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- Aqua Box Plans by Jolly Roger
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- Every true phreaker lives in fear of the dreadded F.B.I. 'Lock In Trace.'
- For a long time, it was impossible to escape from the Lock In Trace.
- This box does offer an 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.
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- The Lock In Trace
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- 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 brief 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, 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. 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, imagine
- 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.
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- Materials
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- 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 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!
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- Procedure
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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 plugs will have a hard plastic design on the
- top of them to prevent you from getting in at the electrical wires inside.
- Well, remove it. If you want to keep the plug (I don't see why...)
- then just cut the top off. When you look inside, Lo 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 an 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, you're 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 it 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 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.
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- Use
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- 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.
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- Happy boxing and stay free! ------------Jolly Roger
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