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Building a Beige Box (Simplified)
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By, Akurei
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Friday, August 11, 2000
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I. About
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II. Building A Beige Box With A Normal Phone
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III. Building A Beige Box With A Cordless Phone
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IV. Using Your Beige Box
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V. Resources
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I. About
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I am making this text because a friend of mine (AkiraMan2501) asked me
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"How do you make biege boxes?". I figured, if I am going to explain
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it to him, why not write it in a text and spread the word around.
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Contrary to popular beleif, beige boxes are very easy to build.
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Beige boxes are one of the phreakers favorite tool. If you are not
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familiar with what a phreaker is, then read my text called "Beginner's
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Guide to Phreaking", then come back to this text. A Beige box gives a
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person access to another person's phone line through a network interface
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box (the gray box on the side of most people's houses). With access to
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their phone line, you can do a number of things, from creating large
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tele-conferences, to calling long distance for free... or maybe you
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just want to "spy" on your next door neighbor. Whatever the reason
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is, beige boxes are very useful.
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II. Building A Beige Box With A Normal Phone
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You must buy the following parts from a hardware store, maybe even
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a local radioshack...
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1. Two Alligator Clips with the wire attatched (Green and Red)
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2. A modular jack
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3. A telephone
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On the modular jack back of the modular jack, there will be two colors,
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red and green. Take your red alligator clip, and attatch it to the
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red terminal of the modular jack. Do the same with the green alligator
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clip (except on the green terminal of course). Now, plug the phone line
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into the modular jack, (YOUR DONE! EASY HUH?!)
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III. Building A Beige Box With A Cordless Phone
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This is basically the same as above, although, with a cordless phone,
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it is much easier to conseal your cause when beige boxing off of someone
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elses telephone.
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1. Two Alligator Clips with the wire attatched (Green and Red)
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2. A modular jack
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3. A cordless telephone (The higher the voltage, the better)
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4. A battery you can plug your cordless phone into
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Same thing, except, plug the cordless phone into the battery (cordless
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phones need a power source to run)...
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IV. Using Your Beige Box
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As everything else in the text, using your beige box is very simple.
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The only hard part is aquiring the right tool to open the Network
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Interface Box. I have found a tool in a Radio Shack electronics
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toolset. I don't know where you will get your's, but you deffinately
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need one. Once you get the network interface box (aka gray box)
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opened, you must clip the green alligator clip onto the green
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terminal inside of the gray box. And the red clip on the red terminal.
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Then, pick up the phone, and you should have a dial tone. If you do not,
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either read this text again and figure out what you did wrong, or check
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to see if the clips in the gray box are touching each other, if they
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are touching, just unattatch them and you should get a dial tone.
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V. Resources
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http://www.inforeading.com Very good site for texts.
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http://www.akur.net My site, which has alot of
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information on phreaking in the
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texts section.
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http://mystik.twoteeth.net Mystik's site.
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http://www.dugnet.net Dugnet irc server's site.
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http://www.phonelosers.org Damned good prank calls. =P
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http://www.phonebashing.com Funny guys running around in cell
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phone suits, stealing cell phones
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and breaking them.
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http://www.techfreakz.com Some pretty good information on
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scams and phreaking.
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http://www.attrition.org Very good information on
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hacking/phreaking etc.
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You can contact me on irc on the server irc.dugnet.net in the
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channels #phreaking, #chatzone, #rsh and #coders or on efnet in
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channels #inforeading and #geekout. You can email me at Akurei@wuli.nu.
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Thanks for reading my text on phreaking, I hope you have learned
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something from it. I may make more texts on other topics if I have time.
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