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SILVER BOX
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History
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Well, now that I have you hare, I might as well bore you with a
little history of the Silver Boxes. One day, some engineer over
at Bell Labs got the bright idea to sing to his computer...and
found out that the computer responded by dialing a phone number.
Well, sort of. Anyway, the 10 digit (old style with the # and *
left out) was born.
Lo and behold, though, two sets of people decided that 10 (or 12)
buttons just weren't enough...they needed more. The two people of
whom I am speaking of are of course MA BELL and PA AUTOVON (The
Military Phone Network). So, MA decided to add an extra column to
her phones, this one merging the standard row tones with a 1633
HZ tone (to provide the mystical DTMF). Bell named these buttons
A,B,C and D (aren't you glad we have such imaginative friends at
our Bull System?), while the Army named them FLASH OVERRIDE,
FLASH, INTERRUPT AND PRIORITY. These are used to request varying
degrees of priority during wartime (and wargame) activities so
that generals can call their secretaries very quickly. Bell's
use of ABC and D is not so clear.
However, the last button (D) has an interesting property...on
about 50% of the information lines in the country, it will give
you a pulsing dial tone. You can then enter commands that what
appear to be a test system for the 4A switching boxes. Anyway,
the modification...
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Materials
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Soldering Iron
Solder Some
22 ga.wire
1 SPDT switch
a screwdriver
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Construction
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1) Unscrew your phone (must be a touch tone, desk type)
2) Remove the mounted pad and take the clear plastic cover from
the bottom.
3) Hold the pad with the numbers 0, *, # facing you, and turn it
upside down, so you can see the yellow pc board.
4) You should see 2 black round doughnuts.
5) Position the board so the solder points for the left doughnut
face you.
6) Count over four points from the left, and attach a (green)
wire to that point.
7) Between you and the doughnuts, there should be 2 long yellow
capacitors. To the right of these, and on the edge of the
board there should be 3 gold contacts. We will use the one on
the left.
8) The contact originally is spot welded, so snip it open.
9) To the one nearest you, attach a (red) wire to the other one,
a (yellow) wire.
10) Run the wires out of the phone, and solder the switch.
11) The orientation should be (red) to center. The switch will
now alternate
between normal and 1633hz fourth column tones.
The silver box transforms keys 3,6,9,# to A,B,C,D.
Those tones stand for:
A - Flash
B - Flash override (priority)
C - Priority communication
D - Priority override (top military)
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Usage
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Those keys only work on certain networks. Now what do you do
with those extra tones? Call any long distance directory by dial-
ing (area code) 555-1212 and while it rings press the # key then
as the operator answers you will disconnect them instantly and
hear a pulsing tone, press 6 (normal tone and it will stop.
Then, if another person does the same thing on another line and
then presses 7 you should have a voice link. 414 A/C is good for
one that. You can screw around with the tones and see what you
get.
Note: You will not receive a pulsing tone until the operator ac-
tually picks up on the line. If you hear ringing on the back-
ground, keep pressing. The tone must be on at the same time the
operator gives her "beep".
If you hear her cursing at stupid people with stuck buttons,
chances are this one won't work...try out of the way states like
Montana, Wyoming, etc.
Happy phreaking...
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