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* How to beat tracing mechanisms *
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Written by: Billy Heif 80 columns
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Date : 12/02/88------------------------------------------------Date : 12/02/88
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Introduction
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Since the beginning of the telephone revolution, there have been
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ways to trace a line. When there used to be operators with plugs and
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huge switchboards, they could manually trace the line. Then came the
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crossbar switching, in which they could trac e the line three ways:
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Lock-In tracing, manual tracing (Never done, anymore), or time
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syncronization. The ESS (Electronic Switching System) brought an
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"Impossible" to beat tracing mechanism, ANI.
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Chapter One : Lock-In tracing
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Lock-In tracing is exactly what the name says. It is a type of
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tracing most often used by the FBI. The method of which Lock-In works is
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quite simple. When a conversation is going on, there is voltage going
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through the line to keep it open for thos e people talking. When lock-in
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is used, after the caller-to-be-traced hangs up, a special FBI machine
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sends voltage down the line to make the Phone Co's machines think that
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the line is still being used. Then that gives the FBI time to trace
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manually.
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The DIFT Box
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There is only one way that I have heard of beating Lock-In. If
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you keep picking up the phone and hanging up, and the line doesn't go to
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a dialtone, there is a chance that you are being traced. The way to stop
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this is to send a current down the lin e, too. First you have to find a
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corner in your house where the phone wire is running along. Then you can
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install 'Billy Heif's Peachy Tracer Breaker', or simply, "The DIFT box".
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Here's the simple schmatics for it:
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-----> RED -----> |-----/-----| >---------- RED TO LINE -------->
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From phone----->Green-----> |-----\-----| >----------Green to line ------->
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----->Black-----> |-----/-----| >----------Black to line ------->
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Tracer Breaker
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Where you see the plus and minus, you hook up a big 6 or 12 volt
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battery. Make sure you put a switch in there somewhere, so you can
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switch it on fast. Hook the + and - to all the lines going out. I think
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that will work, I am pretty sure. Try testi ng it out first. While you
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are talking to one of your buds, click it on.
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Chapter Two : Manual Tracing
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Manual tracing is just following a line back to its source. I am
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not talking literally, just following it from circuits. This takes a
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HELL of a long time, like 10-20 mins or more. The only way to prevent
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this is to make your calls short and sweet, so they don't have time. Of
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course, if you get Locked-In, you should click on your DIFT box for
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about 30 seconds.
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Chapter Three : Time Syncro Tracing
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Time Syncro Tracing is very simple. Let's say Bob Retard is
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getting 100 prank calls a night (From those guys who wrote "Anarchy
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Phone Pranks I,II,III,IV"). Now Bob calls up the phone company, who
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sends out a techie with a clock syncronized to the phone co.'s clock.
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When Bob gets his prank call that night, he just hits the button that
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stops the clock. Then he calls the company and tells them the time that
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he got the call. They run it through their computers and come up with a
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call made at that exac t time, and where it came from. This tracing is
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instoppable, so just don't crank someone all the time. But if you do it
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on some night like Friday, when there are a million calls going on at
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once, then it is pretty safe.
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Chapter Four : Automatic Number Identification (ANI)
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Automatic Number Identification (ANI) is a tracing mechanism
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available ONLY in ESS areas. ANI works because the YOUR phone co.'s
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computer sends a few digital-encoded numbers to the DESTINATION'S phone
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co's computer. Then the other computer, and yo ur co.'s computer knows
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INSTANTLY where it is coming from.
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Ways to tell if you have ESS: (Stolen from some G-File)
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1) 911 service
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2) dialtone first at payphones
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3) call waiting and that shit
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Well, ANI is not absolutely foolproof. I guess you could make a
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cheesebox to get around it or something. It would not be hard to
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do that.
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There was an incident back in March, 1988, concerning ANI. Some
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idiot introduced the idea of the "Sprint Back Door", which gave you
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access to call anywhere in the world for "Free". Little did they know
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that Sprint's ANI machine was working hard, a nd everyone was sent a
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bill at the end of the month. So, watch it with this thing. I think
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there used to be a number you could call, and the thing would call you
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back, using ANI. Pretty sure it's gone now.
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Conclusion
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Well, that does it for most tracing techniques. I hope you guys
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kinda understood my DIFT box. If you don't, contact me through E-Mail
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at any of the boards at the end of this file. I have my computer answer
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sometimes, with an Answering Machine type program, where you can leave
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mail and crap. Ask me for the #.
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-> Disclaimer <-
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Like every piece of great literature, comes this. I don't take
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responsiblity for any of YOUR fuck ups. If you get busted with your DIFT
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box, it IS a federal offense. This file was meant as INFORMATIONAL
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purposes only, and the author does not accep t any responsiblity for
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anyone's use of this file. Thanks.
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Call these boards to contact me:
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Ripco International - (312)-528-5020
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Challenger - (312)-827-3097
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Blue Knight - (312)-249-4385
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Leave E-Mail telling me what's up. Tell me what's new, and ask questions.
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