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Manuscript II
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Field Phreaking
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Introduction: The purpose of this manuscript is to introduce useful phreaking
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------------- techniques. These techniques have been developed by the Third
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Cartel and have proved to be convenient and reliable.
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Field Phreaking Kit:
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The Field Phreaking Kit is a neccessity for the serious phreaker. Some
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so-called phreaks get all of their information including codes from BBSs and
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have an ego big enough to call themselves phreaks. The real phreak acquires
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knowledge on his own through perseverence and ingenuity. Following is a list
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of useful items for your Phreaking Kit:
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o Backpack: Get a nice one to hold all of your materials.
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o Test Phone: Very Handy. We'll tell you how to get one or make one.
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o Ratchet Set: Usually, you'll only need 7/16 and 3/8" size ratchets.
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o Screwdrivers: Get medium and large screwdrivers, and a phillips head.
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o Wire Cutters: Just in case you want to wipe out some lines.
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o Pliers: For misc. stuff.
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o Xacto or Pocket Knife: To strip or cut wires.
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o Penlight: Nice and small; very useful for night work.
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o Flashlight: If you need lots of light and have enough room in your pack.
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o Gloves: Make sure you don't get shocked or leave your fingerprints around.
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o Pencil and Paper: Write down locations, notes, numbers, etc.
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The Third Cartel carries the following optional materials in their Field Kit:
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o Walki-Talkies: For communications when yelling isn't possible or smart.
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o Battery Operated Camara Flash: Good for flashing in someone's eyes at night
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Will blind a telco guy for a few seconds.
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o Mace/Dog Repellant: Spray in someone's eyes if they give you trouble.
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o Smoke Bomb: Helpful to divert attention or scare. [drop in telco car]
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[Mix 3 parts potassium nitrate with 2 parts sugar and melt]
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o Matches: For smoke bomb or anything that is flammable.
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o Bandana/Surgical Mask: Manholes are dusty; Wear these for easier breathing.
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o Marker: Mark your "territory" on phone boxes.
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o Fake Telco ID Card: Will make some people think that you work for telco.
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Organize your kit so you know where everything is and can get something quickly
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when needed. You don't want to be fumbling for your mace when the gestapo is
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about to get you.
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Test Phone:
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The Test Phone is the most useful piece of equipment for Field Phreaking. You
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can try to sneak into a telco Plant Department [truckyard] and get a real test
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phone out of a truck like we did. If you'd rather not do this, don't worry;
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making your own test phone is ultra-easy.
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First, get a telephone for your own purposes. Find the wire coming out of the
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phone that is supposed to go to the wall's modular jack. It should be at least
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three feet long for convienience. Cut off the modular jack at the end of the
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wire. Strip the wire, and there should be two or four small wires inside.
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Hook the two middle wires to alligator clips [preferably insulated]. You now
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have a test phone! Very easy, indeed. Now let's see if you hooked everything
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up ok. First find your phone box. It'll probably be on the outside of your
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house. It's farly small, and you might need the ratchet to open it up. Once
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you get it open, you should see some screws. These are the terminals for your
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phone line. Hook the alligator clips to the two top terminals. If your phone
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is ok, you should get a dial tone. Once you know that your phone is working,
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a whole new world opens up to you! You can hook the phone up to your
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neighbor's terminal and call long distance or yell at the operator on their
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line. Be careful, though. You don't want to be talking to Sue in L.A. when
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your neighbors are home and awake. If they pick up the phone when you're
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already on, you could get into serious trouble. Of course, you could always
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listen in on them! If you want, you can hook wires up to your neighbor's
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terminal and lead them to your house. In case you didn't know, this is called
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Beige Boxing. You can then hack computers on their line, call Dial-A-Prayer,
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etc. Make sure to hide the wire well so that it won't be traced to your
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house!
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Manholes:
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One way to get access to an abundance of phone lines is by getting into telco
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manholes. You don't want to accidentally get in a sewer manhole, so the first
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thing to do is find the differences between sewer and telephone manholes. If
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you have trouble with this, here's a few tips that might help:
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o Telco manhole covers are usually larger and heavier than other covers.
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o Telco manholes are scarce compared to sewer manholes. So if there are
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a lot of checkered manhole covers in your area, those are probably sewer
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manholes. If there are only a handful of unmarked manhole covers in
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your area, those probably contain phone lines.
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o Go to your local telco Central Office [CO] and find out what the manhole
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covers look like there. Find manhole covers that look the same in other
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areas, and pick a convenient/safe manhole to explore.
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Getting into a manhole is a different story. Here in the Denver area, it takes
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at least three people to get a manhole cover off. Hopefully it'll be easier
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to do in your area. To open the manhole, you'll probably need at least two
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crowbars [You could try using a pickaxe]. Get a group together to open the
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manhole, using 2 or more people with crowbars to slide the cover off. You
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might want to get a strong guy to push the manhole cover while the other people
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with crowbars support it. If you know of a tool that was made specifically
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for opening manholes, we'd appreciate it if you contacted us on some local
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Denver boards and told us about it. Likewise, if you have a better system for
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opening manholes, we'd be grateful for the information.
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Once you get the manhole cover off, shine a flahlight down to see if there's
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a ladder going to the bottom. Try a different manhole if there's no ladder.
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If you want to go down a manhole, don't forget to wear a bandana or surgical
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mask over your mouth so that you don't choke on dust. Also bring a flashlight
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so you can see what you're doing. Many times, there'll be a few inches of
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water at the bottom, so you might also want to wear boots.
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Down in the manhole, you might find some equipment or manuals. Go ahead and
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take them if you want; you deserve it! There should be some very large ABS
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plastic tubes going across the "room" you're in. The phone lines are inside
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these tubes. Attached to this tubing there will be some short, wide plastic
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cylinders. There'll be screws holding these cylinders on to the tubing.
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You'll need either a screwdriver or a ratchet to open a cylinder. If you
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happen to get a cylinder open, congratulations! You now have access to
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countless phone lines! We'll leave it to you to figure out what to do with all
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of those wires. Surely you'll figure something out! [snip, snip!]
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Exploring Telco Building Sites:
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One of the best ways to get information about telco is by going to a Central
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Office near you, exploring the trucks in a Plant Department, or "visiting"
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other telco buildings. The phone company is careless in many ways. They
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leave important, yet unshredded documents and computer printouts in their
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open dumpsters. Their cars, vans, and repair vehicles are almost always left
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unlocked. Inside their vehicles one can usually find manuals, test phones,
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computer cards [usually for mainframes, almost never for personal comuters],
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nice tool sets, etc.! It's almost as if they *want* to be ripped off! They
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deserve bad treatment just for their negligence. If possible, we like to be
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courteous to individual employees of telco. Most employees are fairly amiable
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and don't deserve trouble. It's the beuracracy of telco that deserves to be
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manhandled. Cheap practices such as monopolizing and the overpricing of
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services is the general reason why we phreaks do what we do with such
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determination. On with the show.
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Exploring Dumpters: Looking inside telco dumpters is probably the easiest way
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to acquire useful information. Typycally, dumpters will be found outside a
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Central Office. They are usually left open for the world to see. It's a good
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idea to check a dumpster near you every day or two. You want to get your
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printouts and such before they go to the garbage dump. Make sure that you
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aren't pulling stuff out of the dumpster when the employees get out for the
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day! If possible, check the dumpster after closing hours just to be safe. But
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it's usually ok to get stuff out of it during working hours. You should find a
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lot of useful information, including computer numbers, if you consistently
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check the dumpsters.
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Exploring Plant Departments: Plant Department is just a strange name telco
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made for a truckyard. You might need your 'ol wire cutters for this job.
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Plan to stay up late for this mission, too. Around here, at least, the Plant
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Department doesn't close until 11:30 to 11:45 p.m. If your local Plant
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Department isn't bound by barbed-wire fences, you're lucky. If, unfortunately,
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it's like ours, you'll have to find a way to get in. First, try to find breaks
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in the fence where you might be able to slip through. If this isn't possible,
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and you can't climb over the fence because there's barbed-wire at the top, get
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out the [gasp!] wire cutters. Cut the barbed-wire and climb over the fence.
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Quietly move around the truck yard, opening various trucks, taking whatever you
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want. Although it might be hard, try to control yourself. Only take one item
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per truck so that the fools don't get suspicious. You don't ever want them to
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get suspicious, or you'll never be able to go back without fearing that they
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might be watching the truckyard for intruders. Just take a testphone and a few
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handy manuals. The testphone is usually in the back behind the passenger's
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seat. Manuals should be in the glove compartment or between the two front
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seats. The rest of the gadgets in the trucks have little or no practical uses
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for phreaks. Too bad. Be cool and don't take anything you don't need.
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Correction: Don't take anything you don't *really* want. Have phun with this,
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and please let us know if you find any useful gadgets in a telco truck. We'd
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like to hear from you! Look for a Field Phreaking II file soon. It should be
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Manuscript III.
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>>>>*Freddy*<<<< [The Only Living Peabody]
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