boz5: ATNT -- TIME TO TEACH YOUR CABLE MODEM SOME NEW TRICKS
ever used a cable modem? pretty fucking fast eh? kinda expensive though.. especially considering you really dont get to use it to its full potential. but now through this special offer you to can let some poor unsuspecting fool feel the power of the cable deathstar. just so you understand how much pipe cable modem has lets break down the medim real quick. cable signal is transmitted on coaxial cable, very thick braided strand wire wrapped around a plastic core that is wrapped around a thick piece of copper the whole thing is sheilded in foil and wrapped in thick weatherproof sheathing. you can hit this wire with a sledgehammer and it will still transmit. which means its fucking heavy duty, a good solid transfer medium for data. its also strung across 85% of america, second only to phone lines. I had a talk with one of the lineman from atnt about just how cable was transmitted. Standard cable signal broadcasts at between 50 and 85mhz.. hbo + extended cable. your cable modem operates around 600mhz. the tech i talked to said his clocked in at 618mhz. im sure it varies from place to place. mr atnt also had with him a CLI 256 .. very handy little tool used for sniffing rf and measuring frequency, amplitude etc. so i feel pretty confident that he knows the frequency it operates on. so i asked what the max of this pipe was k wise.. he tells me its capable in perfect data conditions of about 900k/sec. pretty fast.. you wont actually achieve speeds that high.. but i have broken 500 before. trust me when i tell you its a BIG PHAT PIPE.
so when you sign up for @home service mr. atnt will tell you.. no domain scanning.. no excessive data transfer.. no giant ftp services.. and no porno. you say " a okay u.s.a." and he will install your modem careful to not let you hover. then he will hand a yellow sheet of paper and a few booklets. discard the booklets immediately. on this yellow sheet of paper will be typed in easy to read letters all the #'s you need to configure your modem to operate on a different ip from the one they gave you. atnt is currently not aware that anyone knows how to do this. well the other day i had a little lost sector incident and my shit crashed like a bitch. i was able to ressurrect most of blizzard 5 .. all my dox.. but of course i had to reinstall the cable modem.. well there arent much for directions around. so i just played fill in the blank. all the dns settings, the gateway, and your supposed ip are right on the yellow sheet. fill it all in the network settings under tcp/ip and you will force the network to give you an ip. once you get online go find superscan and scan your whole domain. *.*.*.1 - *.*.*.255 that will reveal most of the users client id's in your area. whenever the ip resolves it shows the client id a####.anytown1.home.com that first string is the client id. this client id is all you actually need to log in to your @home account. leave the network settings just like they were for a dial up account and put your client id in as identification and use @home as the group.
but... if you scan the domain you also get all the ip's for the other users so you enter all the settings.. dns.. gateway.. ip of said person you would like to impersonate.. and kaboom.. reboot and you are now mostly them. if you send mail it will show from thier ip address. it will be virtually untraceable back to you..
unless..
unless they just happened to be logging mac addresses.. the address your nic sends with every packet. simple solution? switch your nic cards. get a new nic card every week.. trade them off or something. how hard is it to put in a nic? hell just go steal a box. now there is also a small silver cylinder.. it is a filter of some kind they plant this bad mofo in the cable box.. and you must have it somewhere between your modem and the cable or it will positively not work. i dont have an o-scope so i cant breakdown exactly what it does.. but i know that i have to have it.. theres a pretty good chance that it is how atnt keeps tabs on its users.. it may also contain serial information.. simple solution..well until someone cracks this monster filter your just gonna have to go jack somebody's, make sure you get the name of the person in the house who has the cable modem.. call pretending to be atnt and tell them you are trying to update your records..figure it out. then call atnt a couple of days after you jack thier filter and say you are them.. they will give you a little runaround about not knowing the security word so just start cursing and saying you fucking forgot it and your real sorry and they will tell you.. they told me, anyway .. so then ask them when the tech will come to repair the problem then take it back before they get there.. so now you have about 5 good days to do whatever mad shenanigans you had in mind. atnt will be left dealing with a user who says he had no service during the time the electronic mayhem took place. no where to put the finger. just leave them scratching thier heads.
so what would i do? well.. now let me see.. so much pipe so little time.. i would probably open up a 10gig ftp server for anyone to use for free as much as they wanted to.. then i would fill up hard drives of local businesses and schools with high quality mpeg porno's. after that i would probably try to scan an entire subnet.. hell if they were on vacation i might just try to get the better part of .gov thoroughly scanned. then i would setup video servers of my neighbors and broadcast those to people in #stalker irc channels.. after that i'd probably start massmailing 100's of users of the same isp at a time with messages about mail failure so they stop using the mail server and then i would send an avalanche of messages to the admin through his own relay server.. and of course he wouldn't have much traffic so imagine how much data could get plowed through there..
but i think ive said enough..
alright so i think ive been pretty clear here.. you should now be able to take your cable modem and impersonate any other user on your network without the FBI knocking away at your door. the only other warning i can think to give you is theoretically it is possible they could eventually trace the actual signal back to you or atleast your general area through the line relays. simple solution.. get a nice laptop with a nic card.. set it up for the cable modem and then rig a batterypack for your cable modem. drive across town to a cable box and help yourself to that pipe.. of course you are gonna have a little dilemna with the battery time... but im sure you can work something out. and the mac address on the laptop card wont matter as long as you never use it for your own cable account.
since this is all new technology and atnt is new this whole isp game dont expect to see any serious or amazing work on thier part to unravel the mystery of the stolen ip. in fact i had a tech from atnt on the phone tell me that it was IMPOSSIBLE. just goes to show you how much they really test out that new technology before they release it.
