Subj : Re: War Dialing in 2023 and Beyond
To   : warmfuzzy
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Aug 01 2023 07:55:00

-=> warmfuzzy wrote to All <=-

 wa> Is War Dialing (from the classic movie "War Games") still a thing?  I
 wa> think so.  There are a lot of big corporations that still have a remote
 wa> access option though the Plain Old Telephone System (POTS).

 War dialing for access ports is still possible, but modern central
 office phone switches can track sequential dialing and flag it.

 wa> In my last
 wa> corporation that I worked for they had what seemed to be an active and
 wa> yet never used RJ-11 plug in the staff lounge.

 At my first job, they had a wall phone in the lounge for people to make
 personal calls. This was way before cell phones.

 wa> This is just a thought.  I have not hacked them nor will I.  I'm just
 wa> considering how easy it would be to add a backdoor to the building.
 wa> Their system is fairly secure, they use Active Directory (I think), and
 wa> their internal network is encrypted.  However, lets say you just want
 wa> some sort of secure method to communicate to "home base" without
 wa> worrying about back-tracing your comms.  This could be done by hooking
 wa> the internal ethernet connection to a POTS computer, etc. etc.  So it
 wa> would be very slow (at about 7 K/sec), but if you're looking to find
 wa> some sort of way to talk with, your paranoid friends using a method of
 wa> proxying like this can be in place for the worst case scenario.

 Checkout the podcast "Darknet Diaries" for stories of penetration
 testing. Most intrusions are physical.




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