SANctuary: Town Criers Posting Board
12/25/90
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CALL IT!!!
Originally Printed in: CYBERTEK
The Cyberpunk Technical Journal Issue #4, November/December 1990
P.O. Box 64, Brewster, NY 10509
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Call The Manta's Lair
206/361-5742 Sysop: The Black Manta
This Phile Typed by: Havok Halcyon, Chief Magistrate of the City of Sanctuary
I've added in an occasional hint or two in parenthesis to help some of the more uneducated phreaks understand some of the terms and whatever.
Those help phones in ATM Machine lobbies can be very useful if you have to make an emergency phone call. They work on one of two different ways. The first (and best for us) type is the kind that you pick up the phone and press a button; which activates an autodialer that calls customer service. This one generally looks like a regular traditional style wall phone without a dial and a push button somewhere near the phone instructing you to press it to get customer service. The second type can either be a phone, or is sometimes just a handset set into a mounting on the counter which tells you to pick it up for assistance. There are variations in appearance with the two types, but the button is the giveaway.
What you can do with the first type is pick up the phone and not push the button. You should just get a dialtone like in most regular phone lines, and you can dial out to anywhere by flashing the switchhook, or if the line has touchtone service, by using a portable touchtone dialer available at RADIO SHIT (er..I mean Radio Shack. Also, if you do not know how to "flash" a switchhook, consult BIOC Agent 003's Tutorials or your local phreak or phreak oriented BBS.) for $19.95. Some of these phones are hooked up to the bank's PBX (Private Branch Exchange), in which case you'll have to dial the extension for an outside line, in most places this is usually a "9", "99" or something similar. You can sometimes find out if it's on a PBX by listening to the tones coming out of the autodialer. If it puts out more than 10 digits (tones), or puts out a couple digits and pauses before dialing the rest, then it's on a PBX. Of course some autodialers mute the touch tones so you can't hear them.
With the second type you can call customer service, and either ask some stupid question, or say "Sorry, wrong number". When the nice lady hangs up in MOST cases you will get a dialtone and then you can dial out. (A lot like when you use a diverter). However if the phone line does not have touch tone, you are outta luck; as the autodialer is activated by picking up the phone, the flashing of the switchhook will false start the autodialer. So, if you can't use your TT(touch tone) pad, your outta luck.
Getting into ATM lobbies is pretty easy. They use magnetic strip card access. An ATM card obviously works, as well as credit cards, calling cards, and anything else with a magnetic strip on the back. The bolts on the door are often exposed and can be jimmied open. Some of the locking mechanisms don't even work.
There are a few things that you have to worry about. The first is that someone might notice you staying on the phone for an extended period of time, and get suspicious (This is not a BIG risk because most people could really care less what you are doing, EXCEPT for those fucking goodie- two-shoe bitches which want to make a Citizen's Arrest so that they can get in good with your local PTA). The second is that you run the risk of being recorded when you are in the lobby. Most ATM lobbies have cameras in them. Usually the camera is located in the ATM, and only goes on when a transaction in being made, but some places have 24 hour surveillance systems. These are usually externally mounted, and quite visible. If you see a camera in the lobby, don't mess around in there. The other possibility is that the phone itself could be BUGGED by the bank. According to law they are supposed to inform you with a beep every ten seconds, but no one does that anyway (NOTE: The Gestapo [Ma Bell] is supposed to notify you in the same way if they were bugging you at your home phone, but they will usually say something like "I was checking the line to see if everything was ok, and OVERHEARD some criminal dealings". This is a common way to catch people on the phone, so be careful what you say on public telephone lines.) You could do a quick look around to see if you can find anything on the line. If you don't see anything "funny", and can trace all the wiring, then you are probably safe. All in all, your best and safest bet is to use an ATM located away from a bank, and one where you can see the wiring coming from the outside to the phone. Even then, call only people who'll forget you called right after you hang up.
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Peace and Reggae Music to all. Later muchachos...
