Monday, September 17, 2007
The Palm as a tool of the hacker (VII): telephony and phreaking
We continue with this series of articles on the Palm as hacking tools, focusing on this case in telephony and phreaking.
Phreaking is a term coined in the computer subculture to describe the activity of those individuals who guide their studies and leisure toward learning and understanding of the functioning of various kinds of telephones, telecommunications technologies, operating telephone companies, systems that make up a telephone network and finally, electronics applied to telephone systems.
The goal of phreakers is usually overcome challenges of increasing complexity intellectuals reacted with security incidents or failures in telephone systems that enable them to obtain privileges not legally accessible.
The term "Phreak" is a combination of the words phone (telephone in English) and freak (monster in English). It also refers to the use of several audio frequencies to manipulate a telephone system, as the word is pronounced phreak manner similar to frequency (frequency).
The phreak is a discipline closely associated with the conventional hacking. Although it is often considered and categorized as a specific type of computer hacking: hacking oriented telephony and closely related to electronics, in reality the phreaking is the germ of hacking since the telephone system predates the spread of information technology to grass-roots, hacking arose from contact with the phreakers the first personal computer systems and communications networks.
There are many tools and phone phreaking in general for our Palm:
- DigiDialer is a marker telephone DTMF (touch-tone) for our Palm. We simply need to bring the Palm headset to the phone, and through the loudspeaker delivered tones necessary to dial the number you want. This prevents us having to type the number, not even remember. The program allows import phone numbers from the list of contacts of the Palm.
Digidialer marked by a number of us in a conventional phone
- Similar to previous DTMF DA is a Desktop accesory to generate DTMF tones to make phone calls.
- War dialing or wardialing is a method to automatically scan telephone numbers using a modem, usually calling every number in a local area to discover what computers or faxes are available. Then he tries to access them guessing passwords. The name of this technique refers to the 1983 movie War Games, where the actor used his computer to call every phone Sunnyvale, Calif., looking for other computers. There is a program for Palm, TBA, if we serve our Palm is connected to a modem. For other systems there are many programs wardialing. For PC there is a famous program THC-Scan, which I found a tutorial on video.
- Spoofing, in terms of network security, refers to the use of techniques of phishing usually uses malicious or research. SMS Spoof send SMS messages by changing the sender's phone number, thus making it appear that the message has been sent this number from another.
Sending an SMS message with a false sender
- A Red Box is a device that simulates having inserted coins into a pay phone, issuing certain sounds that interprets the phone. RedPalm is a Canadian Red Box generated tones of currencies "quarter", "dime" and "nickel". This application also requires installing cbasPad, an interpreter of BASIC. The source code is really very simple.
- Minutes Plus is a program for phones Kyocera and Treo to control spending approximately phone, and get interesting use of statistics.
Controlling our spending by telephone Minutes Plus
- Smorse (Simple morse code sender) sends morse code through the loudspeaker of the Palm to 1-80 words per minute. More speed is not possible due to limit of 10 milliseconds resolution of the internal speaker.
- As a curiosity, though not related to telephony (at least traditional) RJ45 is a small program for Palm that shows the ways to end a cable network where we are going to crimpar: Direct (host a hub) and crossover (host to host ).
A whole world of the phreaking, and as always, a world transferred to our Palm. In the next post will see the final chapter of this series of posts dedicated to using the Palm as hacking tool.
By: Mark Gonzalez Troyas in Tricks
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The software of the RJ45 wore on my Handspring Visor when he went in there to mount, networks, I do not walk drew more than a mess of the above!
What marvel post Marcos, I do not know what's spoofing SMS
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It is essential to hand the outline of the cable network, but do thousand cables, then the weeks you have already forgotten the order.