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Circle-A productions presents..
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The Art of Red Boxing
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(with an introduction to White Boxing)
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By Dial Tone
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"If the shoe fits, steal it!"
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(A) 1992 - Official release #001
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24/Jan/92
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-% Introduction %-
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In this file I will give you complete instructions on how to use the
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biggest marvel of modern telecommunications, the Red Box. This file assumes
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that you have already purchased or built a Red Box. I will not tell you how to
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build one, as there are numerous files out there on the subject. I will not
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tell you where to buy one, so as not to incriminate anyone involved in the
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manufacture of this device. There are many young entrepreneurs out there who
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build Red Boxes and sell them for huge profits. I personally know several
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people who have or are currently paying their way through college on money made
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from selling the things, but I digress..
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Red Boxes have been around since the beginning of time (the 1960's). While
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they do not pre-date blue boxes, they certainly have been around about as long.
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Suprisingly enough, these remarkable devices still work in 1992, long after
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blue boxes, black boxes, infinity transmitters, and other relics of the
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Step-By-Step and Crossbar eras have lost their usefulness due to advances in
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Telco technology. While Red Boxing is definitely on it's way out, as the phone
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companies have started installing new digital pay phones in airports, hotels,
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etc. it still works like a charm on 85% of the pay phones out there in the
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major cities, and on just about every single pay phone in smaller towns (a lot
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of small town joints have COCOTs, Customer Owned Coin Operated Telephones,
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which are not Red Box compatible, but more on this later). I am sure there will
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ALWAYS be pay phones that you can Box from, it just will be more of a challenge
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to find them. At any rate, you can probably expect Red Boxes to work from a
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majority of pay phones for at least 10 years or more. There just isn't any way
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that the phone company is going to replace every last goddamn pay phone on the
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planet in less time than that.
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IMPORTANT: for those bomb-throwing punks out there among you, I would
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advise AGAINST causing serious damage to standard telephone company pay phones,
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simply because the phone company is going to replace the damaged phone with a
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new digital pay phone which a Red Box will NOT WORK from. The petty cash you
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get by blowing open a pay phone will not be worth it in the long run when Red
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Boxes become obsolete because of your destructive behavior. (smirk!)
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-% The Red Box %-
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The Red Box itself consists of a dual-tone oscillator circuit, a small
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speaker, and may have several push-buttons or switches. Standard Red Boxes have
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a button for a single "wink" of the dual-tone to signal a Nickel. More advanced
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Red Boxes include circuitry to pulse the tone 2 or 5 times, to signal a Quarter
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or Dime. I have even seen Red Boxes that have White Boxes built in (White boxes
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are standard DTMF Tone Dialers, available at Radio Shack, Service Merchandise,
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et al.) In this file we will assume that you have the Dee-luxe version that has
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buttons for a Quarter, Nickel, and Dime, as well as an On/Off switch (The
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"Gallery" Red Box, popularized by the callers to The Gallery BBS in
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Spring/Summer of 1991). The Gallery Red Box can be modified to be a combination
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Red/White box, but we will only assume that you have the Red version. (White
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Boxes are useful for accessing "courtesy" phones at banks, department stores,
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or malls and dialing out on an outside line. They are also useful at COCOTs.
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More on COCOTs later..)
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If you have a different "brand" of Red Box, or one that can only produce a
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Nickel tone, don't worry, just press the damn button 5 times for a Quarter.
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Everything should work fine, as the principle is for the most part the same.
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-% Local "A" Range Calls %-
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"A" Range calls are probably the most difficult, strangely enough. They
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require a variety of techniques to execute properly. It is almost universally
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impossible to make an A range call using normal methods of Red Boxing. The
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easiest way I have found is to call the operator ("bell bitch") and ask her to
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connect your call. Simply tell her that you are having problems dialing the
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number you want to reach and that you would like her to connect you. She will
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then connect your call and ask you to insert a "quarter". Do as she says...:>
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Operators are trained to recognize the tones that pay phones make when a caller
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inserts money (tones made with the pay phone's own internal Red Box!
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Unfortunately, when you put a coin in, the pay phone cuts out the earpiece so
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you do not hear the tones that it makes), so she will definitely not know the
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difference between your Red Box's artificial tones and the tones that the pay
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phone makes. NOTE: If you are having problems making any kind of call from a
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pay phone, it is probably a good idea to call the operator anyway. I always
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prefer dealing with real people than machines. People are easier to bullshit..
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-% B,C, and D range calls, and intra-lata Long Distance (dial-1 calls) %-
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To make a B, C, or D range call (or an intra-lata Long Distance call if
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you live where you must dial "1" before a long distance call that is in the
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same area code as you) simply dial the number you want to call first (Chicago
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people, ignore the Dial-1 stuff, as every number in 312 and 708 is local to you
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anyway). An automated operator will come on and ask you to insert either 30,
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35, 40, 45, or 50 cents, depending on how far away you are calling. If you are
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making a dial-1 call, the amount could range anywhere from 35 cents all the way
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up to the cost of a regular interlata long distance call ($2.10). All you have
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to do is press a fucking button, so I guess this really doesn't matter. Unlike
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A range calls, the automated operator will come on occasionally (every half
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hour or so for shorter distance calls, or as frequently as every 3 minutes for
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a full-fledged long distance call.)
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-% Long Distance Calls %-
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Making a long distance call with a Red Box is a piece of cake. Simply dial
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the number you want to call, and wait for the automated-operator to come on and
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tell you to insert your money. Press the appropriate buttons on your Red Box to
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"insert" the proper amount, and you are set. Periodically throughout the call
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(every three-five minutes or so) the automated operator bitch will cut in and
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ask you to feed the phone another 50-75 cents or so. Real easy, just beep her
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some change and that's it.
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-% International Calls %-
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These are a lot of fun.. Dial the number first, as usual. (e.g. if you are
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calling England, dial 011-44-CITY-NUMBER) Wait about 15 seconds, and you will
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get a genuine AT&T International operator on the line, and she will ask you to
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insert $3.00 right off the bat. She will then attempt to connect the call, and
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if she is successful in connecting you, she will tell the other party to hold
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while you insert another $3.80! (God, are international calls fucken'
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expensive!!) After you insert your money, you can go and talk for 3 or 4
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minutes, and then the operator (a real live one!) will come back on and ask you
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to insert another 3 bux or so. This goes on for the duration of the call, so
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(if your Red Box has this feature) you might want to program it to insert money
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a dollar at a time. I have made many an International call with a Red Box, and
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have had no problems talking to people in England, Australia, New Zealand,
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Sweden, and Switzerland.
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-% COCOTs %-
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COCOTs (Customer Owned - Coin Operated Telephones) are, as the name
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implies, customer owned. What is meant by this is a certain agency (e.g. a
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McDonalds or a gas station) orders a standard telephone line (i.e. a standard
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business line) and hooks up a custom pay telephone which is NOT owned by any
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telephone company. The agency is then free to pocket all the money that gets
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dropped into this pay phone without the phone company having a say one way or
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another! Needless to say, whoever owns the phone is making a killing, as the
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COCOT charges anywhere from 25-50 cents for every damn local call that gets
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made, when the agency is only charged for normal price calls made on a business
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line. COCOTs are available from various companies for around $500-800 each.
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It is interesting to note that COCOTs cannot receive incoming calls. If
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you call a COCOT, you will usually get 3 or 4 rings, then a synthetic female
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voice that says "Thank You". Supposedly you can then enter various codes to do
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diagnostics on the phone, etc.. To hear one for yourself, call (708) 698-9010.
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You can not use a Red Box from a COCOT because as far as the telephone
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company is concerned, you are at a privately owned residence or business line.
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(The phone line, not the phone itself determines if the line is a standard "pay
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phone" line which uses Red Box tones to signal payment). Even calling the
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operator will do you no good, as the operator will just tell you that you are
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at a COCOT and that she can't help you...
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Anyway, to make free phone calls on a COCOT: Dial an 800 number, and
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politely apologize for calling a wrong number when someone answers. Wait for
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them to hang up, and a few seconds later you should hear a few clicks and then
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a Dial Tone. Now you can take your White Box (tone dialer) and dial out
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anywhere you like. NOTE that you cannot dial with the COCOT's buttons because
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the COCOT locks out the keypad after you initially dial to prevent this very
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sort of abuse.
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-% If you get caught %-
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You won't get caught. Trust me. If you get caught, you are a cretin and
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deserve to get caught.
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-% Conclusion %-
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I have found that the Red Box and the White Box to be the most useful
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tools you can own. No good phreak should be without either of them! I carry my
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Red/White combo box with me at all times just in case I need to make an
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important phone call and I DON'T feel like paying for it.
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_______________________________________________________________________________
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][][][][][][][][][][][] Call These gr8t boards [][][][][][][][][][][][]
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The Nite Owl ][ (Circle-A home base)............................(708) 656-5355
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Ripco International..............................................(312) 528-5020
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Terminal Enterprises.............................................(708) 717-1506
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(A) 1992 - All Riots Preserved! The Circle-A Society
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