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- Ki||A's Guide To Beige Boxing
-
- I dont think that much has been written about the fine art
- of Beige Boxing. This text will give the begining Beige Boxer a
- look into the art. Ok first things first.
- A Beige Box is nothing more than a line mans handset which
- is usually used to test phone lines going to houses, apartments,
- etc, but for the phreak it has a number of fun and entertaining
- uses, some of which will be discussed here.
-
- Materials:
-
- - Touchtone phone. It cannot be a portable; it has to be one that
- you can plug into a modular jack.
- - A couple of alligator clips
- - Electrical Tape
- - A brain
-
- All of these can be brought at Radio Shack of course. Except for
- the brain. You should already have that.
-
- Making The Box
-
- Ok. Pop open the modular jack in your house on the wall or
- whatever. You should see four wires: red, green, yellow, black.
- Only two matter, the red and the green. You can just move the
- other two wires out of the way for this.
- A phone cord also has these same four wires and the same 2
- are the only ones that matter. Get a phone cord and strip its
- casing off about two feet. Next just cut off the black and
- yellow wire you wont be needing those. Ok now this is the hard
- part boys and girls. You have to strip the casing off of the red
- and green wires down about six inches. But be careful because
- the casing is not that thick so be careful not to cut the wires
- inside. Got it? Ok. Now what you do is take the red wire and
- fasten it to the red clip whatever way you wish and wrap the
- connection in Electrical tape. Now do the same for the green
- wire and connect it to the other clip.
- Ok now its time to test your box. In your modular jack as I
- said there are four wires. The red one should be labeld "R" for
- ring and the green should be labeld "T" for tip. Connect the red
- clip to the R terminal and connect the other clip to the T
- terminal. Voila! If you hear a dialtone, your box works. If not,
- go through your steps and see what you did wrong.
-
- Connecting The Box
-
- Now it gets interesting. You know when you're out walking
- around somtimes in the back of apartment buildings you sometimes
- see those two to three foot boxes out in the back labeled
- telephone company? That is what we are going to use to do our
- boxing. It might be locked so you need to get a 7/16 socket
- wrench and open it. Once you have opened it you should see a mass
- of wires connected to terminals. I've heard of different setups
- in different boxes. So you'll have to phuck around and see what
- works but this is what you would do. You take your red clip and
- connect it to one terminal. Connect the other clip to another
- terminal and you should get a dial tone. If not just switch the
- clips around till it does work.
-
- Practical Uses For A Beige Box
-
- Your Beige Box can do many things:
- - Eavesdropping.
- - Long Distance Dialing.
- - Allience confrencing.
- - Phucking with the operator.
- - Calling your Phriends.
- - And the best part free calls!
-
- Things To Keep In Mind While Boxing:
-
- 1. Just remember when you dial long distance to dial a "1"
- first.
- 2. To connect to allience confrencing dial 0-700-256-1000 and
- youll get directions from there.
- 3. Dont use the same place all the time or you might be geting a
- visit from the gestapo.
- 4. Keep a low profile.
- 5. Have phun!
-
- This has been brought to you by:
-
- Ki||A and DAI: Digital Angels, Inc. - 12/96
-