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Phreaking Basic, including a little history, and h
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This file is for all of you people out there who don't know what a phreak is
or what they do.
Q: What is a phreak?
A: A person who likes to get free fone calls, or someone who is interested in
how the fone system works
Q: How does a phreak get free fone calls?
A: By manipulating flaws in the fone system
Q: Why do all phreaks spell substitute the letter F for PH and the letters
PH for F?
A: This is a tradition with all phreaks
THE BEGINNING OF THE PHREAK:
The first major breakthrough in manipulating the fone system was when Bell
Laboratories published a book that told all of the tones used by the fone
company to operate fones. When you would do certain things the switching
systems would know because a tone was sent down the line that told it what
to do. When you hung up your fone it would send a 2600 hertz sound (cycles
per second) then the switching system would know that you had hung up. Anyway
this book told all of the tones that the fone system used, so some guy made
what was called a Blue Box, this was a little box that simulated tones, all
you had to do was call a free number (A local or 1-800 number) and then send
the tone down the line the switching system would disconnect you from the
number you where calling, but you were still on the line! You would get a
little noise and you could call anywhere for free and your bill would show
that you had been talking to the free number the whole time.
The first fone phreaks were blind people, they had very good hearing. They
could whistle the tones used by the fone company perfectly. There was a
humungous effort by the fone company to kill all phreaks that were screwing
the fone system. They spent millions on new equipment to make sure that blue
boxing did not work anymore. The fone company to my knowledge no longer uses
tones to run the fone system. It uses voltage charges. So the Blue box is
ineffective.
CAPTAIN CRUNCH:
Captain Crunch's real name is John Draper. He is the most famous phreak.
He got his nick-name because he got a whistle out of a Captain Crunch cereal
box. It was a perfect 2600. It was estimated that at one time he was making
1/4 of the calls in Los Angelos. He went to jail three times all for Fone
Phraud. He was a genius when it came to fones and computers. He is the
ultimate phreak who was into phreaking just to explore the vast system. He
wanted all of the information he could possibly get.
BASIC INFO:
There are many ways to cheat the fone system. Things have come and gone. One
way to do it is to call a business 1-800 number. These usually have something
set up for their traveling employees, so they can call in punch in their code
and their fone bills will be charged to the company. Phreaks spend a lot of
time finding these codes and sell them to ordinary people who have to make
a lot of calls and don't want to pay for them. Companies have been hit by
bills in the hundreds of thousands. You can go outside and connect onto
people's lines. You can connect onto people's lines at cans. There are
hundred's of ways to get free calls. But the true fone phreak is more
interested in knowledge than getting free calls. You can do some social
engineering, this is where you call around asking for information.
BOXES:
These are boxes that take advantage of holes in the fone system. I have
already told you about the blue box. There are many other boxes (red,black,
cheese,gold,silver,rainbow,purple,mauve,beige) and this is just a fraction
of them. The most easy box and practical box is the beige box.
BEIGE BOX:
This is the equivelant of a lineman's handset. A lineman is a guy that goes
around looking for problems or testing stuff. He uses his handset to clip
onto fone lines in cans or on the outside of people's houses. To make a beige
box go to the store and get a telephone outlet. On the inside you will see
four wires, red, green, black, and yellow. The only wires you worry about
are the red and green. Get two alligator clips. Connect the alligator clips
to the red and green wires. And plug your fone into the outlet. Go outside
and you will find a little box that is gray or green. Open it up. You will
either see three screws in a triangle formation or you will see four screws
labeled as red, green, black, and yellow. On the triangle formation box
connect the two alligator clips to the two bottom screws. If you don't get
anything switch the alligator clips around. Now on the other kinds of boxes
connect the clips to the red and green screws (switch clips around if
necessary). The red and green wires are the main wires in the fone system.
The bottom two screws on the triangle screw box are the red and green also
but they usually are not labelled with colors like the four screw boxes are.
You should have gotten a dial
tone. It is like you are in your house because you are on your line. Now if
you can do this at your house you can do this anywhere. So you can charge up
monstrous fone bills on someones's fone line. Linemen have been known to just
listen in on people talking. Your fone line is just not in your house it has
many extensions.
CANS:
Since the fone uses two wires the red and green (the yellow and black are
just there in for really no big reasons) the red and green are always paired
in cans. Cans are just metal boxes with many fone line extensions in them.
You know what a pair is because they are two wires(these are the red and
green) that are sort of wound together. There are many colors of wires in
these but they are really peoples red and green wires. The red and green is
where the electricity is carried through(Your fone line is run off of
electricity). So you can do what you did at your house. You can connect onto
these wires and you will be on someones fone line. (Note-You have to have
wire peircing alligator clips to get through the wire, you can strip the wire
but it is not recommened, because it will leave evidence that someone was
there) This is only one kind of can(the kind that have underground wires in
them), these cans are about 3-3 1/2 feet tall and they will say something
about underground wires. There are many different kinds of cans but these are
the easiest to mess with. Cans are only extensions of people's fone lines.
So if you cut wires people will still have their fone lines. A good analogy is
if you ripped apart a fone and you had another one, the other fone would still
be getting power, the broken fone isn't affecting the fone line. Where your
fone line comes in, is on the telephone poles(If you cut these then your fone
line would be dead). When you connect onto the line you might have to switch
the alligator clips around before you get a dial tone or the line just might
be dead(which is what happens fairly often). The cans I have described are
near where houses are.
ANI:
This stands for Automatic Number Identification. This is a number you call
and it tells you what line you are on. It is very useful when messing around
in a can. Because the fone lines are not labeled.
HOW DO FONES WORK:
Some basics are that when you have your fone hung up the voltage running
through the line is about 48 volts. When you pick the fone up it drains
power. If you have more than one fone picked up in the house it drains even
more (that's why you can tell when someone picks up on the line, the volume
goes down because it is also powering another fone). If someone calls you
the fone company computers detect how much voltage is on the line, if it is
below 48 volts then it knows you are talking to someone else. If it detects
48 volts then it sends a voltage charge down the line(this makes the bell
ring). One box called the Black Box (which was created by Captain Crunch) was
very useful. It was just a resistor connected to your fone. When someone
called they would be connected to your line and the ringing they heard was
actually yours. When you picked up the fone the voltage dropped below the 48
volts and the ringing stopped. What the resistor did was not let the voltage
drop far enough. The fone would still ring (all you had to do was turn the
ringer off) because the fone company thought you hadn't picked up the fone
yet. But since the fone company connected the person to your line before you
even picked up, you could talk to the person and the fone company still
thought that the fone was ringing so nobody would get billed. This no longer
works because the fone company made it so that the caller is not connected
until the voltage reaches the correct point. So there is not known a way to
get around this anymore. Today the ring you hear is just a simulated sound
that the fone company sends down your line. If you have your hands touching
the green and red wires when someone calls that line you will get a nasty
little shock.
SOCIAL ENGINEERING:
This is talking to people and getting information out of them. You should
sound authorative. EXAMPLE ("HELLO MY NAME IS JOHN DOE AND I AM WITH AT&T,
THERE HAS BEEN SOME ACTIVITY ON YOUR CALLING CARD AND I WAS JUST WONDERING
IF YOU HAVE BEEN DOING IT, JUST TO VERIFY THIS WE WILL NEED YOUR CALLING CARD
NUMBER") and if the person is dumb ebough to tell you his or her calling card
number they deserve everything coming to them. Or call your local fone
company and say "HI THIS IS (LINEMAN'S NAME) AND I FORGOT THE ANI NUMBER,
COULD YOU TELL ME IT PLEASE". There are millions of things you can do if you
are a good social engineer.
TEST NUMBERS AND LOOP NUMBERS:
These are numbers that lineman use to do stuff on. They aren't billed to
anybody. You might be able to find them in a can but they are usually not
labelled. Loop number are two numbers that when you call one and someone
calls the other you are put together and you can talk. Loop numbers are free
so you can call them anywhere and you won't be charged. They usually occur in
pairs such as 567-0001 and 567-0002.
ESS:
This stands for Electronic Switching systems. It is a big step over Step by
Step systems. (A switching system is a machine that directs your calls) ESS
can have three way calling and all of those perks. It also records every
number you call. It is a lot faster than Step by Step.
I hope I have explained some of the things about phreaks and a little about
the fone system.
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