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83 lines
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Silver Box Plans by the Jolly Roger
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Introduction:
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First a bit of Phone Trivia. A standard telephone keypad has 12 buttons.
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These buttons, when pushed, produce a combination of two tones. These tones
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represent the row and column of the button you are pushing.
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1 1 1
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2 3 4
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0 3 7
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9 6 7
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697 (1) (2) (3)
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770 (4) (5) (6)
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851 (7) (8) (9)
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941 (*) (0) (#)
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So (1) produces a tone of 697+1209, (2) produces a tone of 697+1336, etc.
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Function:
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What the Silver Box does is just creates another column of buttons,
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with the new tone of 1633. These buttons are called A, B, C, and D.
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Usefulness:
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Anyone who knows anything about phreaking should know that in the
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old days of phreaking, phreaks used hardware to have fun instead of other
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people's Sprint and MCI codes. The most famous (and useful) was the good
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ol' Blue Box. However, Ma Bell decided to fight back and now most phone systems
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have protections against tone-emitting boxes. This makes boxing just
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about futile in most areas of the United States (ie those areas with Crossbar
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or Step-By-Step). If you live in or near a good-sized city, then your phone
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system is probably up-to-date (ESS) and this box (and most others)
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will be useless. However, if you live in the middle of nowhere (no offense
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intended), you may find a use for this and other boxes.
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Materials:
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1 Foot of Blue Wire
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1 Foot of Grey Wire
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1 Foot of Brown Wire
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1 Small SPDT Switch (*)
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1 Standard Ma Bell Phone
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(*) SPDT = Single Pole/Double Throw
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Tools:
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1 Soldering Iron
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1 Flat-Tip Screwdriver
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Procedure:
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(1) Loosen the two screws on the bottom of the phone and take the casinf off.
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(2) Loosen the screws on the side of the keypad and remove the keypad from
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the mounting bracket.
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(3) Remove the plastic cover from the keypad.
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(4) Turn the keypad so that *0# is facing you. Turn the keypad over. You'll see
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a bunch of wires, contacts, two Black Coils, etc.
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(5) Look at the Coil on the left. It will have five (5) Solder Contacts
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facing you. Solder the Grey Wire to the fourth Contact Pole from the left.
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(6) Solder the other end of the Grey Wire to the Left Pole of the SPDT Switch.
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(7) Find the Three (3) Gold-Plated Contacts on the bottom edge of the keypad.
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On the Left Contact, gently seperate the two touching Connectors (they're
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soldered together) and spread them apart.
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(8) Solder the Brown Wire to the Contact farthest from you, and solder the
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other end to the Right Pole of the SPDT Switch.
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(9) Solder the Blue Wire to the Closest Contact, and the other end to the
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Center Pole of the SPDT Switch.<2E><>(10) Put the phone back together.
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Using The Silver Box:
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What you have just done was installed a switch that will change
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the 369# column into an ABCD column. For example, to dial a 'B', switch
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to Silver Box Tones and hit '6'.
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Noone is sure of the A, B, and C uses. However, in an area with an
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old phone system, the 'D' button has an interesting effect. Dial Directory
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Assistance and hold down 'D'. The phone will ring, and you
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should get a pulsing tone. If you get a pissed-off operator, you have a
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newer phone system with defenses against Silver Boxes.
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At the pulsing tone, dial a 6 or 7. These are loop ends.
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-----------------Jolly Roger
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