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WRITTEN BY::DOCTOR DISSECTOR
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HTML & GRAPHICS BY: THE DIGITAL SNIPER
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**** An Official Phortune 500 Product ****
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a useful source for the phreaker covering both
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the basics and advances of phreaking
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GENERAL NOTE
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The purpose of this newsletter is purely educational. It has been released in order to teach
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and advance the knowledge of today's declining phreaks. However, the author does not
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take any responsibility over the misuse of the herein contained information, and the
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newsletter itself does not encourage or support the above type of activity. Also, any wrong
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or old information in this document is not to the responsibility of the author, and the reader
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accepts any consequences due to information that may be mistaken in this manner.
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NOTE TO ABUSERS
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All information contained within this document was intended towards educational purposes.
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Any misuse or illegal use of the information contained in this document is strictly at the
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misuser's risk. The author assumes NO responsibility of the reader's actions following the
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release this document (in otherwords, you're on your own if you get nailed!)
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TPH #1 Table Of Contents:
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Title Page & Disclaimer Notes
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Table Of Contents & Introduction
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The Phreak's Vitals
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True Definition Of The Phreaker
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The Phone Phreak's Ten Commandments
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The Phreaker's Glossary
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Other Fone Information
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Voltages & Technical Stuff
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Scanning Phun Fone Stuff
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References & Suggested Reading
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Introduction To TPH #1
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This phile was written for beginning as well as those uninformed
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"advanced" phreaks who need something as a reference when reading
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or writing philes concerning phreaking or fone phraud. Of course, you
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could be a beginning phreak and use this phile to B.S. your way into a
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big group by acting like you know a lot, or something, but that is up
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to you. Anyway, I compiled this listing phrom various sources, the
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majority is listed as references at the end of this phile.
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This phile's only goal is to educate and inform. Any illegal or
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fraudulent activity is neither encouraged nor supported by the author
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of this phile, not by the majority of the >TRUE< phreaking community.
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The author assumes NO responsibility for the actions of the reader.
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Also, I know that some of the stuff covered in this release of TPH
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will be old and outdated; however, I will try to clean that up by the
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next release of TPH, and will notify you, the reader, of the changes
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due to these revisions.
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The Phreak's Vitals:
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True Definition Of The Phreaker
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"Many people think of phone phreaks as slime, out to rip off Bell for
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all she is worth. Nothing could be further from the truth! Granted,
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there are some who get their kicks by making free calls; however,
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they are not true phone phreaks. Real phone phreaks are
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'telecommunications hobbyists' who experiment, play with, and learn
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from the phone system. Occasionally, this experimenting and a need
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to communicate with other phreaks, without going broke, leads to free
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calls. The free calls are but a small subset of a >TRUE< phone phreak's
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activities."
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- Wise Words Of The Magician
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The Phone Phreak's Ten Commandments
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I. Box thou not over thine home telephone wires, for those who doest
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will surely bring the wrath of the Chief Special Agent down upon
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thy head.
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II. Speakest thou not of important matters over thine home telephone
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wires, for to do so is to risk thine right of freedom.
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III. Use not thine own name when speaking to other phreaks, for that
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every third phreak is an FBI agent is well known.
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IV. Let not overly many people know that thy be a phreak, as to do so
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is to use thine own self as a sacrificial lamb.
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V. If thou be in school, strive to get thine self good grades, for the
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authorities well know that scholars never break the law.
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VI. If thou workest, try to be an employee and impressest thine boss
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with thine enthusiasm, for important employees are often saved by
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their own bosses.
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VII. Storest thou not thine stolen goodes in thine own home, for those
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who do are surely non-believers in the Bell System Security Forces,
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and are not long for this world.
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VIII. Attractest thou not the attention of the authorities, as the
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less noticeable thou art, the better.
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IX. Makest sure thine friends are instant amnesiacs and willst not
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remember thou hast called illegally, for their cooperation with the
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authorities willst surely lessen thine time for freedom on this
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earth.
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X. Supportest thou TAP, as it is thine newsletter, and without it, thy
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work would be far more limited.
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The Phreaker's Glossary
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1XB - No.1 Crossbar system. See XBAR for more information.
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2600 - A hack/phreak oriented newsletter that periodically was
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released and still is being released. See Phile 1.6 for more
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information on the magazine and ordering.
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4XB - No.4 Crossbar system. See XBAR for more information.
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5XB - No.5 Crossbar system. The primary end office switch of Bell
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since the 60's and still in wide use. See XBAR for more detail.
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700 Services - These services are reserved as an advanced forwarding
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system, where the forwarding is advanced to a user-programed
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location which could be changed by the user.
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800 Exceptional Calling Report - System set up by ESS that will log
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any caller that excessively dials 800 numbers or directory
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assistance. See ESS for more information.
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800 Services - Also known as WATS. These services often contain WATS
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extenders which, when used with a code, may be used to call
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LD. Many LD companies use these services because they are
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toll-free to customers. Most 800 extenders are considered dangerous
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because most have the ability to trace.
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900 Services - Numbers in the 900 SAC usually are used as special
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services, such as TV polls and such. These usually are $.50 for the
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first minute and $.35 for each additional minute. Dial (900)555-1212
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to find out what the 900 services currently have to offer.
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950 - A nationwide access exchange in most areas. Many LD companies
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have extenders located somewhere on this exchange; however, all
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services on this exchange are considered dangerous due to the fact
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that they ALL have the ability to trace. Most 950 services have
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crystal clear connections.
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ACCS - Automated Calling Card Service. The typical 0+NPA+Nxx+xxxx
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method of inputting calling cards and then you input the calling
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card via touch tones. This would not be possible without ACTS.
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ACD - Automatic Call Distributor.
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ACD Testing Mode - Automatic Call Distributor Test Mode. This level of
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phreaking can be obtained by pressing the "D" key down after
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calling DA. This can only be done in areas that have the ACD. The
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ACD Testing Mode is characterized by a pulsing dial tone. From here,
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you can get one side of a loop by dialing 6, the other side is 7.
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You may also be able to REMOB a line. All possibilities of the ACD
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Test have not been experimented with. See silver box for more details.
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ACTS - Automated Coin Toll Service. This is a computer system that
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automates phortress fone service by listening for red box tones and
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takes appropriate action. It is this service that is commonly heard
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saying, "Two dollars please. Please deposit two dollars for the next
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three minutes." Also, if you talk for more than three minutes and
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then hang up, ACTS will call back and demand your money. ACTS is
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also responsible for ACCS.
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Alliance - A teleconferencing system that is apart from AT&T which
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allows the general public to access and use its conferencing
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equipment. The equipment allows group conversations with members
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participating from throughout the United States. The fone number to
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Alliance generally follows the format of 0-700-456-x00x depending on
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the location the call originates from and is not accessible direct
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by all cities/states.
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AMA - Automated Message Accounting. Similar to the CAMA system; see
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CAMA for more info.
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analog - As used for a word or data transmission, a continuously
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varying electrical signal in the shape of a wave.
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ANI - Automatic Number Identification - This is the system you can
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call, usually a three digit number or one in the 99xx's of
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your exchange, and have the originating number you are calling
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from read to you by a computer. This is useful if you don't know
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the number you are calling from, for finding diverters, and when
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you are playing around with other fone equipment like cans or beige
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boxes. The ANI system is often incorporated into other fone companies
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such as Sprint and MCI in order to trace those big bad phreaks that
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abuze codez.
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ANIF - Automatic Number Identification Failure. When the ANI system of
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a particular office fails.
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APF - All PINs Fail. This is a security measure which is designed to
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frustrate attempts at discovering valid PINs by a hacking method.
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aqua box - A box designed to drain the voltage of the FBI lock-in-
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trace/trap-trace so you can hang up your fone in an emergency and
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phrustrate the Pheds some more. The apparatus is simple, just
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connect the two middle wires of a phone wire and plug, which would
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be the red and green wires if in the jack, to the cord of some
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electrical appliance; ie, light bulb or radio. KEEP THE APPLIANCE
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OFF. Then, get one of those line splitters that will let you hook
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two phone plugs into one jack. Plug the end of the modified cord
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into one jack and your fone into the other. THE APPLIANCE MUST BE
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OFF! Then, when the Pheds turn their lame tracer on and you find
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that you can't hang up, remove your fone from the jack and turn
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the appliance ON and keep it ON until you feel safe; it may be
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awhile. Then turn it off, plug your fone back in, and start
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phreaking again.
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Invented by: Captain Xerox and The Traveler.
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BAUDOT - 45.5 baud. Also known as the Apple Cat Can.
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BEF - Band Elimination Filter. A muting system that will mute the 2600
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Hz tone which signals hang-up when you hang up.
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beige box - An apparatus that is a home-made lineman's handset. It is
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a regular fone that has clips where the red and green wires normally
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connect to in a fone jack. These clips will attach to the rings
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and tips found in many of MA's output devices. These are highly
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portable and VERY useful when messing around with cans and other
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output devices the fone company has around.
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Invented by: The Exterminator and The Terminal Man.
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BITNET - Nationwide system for colleges and schools which accesses a
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large base of education-oriented information. Access ports are
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always via mainframe.
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bit stream - Refers to a continuous series of bits, binary digits,
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being transmitted on a transmission line.
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black box - The infamous box that allows the calling party to not be
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billed for the call placed. We won't go in depth right now, most
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plans can be found on many phreak oriented BBS's. The telco can
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detect black boxes if they suspect one on the line. Also, these
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will not work under ESS.
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bleeper boxes - The United Kingdom's own version of the blue box,
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modified to work with the UK's fone system. Based on the same
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principles. However, they use two sets of frequencies, foreword
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and backwards.
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Blotto box - This box supposedly shorts every fone out in the immediate
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area, and I don't doubt it. It should kill every fone in the
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immediate area, until the voltage reaches the fone company, and the
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fone company filters it. I won't cover this one in this issue, cuz
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it is dangerous, and phreaks shouldn't destroy MA's equipment, just
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phuck it up. Look for this on your phavorite BBS or ask your
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phavorite phreak for info if you really are serious about seriously
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phucking some fones in some area.
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blue box - An old piece of equipment that emulated a true operator
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placing calls, and operators get calls for free. The blue box seizes
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an open trunk by blasting a 2600 Hz tone through the line after
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dialing a party that is local or in the 800 NPA so calls will be
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local or free for the blue boxer. Then, when the blue boxer has
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seized a trunk, the boxer may then, within the next 10-15 seconds,
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dial another fone number via MF tones. These MF tones must be
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preceded by a KP tone and followed with a ST tone. All of these
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tones are standardized by Bell. The tones as well as the inter-digit
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intervals are around 75ms. It may vary with the equipment used since
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ESS can handle higher speeds and doesn't need inter-digit intervals.
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There are many uses to a blue box, and we will not cover any more
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here. See your local phreak or phreak oriented BBS for in depth info
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concerning blue boxes and blue boxing. Incidentally, blue boxes are
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not considered safe anymore because ESS detects "foreign" tones, such
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as the 2600 Hz tone, but this detection may be delayed by mixing pink
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noise of above 3000 Hz with the 2600 Hz tone. To hang up, the 2600 Hz
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tone is played again. Also, all blue boxes are green boxes because MF
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"2" corresponds to the Coin Collect tone on the green box, and the
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"KP" tone corresponds to the Coin Return tone on the green box. See
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green box for more information. Blue boxing is IMPOSSIBLE under the
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new CCIS system slowly being integrated into the Bell system.
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blue box tones - The MF tones generated by the blue box in order to
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place calls, emulating a true operator. These dual tones must be
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entered during the 10-15 second period after you have seized a
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trunk with the 2600 Hz tone.
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700: 1 : 2 : 4 : 7 : 11 : KP= Key Pulse
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Parallel Frequencies 900: ** : 3 : 5 : 8 : 12 : ST= STop
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2= Coin Collect 1100: ** : ** : 6 : 9 : KP : KP2= Key Pulse 2
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KP= Coin Return 1300: ** : ** : ** : 10 :KP2 : **= None
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(green box tones) 1500: ** : ** : ** : ** : ST :
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: 900:1100:1300:1500:1700: 75ms pulse/pause
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BLV - Busy Line Verification. Allows a TSPS operator to process a
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customer's request for a confirmation of a repeatedly busy line.
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This service is used in conjunction with emergency break-ins.
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BNS - Billed Number Screening.
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break period - Time when the circuit during pulse dialing is left
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open. In the US, this period is 40ms; foreign nations may use 33ms
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break periods.
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break ratio - The interval pulse dialing breaks and makes the loop
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when dialing. The US standard is 10 pulses per second. When the
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circuit is opened, it is called the break interval. When the circuit
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is closed, it is called the make interval. In the US, there is a
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60ms make period and a 40ms break period. This is often referred to
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as a 60% make interval. Many foreign nations have a 67% make interval.
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bridge - I don't really understand this one, but these are important
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phreak toys. I'll cover them more in the next issue of TPH.
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British Post Office - The United Kingdom's equivalent to Ma Bell.
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busy box - Box that will cause the fone to be busy, without taking it
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OFF-HOOK. Just get a piece of fone wire with a plug on the end,
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cut it off so there is a plug and about two inches of fone line.
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Then, strip the wire so the two middle wires, the tip and the ring,
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are exposed. Then, wrap the ring and the tip together, tape with
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electrical tape, and plug into the fone jack. The fone will be busy
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until the box is removed.
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cans - Cans are those big silver boxes on top of or around the telephone
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poles. When opened, the lines can be manipulated with a beige box
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or whatever phun you have in mind.
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calling card - Another form of the LD service used by many major LD
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companies that composes of the customers fone number and a PIN
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number. The most important thing to know when questioned about
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calling cards are the area code and the city where the calling card
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customer originated from.
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CAMA - Centralized Automatic Message Accounting. System that records
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the numbers called by fones and other LD systems. The recording can
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be used as evidence in court.
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CC - Calling Card.
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CC - Credit Card.
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CCIS - Common Channel Inter-office Signaling. New method being incorporated
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under Bell that will send all the signaling information over separate
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data lines. Blue boxing is IMPOSSIBLE under this system.
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CCITT - The initials of the name in French of the International Telegraph
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and Telephone Consultative Committee. At CCITT representatives of
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telecommunications authorities, operators of public networks and
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other interested bodies meet to agree on standards needed for
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international intermarrying of telecommunications services.
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CCS - Calling Card Service.
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CCSS - Common Channel Signalling System. A system whereby all signalling
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for a number of voice paths are carried over one common channel,
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instead of within each individual channel.
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CDA - Coin Detection and Announcement.
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CF - Coin First. A type of fortress fone that wants your money before
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you receive a dial tone.
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Channel - A means of one-way transmission or a UCA path for electrical
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transmission between two or more points without common carrier,
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provided terminal equipment. Also called a circuit, line, link,
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path, or facility.
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cheese box - Another type of box which, when coupled with call forwarding
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services, will allow one to place free fone calls. The safety of
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this box is unknown. See references for information concerning text
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philes on this box.
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clear box - Piece of equipment that compromises of a telephone pickup
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coil and a small amp. This works on the principal that all receivers
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are also weak transmitters. So, you amplify your signal on PP
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fortress fones and spare yourself some change.
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CN/A - Customer Name And Address. Systems where authorized Bell employees
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can find out the name and address of any customer in the Bell
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System. All fone numbers are listed on file, including unlisted
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numbers. Some CN/A services ask for ID#'s when you make a request.
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To use, call the CN/A office during normal business hours, and say
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that you are so and so from a certain business or office, related to
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customers or something like that, and you need the customer's name
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and address at (NPA)Nxx-xxxx. That should work. The operators to
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these services usually know more than DA operators do and are also
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susceptible to "social engineering." It is possible to bullshit a
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CN/A operator for the NON PUB DA number and policy changes in the
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CN/A system.
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CO Code - Central Office code which is also the Nxx code. See Nxx for
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more details. Sometimes known as the local end office.
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conference calls - To have multiple lines inter-connected in order to
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have many people talking in the same conversation on the fone at
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once. See Alliance and switch crashing for more information.
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credit operator - Same as TSPS operator. The operator you get when you
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dial "0" on your fone and phortress fones. See TSPS for more
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information.
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CSDC - Circuit Switched Digital Capability. Another USDN service that
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has no ISDN counterpart.
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DA - Directory Assistance. See directory assistance.
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DAO - Directory Assistance Operator. See directory assistance.
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data communications - In telefone company terminology, data communications
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refers to an end-to-end transmission of any kind of information
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other than sound, including voice, or video. Data sources may be
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either digital or analog.
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data rate - The rate at which a channel carries data, measured in bits
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per second, bit/s, also known as "data signalling rate."
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data signalling rate - Same as "data rate." See data rate.
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DCO-CS - Digital Central Office-Carrier Switch.
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DDD - Direct Distance Dialed.
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Dial-It Services - See 900 Services.
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digital - A method to represent information to be discrete or individually
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distinct signals, such as bits, as opposed to a continuously
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variable analog signal.
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digital transmission - A mode of transmission in which all information
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to be transmitted is first converted to digital form and then
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transmitted as a serial stream of pulses. Any signal, voice, data,
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television, can be converted to digital form.
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Dimension 2000 - Another LD service located at (800)848-9000.
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directory assistance - Operator that you get when you call 411 or
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NPA-555-1212. This call will cost $.50 per call. These won't know
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where you are calling from, unless you annoy them, and do not have
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access to unlisted numbers. There are also directory assistance
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operators for the deaf that transfer BAUDOT. You can call these and
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have interesting conversations. The fone number is 800-855-1155, are
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free, and use standard Telex abbreviations such as GA for Go Ahead.
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These are nicer than normal operators, and are often subject to
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"social engineering" skills (bullshitting). Other operators also
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have access to their own directory assistance at KP+NPA+131+ST.
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diverter - This is a nice phreak tool. What a diverter is is a type of
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call forwarding system done externally, apart from the fone company,
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which is a piece of hardware that will foreword the call to
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somewhere else. These can be found on many 24 hour plumbers, doctors,
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etc. When you call, you will often hear a click and then ringing, or
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a ring, then a click, then another ring, the second ring often sounds
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different from the first. Then, the other side picks the fone up and
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you ask about their company or something stupid, but DO NOT ANNOY
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them. Then eventually, let them hang up, DO NOT HANG UP YOURSELF.
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Wait for the dial tone, then dial ANI. If the number ANI reads is
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different from the one you are calling from, then you have a
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diverter. Call anywhere you want, for all calls will be billed to
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the diverter. Also, if someone uses a tracer on you, then they trace
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the diverter and you are safe. Diverters can, however, hang up on you
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after a period of time; some companies make diverters that can be
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set to clear the line after a set period of time, or click every once
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in a while, which is super annoying, but it will still work.
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Diverters are usually safer than LD extenders, but there are no
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guarantees. Diverters can also be accessed via phortress fones. Dial
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the credit operator and ask for the AT&T CREDIT OPERATOR. They will
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put on some lame recording that is pretty long. Don't say anything
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and the recording will hang up. LET IT HANG UP, DO NOT HANG UP. Then
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the line will clear and you will get a dial tone. Place any call you
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want with the following format: 9+1+NPA+Nxx+xxxx, or for local calls,
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just 9+Nxx+xxxx. I'd advise that you call ANI first as a local call
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to make sure you have a diverter.
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DLS - Dial Line Service.
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DNR - Also known as pen register. See pen register.
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DOV - Data-Over-Voice.
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DSI - Data Subscriber Interface. Unit in the LADT system that will
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concentrate data from 123 subscribers to a 56k or a 9.6k
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bit-per-second trunk to a packet network.
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DT - Dial tone.
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DTF - Dial Tone First. This is a type of fortress fone that gives you
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a dial tone first.
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DTI - Digital Trunk Interface.
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DTMF - Dual-Tone-Multi-Frequency, the generic term for the touch tone.
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These include 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 as well as A,B,C,D. See silver
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box for more details.
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DVM - Data Voice Multiplexor. A system that squeezes more out of a
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transmission medium and allows a customer to transmit voice and data
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simultaneously to more than one receiver over the existing telefone
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line.
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emergency break-in - Name given to the art of "breaking" into a busy
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number which will usually result in becoming a third party in the
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call taking place.
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end office - Any class 5 switching office in North America.
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end-to-end signalling - A mode of network operation in which the
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originating central office, or station, retains control and signals
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directly to each successive central office, or PBX, as trunks are
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added to the connection.
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ESS - Electronic Switching System. "The phreak's nightmare come true."
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With ESS, EVERY SINGLE digit you dial is recorded, even mistakes.
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The system records who you call, when you call, how long you
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talked, and, in some cases, what you talked about. ESS is programed
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to make a list of people who make excessive 800 calls or directory
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assistance. This is called the "800 Exceptional Calling Report." ESS
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can be programed to print out logs of who called certain numbers,
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such as a bookie, a known communist, a BBS, etc. ESS is a series of
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programs working together; these programs can be very easily changed
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to do whatever the fone company wants ESS to do. With ESS, tracing
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is done in MILLISECONDS and will pick up any "foreign" tones on the
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line, such as 2600 Hz. Bell predicts the whole country will be on
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ESS by 1990! You can identify an ESS office by the functions, such
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as dialing 911 for help, fortress fones with DT first, special
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services such as call forwarding, speed dialing, call waiting, etc.,
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and ANI on LD calls. Also, black boxes and Infinity transmitters
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will NOT work under ESS.
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extender - A fone line that serves as a middleman for a fone call, such
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as the 800 or 950 extenders. These systems usually require a multi-
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digit code and have some sort of ANI to trace suspicious calls with.
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facsimile - A system for the transmission of images. The image is scanned
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at the transmitter, reconstructed at the receiving station, and
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duplicated on some form of paper. Also known as a FAX.
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FAX - See facsimile for details.
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FiRM - A large cracking group who is slowly taking the place of PTL and
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the endangered cracking groups at the time of this writing.
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fortress phone - Today's modern, armor plated, pay fone. These may be
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the older, 3 coin/coin first fones or the newer, 1 coin/DT first
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fones. There are also others, see CF, DTF, and PP. Most phortresses
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can be found in the 9xxx or 98xx series of your local Nxx.
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gateway city - See ISC.
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Gestapo - The telefone company's security force. These nasties are the
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ones that stake out misused phortresses as well as go after those
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bad phreaks that might be phucking with the fone system.
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green base - A type of output device used by the fone company. Usually
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light green in color and stick up a few feet from the ground. See
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output device for more information.
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green box - Equipment that will emulate the Coin Collect, Coin Return,
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and Ringback tones. This means that if you call someone with a
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fortress fone and they have a green box, by activating it, your
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money will be returned. The tones are, in hertz, Coin Collect=700+
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1100, Coin Return=1100+1700, and Ringback=700+1700. However, before
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these tones are sent, the MF detectors at the CO must be alerted,
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this can be done by sending a 900+1500 Hz or single 2600 Hz wink
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of 90ms followed by a 60ms gap, and then the appropriate signal for
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at least 900ms.
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gold box - This box will trace calls, tell if the call is being traced,
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and can change a trace.
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grey box - Also known as a silver box. See silver box.
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group chief - The name of the highest ranking official in any fone
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office. Ask to speak to these if an operator is giving you trouble.
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high-speed data - A rate of data transfer ranging upward from 10,000
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bits per second.
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H/M - Hotel/Motel.
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ICH - International Call Handling. Used for overseas calls.
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ICVT - InComing Verification Trunk.
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IDA - Integrated Digital Access. The United Kingdom's equivalent of
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ISDN.
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IDDD - International Direct Distance Dialing - The ability to place
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international calls direct without processing through a station.
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Usually, one would have to place the call through a 011, station, or
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a 01, operator assisted, type of setup.
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IDN - Integrated Digital Networks. Networks which provide digital
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access and transmission, in both circuit switched and packet modes.
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in-band - The method of sending signaling information along with the
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conversion using tones to represent digits.
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INS - Information Network System. Japan's equivalent of ISDN.
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Intercept - The intercept operator is the one you get connected to when
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there are not enough recordings available to tell you that the
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number has been disconnected or changed. These usually ask what
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number you are calling and are the lowest form of the operator.
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intermediate point - Any class 4X switching office in North America.
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Also known as an RSU.
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international dialing - In order to call across country borders, one must
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use the format PREFIX + COUNTRY CODE + NATION #. The prefix in
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North America is usually 011 for station-to-station calls or 01 for
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operator-assisted calls. If you have IDDD, you don't need to place
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this prefix in.
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INTT - Incoming No Test Trunks.
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INWARD - An operator that assists your local TSPS '0' operator in
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connecting calls. These won't question you as long as the call is
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within their service area. The operator can ONLY be reached by other
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operators or a blue box. The blue box number is KP+NPA+121+ST for
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the INWARD operator that will help you connect to any calls in that
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area ONLY.
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INWATS - Inward Wide Area Telecommunications Service. These are the 800
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