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Phile 1.13 of 1.14
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FREE CALLS ON PAY PHONES
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The Paper Clip Method
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By: Master Mind
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Many of people of the phreak community has asked the same question:
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Why? Why does this thing work? I doesn't work for me, Why?. Well, hopefully
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this article will put to rest many misconceptions about the procedure. This
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procedure has become very popular, even in the movie wargames. In the movie,
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the hacker twists open the microphone on the phone and connects one of the
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two wires to the coin box. Then continues to make a long distance phone call
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to his girlfriend. While the idea is correct, one can only make local calls
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and are limited to one quarter's time. This scene is so close to the actual
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truth that the "Made for TV version" has cut that specific scene. Imagine
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what would happen if every youngster and some adults saw this and proceeded
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to rip apart pay phones, not a pretty sight. This also demostrates how much
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power the phone company had.
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Nynex, in creating their fortress fones, has made an engineering
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blunder. The whole concept of the method, is based on their short-sightness
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and because of this are paying the price. The theory of the operation of the
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phone works like this on paper: The first quarter that is deposited seems to
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be based on an electrical impulse, but any addition coins will be audio
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signals. Due to short cuts in engineering designs has left themselves open
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to attack. By simply grounding the positive end of the microphone, enough
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current and voltage is deferred to arter
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in the coin box. An easy way to accomplish this is to connect the center of
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the mouthpiece to the coin box, touch tone pad, or any thing that looks like
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metal with a piece of wire. A most convenient piece of wire is a bend out
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