home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
The Unsorted BBS Collection
/
thegreatunsorted.tar
/
thegreatunsorted
/
texts
/
anarchy_text_a-l
/
aquabox.txt
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1991-03-15
|
7KB
|
138 lines
*--* Qmodem Session Capture File *--*
*--* Qmodem Capture File 03/15/91 21:01:47 *--*
AQUABOX.TXT
Every true phreaker lives in fear of the dredded 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.
/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/
/-/ The Lock /-/
/-/ in Trace /-/
/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/
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 conecpt of 'locking in', then here's a
breif desciption.
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 electricity 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 waiting, you should understand
better about that, for call waiting intersepts 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 decrease a little. In the first
steps of planning this out, K.K. 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 nessecary 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.
/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/
/-/ The Aqua Box /-/
/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/
Materials needed
- a BEOC (Basic Electrical Output Socket), like a small lamp te.pe
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 restrainor 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!
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
applicence 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 APPLIENCE 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 insultation 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 eahc 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 sauder away at it and form the whole device into one big box,
with some kind of cheap mattel 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.
/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/
/-/ Using 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 appliance 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.
Call The Outer Limits BBS - [718] 492-3054
/l