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THE FOLLOWING PHILE IS FORMATTED FOR 80-COLUMN UPPER/LOWERCASE TEXT. 11/13/88 Note: if this phile is totally outdated, DON'T USE IT!!!!!! Nother Note: Why don't anyone write any more philes? Yet Nother Note: SysOp of The Farthest Shore, call Toxic Waste and leave mail to The Xenocide and state who you are. We need to get in touch. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_) (_) Toxic Waste Phreaking C T W N (_) (_) (707) 252-1413 by a o a o (_) (_) 300-9600 HST ____________ l x s w (_) (_) SysOp: !The Xenocide! l i t ! (_) (_) The Xenocide ~~~~~~~~~~~~ - c e ! (_) (_) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (_) (_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_) Disclamer: This file is written under the first ammendment to the constitution. It is for informational purposes only. The author is not responsible for any damages, be they intentional, direct, indirect, or consiquential. 'Nuff said! Note from author: This phile was written to MAXIMIZE your safety. You can do the things that I say you probly shouldn't do, but don't say I didn't tell you so! This Phile is an attempt to instruct people on the delicate art of Phreaking. It will probably not tell any old timer's anything, but may be of use to those who are just learning the art. What is Phreaking? Phreaking (pronounced Freaking, as Phone Phreaks all substitute Ph phor an "F") is getting free calls. How do you do this? There are many ways. The first and (I think) the easiest are Diverters. Diverters are those boxes the gestapo (Phreakese for phone company) puts in that after so many rings, re-routs the call to a different number. Just like call forwarding! Only these are MUCH better phor us phreakers! You will know you have a diverter if when you call, it rings phor about 3 rings, and then you hear a "CA-THUD" (yes, it really sounds like that!) and then some fainter ringing. Then some one will answer and you ask if "Guido Sanchez the Third" is there, and *most* of the time, they will say you've gotten a wrong number. You must somehow make a click on the line, ((A privacy or mute button on most phones does this most beutifully!) as most of these answering services are trained not to hangup untill you do) and then they hang up. You'll hear all kinds of different clicking and clunking, and then a dial tone. You now are into the safest way to phreak! You can now dial normally. All the calls will be traced and billed to that number! Hey! Pretty Phun eh? Just be sure and don't use the same number too much otherwise you'll get some gestapo at the door in a week or two! Well, it's time for a little talk on how the phone company routes calles. There is a few different ways, but it all really boils down to crossbar or ESS. If you have crossbar, I wish I lived where you do! The way you can tell if you have ESS or not is call yourself. If it is loud and electronic sounding, you have ESS. If it is mechanical and low, it is Crossbar. If you have ESS, don't phret, it's phine to phreak, 'just you gotta B more careful, B cuz any CIA or whatever guy can punch up on his terminal the time and number of the call, and for about 1 outta every 100 calls, what it was about! If your in an ESS area, they listen to calls randomly. ESS can trace calls back to you even before you dial. And it keeps records of everything you dial, even the mistakes you make and wrong #'s! Where went our freedom??? If you have ESS also, don't call 800 #'s too much or 950's. (If you don't know what an 800 is, STOP READING. A 950-xxxx number is a different phone service, more on those later) If you do, you'll be placed on an alert list and have about 1 outta 3 calls intercepted!!!!!(Addendium: I got from a semi-reliable source that if you got pacific Bell, unless you piss the shit outta some operator or somethin, they won't help the other companys track you down. Sorta like getting rid of compition. I guess it's true B cuz this guy just called about 80 800 numberz. Nothin happen'd, YET) If you got crossbar, they can't do shit. It costs something like 500 dollars to run a trace, and listening to a call!!! Forget it! Your home free in this type of system, except you don't get goodies such as call forwarding or call waiting. (IE, can't make a cheeze box (more on that later)) What is another way to get phree phone calls? Well, the second easiest was is by calling US Sprint, MCI, etc. You can access these numbers by calling either the local number(if in a major-type city), or by calling a 1-800 number or a 950 number. A 950 number is when you simply dial "950-xxxx" where xxxx is the number. 950 numbers are like 800 numbes, free, but are not supported by all areas. These are just different carriers that you can use to supposedly lower your phone bill. They run on a magic number type system, which you can get fairly easily. What is a great machine for dialing the phone and saving the results? Yep, your old modem and your computer. There are many different programs around that you can use, and all work pretty well. To do this, you call a carrier, and try an access code. If it is bad, the stupid machine recording will say "Invalid Code" or some such BS. Just hangup and call back. Eventually you'll get a good code. Write it down. Now, don't use the same code more than twice a week, and use more than one carrier. Also use more than one code, otherwise the gestapo might get wize. Now, use this code when your calling Phriends Long Distance, or even just calling BBS's. PC Pursuit is a service run by telenet or tymnet that allows you to access any city that it services. It only does 1200 baud, or 2400 in some areas, but it's pretty good. Modem only tho. There are several bugz in it, and some sites let you dial anywhere world-wide. Them BBS's in germany are pretty wild! Xcept buch O queers stop by all the time. Most everyone over there is an asshole tho... Still pretty neat. To find a node that allows unlimited dialing, just try dialing them all. At the tyme of this writing, there were 3 or so, 1 2400 baud and 2 1200. I'm not naming them just in case any PCP gestapo read this. PCP has many bugs, and you can really phuck people over by monitering what they do, stealing passwords, etc. A real Phun thin with PCP is to keep calling itself with it, and it will eventually tie itself up and when you drop carrier, the lines won't detect and some phucker from PCP gotta go down and unplug all the phones. Telenet is kinda like PCP, but different. They got this new software that will trace and stuff... Used to be the best thing around, but now a definite RED ZONE. Tymnet is the same. Stay away. So you say "I be gett'n all dese philes on boxes and shit..." well, what the phuck be a box? A box is a little box, or circit, or program (why the hell do they call them boxes) that allows you to do something cool. Like getting free phone calls. Or having all incoming calls be phree. Or making untracible calls. Or using pay-phones free, or changing the traffic signals, or taking over a TV station, etc. the following is a list of the boxes that I know of, and what they do. Color What should be called What the hell it does ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Blue Phree Calling Program Uses computer generated tones to drop to the operator lines and place free calls Black-Switch Free Incoming Switch Makes incoming calls free if you flip the switch. Very safe Black-Button Free Incoming Button When you pick up the phone, you can hear what they are saying, but the ringing doesn't stop. Press a button and it stops the ringing. Can use special signals. Makes all calls coming in free, but requires phone to be dedicated to black boxing. Beige Box Lineman's Handset Box A true little box that you plug a phone into and connect the two alligator clips to the junction box and use someone else's line. Can be used for tapping, static-free free calls, and many others! Acts just like they have another phone. Cheese Box Convert to Payphone Inst. Just a set of instructions on how you can convert your phone into a pay phone to place untraceable calls. Needs a red box. Red Box Free Call tone box A box that generates tones that are identical to the tones made when money is dropped into a pay phone. Chrome Box Signal Changer A great box that allows you to change the signal lights at an intersection. VERY, VERY, VERY VERY SAFE! Snow Box TV Taker Over The most dangerous box (if used on open air waves) or one of the safest boxes (if used in a cable system) that allows you to take over TV channels with whatever you want! The most phun yet! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here is a small file listing and the boxes they contain Filename Boxes Info ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~ CHROME.BOX Guess! Good instructions BLUE.BOX Blue Too much work! Shitty! BLUE.BOX.INST Blue box instructions Some info, shitty. RED.BOX Red Pretty good. CHEESE.BOX Cheese Decent BEIGE.BOX Beige Great inst, EZ to make SNOW.BOX Snow Good, parts Xpensive. PHONE.CIRCUITS Black Button, Hold, Bug detct Great scematics! BLACK.BOX Black Switch Great.EZ to make! _____________________________________________________________________________ The following is some philes and what they got. Phile Info ~~~~~ ~~~~ EXPLOSIVES Great bombs and shit! TERRORISM Ditto! USING.DIVERTERS On diverters and the world they open HANDBOOK A semi-good into to phreaking (outdated) There are many more. Kall up any of the following... BBS Baud SysOp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Apple Rebel Board 9600 Apple Rebel (916) 457-0624 The Farthest Shore 9600 ??????????? (707) 938-2997 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_) (_) This file is Copyright (C) 1988 by The Xenocide (_) (_) SysOp's: You may use this file on your BBS, as long as no part (_) (_) of it it is altered. If there is a new Box/way to phreak (_) (_) That I did'nt cover, send mail to me on Toxic Waste (_) (_) ___________ (_) (_) !Toxic Waste! (_) (_) 24 hrs ~~~~~~~~~~~ 300-9600 baud (_) (_) (707) 252-1413 (_) (_) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (_) (_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_)(_) Phrack Philes]