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- The Mickey Mouse Club's Guide To
- -+ Beige Boxing +-
-
- Written By :
- Cardiac Arrest
- [09/26/89]
-
- Introduction : Well, I KNOW that nearly everybody and their brother knows how
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~ to beige box, but what magazine is complete without a file as
- basic as that. Anyways, if you know how to beige box, and consider yourself
- master beiger, skip this and go on to the next file. Otherwise, I'll try to
- help beginners and maybe give some experienced boxers food for thought.
-
- What IS Beige Boxing : If you've ever payed any attention to the phone
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ company, you've definately seen a guy in funny Ma Bell
- overalls running around with a funny-looking telephone with gator clips coming
- out the bottom. That's the Ma Bell version of the "beige box", called a
- Lineman's Handset. There are literally TONS of uses for a beige boxes, and
- they are simple to make, so it's usually a good introduction to the phreaking
- world.
-
- The Purpose Of This File : If even one person reads this file and learns
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ something, I've accomplished what I set out to do
- (how cliche, right?). But seriously, I'm going to attempt to provide several
- easy methods of beige boxing. Some experienced beigers will definately see
- some familiar designs, but they might also see a new twist or two. I'll also
- include (hopefully) easy but complete directions of some of the possibilities
- for use.
-
- Back To Reality : Ok, on with the file. There are about as many beige box
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ designs as there are uses, and with both, new ideas are
- always popping up. The designs in this file are by no means the best designs.
- I HOPE that they're some of the easiest, but who am I to say.
-
-
- Method #1 (Generic, Phone Destroying, Design)
-
- Required Materials
- 1 Telephone that you wont miss (it'll be a permanent beige box)
- 2 Gator clips
- 1 Telephone cord
- 1 Screwdriver
- 1 Pair of wire cutters
- 1 Soldering iron
- Solder
-
- Construction
- 1. Open up the telephone with the screwdriver. I can't give exact
- directions, because different models vary, but if you can't find
- the screws, try checking under the plastic plate that holds the
- phone number of the location.
-
- 2. Look at the modular jack (the thingy the phone cord plugs into).
- Find the red and green wires. These are the ones you want.
- Trace these wires with your finger to the screw that holds them
- down. Connect your phone cord to these screws, either by
- soldering them, or by wrapping them around the screw and
- tightening it down.
-
- 3. Run the telephone cord out the modular jack's hole. If you can't
- squeeze it through the jack, take the wire cutters the cut the
- wires leading to it, and yank it out. That should leave planty
- of room.
-
- 4. Re-assemble your phone.
-
- 5. At the end of the telephone cord hanging out of the phone,
- connect the gator clips to the same wires hooked up to the screws
- inside the housing of the phone. You can connect them either by
- soldering, or by splicing the wire to them (twisting them around
- the hole and praying that it holds).
-
-
- Method #2 (A spin-off of #1, but less permanent)
-
- Required Materials
- 1 Telephone (Don't worry, you wont wreck this one)
- 1 Telephone cord (You can use one of the springy ones that you
- always tangle up when you're on the phone)
- 2 Gator clips
- 1 Pair of wire cutters
- 1 Soldering iron
- Solder
-
- Construction
- 1. Cut the modular plug (the thing that plugs into the wall or
- telephone set) off ONE end of the telephone cord.
-
- 2. Find the red and green wires and connect the gator clips to
- these by soldering or splicing them.
-
- 3. Connect the other end (the that still has a plug) to a telephone.
-
-
- Method #3 (Similar to #2, but using a wall jack instead of a cord)
-
- Required Materials
- 1 Telephone (This wont get wrecked, either)
- 1 Modular telephone wall jack (This WILL get wrecked)
- 2 Gator clips
- 1 Pair of wire cutters
- 1 Soldering iron
- Solder
-
- Construction
- 1. Look on the back of the wall jack. You should see the typical
- red and green wires going into the back of the jack. Leave the
- end going into the jack alone, but trace them to where the go
- into the plate holding the jack. Cut them here (being sure, as I
- said, to leave the jack end alone).
-
- 2. Hook the gator clips up to the red/green wires.
-
- 3. Plug the phone into the wall jack.
-
-
- Testing Your Box : Ok, now that you've got one of the boxes described above
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (or a different one...I really don't care), you ready to
- go. Go outside, and on the side of your house, you should be able to find a
- small, approximately 3" X 3", puke-green box, with a bolt in the middle of it.
- Take a wrench (I'm not sure what the size is, but a 10mm wrench works for me,
- and that's all I really care about. But be careful, since it's not exact, you
- might strip it) and take off the bolt. You'll probably have to clear out some
- cobwebs, since it hasn't been used in a while. Inside the box, you should see
- four screws (one on each corner) with the typical red/green wires connected to
- them. (If you have two phone lines, the bottom screws will have black/yellow
- wires, if you have one phone line, the bottom wont have any). You can probably
- guess what happens from here--Hook the gator clips up to the screws. You
- should get a dial tone. If you didn't, make sure the connection is clean, that
- you're hooked up to the right terminals(screws), etc. If you still don't get
- one, you're screwed. That means there's something wrong with your box. If you
- do get a dial tone, you're probably guessing what you can do from here.
-
-
- Where Can You Use The Beige Box : You can use the beige box on several pieces
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ of equipment. You can go to you're best
- friend's house and use it like I described. You can open up one of those ugly
- green boxes about 3' high in the back yard of every couple houses. Inside
- you'll see pretty much the same thing as at individual houses, only there's
- several houses running through the box, not just yours. I have heard that you
- can use a beige inside a Ma Bell manhole, but I crawled down one (not fun) and
- there was a huge plastic tube. You can see the telephone wires inside, but I
- have no idea how to get to them. There are definately more uses, but these are
- the ones I've been exposed to.
-
- The Box Of Many Uses : As I've mentioned, there are TONS of uses for beige
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ boxes, and the ones I explain are merely the ones I've
- had some fun with. It's all basically the same, but there are some interesting
- twists.
-
-
- Conferences : Definately one of the funnest. It's easier to do than explain,
- ~~~~~~~~~~~ but I'll give it a shot. First, call up a conference service
- (I'll list them in a second). From here, you'll pretty much get instructions
- (at least on the ones I've used). Basically, you call up your buddies, tell
- them what's going on, and hit a key (usually *) and they get put into the
- conference. From there, you and all your friends can all talk to each other,
- trade codes, etc. Get the idea? (You can even call foreign numbers. On our
- conference, we voiced a user from Italy and called a hotel in Madrid for
- someone to practice Spanish....)
-
- Conference Services :
-
- 0-700-456-1000
- 0-700-456-1001
- 0-700-456-1002
- 0-700-456-1003
- 0-700-456-1004
- 0-700-456-2000
- 0-700-456-2001
- 0-700-456-2002
- 0-700-456-2003
- 0-700-456-2004
-
-
- Tapping : If you hook up your beige box, and hear voices, the rightful owner
- ~~~~~~~ of the line is obviously using it. Well, that's about all there is
- to phone tapping. Just shut up and listen.
-
- L/D Calling : Hey, it's not YOUR bill, so go ahead and call your pal in
- ~~~~~~~~~~~ France. Maybe voice verify some users on your BBS....
-
- Dial-A-Porn : Hey, wait!! How'd that get in here?
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Conclusion : That's about it. I wont pretend to be an expert on beige boxes,
- ~~~~~~~~~~ so I wont say that these are the limits, or that these are the
- best methods. I'm just trying to provide a non-technical introduction to
- phreaking. Well, if anyone has any comments, questions, or come up with any
- new ideas, let me know.
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