Showing posts with label Hacking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hacking. Show all posts

Friday, February 21, 2020

'Russia Couldn't Ask For Anything Better' Than Our Democracy In Chaos

Joy Reid discusses the DNI shake-up with Clint Watts and Natasha Bertrand, who delivers some alarming news about the Worldwide Threats Hearing.

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Russia Backs Russian Spy Traitor Donald Trump's Re-election, And He Fears Democrats Will Exploit Its Support

A classified briefing to lawmakers angered the resident, who complained that Democrats would “weaponize” the disclosure.

Credit...Emmanuel Dunand/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

WASHINGTON — Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get resident Trump re-elected, five people familiar with the matter said, a disclosure to Congress that angered Mr. Trump, who complained that Democrats would use it against him.

The day after the Feb. 13 briefing to lawmakers, Mr. Trump berated Joseph Maguire, the outgoing acting director of national intelligence, for allowing it to take place, people familiar with the exchange said. Mr. Trump cited the presence in the briefing of Representative Adam B. Schiff, the California Democrat who led the impeachment proceedings against him, as a particular irritant.

During the briefing to the House Intelligence Committee, Mr. Trump’s allies challenged the conclusions, arguing that he has been tough on Russia and strengthened European security. Some intelligence officials viewed the briefing as a tactical error, saying that had the official who delivered the conclusion spoken less pointedly or left it out, they would have avoided angering the Republicans.

That intelligence official, Shelby Pierson, is an aide to Mr. Maguire who has a reputation of delivering intelligence in somewhat blunt terms. The resident announced on Wednesday that he was replacing Mr. Maguire with Richard Grenell, the ambassador to Germany and long an aggressively vocal Trump supporter.


Though some current and former officials speculated that the briefing may have played a role in the removal of Mr. Maguire, who had told people in recent days that he believed he would remain in the job, two administration officials said the timing was coincidental. Mr. Grenell had been in discussions with the administration about taking on new roles, they said, and Mr. Trump had never felt a kinship with Mr. Maguire.

Spokeswomen for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and its election security office declined to comment. A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

A Democratic House intelligence committee official called the Feb. 13 briefing an important update about “the integrity of our upcoming elections” and said that members of both parties attended, including Representative Devin Nunes of California, the top Republican on the committee.


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Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Mr. Trump has long accused the intelligence community’s assessment of Russia’s 2016 interference as the work of a “deep-state” conspiracy intent on undermining the validity of his election. Intelligence officials feel burned by their experience after the last election, where their work became subject of intense political debate and is now a focus of a Justice Department investigation.


Part of the resident’s anger over the intelligence briefing stemmed from the administration’s reluctance to provide sensitive information to Mr. Schiff. He has been a leading critic of Mr. Trump since 2016, doggedly investigating Russian election interference and later leading the impeachment inquiry into the resident’s dealings with Ukraine.

After asking about the briefing that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and other agencies gave to the House, Mr. Trump complained that Mr. Schiff would “weaponize” the intelligence about Russia’s support for him, according to a person familiar with the briefing. And he was angry that no one had told him sooner about the briefing, the person said.

Mr. Trump has fixated on Mr. Schiff since the impeachment saga began, pummeling him publicly with insults and unfounded accusations of corruption. At one point in October, Mr. Trump refused to invite lawmakers from the congressional intelligence committees to a White House briefing on Syria because he did not want Mr. Schiff there, according to three people briefed on the matter.

Mr. Trump did not erupt at Mr. Maguire, and instead just asked pointed questions, according to the person. But the message was unmistakable: He was displeased by what took place.

Ms. Pierson, officials said, was delivering the conclusion of multiple intelligence agencies, not her own opinion. The Washington Post first reported the Oval Office confrontation between Mr. Trump and Mr. Maguire.

The intelligence community issued an assessment in early 2017 that President Vladimir V. Putin personally ordered an influence campaign in the previous year’s election and developed “a clear preference for resident-elect Trump.” But Republicans have long argued that Moscow’s campaign was designed to sow chaos, not aid Mr. Trump specifically.

And some Republicans have accused the intelligence agencies of opposing Mr. Trump, but intelligence officials reject those allegations. They fiercely guard their work as nonpartisan, saying it is the only way to ensure its validity.

At the House briefing, Representative Chris Stewart, a Utah Republican who has been considered for the director’s post, was among the Republicans who challenged the conclusion about Russia’s support for the resident. Mr. Stewart insisted that Mr. Trump has aggressively confronted Moscow, providing anti-tank weapons to Ukraine for its war against Russian-backed separatists and strengthening the NATO alliance with new resources, according to two people briefed on the meeting.

Mr. Stewart declined to discuss the briefing but said that Moscow had no reason to support Mr. Trump. He pointed to the resident’s work to confront Iran, a Russian ally, and encourage European energy independence from Moscow. “I’d challenge anyone to give me a real-world argument where Putin would rather have resident Trump and not Bernie Sanders,” the nominal Democratic primary front-runner, Mr. Stewart said in an interview.

Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
Under Mr. Putin, Russian intelligence has long sought broadly to sow chaos among adversaries around the world. The United States and key allies on Thursday accused Russian military intelligence, the group responsible for much of the 2016 election interference in the United States, of a cyber-attack on neighboring Georgia that took out websites and television broadcasts.

Though intelligence officials have previously informed lawmakers that Russia’s interference campaign was ongoing, last week’s briefing did contain what appeared to be new information, including that Russia intends to interfere with the ongoing Democratic primaries as well as the general election.

The Russians have been preparing — and experimenting — for the 2020 election, undeterred by American efforts to thwart them but aware that they needed a new playbook of as yet undetectable 
methods.

They have made more creative use of Facebook and other social media. Rather than impersonating Americans as they did in 2016, Russian operatives are working to get Americans to repeat disinformation to get around social media companies’ rules that prohibit “inauthentic speech.”


And they are working from servers located in the United States, rather than abroad, knowing that American intelligence agencies are prohibited from operating inside the country. (The F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security can, with aid from the intelligence agencies.)

Russian hackers have also infiltrated Iran’s cyber-warfare unit, perhaps with the intent of launching attacks that would look like they were coming from Tehran, the National Security Agency has warned.

Some officials believe that foreign powers, possibly including Russia, could use ransomware attacks, like those that have debilitated some local governments, to damage or interfere with voting systems or registration databases.

Still, much of the Russian aim is similar to its 2016 interference, officials said: Search for issues that stir controversy in the United States and use various methods to stoke division.

One of Moscow’s main goals is undermining confidence in American election systems, intelligence officials have told lawmakers, seeking to sow doubts over close elections and recounts. Confronting those Russian efforts is difficult, officials have said, because they want to maintain American confidence in voting systems.

Both Republicans and Democrats asked the intelligence agencies to hand over the underlying material that prompted their conclusion that Russia again is favoring Mr. Trump’s election.

How soon the House committee might get that information is not clear. Since the impeachment inquiry, tensions have risen between the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the committee. As officials navigate the disputes, the intelligence agencies have slowed the amount of material they provide to the House, officials said. The agencies are required by law to regularly brief Congress on threats.


While Republicans have long been critical of the Obama administration for not doing enough to track and deter Russian interference in 2016, current and former intelligence officials said the party is at risk of making a similar mistake now. Mr. Trump has been reluctant to even hear about election interference, and Republicans dislike discussing it publicly.

The aftermath of last week’s briefing prompted some intelligence officials to voice concerns that the White House will dismantle a key election security effort by Dan Coats, the former director of national intelligence: the establishment of an election interference czar. Ms. Pierson has held the post since last summer.

And some current and former intelligence officials expressed fears that Mr. Grenell may have been put in place explicitly to slow the pace of information on election interference to Congress. The revelations about Mr. Trump’s confrontation with Mr. Maguire raised new concerns about Mr. Grenell’s appointment, said the Democratic House committee official, who added that the upcoming election could be more vulnerable to foreign interference.

Mr. Trump, former officials have said, is typically uninterested in election interference briefings, and Mr. Grenell might see it as unwise to emphasize such intelligence with the resident.

“The biggest concern I would have is if the intelligence community was not forthcoming and not providing the analysis in the run-up to the next election,” said Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a former intelligence official now with the Center for New American Security. “It is really concerning that this is happening in the run-up to an election.”

Mr. Grenell’s unbridled loyalty is clearly important to Mr. Trump but may not be ideally suited for an intelligence chief making difficult decisions about what to brief to the resident and Congress, Ms. Kendall-Taylor said.

“Trump is trying to whitewash or rewrite the narrative about Russia’s involvement in the election,” she said. “Grenell’s appointment suggests he is really serious about that.”


The acting deputy to Mr. Maguire, Andrew P. Hallman, will step down on Friday, officials said, paving the way for Mr. Grenell to put in place his own management team. Mr. Hallman was the intelligence office’s principal executive, but since the resignation in August of the previous deputy, Sue Gordon, he has been performing the duties of that post.

Mr. Maguire is planning to leave government, according to an American official.

Eric Schmitt and David E. Sanger contributed reporting.


Adam Goldman reports on the F.B.I. from Washington and is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. @adamgoldmanNYT

Julian E. Barnes is a national security reporter based in Washington, covering the intelligence agencies. Before joining The Times in 2018, he wrote about security matters for The Wall Street Journal. @julianbarnes Facebook

Maggie Haberman is a White House correspondent. She joined The Times in 2015 as a campaign correspondent and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for reporting on resident Trump’s advisers and their connections to Russia. @maggieNYT

Nicholas Fandos is a national reporter based in the Washington bureau. He has covered Congress since 2017 and is part of a team of reporters who have chronicled investigations by the Justice Department and Congress into residentt Trump and his administration. @npfandos

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Trump is trying to steal another election. He has learned nothing. Assange Claims He Was Promised A Pardon To Lie About Russia/DNC Hack

Rob Reiner

@robreiner
Today’s revelation of Trump’s bribe of Assange is further evidence of what we all know to be true: Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election. He’s trying to do it again. That’s what Criminals do.

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12:24 PM - Feb 19, 2020

https://twitter.com/robreiner/status/1230196467077406720

Assange Claims He Was Promised A Pardon To Lie About Russia/DNC Hack

Whoa if true. Julian Assange is in court in England today and the claim that he was offered a pardon to cover up Russian involvement in the DNC hack is going to blow up the news.

By David

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told a British court on Tuesday that he had been promised a pardon by people close to resident Donald Trump.

Assange made the remarks while appearing at a pretrial hearing via teleconference.

Courtroom reporter James Doleman broke the news on Twitter. According to Doleman, Assange said that the pardon was conditional on him publicly announcing that Russia had nothing to do with the attack on the 2016 election.
In 2017, a The Wall Street Journal report said that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) attempted to broker a deal for a pardon or clemency between the White House and Assange.

Assange is wanted in the United States on 18 counts of violating espionage laws and conspiring to hack government computers.

According to Julian Assange’s lawyers, Assange was promised a presidential pardon by a Trump associate if he was willing to lie about the Russian involvement in the DNC hack. We know that the hack originated from Russia, and Trump knew that this information would make him look bad, so he allegedly wanted Assange to lie about the source. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.



https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/julian-assange-says-he-was-promised-a-trump-pardon-if-he-would-lie-about-russias-dnc-hacking/ 

Former congressman Dana Rohrabacher confirms he dangled a Trump pardon to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and the reporter with whom Rohrabacher spoke shares the details. Aired on 02/20/20.

  

Friday, September 13, 2019

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Thursday, June 13, 2019

Trump says he would listen if foreigners offered dirt on opponents - Trump Admits He's A Criminal

In a stunning admission, the resident told ABC News that he has no problem accepting dirt on a political opponent from a foreign power. In fact, Trump denied that foreign help should even be considered election interference.

During an interview with George Stephanopoulos for ABC News, Donald Trump said that he would take information from a foreign country if he felt that it could help his campaign and that no one in their right minds would contact the FBI. He contradicted himself multiple times in the short interview, but the bottom line is that he’s now willing to admit that he’d absolutely accept illegal foreign help for his campaigns. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.



Donald Trump is a menace and it seems Republicans don't care and Democrats lack the fortitude to stop him. He told George Stephanopoulos that, not only is the FBI Director WRONG, but that if he's approached by a foreign operative with dirt on an opponent, he would take the meeting and the information they have to offer!







resident Donald Trump may not alert the FBI if foreign governments offered damaging information against his 2020 rivals during the upcoming presidential race, he said, despite the deluge of investigations stemming from his campaign's interactions with Russians during the 2016 campaign.

Asked by ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos in the Oval Office on Wednesday whether his campaign would accept such information from foreigners - such as China or Russia - or hand it over the FBI, Trump said, "I think maybe you do both."

Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian

 Cast: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/exclusive-trump-says-he-would-listen-if-foreigners-offered-dirt-on-opponents/ar-AACMWHP

Friday, April 12, 2019

Why Ecuador ended asylum for 'spoiled brat' Julian Assange

Ecudaor, which prides itself on its hospitality and spent almost $1 million a year protecting the WikiLeaks founder, saw his behavior as a national insult.

By Associated Press

QUITO, Ecuador — The dramatic end to Julian Assange's asylum has sparked curiosity about his 7-year stay inside Ecuador's Embassy in London that was marked by his late-night skateboarding, the physical harassment of his caretakers and even the smearing of his own fecal matter on the walls of the diplomatic mission.

It would've tested the patience of any host. But for tiny Ecuador, which prides itself on its hospitality and spent almost $1 million a year protecting Assange, it was also seen as a national insult.

"We've ended the asylum of this spoiled brat," a visibly flustered President Lenin Moreno said Thursday in a fiery speech explaining his decision to withdraw protection of Assange and hand him over to British police. "From now on we'll be more careful in giving asylum to people who are really worth it, and not miserable hackers whose only goal is to destabilize governments."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/why-ecuador-ended-asylum-spoiled-brat-julian-assange-n993711

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

New Exploit Discovered In Fortnite That Allows Rapid Firing Of RPG's

An exploit has been discovered in Fortnite: Battle Royale that makes the Rocket Launcher weapon dangerously overpowered.

This trick, which is being called the 'RPG Reload Exploit,' allows the user to fire rockets much faster than what would be the normal rate.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FortNiteBR/comments/98p20r/epic_please_remove_this_rpg_reload_exploit_read/

https://www.dexerto.com/fortnite/new-fortnite-exploit-discovered-that-allows-quick-firing-of-rpgs-143950 

Monday, July 16, 2018

What Hold Does Putin Have on Trump? The Crisis Facing America

We still do not know what hold Vladimir Putin has upon resident Trump, but the whole world has now witnessed the power of its grip.

Russia helped Donald Trump into the residency, as Robert Mueller’s indictment vividly details. Putin, in his own voice, has confirmed that he wanted Trump elected. Standing alongside his benefactor, Trump denounced the special counsel investigating the Russian intervention in the U.S. election—and even repudiated his own intelligence appointees.

This is an unprecedented situation, but not an uncontemplated one. At the 1787 convention in Philadelphia, the authors of the Constitution worried a great deal about foreign potentates corrupting the American presidency.

When Gouverneur Morris famously changed his mind in favor of an impeachment clause, he explained his new point of view by invoking a situation very like that now facing the United States:
Our Executive was not like a Magistrate having a life interest, much less like one having an hereditary interest in his office. He may be bribed by a greater interest to betray his trust; and no one would say that we ought to expose ourselves to the danger of seeing the first Magistrate in foreign pay without being able to guard [against] it by displacing him.
The United States was then a comparatively poor and vulnerable country, so the Founders imagined corruption taking the form of some princely emolument that would enable an ex-president to emigrate and—in the words of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney—“live in greater splendor in another country than his own.” Yet they understood that even the most developed countries were not immune to the suborning of their leaders. As Morris said, "One would think the King of England well secured [against] bribery. … Yet Charles II was bribed by Louis XIV.”
The reasons for Trump’s striking behavior—whether he was bribed or blackmailed or something else—remain to be ascertained. That he has publicly refused to defend his country’s independent electoral process—and did so jointly with the foreign dictator who perverted that process—is video-recorded fact.

And it’s a fact that has to be seen in the larger context of his actions in office: denouncing the EU as a “foe,” threatening to break up NATO, wrecking the U.S.-led world trading system, intervening in both U.K. and German politics in support of extremist and pro-Russian forces, and his continued refusal to act to protect the integrity of U.S. voting systems—it adds up to a political indictment whether or not it quite qualifies as a criminal one.

America is a very legalistic society, in which public discussion often deteriorates into lawyers arguing whether any statutes have been violated. But confronting the country in the wake of Helsinki is this question: Can it afford to wait to ascertain why Trump has subordinated himself to Putin after the president has so abjectly demonstrated that he has subordinated himself? Robert Mueller is leading a legal process. The United States faces a national-security emergency.

We want to hear what you think. Submit a letter to the editor or write to letters@theatlantic.com.

Saturday, July 14, 2018

Thanks To Robert Mueller, Trump And Putin Now Have A Summit Agenda

Susan B Glasser/New Yorker:
Thanks to Robert Mueller, Trump and Putin Now Have a Summit Agenda
Rosenstein dropped another astonishing revelation into his press conference: resident Trump had been aware all along about the charges against Russian actors, and had been briefed on them by the Justice Department even before he left for Europe. “The resident is fully aware of the department’s actions today,” Rosenstein told reporters as he announced the indictments, which lay out in methodical detail the ways in which agents of the Russian government systematically worked to infiltrate the Democrats’ 2016 campaign with the apparent goal of helping Trump win the American Presidency.
Trump knew the indictment was coming when he bragged about what an easy meeting he would have with Putin. He knew it was coming when he once again attacked the investigation by his own government as “rigged.” And he knew it was coming when he rambled on about an agenda for the Helsinki summit that would cover just about everything but the Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. Talk about brazen.
And by the way, everyone expects Americans to be the next indictment targets. Roger Stone? More?

Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, July 13, 2018

Grand Jury Indicts 12 Russian Intelligence Officers for Hacking Offenses Related to the 2016 Election

The Department of Justice today announced that a grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment presented by the Special Counsel’s Office. The indictment charges twelve Russian nationals for committing federal crimes that were intended to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. All twelve defendants are members of the GRU, a Russian Federation intelligence agency within the Main Intelligence Directorate of  the Russian military. These GRU officers, in their official capacities, engaged in a sustained effort to hack into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic National Committee, and the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, and released that information on the internet under the names "DCLeaks" and "Guccifer 2.0" and through another entity.

“The Internet allows foreign adversaries to attack America in new and unexpected ways,” said Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein. “Together with our law enforcement partners, the Department of Justice is resolute in its commitment to locate, identify and seek to bring to justice anyone who interferes with American elections. Free and fair elections are hard-fought and contentious, and there will always be adversaries who work to exacerbate domestic differences and try to confuse, divide, and conquer us. So long as we are united in our commitment to the shared values enshrined in the Constitution, they will not succeed.”

According to the allegations in the indictment, Viktor Borisovich Netyksho, Boris Alekseyevich Antonov, Dmitriy Sergeyevich Badin, Ivan Sergeyevich Yermakov, Aleksey Viktorovich Lukashev,  Sergey Aleksandrovich Morgachev, Nikolay Yuryevich Kozachek, Pavel Vyacheslavovich Yershov, Artem Andreyevich Malyshev, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Osadchuk, Aleksey Aleksandrovich Potemkin, and Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev were officials in Unit 26165 and Unit 74455 of the Russian government’s Main Intelligence Directorate.

In 2016, officials in Unit 26165 began spearphishing volunteers and employees of the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, including the campaign’s chairman. Through that process, officials in this unit were able to steal the usernames and passwords for numerous individuals and use those credentials to steal email content and hack into other computers. They also were able to hack into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) through these spearphishing techniques to steal emails and documents, covertly monitor the computer activity of dozens of employees, and implant hundreds of files of malicious computer code to steal passwords and maintain access to these networks.

The officials in Unit 26165 coordinated with officials in Unit 74455 to plan the release of the stolen documents for the purpose of interfering with the 2016 presidential election. Defendants registered the domain DCLeaks.com and later staged the release of thousands of stolen emails and documents through that website. On the website, defendants claimed to be “American hacktivists” and used Facebook accounts with fictitious names and Twitter accounts to promote the website.  After public accusations that the Russian government was behind the hacking of DNC and DCCC computers, defendants created the fictitious persona Guccifer 2.0. On the evening of June 15, 2016 between 4:19PM and 4:56PM, defendants used their Moscow-based server to search for a series of English words and phrases that later appeared in Guccifer 2.0’s first blog post falsely claiming to be a lone Romanian hacker responsible for the hacks in the hopes of undermining the allegations of Russian involvement.

Members of Unit 74455 also conspired to hack into the computers of state boards of elections, secretaries of state, and US companies that supplied software and other technology related to the administration of elections to steal voter data stored on those computers.

To avoid detection, defendants used false identities while using a network of computers located around the world, including the United States, paid for with cryptocurrency through mining bitcoin and other means intended to obscure the origin of the funds. This funding structure supported their efforts to buy key accounts, servers, and domains. For example, the same bitcoin mining operation that funded the registration payment for DCLeaks.com also funded the servers and domains used in the spearphishing campaign.

The indictment includes 11 criminal counts:
  • Count One alleges a criminal conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States through cyber operations by the GRU that involved the staged release of stolen documents for the purpose of interfering with the 2016 president election;
  • Counts Two through Nine charge aggravated identity theft for using identification belonging to eight victims to further their computer fraud scheme;
  • Count Ten alleges a conspiracy to launder money in which the defendants laundered the equivalent of more than $95,000 by transferring the money that they used to purchase servers and to fund other costs related to their hacking activities through cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin; and
  • Count Eleven charges conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States by attempting to hack into the computers of state boards of elections, secretaries of state, and US companies that supplied software and other technology related to the administration of elections.

There is no allegation in the indictment that any American was a knowing participant in the alleged unlawful activity or knew they were communicating with Russian intelligence officers. There is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the vote count or changed the outcome of the 2016 election.

Everyone charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. At trial, prosecutors must introduce credible evidence that is sufficient to prove each defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, to the unanimous satisfaction of a jury of twelve citizens.

This case was investigated with the help of the FBI’s cyber teams in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and San Francisco and the National Security Division. The Special Counsel's investigation is ongoing. There will be no comments from the Special Counsel at this time.
Topic(s): 
National Security
Press Release Number: 
18 - 923
Updated July 13, 2018

Monday, June 18, 2018

Perfect Dark: GameShark Character Modification FAQ

Perfect Dark: GameShark Character Modification FAQ
Version 1.5
5-19-01
By William Mistretta
willmistretta@hotmail.com
http://www.geocities.com/willmistretta
Codes by Hackmaster 64 and J. Lint

The character mods are here! Now you can alter the heads and bodies of characters in both
multiplayer and solo missions!

For example, let's say you want to modify Joanna Dark to look like James Bond. Let's start with
the head. Trent Easton looks rather Bond-like, so we'll borrow his. Start by taking the
base head codes for both characters:

JOANNA COMBAT

8007CF56 0001
8007CF57 009C

TRENT EASTON

8007CFBA 0001
8007CFBB 00A1

Take the base code of the character you want to modify:

8007CF56
8007CF57

And add the modifier digits associated with what you're modifying it to:

0001
00A1

Resulting in your final code:

8007CF56 0001
8007CF57 00A1

Some heads aren't associated with particular bodies (or vice-versa) and only have modifier
digits.

Now for our body. We'll start with the base code for the Joanna Combat body:

JOANNA COMBAT

8007D5BE 0000
8007D5BF 0042

Now we need to modify it. Obviously, a Bond-like Dinner Jacket costume is in order. Looking
below, we see:

DINNER JACKET

0000
0047

Combine the two codes as above, resulting in:

8007D5BE 0000
8007D5BF 0047

And so, our efforts to turn Joanna Combat into James Bond have resulted in this final code:

8007CF56 0001
8007CF57 00A1
8007D5BE 0000
8007D5BF 0047

Give it a try!

Notes:

You cannot play as an invisible character, any kind of Skedar, Dr. Carrol, the CamSpy, or
a patrol robot.

In order to modify Simulants to look like Skedar, you must first create the Simulant(s) like
normal and save your settings. Then input the code to modify the Simulant bodies to Skedar
bodies, start up the game, load your settings, and play. Viewing a Skedar Simulant in the
character editor window will cause the game to crash. Follow this same procedure whenever
modifying a Simulant to resemble any non-human, non-Maian character. 

If you modify a character's body to a Skedar or other unusual, non-human or Maian thing, make
sure that that character is never displayed on the Combat Simulator character editor window or
the game will crash.

If you modify a character's body to a Skedar or other unusual, non-human or Maian thing, make
sure they don't show up on screen for any cinema scenes or the game will crash.

Not all head and body combinations are guaranteed to work.

**********Head Mod Codes**********

JOANNA COMBAT

8007CF56 0001
8007CF57 009C

ELVIS

8007CF6A 0001
8007CF6B 009D

CARRINGTON

8007CF92 0001
8007CF93 009F

MR BLONDE

8007CFA6  0001
8007CFA7  00A0

TRENT EASTON

8007CFBA 0001
8007CFBB 00A1

DATADYNE SHOCK TROOPER

8007CFCE 0001
8007CFCD 00A2

CASSANDRA DE VRIES

8007D01E 0001
8007D01F 00A6

MAIAN

8007D032 0001
8007D033 00A7

MAIAN SOLDIER WITH BLUE HELMET

8007D23A 0003
8007D23B 003B

THE PRESIDENT

8007D3CA 0005
8007D3CB 005B

VELVET

8007D3DE 0005
8007D3DF 0061

JONATHAN

8007D226 0003
8007D227 003A

JOANNA WITH MAKEUP

8007CFF6 0001
8007CFF7 00A4

BLONDE-HAIRED WOMAN #1

0001
00A5

BROWN-HAIRED MAN

0001
009E

BLONDE-HAIRED WOMAN #2

0001
00A8

RED-HAIRED MAN #1

0001
00A9

GRIMSHAW

0001
00B2

FOSTER

0001
00B3

RED-HAIRED MAN #2

0001
00BC

FREAKY HUMAN/MAIAN (SCARY!)

0001
00BD

FROWNING MAN

0001
00BE

AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN #1

0001
00C0

MAN WITH PONYTAIL

0001
00C2

BLOND WOMAN WITH GLASSES

0001
00C5

BIOTECHNICIAN

0001
00D0

MAN WITH MOUSTACHE AND GOATEE

0002
0062

SMILING MAN

0002
0067

ELVIS WITH SCUBA-GEAR

0005
0054

JOANNA ARCTIC

0005
005A

AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN #2

0005
000D

MIYAMOTO

0005
000E

DATADYNE SNIPER

0004
00AE

BLONDE WOMAN WITH PIGTAILS

0004
00A7

BROWN HELMET WITH MASK

0005
0011

MAN WITH LONG PONYTAIL

0007
00CD

HOWARD LINCOLN

0007
00C6

**********Body Mod Codes**********

JOANNA COMBAT

8007D5BE 0000
8007D5BF 0042

MAIAN

8007D5D2 0000
8007D5D3 004A

AREA 51 BROWN SUIT GUARD

8007D5E6 0000
8007D5E7 003F

OVERALLS

8007D5FA 0000
8007D5FB 0051

CARRINGTON

8007D60E 0000
8007D60F 0040

MR BLONDE

8007D622 0000
8007D623 004E

SKEDAR

8007D636 0000
8007D637 0053

TRENT EASTON

8007D64A 0000
8007D64B 0057

DATADYNE SHOCK TROOPER

8007D65E 0000
8007D65F 0045

MALE LAB TECHNICIAN

8007D672 0000
8007D673 004D

NSA BODYGUARD

8007D686 0000
8007D687 0054

JOANNA PARTY FROCK

8007D69A 0000
8007D69B 0043

JOANNA TRENCHCOAT

8007D6AE 0000
8007D6AF 0044

OFFICE SUIT

8007D6C2 0000
8007D6C3 004F

OFFICE CASUAL

8007D6D6 0000
8007D6D7 0050

SECRETARY

8007D6EA 0000
8007D6EB 0052

CASSANDRA DE VRIES

8007D6FE 0000
8007D6FF 0041

ELVIS

8007D712 0000
8007D713 0056

FEMALE GUARD

8007D726 0000
8007D727 004C

DATADYNE LAB TECHNICIAN

8007D73A 0001
8007D73B 0094

DATADYNE SECURITY

8007D74E 0000
8007D74F 0046

DR CARROL

8007D762 0000
8007D763 0048

CAMSPY

8007D776 0000
8007D777 004B

JOANNA PARTY FROCK (RIPPED)

8007D78A 0001
8007D78B 00B1

DATADYNE INFANTRY

8007D79E 0001
8007D 79F 00BF

DATADYNE TROOPER

8007D7B2 0001
8007D7B3 00C4

INVISIBLE

8007D7C6 0000
8007D7C7 0055

BIO TECHNICIAN

8007D7D7 0001
8007D7DB 00C8

FBI

8007D7EE 0001
8007D7EF 00C9

CIA

8007D802 0001
8007D803 00CB

AREA 51 TROOPER

8007D816 0001
8007D817 00CC

PILOT

8007D82A 0002
8007D82B 0031

PATROL ROBOT

8007D83E 0002
8007D83F 0036

STEWARD

8007D852 0002
8007D853 0037

STEWARDESS

8007D866 0002
8007D867 0039

THE PRESIDENT

8007D87A 0002
8007D87B 003B

HEAD STEWARDESS

8007D88E 0002
8007D88F 003C

SMALLER SKEDAR

8007D8A2 0002
8007D8A3 0040

NSA LACKEY

8007D8B6 0002
8007D8B7 0042

PRISIDENTIAL SECURITY

8007D8CA 0002
8007DBCB 0044

NEGOTIATOR

8007D8DE 0002
8007D8DF 0046

G5 GUARD

8007D8F2 0002
8007D8F3 0061

PELAGIC 2 GUARD

8007D906 0002
8007D907 0063

G5 SWAT GUARD

8007D91A 0002
8007D91B 0064

ALASKAN GUARD

8007D92E 0002
8007D92F 0065

MAIAN SOLDIER

8007D942 0002
8007D943 0066

PRESIDENTIAL CLONE

8007D96A 0003
8007D96B 0039

JOANNA STEWARDESS

8007D97E 0003
8007D97F 003C

JOANNA WETSUIT

8007D992 0004
8007D993 009E

JOANNA AQUALUNG

8007D9A6 0004
8007D9A7 009F

JOANNA ARCTIC

8007D9BA 0004
8007D9BB 00A0

JOANNA LAB TECHNICIAN

8007D9CE 0004
8007D9CF 00A1

FEMALE LAB TECHNICIAN

8007D9E2 0004
8007D9E3 00A2

DATADYNE SNIPER

8007D9F6 0004
8007D9F7 00A3

AIR FORCE ONE PILOT

8007DA0A 0004
8007DA0B 00A4

CI MALE LAB TECHNICIAN

8007DA1E 0004
8007DA1F 00A5

CI FEMALE LAB TECHNICIAN

8007DA32 0004
8007DA33 00A6

CARRINGTON EVENING WEAR

8007DA46 0004
8007DA47 0049

CI SOLDIER

8007DA6E 0004
8007DA6F 00AB

SKEDAR KING

8007DA82 0005
8007DA83 000B

ELVIS WAISTCOAT

8007DA96 0005
8007DA97 000C

JOANNA LEATHER

8007DAAA 0005
8007DAAB 0059

JOANNA NEGOTIATOR

8007DABE 0007
8007DABF 0096

BLACK DINNER JACKET #1

0000
0047

BLACK DINNER JACKET #2

0001
019B

WHITE DINNER JACKET

0001
0199

 GameShark Codes

Perfect Menu

Using Your GameShark With Perfect Dark
Enable Codes
High and Low-Resolution Codes
Low-Resolution Codes
High-Resolution Codes

Welcome to my Perfect Dark GameShark page. This is where I'll post my favorite GameShark codes. None of these codes are for "cheating" as such, but each one will help you to bend the rules a little to get even more out of your Perfect Dark experience.

Using Your GameShark With Perfect Dark

You'll need one of the newer GameShark Pro models to really hack Perfect Dark. A 3.3 or higher is highly recommended.

You'll need to enable the Zelda keycode before your GS will boot up with Perfect Dark.

There are two subdivisions of Perfect Dark GS codes: high and low resolution. Low-resolution codes can only be used in the Combat Simulator, because they only function when Perfect Dark fails to detect the N64 4MB Expansion Pak. High-resolution codes can be used in any game mode, but only with certain GameShark versions and the use of a special enable code (see below) to allow the game to detect the Expansion Pak and to prevent it from crashing upon startup or not starting up at all.

Please note that not all codes will work with all GameShark versions. Trial and error is sometimes the only way to determine which codes work with which GameShark versions.

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Enable Codes

The appropriate code must be active if you wish for your GameShark to function with Perfect Dark.

GameShark Pro version 3.3 or higher high-res enable code:

FF1EAE00 0000

Or, if you can't get a code to work with that enabler, try this alternate one:

FF000220 0000

Now, on to the other codes!

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High and Low-Resolution Codes

Extra death animations in Combat Simulator. This code will add several very cool death animations that normally only show up in solo missions to your multiplayer games. These include choking, elaborate flips, wild limb-flailing, etc. Works in both high and low-resolution. Code by hack master with modifications by me.

80070769 0019
8007076B 0038
8007076F 0086
8007076D 0088
8007076F 0089
80070771 0091
80070773 00A7

Sky color modifier. These codes allow you to set the color of Perfect Dark's skies. They work in all game modes (solo, multiplayer, etc). The first line regulates the amount of red in the sky, the second green, and the third blue. Mix them to create any color you choose. The "????" represents a value of your choice. Setting all three color values to 0000 results in a black sky. Code by hack master.

80081060 ????
80081061 ????
80081062 ????

Custom weapon modification. A GameShark and a copy of this guide are all you need to begin creating your own customized weapons for Perfect Dark solo and multiplayer use. You can set just about everything. Primary and secondary functions, sound effects, clip size, zoom, whether your weapon can be “doubled up”, and more. Guide by SquareGuru.

Perfect Dark Weapon Modification Guide

As an example of what can be accomplished with the information in this great guide, here's a sample weapon. A silly little version of the Devestator that I like to call the Toilet Launcher:

8106D956 0186
8106D9BA 0186
8106D94E 805C
8106D9B2 805D
8106DA1A B100

New Falcon 2. This code will modify the Falcon 2 (scope) into a new version of the Falcon 2 fitted with both a silencer and scope! There are a couple tiny graphic glitches, but overall, the effect is perfect. Code by Wreck7.

8006B78F 0074
8006B7B6 00B3
8006B7B7 00BC

Slayer in all solo missions. This code modifies the standard Rocket Launcher to fire fly-by-wire rockets like the Slayer! Now you can use fly-by-wire rockets in any solo mission. Sometimes they explode right when launched, so invincibility is recommended. Note that aiming straight up as you fire seems to prevent this premature detonation. Code by Wreck7.

8106D6E2 D7C8

IR Scanner in multiplayer. The Perfect Darkness cheat is almost useless for multiplayer games because the Night Vision that you start out with disappears after you die once. The X-Ray Scanner is a poor substitute to say the least. This code will modify the X-Ray Scanner to work like the IR Scanner, making Perfect Darkness a much more viable option for multiplayer. Also great for spotting cloaked adversaries. Code by Wreck7.

8106F73A F520

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Low Resolution Codes

GoldenEye items in Perfect Dark. Thanks to a truly amazing GameShark code, we can now see that a number of unused items from Perfect Dark's prequel game GoldenEye 007 are actually hidden deep within the game! To see the items, you must enter and activate one of these three codes. Then, simply start a game in the Felicity multiplayer level. You will see that the ammo boxes at the top of the stairs (outside the outer bathroom door) have been replaced with an item from GoldenEye! Codes by SubDrag and Wreck7.

GoldenEye computer terminal:

811EED4C 0018
811EEDF4 0018

GoldenEye multiplayer flag token:

811EED4C 0016
811EEDF4 0016

GoldenEye "beta" metallic cube:

811EED4C 0003
811EEDF4 0003

Weird weapons.This code enables you to make your weapons look and function very strangly. You must be playing in the Temple level with no other players for the code to function. Basically, this code replaces whichever weapon that is set to slot one with an item simply called "." When you pick up a ., it will show up as a blank space on your inventory screen. Just equip one of your regular guns, then hit start and select the blank line on your inventory menu. Your regular version will be replaced by a glitchy weapon. Usually, the glitches consist of the weapon being held higher up than normal or the weapon's clip appearing beside it. The weapon loses its normal characteristics and acts like an AR-34 with no zoom, a 27-round clip, and a quick, GoldenEye-like reload animation.

801DC7E4 0059

Beta weapons! This code allows you to access some glitchy but very cool "beta" weapons that were used in programmer testing but never made it into the final version of Perfect Dark. You must be playing in the Temple level with no other players for the code to function. Basically, this code replaces whichever weapon that is set to the designated weapon slot with the item specified in the code. Codes by SubDrag and Wreck7. The beta weapons are:

Tester: Looks like a hovering grenade but fires like a Falcon 2. Quick, GoldenEye-like reload animation.

Rocket Launcher: This version looks and behaves very strange. The rockets it shoots don't explode, but instead hover in place when they come into contact with a solid surface. Reloads like normal.

Tester (Weapon slot one modifier. Temple.):

801DC62C 0033

Rocket Launcher (Weapon slot one modifier. Temple.):

801DC62C 0034

Both (Weapon slots one and two modifier. Temple.):

801DC62C 0033
801DC7E4 0034

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High-Resolution Codes

Character head/body modifiers. These codes will allow you to swap heads and bodies between different characters in both multiplayer and solo modes. You can do everything from changing dataDyne troopers into Pelagic 2 guards, to dressing Carrington in a ripped party frock, to turning every human enemy in a level into a Skedar, to turning Joanna Dark into James Bond! Plus just about anything else you can imagine. Just check this FAQ for details:

Perfect Dark: GameShark character modification FAQ

Codes by Hackmaster 64 and J. Lint.

Walk through doors. Pretty much what it says. This code allows you to walk through any door in the game as though it weren't there at all. One of the best ways to hunt for secrets in Perfect Dark. Code by Ructir.

80285798 0001

Walk through walls. A companion code to the one above, this will actually let you walk through almost any barrier. Even better for exploring every hidden nook and cranny of this fantastic game. Code by Ryan Toluchanian.

8002804B 0001
80028053 0001
80028057 0021
8002805B 0001
8002805F 0001
8002806B 00A1
8002806F 0001
80028073 0021
80028077 0001

Moon jump. Just get off the ground slightly by either falling off of something or running down a ramp or other incline, then hold the B button to fly. Release it again to drop back down. Another fantastic code for exploring Perfect Dark's many levels. Codes by Crocc.

Player One Moon Jump:

D009C7E4 0040
81206720 40F2
D009C7E4 0040
802066D3 0000
D009C7E4 0040
811ED720 40F2
D009C7E4 0040
801ED6D3 0000
D009C7E4 0040
811D4720 40F2
D009C7E4 0040
801D46D3 0000

Player Two Moon Jump:

D009C7EC 0040
81208390 40F2
D009C7EC 0040
80208343 0000
D009C7EC 0040
811EF390 40F2
D009C7EC 0040
801EF343 0000
D009C7EC 0040
811D6390 40F2
D009C7EC 0040
801D6343 0000

Player One Moon Jump (Multiplayer):

D009C7E4 0040
811BB720 40F2
D009C7E4 0040
801BB6D3 0000

Player Two Moon Jump (Multiplayer):

D009C7EC 0040
811BD390 40F2
D009C7EC 0040
801BD343 0000

Player Three Moon Jump (Multiplayer):

D009C7F4 0040
811BF000 40F2
D009C7F4 0040
801BEFB3 0000

Player Four Moon Jump (Multiplayer):

D009C7FC 0040
811C0C70 40F2
D009C7FC 0040
801C0C23 0000

Shield-penetrating weapons. This code allows you to shoot through some enemy shields that it is not normally possible to. Using this code, for example, you can blow up the patrol robot in Chicago or shoot the Skedar king to death. Fun. Code by Ryan Toluchanian.

80255108 0020

Lights out. This code automatically turns off all of the lights in the game that can be destroyed. Different from the Perfect Darkness cheat, the effect is quite different and creepy. Code by Ryan Toluchanian.

8022169C 0020

Weapons in the CI. Ever want to grab a machine gun from the Carrington Institute firing range and blast those rude CI employees? Well now you can! Simply enable this code, go to the firing range, start an exercise with the weapon you want, and then abort right away. You'll still be holding the weapon and will be able to take it anywhere in the building you want! Whenever you need more ammo or want to switch weapons, just head back to the range and repeat the process. Code created by Ryan Toluchanian.

802C92C4 0020

Kill CI employees. This great code will let you kill the normally invincible Carrington Institute employees in traning mode! Great fun! Combine it with the previous code to take weapons off the firing range and go on your very own workplace rampage with the weapon of your choice.

This code also has other odd effects. It makes all enemies inactive in solo missions and occasionally eliminates background music, environmental effects (like rain), and even cinema scenes.

Since this code also deactivates almost all enemies in solo missions, so it is also useful for setting up two-player Co-Operative and Counter-Operative deathmatches, since guards and other enemies won't harass players.

Code by Ryan Toluchanian.

8022EE80 0020
802C92C4 0020

Infinite Psychosis Gun ammo. Even with the game's two built-in infinite ammo cheats activated, you are still normally limited to four shots with the Psychosis Gun. With this code, you can brainwash your enemies into allies all you want and raise a virtual army. Have fun. Codes by Crocc.

Player One Infinite Psychosis Gun Ammo:

80207EA3 00FF
801EEEA3 00FF
801D5EA3 00FF

Player Two Infinite Psychosis Gun Ammo:

80209B13 00FF
801F0B13 00FF
801D7B13 00FF

GoldenEye Weapons in Combat Simulator. Using this code, all players will begin every multiplayer match with the classic GoldenEye guns already in their inventories! Furthermore, they will not be lost upon death. All you need to use them is ammunition. You can get this by activating either of Perfect Dark's infinite ammo cheats. In you haven't earned them, or simply prefer to pick up ammo off the ground like normal you can stock your levels with the following weapons, each of which comes with ammunition that the GoldenEye guns can use. Check the following chart for compatability. Happy deathmatching! Code by Crocc.

Falcon 2 (any), MagSec 4, Mauler, Phoenix - PP9i, CC13
CMP150, Cyclone, Laptop Gun - KLO1313, ZZT (9MM), ZMG, RC-P45
Callisto NTG, RC-P120, Dragon, K7 Avenger, SuperDragon, Sniper Rifle - KF7 Special, AR-53

D01BCF0F 001E
801BCF10 0007
D01BEB7F 001E
801BEB80 0007
D01C07EF 001E
801C07F0 0007
D01C245F 001E
801C2460 0007

CarrolSims. This one is great. This code will turn all the Simulant characters in multiplayer games into Dr. Carrol! They will even fight (unarmed only) and explode when defeated, making distinctive Dr. Carrol noises when shot or killed. Code by SubDrag.

800AC548 003E
800AC594 003E
800AC5E0 003E
800AC62C 003E
800AC678 003E
800AC6C4 003E
800AC710 003E
800AC75C 003E

Two player deathmatch in Carrington Institute! This code will let you play a two-player deathmatch in the Carrington Institute training level (not CI - Defense, so Carington and company will still be walking around and talking to you while you fight). Just input the following code, start up in high-res mode, and begin any solo mission.

For complete details, read my CI training deathmatch FAQ.

Main code by Ryan Toluchanian.

8009DFE9 0026
8009DFEB 0080
802C92C4 0020
D01BCF0F 001E
801BCF10 0007
D01BCF0F 001E
801BBEFB 00FF
D01BCF0F 001E
801BC69F 00FF
D01BEB7F 001E
801BEB80 0007
D01BEB7F 001E
801BDB6B 00FF
D01BEB7F 001E
801BE30F 00FF

Turbo Jo. This neat code will make Joanna Dark run at incredible speeds. Much faster than a hoverbike. It's a lot of fun. Code by Ryan Toluchanian.

8001AC0F 0000
8001AC1F 0080
8001AC4B 0081
8001AC5B 0001
8001AC6B 0081
8001AC7B 0001
8001AC8B 0081
8001AC9B 0001
8001ACAB 0081
8001ACB7 0001

Initial character placement. This is a very cool and very weird code. It lets you view every character in solo levels in their initial placement, including character that normally only show up in cinema scenes. This includes Elvis on Air Force One - Antiterrorism and Trent Easton in Air Base - Espionage. Every solo level in the game reveals strange new surprises with this code enabled. Code by Ryan Toluchanian.

8023E698 0020

Music modifier. This code will let you modify the music that plays on the Perfect Menu. Just change the "??" to any value of your choice. The digits 15, 75, and 3C correspond to previously hidden "beta" music tracks. Code by SubDrag.

800AA5FB 00??
800AA66B 00??