Captain Hack's Phreaking and Anarchy Info Files Intro ----------------------------------------------------- You may wonder what all these files are. Or you may never read this intro. I don't really know. Anyway, I'm formulating this collection to maintain freedom of the press in the 90's. The computer is the future's way of "The Press", and I think there should be NO ban on what kind of information is passed over boards etc. I'm making this collection just so it'll be that much harder for the Feds to get all of the H/P/A/V/C files out of circulation, SHOULD they ever ban them. This collection begins in 1995. I don't know when it will end. Hopefully, there will be several hundred files written or revised by me by the time I stop writing these. I am not releasing all of these files at once, I am putting them out as I complete them, so check your local boards for new ones often. I may not put out one a week...but perhaps 2 or 3 a month. Think of this collection as a bi-weekly underground newsletter. Just shorter. However you think of it, just remember that it's not the destruction that counts. It's our right to information, and the US government cannot and shall not take that right from us. I charge you, the reader, with this responsability: You must not, under any circumstances, allow the Feds to ban and remove all hack and phreak files. There is a heritage to them, they've been written for a decade before I knew what a floppy disk was, and with your help, they will continue to be written for a decade after. DON'T LET THE SPIRIT DIE! ***Short Disclaimer - Please Read*** All I will say is this: I, Captain Hack, will not take any responsibility for any actions by anyone on the advice of these files. If you choose to utilize these files, and follow the instructions in them, that is YOUR choice, and I cannot be held responsible for your actions. Some of the actions or products discussed in the files can SERIOUSLY INJUR OR KILL YOU. Please take all precautions before participating in any procedure described within these articles. Just covering my ass. You understand. Ok. This file has gone on long enough. Enjoy the real collection! --hack -----END INTRO.TXT----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: 22BOMB.TXT Title: .22 Riot Bomb By: Captain Hack Released: 03/18/95 Danger: ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ°° This is a nice one for mobs and riots. It will startle everyone in the area and may even injur someone when it goes off. Probably not, but you can't tell. NOTE: THIS IS HYPOTHETICAL. IT SHOULD WORK. I HAVE *NEVER* TRIED IT. USE *EXTREME* CAUTION IF YOU INTEND TO TRY THIS. WHICH YOU ARE *NOT* RECOMMENDED TO DO!!! Materials ------------ .22 caliber round 2" long piece of 1/4" copper pipe 3/4" long 1/4" bolt Those are the materials for ONE bomb. Just repeat these for each one. Screw the bolt into the pipe. They are the same size, so it may take a little work. You can also use a Tap-And-Die set to thread the pipe if you wish. ANyway, once finished, take this thing up a few floors. You have to drop it. It cannot be thrown. To "arm" the device: Turn the pipe on its side, and GENTLY slide the bullet into it. Until it touches the bolt. Now, holding the device upright, drop it out the window, or off the roof. Don't worry, the bullet won't fall out. As long as it is inside the pipe when it is dropped, it will be in there when it hits the ground. You don't have to understand it, just accept it as true. Also, afetr you drop it, I'd step back if I were you. Theoretically, if you drop it and hold your hand in the exact position it was in when you released the bomb, the bullet will fire and hit your hand. That's bad. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: 3LSLNCE.TXT Title: 3-Liter Silencer By: Captain Hack Released: 12/29/96 Danger: ÛÛ°°°°°°°° Hey everyone. This one is pretty simple, but it works (although not increadibly well). If you ever need to silence a gun (preferably a revolver, unless your auto has a barrel extension), just get a 3-liter soda bottle (the REALLY giant ones) and fit it over the barrel to see if you need to cut anything out. You may have to make a notch in the mouth of the bottle for the front sight. Then make any cuts in the mouth of the bottle, and wrap some tape (masking is best, cause it won't melt to the barrel) around the barrel until the lenth of barrel that mates with the bottle is a snug fit. Then put the bottle back on, and continue to wrap until it is really solidly attached. No need to cut a hole in the bottle, the bullet will go through just fine. Note that this makes the weapon large and unwieldy. Obviously, don't do this to a gun you plan to carry (which I discurage unless you have a permit). It will also block any hope of sighting, so you can only use this for very close range shots, like a few feet. Finally, it will only work reliably on a .22 cal pistol, although a .25 is fine I'm sure, and you MIGHT be able to get away with a .32, but bigger than that, and people will still hear, just not as many. The concept is fairly simple. The loudest part of a gun shot is the expanding gases from the barrel shooting out with the bullet. This trick gives the gas a larger place to expand into, and shields them from getting to the "outside" and thus suppresses (but not "silences") the gun. It is still quite audible, but people a few rooms or a couple hundred feet away wouldn't hear it. This is the concept of all silencers, but most of them use many different methods to further silence the shot. This allows you to design your own silencer with the information here, which I have been working on, but I have no understand- able instructions as of yet. Stay tuned. --hack Of course, like usual, this is for informational purposes only, unless the government disinigrates, in which case they can't arrest me... Knowledge is power. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: 9VFIS.TXT Title: Fun In School By: Captain Hack Released: 03/18/95 Danger: ÛÛ°°°°°°°° Disclaimer: I, Captain Hack, am not responisble for any actions any individual takes on behalf of this file. I will not be held accountable for any damage you might do, or any punishment inflicted on you by your school. Ok. Now that's done with. Now, this file is going to concentrate on using 9 Volt rectangular batteries for laughs in school. Idea #1-- "Look! A quarter!" --------------------------- (1) Go to a class like a study hall or something. (2) Take a 9V and sit a quarter on top for 4-5 min. (3) Take a pencil, and use it to flick the quarter off the battery into the hall right before class ends. (4) Listen for the screams of agony. Explaination (in case you don't get it): The quarter shorts the battery out, and it feeds back on itself. That makes the battery get really hot, and the quarter along with it. Then, when some idiot picks the coin up in the hall, they get a nice imprint of George Washington on their palm! Idea #2-- "Let me just get that from my locker" --------------------------- (1) Solder (or tape) a piece of wire to one terminal of the 9V. (Ahead of time) (2) Move the other end of the wire over to touch the other terminal. (3) Wedge the battery (quickly) into the shackle of a Master combo lock. (4) Leave (quickly). (5) Watch for big jock with smoking hand running down hall. Explaination: Again, the wire shorts the battery. This gets said battery HOT. That heat is trans- ferred to the lock by normal laws of thermodynamic heat transfer. When said jock (or whatever) grabs lock to put in combo, his palm turns a nice shade of red (or BLACK!). Idea #3-- "Look, a student dropped this litter" --------------------------- (1) Solder (tape) a piece of wire to one terminal of 9V. (Ahead of time) (2) Move the other end of wire to touch other terminal. (3) Drop (toss) battery in hallway. (4) Wait while in next class. (5) Listen for announcement by a faculty member with a bandaged hand about the person who left a battery in the hallway. (6) Laugh. Explaination: Is this really necessary? Same deal as #2, except, you let an administrator pick the battery up. Cool. Or hot. See disclaimer at top of this file. Understand and heed all warnings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: AEROSOL.TXT Title: Aerosol Bomb By: Captain Hack Released: 10/13/95 Danger: ÛÛÛÛ°°°°°° This one is fairly easy and fairly reliabe. It's also really easy to improvise on SHORT notice. All you need is an aerosol can with a flammable substance in it, like deoderant, and some strong tape (masking, duct). Just put some tape over the thing so the button is held down and it's caught spraying, but not hitting the tape. Basically, just get the thing to spray continuously. Now light the jet of aerosol. It will make the classic flamethrower, but as pressure from the can decreases, the flame will draw ever closer to the hole in the button. Once it gets an inch or so in the hole, the whole thing blows. This can take seconds to minutes, depending on how full and how big the can is. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: BILLSTRP.TXT Title: Change Machines By: Captain Hack Released: 02/27/96 Danger: Û°°°°°°°°° Have you noticed that the little strip in the side of a $20 bill has started appearing in the lower denominations, namely $10 and $5. The latter is particularly useful. First, find a $5 bill that has the strip. Now use a pair of very small tweezers to pull this strip out. It is difficult, but with a little work, it will happen. Now use some clear (not foggy) scotch tape to tape this strip in approximatly the same location on the front side (the president side) of a $1 bill. Go to a change machine that will still give you quaters, unless you really want tokens for the arcade...You'll get $5 in quarters. Handy, but how's it really profitable? Get 4 $5 bills and 4 $1's. Pull the strips out off all of them and tape to the $1's. Change them, and then wrap the quarters in wrappers. Take them to the bank to get changed into $20, and then spend the $5's elsewhere (99% of all stores don't look for the strip in $5's and $10's). See, the change machines made in the last 4-5 years use this strip to decide what it just ate. If it sees the strip, it's a $5, if no strip, then it's a $1. CAUTION: THIS IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE AS WELL AS A FELONY. THIS IS COUNTER-FITTING. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND AGAINST THIS. (If you ever REALLY need the cash, though, it's there...) --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: CARBOMBS.TXT³ Title: Easy Carbombs By: Captain Hack Released: 03/18/95 Danger: ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ°° A few quick ways to send a car to the junk yard (and mentally FUCK the owner): 1) This is THE classic car fucker: Pour about a cup of suger in the gas tank of the car. It seizes up the engine, and the car dies. 2) This is fun with little dangerous damage: Remove the rubber blades from the windsheild wipers, and replace them with thumb tacks. They usually slide right into the track that the blades were in. When the victim turns on the wipers, heh...heh heh heh....HAHAHAHAHAHA 3) This will honestly BLOW THE THING UP: Take a small medicine bottle. Like the ones you get with a prescription drug. Not the locking ones, but the NON-child proof ones. Take one of those, and fill it with liquid Drano. Now, pop it into the gas tank of the offending vehicle. The gas eats away at the plastic bottle until the Drano leaks out... then BOOM! 4) This is sort of a variation of #1: But instead of using suger, try using those little styrofoam packing peanuts. They would be fun, since they mix with the gas, and the gas melts them into a thick gooey mess. I'm really not sure if this would just fill up the tank with SHIT, and the owner would have to refill the tank every 20 miles, or if it would actually get the stuff to the engine, in which case EVERYTHING would have to be replaced. The tank, the gas lines, the engine, everything. Fun either way. 5) This is pretty dangerous, so I don't really recommend it, but if you want to, go for it: This is sort of hard to explain, so unless you know exactly what I'm talking about, you shouldn't use this one. First, get a model rocket engine. Use a C or a D engine, as these are the largest (unless you can find an E or F, but they are rare). Now, with a pair of dikes, snip one of the wires going from the ignition circut (the key), to the battery. Either will do. I will not try to explain where they are or what they look like, since cars vary so much. Anyway, strip the two ends of the "new" wires, and wire the solar igniter from the engine in between the "new" wires. So it is spliced in like this: ------------------------------=====||=====----------------------- ^---wire from key to batt. ^-----------leads from igniter Anyway, when the owner gets in and puts in the key, and turns it, the engine goes off under the hood. It might blow up, it might fly around and hit stuff, it might burst into flame. Hard to say. But it'll be fun. NOTE: You *could* do it in the cabin of the car, but I HIGHLY warn against it, as you could hurt or kill the person. And you're not trying to do that, you're just scaring him shitless, right? --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: BUSYBOX.TXT Title: The Busy Box By: Captain Hack Released: 08/10/95 Danger: °°°°°°°°°° The busy box is just that, it makes whatever phone line it's attached to busy. It's quick, it's easy, it's actually fairly useful at school, cause those idiots can't figure them out. Here's the plans: Shopping list: One length of 4 cond phone wire - w/modular plug on one end wire strippers elecetric tape Strip the two inside wires on the end of the pone cord that doesn't have the plug on it (Ring/Tip or Red/Green). Twist them together, and wrap a few times with electric tape. Yes, that's really it. Do you REALLY need a diagrag? Ok: / / ---------- red | |----------------------------------\ | |----------------------------------/ <--- twist wires together ---------- green ^ Mod plug ^ Mod plug --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: CLGAS.TXT Title: Make Chlorine! By: Captain Hack Released: 03/18/95 Danger: ÛÛÛÛ°°°°°° Chlorine gas is an extremely deadly gas which is EASY to make in your home. There's a catch here: DON'T make it in your home. YOU WILL DIE. Make it wherever you want to cause mayhem and sickness. Materials: One large jar One small bottle 1:1 ratio (by volume) of: Household Ammonia CHLORINE bleach (not chlorine free) Now, from here it's easy. Put the bleach in the bottle and the ammonia in the jar. Or the other way around. It doesn't matter. Anyway, cap both containers and take them to your target area. This really can't be done "quickly", so if you want fast destruction, use something else. Now, find an obscure area to put the thing, and open both containers. Pour the contents from the bottle into the jar. Just make sure your jar doesn't overflow. When this is complete, LEAVE! If you don't, you will be overcome by the chlorine too, and probably die. Note: If you can get a purer supply of ammonia, USE IT. Household is not really that pure, but it's the best most people can do. If I remember right, household ammonia only has about 30% active ammonia. Also, you cannot use Mr. Clean or something. It has to be household cleaning ammonia. This can be bought at any drug store, or grocery market. ----Synapsis---- I don't know the EXACT chemical reaction that occurs, but the ammonia and the bleach bond to form CL gas. Anyone who breathes this gas will either get very sick, and require hospitalization, or they will die. Enjoy! --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: DECPL.TXT Title: Deproofing lighters By: Captain Hack Released: 1/08/96 Danger: °°°°°°°°°° This is a real quickie: How to de-childproof lighters. Almost all lighters available now in the country (or at least my state), are "child-proof", which is pretty stupid, cause the childproofing is a seperate little thing you have to depress or slide around beforre striking, and little kids are so good with their hands, I doubt the new system makes it that hard for kids to light them. Anyway, I smoke cigars, and I know quite a few people that smoke cigs and the like, and the best way to de-proof these new lighters is to grab the little thing you have to pull or push or move with some needle-nose pliers, and give it a good yank. Yup, just break it off. That'll do it. Now it's just like an "old" lighter. Note: This is only good for BIC lighters, I haven't figured out any other lighters. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: DSTRYLOX.TXT Title: Lock Destruction By: Captain Hack Released: 03/18/95 Danger: Û°°°°°°°°° Here are some easy ways to completely destroy locks to things like the locker room, the library, your enemy's house, and the entire school: 1) Gum in the lock. oldie but GOODIE! 2) Solder in the lock: Just melt a little solder into the lock. It'll freeze up some of the pins, and change the shape of the valleys 3) Super Glue: Go to Radio Hack and buy some one minute epoxy, or a container of super glue. Then fill the lock. This works REALLY well on cars. 4) Paper: If you wedge a LITTLE paper in the right spot, you can make the tumblers of the lock change position. 5) Sulphuric Acid: Just put a few drops in the lock, and PRESTO!, you've changed the configuration of the lock. Any of these work just as well in a car as in a normal pin-tumbler lock. Except number 4. That does NOT work on a car (ignition or door) --Hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: EZPICK.TXT Title: Easy Lockpick By: Captain Hack Released: 03/18/95 Danger: Û°°°°°°°°° This is a lockpick design that I came up with, although I would NOT be suprised by hearing that you've heard of this pick idea before. The idea is so simple, and so universal, that I'm almost certain I am not the first to come up with it. Here it is: Materials: 36" of THIN, STRONG wire (small enuf to fit in the space between the door and the jamb) 2) little key chain hoop metal hang-keys-on thingies Construction: Just fold the chain in half so you have an 18" long loop. Now, put one of the little hoop handle type thingies on each end. To use: Slide the chain between the door jamb and the door, behind the bolt of the lock. Now, hold both hoops in one hand, and tug and jerk gently while trying the knob of the door. It will eventually give way, if the lock isn't TOO strong. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: FLAMEGUN.TXT Title: Flame Thrower By: Captain Hack Released: 08/10/95 Danger: ÛÛÛÛÛ°°°°° This is handy, and not hard, just the materials are hard to find. Shopping list: a Super Soaker 20, 30, or 50 water gun A butane lighter Licopodium powder What is licopodium? It's an oxidizing agent. If you can find it, get as MUCH as you can. Try the school chem lab. Most chem teachers play with the stuff. If you take a pile and stab a match into it, it puts the match out. If you have a bunson burner or a lighter and throw the stuff into the flame, it flashes like mad. Fill the resivoir for your super soaker almost full with water, and put in enough licopodium powder to get a saturated solution, but not super saturated. It won't disolve, it'll just hang there. Just don't make it pasty. Pump up the SS and spray into the lighter. Then light stuff with it. It makes a nice makeshift flamethrower. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: FONEMODS.TXT Title: Quick Phone Modes By: Captain Hack Released: 08/24/95 Danger: °°°°°°°°°° These 5 things are quick things that just about anyone with one hand and half an ass for a brain can pull off with just about any phone. I've made one of them to my own Beige Box, as it is handy phor functions (those are really pushing it...) I will explain below. 1. Give the line a kick: If you experience alot of static on your line, and it interferes with modem tones, or just you talkin to your bitch, then get one of those splitters, which lets you plug two fones into one jack. Also get a litte battery holder from Radio Hack, for two AA batts. Wire this to a fone plug, and put the batteries in. WHen you get alot of static on the line, just plug that package into the second jack. The extra 3 volts will help hold your line open better. The reason for the static (assuming it isn't from your cordless fone) is that there's just barely enuff voltage to keep the line up. THis results in a bad connection, and static. The 3 volts spreads itself out along the line, and helps hold it up. Get it? I don't really know if this is illegal, but telco is NOT happy when customers start messing with the line voltage. I don't know that they'd do much to ya, tho. 2. High-quality recordings: Go to Radio Hack, and get a 2 conductor, 1/8" phono jack, like on a walkman. Drill a mounting hole in your fone and mount it. Connect each of the terminals to one of the leads on your speaker, so it's in parallel with the speaker. Now, with a wire that has 1/8" plugs on both sides, you can plug the fone into the input jack of a tape recorder or soemthing similar to that. I like to plug the thing into the mic jack of a micro cassette recorder, so when I make calls with my beige box, I can record them...especially that time I called the fone sex on my nieghbors line...that was cool...Sorry. Anyway, you can also plug a set of speakers (like off your sound card) in so that all your friends can hear the fun. You could put it to the mic jack of your soundcard and make WAVs of your friends saying how they'd love to do some chick in the ass, and then call her and play it. Be creative! 3. Musical hold-- the easy way: I haven't tried this yet, but that's cause I can't find my beige box here at the Hack household. This is JUST like the output above (2), but wire the jack to the mic instead of the speaker. Now, plug the wire into your sound blaster or your walkman or your stereo or sumtin. When you wanna put your call on musical hold, MAKE SURE THE MUSIC IS PLAYING. I think that's vital, as that's what'll keep the voltage present. Now, you can plug the wire into your fone, and when you hear the music, you can hang up. The line should be held open. Again, note that I haven't tried this yet, but it should work just fine. You can also plug it into the speaker jack of your sound card to play back the wave of your pal that you recorded above... 4. Plain Hold: You can get much more basic than this. Somewhere between the wall and the fone, maybe at the base of the fone unit, or just inside the fone, strip the Ring and Tip. Put an SPST switch across them. Make sure the switch is in the OFF (open) position to talk. To go on hold, flip the switch. 5. Full MUTE: The big reason the person you are eavesdropping on with an extension that you're holding down the mute button on can tell you're there is the static. The reason for the static is the momentary button that mutes the fone never has a solid connection, cause you push on it with different levels of pressure. To get around this, get an SPST switch, and if your fone already has a mute button, just take it out and replace it with the switch, and resolder the wires. If it doesn't have a mute button, just putting it across the wires to the mic BEFORE THE WIRES GET TO THE MIC should do the same thing. When you add the switch before the mic, and throw it, the electrons choose the shortest path they can find, which is thru the switch, rather that hoofing it all the way over to the mic. The mic is cut off, and then the listening party can't hear you AS WELL. There wil still be a click even if you flip the switch before you take the fone off hook, but it won't be very noticable. And the others won't be able to hear anything you say. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: GLASSDEM.TXT Title: Glass Demolition By: Captain Hack Released: 11/16/95 Danger: ÛÛÛÛÛÛ°°°° This has several quick and easy ways to dispose of a sheet of glass that is in your way. A "silencer" is a good idea on most of these, and a good sound supressor is rubber cement. Liberaly spread this over the pane of glass and just about any attempt to break the glass will be safer and quiter. 1) This does NOT work with a silencing compound. At a hardware store, you can buy a spring-loaded center nail punch, which is used for pushing the head of a nail below the edge of the wood it's in. This is most effective on car and any other windows made of "shatter-proof" safty glass. Just press it up to the glass until it triggers the spring, and the glass will shatter. 2) NO SILENCER: You can often find a Dremel bit or other such scribe with a diamond tip. This can be very useful in cutting a small circle or rectangle out of the pane of glass and allowing yourself to reach in and open the window. 3) I must extend credit to the Jolly Roger for this one...I am only repeating it. First, get a pellet gun that will fire hard enuff to just put a hole in it, but not shatter it. A silencer compund in all but the small area you shoot would be a good idea on this one. If it's an old fashioned lock, on the top of the pane, shoot just above it and use an icepick to push the lock out of position. If it's a different kind of lock, forget it. This won't work. If all else fails, just spread rubber cement all over the pane, let it cure for a few minutes, and tap it with a small hammer until it falls apart. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: HIGHWAY.TXT Title: Roadway Fun By: Captain Hack Released: 03/22/95 Danger: Û°°°°°°°°° Here are a few quick ways to make some trouble on America's highways and roadways. Some can be dangerous. Use at your own risk. Here they are: 1) Bill the Dummy: This is similar to the stunt MacCauly Calkin pulled in the movie "The Good Son". Get a manequin or dummy, and pretend to talk to and interact with it on an overpass. Then suddenly let it fall off the edge of the overpass and "try" to grab for it, and act distressed. Until the brakes start screaching. Then get your ass out. 2) A slingshot or Wrist Rocket is very good for shattering car windows. Use the metal ball shot that you can buy at a sporting goods store. The driver's side window is a good target on parked cars, and the back windshield is good for moving vehicles. 3) This is one you have to be sure you don't do anywhere you or your parents would drive. Get a plank about a foot long, and drive about 8 or 10 nails into it. Now, lay this on the road (at night or something). Make some loops of Duct tape and put them on a sheet of news paper. Now, stick the sheet of newspaper on top of the plank, to it is taped to the road. And the nails DO NOT poke through. Then leave. If it looks right, people will see it and just drive right over it. As soon as someone's tire hits... 4) This is a trick I had to experience a few years ago. Trust me, it's annoying. Take an old audio tape you hate (you know, the MC Hammer tape), and rewind it all the way. Now, tear out the tape, just a little, so you have a leader. Now, find a stop sign, or a tree, or something. Wrap the tape around the tree about 7 times, and then run it across the street to another tree or sign. Now, run it back and forth around both, until you run out of tape, or have a nice thick web of tape. If it's really thick, most people won't drive through it, and will have to find a way around it. Or break the tape, one strand at a time... Enjoy. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: KONGA.TXT Title: Konga Stick By: Captain Hack Released: 10/10/96 Danger: °°°°°°°°°° The Konga stick is something I saw once in a military training manual. It is a very handy weapon, similar to a cross between brass knuckles and a yawara stick. Shopping List: 1 5-6" length of 1" diam PVC pipe 2 1" diam PVC endcaps Sand PVC cement Contruction: ----------------- The length of the PVC tube will depend on the size of your hand, and how much you want it to stick out on either end. When you find the right length, cement one cap on (according to the instructions on the cement), and fill the tube with sand (or something else if you want, like bb's maybe). Fill it almost COMPLETELY and then cement the other cap on. Allow the Konga stick to dry fully. Use: ------ The Konga stick can be used in a number of ways, some of which are listed here: 1) For hammer fist. Hold in hand, with one cap extending from each end of fist. Hit target with bottom edge of hand (but instead, let stick strike target). Useful targets with this technique are the a) bridge of nose and b) top of head. 2) As yawara stick. Hold as in 1), but instead use a sideways or upward motion with hand to strike with "top" end of stick. Useful targets include: a) temple and b) bottom of chin 3) Like brass knuckles. Hold Konga stick like in 1), and simply use like a roll of quarters in one's hand, that is, to brace the hand during a punch, and to add extra force to the strike. Overall, this is a pretty cool weapon. If you think about it for a while, and experiment a little, you can find a million ways to make this thing really useful. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: LTHLFRCE.TXT Title: Lethal Force Law By: Captain Hack Released: 09/17/95 Danger: °°°°°°°°°° All info about laws in this file taken without permission from a November 1994 issue of "Guns & Ammo". Go ahead. Sue me. The following cases justifying lethal force in PA, NJ, and DE are only generalizations. Each law is riddled with qualifying language, and it is too long and complex to explain in this text file. These are basic rules, but you can always check into specifics for your state. I'm only listing PA, NJ, and DE, because this is my tri-state area, and I'd be amazed if any of these text files ever got outside that area. First, I'll take a moment to define the basic characteristics of ANY justifiable homicide. They are: 1) Death or serious bodily injury is threatened, or the defender reasonably believes it is. 2) The threat is imminent, here and now. The threat or fear of some future deadly intent alone will not justify deadly force 3) The threat is UNLAWFUL 4) Deadly force is reasonably believed to be required to end the threat Now note the abundant use of the word "reasonably". That does not mean just reasonable to YOU, but it essentially means "Can you make the jury think that your use of deadly force was REASONABLE". Deadly force is justified... PA NJ DE o in defense of self X X X o in defense of ANY other person X X X Deadly force is justified to prevent... o robbery, rape or kidnapping X X X o a forceable felony X A defender can stand his ground... o to prevent arson of habitation X X X o to prevent property theft X o to prevent felony prop. theft X ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note that in most states, you are required to retreat from a lethal situation if that is a safe alternative to using deadly force. The one "exception" to this is in the case of invasion of the home: Lethal force is justified when any unlawful intruder into your home poses a believable threat. This is to say that for the most part, any burgler, who displays ANY form of "weapon", down to things like the crow bar he jimmied your door with, can be shot. Also note that in most situations, non-lethal force is much easier to beat the rap on than deadly force. Example: A junkie punk breaks into your house. While you have legal justification to kill him, if you just shoot him in the knees, so he can never walk again without a cain, you've still put him in extreme pain for the rest of his life, and you're much more likly to beat the rap. BEWARE: If you utilize lethal force on ANYONE, you will most likly be charged with murder in the second degree, and you will have to plead "Not guilty by reason of..." and whatever justification you intend to use. Thus, if you cannot justify to a jury that your lethal force was warrented and required, you could be convicted of MURDER 2. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: MACEBALL.TXT Title: Make Maceballs! By: Captain Hack Released: 06/25/95 Danger: ÛÛÛÛÛ°°°°° Note: I've never actually tried this one, yet...but it should work, as I know the materials. If you're not one of the dubiously distinct one of us who owns a paintball gun, then don't even worry about this file. It's of NO use to you. If you, like I, do own a paintball gun, check this the fuck out: Grab a paintball...note that there is a nice, liquidy paint inside. Now, grab a seringe and needle (if you can't get one of those, improvise) and gently stick the paintball. Pull out as much of the pain as you can. Don't collapse the ball, or make overly-many holes in it. Once it's as empty as it's gonna get, pull the seringe. Now, take a little container of Mace or other tear gas, and draw some of that into the seringe. It's easiest to go where there's no wind and, wearing gloves and a respirator, spray some in a little canister. Stick the seringe needle back into the SAME hole you made to get the stuff out. Fill the ball with mace, and slowly extract the seringe. Now, put a small drop of super glue over the hole and let it dry. THE IMPORTANT PART IS THIS: While you can't overfill the ball, you must make it as FULL AS YOU CAN, because after it's sealed with super-glue, the positive pressure from the mace on the inside of the ball is going to be what stops the ball from blowing up in the barrel of your gun. Now make about a dozen of these, and find some poor soul who needs to be in pain. Load up the mace balls in your gun...and SHOOT HIM. Talk about pain. Maybe you could carry this in your car or something...the first 50 yd range on a tear gas sprayer, eh? --hack BTW-- if you'd like to join a mailing list for future Captain Hack HPA files, send some email to mccouchra@box102.cardinal.com and I'll mail you every new CH HPA file. Expect a bunch soon, as I got a whole mess of ideas recently, and I'm just startin' to write the files for 'em. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: MOLITOV.TXT Title: Molitov Cocktail By: Captain Hack Released: 07/13/96 Danger: ÛÛÛÛÛ°°°°° The Molitov Cocktail is probably the most recognized and easily constructed incindiary device known to the suburban commando (or terrorist). Most likely, everyone who reads this already knows what one looks like, how to make one, and may have even employed one, but I thought I'd write this file on the proper construction and use of one anyway. Shopping List: 1 Bottle (see below for types) a rag Gasoline (Higher Octane is better) Powdered Tide (Optional) Bottles: Any bottle will work for a molitov cocktail, but several styles are highly preferred. First, a large volume is desired, secondly a long neck of fairly large diameter is also good. Finally, a shape that fits the hand is preferred, but not required. For each of the bottles which follows, the main features are rated with a + (good), o (neutral), or - (poor) at right: |VOLUME | NECK | SHAPE| Arizona Iced Tea: | + | + | - | Clearly Canadian: | + | o | + | Orangina: | - | o | + | Snapple: | o | - | o | Contruction: Fill the bottle with gas and add some powdered Tide if you want it to be sticky (which is usually good). If you add Tide, be sure to shake it around a bit to mix it up. Then plug the bottle with the rag, and saturate the rag with gas or oil. Use: This is not something you place on a window sill and light. Light a cocktail and, when the rag is burning fully, throw the bottle at a hard object (house, vehicle, street, etc). People are useless, since the bottle won't break reliably. This is really a great device when used in numbers, for example: You wish to stop a group of people from advancing on your position. You and your accomplices light a number of Molitov Cocktails (perhaps 4) and throw them in a line across your opposition's primary path. Then you can make an ambush at their secondary path. In short, the Molitov Cocktail is an excellent and reliable way to deliver a napalm substance to a distant location. Have Fun. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: NAPALM.TXT Title: Napalm Recipies By: Captain Hack Released: 03/17/95 Danger: ÛÛÛÛ°°°°°° Fun little Napalm Recipies: 1) 1 part Motor Oil 1 part soap chips or liquid soap 2 parts gasoline Mix these products, and you have a basic napalm. Nothing fancy. The oil helps it stick, along with the soap. 2) 1 cup gasoline 8 styrofoam packing peanuts Use this ratio as nessesary to make as much as you need. Allow the peanuts to dissolve in the gas. This makes a very thick, viscous napalm. You may alter the ratio as you wish. This is just a starting point. 3) 1 part Desiel Fuel Just put this in a container, and stick it in the freezer until it becomes slushy like a squishy. Then light and drop off a roof or something. Those are the three best methods I know of. Enjoy! --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: NIC.TXT Title: Nicotine Poison By: Captain Hack Released: 07/10/96 Danger: ÛÛÛ°°°°°°° This is a technique which I have seen a couple times before, but I believe it originated in "The Death Dealer's Manual",(Bradley J. Steiner, Paladin Press ISBN 0-87364-247-3). At any rate, I will describe the procedure here and add my own insights into the manufacture of this substance. Nicotine is one of the world's deadliest poisons. Fortunatly, it is also incredibly simple to make and employ. Shopping List: 1 Bag of Chewing Tobacco (see note) 2 glass jars/bottles (Plastic will work too) a bandanna/handkerchief NOTE: The chew cannot be a "Mild" or "Extra Smooth" or flavored kind. It should be regular chewing tobacco. NOTE #2: Be sure to wear latex or plastic gloves when handling. It's not good to touch it alot. Procedure: Put a wad of chew in one jar (or bottle as the case may be) and add just enough water to cover it. Cap the jar, shake it a couple times, and let sit overnight. In the morning, open the jar and place the bandanna over the mouth. Holding on to the bandanna as well as the jar, dump the contents into the other jar. The liquid will pass through the bandanna, and the wad will sit there. Seperate the jar and the bandanna and squeeze the rest of the ball of chew through the bandanna to strain out the remaining liquid in the second jar. Discard the bandanna (with the ball of chew), first jar, and the gloves. You now have a jar containing nothing but nasty brown liquid. Sit this jar in the sun for several hours, or even all day if neccesary. Over time, the water will evaporate out and the liquid will become more viscous. When it is at a consistancy a little thinner than maple syrup, put it in a container (or use the jar you have) and store. Use: About 5 or 6 drops of this liquid ingested will result in death of the target within a few minutes. The best food in which to put the nicotine is coffee, as the poison has a VERY strong taste and will be noticable in just about anything else. If you wish you can water it down slightly to make it more fluid, but then add a few more drops to ensure a kill. One pouch of chew is enough to make maybe a half cup of this syrup. Needless to say, I've never actually used this, though I have plenty. I did touch some by accident once, though. Just through skin contact, I got very lightheaded and confused for several minutes. DO NOT USE THIS POISON FOR THAT PURPOSE. It was an accident that I did it, and had I recieved too much, I could have died or required hospitalization. This stuff is dangerous, so be careful. Also remember to dispose of any materials that come in contact with the tobacco or finished syrup. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: NUTBUST.TXT Title: The Nut Buster By: Captain Hack Released: 08/10/95 Danger: ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ°° Yeah, yeah, you've probably heard of this one too...boys and girls, CH is really running short of ideas (well, I have a few left), and need your help...send him ideas that you don't publish yourself...please? :) 1) Get a shotgun shell, and use a little duct tape to tape a BIG ass marble to the primer. Or you can get those big, white wrist-rocket shot. Those should be heavy enuff. Just make sure it weights the shotshell down. 2) Drop out a window (like a .22 bomb) or toss grenade style (UNlike a .22 bomb) 3) Duck 4) Laugh BTW-- they call 'em nutbusters cause if you take out the shot (the little pellets inside the shotshell), and toss 'em out a window during parades, they can be amusing. OH YEAH!!!: That's what I almost forgot...it's HIGHLY recommended that you open up the shell, and dump out all the little lead balls. They are bad cheese. If you do, they aren't that dangerous, just loud as shit. If you choose to leave the shot in, then read my file on the shotgun shell mine, and imagine that happening to anyone standing real close to where the thing goes off. Could be handy, could be Murder 1. You decide. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: PELLET.TXT Title: New Pellet uses By: Captain Hack Released: 02/04/95 Danger: Û°°°°°°°°° Ever wonder how to increase the damage potential of your .177 caliber pellet gun? I recently discovered a few tips: 1) Shotgun load. Both this and the item below work only in pneumatic air guns (pump). Start by loading a pellet, and closing the bolt. Now re- open the bolt and put in a BB, and close. You will have to push a bit to get it to close all the way. Re-open and add another BB, up to 5. Now you have 1 pellet and 5 BBs in the gun. Pump it up a good 10-12 times. This will make a 5 or 6" spread at 25 feet away. Pretty im- pressive. 2) Backwards hollow-point. Dum-dum pellets can be purchased, but they're hard to find. Instead, try a regular pellet, but load it backwards. This takes a technique in most guns, and you'll have to figure it out for yours, but once you do, it's simple. The damage is impressive. It keeps the .177 entry hole, but the exit wound looks like a .25 or even .32 was used. Even in a test I conducted with a beef stick, the exit wound was huge, and one pellet even fragmented inside. In a soaked book penetration test, the pellet performed fairly well, getting through the equivilant of about 1/2 to 3/4" of "skin". Both of these are pretty safe, and in both cases, you lose VERY little accu- racy for the improved damage factor. Also note in the shotgun load, the space between the BBs acts as dead air space, and silences the shot. A shotgun load pumped 10-20 times sounds like a BB pumped ONCE. Handy... --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: POLUMNA.TXT Title: The Polumna By: Captain Hack Released: 05/28/95 Danger: ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ°° This design is also described in the Terrorists' Handbook, but I have some better details about the powder to use in it. 1. Get a sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper or something like that. Fold it into 1-1/2" strips. 2. Fold the 1-1/2" wide paper strip paper-football style, for two folds, until you have a little pocket. 3. Take some rocket powder (I explain below) and some fuse. Put the fuse through the whole in the point OPPOSITE the pocket opening. See diagram: +------------+ V | ------| powder goes where arrow is pointing \ | \ | \ | \ | \ | \| ^--------------fuse goes here 4. Fold the rest of the "football" up. It should be nice and flush and pretty looking. 5. Get some black electrical tape and wrap the whole thing tight, as the powder will spill out the corners if you don't do this step. Also, the more wraps of tape, the thicker the "plastic" shell of the tape, and the bigger the bang.f ===---ROCKET POWDER---=== Lucky Hack HPA readers! You're getting two files for the download time of one! Here's how to make rocket powder (which is essentially flashpowder): Go to a hobby shop and buy (or lift) several packages of model rocket engines made by ESTES. Or get a HUGE box of them. Expensive, but worth it. Also try to get at least one pack of D or E engines. These are BIG and make MUCH powder. BTW-- they are perfectly legal to buy no matter what age you are. Use an Exacto knife to cut a slit down the paper tubing, and unroll the engines. They look like black cylinders. Get a big piece of cardboard (like poster board) and put the cylinders on this. Smash them into smaller pieces with a hammer. Once they are in small pieces, you can use a mortar & pistle if you like torturing yourself, or I just keep using the hammer. Just keep pounding it until it is a FINE powder. This stuff has MANY, MANY uses. )()()())BACK TO THE PROJECT AT HAND(()()()()()( These polumnas (Spanish for Dove or something) are very nice. They are powerful, cheap, easy to make, and you can toss 'em pretty far. Be kinda careful with them, though, as they can report like a .38 and I've had people call the cops about it. One time I ran into two squad cars and an ambulance: a SHOTS FIRED call...wow. That was neat. Luckily, they didn't catch me. They got a clothing descrip, but what are they gonna do? Put out an APB on a teen wearing black at night? I don't think so. So be careful, and these are dangerous, but they are pretty stable. I think they would take a finger off though, so respect them... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: PROD.TXT Title: Cattle Prod By: Captain Hack Released: 05/07/95 Danger: ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ°° Materials: 1) Shotgun shell 1) 36-48" wooden dowel (3/4" diam or so) 1) finishing nail 1) plastic film canister This one is rather dangerous, but if you're willing to take the risk, talk about nasty! Super glue the film canister on the end of the pole. It should be NO LESS than 3 feet long. Now super glue the nail in the middle of the bottom of the canister. Or any other way you want to do it, so long as you have the canister on the rod with the nail in the canister. GENTLY place the shotgun shell inside the film canister, so it rests on the nail, but doesn't go off (obviously). You can use any size shotshell you want, cause they should all fit in the film canister. Wrap the shotshell and canister with tape like 2 times. Just enough to hold the shotshell in place. If you haven't figured out how to use this by now...well...I'll tell ya: Say there's a guy standing near you, and you don't want him there any more. Grab the prod, and just slam it into his chest or back. Simple. You may want to wrap a towel or something around the pole, as it will kick, and may give you a splinter. This also has other uses...such as a battering ram. Thanks to **Spartan** for telling me about this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: PVCPIPE.TXT Title: PVC Pipe Bomb By: Captain Hack Released: 07/09/96 Danger: ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ°° Alright people, this one is pretty dangerous. It's also the big time, so be careful. We can't afford to loose people that are willing to question authority... Shopping list: 1 Section of 1/2" PVC plastic Pipe (this is usually bought in a 10' section) 2 Push-on (not threaded) end caps (1/2" obviously) 1 bottle of PVC Cement Green Control Fuse Black Powder (or rocket powder for a MUCH lessened effect) Ok, a few notes about this stuff: 1) this sounds like alot, but all the PVC, endcaps, and cement will cost about $6. 2) Be sure you use control fuse on this. DON'T EVEN TRY A POWDER FUSE LIKE A FIRECRACKER. The control fuse can be obtained at most hobby stores under the pretense of needing it for model rockets. They keep it behind the counter. 3) The 1/2" version that I describe here can be scaled up to 1" and I suppose 2" even, tho I haven't tried 2". The 1/2" makes a handy size for "firecrackers" (albeit dangerous ones) and small shrapnel devices. The 1" is used for nothing but killing. So, drill a hole in the center of the length of PVC for the fuse (like a barrel bomb. Not in the endcap) and secure the fuse with some rubber cement or Elmer's. Cement one end cap on the pipe and allow to try (like 10 min). Fill the pipe with black powder and cement on the other end cap. Let the whole thing dry and cure for a day or so before use. The thing shatters the PVC and sends bits flying everywhere. One advantage is that the bits slow down FAST. If you're more than 25' away, anything that hits you is moving slow enough to catch. If one of these lands at your legs, though, you're gonna have a problem. Also (and I REALLY advise against this), the lack of metal means these could be snuck onto a plane if they are kept on person and you walk through the metal detector. I can't guarentee that they won't set off the thing for a wierd reason tho, so I wouldn't try it. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: SKOOLDEF.TXT Title: School Defense By: Captain Hack Released: 1/8/96 Danger: ÛÛ°°°°°°°° Several years ago, when I attended public school, I was very aware of the dangers faced by anyone in America's public education system, and the lack of security and safty provided by the facilities. This file will explain how to make several componants of the Captain Hack School Defense kit, a set of weapons and other useful items well disguised as common school accessories. You can make or use as few or many as you wish, and not all are applicable to all situations or all needs. Use what you hafta. 1) Pencil Pick An ice pick is always a handy tool/weapon...if only it could be con- cealed. Now it can. Start with a brand new pencil, unsharpened. Take a hand drill (or a SLOW elec drill) and drill out ONLY the rod of graph- ite. Now get a small length of metal rod (available at most hobby shops) about the same diam. Cut off a suitable length, and put a little super glue on the rod. Insert it into the pencil, with about 1/4" com- ing out of the pencil. After the glue sets up, sharpen the pencil like normal. You should now have a 1/2" or so metal point. Use a pair of wire cutters to snip the end at an angle so you have a sharp point. [Uses: stabbing, scratching, scribing, keying cars, maybe popping tires] 2) Breath Spray A small bottle of breath spray, like Binacca or something similar can be used for a variety of reasons: First, it can be used as a mace, being that these sprays are about 40% alchohol. Secondly, they can be used as an aerosol flamethrower, in the classic way. [Uses: defense spray, flamethrower] 3) Ruler Edge Have you ever seen those wooden rulers that have the little metal edge? Using a sharpening stone, you can hone this edge to a blade. It may take a while, but it should be useful. [Uses: cutting, scratching] 4) Pen Bomb A small ordinance explosive can be a handy thing to have, and this is a great one, as well as being a good smoke device if needed. Get a regular white BIC pen, and remove the tube of ink and the tip, but leave the part that the tip came out of in the pen. Fill the pen with Rocket Powder (see POLUMNA.TXT) and replace the colored part near the tip (that you saved). Feed the fuse through this tip, and put the cap on like normal. Now you have a smoke/noise device that looks quite normal, so long as you don't remove the cap. [Uses: smoke, noise, light demolition, distraction] 5) Cl Componants Two bottles of white out are only moderatly suspiscious, and thus make great containers for, among other things, Ammonia and Chlorine Bleach. Empty and wash out two bottles of white out, and fill them with these liquids. ONE LIQUID IN EACH. DO NOT MIX. Then cap and put them with your stuff. If neccesary to clear a large group of people, dump both bottles on the floor together. The result is Chlorine Gas, a HIGHLY poisonous and extremely DEADLY gas. Be careful with this. [Uses: distraction, causeing sickness to many, causing evacuation] So there you have it. Many of these tools can be useful everyday, and some are highly specific, but use what you like. Enjoy. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: SSMINE.TXT Title: Shotshell Mine By: Captain Hack Released: 03/31/95 Danger: ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ°° This was a design used by the Viet Cong in Nam. It's very effective. You need: 1) Shotgun shell 2) squares of plywood, about 2'x2' and 1/4" thick 1) nail Dig a hole big enough for one piece of plywood to fit into. Drive a nail through the center of one sheet of wood, and put it in the hole, nail pointing up. Now, fill in dirt around this sheet, until it is mostly covered, and only the tip of the nail is still exposed. It should still be below ground level. GENTLY place the shotshell on top of the nail, and fill in dirt around it, so it is supported on top of the nail, and held in place. GENTLY place the second sheet of wood on top of the shotshell, and put leaves and such on top of it. When someone walks over it, they press the shotshell onto the nail, and it blows right through the wood, and takes off their leg. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: TAILER.TXT Title: Car Tailer Aid By: Captain Hack Released: 01/08/96 Danger: °°°°°°°°°° Hi everyone. This project is not at all dangerous, and is designed only to ease your effort if you are tailing someone in a car. Often if you are staking someone out, you want to be able to find their car in a line of traffic. This little device will help you tremendously. Shopping List: 1 10mm Green Huge-ass LED Diag: d1 Radio Shack # 276-215 1 Pack/5 180 Ohm resistors Diag: r1 RS# 271-1110 1 Pk/5 9v battery connectors Diag: b1 RS# I forget 1 9v battery (the reactangle) Wire these up with the following schematic: r1 + =======/\/\/\====| = is wire b1 9v LED d1 /\/\/\ is the resistor - =================| | is wire Simple enuff (I *HOPE* you followed that). You COULD add a switch, I guess, but if you just unhook the battery when it's not on, that's fine. Put this in a nice small package, and add a couple magnets to the case (or to the side of the 9v, if you don't make a box for it) so it'll stick to the car. When you need to tail someone, just connect the battery and stick it to the side of their car (somewhere that they won't find it, but you can see it), with the LED angled so it's bright when you look from your car. Now, if you lose the person at night in a pack of cars, just look until you see the one with the green dot near the back. You can see when they turn, too. This is good as now you can follow from a car or two back, and not be as suspicious. NOTE: This will work on one 9v battery for like 3 days straight. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: SUICIDE.TXT Title: Suicide Guide By: Captain Hack Released: 10/09/95 Danger: ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ I guess this is the most dangerous file I've ever wriiten, since even if you follow all directions to the letter, you still die. In fact, that's the idea. First, let me stress this: I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT SUICIDE IS THE ANSWER TO ANYTHING. I DON'T BELIEVE IN THE NOBILITY OF SUICIDE, NOR DO I THINK IT IS EASIER TO KILL ONESELF THAN TO FACE THE PROBLEMS AND TRIALS OF LIFE. Now that that's over with, down to the nitty-gritty. How to kill yourself! NOTE: Some info in this file has been taken without permission from the book FINAL EXIT, a complete guide to euphenasia. 1) FIREARMS Firearms are the cause of death for more than 60% of male suicide deaths each year. They are often thought to be the most sure way of commiting suicide, and the easiest. This is also the messiest way, and the most difficult for family members to cope with. It may not neccisarily be the most error free form of suicide, either. If you are planning to use a firearm, be sure it is at LEAST a .38 or .357 caliber, as anything smaller may not cause death, and then you're stuck a veggie. Also, the preferred way to blow you brains out is by putting the barrel of the gun in your mouth, pointed up at the base of your brain. You could also do a Cobain and use a shotgun. That is just as effective :) 2) SLASHING WRISTS This is actually not as painful as one might think. As long as you use a sharp blade, it can be quite effective. First, get a large pan or bowl and fill it with VERY cold water and ice cubes. LOTS of ice. Sit your forearm in it for about 1 hour, or until your arm is COMPLETELY numb. Now, get a sharp knife, such as a ginsu or your mom's best carving blade, if you don't have a suitable one. Otherwise use one of those razor util knives, and extend the blade to full length. Make three cuts. a) At the transition of your wrist into your hand, right across. b) At a 45ø angle starting from the left point of the first cut. Go from upper-left to lower-right (if it's your left) c) From close to the center of the wrist, cut straight down your arm, as far as possible without causing yourself pain This has the effect of severing the many arteries in your arm, with no hope of a blood clot or similar effect. You probably have about 6-10 minutes after doing this, so do it during the Simpsons or something so you can laugh for the final 10 minutes of your life. 3) CYANIDE Cyanide is a very controverial substance. According to different accounts, death by cyanide ingestion can be quick and painless (12 sec.) or long drawn out and unbearably painful (4 or 5 days of writhing pain). It is essentially unpredicatble, but death is almost certain in any situation. Cyanide can be obtained from peach pits, although I am unsure of the exact process right now (look for an upcoming CH HPA) Here are directions for one form of cyanide: 1. Take a small glass of cold TAP WATER (it has the proper pH) 2. Stir 1.0 to 1.5 g KCN (potassium cyanide) into the water 3. After about 5 minutes, the KCN is dissolved and ready to drink 4. After drinking, you will lose consiuosness in about 1 minute 5. Death will follow the coma in 15 to 45 minutes. 4) INJECTION The key to injecting anything is being able to use a seringe. I will assume you know how to do this. It is important that all substances I will describe here be injected into a VEIN, not an ARTERY. This way they will be re-distributed thru the heart when the blood reaches the heart. A) AIR Injection of a LARGE amount of air into the blood stream will cause cardiac arrest in the victim. The only problem is the amount of air that's needed. Close to 40 CC's is required. Death is fairly painless, and reasonably fast. B) DISTILLED WATER I believe this will work, although I am not positive. You would probably have to inject the better part of a whole bottle of water, like Evian. I don't know about the death. C) IODINE This is used in China to kill newborn babies. You can use either Iodine or Rubbing Alchohol. 20 to 40 CC's should ensure rapid death. D) NICOTINE See my file on making pure nicotine syrup, or one of the files in the Jolly Roger Cookbook. Since a few drops ingested will cause swift death, I would think that 2-3 CC's directly injected should make quick work of you. Be aware that once it is injected you will be stoned out of your mind for the few (5-10?) minutes before death. 5) PLASTIC BAG This is usually used as extra insurence, and should be used with any method that involves OD'ing on anything, because this is a failproof way to commit suicide. Take a mid sized plastic bag. Not one small enough that you'd choke on it, cause that just sucks. Use one that is fairly large, but not one that would take forever to fill. Maybe a shopping bag or something. Put it on your head and take 2 rubber bands and secure it around your neck. The effect is simple. You will eventually (1-2 hrs) use up all the Oxygen in the bag. As you run low, you will just get sleepy, and fall asleep, and never wake up. Drug List: The following table shows some of the most popular prescription drugs and the requirments to kill yourself. All of the pills should be taken with alchohol, as this increases the intensity of the drugs. Generic Name Trade Name Lethal Dose #/tablets ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flurazepam Dalamane 3g 100*30mg Chloral Hydrate Noctec 10g 20*500mg Meprobamate Miltown, Equanil 45g 112*400mg Meperidine Demerol 3.6g 72*50mg Morphine --- 200mg 14*15mg Secobarbital Seconal (sleep agent) 4.5g 45*100mg Propoxyphene Darvon (NOT DARVOCET) 2.0g 30*65mg The best way to take these is to grind up about 3/4 of them and put them in a yogurt or pudding. Sweeten it with suger to offset the taste. First take the other 1/4 of them with a glass of wine. Then eat the yogurt with a fair amount of speed. Then wash it all down with some scotch, wiskey, or other hard liquor. Fatal Liquids: This mixture will work well and be fatal with extreme speed (several minutes) Pentobarbital sodium 9g Alcohol 20ml Purified Water 15ml Propylene glycol 10ml Orange Syrup 50ml (Secobarbital sodium can be substituted for the Pentobarbital sodium if neccesary) --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: SULPLAS.TXT Title: Sulpher Plastic By: Captain Hack Released: 02/24/96 Danger: ÛÛÛ°°°°°°° Hi everybody. This is one of my first files since my WWW page has hit it off so big, making me a national celebrity. Just wanted to thank all of you for making this collection a success. I realized just today that I've been writing these things for over a year now, and I am amazed at the response I've been recieving from the public (well, certain parts of it). One quick note: I've read Punisher comics by Marvel for years. I just recently, however, was introduced to the Armory series by "the Punisher". These are extremely good, and have TONS of valuble info on REAL weapons, manufactures, products, and techniques. Definatly worth reading. Anyway, on to the show! This is a project that is very simple, but can cause massive meyhem wherever it is used. Shopping List: Pure sulfur powder (available via mail supply places, or steal from the chem lab at school or college) A test tube or beaker (preferably PYREX) A candle Some green control fuse/twine (Control fuse is MUCH better, and can be obtained by going to a hobby shop, and telling them you need fuse for a model rocket. They keep it hidden, but they have it.) Start by figuring out how much you need. The powdered sulfur condeses about 50% when it is melted, so guess the volume you need. Put that amount in your test tube or beaker, and move it around over the flame until it melts into a light brown, watery liquid. You need to have a form already set up, and I suggest cutting a section from a paper towel roll, and placing it on a sheet of paper. When that is done, pour the liquid into the form (while pusshing the sides of the form down on the paper to avoid leaks), and quickly stick the fuse in the liquid before it solidifies. Let the whole things set up for about 15 minues, and when it's fairly cool, peel the form off the plastic. This needs to be done becasue sulfur burns at about 350F, and the paper/cardboard only lights at 451F, thus the sulfur can't burn around the paper. Put this toy in a closed space and light. The control fuse will burn itself out, but in a few secods, the glowing embers will light the sulfur. It works wonders on classrooms and whatnot. If you use the string or twine, you'll have to douse the whole thing in lighter fluid before lighting, and then pray... NOTE: This is not deadly, but the vapors, smoke, and fumes will burn the lining of your nostrils, causeing great pain; choke you; and make your eyes tear horribly. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: TG177.TXT Title: Tear-Gas Pellets By: Captain Hack Released: 03/18/95 Danger: ÛÛÛÛ°°°°°° This file will document the procedure to produce small .177 caliber cartridges that will fire a cloud of pepper defense spray, for use by individuals interested in carrying a form of defense, but object to carrying true firearms or weapons that are capable of serious injury. All processes described in this file are for informational purposes. If the reader takes the responsability to manufacture the products described here, it is the readers own decision, and the author of this file will take no responsibility for any injuries or punishments levied on the reader of this file or anyone that is injured by any procedure or product described within this file. Introduction ------------------ Now that the disclaimer is over with, we can get down to business. You may ask why you'd want to make these Tear-Gas Cartridges (TGCs). Well, if you're like me, you know you need some form of protection in today's world, but you really don't want to carry a real gun, or even a pellet gun, since most of todays pellet guns are very powerful and can even be lethal. Well, now, if you have a pellet gun, you can make harm-less TGCs for it, and give yourself the protection you want, and the piece of mind you need. Materials ------------- Ok. This is just a list of the things you'll need to complete this project. You'll want to have all of these materials before you start. Materials- 1) Extendable metal antenna similar to Radio Shack #270-1413 1) Can of pepper gas, or a reasonable amount of homemade pepper irritant 1 or 2) Plastic sandwich bags Equipment- 1) Pipe cutter 1) X-atco blade 1) Length of wire with a small bend at the end 1) Pair of goggles 1) Respirator (optional, but recommended) 1) Pair latex rubber gloves Preperation ---------------- Ok. Now you need to find which section of the antenna fits your gun. Just cut off the little cylindrical dealie at the end and try each section. When you've found the section that fits your gun, cut off all the other pieces and get rid of them or somehting. Now, using the pipe cutter, cut the section that is the size of your gun (.177) into a bunch of smaller sections that are each the length of a pellet. You should have 8 or 10, and you'll want at least 6 (2 for test firing, and 4 to use). Also, take the sandwich bag(s) and cut it into small (about 1 inch square) pieces of plastic. This is vital. You must not cut the excesivly large, or insufficiently small. It may take some practice to find the right size. That's why you use water to test fire. This should be the last step of the prep for making the actual cartridges. You should definately be OUTSIDE to do this part. Take some sort of container that you know will not cause much splash. I suggest using some sort of tall beaker. Anyway, go outside with your gloves, goggles and respirator on, and spray some of your irritant into the container. If you chose to use homemade irritant, you have an advantage here. Anyway, you only need a little. Maybe 2 or 3 CCs (eyeball it). Cover this contianer immediatly, before going inside, and before removing your protective gear. Procedure -------------- Ok. We're now moving to a step by step format, as I know I don't give complex instructions well. Here we go. 1. Take one of your little aluminum tube fragments and stand it on end 2. Take a square of plastic wrap or bag, and using the rounded wire, press it down into the canister. You want a little pocket in the bottem, but you also need to keep the edges of the plastic above the top of the canister. 3. With a method you will discover for yourself (there are several good methods. Find one that works), put a small amount of the TG into the bubble or pocket of plastic in the bottom of the TGC. Just make sure it doesn't completely overflow the sides of the plastic. 4. Take the little piece of wire, or another piece, and use it to fold over the sides of the plastic and tuck them into the TGC. Like this horrid ASCII diagram: _/-|##|-\_ |\/| |##| |##| ^ |##| |##| | plastic before tucking ^--- Plastic after tucking (# means TG) 5. Pat yourself on the back, for you have finished the first TGC. Now, make the rest. Be sure to make one or two (or more) with WATER for a test firing. Test Firing --------------- Make sure you KNOW for CERTAIN which TGC aren't really Tear gas, the ones that are water (I know you READ THE WHOLE FILE BEFORE BEGINIG AND KNEW TO MARK THE WATER FILLED ONES, RIGHT?). Now, take those two (or however many) and take them outside or wherever, it doens't matter. Put them in your gun (be it CO2 or pneumatic) and set up a target of paper or something. One other idea to see how they work is to use some of your mom's perfume or some deodorent or something instead of water. This will help you see how well it spreads. Anyway, pump the gun up, or whatever the case is, and fire. You should see a cloud of gas eject from the gun, as well as the plastic and the canister. Neither of the latter two objects will really hurt anyone. Hopefully, the cloud of gas WILL!!!! If you decided to use a fragrence of one type or another, you should notice the scent filling the area. It can spread rather well. Conclusion ---------------- Be aware that these tear gas cartridges are NEVER to be used as an offensive weapon, or for attack in a mugging or such. They should ONLY be used for defensive purposes. If you decide to do otherwise, that is your problem, and I SHALL NOT be held responsible. Please report any glitches in procedure or ideas for improvement to Captain Hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: TRUKPIPE.TXT Title: Truck Weaponry By: Captain Hack Released: 06/26/95 Danger: ÛÛÛ°°°°°°° This is a fun thing you can do if you own a pick-up truck. I haven't done it in mine, yet, but that's only cause I don't have the cash to buy the pipe at the moment. All you need is: 4' long lead or steel pipe, 4" Diam Several yds of nylon cord or other strong string Attach the cord to the release of the tailgate. String that up so it goes into the cab somehow. Through a window or whatever. It really doesn't matter. Just be sure that if you yank the string, and let it go, the tailgate drops. Now, just put the pipe in the bed of the truck. Drive. When some asshole cuts you off, then get around in front of him again, and floor it. Just as the car jerks, yank the cord and keep your foot on the floor. The pipe rolls out. The other car swerves, hits other cars....much fun. Sorry, officer, the tail gate must have come undone. I was on my way to help my uncle install a swimming pool. (Just be sure you hide the cord). --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: VULCAN.TXT Title: Vulcan Grenade By: Captain Hack Released: 08/07/95 Danger: ÛÛÛÛÛÛ°°°° I know you've ALL heard this one before, but, since every other anarchist in the known world has written a phile (mmm..nostalge) on this one, I might as well too. Shopping list: 1 CO2 cylinder (from a BB gun) 1 "D" size model rocket engine (or 3-4 "C"s) Several inches of control fuse An icepick or awl Superglue is handy, elec tape will work Empty the CO2 cylinder. I don't give a shit how. Pop it with a nail, use it in your BB gun. Sumtin. Use the awl/icepick to open the hole in the neck as wide as you can. Now, crush up the rocket engine (see my file called POLUMNA.TXT for details on rocket powder [my favorite low order ordinance]) and fill the cylinder. If you can find a funnel of the right size, consider yourself BLESSED (and tell me where to get one). Else find some other way to get the powder in the thing. At least 3/4 of the way full. Now, get a good amount of fuse (NOT firecracker fuse. YOU WILL KILL YOURSELF). Control fuse is best. About 4-6 seconds is enuff. Shove that length (plus 1/2" for good measure) into the cylinder. Add a drop of superglue around the fuse, or give it a few wraps with black elec tape. Note: If you use the rocket powder described above, it will sound easily like a 1/4 stick, and blow dirt around WELL, but not shrapnel much. It will just blow the CO2 cylinder open. If you want shrapnel, use Black Powder. It's even louder then, too, but you have a 15 yrd killing radius, where everything goes down at knee level... --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: WALLSTUN.TXT Title: Bedside Stungun By: Captain Hack Released: 08/07/95 Danger: ÛÛÛÛ°°°°°° The danger level on this one is for construction, NOT usage. If you fuck shit up, it's all you. Shopping list: - Radio Hack project box (nice, handheld size) - Wall plug with a nice long (10') cord - SPST switch from RS able to handle 120VAC at the HIGHEST amp rating you can get (at LEAST 4A) - Some heavy (20 AWG) wire - 2 Radio Hack banana plugs (they look like little posts) Easy construction phase: Drill a hole in the back or bottom of the box for the cord, two in the front for the banana plugs, and one in the top for the switch (You can use a button if you want, but make sure it can handle the current listed above) Mount aforementioned parts in box, and solder one wire from the wall plug direct to a banana plug, and one to the other banana plug through the SPST. Shitty ASCII diag: To wall +==================+ plug | / spst | -----------|---------/ -----|-DDDDDDDDD <--+ | | |----banana plugs -----------|------------------|-DDDDDDDDD <--+ | | +==================+ project box ^ Get it? CLose enuff. Now, MAKE SURE THE SWITCH IS OFF, and put it somewhere you might want it. Like near your bed or computer. Anytime you need to (how often is that really, but whatever) you can just grab the thing, switch it on, and jab the person that is threatening you. NOTE: Don't use this as a joke. Other stun-guns are harmless, but this could kill. It's HIGH current. Also, you will most-likely blow the fuse it's plugged into when you use it, but the kick it'll give your intruder will be plenty for you to beat his ass. Warnings (Like you guys listen to 'em, eh?) : [1] As mentioned above, this is VERY powerful, and could kill. It's probably good that the fuse will blow after a few seconds... [2] This is not as safe for the user as a normal stungun. If you jab someone, and they grab you, you'll probally get a zap too. I dunno...I haven't tried... Quick addition: If you don't use the banana plugs, and just connect the plug through the switch, you have an instant fuse blower. Take it to school, plug it in, and toss the switch for a few seconds. It'll blow the fuse. Turn it off and move on to another part of the building...:) --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: WINHACK.TXT Title: An Easy Windows Hack By: Captain Hack Released: 04/04/95 Danger: °°°°°°°°°° Here's an easy hack that will break you to DOS in any Windows Protected Mode computer. As you know, a Protected Mode Progman has no File menu, and you cannot exit Windows or change properties of programs. How do we get around this? Easy. You first need a floppy disk containing the following files: COMMAND.COM WINHELP.EXE Just make that disk, and find the computer you need DOS access on. Now, with the disk in the drive, follow these steps: 1) Open the Accessories group 2) Open Write 3) Choose File|Open 4) Open A:\COMMAND.COM 5) Choose NO CONVERSION. THIS IS VITAL!!! 6) When COMMAND.COM is open, choose File|Save As... 7) Save the file as C:\WINDOWS\WINHELP.EXE Now, exit Write, and choose Help|Index or Help|Contents from the Progman menu. BOOM! You're in DOS. Now, copy the WINHELP.EXE that's on your floppy back to C:\WINDOWS\WINHELP.EXE, so no on will inadvertantly do the same trick. Now, do whatever you want, but note: For a reason I have been unable to discover, the prompt is not the normal one, so you may want to set the prompt with the command PROMPT $P$G.That'll take care of the problem. Just type EXIT to return to windows. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: FAXLOOP.TXT Title: The Fax of Life By: Captain Hack Released: 06/23/95 Danger: °°°°°°°°°° This is a good way to get back at a school or place of business you do not like very much. Most fax machines used to use thermal paper that came in rolls and was VERY expensive, but most machines use plain paper now. This is much more effective with rolls, but is still costly even with plain. And if the victim is a company, the revenues they can lose from their fax line being busied out can be substantial. All you need is: A fax machine 3-4 sheets black construction paper Tape First, if you can program the number you're calling from into the machine, since that name and number will be on top of every page, change it to someone else's name and number whom you do not like. Now, call the victim's fax line, and take the paper (which you already taped together to form one LONG sheet) and feed it in. When you get both ends free of the machine (one having not gone in yet, and one end already out), tape them together, so you get a big black loop. THis eats all their paper, and uses all their toner, as well as blocking up their fax line until they notice. Often in big corps, they don't run to the fax machine everytime it rings, so you can leave the thing running for quite a while before they hang up. Enjoy. --hack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filename: FREEMSG.TXT Title: Free Long Distance Messages By: Captain Hack Released: 09/06/95 Danger: °°°°°°°°°° This is an easy way to get quick messages to someone from a payphone either Long Distance or when you don't have change to make a call. It works best using 1-800-COLLECT. Some other carriers will also work, assuming they use computerized routing of the collect call. 1) Call 1-800-COLLECT (or your other carrier) Enter the # of the recipient of the message when prompted. 2) When you are asked to say your name, you have about *6* seconds to record your message. Examples include: "It's John, call me at 555-1212" "My plane will get in at 6:55 pm, Terminal D, USAir" "Mom, come pick me up at the Gym Doors of the school" You get the idea. 3) Allow the recieving party to reject the call. They will recieve your message, and can hang up. You MUST stay on the line until you are told that your call has been refused. That will ensure that the other end heard your message. Also, the "name" will be repeated twice, so if there is a date or phone number in it, the recieving party will hear it a second time if they miss it. Be aware that although 1-800-COLLECT doesn't screen the "name" that is recorded, they may notice a large number of refused calls from a reciever. You shouldn't use this all the time, but it can be handy. --hack BTW-- if you'd like to join a mailing list for future Captain Hack HPA files, send some email to mccouchra@box102.cardinal.com and I'll mail you every new CH HPA file. Expect a bunch soon, as I got a whole mess of ideas recently, and I'm just startin' to write the files for 'em.