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If the ascii is screwed up make sure wordwrap is off and your at 800x600 in notepad. ************************************************************************************************ Getting Busted - Know your Legal Rights! by: Scooch ************************************************************************************************ When you are a person that participates in illegal activities, such as myself, it is inevitable that one day you will get busted by the cops. The thing is, that criminals have many rights in this country, which means that if you're smart, and take my advice, you'll probably get off with a lesser sentance or possibly nothing at all! When the fuzz arrive, the first thing you need to worry about is what the fuck you are going to do. You can either run or give yourself up. Giving yourself up should only be done if the crime is a misdemenor (less than 1 year in Jail), or something even stupider, and you have no way out. If it's a Felony (More than a year in Prison), your ass better find a way run. When you run, be sure that you don't fucking stop. Once you start, you better make sure that you either get away or wind up in a hospital with a bullet in your ass. Resisting arrest is a whole new crime in itself, so if you go, go hard! If you do get caught, the police will generally search you (which is a legal search, by the way) and your immediate belongings, cuff you and throw you in the back of the car. Another thing on searches, if the police come to your house and you get the chance to answer the door, make it your objective to keep them from seeing your parents. If they want to search your house, ask for a warrant. If they don't have one, you have every right to slam the door on them. So do that. Once you're at the police station, you will be fingerprinted, get your mug shot, and so on. Don't fight it, as it'll only make things much worse. If you are interrogated (and you're guilty) don't answer any questions other than info such as your Name, Adress, Social Security #, Phone number, and the like. Don't say anything or state that you are "Pleading the 5th" or "Invoking your 5th Amendment Privilage". Be sure to ask for a lawyer as well, as that he can inform you of other legal rights (such as the ones that I don't know about). Eventually, you may get to a bail hearing, where you are allowed to post bond for your temporary release. If you got the money around (not nececarily on you, they'll let you go wherever and get it), do it. If it's real bad, they'll ask for more, or possibly, allow you no bail. And if you do get bail and decide to jet, be sure your ass is in Mexico on your next hearing, or you'll have an arrest warrant with your name on it. So if it isn't that bad, don't jet. After you return to Court from home or from jail, you'll be asked to make a plea. There are three possible pleas to make, all listed in greater detail here: 1. Guilty- Basically saying that you did exactly what they are accusing you of. You don't go to trial, you just get your sentance right away. This is a real stupid plea to make, since you can have more problems from it later. Here's a hint- NEVER PLEAD GUILTY. 2. Not Guilty- You deny what you are accused of, and claim a defense, such as insanity or you just plain didn't do it. If they have no case against you and you like going to trial, go ahead and plead Not Guilty. 3. Nolo Contendre (No Contest)- This is the alternative to pleading guilty. You basically say that the accusations are not false, but you don't admit that you're guilty. The best thing is that, you can't be taken to civil trial based on your conviction, which means if you go trucking, and plead No Contest to the B&E and Burglary charges, Ameritech can't sue you based on the fact that you pleaded no contest, in other words, they have no fucking evidence. In other respects, it's like pleading guilty. The only thing is that you can't use this if someone dies during the crime, so don't kill anyone! If you plead Not Guilty, you get to go to court and sit there, bored out of your ass. Unless you are being tried for a felony, you might actually get to go home every day after trial. You might not even have to go half the time. I'd recommend that you go, it's your ass on the line. If you only go once then come back when they read you your verdict and they throw you in jail, you won't know what the fuck happened. At least you'll know if you go every day. If you are found Guilty, or plead Guilty or No Contest, the judge will give you a sentance, which can be one or more of the following sentances. 1. Probation- You are released and have to agree to certain conditions, such as not dropping out of school, getting a job, or staying in a certain state. If you don't do it, you get thrown in jail, so try not to violate your probation. 2. Fine- The government makes you pay cash money to them so they can go buy themselves more gerbils. 3. Community Service- You have to work so many hours for the community 4. Suspended Sentance- You are released with one condition; if you are convicted again, you get to do the time from the suspended sentance and the new one. 5. Restitution- You have to pay back or make up for what you did to the victim, which can be bad if the victim is Ameritech and they make you work as a lineman for no pay. 6. Home Arrest- You have to stay at home except to go to work or school. 7. Work Release- You work in the community during the day, but you get to sit in jail during the nights and weekends. 8. Imprisonment- You have to sit in Jail/Prison for a set amount of time. 9. Execution- If you really fuck up, they'll throw you in prison for a while, then they'll kill you. Make sure that if you get this, that it fits the crime. If you get Execution for Trucking, something's a bit wrong. You'll only get it for Murder 1, Murder 2, or possibly extreme cases of Rape or Battery. So don't be stupid. That pretty much concludes the criminal justice process. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, problems, or anything else about this article, you can EMail me at Scooch@amerifuck.zzn.com or on AIM at Sc00ch 517. ************************************************************************************************ Basic Electronics #1 by: CRaZyFi$H ************************************************************************************************ So, you're sitting around, bored of your ass (and having mast0rbated 50 times already within the hour and your gerbils are too tired) and you see an old phone or remote or some piece of shit that doesn't work anymore or you forgot what the hell it does. So you whip out your schlong (oops, already did it 50 times!), I mean your screwdriver, and unscrew the cover. You see a bunch of electronic shit inside, unless somebody's beaten you to it. Now you're wondering: What the hell is all this shit? Why can't they just put in a computer chip or some shit and have it do all the work? Well, this first of a series of articles is all about learning what some of those things do. Where to start ************** Well, you can start by getting yourself some tools. No, not those rusted out pieces of shit you call wires: Actual shit that you didn't find in a fucking dumpster with rats and crap all over it. You may need to shell out some money or credit card numbers to get these, but it's all worth it. Screwdrivers of several different sizes and head types: These are VERY important. Most of the time, if you want to take a circuit board out of a case or unscrew a case this is what you need. When working with electronics, the screwdrivers can be metal but DO NOT use magnetic screwdrivers (especially in projects using coils). They can fuck up components severely. You can get them almost everywhere, but the best place is Ace Hardware because they're so easy to steal from. A soldering iron/gun: Also very important. These use liquid metal to join wire to the components. They also separate components, too. Worth buying (or carding) if you are even casually into electronics. They come in several wattages, but for electronics a 50-100 watt is the best. Insulated wire: Rat Shack sells this by the shitload. Hell, it's almost cheap enough to just buy it than risk the cameras :). Anyway, it's all around useful. You can use it to choke people, too. Several types of pliers: You should buy needle nose pliers, wire cutters, basic pliers, and wire strippers, but I have still to find a wire strip bar ;). Anyway, these are more useful than just for bending or plying things. They help when using transisors (I'll talk about those later). A multimeter: These are very useful. They measure current, resistance, voltage, and all other kinds of shit like that. You'll learn about those later. These cost a lot, though, and unless you card one they'll set you back anywhere from $20 to $300. Digital ones are the easiest to read, but they cost a little more. This one's up to you. Sometimes, testing a circuit is necessary because if you put too much voltage or current on a circuit you can blow it out. Using this, you could save yourself a lot of time and money (or just time if you carded everything). An oscilloscope: This is for testing signals. If you're making a redbox or tone dialer you use this to test and see if your frequencies are correct. Also works well for testing cable tv lines and stuff like that. Recommended, but not required for most things. *********************** Computer chips: You'll see these in lots of newer items. Basically, computer chips are what are called integrated circuits, and that basically means that all the components are already made to do a spiecific task. For a good analogy if you program, this is equivelant to a function or subprogram. The chip is its own little body, and it can be reused easily without much trouble. Get it? I hope so. *********************** Resistors: Whether you know it or not, the resistor is the most common type of electronic component. These do exactly what their name describes: They resist. Basically, it prevents electronic current from going through. The resistance of a resistor is measured in ohms, which is named after some scientist that nobody really gives a shit about. The higher the resistance, the less current that goes through. There are so many types of them it's mind-boggling to even think about it, but I'll do the best job I can of remembering them all: Normal resistors: These are beige-cylinder looking things with small, colored stripes on them. These colored stripes do have a meaning, however: They tell you the resistance of the resistor. To read these is a very easy concept, and here is a handy chart: Color | Value --------------------- Black | 0 Brown | 1 Red | 2 Orange | 3 Yellow | 4 Green | 5 Blue | 6 Violet | 7 Gray | 8 White | 9 Silver | + or - 10% Gold | + or - 5% That shit's all well and good, so how the fuck do you read them? Simple. Read the resistor stripes from left to right (with the silver or gold stripe on the right end). Say yours says Red-Black-Yellow-Gold. Look at the table. You see that red has a value of 2. That's the first digit of the resistance. Look at the next value on the resistor. Since the stripe is black, that means a value of 0 (look at the chart). So 0 is your second digit. The third digit, though, is the multiplier. You take this digit, and you add a number of trailing zeroes corresponding to the value. Since we have yellow, and yellow=4, we add 4 zeroes to the 2 digits we already have (20). So now, we know that the resistor value is 200000 ohms! But what the fuck is the gold band for? Yeah, the one that seems like it's not needed? Well it is needed. You see, electronics are nearly impossible to manufacture to exact specs. The gold (or silver) ring describes the tolerance of the resistor. A gold band means that the resistor can be up to 5% away from the stated value (but never more than that). Very few resistors made today don't have gold bands, though the larger ones may still have silver ones. Before using a resistor in an expensive project, always test it to make sure that it's close to what you want. Resistors of this type also have a wattage rating. This is the highest amount of power that a resistor can take without blowing out (kinda like the gerbils). The bigger a resistor is, the more power that it can take (like the gerbils). Anyway, most of the tiny ones that are about a half-centimeter long are 1/2 watt resistors, though I may be wrong. Anyway, there's no way to tell how much power a resistor can handle without either looking at the package or testing it in a circuit, so don't use resistors that you grabbed off other electronic shit. Potentiometers: These are most commonly seen in applications like volume controls. Basically, a potentiometer is nothing more than a resistor that the user controls the resistance with. A volume control basically is just a potentiometer set to control the output level. Very handy and useful. There are a huge number of types of resistors, and I really don't want to have to list them all here. In the next article in the series, I will talk more about the special resistor types. ***************************** Amusing Destructive Super-Leeto Project number one: The Carlos Box So, knowing what a resistor is, you can make an ultra-simple project that's fun AND destructive! Plus, you'll learn something new, too. You already know about this one if you read 83 ways to destroy your school text, but I'll write my own and explain why it works a little better. Get yourself an old lamp or something like that that you don't need anymore. It has to have a power plug. Okay, this is what you need to do: 1) Use scissors or a wire cutter or something of the like to cut the cord away from the object. Then throw the object at a car or some yuppies, because you probably won't need it anymore if you cut it up for this anyway. 2) Take your new power cord and strip the cord down to its bare wires (at the ends only). You should have 2 sets of wires. If you don't, get a different plug because the one you have won't work. Now, this one is very important. Get a switch, any kind you want. I reccommed a flip toggle switch (like a light switch, only smaller). Rat Shack has a shitload of switches to choose from. Anyway, solder (using your new super-leeto soldering iron) one of the wires to one end of the switch, and the other set to the other end of the switch (the point to connect them is fairly obvious). If you fuck up, it's not my probelm. Anyway, once you have that, you're done. Now, you're wondering, what the fuck do I do with this super-leeto piece of cord and switch that I have here besides become dominatrix to some gerbils? Here's what: Plug your thing into a wall outlet (if you feel an electric shock, zip your pants back up and put in the thing that you just made). Make sure the switch is off before you do this. Then, turn on the switch. You may see some sparks. Then, turn the switch off. You've just blown a fuse! Now, you're wondering: Where's the learning part that I told you about? I said fun, destructive, and you'll learn something. So here's what it is. All objects have a natural resistance, including wire. There are, however, objects with resistances as low as but not including zero ohms. . Wire has an EXTREMELY low resistance. That means that current gets delivered at its full power. Even a small voltage would supply a large current with no resistors in a circuit. A wall outlet supplies 120 volts. If your wire has a resistance of, say, .001 ohms, and you put in that voltage, the current is voltage divided by resistance, or 120/.001, which becomes about 120000 amps! Fuses are designed to melt if the circuit reaches a certain current amount, and 120000 amps is a HUGE amount of current to put through a wire. Many fuses used in the home are designed to melt at around 200 or so amps (probably less, but this is okay for our purposes). Also, another fun thing to do is leave the switch out and just connect the two wires directly. Of course, you can only do it once because the plug gets so hot it melts and welds itself to the socket. One of my friends did this last year in physics with Ms. Bapu so in his name I would like to call this little tool the Carlos Box. Not only did he blow a fuse, but the outlet is damaged beyond repair. So that's the official first project you can build using this leeto text here. Just do do anything stupid :). **************************** Circuit Diagrams You may have seen one of these before. They look like a bunch of lines with symbols and shit around them. Well, understanding these is one of the most important things to learn in electronics. It may seem leeto and complicated at first, but then again we were all impressed and amazed the first time we red boxed or did a ringback. So don't fucking complain. Reading a parts list is one of the easiest things to do in electronics. However, it is very difficult to use a circuit diagram without one or make your own thing. If you want to do your own electronics, at least make a parts list and circuit diagram before you go to Rat Shack to get your shit or you'll have to make several trips (and you wouldn't want that, would you?). The next article in the series will have a list of the code letters for electronic components, but you don't really need them to read a parts list. It's just kind of a code that you put in to refer you to a certain part so you know what part goes where. They look something like R1 or Q7. The diagrams below will help you understand this. All objects that are used in electronics have a schematic symbol. Wire is just a straight line connecting things, and the symbol for a resistor looks like this: R1 ------\/\/\/\/\--------- So in a circuit, you would see resistors something like this: R1 /------\/\/\/\/\---------\ | | | | | | | | \----------+|*|----------/ Where the weird +|*| thing represents a battery or other power source. The electric current always goes from the positive end to negative end of a power source. That's why when you install batteries you have to put them in a certain way or the thing won't work. The R1 that you saw in the diagram is for reference to the parts list. So when you see that resistor in the diagram, you can easily see that that is where resistor R1 (or whatever part you have). I cannot tell you how much doing this helps you in your building. Almost everything that you are supposed to build yourself in electronics has a parts list and circuit diagram, and many even include step-by-step instructions. Just read up on this for yourself. Get yourself a book like 101 Easy Electronic Gadgets To Build: Pointy Assjuice-Powered Electric Gerbil Raper Edition, and you can see most of what I explained and more. So that concludes the first in a series of articles I am writing for this kickass zine here. So now, you are probably recharged for more mast0rbating or gerbil rape. But hold on a minute: Let's look at what I'm planning for the next article in the series: Capacitors Switches Lights Coils Gerbil Rape And You (well, maybe not) Special Types of Resistors Parts list abbreviations handy-dandy chart Amusing Destructive Super-Leeto Project #2 (not sure what to make yet, I need some ideas) So that's it for now. Go back your gerbil rape. ************************************************************************************************ Social Engineering for Dummies By:MethusalahX ************************************************************************************************ Convincing lineman you’re a good person so that they give you stuff- Social engineering is always a good skill to learn, being that the whole point of it to get stuff. And nothing is better to this to than to Ameritech employees (or other various phone companies depending on where you live). Talking to lineman can convince them to give you stuff like hats, cool telco pencils, but most importanly, they'll tell you stuff about the phone which as we all know is very useful. Somethings foolish lineman might tell you: - the location of truck depots - where a skool or other large institute, runs it's line through (big green telco boxes) - whether they noticed if they're $9300 laptop was missing yet - info about there job (for all you future lineman, they only get 3 cell phone replacements, so be careful) - if you've found a lineman's tool belt appear in your trucking bag (how'd that get there), lineman are delighted to prove their knowledge and tell you what all those obscure and odd looking tools do. And if you’re not a miss. Manners wannabe, it's a good idea to try and learn a little etiquette so that the lineman don't call the boys in blue on you (bad thing) some tips for not getting busted: - don't tell them about your exciting or near death experiences breaking into there trucks - don't tell them your last name, and give them a false first one. - Remember that they are Telco employess and as a couple telco bashing jokes are funny, more than that can piss them off. - In the event of a conversation on the subject, don't be in a rush to show them your ultra cool headset that still has obvious markings on it such a lineman's name or a truck ID number (usually four digits, the look like this in black permanent marker: #9476) - Don't tell them about your conversations harassing the fuck out Ops (not from their Telco anyway) cause they don't appreicate it. - Be courteous in general, no excessive swearing or indecent exposure - Tell them you think they're really cool and you want to be a lineman when you grow up. That usually gets you on their good side. Ocassionaly you'll need to pull your excellent SE skills to get you out of trouble, which brings us too: Convincing Cops that your hot items aren't very hot after all- Cops are a pain in the ass and therefore should be treated as one. When you get stopped for curfew or underage smoking, and the pigs decide it's a good idea to look through your bag to see if they can pin anything else on you, just remember: most illegal things aren't always illegal. Always have a story that is believable and that they can check up on. Example, Cops pull up because they see me smoking after curfew, Cops:excuse me sir could you just stand there for a minute, your out after curfew and smoking is bad for you. Methx: sure. Cop 1: now you know we have to check your bag if we find you out after curfew (actually it's illegal for them too, but thas another story) Cop 2: what the hell is this? This looks like a complete lineman's toolbelt as well as a TNI manual! Methx: yeah so? Cops: those are illegal! Methx: actually if you go to google.com and search for telco tools, you can find any number of sites that will gladly sell you all these tools for a price. I bought this one for $625 (no kidding, seems a tad pricey to me). Cops: and what about the manual? Methx: my uncle is a lineman in gary, indiana. He gave it to me to do some research for my science fair project, dealing with weather and affecting people's phone reception. Cops: oh well we're gonna have to take to home due to curfew and tell them about your smoking. See? You got off light and although they probably kind of suspicious, they're to lazy to follow up on it. Ops Eventually we would have to get around to those friendly, hardworking members of the telco society, the operators. These low paid bastards will be glad to swear at you, hang up on you or ocasionally give you free calls. Smaller telcos like Opticom are more suspicious, more underpaid, and infinitely stupider. - Ameritech Ops will give you call free if you beg them enough and say it's an emergency. Which it is if your red box is broken and they cancelled your fraudulent calling cards. - If you want to do an ANI check or convince Opticom to think you work for them, then get the code of the month. It's always a colour so you can just keep calling and guessing until you get it right. They're number is on the Numbers link here. - Operators will sometimes act as lineman and give you fun telco information. Well that's all I can really think about saying. Social engineering is something you have to practice til you get it right. Syaing it very smoothly and casually is a biggie so test yourself with one of your friends before you go out. Til next time, Methusalahx ************************************************************************************************ Contributors ************************************************************************************************ Basic Electronics #1 - hrglass@rocketmail.com - AIM:PibbDaddy - by: CRaZyFi$H Getting Busted - Scooch@amerifuck.zzn.com - AIM:Scooch517 - by: Scooch Bell Truck looting Tips - methusalahx@yahoo.com - AIM:Methusalahx -by:Methusalahx