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The Technical Book of Phreaking
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Created during January and Febuary 1989
v1.0
Introdution to the Article
File One (of four)
This file was just to be a short set of definitions for those of you who don't know all the reaking terms. This was requested by a few people on a small 312 board called The Magnetic Field Eie (312-966-0708, call, board has potential) like Th
e Don. But I have decided against making this small file that is common in many places but instead make something that I have never seen before. Not just a common file but one of high technical us. With a printout of this you will never need to mis
sout on a definition again. But that's not all. The file will discuss, indepth, the working of eachf these operations below. If you are viewing this file simply for the sake of finding one meaning uggest that you get the entire thing and then never
need to call and view phreak files again.
Topic 1: The Phone/Modem
Scince phreaking is impossible without a phone or modem you I will start with the most impornt and most complex part of phreaking. The Phone. Now, the phone is a device that transfer soundsa sound enters a receiver, is transfered to an amoun
t of voltage, sent through the telephone lines and decode back to sound. A modem is based on a univsal language of sounds transfered through the modem. Modem stands for the work Modulator/Demodulatr This is like receiveing and sending. Now, with m
ost modems, before connecting, tones just are just the same as the tones that a common phone can mak
But the phone can make many tones and some have purposes that are very useful, tones that arreserved for At&t, and thus dangerous.
To go through all the tone would be senseless and a book on tones alone could be written (Hm..maybe I could...) so I will not go into that.
But, assuming that you know what a box is I will explain what the odd types of modems can do If you own an Apple Cat modem you may use it to generate any tone. This is very useful. So people are against the Cat for various. I will remain neutral on the topic but if you have no undrtand then phreak the way you see easiest and safest
.
The other way is by using an acoustic modem. You may modify a phone to make certain tones a you may make then send these tones through the acoustic modem by placing the headset of the phone nthe acoustic's couplers.
You may also attempt to make the box modfications directly to the modem but if you error andamage the modem alot of money is wasted while you could have used an acoustic and messed up a twent ollar phone.
Basicaly the common phone can make 18 tones. For example, when you press a number on the phe two tones are made together and make the signal for the number or charater you hit. This is the nire phone to line explantion of the phone. Now the
actual internal working of the phone is very complex and can be best under stood by getting a book om the library on it.
Topic 2: The Calling of Numbers
When you call a local number as soon as you hit a number other than one you the phone knows at you are calling localy. Once seven digits are entered the numbers are sent to the nearest switcig station and you call goes out. The station deter
mines the units per minute and start billing as soon as the called phone answers. All calls are autaticaly one minute long. If you hit a one as the first digit you dial the phone recignizes this asalong distance call and sends you to either the At&t
switching station or to another long distance service if you have chose to use other than At&t.
If you are using a At&t the call goes through the long distance switching station where uniter minute is determined and then it is refured to the number you called. The call may be slowed dondepending on how many times the switching station c
hanges between you and the place you are calling. If it changes between ESS and X-Bar (described bew) one it would go through fast. If it changed between them 50 times it would be a very slow call ong through. Plus the sound quality may decrease bu
t that is not a fact, just an understanding I have come to when callign long distance with At&t.
If you are calling through any other service, such as MCI, Alnet, Teleco, US Sprint or any othe other endless companies, then things are not the same for long distance calls.
You call first goes to the company you call through and price of call is determined by any othe ways a company determines price. The call then goes out through the lines to the long distancecmpanie's station nearest to the number you dialed a
nd tres to go though. If the number is too far away from a station you may get a "The number you ha dialed cannot be reached from your calling area."
Thus, you have the basic information of how call goes out. Now to get to phreaking and the al reson you read this file.
Topic 3: The Long Distance Company and Codes.
The way of using a different long distance company or not paying a quarter when calling from payphone. Using the phone card or the code.
Names for these numbers:
950's
800's
Extenders.
PBX's
950 ports
Port
Code port
(Company name) port
The above mentioned names are the phreaks lifeline. They are places where you call and entea code, then the area code of the place you want to call and finally the number for the place you wn to call. When the code is entered it is checked i
f it is valid and then the person how owns the code pays for the call. If the code is not valid youormaly get a message saying that the code you entered is not valid.
When a call goes through it is the same as a normal long distance call except that it is chaed to the owner of the card.
Some places may require that you enter a nine or a one before you enter the code.
Now, the phreak uses these places by calling them over and over again until they get a code.But they do this with a computer and a program such as Hack-a-Matic, Hacking Construction Set (ofte alled HCS), Hack This Buddy, Intellihacker (Old), C
at-(and then a name, for the Apple Cat. Has to many names to list), and some others. These are allpple programs but there are also code hackers for the Commodor 64, 128, Amiga, IBM (of course) and oon. Most computers have them.
One thing I have found useful is to use a Radio Shack portable computer with a built in modeand hack from other houses, this is much safer. Secrity in these companies run from really tough (C) to sad (like the places that tryo to scare off ha
ckers with tape recordings). 950 ports in the ESS area are set up to trace and could do so very easy but for some reson they are against it. Possibly the time and modey to cheack the calls and pay o tracing. Places have gotton tougher though, if th
ree people get busted off a number in one week and this has never happened before then you can almosbe sure that they have stepped up security and that it is time to use a new port.
Now I will discuss some of the things used by the Phreak.
Topic 4: The Loop
Loops, although they may seem fun they are really rather useless. They work as follows.
Two numbers are looped together. Usually they are almost the same just a digit different fr one another. If you call the lower number you will wait a few secounds and then hear a 1000mhz. tn. If you call the higher number you will hear noth
ing. If you can one number (dosen't matter which) and someone else calls the other number you will able to talk to each other. The purpose of these is to test trunk lines. This way they could mak ure there was no break in each trunk.
Now the old purpose for loops was that they where free to call so one person would call one d another would call the other and they would get to talk for free. Also, one person might call on umber and just wait and talk to whoever called the
other number. Like a two line bridge.
Today you cannot call these without being charged because the phone company caught on. But u can split a phone call with these so if there is a loop between you and a person you want to talkt you can only pay for half by calling the loop. An
d the phone company dosen't care because either way they get their money.
The billing service for a loop is one all by itself, not like normal local calling and for ts reson I might almost belive the rumor that Blue Box tones can be used to call loops.
The loops billing service didn't exist awhile back so a call to one was free. Now, if you cl this new billing system picks it up. But the loops billing system is just something that At&t scaed together and there are most likly some holes in
the system (like not recording blue box tone generation numbers).
Topic 5: The Diverter
The diverter has been a very simple, yet incredibly usefulthing through the years. To use o you must call, after hours and let someone answer the phone, don't answer them, let them hang up adget a faint dialtone. Then you dial again and call
from the diverter.
Before, you could use a diverter and call through it. The you would only be charged for theall to the diverter, not the one after it. That bill went to the diverter itself. But they fix thsproblem easily and now you still get charged if you
are in the ESS area.
Also before, you could use a diverter to call a number that traces and instead of being trac to your number it is traced to the diverter. But ESS eliminated that too.
But you can still use a diverter to call hard to reach numbers. Like if you called a place d it gave you a "The number you have dial cannot be reach from your calling area" then if you knew fa diverter in the area of the number you could call
through it to the unreachable number and get through. The way a diverter works is after hourwhen you call a place the call is forwarded to another place. Then, when you don't answer the persnat the other place hangs up and your call tries to
disconnect from the forwared number and you end up at the diverter with it's dialtone.
Hope this file was of some use to you all.
If you want to see more like it leave me E-mail
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