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The Creation and Use of A
Crusty Box
Submitted for exclusive use by HackAddict.
1. What is the Crusty Box
2. Why is it so Crusty?
3. How do you make one?
4. Alternate ways of making the Crusty Box
5. Using the Crusty Box
6. Why it Works
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What is the Crusty Box?
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The Crusty Box is an easy way to listen to
neighbors phone calls, making calls yourself, and
hacking/scanning without getting caught. It is
extremely easy to make and is a good way to start
phreaking. While it isn't real techincal, it can
be useful. Does it deserve to be called a box?
That's for the phreaking community to decide.
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Why is it so Crusty?
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It is called the Crusty Box because it is
not much of box and is easy to make. Most boxes
deal with the insides of telephones and more elec-
tronic material. The Crusty Box simply works with
phone lines and a few extras. Paint it brown when
you're done. It was the first color of mine, but
tan and brown were already taken. Don't you think
of brown when you hear the word crusty?
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How Do You Make One?
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Extremely simple and cheap. It really doesn't
have to be a box, but it can. Below are the
materials you'll need:
- a LONG telephone wire (or a few with connectors)
- a splitter (found at most electronic stores, allows
two lines to go into one jack)
- an extra phone
- a computer with a modem
- a small ring box (or somthing of that type)
Take the box (paint it brown!) and cut a hole in
one side, enought so the top of the splitter can fit
through. Cut two on another side about the same size.
Tape the splitter in the box so that the top is
sticking out of the one hole. This is the hard part.
Many times, on the outside of your victims house, there
will be a phone jack or box. If there's a box, there
should be 2 jacks. They should say line, or phone, or
something to that effect. There should be a wire going
into one or both of the jacks. Remove the wire and
insert your spiltter into the jack (if there is two,
finish completing your box and if doesn't work, switch
jacks). Now take the wire that was orginally in the
jack and put it into one end of the splitter. The box
is now installed. Take the extremely long phone wire
and put it into the other end of the splitter. Run
that wire into your house and into your modem (you'll
have to unplug the line thats already going in there).
It IS illegal to run phone lines from one hosue to
another, so you could bury the line or hide it somehow.
When everything's done, it should look like this:
________
| ____ | <-- Phone Jack
||||||
________| |________
| | | |
| | |______ |
| | | |
| Box | splitter | |
| | __ | |
| | | | | | | | Original Line
| | | | |
|_________ |_______|___| |
_ | | \|/
_|_______________________| |____________________
/|\
|
|
Long Phone Line
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Alternate ways of making the Crusty Box
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If you don't want to keep the box on your neighbor's
house, there is an alternate way to make a Crusty Box.
You'll need the same materials except you'll also need 2
extension connectors (can be found wherever you bought
the splitter). Cut the box and insert the splitter as
shown above. Find you neighbors line that goes into his
jack and put and extension connector on it. Take the
long phone line and run it into your house. Put the
other extension connector on the end of the splitter.
Plug the long phone wire into one side of the splitter.
Take another long phone line and plug it into the top
of the splitter, into the extension connector you just
put there. Take a short phone line and plug it into
the other jack in the splitter. Plug the other end
that short phone line into your modem. Take the long
phone line that is connected to the extension connector
(the one that is in the top is the splitter) and run it
back to your neighbors house and finally plug it in to
his jack. Bury the two lines. This way is more complex,
but you'll have the box in your possession, and you can
easily unplug the lines and put the orginal wire back
in the jack. Here's some ascii art to represent it:
_____ | <--neighbors orginal line
neighbors jack--> | | | |
| | | <-- extension connector
l.l. --> | | |
| | |
exten. conn. 2 --> | | |
_|_ | <-- long line 2
| |___ |
| |
splitter & box --> | | |
| | _ | | |
| |______|
|
| <-- short line
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Using the Crusty Box
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There are many things you can do once you have
the Crusty Box installed. You can use your phone to
call people useing their line (this billing them).
This is not too smart because you can get into
trouble is they find out something is happening
or they find your box! Also, make sure they have
free local calling so each call won't be billed when
you war dial.
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Snooping
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Listening to your neighbor's conversations can be
interesting. To do this as discrete as possible, I
recommend a terminal emulator. If you just pick up
a phone they will hear it. Once in the emulatorm type
"ATDT" and the modem will let you listen to their phone
line. Hit return again to hang up. If you type numbers
after the "ATDT" it will dial those numbers. A good
terminal emulator for the Mac is Z-Term of Smartcom
Master. I don't know of many for PC, but I'm sure
they're out there.
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Hacking
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When your neighbor isn't home, it would be a great
time to war dial/hack. It's not on your line so you
might not get busted (unless they don't have a computer).
Just do everything as normal as you usually would.
You can also make prank calls and such without
getting them traced to your house.
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Why it Works
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Using the Crusty Box is just like stealing a
phone from their house. The splitter allows to
wire to go into one jack, thus having 2 phones,
or a phone and a modem operational at the same
time. You are using your neighbor's line for your
personal use. Have fun, and don't get caught!
(Name witheld by request of the author)