The Discordant Opposition Journal Issue 8 - File 3
Intro to Phreaking
By: Kleptic (kleptic@antionline.org)
Phone Phreaking is about manipulating the telephone system im ways that the telephone company itself doesn't truly understand or believe is possible.
On the noblest level, phreaking is about exploring, experimenting, and learning as much as you can about the phone system out of sheer curiosity. On a more malicious level, phreaking can mean making free phone calls at somebody elses expence, denying phone service to valid customers, or wrecking telephone company equipment.
GETTING STARTED:
To start phreaking, you need access to a telephone. However, phreaking from your own phone will not only cost you in phone charges, but also provide the phone company with a convenient way to track you by tracing your phone line. To be a true phone phreak, you need access to the telephone system and a way not to get billed.
The simplest method to access the phone system anonymously is through a pay phone, and the simplist way to avoid paying fo your phone calls is to use either somebody elses calling card number or a special box designed to trick the phone company computers.
Telephone Color Boxes:
A more sophisticated method for making free phone calls involves making a special telephone box that emits special tones or physically alters phone wiring, allowing you to manipulate the phone system. Soon after the introduction of the blue box for making free long-distance calls, phone phreaks created special boxes to perform different functions.
Since the phone company is likely to frown on anyone actually building and using a telephone color box, read this warning, which appears in many text files that explain how to build boxes:
"You have received this information courtesy of .neXus. We do not claim to be hackers, phreaks, pirates, traitors, etc. We only believe that an alternative to making certain info/ideas illegal as a means to keep people from doing bad things - is make information free, and educate people how to handle free information responsibly. Please think and act responsibly. Don't get cockey, don't get pushy. There is always gonna be someone out there that can kick your ass. Remember That!"
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Box: Description:
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Red Box: generates tones for free phone calls
Black Box: when called, caller pays nothing
Beige Box: lineman's handset
Green Box: generates coin return tones
Cheese Box: turns your phone into a payphone
Aero Box: call free for both local and international
Acrylic Box: steal 3-way calling and other services
Aqua Box: stops F.B.I. lock-in-trace
Blast Box: phone microphone amplifier
Blotto Box: shorts out all phones in your area
Blue Box: generates 2600hz tone
Brown Box: creates party line
Bud Box: tap neighbours phone
Busy Box: When any phone inside a victoms house is Picked up, No dial Tone is heard, and no Calls can be Received, or Sent
Chatreuse Box: use electricity from phone
Chrome Box: manipulates traffic signals
Clear Box: free calls
Color Box: phone conversation recorder
Copper Box: causes crosstalk interference
Crimson Box: hold button
Dark Box: re-route calls
Dayglo Box: connect to neighbours phone line
Divertor Box: re-route calls
DLOC Box: create party line
Gold Box: dialout router
Infinity Box: remote activated phone tap
Jack Box: touch-tone key pad
Light Box: in-use light
Lunch Box: AM transmitter
Magenta Box: connect remote phone line to another
Mauve Box: phone tap without cutting into the line
Neon Box: external microphone
New Gold Box: When linked across two telephone lines, a Gold Box allows you to call one phone number and get the other's dialtone.
Noise Box: creates line noise
Olive Box: external ringer
Paisly Box: Seize operator lines, Remote control over all TSPS and TOPS consoles, All other box functions combined in one, including blue, beige, and blotto.
Party Box: creates party line
Pearl Box: tone generator
Pink Box: creates party line
Purple Box: hold button
Rainbow Box: kill trace
Razz Box: tap neighbours phone
Rock Box: add music to phone line
Scarlet Box: causes interference
Silver Box: create DTMF tones for A,B,C, and D
Slush Box: *Still Being Developed*
Static Box: raises voltage on phone line
Switch Box: add services
Tan Box: phone conversation recorder
Tron Box: It reverses the phase on the line, canceling out the opposite phase.
TV Cable Box: see sound waves on TV
Urine Box: create disturbance on phone headset
Violet Box: stop payphone from hanging up
White Box: DTMF key pad
Yellow Box: add line extension
This text file in an updated version on Phreak Boxes and what they do. This text was updated on 5/17/99 this text is for educational purposes only! Use this for good and not evil.. and as .neXus. would say it.. THERE WILL ALWAYS BE SOMEONE OUT THERE CAN CAN KICK YOUR ASS! REMEMBER THAT!
If you have any questions/comments/bomb threats just send them my way at: kleptic@antionline.org
Enjoy the text!
-= Kleptic =-
kleptic@antionline.org
