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Phreaking

Phreaking:

• The action of using mischevious and mostly illegal ways in order to not pay for some sort of telecommunications bill, order, transfer, or other service. It often involves usage of highly illegal boxes and machines in order to defeat the security that is set up to avoid this sort of happening.
• A person who uses the above illegal methods of destruction and chaos.
• A certain code or dialup useful in the action of being a phreak.

Boxing: The use of personally designed boxes that emit or cancel electronical impulses that allow simpler acting while phreaking. Through the use of separate boxes, it can accomplish most feats possible with or without the control of an operator.

BLUE BOX

Emits a 2600hz tone that allows you to do such things as stack a trunk line, kick the operator off line, and others. Entrance into the DDD toll network may be in the form of "short haul" calling. A "short haul" call is a call to any number which will result in a lesser amount of toll charges than the charges for the call to be completed by the blue box. For example, a call to Birmingham from Atlanta may cost $.80 for the first 3 minutes, while a call from Atlanta to Los Angeless is $1.85 for 3 minutes. Thus, a short haul, 3 minutes call to Birmingham from Atlanta, switched by use of a blue box to Los Angeles, would result in a net fraud of $2.65 for a 3 minutes call.

A blue box may be wired into the telephone line or acoustically connected to the handset. The blue box may even be built inside a regular touch-tone phone, using the phone's push buttons for the blue box's signalling tones.

A magnetic tape recording may be used to record the blue box tones representative of specific phone numbers. Such a tape recording could be used in lieu of a blue box to fraudulently place calls to the phone numbers recorded on the magnetic tape.

BLACK BOX

A Black Box is a resistor (and often capacitor in parallel) placed in series across the phone line to cause the phone company equipment to be unable to detect that you have answered your telephone. People who call  will then not be billed for the telephone call. Makes it seem to the phone company that the phone was never picked up. This ETF device is so named because of the color of the first one found. It varies in size and usually has one or two switches or buttons. Attached to the telephone line of a called party, the black box provide toll-free calling to that party's line. A black box user informs otherersons beforehand that they will not be charged for any call placed to him. The user then operates the device causing a "non-charge" condition ("no answer" or "disconnect") to be recorded on the telephone company's billing equipment. A black box is relatively simple to construct and is much less sophisticated than a blue box.

CHEESE BOX

Turns your home phone into a pay phone to throw off traces (a red box is usually needed in order to call out.) Its design may be crude or very sophisticated. Its size varies. A cheese box is used most often by bookmakers or betters to place wagers without detection from a remote location. The device inter-connects 2 phone lines, each having different numbers but each terminating at the same location. In effect, there are 2 phones at the same location which are linked together through a cheese box. It is usually found in an unoccupied apartment connected to a phone jack or connecting block. The bookmaker, at some remote location, dials one of the numbers and stays on the line. Various bettors dial the other number but are automatically connected with the bookamaker by means of the cheese box inter-connection. If, in addition to a cheese box, a black box is included in the arrangement, the combined equipment would permit toll-free calling on either line to the other line. If a police raid were conducted at the termination point of the conversation - the location of the cheese box - there would be no evidence of gambling activity. This device is sometimes difficult to identify. Law enforcement officials have been advised that when unusual devices are found associated with telephone connections the phone company security representatives should be contacted to assist in identification.

RED BOX

Simulates the noise of a quarter, nickel, or dime being dropped into a payphone. This device it coupled acoustically to the handset transmitter of a single-slot coin telephone. The device emits signals identical to those tones emitted when coins are deposited. Thus, local or toll calls may be placed without the actual deposit of coin. When a coin is inserted into a payphone, the payphone emits a set of tones to ACTS (Automated Coin Toll System). Red boxes work by fooling ACTS into believing you have actually put money into the phone. The red box simply plays the ACTS tones into the telephone microphone. ACTS hears those tones, and allows you to place your call.

Red boxes are commonly manufactured from modified Radio Shack tone dialers, Hallmark greeting cards, or made from scratch from readily available electronic components.

CLEAR BOX

Gives you a dial tone on some of the old SxS payphones without putting in a coin into phone lines and extract by eavesdropping, or crossing wires, etc.

PURPLE BOX

Makes all calls made out from your house seem to be local calls.

BUSY BOX

The Busy Box is the simplest box ever created. It is attached to the outside of the person's house, in their telephone box. It makes it so that when any phone inside that house is picked up, no dial tone is heard, and no calls can be received, or sent.

BLEEPER BOX

The United Kingdom's own version of the blue box,  modified to work with the UK's fone system. Based on the same principles. However, they use two sets of frequencies, foreword and backwards.

BLOTTO BOX

This box supposedly shorts every phone out in the immediate area. It should kill every phone in the immediate area, until the voltage reaches the fone company, and the fone company filters it.

GREEN BOX

Equipment that will emulate the Coin Collect, Coin Return, and Ringback tones. This means that if you call someone with a fortress phone and they have a green box, by activating it, your money will be returned.

GOLD BOX

This box will trace calls, tell if the call is being traced, and can change a trace.

GREY BOX

Also known as a silver box. See silver box.

SILVER BOX

Equipment that will allow you to emulate the DTMF tones A,B,C,D. These allow special functions from regular fones, such as ACD

WHITE BOX

This is a portable DTMF keypad.

OTHER COLORED BOXES

• Acrylic Steal Three-Way-Calling, Call Waiting and programmable
• Call Forwarding on old 4-wire phone systems
• Aqua Drain the voltage of the FBI lock-in-trace/trap-trace
• Beige Lineman's hand set
• Blast Phone microphone amplifier
• Blotto Supposedly shorts every phone out in the immediate area
• Blue Emulate a true operator by seizing a trunk with a 2600hz tone
• Brown Create a party line from 2 phone lines
• Bud Tap into your neighbors phone line
• Chartreuse Use the electricity from your phone line
• Cheese Connect two phones to create a diverter
• Chrome Manipulate Traffic Signals by Remote Control
• Clear A telephone pickup coil and a small amp used to make free calls on Fortress Phones
• Color Line activated telephone recorder
• Copper Cause crosstalk interference on an extender
• Crimson Hold button
• Dark Re-route outgoing or incoming calls to another phone
• Dayglo Connect to your neighbors phone line
• Diverter Re-route outgoing or incoming calls to another phone
• DLOC Create a party line from 2 phone lines
• Infinity Remotely activated phone tap
• Jack Touch-Tone key pad
• Light In-use light
• Lunch AM transmitter
• Magenta Connect a remote phone line to another remote phone line
• Mauve Phone tap without cutting into a line
• Neon External microphone
• Noise Create line noise
• Olive External ringer
• Party Create a party line from 2 phone lines
• Pearl Tone generator
• Pink Create a party line from 2 phone lines
• Rainbow Kill a trace by putting 120v into the phone line (joke)
• Razz Tap into your neighbors phone
• Rock Add music to your phone line
• Scarlet Cause a neighbors phone line to have poor reception
• Static Keep the voltage on a phone line high
• Switch Add hold, indicator lights, conferencing, etc..
• Tan Line activated telephone recorder
• Tron Reverse the phase of power to your house, causing your electric meter to run slower
• TV Cable "See" sound waves on your TV
• Urine Create a capacitative disturbance between the ring and tip wires in another's telephone headset
• Violet Keep a payphone from hanging up
• Yellow Add an extension phone

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