Holy Toledo!

blackwave · 06-27-2002

Searches by police, FBI target bandits of bandwidth

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs...6270073&Ref=AR

Sifter · 06-27-2002

good grief...whats next...

ZipperSeven · 06-27-2002

You would think the FBI would have more important things to deal with these days...like terrorists maybe. Perhaps thats too large a goal for them. Let's persecute the people who have the knowledge to use bandwidth that the rest of the 'cable modem weenies' weren't using when they were checking their e-mail and downloading porn.

blackwave · 06-27-2002

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Originally posted by ZipperSeven
You would think the FBI would have more important things to deal with these days...like terrorists maybe.

Maybe the fibbies were pissed because the kids were jacking with their DCS-1000 that was linked into the same ISP?

Sh00t3r · 06-27-2002

blackwave,

is there a new version of carnivore out? A more legal version, maybe thats the DCS-1000 and i don't know it. lol.

What i wanna know is how those dudes in toledo actually hacked their modems to allow more bandwidth? I hacked one of my friends cable modems about 2 years ago by stumblin on an .ini file. Opened it up and found a line "bandwidth = 256,000" edited that puppy to 1,000,000,000. Saw a pretty significant increase in bandwidth. Although ironically they discontinued those rca modems 2 months later.

blackwave · 06-27-2002

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Originally posted by Sh00t3r
blackwave,

is there a new version of carnivore out? A more legal version, maybe thats the DCS-1000 and i don't know it. lol.

What i wanna know is how those dudes in toledo actually hacked their modems to allow more bandwidth? I hacked one of my friends cable modems about 2 years ago by stumblin on an .ini file. Opened it up and found a line "bandwidth = 256,000" edited that puppy to 1,000,000,000. Saw a pretty significant increase in bandwidth. Although ironically they discontinued those rca modems 2 months later.

Click Here for the uncapping:
http://forums.netstumbler.com/showth...ighlight=uncap

Carnivore has been renamed to DCS-1000. Looks like everyone is upgrading their software, there is also echelon ][, which is a superstructure of the original echelon, you can read about it at crytome: http://cryptome.org/echelon2-arch.htm

Malfordus · 06-27-2002

uncapping a cable modem is considered stealing by many ISPs but apparently easy enough to do by anyone halfway technically inclined. typically ISPs that detect such users have banned them for life. recently read some stories where at&t banned a few discovered users and the users were crying the blues about having to use dialup - talk about pissin dad off!

- mal

Sh00t3r · 06-27-2002

Does anyone have any accounts of actually getting caught and what the repurcusions where? On the site that teaches the hack, http://www.xtechnet.net/content/uncap/home.htm, they have actual letters sent to "abusers" who uncapped their modems. Seemed as though the most threatining letter involved a "final warning". But then again some ISP's probably don't send nice letters stating that they are going to be kicking them off line, they just do it.

I've been experimenting, for educational purposes only of course, and i've gotten to the point of reconfiguring the config file (disabling snmp as well) . i'm stuck due to the fact that i have an rca modem with some funky firmware and i can't upload. Currently awaiting the firmware workaround.

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06-27-2002	#2 (permalink)
Sifter Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 129	good grief...whats next...

06-27-2002	#5 (permalink)
Sh00t3r Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Michigan Posts: 199	blackwave, is there a new version of carnivore out? A more legal version, maybe thats the DCS-1000 and i don't know it. lol. What i wanna know is how those dudes in toledo actually hacked their modems to allow more bandwidth? I hacked one of my friends cable modems about 2 years ago by stumblin on an .ini file. Opened it up and found a line "bandwidth = 256,000" edited that puppy to 1,000,000,000. Saw a pretty significant increase in bandwidth. Although ironically they discontinued those rca modems 2 months later.

06-27-2002	#7 (permalink)
Malfordus Registered Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: wash., d.c. Posts: 27	uncapping a cable modem is considered stealing by many ISPs but apparently easy enough to do by anyone halfway technically inclined. typically ISPs that detect such users have banned them for life. recently read some stories where at&t banned a few discovered users and the users were crying the blues about having to use dialup - talk about pissin dad off! - mal

06-27-2002	#8 (permalink)
Sh00t3r Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Michigan Posts: 199	Does anyone have any accounts of actually getting caught and what the repurcusions where? On the site that teaches the hack, http://www.xtechnet.net/content/uncap/home.htm, they have actual letters sent to "abusers" who uncapped their modems. Seemed as though the most threatining letter involved a "final warning". But then again some ISP's probably don't send nice letters stating that they are going to be kicking them off line, they just do it. I've been experimenting, for educational purposes only of course, and i've gotten to the point of reconfiguring the config file (disabling snmp as well) . i'm stuck due to the fact that i have an rca modem with some funky firmware and i can't upload. Currently awaiting the firmware workaround.