HIR Issue 2: using KAM/KPC to hack the cops
tgsnoop
First off I'd just like to mention some of you, you might have read about this in the last issue of blacklisted!411, and I cover much of the same information but expanded on it quite a bit, Also my writing won't be very much of quality now because I'm just struggling to sit down right now, but believe me the information is worth your while. A couple weeks ago I picked up a copy of blacklisted and stumbled upon an article that someone wrote in about hacking the cops.
Basically what it said is as follows:
yah know those nifty little thingies the cops got in their cars that they use to run license plates on to find your identity. And believe me, if a cop has a car he has a laptop inside, they've got me twice on that when me and a friend took his dad's car out for a stroll. Anyhow, if they've got the power, why shouldn't we? You can run reports for your friends, see whats on their permanent record, find out their phone number, name, social security number, and about anything else there is to know about any given person, if they've got a car.
What the thing is, is a little device you hook up between yer laptop(and i say laptop for a reason i'll explain later) and your scanner/ham radio. It turns ordinary data binary or ascii into a terminal node a scanner or ham radio can send to the destination it is trying to reach.
Like any other bum I know, I wanted to know more about this device. It especially sparked my interest that the nationwide manufacturers of this thing were local, at a place called:
Kantronics
1202 E. 23rd St.
Lawrence ks,
66046
913-842-7745
fax: 913-842-2031
I gave them a call and they proved helpful, i talked to a guy named Don Rixon, real nice guy, after asking a few questions about the KPC-3 device I asked if he could send me a packet of information before purchasing. Not only did he give me that, he gave me numbers to several Radio and Electronic stores around my area and catalogs and magazines that might be useful for beginners. A few days later I got the information about the device and everything it works with. They included a packet which included guidelines and help from remote accessing your TNC(terminal node, what the data is sent onto), the packet personal mailbox(PBBS), working with a full service BBS to forward messages (neet stuff), GPS interfacing, the KA-Node networking system, WEFAX (for KPC-3 and KPC-3 plus), the NEW EMWIN mode, KISS mode (for TCP/IP operation), and DAMA mode (the European node system mode). ok..that probably sounds a little foreign to you now and i'm not going to go into depth about all of this stuff because some of it takes a little bit of background in the workings of other protocols and Ham Radio knowledge and such.
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Note to wise: when i said laptop earlier, i meant it, because when you are hooked up on ham radio, you can go anywhere you want without being traced (in our case the same freq the cops use to run license plates, it shouldn't be hard to find. But when you broadcast something (enter plate number?) you are a sitting duck.
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All the stuff they gave me was very up to date. The best thing they sent me was the information on their software of choice(Host Master II+) for now I'll list the units manufactured by Kantronics/RFconcepts and how much they cost before I explain them.
Retail Price List - Schedule A - U.S. and International page 1 of 2
Effective Date: May 8th, 1997
Kantronics Units (modems) Suggested Retail
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KPC-3 plus * (with 128k RAM) $139.95(this'll do the job fine)
KPC-9612 Plus (with 128k RAM) $289.95
KAM Plus (with 128k RAM) $349.95
Software: (everythings DOS based)
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Host Master II Plus(yay)for PCs $89.95(I think it comes wif kpc-3 plus device)
Host Master MAC $89.95
Pacterm for PCs $29.95
Superfax II for PCs $49.95
WeatherNode for PCs for copying EMWIN $69.95(absolute shit!)
Rfconcepts Units (VHF and UHF RF power amplifiers)
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Mini-Amp 114 144-148 MHZ
30 watts out for 3 watts in
Mini-Amp 114P same as 144 w/preamp
Mini-Amp 440 438-450 MHZ
20 watts out for 2 watts in
Mini-Amp 440P same as 440 w/preamp
RFC 2/70 dual band amplifier 2-m/70 cm
30 watts out for 5 watts in, 2-m
20 watts out for 5 watts in, 70-cm
RFC 2/70G same as 270 w/preamp
Max-Amp 10 144-148 MHZ w/peramp fuck the list goes on and on, ther's another RFC 4-410 a 4-310 and a max amp 45 but if you want nfos on that mail kantronics.
Now that I've bored you to death I'll Tell you a lil bout the software pack they sent me, on Host Master II+ Simultaneous Multi-Mode Terminal Software, and wOOP it's fer pc's yew juss need DOS 3.1 er higher...
Hostmaster II+ is used to match wif Kantronics KAM, KPC, or Data Engine.
Multiple windows allow seeral packet connects at the same time, each displayed on it's own window.
WHen used with KAM, simultaneous operation on HF is also supported in RTTY, ASCII, G-TOR, AMTOR, pactor, or CW. it also is pretty leet kos it provides the ability to select non-standard address and interrupt vectors for the serial ports installed in a komputah, allowin use of com3 and 4, while com1 and 2 are used fer other activities. If you want to learn more about the KPC-3 or KAM device which i didn't cover as much as I would have liked to call up Kantronics 913-842-7745...or ask me...muh inet accounts these days are unstable so just look for me on
irc as kminor or round 913/816 as tgsnoop/ttysnoop
lates
-kmtgtty
