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- * PISS PHILEZ NUMBER 7 *
- * *
- * Introduction to Phreaking *
- * *
- * by Defenestrator *
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-
- WARNING: All the stuff in this phile is probably illegal. If you
- attempt any of this, then me, PISS, my friends, and anyone who knows
- me cannot be held responsible for your actions.
-
- WHAT IS PHREAKING?
- ------------------
-
- For those of you who have been living in caves for the past 25 years,
- phreaking is the skill or art (damn right it's an art!) of messing with
- the phone company. If you want the "real" definition, go look it the
- hell up.
-
- THINGS TO DO
- ------------
-
- There are many cool easy ways to have fun with the phone company. There
- are boxes which can give free calls, become lineman's handsets (tap into
- phone lines), make yourself an operator (sorta) to get free calls, and harass
- dumb people.
-
- RED BOXING
- ----------
-
- Red boxing involves a box (for me, a Radio Shit tone dialer), which produces
- tones that simulate coins being dropped in a pay phone. There are several
- easy ways to do this, with the best being to go buy a tone dialer WITH
- MEMORY from Radio Shit and also order a 6.5536 MHz crystal. The tone dialer
- will set you back $25 and the crystal is about $4, but they will pay for
- themselves over time. The employees are dumb and will look at you like
- you have 13 heads. Tell them that you are not making this up and to give
- you a goddamn crystal. It's even better to work there and just loot the
- store (duh). Take the back off with your screwdriver (you HAVE a
- screwdriver don't you? you should!) and look inside. You'll see a thing
- that looks vaguely like the crystal you bought. Unsolder that and jam the
- 6.5536 crystal in there (and don't break it dumbass!). Now take the memory
- buttons (DON'T TELL ME YOU GOT THE WRONG ONE!) and program them like this:
-
- P1, *, *, *, *, *. This is a tone for a quarter.
- P2, *, *. This is the dime tone.
- P3, *. This is the nickel tone.
-
- My red box has two settings on it, which can easily be made by getting a
- SPST switch and connecting wires which go from one crystal to the other
- so if I have it one way it's a red box and if I flip it the other way it's
- a regular tone dialer. The regular dialer comes in handy if you get busted
- or if you get a COCOT phone (more on that later).
-
- Now to get this to work right you gotta find a Bell phone. If you see a
- phone but it's not a Bell one, it's a COCOT. You can phreak COCOTs or just
- break them. I like phreaking the one at my school. When you get a Bell
- phone, dial your number, but for the red box to work, you either have to
- go through the operator or dial it as a long distance call. To dial any
- call as a long distance call add 10288. This is good, except that damn
- recording butts in every 3 minutes asking for more money. Also, it is a
- good idea to not say that you are phreaking the call because some
- operators are nosy and listen in on the conversation. I can tell by
- now if someone else is on the line so I don't worry about it, but for
- you dummies out there just don't say anything. To go through the
- operator, dial 0, and say something like "The keypad's bashed in and
- the 4 and 8 are stuck." Be creative. Don't use this one cause it's
- MINE! Then when the operator asks you for money, use the keypad.
- Some operators pick up on this and say something like "I'm Getting
- Security!" Normally they are full of shit. But if you see pigs (cops)
- or hear sirens, get ready to run, especially if you've done a lot of
- boxing from that phone.
-
- Now call anyone you want to call in the world (I like calling Singapore
- to talk to my friends and to harass my former employer ;) ). It's all
- FREE!!! Thanks to phone company stupidity.
-
- BLUE BOXING
- -----------
-
- Even though I have one, I haven't blue boxed yet only because I know
- people who got busted for doing it, and they only did it once or twice.
- So when I change cities in two years, I'll start blue boxing. For now,
- I recommend going to any decent hack site and getting Better Homes and
- Blue Boxing. Read it. Also get the plans because they're too long to
- fit on here without leeching them AND LEECHING ISN'T RIGHT!!
-
- [Commented update: that hasn't stopped me it seems]
-
- BEIGE BOXING
- ------------
-
- Beige boxing is also called using a lineman's handset. A linesman's
- handset is a phone with alligator clips which lets you tap into a
- phone line and use it for free calls. I don't do this much either
- because I'm real lazy, but if you want to become a good phreak learn
- how to. I recommend getting the plans for the box and reading any
- manuals you can find on it. Sometimes in phone company manholes there
- are lineman's handset manuals (Bonus!) and you should be able to take
- these along with the handset and beige box until you get busted or you're
- tired of harassing dumb people (never).
-
- COCOT PHONES
- ------------
-
- COCOT stands for Customer Owned Coin Operated Telephones. Why do
- businesses (especially hotels) use these? One word: money.
- Businesses normally get a cut of these profits, so it's real fun to
- screw them out of money or even rob the phone (I don't advise doing this).
- To screw the COCOTs, you can either do something with a paper clip in the
- mouthpiece???? (didn't work when I tried it) or you can do it the easy way.
- For this all you need is your trusty tone dialer (not the red box) and an
- IQ slightly higher than one of a houseplant. COCOTs operate by producing
- a fake dialtone loop which means you cannot just dial your call through the
- operator because you don't have a dialtone. But ALL telephones MUST let
- you call 800 numbers for phree. Dial ANY 800 number (I use 1-800-4-GO-BAJA,
- a number of some Mexican answering machine, or if I can't remember that,
- then use 1-800-LOAN-YES), and get them to hang up. This is the real fun
- part because you can yell and scream at the person on the other end and
- call them all kinds of nasty names (I like pretending like I'm ordering
- at a drive through) and then letting them hang up. Now you have a real
- dialtone. Dial your call using your tone dialer, because the lame-ass
- "security features" consist of turning off the keypad. Hell, I don't
- use it anyways.
-
- However, some newer phones cut back into that loop when the phone hears
- a dialtone. Hiss into the speaker trying to mask the sound or start
- dialing your number VERY quickly. It's weird hearing this guy in the
- cafeteria hissing into the phone with his girlfriend laughing her ass off
- next to him because he pissed of some Mexican operator by saying "eat shit
- and die, whore" (come mierda y muere, puta). For some reason she finds
- this extremely funny. So don't look like some kind of stupid fuck when
- you do this. If you've done it right, then you have a dialtone and you can
- keep dialing with your tone dialer. Mwaaaaahahaha!!!!! Or, if you're
- too cheap even for a tone dialer, you can simulate pulse dialing with
- clicking that little lever that's pushed when you hangup. 1 click is 1,
- 2 rapid clicks are two, and so on.
-
- Sometimes the phone company figures it out and calls the number you dialed,
- so make sure you can trust the guy on the other end. The calls normally
- sound like this:
-
- Dumbass operator (DO): "Hello. I'm calling about a call you recieved on
- 8/8/97 from Saratoga, New York."
-
- Cool Guy: "What call? I don't know anyone. Go to hell."
-
- Dumbass motherfucker: "Yeah, his name is Defenestrator, want his address?"
-
- That's the real basics of red box and COCOT phreaking. When I get more
- stuff on blue boxing and beige boxing, I'll make another damn file.
-
- E-Mail me at defenestrator@hempseed.com
-
- Flames goto dev/null@hotmail.com
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