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--------------------------------------------------------[ May 22, 1990 ]-------
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Pranks, Revenge, and General Mayhem Another "no stupid group" Phile
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______ ________ __________
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\ \ / \ \ / | | (C) 1990 The Fixer
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\ \/ \ \/ | |
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\ /\ /| | This Volume: More Phone Pranks
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\ / \ / | |
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/ \ \ / | | THC....................+1 604 598-4259
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/ \ \ / | | Dark Side of the Moon..+1 408 245-7726
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/ /\ \ \ / | | Centre of Eternity.....+1 615 552-5747
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/_____/ \_____\ \/ |_____| The Convent............+1 619 475-6187
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_______________________________________________________________________________
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Preface: On May 9th, 1990, one of my users (of THC-BBS) called the Ripco BBS
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in Chicago, only to hear this voice message:
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"This is 528-5020.
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As you are probably aware, on May 8th, the Secret Service
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conducted a series of raids across the country. Early news
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reports indicate that raids involved people and computers that
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could be connected to credit card and long distance toll fraud.
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Although no arrests or charges were made, the Ripco BBS was
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confiscated on that morning. Its involvement at this time is
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unknown. Since it's unlikely the system will ever return, I'd
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just like to say goodbye and thanks for your support for the
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last six and a half years. It's been interesting to say the
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least. Talk to you later."
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On behalf of THC, I would like to applaud Dr. Ripco on his
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running Ripco for 6.5 years, and express the condolences of myself
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and THC's users at the loss of Ripco's hardware. It's been
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interesting, to say the least.
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The Fixer, May, 1990
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DOWN TO BUSINESS: Fucking over your best friends, worst enemies, and
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k00lest d00dz with their telephones.
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Answering Machines
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There are several methods of ruining your friends' lives via their
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answering machines. You can fill their incoming message tapes with
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bogus messages, you can turn them on/off remotely and hear/erase
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all the messages, and in some beauties, you can change the outgoing
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message. The latter is the most devastating of all answering
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machine methods, and it will get the most space here.
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- Most answering machines today have "beeperless remote" features, even in the
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bargain-basement models. Normally they are protected by a security code
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of between 1 and 3 digits, and quite often even the 3-digit ones are
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so easily cracked it's disgusting.
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Once "inside" an answering machine, you can do a number of things. Always,
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you will be able to hear, and later erase, any incoming messages. This is
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helpful to the prankster in that it lets him intercept his target's
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important messages, indicating the target's future whereabouts for later
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attacks. It also, of course, can be used to prevent the target from
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receiving important messages, with possible dire consequences to the
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target's social/work life.
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- Another interesting feature of many answering machines is the ability to
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change the outgoing message. When I bought my own unit, the last thing I
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asked the salesman was, "Can you change the outgoing message from remote?"
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As soon as he said "No" I bought it. That's how you should shop for
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answering machines too, as is about to become clear...
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A few messages to replace a target's answering message with:
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Blackmail messages:
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"Hi, you have reached Wayne's House of Drugs. Currently we have Home Boge,
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Mexican redhair, Black hash from California, crack and Ice in stock. Please
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leave your name, phone number, and the amount and kind of poison you need
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and I'll get back to you. Thanks and Party Hardy! BEEEEEEP"
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"This is The Installer's Codeline. Here are this weeks codes:
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604 385 9682 0194. 604 477 9980 6682. 604 727 4432 8282. These are
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all BC Tel Calling Cards. Please leave your codes at the tone.
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BEEEEEEEEP"
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A slightly less malignant blackmail message:
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"Hi, this is the Silva Residence. No one can come to the phone right now
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since we're having our nightly session of hot steamy gay family orgy fun.
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As soon as we get out of the shower, we'll call you back. See ya later,
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you hunk of man-meat you! BEEEEEEEP"
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For a machine in a doctor's office:
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"You have reached Dr. Jones' office. We are sorry, but this office is closed
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due to a pending malpractice suit. Thank you for calling. BEEEEEEP"
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For a known police informer (to wit: a NARC):
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"This is the Sidney RCMP. There is no-one in the station to take your call
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right now. If this is an emergency, officers are available at the
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Sidney Donut Shoppe, at 656-4983. BEEEEEEEEP"
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(The above blackmail messages also work well for narcs)
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Universally useful:
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"This answering machine accepts all collect calls. (10 second pause while
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operator does her thing) Here are this weeks codes: (etc etc etc)"
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Here's something I have never tried, tell me if it works for you:
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Send your mark's machine several seconds of 2600 Hz and the appropriate
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MF coding for a nice faraway lame BBS or something, as the outgoing message.
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Then advertise (anonymously) on some other faraway BBSes the existence of a
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new BBS with no download ratios, 25,000 files, etc etc etc. What happens is
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that when someone calls LD (and they will), the answering machine will start
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blue boxing. The phone company will not be pleased.
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I'm sure you can think of a lot more.
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- Here are a few hints and pointers: My ex-roomie, a consummate dick-head
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worthy of everything he has gotten in the process of beta testing these
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pranks (He's the Wayne in Wayne's House of Drugs BTW) has a nice Cobra
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answering machine. Well, not only did he pay 3 times for his machine as
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much as I paid for mine, but his has only a wimpy one-digit code (it's 5)
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and lets you change the outgoing message from remote. Other answering
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machines have a 2 or 3 digit combination but actually accept ANY digit on
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the row or column of the "actual" code number, thus bringing the number of
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possible codes down to near-zero. Still other machines have stupid
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codes like 123, 369, etc (some of those are the previous kind). Almost
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all answering machine codes are hardcoded; I have seen dip-switches and
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PC-mounted rotary switches allowing owners to change their codes at will,
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but these beauties are rare, fortunately. The best thing you can do is
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acquire a library of users manuals for various machines to learn their code
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conventions and instruction sets. This can be readily accomplished by
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hanging out in department stores etc that sell the things.
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There is no Canadian Law explicitly dealing with answering-machine
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tampering, but all of these pranks can lead to your being charged with
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common mischief at the least. Caveat Trickstor.
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Linemans' Handset Methods
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Please don't refer to a homebuilt lineman's handset as a "bud
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box", "brown box", "beige box", "tan box", "modu box", "terminal
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box", or anything else so lame. There is no technical wizardry
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in ripping the mod plug off your phone and replacing it with
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'gator clips. If you can get a real handset, do so because they
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are specially ballasted to allow near-silent line interception
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whereas modified Flip-fone ]['s will always generate a nice
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clunk on the line when you attach, and often will even tinkle
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the bell on phones in your target's house.
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Using a handset to do nothing but place phree phone kawlz is
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lame; the true misanthrope phreak knows the true power of his
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tool.
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- Custom calling! It's been said that the only person you can't prank is
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someone who lives in a cave as a hermit. And it's true in phoneland too,
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the more services your target subscribes to, the easier it is to have
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phun with his miserable little life. Take call forwarding. If your mark
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has this most useful of services, you've got it made. Goto your target's
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phone terminal box-ette on the side of his house one fine sunday morning
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(revenge on the Lord's Day is no sacrilege to an anarchist) at 4:30, clip
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on your awesome modu-box, and try a few of these little gems:
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:Forward all his calls to 911, the police or Fire Dep't.
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Guaranteed results at the very first incoming call.
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:Forward calls to Dial-A-Prayer, Dial-A-Meditation (we have a
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great Sri Chinmoy recording in Victoria, BC, at 604-595-2721).
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I used to do this with my own line sometimes, it really fucks
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incoming callers minds up.
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:Forward calls to yourself. Risky, but if your mark doesn't
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have an answering machine you can use your own machine to use
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the above-mentioned Answering Machine methods.
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:Forward calls long-distance. In 604, calls that are forwarded
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long-distance are paid for by the forwarding party, i.e. your
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target. It should work the same in many other area codes too,
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call your local telco customer service rep to find out. This
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can have horrible implications...
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:...if you forward those calls to a BBS, or better still a
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code-line and advertise your mark's number as the "new local
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node for the MegaLeech AE".
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:Forwarding to a 1-900 or 1-976 dial-it service works well too.
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Since most of these are voice-only, it is very easy to program
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a large number of people to start calling your mark on short
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notice, and the target gets stuck with the bill.
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:Forwarding to your phone comany's local security office is a
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sign of true arrogance on your part, as everyone gets hosed.
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Do it sometime.
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:Forward calls to a number that is not in service. Effect is
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self explanatory.
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:Set your own (or another target's) call forwarding to forward
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to your primary target. Then have the target's forwarding set
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to your own number (or the secondary target). Can you say
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endless forwarding loop? Be warned that some phoneco's have
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gotten wind of this concept and installed anti-loop safeguards.
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:Forward calls to just about anything offensive and blackmailable,
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gay sex lines, the Nazi Party, the KKK, the Jehovah's Witnesses,
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need I get graphic?
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:Forward to voice-mail systems. These are great as most will
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record MF tones so the abovementioned blue-boxing-answering-machine
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trick will work, in a roundabout way, via forwarding. They also
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let you wash your hands clean of any answering-machine/forwarding
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combos you pull.
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Electrical Fun
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As any phone freak worthy of his k-bud box knows, telephones
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require certain specific voltage levels in order to operate. Run them
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too far below these voltages, and they crap out and die. Run them too
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high, and they blow up and melt.
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- An old trick, but it has been such a great standby for tricksters, no
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phone tricks file is complete without it: Drive to your target's
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residence (4:30 AM on a sunday is definitely the best time for this).
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Have an accomplice keep the motor running and the car door open. Head
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on up to that trusty little grey box on the side of Mr. Victim's
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house, and attach the 'gator clip ends of your "suicide plug" to the
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phone terminals. Now, I sure hope you brought a LONG suicide plug
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because it is likely that the only outside 120VAC outlet on the house
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is on the other side. Murphy's law applies to revenge just as in any
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other walk of life so be prepared. Now, when you plug that suicide
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plug into Mr. Outside Outlet on Mr. Victim's house, the effect will be
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immediate and striking: Every phone in the house will ring loudly and
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violently. Older mechanical phones might survive having 110 VAC
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running through them continuously for several minutes, but electronic
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phones and especially MODEMS will be destroyed. You run the risk of
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being charged with arson if you are caught, so don't be. RUN, don't
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walk, to your waiting getaway vehicle and HAUL ASS OUTA THERE before
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someone comes to the window and gets your licence plate. If you don't
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mind paying a price for your assured freedom, placing a timer ($9.95
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at London Drugs for the cheapest light timers) on the suicide plug
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will give you a nice safe delay but you'll miss the fireworks...
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- "The Scarlet Box" was a resistor, circa 600 ohms, placed across the
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phone terminals. It had the effect of putting a load on the line
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that caused horrible noise. Another thing to do is try a capacitor
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instead, a nice non-polarised electrolytric can. It does wonders to
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the lines bandwidth.
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- How about this: Basic phone service carries its audio on a DC bias
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"carrier." Transformers and capacitors don't like DC but they pass AC
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just fine. So, put a cap in series on the line. Phone rings, yes,
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because ringing voltage is AC. Phone give dial tone? Noooooo....
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Fixer stop talking in Taiwanese english now.
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- If your mark's phone terminal box is adjacent to several others, or
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shares a box with others, then start connecting them together in
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parallel. Make sure you match rings with rings, tips with tips. Many
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interesting effects. Krazy Glue the boxes shut when you're done to
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"save your changes" permanently.
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Well, that's it. This file is probably 100% illegal and banned by law,
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but damned if I'm not going to exercise my right to copyright it. This
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file is not in the public domain. Sysops of other BBSes are licensed to
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distribute it free of charge on the sole condition that it is
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distributed in its entirety and with all bylines and copyrights intact,
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and with no text added. I've been in the IBM world too long, you can
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probably tell, but it roast my butt what some lamers are doing to decent
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text files these days.
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(C) 1990 The Fixer.
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Another file downloaded from: NIRVANAnet(tm)
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& the Temple of the Screaming Electron Jeff Hunter 510-935-5845
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Rat Head Ratsnatcher 510-524-3649
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Burn This Flag Zardoz 408-363-9766
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realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 415-567-7043
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Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 415-583-4102
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Specializing in conversations, obscure information, high explosives,
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arcane knowledge, political extremism, diversive sexuality,
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insane speculation, and wild rumours. ALL-TEXT BBS SYSTEMS.
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Full access for first-time callers. We don't want to know who you are,
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where you live, or what your phone number is. We are not Big Brother.
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