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1996-12-14
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AQUA BOX
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Introduction
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Every true phreaker lives in fear of the dreaded F.B.I. 'Lock in
Trace.' For a long time, it was impossible to escape from the
lock in trace. This box does offer and escape route with simple
directions to it. This box is quite a simple concept, and almost
any phreaker with basic electronics knowledge can construct and
use it.
A lock in trace is a device used by the F.B.I. to lock into the
phone users location so that he can not hang up while a trace is
in progress. For those of you who are not familiar with the
concept of 'locking in', then here's a brief description.
The F.B.I. can tap into a conversation, sort of like a three-way
call connection. Then, when they get there, they can plug elec-
tricity into the phone line. All phone connections are held open
by a certain voltage of electricity, that is why you sometimes
get static and faint connections when you are calling far away,
because the electricity has trouble keeping the line up. What the
lock in trace does is cut into the line and generate that same
voltage straight into the lines. That way, when you try and hang
up, voltage is retained. Your phone will ring just like someone
was calling you even after you hang up. (If you have call wait-
ing, you should understand better about that, for call waiting
intercepts the electricity and makes a tone that means someone is
going through your line. Then, it is a matter of which voltage is
higher. When you push down the receiver, then it see-saws the
electricity to the other side. When you have a person on each
line it is impossible to hang up unless one or both of them will
hang up. If you try to hang up, voltage is retained, and your
phone will ring. That should give you an understanding of how
calling works, also. When electricity`passes through a certain
point on your phone, the electricity causes a bell to ring or on
some newer phones an electronic ring to sound.)
So, in order to eliminate the trace, you somehow must lower the
voltage level on your phone line. You should know that every time
someone else picks up the phone line, then the voltage does de-
crease a little. In the first steps of planning this out, Xerox
suggested getting about a hundred phones all hooked into the same
line that could all be taken off the hook at the same time. That
would greatly decrease the voltage level. That is also why most
three- way connections that are using the bell service three way
calling (which is only $3 a month) become quite faint after a
while.
By now, you should understand the basic idea. You have to drain
all of the power out of the line so the voltage can not be kept
up. I rather sudden draining of power could quickly short out the
F.B.I. voltage machine, because it was only built to sustain the
exact voltage necessary to keep the voltage out.
For now, image this. One of the normal radio shack generators
that you can go pick up that one end of the cord that hooks into
the central box has a phone jack on it and the other has an
electrical plug. This way, you can "flash" voltage THROUGH the
line, but cannot drain it. So, some modifications have to be
done.
Materials needed - a BEOC (Basic Electrical Output Socket), like
a small lamp type connection, where you just
have a simple plug and wire that would plug
into a light bulb.
- One of cords mentioned above, if you can't
find one then construct your own, same voltage
connection, but the restrainer must be built
in (i.e. the central box)
- TWO phone jacks, one for the modem, one for if
you are being traced to plug the aqua box into
- Some creativity and easy work.
NOTICE: No phones have to be destroyed/modified to make this
box, so don't go out and buy a new phone for it!
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Construction
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All right, this is a very simple procedure. If you have the
BEOC, it could drain into anything, a radio, or whatever. The
purpose of having that is you are going to suck the voltage out
from the phone line into the electrical appliance so there would
be no voltage left to lock you in with.
1)Take the connection cord. Examine the plug at the end. It
should have only two prongs, if it has three, still, do not fear.
MAKE SURE THE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE IS TURNED OFF unless you wanna
become a crispy critter while making this thing. Most plug will
have a hard plastic design on the top of them to prevent you from
getting in at the electrical wires inside. Well, get a nice and
remove it. If you want to keep the plug (I don't see why...) then
just cut the top off.
When you look inside, low and behold, you will see that at the
base of the prongs there are a few wires connecting in. Those
wires conduct the power into the appliance. So, you carefully
unwrap those from the sides and pull them out until they are
about and inch ahead of the prongs. If you don't wanna keep the
jack, then just rip the prongs out. If you are, cover the prongs
with insulation tape so they will not connect with the wires
when the power is being drained from the line.
2)Do the same thing with the prongs on the other plug, so you
have the wires evenly connected. Now, wrap the end of the wires
around each other. If you happen to have the other end of the
voltage cord hooked into the phone, stop reading now, your too
fucking stupid to continue.
After you've wrapped the wires around each other, then cover the
whole thing with the plugs with insulating tape. Then, if you
built your own control box or if you bought one, then cram all
the wires into the and reclose it. That box is your ticket out of
this.
3)Re-check everything to make sure it's all in place. This is a
pretty flimsy connection, but on later models when you get more
experienced at it then you can solder away at it and form the
whole device into one big box, with some kind of cheap metal
hand-held game inside to be the power connector.
In order to use it, just keep this box handy. Plug it into the
jack if you want, but it will slightly lower the voltage so it
isn't connected. When you plug it in, if you see sparks, unplug
it and restart the WHOLE thing. But if it just seems fine then
leave it.
Now, so you have the whole thing plugged in and all... DO NOT
USE THIS UNLESS THE SITUATION IS DESPERATE! When the trace has
gone on, don't panic, unplug your phone, and turn on the appli-
ance that it was hooked to. It will need energy to turn itself
on, and here's a great source... the voltage to keep a phone line
open is pretty small and a simple light bulb should drain it all
in and probably short the F.B.I. computer at the same time.
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