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Legion Of Lame Information Exchange
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LoL was created to fight censorship and to provide a place for people to
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share ideas, catering to people interested in: Online Security, Phone
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Network Security and discussion of related topics.
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Anyone who submits anything to the LOLIE will automatically recieve
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the next issue, through e-mail, which will be compiled from reader
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submissions, member submissions, and files of interest from the internet.
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For more information email lolie@freenet.hut.fi
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or check out http://www.inmind/com/people/therock
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LoL is:
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Dead Whorse: lolie@freenet.hut.fi
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Devil Locke: therock@inmind.com
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Pyro Teknik: an613617@anon.penet.fi
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Kaigen: fd7351@acs.brockport.edu
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*New Header by: Pyro Teknik*
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In this issue:
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my two cents. -Dead Whorse
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Q+A -Dead Whorse, et al
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Blue Boxing Today -Pyro Teknik
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COCOTs -Pyro Teknik
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my two cents.
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Well kiddies, it seems that the government has heard us, and
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campaigns like the EFF Blue ribbon drive, were not in vain, today,
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6/12/96, A federal court ruled the "indecency" laws in the new
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communications act unconstitutional. It will most likely be appealed
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to the supreme court. It is important that we not give up the right
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to free speech online.
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Pornography is not the problem, it is the symptom. It is a
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symptom of society's repressed sexuality. Sex is a natural thing,
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and each one of us has a drive to have sex. Religon was the first thing
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to label anything that feels good, "bad". We need to fight back. Sex
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is not a "bad" thing. Sex sells because there is a demand. Throbbing
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masses of people in this world, hungering and craving for an outlet.
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And then an outlet opens up. A beautiful outlet where one can
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remain anonymous, and still express these sexual feelings. Yes, times
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are changing, and they are changing fast. Maybe someday, somewhere,
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we can be totally free. But for now, fight.
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-DH
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Q+A
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>What the heck is a red box? or do I have to make it to find out?
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No such thing as a stupid question, right?
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I have decided to answer this question because LoLie shouldn't be limited
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to only advanced topics, little has been written on the basics since the
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80's.
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Nah, a red box is a tone generator that can generate the tones used when
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you put a quarter or other coins in a payphone.. Therefore it is only
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useful for various payphone phreaking. It dosn't have to be electronic,
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It could be made out of the greeting cards that record a few seconds of
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sound, and a computer that can playback the tones into the card.
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DH
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From xxxxx@aol.com (name x'ed to protect the innocent. <G>)
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>How is a blue box created.
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In the beginning, there were phones, and it was good. The only
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thing, was that these phones liked to eat money. God looked down upon
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the money eating phones, and thought, "This is very bad." So god sent
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down the blue box. And it was good.
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-DH
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Blue Boxing Today: Is it still possible?
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I think most of us know what blue boxing is and basically how it works. But,
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it's amazing how many people know how to but haven't even tried! In my
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experience boxing is very easy and if you're sensible you won't get caught.
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I've boxed hundreds of calls through Trinidad, Venezuela and China, from
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Britain. The easiest way seems to be to call a toll free number in a country
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which uses older equipment - Trinidad and the like - and send the tones there.
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In America I've heard that blue boxing is now rather difficult, as the phone
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system mainly uses out-of-band signalling. Most of the signalling is done by
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CCIS lines - in short you can't box when you're using these lines. The trick
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is to find some of the many trunks which use in-band signalling.
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Although, I read somewhere that there is a way to get your tones to be
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picked up by the trunk, even if the trunk uses out-of-band signalling. Have
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a peek around at the WATS extenders.
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Or, you can call toll free numbers which connect to numbers in different
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countries. In Britain these are the 0800 89* *** numbers. It's amazing what
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you can find under these. I once found a support bulletin board for AMD in
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America and according to the login screen, the phone number was not toll free
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it was a normal telephone line for Americans. It seems as though BT has a
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rather messed up system.
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If you're desperate to find a place to blue box through, do scanning from
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a phone box with your tones on tape, or those little keyrings which can store
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20 seconds of tones. Scanning from home can be a bad idea, as your TelCo might
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start watching you.
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Despite of all the blueboxing I've done from home - hundreds of calls - and
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other phreaking, British Telecom has never batted an eyelid. And, I don't
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think TeleMalta would really give a damn anyway, as you're allowed to phone
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tap here in Malta at the moment!
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Anyway, have fun. My next article on boxing will explain how Blue Boxing
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works precisely. Please email me at lolie if you have any questions about
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phones.
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- by Pyro Teknik <an613617@anon.penet.fi>
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COCOTs : Customer Owned Coined Operated Telephones
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COCOTs are phones which to a normal layman look and taste like a normal
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payphone. Actually they aren't, if you look at them, you will notice that
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in America they don't have any telco logos, while in Britain they have a BT
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logo and in Malta they have a Southern Bell logo! You can find these phones
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in shops, restaurants and hotels.
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These phones normally charge more than a normal payphone, so you'll get less
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time for your dime/pence/Maltese cents. This is because the owner of the phone
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is making a profit. A COCOT is connected to a standard phone line, and the
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owner of the phone has to pay the bill. If he charges more than the normal
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TelCo charges then he makes a profit.
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I know of three ways to make free calls from these phones. The first is to
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look around the phone, and see if you can find where it is plugged into the
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wall. If it is visible, then just unplug the COCOT and plug in your own hand
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set. The socket is not always visible, but sometimes it is.
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The second method is by entering a code on the handset. This is the first
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method I discovered. One day, some friends and I were playing with a COCOT
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and suddenly the dialtone re-appeared. We had punched in the code which the
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phone owner uses to use the phone without having to put in money. The phone
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was a 'BT Payphone 200 MK II' although we beleive it was actually a COCOT.
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The code we had typed in was *#2580. After the dialtone reappears and we could
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call anywhere for free. I mean anywhere - local, national, international, 0891
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numbers etc. I'm going to find out some more information about this phone from
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BT soon.
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The third method is the most likely to work. I only know of this working in
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the US of A. For this you will probably need a DTMF dialer, like the ones that
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Radio Shack make. First you call a toll free number, 1-800-RAPE-ME, or what
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ever, and make the other end hang up. Say "Sorry wrong number" or whatever
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comes to mind. After they hang up you will here a click and if you're lucky
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a dialtone. This dialtone is the REAL dialtone. The one you heard when you
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first picked up the phone is fake, created by the COCOT. From there you can
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dial a number. The number pad is VERY likely to be disabled, so use your DTMF
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dialler. Some of these COCOTs try to be cunning, and as soon as they hear the
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dialtone, they reset themselves. In this case as soon as the 1-800 number
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hangs up, start making some noise, hissing or blowing into the mouthpiece is
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best. Now, dial the first digit of the phone number and stop hissing at the
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same time. This will indicate to the local exchange that you have started to
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dial and it should stop sending the dial tone. You can now dial the rest of
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the digits for the phone number and you should be connected. There are some
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phones where as soon as the call is finished, the mouthpiece is disabled, in
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this case you're out of luck.
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*NOTE* There is a good way to listen to somone's conversation on a payphone.
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Most modern payphones (In Britain anyway) have facilities for deaf people
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to use their hearing aid in a certain way so that they don't hear any of the
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background noise. The phone sends the sound via radio waves, not very far, but
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far enough for the sound to be picked up by the hearing aid. Now, if you want
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to listen to the conversation (good if you're nosey or want to listen for
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personal details or whatever) you can either wear a hearing aid in the 'T'
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position or use a radio to listen into the correct frequency.
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I'm getting some detailed information about payphones and COCOTS soon, and
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so I'll be writing about the technical details hopefully in a few weeks.
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- by Pyro Teknik <an613617@anon.penet.fi>
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Well that's all for this issue, submit something, and you can be part
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of the next issue.
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ading slowly away.....
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LoL information exchange. Issue 3. 06/12/96
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-EOF-
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