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Originally posted by Floorfiller does anyone know of any other cool things like this for pay phones or something...like other cool stuff that you can do with public property hahaha

Phreaking. I built a Beige Box once, which simulates a phone company technician's phone that would be used while working on repairs or the like, and was also a beige color. Open the phone box on the side of any house and bam, free calls. It's sitting in its corner collecting dust now, though. I still want to build a Red Box.

well...some of that is a little too crazy for me hahaha. maybe i'll try and get a free drink or candybar haha

sounds kinda dangerous playing with power boxes and the like. i'd probably electricute myself hahaha...you 1337 hax0rz are too much

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Originally posted by Yan NYC cops will shoot you.

Man that's harsh.

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stuff, i want more stuff!!!
put in all your 1337z0r phreaking links here..
i wanna learn.. for educational purposes..

edit:maaan, im so installing linux on my lappy...
check this out;
http://trifinite.org/blog/archives/2005/07/introducing_the.html

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Last edited by itsamemario on Aug-03-2005 at 00:20

red box's no longer work, ancient history, I used to read 2600 a lot in high school, a biege box is basically just a regular phone with the red/green connections in most cords sodered with aligator clips. The days of hacking a payphone a pretty much dead, If anyone has data on that I would be curious if any new tricks are out there.

I have a decent clue about phone systems, I am a line technichian with the phone company....I don't work directly with coin systems though

in case any's wondering

Redbox - There isnt really THAT much to explain (and I wont be telling how to build one right here simply because I dont feel like writing that long of a article with diagrams, etc...) So what is it, you ask!? Basicaly, its a device that generates a certain frequency sound which is the same one as a certain coin dropping in the phone (this doesnt always work anymore but still does in some or in fact..quit a bit of places still) so this therefore gives you free fone call! Amazing?
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blue box - This is the first Phreak box and started from a person called Captain Crunch. A little history here now. Captain Crunch (his real name was John Draper btw) found that the
whistles in the Captain Crunch cereal made a nearly perfect 2600hz tone..which he somehow found out was the same tone that Bell used to signal that the line is closed on their network..this lead to him making free calls and other types of manipulation to the fone lines..

dont know how to make them tho...

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short search gave me this in case any is wondering and are to lazy to do a serach:

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Redbox - There isnt really THAT much to explain (and I wont be telling how to build one right here simply because I dont feel like writing that long of a article with diagrams, etc...) So what is it, you ask!? Basicaly, its a device that generates a certain frequency sound which is the same one as a certain coin dropping in the phone (this doesnt always work anymore but still does in some or in fact..quit a bit of places still) so this therefore gives you free fone call! Amazing? Yeaah..lets move on -------------------------------------- blue box - This is the first Phreak box and started from a person called Captain Crunch. A little history here now. Captain Crunch (his real name was John Draper btw) found that the whistles in the Captain Crunch cereal made a nearly perfect 2600hz tone..which he somehow found out was the same tone that Bell used to signal that the line is closed on their network..this lead to him making free calls and other types of manipulation to the fone lines..This, my fellow phreaks/geeks/hackers and a lot of skiddies, is a bluebox.

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Originally posted by dj_alfi

my telecommunications teacher in uni worked for the phone company for about 30 years and told us all about the different devices that could have been used back in the day. however, he said that the phone company added safeguards after the captain crunch incident. most of those devices dont work anymore because they use a different method for validating the sounds. appearently steve jobs was using the devices and came out publicly about it after they were granted amnesty. i think they called themselves the phone phreaks or something like that.

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Originally posted by Nou I want to build this one box, I cant remember the color... its not even a box really. What you do is take a portable generator, like a little gas one or something right. Go find one of those big phone exchange boxes (they are green around here, about 2 feet tall), pry the sucker open, take the leads and place them on the outgoing phone lines and switch the generator on. Everyphone in the area will start ringing off the hook since its just throwing voltage out across the lines with no direction. Course this is all for educational purposes and I don't condone this in any way shape or form.

6V motorcycle batteris work best for this

not like i know anyhting about that sorta thing though. .

and with beige and red boxes . . wtf is the point you spend more money on raw materials than you would save making free calls.


i mean, look at how cheap cell phones and land lines are.
i spend like 4 cents a minute on my home land line . . why the fook would i need a beige box?

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Originally posted by enferno and with beige and red boxes . . wtf is the point you spend more money on raw materials than you would save making free calls. i mean, look at how cheap cell phones and land lines are. i spend like 4 cents a minute on my home land line . . why the fook would i need a beige box?

Haha. I think I spent $2 on my Beige Box. I found an old phone lying around the house, stripped the wires down with a razor blade that I found in the tool box, and spent $2 on alligator clips. I built it just for the hell of it, because I wanted to have some fun.