the Internet is safeguarded not by law enforcement agencies, not
by giant corporations, but by a worldwide network of, yes, hackers.

You, too, can become one of us.

And -- hacking can be surprisingly easy. Heck, if I can do it, anyone can!

Regardless of why you want to be a hacker, it is definitely a way to have
fun, impress your friends, and get dates. If you are a female hacker you
become totally irresistible to men. Take my word for it!;^D

These Guides to (mostly) Harmless Hacking can be your gateway into this
world. After reading just a few of these Guides you will be able to pull off
stunts that will be legal, phun, and will impress the heck out of your friends.

These Guides can equip you to become one of the vigilantes that keeps the
Internet from being destroyed by bad guys. Especially spammers. Heh, heh,
heh. You can also learn how to keep the bad guys from messing with your
Internet account, email, and personal computer. You’ll learn not to be
frightened by silly hoaxes that pranksters use to keep the average Internet
user in a tizzy.

If you hang in with us through a year or so, you can learn enough and meet
the people on our email list and IRC channel who can help you to become
truly elite.

However, before you plunge into the hacker subculture, be prepared for that
hacker attitude. You have been warned.

So...welcome to the adventure of hacking!

WHAT DO I NEED IN ORDER TO HACK?

You may wonder whether hackers need expensive computer equipment and a shelf
full of technical manuals. The answer is NO! Hacking can be surprisingly
easy! Better yet, if you know how to search the Web, you can find almost any
computer information you need for free.

In fact, hacking is so easy that if you have an on-line service and know how
to send and read email, you can start hacking immediately. The GTMHH
Beginners’ Series #2 will show you where you can download special
hacker-friendly programs for Windows that are absolutely free. And we’ll
show you some easy hacker tricks you can use them for.

Now suppose you want to become an elite hacker? All you will really need is
an inexpensive "shell account" with an Internet Service Provider. In the
GTMHH Beginners’ Series #3 we will tell you how to get a shell account, log
on, and start playing the greatest game on Earth: Unix hacking! Then in
Vol.s I, II, and III of the GTMHH you can get into Unix hacking seriously.

You can even make it into the ranks of the Uberhackers without loading up on
expensive computer equipment. In Vol. II we introduce Linux, the free
hacker-friendly operating system. It will even run on a 386 PC with just 2
Mb RAM! Linux is so good that many Internet Service Providers use it to run
their systems.

In Vol. III we will also introduce Perl, the shell programming language
beloved of Uberhackers. We will even teach some seriously deadly hacker
"exploits" that run on Perl using Linux. OK, you could use most of these
exploits to do illegal things. But they are only illegal if you run them
against someone else’s computer without their permission. You can run any
program in this book on your own computer, or your (consenting) friend’s
computer -- if you dare! Hey, seriously, nothing in this book will actually
hurt your computer, unless you decide to trash it on purpose.

We will also open the gateway to an amazing underground where you can stay
on top of almost every discovery of computer security flaws. You can learn
how to either exploit them -- or defend your computer against them!

About the Guides to (mostly) Harmless Hacking

We have noticed that there are lots of books that glamorize hackers. To read
these books you would think that it takes many years of brilliant work to
become one. Of course we hackers love to perpetuate this myth because it
makes us look so incredibly kewl.

But how many books are out there that tell the beginner step by step how to
actually do this hacking stuph? None! Seriously, have you ever read _Secrets
of a Superhacker_ by The Knightmare (Loomponics, 1994) or _Forbidden Secrets
of the Legion of Doom Hackers_ by Salacious Crumb (St. Mahoun Books, 1994)?
They are full of vague and out of date stuph. Give me a break.

And if you get on one of the hacker news groups on the Internet and ask
people how to do stuph, some of them insult and make fun of you. OK, they
all make fun of you.

We see many hackers making a big deal of themselves and being mysterious and
refusing to help others learn how to hack. Why? Because they don't want you
to know the truth, which is that most of what they are doing is really very
simple!

Well, we thought about this. We, too, could enjoy the pleasure of insulting
people who ask us how to hack. Or we could get big egos by actually teaching
thousands of people how to hack. Muhahaha.

How to Use the Guides to (mostly) Harmless Hacking

If you know how to use a personal computer and are on the Internet, you
already know enough to start learning to be a hacker. You don't even need to
read every single Guide to (mostly) Harmless Hacking in order to become a
hacker.

You can count on anything in Volumes I, II and III being so easy that you
can jump in about anywhere and just follow instructions.

But if your plan is to become "elite," you will do better if you read all
the Guides, check out the many Web sites and newsgroups to which we will
point you, and find a mentor among the many talented hackers who post to our
Hackers forum or chat on our IRC server at http://www.infowar.com, and on
the Happy Hacker email list (email hacker@techbroker.com with message
“subscribe”).

If your goal is to become an Uberhacker, the Guides will end up being only
the first in a mountain of material that you will need to study. However, we
offer a study strategy that can aid you in your quest to reach the pinnacle
of hacking.

How to Not Get Busted

One slight problem with hacking is that if you step over the line, you can
go to jail. We will do our best to warn you when we describe hacks that
could get you into trouble with the law. But we are not attorneys or experts
on cyberlaw. In addition, every state and every country has its own laws.
And these laws keep on changing. So you have to use a little sense.

However, we have a Guide to (mostly) Harmless Hacking Computer Crime Law
Series to help you avoid some pitfalls.

But the best protection against getting busted is the Golden Rule. If you
are about to do something that you would not like to have done to you,
forget it. Do hacks that make the world a better place, or that are at least
fun and harmless, and you should be able to keep out of trouble.

So if you get an idea from the Guides to (mostly) Harmless Hacking that
helps you to do something malicious or destructive, it's your problem if you
end up being the next hacker behind bars. Hey, the law won't care if the
guy whose computer you trash was being a d***. It won't care that the giant
corporation whose database you filched shafted your best buddy once. They
will only care that you broke the law.

To some people it may sound like phun to become a national sensation in the
latest hysteria over Evil Genius hackers. But after the trial, when some
reader of these Guides ends up being the reluctant "girlfriend" of a convict
named Spike, how happy will his news clippings make him?

Conventions Used in the Guides

You've probably already noticed that we spell some words funny, like "kewl"
and "phun." These are hacker slang terms. Since we often communicate with
each other via email, most of our slang consists of ordinary words with
extraordinary spellings. For example, a hacker might spell "elite" as
"3l1t3," with 3's substituting for e's and 1's for i's. He or she may even
spell "elite" as "31337. The Guides sometimes use these slang spellings to
help you learn how to write email like a hacker.

Of course, the cute spelling stuph we use will go out of date fast. So we do
not guarantee that if you use this slang, people will read your email and
think, "Ohhh, you must be an Evil Genius! I'm sooo impressed!"

Take it from us, guys who need to keep on inventing new slang to prove they
are "k-rad 3l1t3" are often lusers and lamers. So if you don't want to use
any of the hacker slang of this book, that's OK by us. Most Uberhackers
don't use slang, either.

Who Are You?

We've made some assumptions about who you are and why you are reading these
Guides:

· You own a PC or Macintosh personal computer
· You are on-line with the Internet
· You have a sense of humor and adventure and want to express it by hacking
· Or -- you want to impress your friends and pick up chicks (or guys) by
making them think you are an Evil Genius

So, does this picture fit you? If so, OK, d00dz, start your computers. Are
you ready to hack?

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http://www.vcalpha.com/silicon/void-f.html or
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/loukas.halo8/HappyHacker/
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We have a discussion group and archives hosted at
http://www.infowar.com/cgi-shl/login.exe.

Chat with us on the Happy Hacker IRC channel. If your browser can use Java,
just direct your browser to www.infowar.com, click on chat, and choose the
#hackers channel.

Subscribe to our email list by emailing to hacker@techbroker.com with
message "subscribe"

Want to share some kewl stuph with the Happy Hacker list? Correct mistakes?
Send your messages to hacker@techbroker.com. To send me confidential email
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and be sure to state in your message that you want me to keep this
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Direct flames to dev/null@techbroker.com. Happy hacking!
Copyright 1997 Carolyn P. Meinel. You may forward or post on your Web site
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The Newbies Guide to Hacking and Phreaking
-by Sight Hansraj
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The Newbies Guide to Hacking and Phreaking

By: Sight Hansraj
v1.0
E-Mail: sighthansraj@gmail.com
*This document was made for educational purposes only, so if you use it and get caught for* *some stupid reason, its your own fault.*

Note: This file will not make you a hacker. This is only a reference

Chapters

The Introduction

The Understandment
1.1 What is hacking?
1.2 Why do we hack?
1.3 What are the most important things about a hacker?

The Introduction into the hacking world
2.1 Finding a mentor
2.2 Friends
2.3 Hacking groups
2.4 IRC

The start of your hacking experience
3.1 Reading text
3.2 Telnet
3.3 Phreaking
3.4 UNIX
3.5 Social Engineering
3.6 Programming
3.7 Cracking
3.8 Trial -n- Error

Closing

Introduction

This guide is made only for educational purposes people. If you get busted because of this text file, hey, its yer fault. Not mine. I made this to expand the minds of those that are clueless. For the people on AOL that wanna get out of the lame AOL soil, for the people who are clueless in the hacking world, for those who want to expand their minds, for those who care about exploring! Do me a favor since I wrote this all for you people, don't abuse or alter this text please!

.....Cyber-fox......

So, we begin with the Newbies Guide to Hacking and Phreaking.................

Chapter 1- The Understandment

1.1 What is hacking?

Hacking is not going into a system and destroying files and just ........ up some guys computer up. Hacking is going into AOL chat rooms and TOS'ing some kids ass. Hacking is not going into the IRC advertising and showing off what script or bot yer using. Hacking is not emailbombing, using programs, winnuking someone, using ICMP attacks on someone, or saying that you are a hacker. Hacking is intruding a system and exploring the host's computer and getting whatever information you need and getting yourself out and clearing your trails without getting yourself busted. It's all for knowledge. "Knowledge is freedom, freedom is knowledge."

1.2 Why do we hack?

Why do we hack? We all have different reasons. My reason is to explore, find the secrets of the government, show the host of a server their problems and to help newbies out as best as I can. People can hack because they want to do the same thing as I want to do, or to just show off their "skillz", or to get popular, or to gain friends, or even to get a girlfriend (what a pathetic reason.). Anyways, we all hack for different reasons. That's that.

1.3 What are the most important things about a hacker?

The most important things about a hacker? We all have different opinions but for a newbie, don't take shit from other people. That's my advice. If some idiot or other hacker comes up to you and starts .....in around with you, just ignore them. If you want, just use an ICMP attack on them so that their Winbloze95 system freezes up. However, I'd just keep out of it and ignore them. If you want to be a hacker, the main thing is to read. Read all the mother.....in text files that you can get your hands on!

There are more but I'll list them at the bottom. Enough of this section. Go out there and read!

Also, get a shell if yer a newbie. Get a .....in UNIX shell. Go do a websearch on your local ISP and buy one. Don't try to hack one because you'll be stupid enough to get caught trying to break in. heh.

Chapter 2 - The Introduction into the hacking world

2.1 Finding a Mentor

I wouldn't exactly find a mentor. I don't like being that type of hacker. But that's optional. If you find a mentor, his responsibility is to help you out in as many ways that he can. However, don't expect that you'll become a hacker faster if you have a mentor. There is no shortcut or faster way of becoming a hacker. Sooner or later, you'll have to do some shit on your own. To find a mentor, I would go onto some hacking digests or e-zines and write a request for a mentor, or teacher, or go on the web looking for someone. If you go to a "really cool" website, don't just ask! Get to know some people and find out how much of a hacker they are.

2.2 Friends

Friends in the hacking world are the most important thing that I can think of. Friends support you, friends care about you, friends help you with your hacking problems, friends get in touch with you, and most of all, friends don't decieve or fool around with you. The first thing you should do is go and find some friends. Check some H/P/C sites out and get to know them. Go to your local 2600 conference and meet some friends. Friends are the key. I don't think anything else is more important. Without friends, you'll get no where. Believe me.

2.3 Hacking groups

I dunno about you, but I would join a hacking group. One that you know is stable and that have reliable and good friends. Ask around, search the web. If you don't find any, make one. Go to your local 2600 conference and get some friends, then make a group. If that doesn't work, email me and I'll help you out. Again, there is no shortcut to hacking so don't expect to become a hacker faster. The point of hacking groups is to have a bunch of friends working together, to protect each other, to gain respect from each other and to share knowledge.

2.4 IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

Ahhh, the IRC. The IRC is a tool to help you grow your knowledge. I used to go to #hackphreak on the Undernet till I got booted by NetJammr. Revelation introduced me to this channel. Anyways, there are a lot of hacking channels on the IRC to help you out. #hack, #hacking, #hackers, #2600, etc. Get an IRC client first. If you have Winbloze95, get mIRC. If you have Linux, get BitchX, or ircii. I don't really like the IRC too much because most of the people there are assholes and jerks, but hopefully you can find some reliable and cool guy to help you out. Don't beg for ops, don't act like a jerk, just be cool and act nice and you'll get your reward.

Chapter 3 - The start of your hacking experience

3.1 Reading text

Ok, for you kids out there reading this, the best way to become a hacker is to read text files like this. Text files are the ultimate key to becoming a hacker, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that you can become a hacker without reading some reading material that's related to hacking. I don't believe in "teaching" hacking because that just means yer too lazy and complacent to do shit yourself. Instead, yer not working as hard as the person who's teaching the shit to you (whatever that means.) I don't read a lot so maybe that's why I'm not such a great hacker but I'm telling you, whenever I do read something, I know %100 more than what I knew before. Reading is such a great thing to newbies. Just read, read and read some more. Then when yer done with the text, read it again and again. Yer never the perfect hacker. There's always new things to be explored and to be unlocked.

3.2 Telnet

Telnet is an application that lets you to communicate and connect to another server such as: nyct.net. Telnet is one of the most useful things that I can think of. It lets you go from one place to another. A lot of people hack using telnet. I hack using telnet most of the time. When you telnet, you go into other O/S's such as, UNIX, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, VAX/VMS, etc. Also, there are various ports that let you connect to different parts of the server such as SMTP (sendmail (simple mail transfer protocol) port for UNIX. Usually port: 25) Port 23 connects you to the login prompt. There are numberous ports in one system. One way to get a track into a port is to get a port scanner. From then, you can get into an open port, run an exploit, and get your way through. I recommend CRT for a telnet program for those newbies that run Windows95.

3.3 Phreaking

Phreaking is a cool thing. For those that don't know what it is, its just fondling with the phone system. I don't know much about it but I can tell you about some of the boxes that are used such as the Red Box, the Green Box, Black Box, etc. Many boxes such as the Blue Box do not work anymore. The Red Box generates these 5 cent, 10 cent, and 25 cent tones. What you do, is go to a local payphone (one that does'nt have AT&T or Nynex on it) and take the phone off the hook and just simply press the cent tones. You make free phone calls this way. Also, you can make a profit outta this too! What you can do, is ask the operator to make a long distance phone call for you, then just put in the tones for the amount needed, then hang up after the call is completed. Then call the operator back and say that it did'nt go through and that you want your money back. You will be sent a check or cash to your home the next couple of days. I don't know if this really works or not because I almost got busted by a cop and ran away. For a newbie, the Red Box is "the" box to start off, I think because its so easy to use.

To make a red box, simply get a tone dialer at Radio Shack, then buy a crystal from someone at your local 2600 displayed: 6.50 or 6.55536. I prefer the 6.50. Correct me if I'm wrong but different areas in the country need different crystals to work out the Red Box. I will get into other boxes in the next version but for now, use the Red Box.

3.4 UNIX

UNIX is my amigo (friend for all of you dumbasses out there!) I have a distribution of UNIX that is called Linux, made by Linus Traverold. There are other distributions such as, IRIX, BSD, XENIX, HP/UX, DG/UX (Digital Unix), etc. I can go on forever. I really recommend getting a Linux Distribution such as Redhat, or Slackware. Slackware would be my choice. Get the latest version with the latest Kernel, then get a book called: "Linux in a Nutshell." It tells you different commands for Linux. Also, make sure you don't have a .....in winmodem for Linux because if you do, yer stuck! I'm really recommending you to get Linux if you want to get into UNIX hacking. Then when you mastered Linux, get into BSD or something else.

3.5 Social Engineering

Ahhhhh, Social Engineering. I'm just too young to do it, but I love it. Social Engineering is when you con someone to giving you their login and password for a system. A good example of this is in the fake ass movie, "Hackers." In the beginning, Dade Murphy calls up a TV station worker who is stupid enough to give the TV station server number out. Dade Murphy cons his way to getting it using his fast thinking abilities. Social Engineering can be done in many different ways such as, using the camera trick, over the phone, using email, fax, etc. The camera trick was taught to me by my close friend/mentor, Bernz. I learned that if you go to local companies and go to a secretary, you can easily get a login/password by saying that you want to record some info on the company. She'll probably give you a tour or something, I dunno, for a little while. Then ask her if you can see the computer and stuff. From what I heard, secretaries love to show off their "skillz" on computers, but they don't know a .....in thing about who's stealin who's logins/passwords. That's when you roll the tape on record and get all the information you need to login. For more on Social Engineering, go view Bernz's Social Engineering FAQ.

3.6 Programming

Programming is important to your hacking career. You cannot become a hacker without learning how to code. When you code, you make the program do what you want it to do, you tell it what to do and how you want to do it. You can make various programs such as crackers, exploits, scripts, etc. Programming is very, very important. If you don't know any programming languages, go buy a book on C, C++, or Perl. Learn any program language but I recommend those any of those 3. After you have learned Linux or UNIX, make your programs, test them and BANG, you made your first program.

3.7 Cracking

Sometimes Social Engineering does'nt always work, so there's always another option. Cracking. On Linux or UNIX systems rather, you can get the .passwd file and crack it. There are many methods of cracking. A good text/book on this is Orc's Guide to Cracking. However, I will explain some methods of cracking. One way of cracking is to get the .passwd file from the server, then using a cracking program, but most of the time, its shadowed. That's why I prefer Social Engineering but then again, its less trouble.

Another way is to use a packet sniffer. When you get linux, get linsniff.c, then compile it and run it. It works great. Packet Sniffers take a certain amount of packets that come from the server so the password of some user can come through and get caught by the person who's sniffing it. A way to prevent this from happening to you is to get SSH (Secure Shell.)

I don't know much about cracking so get Orc's Guide to Cracking or get the GTMHH (Guide to Mostly Harmless Hacking) on cracking. I learned how to crack mostly through that specific file. You can get it from Silicon Toads site (http://www.silitoad.org) or TACD (http://www.tacd.org.)


3.9 Trial -n- Error

Trial -n- Error is the way of the hacker. This is how hackers do it. They try one thing, then try another. If you try one thing, its not always certain to work out. Don't get fustrated if you screw up once because hey, it's hard to hack. No one ever said it was easy! Hacking is really a tool. We're vandalists. We make marks on peoples lives. We do illegal things because we explore. Trial -n- Error is the only way you can succeed in hacking. That's the truth! It's not an opinion! Maybe you'll hack your server on the first try but it'll probably be luck. You can't always do it on the first try. Its trial -n- error. Do one thing, and if it does'nt work, hell try another.

Closing

Well, that's about it for this version. If you have any comments or questions, please email: sighthansraj@gmail.com I'll try to help you as best as I can. If you think my grammar sucks, deal with it because I hate english vocab. and all that shit! When you email me, try to be to the point. Be as specific as you can. Until next time, take it easy people.

Cyber-fox
email: sighthansraj@gmail.com




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