UNDERCODE COMMUNITY

hopefully secret "doorway", these special instructions enabe anyone who
knows about them to bypass normal security procedures and to gain access to
the computer's files.Although they may sound sinister, trapdoors were not
invented by hackers, although existing ones are certainly used by hackers
who find out about them.

3) THE DECOY

One of the more sophisticated hacking tools is known as the decoy, and it
comes in three versions.The first version requires that the hacker have an
account on the system in question. As in my case,the hacker has a
low-security account,and he tries this method to get higher-security
account.He will first use his low-security account to write a program that
will emulate the log-on procedures of the systems in questions.
This program will do the following:

*- Clear the terminal screen and place text on it that makes everything
look as if the system is in charge.

*- Prompt for, and allow the user to enter, both an account name and a password.
*- Save that information in a place the hacker can access.

*- Tell the use the account/password entries are not acceptable.

*- turn control of the terminal back over to the system.

The user will now assume that the account name or password was mistyped
and will try again...this time (scince the real operating system is in
control) with more success.You can see a diagram of the way these steps are
accomplished

___________________
| Clear Terminal |
| screen |
|____________________|
||
_________||_________
| Print Compuserve |
| Computer |
|_____ Network ______|
||
_________||_________
| Print "ENTER |
| PASSWORD" |______
|____________________| |
|| |
_________||_________ |
| PASSWORD ENTERED? |NO|
|____________________|
||_YES
_________||_________
| SAVE PASSWORD |
| INFORMATION |
|____________________|
||
_________||_________
| PRINT "LOGIN |
| INCORRECT |
|____________________|
||
_________||_________
| LOG OFF/RETURN |
| CONTROL TO |
| OPERATING SYSTEM |
|____________________|

4) CALL FORWARDING

Many people use call forwarding by special arrangement with the phone
company.When a customer requests call forwarding, the phone company uses
its computer to forward all the customers incomeing calls to another
number. Lets say, for example, that you want calls that come to your office
phone to be forwarded to your home phone: A call from you to the phone
company,some special settings in the phone companys computer, and all
calls to your office will ring at your home instead.This little bit of help
from the phone company is another tool used by hackers. Lets say you thought
that the computer you were hacking into was being watched-because the
sysop might have seen you and called the fed's and your sort of bugged by
this nagging feeling that they will trace the next hacker that calls,
just call the phone company and ask for call forwarding, pick a number,
(ANY NUMBER) out of the phone book and have your calls forwarded to that
number,Hea,Hea, the number you picked is the one that will be traced to,
not yours, so you could be hacking away,they think that they have traced you,
but actually the number you had your calls forwarded too. they enter chat mode
and say (YOUR BUSTED!!!!, WE'VE TRACED YOUR PHONE NUMER THE FEDS ARE ON THE
WAY!!), You could reply (Hea, SURE YA DID! I'D LIKE TO SEE YA TRY AND GET ME!
GO AHEAD!) ,that wont seem very important to them at the time, but it will
sure piss them off when they bust the wrong guy!

5) RAPID FIRE

Memory-location manipulation can be helpful, but there is another, more
powerful,possibility, in some cases: the Rapid-fire method.To understand how
this methos works, you have to know something about the way operationg
systems work.When a user enters a command, the operating system first places

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