THE WATER COUNTER BUG ----------------------- How To Get Free Water ----------------------- 2010 - by cyberinfo This little file here will show you a bug in the water counter which belongs to probably every household on this planet. With this bug you have the ability to stop the counting of your water counter which means exactly you can run warm and cold water as much as you want without paying for it. The bug was tested - and it *works perfectly*. This paper was written for educational purposes only, it is not written to incite people to use this information to do what is described in this paper - though i think that the public has the right to know about the existence of this bug. I dont know what this information will cause and if the industry has to develop a new mechanism to count the water they sell with huge profits. The manipulation of the water counter is also done without to destroy or open the counter itself - also we will do it in a way it is hard to detect up to no detection at all. To detect the exploit of the bug if you have done it really good is only possible if the person who looks at the water counter has the knowledge about this bug or forgot his glasses at home if you know what i mean. (-; Also: this hardware experiment was done with a special water counter - they are not all the same - but probably for the rest of the others there are other tricks to get it done. So lets get started - how is it done you may ask now? So first i will give you an ASCII picture of the water counter as a small illustration for a better imagination with the description of some details: .-----------------------. [ 1) ] [ [00012.739]m. ] [ 2) ] [ ] 1) transparent plastic screen [ ] 2) the count of the used water [ ] 3) a little wheel ( the bug ) [ \|/ ] 4) a sticker with a date on it [ --o-- ----- ] [ /|\ ( 007 ) ] [ 3) -----4) ] [ ] "-----------------------" So you can see our little ASCII art. 1) is the water counter itself, it is often also round and is covered by a hard transparent plastic screen 2) is the analog screen (counter) of the used water 3) is a little "useless" (-; wheel on the outside of the water counter, it is behind the plastic screen and this is the bug itself as will we see later, 4) a sticker with a date on it - which shows to when the counter is authenticated or when the authentication has started. Some other water counters often have even more outside wheels which function as small analog counters also, i dont know if you can use these wheels too to exploit the water counter - in this case like said we will use wheel 3) which is our bug. So now here is how it is really easy done with a few small steps. First we remove the little sticker with the date on it and put it aside with the glue side on top because we will use it again on another place to hide the manipulation of the water counter. Now we take a sewing needle and make a very little hole in the sticker - and not on a random place - no, we make the hole right into one of the numbers, so on black color because you will not see the hole when you make it there. Here is the illustration for our example zoomed in -- look above, "007" was our example date: .--------------------. the sticker: / -- -- .----- \ (4) ( //\\ //\\ "---+/ ) [ (( )) (( )) // ] ( \\// \\// // ) + = needle hole \ -- -- -- / "--------------------" As you can see, the " + " marks our very tiny sewing needle hole which is made *into* the black ink of the number 7 (seven). Now we need a lighter to heat the sewing needle on the top of it to the point where it glows a bit red. And then while it is so hot we make carefully another tiny hole into the transparent plastic screen above the little wheel (3), look here: - - the wheel: \\ // (3) \\// + ====()==== //\\ // \\ + = tiny hole in the plastic - - Just use the tip of the glowing sewing needle to make the hole in the transparent plastic then it will be as tiny as we want it to be. Now take the sticker with the date on it up again and place it that both tiny holes are above each other and that the sticker sits optically perfectly. So far so good. Now our manipulated water counter looks something like this where the wheel is: - .- manipulated: \\ ----- \( 007 ) ====()---- //\\ // \\ - - And now comes the exploit itself, maybe you already can imagine what follows. We now stick the thin needle carefully through the hole that it will not become bigger till the needle is between two ( of the six ) small plastic sticks of the wheel. And that is really all to do. Now when we start using warm or cold water there is a quiet sound to hear like "klak klak" and you will hear it all the time because the inner mechanism of the water counter has stopped counting our used water - due to the stop of the outside plasitc wheel which we stopped rotating with the help of the needle the inner gearwheels also stopped and that means: water for free as long as the needle is inside the hole of course. So you can easy hide your activities with just pulling out the needle - the hole is really just to thin and small, if done right, to detect it. So this is the end of the information. To totally end the manipulation to completely hide what you have done you could change the transparent plastic front of the water counter or just put a bit of superglue on the hole in the plastic or destroy it and say it was by accident - nobody can really proof what was going on. Sounds harsh and yes, sadly it is. This file was written for educational purposes only - the writer of this textfile is not responsible for your actions - remember that. You have the right to copy this file to share the information included. ( Copyleft ) -- written by cyberinfo in 2010 _EOF_