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***The ART of Phreaking: v1.0***
By: LithiuM
(written on 5/27/98)
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        Disclaimer: All information in the following file is for informational
and educational purposes ONLY.  Any information that is used illegally is
the sole responsibility of the reader, NOT the author.
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        –Table of Contents–
1......Introduction
2......The Art of PhreAking
3......Neccisary items list
4......How NOT to get caught
5......What to say if you DO get caught
6......Conclusion: How Ma Bell rips off society


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1. Introduction
        So you want to be a phreaker, eh?  Well your gonna need to know the
basics first.  As boring and stupid as that may sound to some people, it’s
the truth.  So I wrote this text file so people could actually know what
they are talking about.  That's about it for the introduction, so just
keep reading and feel you head expand with knowledge, because after
all....knowledge is power.
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2. The Art of Phreaking
        Ok...your first lesson in phreaking is going to be how to make a beige
box.  This is a very simple box and will be good for you beginners out
there.  First you need a regular telephone cord (the kind that runs from
the wall to the back of your fone).  Then you will need 2 strands of
insulated 16 gauge wire (other wire will work but this is what I use).
Next you will need 2 small alligator clips.  If you want to put it in a
box that is optional (looks better in a box) so just run down to Radio
Shack® and get a test box for like 2 bucks.  Ok, here are the
instructions....First take your phone cord and cut it in half in the
middle with scissors....then strip the plastic coating at the cut end of
the cord.....for now disregard the black and yellow wires that you see at
the cut end.....strip the small red and green wires (this might be
difficult considering how small they are).....then take your first strand
of insulated wire and strip one end of it......attach the stripped end of
the wire to the red wire on the fone cord......then strip the other piece
of insulated wire and attach that end to the green wire....MAKE SURE that
the green wire and red wire aren’t touching so wrap each wire separately
with electrical tape......then strip the other ends of both insulated
wires and attach each end to an alligator clip.....now make sure you have
insulated everything securely with electrical tape.....if you have a box
go ahead and put it in there, drilling 1 hole in one side and 2 holes in
the other side.......then just fit it in accordingly.....now you are ready
to use your beige box!! Just hook your beige box to a phone and  go
outside to your yard to test it...usually there is a tall skinny phone box
in each person’s yard with a picture of a bell on it.  When you get to the
box slide the cover off...(if it is secured with bolts just use a
wrench).....after you have slid the cover off there should be a jumble of
wires and a bunch of bolts with wires connected to them.....attach the two
alligator clips to the bolts with the red and green wires connected to
them....then pick up the phone and see if you get a dial tone....if you
don’t then just switch the alligator clips.....if that still doesn’t do
the trick check your wiring again (maybe two wires are touching or
something...)....this box can be very useful because it now gives you
remote access to everyone else’s phones...
        Well now that you know how to make a simple box I will go into pay phone
phreaking.  Although the art of payfone phreaking is pretty much dead
after bell decided to fix the little tone problem, there still are a
couple of tricks that you can do to get free fone calls....
        –1st method– (basic tones)
        These only work on old bell fones that are um...really old, or are owned by nynex :)....the basic
way that tone phreaking works is that a tone is played into the receiver
imitating the sound of a quarter, dime, or nickel being inserted.....this
way was found out by finding out exactly what tones a quarter, dime and nickel made when you inserted them into the
fone....but anyway...you can obtain these
tones by either downloading a program that produces them (try “Home of
Warez” on Hotline)  or producing them yourself with a red box....the easy
way to make a red box is to use a tape recorder....what you do is go up to
one of those dual phone stations and look at both of the numbers on the
phones.....if there are incoming calls that is good, if there are no
incoming calls then find a dual phone station that does allow incoming
calls....then insert your 35¢ into the phone (I can’t believe that they
raised the price!)  have your tape recorder and some tape ready....call
the phone next to you and answer it.....then tape your recorder to the ear
piece of the second fone (so the microphone can hear the phone)...then
press record on the tape recorder....quickly pick up the first fone and
insert a quarter..dime...or nickel into the slot....go over to the tape
recorder and press stop.  You know successfully have your own redbox tones.
There is also a nother way to make PURE redbox tones by buying a tone dialer at radio shack and then replacing the
crystal inside with a 6.5536 hz crystal.  Then just program in 5 *'s on the fone pad and you've got a quarter tone.
Each * represents a nickel.

        –2nd method–(3rd party billing)
        If you’ve got a friend with you go to one of those dual phone systems
again and pick up the phone.....dial 0 and after a few seconds you will
hear an operator say “How may I direct your call?”   You say    “I would
like to dial (whatever number you want to call), but I would like to bill
it to a 3rd party”....She will ask you for your name and the phone number
in which to bill the call to......tell her some fake name and tell her the
number of the pay fone right next to you....she will say “Please
hold..”...let your friend answer the fone next to you when it rings...the
operator will ask him “Would you like to accept 3rd party billing charges
from John Wilkes Booth?”....have your friend say yes....then the operator
will connect your call and the bill will be courtesy of Ma Bell....

*That is it for the art of phreaking section of The Art of
Phreaking....there will be a lot more in the next issue*
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3. Neccisary items list

•phone cords (and lots of em’!)
•spst and dpdt switches
•experimental boxes
•wire
•Alligator clips
•keypads
•soldering iron
•solder
•screw drivers and other various tools
•old telephones
•resistors
•pots (not the kind you put a plant in! Electronic Potkotometers)
•transistors
•and other stuff that I forgot to add
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4. How NOT to get caught
        If you are going to become a serious phreaker you need to know how not to
get caught and thrown in jail...here is a list of do’s and don’ts when you
are phreaking...

1. NEVER phreak in public out in the brightness of day....especially on
payfones....don’t you think  people would get suspicious if they saw a kid
running around a phone taping tape recorders to it and switching from fone
to fone??

2. ALMOST NEVER use a beige box on someone’s fone when they are
home....well...you can but I wouldn’t recommend it...chances are that they
will see you using their fone box and call the cops..

3. ALWAYS phreak at night and wear dark clothing....be prepared to run at
any second if someone spots you..

4.NEVER brag about your accomplishments to your friends or at BBS’s or at
your school...chances are that it will leak out and you will be in deep
shit.

5.Well I can’t think of anything else but remember...always look over your
shoulder...watch your back.....and remember...Big Brother is ALWAYS
watching you...
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5. What to say if you DO get caught
        So...you were phreaking one day and despite my rules you were careless
and got CAUGHT by the cops!!! Well if you are a young person you’ve got
the hometown advantage....if you are over 21, oops...your goin to jail.
Anyway if you get caught act like you have no idea what the hell anything
is (i.e. ACT RETARTED!!) then say that your friends made you do it and
that you had no idea what you were doing...then tell the cops some bogus
sad story about how horrible your life is and how your dad beats you....if
you are lucky they will let you go with a warning.....if you are not so
lucky get a VERY good lawyer (I suggest Dorsey Morrow, Jr., Attourney at
Law [phone]) Then after they let you go....sue the state and the
police department...make a million dollars....then buy a Macintosh
G3..hehe..:-)
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6. Conclusion: How Ma Bell rips off society
        Well...I’ll go into that in a later version of the Art of the Phreak. Thats it for this version of the Art of
Phreaking.....hope all you
newbies enjoyed it cause it was for you!  Well the title of my conclusion
really explains itself....so until next time this is LiTHiuM logging off...

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