Kinds of Boxes ============== aqua box - A box designed to drain the voltage of the FBI lock-in- trace/trap-trace so you can hang up your fone in an emergency and phrustrate the Pheds some more. The apparatus is simple, just connect the two middle wires of a phone wire and plug, which would be the red and green wires if in the jack, to the cord of some electrical appliance; ie, light bulb or radio. KEEP THE APPLIANCE OFF. Then, get one of those line splitters that will let you hook two phone plugs into one jack. Plug the end of the modified cord into one jack and your fone into the other. THE APPLIANCE MUST BE OFF! Then, when the Pheds turn their lame tracer on and you find that you can't hang up, remove your fone from the jack and turn the appliance ON and keep it ON until you feel safe; it may be awhile. Then turn it off, plug your fone back in, and start phreaking again. Invented by: Captain Xerox and The Traveler. black box - The infamous box that allows the calling party to not be billed for the call placed. We won't go in depth right now, most plans can be found on many phreak oriented BBS's. The telco can detect black boxes if they suspect one on the line. Also, these will not work under ESS. bleeper boxes - 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 fone out in the immediate area, and I don't doubt it. It should kill every fone in the immediate area, until the voltage reaches the fone company, and the fone company filters it. I won't cover this one in this issue, cuz it is dangerous, and phreaks shouldn't destroy MA's equipment, just phuck it up. Look for this on your phavorite BBS or ask your phavorite phreak for info if you really are serious about seriously phucking some fones in some area. blue box - An old piece of equipment that emulated a true operator placing calls, and operators get calls for free. The blue box seizes an open trunk by blasting a 2600 Hz tone through the line after dialing a party that is local or in the 800 NPA so calls will be local or free for the blue boxer. Then, when the blue boxer has seized a trunk, the boxer may then, within the next 10-15 seconds, dial another fone number via MF tones. These MF tones must be preceded by a KP tone and followed with a ST tone. All of these tones are standardized by Bell. The tones as well as the inter- digit intervals are around 75ms. It may vary with the equipment used since ESS can handle higher speeds and doesn't need inter-digit intervals. There are many uses to a blue box, and we will not cover any more here. See your local phreak or phreak oriented BBS for in depth info concerning blue boxes and blue boxing. Incidentally, blue boxes are not considered safe anymore because ESS detects "foreign" tones, such as the 2600 Hz tone, but this detection may be delayed by mixing pink noise of above 3000 Hz with the 2600 Hz tone. To hang up, the 2600 Hz tone is played again. Also, all blue boxes are green boxes because MF "2" corresponds to the Coin Collect tone on the green box, and the "KP" tone corresponds to the Coin Return tone on the green box. See green box for more information. Blue boxing is IMPOSSIBLE under the new CCIS system slowly being integrated into the Bell system. blue box tones - The MF tones generated by the blue box in order to place calls, emulating a true operator. These dual tones must be entered during the 10-15 second period after you have seized a trunk with the 2600 Hz tone. 700: 1 : 2 : 4 : 7 : 11 : KP= Key Pulse Parallel Frequencies 900: ** : 3 : 5 : 8 : 12 : ST= STop 2= Coin Collect 1100: ** : ** : 6 : 9 : KP : KP2= Key Pulse 2 KP= Coin Return 1300: ** : ** : ** : 10 :KP2 : **= None (green box tones) 1500: ** : ** : ** : ** : ST : : 900:1100:1300:1500:1700: 75ms pulse/pause busy box - Box that will cause the fone to be busy, without taking it OFF-HOOK. Just get a piece of fone wire with a plug on the end, cut it off so there is a plug and about two inches of fone line. Then, strip the wire so the two middle wires, the tip and the ring, are exposed. Then, wrap the ring and the tip together, tape with electrical tape, and plug into the fone jack. The fone will be busy until the box is removed. cans - Cans are those big silver boxes on top of or around the telephone poles. When opened, the lines can be manipulated with a beige box or whatever phun you have in mind. cheese box - Another type of box which, when coupled with call forwarding services, will allow one to place free fone calls. The safety of this box is unknown. See references for information concerning text philes on this box. clear box - Piece of equipment that compromises of a telephone pickup coil and a small amp. This works on the principal that all receivers are also weak transmitters. So, you amplify your signal on PP fortress fones and spare yourself some change. green box - Equipment that will emulate the Coin Collect, Coin Return, and Ringback tones. This means that if you call someone with a fortress fone and they have a green box, by activating it, your money will be returned. The tones are, in hertz, Coin Collect=700+1100, Coin Return=1100+1700, and Ringback=700+1700. However, before these tones are sent, the MF detectors at the CO must be alerted, this can be done by sending a 900+1500 Hz or single 2600 Hz wink of 90ms followed by a 60ms gap, and then the appropriate signal for at least 900ms. 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. Paper Clip Method - This method of phreaking was illustrated in the movie War Games. What a phortress fone does to make sure money is in a fone is send an electrical pulse to notify the fone that a coin has been deposited, for the first coin only. However, by simply grounding the positive end of the microphone, enough current and voltage is deferred to the ground to simulate the first quarter in the coin box. An easy way to accomplish this is to connect the center of the mouthpiece to the coin box, touch tone pad, or anything that looks like metal with a piece of wire. A most convenient piece of wire is a bend out of a paper clip. Then you can send red box tones through the line and get free fone calls! Also, telco modified fones may require you to push the clip harder against the mouthpiece, or connect the mouthpiece to the earpiece. If pressing harder against the mouthpiece becomes a problem, pins may be an easier solution. purple box - This one would be nice. Free calls to anywhere via blue boxing, become an operator via blue box, conference calling, disconnect fone line(s), tap fones, detect traces, intercept directory assistance calls. Has all red box tones. This one may not be available under ESS. rainbow box - An ultimate box. You can become an operator. You get free calls, blue box. You can set up conference calls. You can forcefully disconnect lines. You can tap lines. You can detect traces, change traces, and trace as well. All incoming calls are free. You can intercept directory assistance. You have a generator for all MF tones. You can mute and redial. You have all the red-box tones. This is an awesome box. However, it does not exist under ESS. red box - Equipment that will emulate the red box tone generated for coin recognition in all phortress fones. red box tones - Tones that tell the phortress fone how much money was inserted in the fone to make the required call. In one slot fones, these are beeps in pulses; the pulse is a 2200+1700 Hz tone. For quarters, 5 beep tones at 12-17 PPS, for dimes it is 2 beep tones at 5-8.5 PPS, and a nickel causes 1 beep tone at 5-8.5 PPS. For three slot fones, the tones are different. Instead of beeps, they are straight dual tones. For a nickel, it is one bell at 1050-1100 Hz, two bells for a dime, and one gong at 800 Hz for a quarter. When using red box tones, you must insert at least one nickel before playing the tones, cuz a ground test takes place to make sure some money has been inserted. The ground test may be fooled by the Paper Clip Method. Also, it has been known that TSPS can detect certain red box tones, and will record all data on AMA or CAMA of fraudulent activity. regional center - Any class 1 switching office in North America. silver box - Equipment that will allow you to emulate the DTMF tones A,B,C,D. The MF tones are, in hertz, A=697+1633, B=770+1633, C=852+1633, D=941+1633. These allow special functions from regular fones, such as ACD Testing Mode. white box - This is a portable DTMF keypad.