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%MWI% PRESENTS: %MWI%
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%MWI% The Technical Book %MWI%
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%MWI% Some Definitions %MWI%
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Created during January and Febuary 1989
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v1.0
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Introdution to the Article
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File One (of four)
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This file was just to be a short set of definitions for those of you
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who don't know all the phreaking terms. This was requested by a few people
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on a small 312 board called The Magnetic Field Elite (312-966-0708, call,
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board has potential) like The Don. But I have decided against making this
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small file that is common in many places but instead to make something that
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I have never seen before. Not just a common file but one of high technical
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use. With a printout of this you will never need to missout on a definition
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again. But that's not all. The file will discuss, indepth, the working of
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each of these operations below. If you are viewing this file simply for the
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sake of finding one meaning I suggest that you get the entire thing and then
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never need to call and view phreak files again.
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Topic 1: The Phone/Modem
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Since phreaking is impossible without a phone or modem you I will
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start with the most important and most complex part of phreaking. The Phone.
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Now, the phone is a device that transfer sounds as sound enters a receiver,
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is transfered to an amount of voltage, sent through the telephone lines and
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decodes back to sound. A modem is based on a universal language of sounds
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transfered through the modem. Modem stands for the work Modulator/Demodulator
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This is like receiveing and sending. Now, with most modems, before connecting,
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tones just are just the same as the tones that a common phone can make.
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But the phone can make many tones and some have purposes that are very
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useful, tones that are reserved for At&t, and thus dangerous. To go through
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all the tone would be senseless and a book on tones alone could be written
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(Hmm... maybe I could...) so I will not go into that.
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But, assuming that you know what a box is I will explain what the odd
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types of modems can do.
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If you own an Apple Cat modem you may use it to generate any tone.
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This is very useful. Some people are against the Cat for various. I will
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remain neutral on the topic but if you have no understand then phreak the
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way you see easiest and safest.
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The other way is by using an acoustic modem. You may modify a phone
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to make certain tones and you may make then send these tones through the
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acoustic modem by placing the headset of the phone on the acoustic's couplers.
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You may also attempt to make the box modfications directly to the
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modem but if you error and damage the modem alot of money is wasted while you
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could have used an acoustic and messed up a twenty dollar phone.
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Basicaly the common phone can make 18 tones. For example, when you
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press a number on the phone two tones are made together and make the signal
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for the number or charater you hit. This is the entire phone to line
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explantion of the phone. Now the actual internal working of the phone is
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very complex and can be best under stood by getting a book from the library
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on it.
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Topic 2: The Calling of Numbers
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When you call a local number as soon as you hit a number other than
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one you the phone knows that you are calling locally. Once seven digits are
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entered the numbers are sent to the nearest switching station and you call
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goes out. The station determines the units per minute and start billing as
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soon as the called phone answers. All calls are automaticaly one minute long.
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If you hit a one as the first digit you dial the phone recignizes this as a
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long distance call and sends you to either the At&t switching station or to
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another long distance service if you have chose to use other than At&t.
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If you are using a At&t the call goes through the long distance switch
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ing station where unit per minute is determined and then it is refured to the
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number you called. The call may be slowed down depending on how many times
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the switching station changes between you and the place you are calling. If
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it changes between ESS and X-Bar (described below) one it would go through
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fast. If it changed between them 50 times it would be a very slow call going
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through. Plus the sound quality may decrease but that is not a fact, just an
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understanding I have come to when callign long distance with At&t.
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If you are calling through any other service, such as MCI, Alnet,
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Teleco, US Sprint or any of the other endless companies, then things are not
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the same for long distance calls.
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You call first goes to the company you call through and price of call
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is determined by any of the ways a company determines price. The call then
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goes out through the lines to the long distance companie's station nearest to
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the number you dialed and tries to go though. If the number is too far away
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from a station you may get a "The number you have dialed cannot be reached
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from your calling area."
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Thus, you have the basic information of how call goes out. Now to get
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to phreaking and the real reason you read this file.
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Topic 3: The Long Distance Company and Codes.
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The way of using a different long distance company or not paying a
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quarter when calling from a payphone. Using the phone card or the code.
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Names for these numbers:
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950's
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800's
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Extenders.
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PBX's
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950 ports
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Port
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Code port
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(Company name) port
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The above mentioned names are the phreaks lifeline. They are places
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where you call and enter a code, then the area code of the place you want to
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call and finally the number for the place you want to call. When the code is
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entered it is checked if it is valid and then the person how owns the code
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pays for the call. If the code is not valid you normaly get a message saying
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that the code you entered is not valid.
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When a call goes through it is the same as a normal long distance call
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except that it is charged to the owner of the card.
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Some places may require that you enter a nine or a one before you
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enter the code.
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Now, the phreak uses these places by calling them over and over again
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until they get a code. But they do this with a computer and a program such as
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Hack-a-Matic, Hacking Construction Set (often called HCS), Hack This Buddy, In
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tellihacker (Old), Cat-(and then a name, for the Apple Cat. Has to many names
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to list), and some others. These are all Apple programs but there are also
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code hackers for the Commodor 64, 128, Amiga, IBM (of course) and so on. Most
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computers have them.
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One thing I have found useful is to use a Radio Shack portable
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computer with a built in modem and hack from other houses, this is much safer.
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Secrity in these companies run from really tough (MCI) to sad (like the places
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that try to scare off hackers with tape recordings). 950 ports in the ESS area
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are set up to trace and could do so very easily but for some reson they are
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against it. Possibly the time and money to check the calls and pay for tracing.
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Places have gotton tougher though, if three people get busted off a number in
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one week and this has never happened before then you can almost be sure that
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they have stepped up security and that it is time to use a new port.
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Now I will discuss some of the things used by the Phreak.
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Topic 4: The Loop
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Loops, although they may seem fun they are really rather useless. They
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work as follows.
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Two numbers are looped together. Usually they are almost the same
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just a digit different from one another. If you call the lower number you
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will wait a few secounds and then hear a 1000mhz. tone. If you call the higher
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number you will hear nothing. If you can one number (dosen't matter which)
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and someone else calls the other number you will be able to talk to each other
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The purpose of these is to test trunk lines. This way they could make sure
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there was no break in each trunk.
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Now the old purpose for loops was that they where free to call so one
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person would call one and another would call the other and they would get to
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talk for free. Also, one person might call one number and just wait and talk
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to whoever called the other number. Like a two line bridge.
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Today you cannot call these without being charged because the phone
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company caught on. But you can split a phone call with these so if there is
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a loop between you and a person you want to talk to you can only pay for half
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by calling the loop. And the phone company dosen't care because either way
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they get their money.
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The billing service for a loop is one all by itself, not like normal
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local calling and for this reson I might almost belive the rumor that Blue Box
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tones can be used to call loops.
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The loops billing service didn't exist awhile back so a call to one
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was free. Now, if you call this new billing system picks it up. But the
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loop billing system is just something that At&t scraped together and there
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are most likly some holes in the system (like not recording blue box tone
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generation numbers).
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Topic 5: The Diverter
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The diverter has been a very simple, yet incredibly useful thing
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through the years. To use one you must call, after hours and let someone
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answer the phone, don't answer them, let them hang up and get a faint
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dialtone. Then you dial again and call from the diverter.
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Before, you could use a diverter and call through it. The you would
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only be charged for the call to the diverter, not the one after it. That
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bill went to the diverter itself. But they fix this problem easily and now
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you still get charged if you are in the ESS area.
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Also before, you could use a diverter to call a number that traces
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and instead of being traced to your number it is traced to the diverter.
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But ESS eliminated that too.
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But you can still use a diverter to call hard to reach numbers. Like
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if you called a place and it gave you a "The number you have dial cannot be
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reach from your calling area" then if you knew of a diverter in the area of
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the number you could call through it to the unreachable number and get
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through.
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The way a diverter works is after hours when you call a place the
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call is forwarded to another place. Then, when you don't answer the person
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at the other place hangs up and your call tries to disconnect from the
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forwarded number and you end up at the diverter with it's dialtone.
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