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167 lines
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Kinds of Boxes
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aqua box - A box designed to drain the voltage of the FBI lock-in-
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trace/trap-trace so you can hang up your fone in an emergency and
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phrustrate the Pheds some more. The apparatus is simple, just connect the
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two middle wires of a phone wire and plug, which would be the red and green
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wires if in the jack, to the cord of some electrical appliance; ie, light
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bulb or radio. KEEP THE APPLIANCE OFF. Then, get one of those line
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splitters that will let you hook two phone plugs into one jack. Plug the
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end of the modified cord into one jack and your fone into the other. THE
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APPLIANCE MUST BE OFF! Then, when the Pheds turn their lame tracer on and
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you find that you can't hang up, remove your fone from the jack and turn
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the appliance ON and keep it ON until you feel safe; it may be awhile. Then
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turn it off, plug your fone back in, and start phreaking again. Invented
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by: Captain Xerox and The Traveler.
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black box - The infamous box that allows the calling party to not be
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billed for the call placed. We won't go in depth right now, most plans can
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be found on many phreak oriented BBS's. The telco can detect black boxes if
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they suspect one on the line. Also, these will not work under ESS.
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bleeper boxes - The United Kingdom's own version of the blue box,
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modified to work with the UK's fone system. Based on the same principles.
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However, they use two sets of frequencies, foreword and backwards.
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Blotto box - This box supposedly shorts every fone out in the
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immediate area, and I don't doubt it. It should kill every fone in the
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immediate area, until the voltage reaches the fone company, and the fone
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company filters it. I won't cover this one in this issue, cuz it is
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dangerous, and phreaks shouldn't destroy MA's equipment, just phuck it up.
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Look for this on your phavorite BBS or ask your phavorite phreak for info
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if you really are serious about seriously phucking some fones in some area.
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blue box - An old piece of equipment that emulated a true operator
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placing calls, and operators get calls for free. The blue box seizes an
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open trunk by blasting a 2600 Hz tone through the line after dialing a
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party that is local or in the 800 NPA so calls will be local or free for
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the blue boxer. Then, when the blue boxer has seized a trunk, the boxer may
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then, within the next 10-15 seconds, dial another fone number via MF tones.
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These MF tones must be preceded by a KP tone and followed with a ST tone.
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All of these tones are standardized by Bell. The tones as well as the inter-
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digit intervals are around 75ms. It may vary with the equipment used since
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ESS can handle higher speeds and doesn't need inter-digit intervals. There
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are many uses to a blue box, and we will not cover any more here. See your
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local phreak or phreak oriented BBS for in depth info concerning blue boxes
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and blue boxing. Incidentally, blue boxes are not considered safe anymore
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because ESS detects "foreign" tones, such as the 2600 Hz tone, but this
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detection may be delayed by mixing pink noise of above 3000 Hz with the
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2600 Hz tone. To hang up, the 2600 Hz tone is played again. Also, all blue
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boxes are green boxes because MF "2" corresponds to the Coin Collect tone
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on the green box, and the "KP" tone corresponds to the Coin Return tone on
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the green box. See green box for more information. Blue boxing is
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IMPOSSIBLE under the new CCIS system slowly being integrated into the Bell
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system.
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blue box tones - The MF tones generated by the blue box in order to
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place calls, emulating a true operator. These dual tones must be entered
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during the 10-15 second period after you have seized a trunk with the 2600
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Hz tone.
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700: 1 : 2 : 4 : 7 : 11 : KP= Key Pulse
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Parallel Frequencies 900: ** : 3 : 5 : 8 : 12 : ST= STop
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2= Coin Collect 1100: ** : ** : 6 : 9 : KP : KP2= Key Pulse 2
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KP= Coin Return 1300: ** : ** : ** : 10 :KP2 : **= None
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(green box tones) 1500: ** : ** : ** : ** : ST :
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: 900:1100:1300:1500:1700: 75ms pulse/pause
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busy box - Box that will cause the fone to be busy, without taking it
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OFF-HOOK. Just get a piece of fone wire with a plug on the end, cut it off
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so there is a plug and about two inches of fone line. Then, strip the wire
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so the two middle wires, the tip and the ring, are exposed. Then, wrap the
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ring and the tip together, tape with electrical tape, and plug into the
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fone jack. The fone will be busy until the box is removed.
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cans - Cans are those big silver boxes on top of or around the
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telephone poles. When opened, the lines can be manipulated with a beige box
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or whatever phun you have in mind.
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cheese box - Another type of box which, when coupled with call
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forwarding services, will allow one to place free fone calls. The safety of
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this box is unknown. See references for information concerning text philes
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on this box.
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clear box - Piece of equipment that compromises of a telephone pickup
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coil and a small amp. This works on the principal that all receivers are
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also weak transmitters. So, you amplify your signal on PP fortress fones
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and spare yourself some change.
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green box - Equipment that will emulate the Coin Collect, Coin Return,
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and Ringback tones. This means that if you call someone with a fortress
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fone and they have a green box, by activating it, your money will be
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returned. The tones are, in hertz, Coin Collect=700+1100, Coin
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Return=1100+1700, and Ringback=700+1700. However, before these tones are
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sent, the MF detectors at the CO must be alerted, this can be done by
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sending a 900+1500 Hz or single 2600 Hz wink of 90ms followed by a 60ms
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gap, and then the appropriate signal for at least 900ms.
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gold box - This box will trace calls, tell if the call is being
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traced, and can change a trace.
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grey box - Also known as a silver box. See silver box.
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Paper Clip Method - This method of phreaking was illustrated in the
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movie War Games. What a phortress fone does to make sure money is in a fone
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is send an electrical pulse to notify the fone that a coin has been
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deposited, for the first coin only. However, by simply grounding the
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positive end of the microphone, enough current and voltage is deferred to
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the ground to simulate the first quarter in the coin box. An easy way to
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accomplish this is to connect the center of the mouthpiece to the coin box,
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touch tone pad, or anything that looks like metal with a piece of wire. A
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most convenient piece of wire is a bend out of a paper clip. Then you can
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send red box tones through the line and get free fone calls! Also, telco
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modified fones may require you to push the clip harder against the
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mouthpiece, or connect the mouthpiece to the earpiece. If pressing harder
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against the mouthpiece becomes a problem, pins may be an easier solution.
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purple box - This one would be nice. Free calls to anywhere via blue
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boxing, become an operator via blue box, conference calling, disconnect
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fone line(s), tap fones, detect traces, intercept directory assistance
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calls. Has all red box tones. This one may not be available under ESS.
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rainbow box - An ultimate box. You can become an operator. You get
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free calls, blue box. You can set up conference calls. You can forcefully
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disconnect lines. You can tap lines. You can detect traces, change traces,
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and trace as well. All incoming calls are free. You can intercept directory
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assistance. You have a generator for all MF tones. You can mute and redial.
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You have all the red-box tones. This is an awesome box. However, it does
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not exist under ESS.
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red box - Equipment that will emulate the red box tone generated for
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coin recognition in all phortress fones.
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red box tones - Tones that tell the phortress fone how much money was
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inserted in the fone to make the required call. In one slot fones, these
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are beeps in pulses; the pulse is a 2200+1700 Hz tone. For quarters, 5 beep
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tones at 12-17 PPS, for dimes it is 2 beep tones at 5-8.5 PPS, and a nickel
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causes 1 beep tone at 5-8.5 PPS. For three slot fones, the tones are
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different. Instead of beeps, they are straight dual tones. For a nickel, it
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is one bell at 1050-1100 Hz, two bells for a dime, and one gong at 800 Hz
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for a quarter. When using red box tones, you must insert at least one
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nickel before playing the tones, cuz a ground test takes place to make sure
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some money has been inserted. The ground test may be fooled by the Paper
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Clip Method. Also, it has been known that TSPS can detect certain red box
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tones, and will record all data on AMA or CAMA of fraudulent activity.
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regional center - Any class 1 switching office in North America.
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silver box - Equipment that will allow you to emulate the DTMF tones
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A,B,C,D. The MF tones are, in hertz, A=697+1633, B=770+1633, C=852+1633,
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D=941+1633. These allow special functions from regular fones, such as ACD
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Testing Mode.
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white box - This is a portable DTMF keypad.
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Note: The author of this file is unknown.
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PHAiT salutes him for taking the time
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to inform others of phreaking, its
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dying out man, we need more people
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like him.
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-PHAiT staff
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