Amiga phreaking software UA-dialer, hells hacker, others?

[kamiga]

Should have never checked my email at 3am local time after getting up in the middle of the night to pee. I saw an advertisement about this

http://thetelephonemuseum.org/news/

which triggered some deep down psychological need for me to conduct a search in the middle of the night for software I used in the 1990's to blue box from my Amiga.

I'm based in the US, who by then had mostly converted to out-of-band signalling, but dialing 1-800 numbers that terminated overseas yielded a really rich playground where the stuff of early phrack articles still worked.

Does anyone have these old blue-box tone generator software programs? I'd take some wardialing software too -- if only to aid in the process of elimination/separation from the tone dialers.

I think one was UA-dialer, maybe one was hells hacker?

There was one that when executed would do absolutely nothing until you held two keys down to activate the "secret" GUI interface. I think the keys might have been L-AMIGA then R-AMIGA or something like that.

I'm pretty sure much of the software was PAL -- and targeted Europe, maybe Germany?

If it's not obvious, there's not much practical use for these today --- the availability of free long distance, or even really cheap international dialing, or even the need for a voice call at all have eliminated any practical need. Nevermind that I doubt there's any compatible technology that still exists that this could be used to take advantage of....

There is an interesting link here

http://www.projectmf.org/

I'd love to fire up these old tools. I spent a decent portion of my very impressionable high school years finding the right frequency/length combinations that would work given the country I was operating in.....nevermind discovering loops, bridges, strange 800's, codelines, VMB cities, 950s, 0700's, and all that crazy stuff.

Hopefully posting this quandary will allow me to go back to sleep.

Thanks!

[Acill]

With nearly all phone systems now on digital back ends its unlikely any of the old tools we used back then would do anything at all.

Man, you woke up some long buried memories from in my head with this one!

[TheMagicM]

LOL... I wrote a war games dialer in AmigaBasic on my A500.  Had it dialing phone numbers while I was at school, saving them to a text file.  Man..those were the days.

[buzz]

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=41729

they have a search on eab you can use to search for phreaking in the eab file server. there are some apps there.

[nyteschayde]

OMG I remember these. In fact, early on I used a tool so much to generate Pacific Bell service codes so I could connect to European BBSes and download 0 day warez. Ahh, nostalgia.

[kamiga]

I love the idea that we all had these separate but shared experiences!

@MagicM: I also wrote a wardialer in AmigaBasic. That sucker got a ton of use and did multiple exchanges(multiple groups of 10,000 phone numbers) back in the day. Nothing excited me more than coming home/waking up to a whole large list of "hits." Everything was fine until the day the phone companies invented *67. Dialing this returned the call to the last phone number who called you. This was later expanded into Caller ID.

@buzz: thanks for the link to that thread! I downloaded a bunch of stuff. Not sure about whether any of them contain the exact app I'm looking for, but hopefully Unlimited Access Dialer (UADialer was the executable file name) is in one of the ADF/DMS's.

I remember accessing some crazy European BBS's back in the day. The sysops would somehow know....I remember one saying, "guess someone learned how to use a blue box" or something to that effect!

[lucidphreak]

Kamiga - sent you a pm... And for the rest of you.. I've been working to assemble a large archive of this type of software for various old school platforms - and basically just make contacts from the old school phreak days (warez/sysops/whatever)...

If anyone is interest in hanging out or lending a hand in the effort to archive such software please let me know...

.lp

[TheMagicM]

I love the idea that we all had these separate but shared experiences!

@MagicM: I also wrote a wardialer in AmigaBasic. That sucker got a ton of use and did multiple exchanges(multiple groups of 10,000 phone numbers) back in the day. Nothing excited me more than coming home/waking up to a whole large list of "hits." Everything was fine until the day the phone companies invented *67. Dialing this returned the call to the last phone number who called you. This was later expanded into Caller ID.

LMAO!!!  *67... I remember that going into effect and my dad telling me that people were calling us while I was at school saying we crank called them.   Then *69 came out and took care of that (at least for caller id blocking).   I found a phone number to a switch and was able to log in.  Back then, I didnt know what they were for, but now, after I used to be a programmer for a company that did telephone billing, I did.  Man, I could have done some %&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@! back then.  LOL.