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- Legion Of Lame Information Exchange
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- LoL was created to fight censorship and to provide a place for people to
- share ideas, catering to people interested in: Online Security, Phone
- Network Security and discussion of related topics.
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- Dead Whorse: lolie@freenet.hut.fi
- Devil Locke: therock@inmind.com
- Pyro Teknik: an613617@anon.penet.fi
- Kaigen: fd7351@acs.brockport.edu
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- *New Header by: Pyro Teknik*
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- In this issue:
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- my two cents. -Dead Whorse
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- Q+A -Dead Whorse, et al
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- Blue Boxing Today -Pyro Teknik
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- COCOTs -Pyro Teknik
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- my two cents.
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-
- Well kiddies, it seems that the government has heard us, and
- campaigns like the EFF Blue ribbon drive, were not in vain, today,
- 6/12/96, A federal court ruled the "indecency" laws in the new
- communications act unconstitutional. It will most likely be appealed
- to the supreme court. It is important that we not give up the right
- to free speech online.
-
- Pornography is not the problem, it is the symptom. It is a
- symptom of society's repressed sexuality. Sex is a natural thing,
- and each one of us has a drive to have sex. Religon was the first thing
- to label anything that feels good, "bad". We need to fight back. Sex
- is not a "bad" thing. Sex sells because there is a demand. Throbbing
- masses of people in this world, hungering and craving for an outlet.
-
- And then an outlet opens up. A beautiful outlet where one can
- remain anonymous, and still express these sexual feelings. Yes, times
- are changing, and they are changing fast. Maybe someday, somewhere,
- we can be totally free. But for now, fight.
-
- -DH
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- Q+A
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- >What the heck is a red box? or do I have to make it to find out?
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- No such thing as a stupid question, right?
-
- I have decided to answer this question because LoLie shouldn't be limited
- to only advanced topics, little has been written on the basics since the
- 80's.
-
- Nah, a red box is a tone generator that can generate the tones used when
- you put a quarter or other coins in a payphone.. Therefore it is only
- useful for various payphone phreaking. It dosn't have to be electronic,
- It could be made out of the greeting cards that record a few seconds of
- sound, and a computer that can playback the tones into the card.
-
-
- DH
-
-
- From xxxxx@aol.com (name x'ed to protect the innocent. <G>)
- >How is a blue box created.
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- In the beginning, there were phones, and it was good. The only
- thing, was that these phones liked to eat money. God looked down upon
- the money eating phones, and thought, "This is very bad." So god sent
- down the blue box. And it was good.
-
- -DH
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- Blue Boxing Today: Is it still possible?
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- I think most of us know what blue boxing is and basically how it works. But,
- it's amazing how many people know how to but haven't even tried! In my
- experience boxing is very easy and if you're sensible you won't get caught.
-
- I've boxed hundreds of calls through Trinidad, Venezuela and China, from
- Britain. The easiest way seems to be to call a toll free number in a country
- which uses older equipment - Trinidad and the like - and send the tones there.
-
- In America I've heard that blue boxing is now rather difficult, as the phone
- system mainly uses out-of-band signalling. Most of the signalling is done by
- CCIS lines - in short you can't box when you're using these lines. The trick
- is to find some of the many trunks which use in-band signalling.
-
- Although, I read somewhere that there is a way to get your tones to be
- picked up by the trunk, even if the trunk uses out-of-band signalling. Have
- a peek around at the WATS extenders.
-
- Or, you can call toll free numbers which connect to numbers in different
- countries. In Britain these are the 0800 89* *** numbers. It's amazing what
- you can find under these. I once found a support bulletin board for AMD in
- America and according to the login screen, the phone number was not toll free
- it was a normal telephone line for Americans. It seems as though BT has a
- rather messed up system.
-
- If you're desperate to find a place to blue box through, do scanning from
- a phone box with your tones on tape, or those little keyrings which can store
- 20 seconds of tones. Scanning from home can be a bad idea, as your TelCo might
- start watching you.
-
- Despite of all the blueboxing I've done from home - hundreds of calls - and
- other phreaking, British Telecom has never batted an eyelid. And, I don't
- think TeleMalta would really give a damn anyway, as you're allowed to phone
- tap here in Malta at the moment!
-
- Anyway, have fun. My next article on boxing will explain how Blue Boxing
- works precisely. Please email me at lolie if you have any questions about
- phones.
-
- - by Pyro Teknik <an613617@anon.penet.fi>
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- COCOTs : Customer Owned Coined Operated Telephones
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- COCOTs are phones which to a normal layman look and taste like a normal
- payphone. Actually they aren't, if you look at them, you will notice that
- in America they don't have any telco logos, while in Britain they have a BT
- logo and in Malta they have a Southern Bell logo! You can find these phones
- in shops, restaurants and hotels.
-
- These phones normally charge more than a normal payphone, so you'll get less
- time for your dime/pence/Maltese cents. This is because the owner of the phone
- is making a profit. A COCOT is connected to a standard phone line, and the
- owner of the phone has to pay the bill. If he charges more than the normal
- TelCo charges then he makes a profit.
-
- I know of three ways to make free calls from these phones. The first is to
- look around the phone, and see if you can find where it is plugged into the
- wall. If it is visible, then just unplug the COCOT and plug in your own hand
- set. The socket is not always visible, but sometimes it is.
-
- The second method is by entering a code on the handset. This is the first
- method I discovered. One day, some friends and I were playing with a COCOT
- and suddenly the dialtone re-appeared. We had punched in the code which the
- phone owner uses to use the phone without having to put in money. The phone
- was a 'BT Payphone 200 MK II' although we beleive it was actually a COCOT.
- The code we had typed in was *#2580. After the dialtone reappears and we could
- call anywhere for free. I mean anywhere - local, national, international, 0891
- numbers etc. I'm going to find out some more information about this phone from
- BT soon.
-
- The third method is the most likely to work. I only know of this working in
- the US of A. For this you will probably need a DTMF dialer, like the ones that
- Radio Shack make. First you call a toll free number, 1-800-RAPE-ME, or what
- ever, and make the other end hang up. Say "Sorry wrong number" or whatever
- comes to mind. After they hang up you will here a click and if you're lucky
- a dialtone. This dialtone is the REAL dialtone. The one you heard when you
- first picked up the phone is fake, created by the COCOT. From there you can
- dial a number. The number pad is VERY likely to be disabled, so use your DTMF
- dialler. Some of these COCOTs try to be cunning, and as soon as they hear the
- dialtone, they reset themselves. In this case as soon as the 1-800 number
- hangs up, start making some noise, hissing or blowing into the mouthpiece is
- best. Now, dial the first digit of the phone number and stop hissing at the
- same time. This will indicate to the local exchange that you have started to
- dial and it should stop sending the dial tone. You can now dial the rest of
- the digits for the phone number and you should be connected. There are some
- phones where as soon as the call is finished, the mouthpiece is disabled, in
- this case you're out of luck.
-
- *NOTE* There is a good way to listen to somone's conversation on a payphone.
- Most modern payphones (In Britain anyway) have facilities for deaf people
- to use their hearing aid in a certain way so that they don't hear any of the
- background noise. The phone sends the sound via radio waves, not very far, but
- far enough for the sound to be picked up by the hearing aid. Now, if you want
- to listen to the conversation (good if you're nosey or want to listen for
- personal details or whatever) you can either wear a hearing aid in the 'T'
- position or use a radio to listen into the correct frequency.
-
- I'm getting some detailed information about payphones and COCOTS soon, and
- so I'll be writing about the technical details hopefully in a few weeks.
-
- - by Pyro Teknik <an613617@anon.penet.fi>
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- Well that's all for this issue, submit something, and you can be part
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- ading slowly away.....
- LoL information exchange. Issue 3. 06/12/96
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