Wildman's Updated Guide to: ____ ___ / /| /| / /| / / /| / / / /_| / | / / | / / / | / / __ / / | / | / / | / / / | / / / /____ / | / |/ / |/ / / |/ /___/ A Genuine WildPhile (c) 23/06/93 21:45.52.21 Updated: 25/07/93 11:48:12.56 Pre-Release! By The WildMan: Master of the Lines Greets to all you phreaks, death you all you pheds and narcs! Heh. As I am remincing through some of my older Tfiles, I noticed we need some updating to this file as experience allows me to do so. That and I'm bored and another WildPhile mearly adds to fame and glory. (not!) Well, the situation with blueboxes is that they're dead, you can still have some phun with them, but in most areas you'd need a 100W speaker playing the 2600 tune to get through. (amusing image forming in mind) Calling cards are good from payphones, but are suicide from home, and are increasingly more difficult to get. ANI is killing extenders, and PBXes are getting more and more risky. (still great from a payfone) What is a phreak to do? Well, field hacking is the answer. You can get old notebooks and laptops cheap now, or you can card one. (carding is also getting much more difficult) There are readly availible spots to jack into the network, free, lying all around waiting to be picked ripe from the vine. I am *very* *very* dissapointed with the situation of hardware phreaking in this country! Don't be a k0dEz kId! Gimmie gimmie gimmie gimmie? Well, OK. I'm sure you've noticed those big green boxes lying around on telephone poles, mounted on a concrete base, etc? Usually (but not always) with a Bell logo on them. (or 3M) Those are cans, or remote service boxes, and are your best friend. In some areas (still) you can access the lines through the underground cable access boxes. These are anywhere from 3 feet to 5 feet high, and anywheres from 6" to 12" wide. They are for use with older 1960-70's switching exchages, and more often than not, they are dead. I still found a tone on one in my area, by fucking with pairs of red and green wires. _LOTS_ of dead lines in there, unfortunatly. How can you tell? Well, if you see the other type (described above) it's highly likely these will be dead. In areas with multiple exhanges, it's likely SOME of these will be active. Another note: This type has REALLY shitty lines, horrible for data communication, IMPOSSIBLE without an error-correcting modem. Good for conferencing. Keep in mind that in rural areas, you can be very well concealed with no traffic or people to worry about. In cities this is much more difficult to pull off, as you'll need a spotter to watch for cars and a tarp to work under! Now, what are you going to need to enjoy this serivce? Pretty much the same gear as real AT&T/Bell Technicians use. Here's what to get: A pair of mid-size vicegrips One Portable Headset (see below) A pair of needlenose pliers A Portable Computer/Modem One sturdy flathead scredriver Phone Wire (see below) One UniConnect Modular Jack (see below) Roll of scotch & electrical tape One digital multimeter (voltage) One belt pack for above items A Soldering Iron/Solder One AAA Mini-Maglite Flashlight Alligator Clips (many) Gloves (Fingerprints, tsk) Ok. First: The Phone Wire. Buy a roll to work with at first, but once you break into the can (the pole or base-mounted large type) you'll find a spool you can leech all the wire you want off of from. Connect Clips to the ends for easy attaching. A UniConnect Modular Jack. What the fuck? Simple. Go out and get yourself a phone extention cord from Radio Shack. Chop the plug-in (female) end off. Strip it until you have the red and green wires exposed. Attach and solder to alligator clips. You can now connect this to any phone device, such as your portable modem. Some fuckheads call this little modification a box: And I laugh. Boxes are for phucking with the phone co, not adding a fucking hold button to your phone. A Portable Headset. This is what you will use to dial voice, run _HUGE_ alliances from, etc. Don't scrimp here: I reccommend a model with a lighted keypad, tone/pulse selecting, flash/reset/redial buttons, a memory, and a kill/hold button. A what? To make this, just find where the wire from the jack. Clip it between the circuit board of the phone, and the jack itself. Strip the 3 sets of wire (the ones you are adding, the ones from the jack, and the ones from the circuit board). Attach ALL the RED wires together, and all of the GREEN wires, so you have (2) connections. (All the reds, and all the greens) solder this. Connect those two extra wires you added to a SPST Temporary (Momentary) Switch, normally open. (Push button). Get this at radio shack. Drill a hole in the case and poke the switch through. Reconnect everything. When you plug the phone in, it will operate normally. When you push that switch, and hold it in, the phone will go dead, light off, etc, but your connection will REMAIN OPEN. (On hold) If you want to get fancy, add the ABCD tones (mine has them) but I have _YET_ to find something to do with them. If anyone has any information on the Silver Box (ABCD) Tones, please leave me Email on the Cellar. (1-401-PRI-VATE), or The Crypt (1-902-PRI-VATE). You get the idea. A Portable Computer/Modem. Anything will do here. I myself use a Gateway 2000 Handbook with a 2400/9600 Pocket modem, soon to be going to a Hayes Optima Portable. (14.4k) It should be light, rugged, and in a case where you can throw (hide) it somewhere if arrested. :NOTE: If you are arrested, all your gear is byebye, and that PC could be VALUABLE evidence. When you hear "FREEZE", give the gestapo a suprise and smash it off some concrete. HA. If you are running from techs, GET THAT BELT PACK OFF! It should have a good connector thing so you can throw it in the bushes and come back later. Someone arrested with this gear on will be in DEEP shit. Phone? Cords? Modem? Pliers? Multimeter? Uh, out for a walk. BZZZT Pliers/ViceGrips/Screwdriver. These are your tools to get into the can. Use the vicegrips to defeat the stainless steel latches like are on most cans, just turn the bolt in the direction of the arrow etched onto it. Handy, no? It'll pop open. If it is locked (always with Master Padlocks) saw the lock and go put another identical one on. Of course, you will be the only one WITH such a key. Heh. If you are a decent lockpick, do that, but can get tendious. (And leave evidence of tampering) The smaller, older style cans are opened by turning a bolt for a few turns and then pulling open (like a door), pulling open (straight off) or sliding up and off. (REAL old type) Once you're in: For the newer cans, you'll notice plastic rows with millions of wires running into them. No biggie. On the back of the can, you'll see one or two sets of bolts, usually with a 4 digit number below it. (# to that line) These are the test lines and are to be used for dialing out. The prefix will be whatever is local to the can. Connect the clips to here and go FAR away (200 feet) closing the can, so you can phreak in quiet. Be sure to check that you have the ring (red) and tip (green) wires on and connected properly, or it won't work. Use this for standard LD calling BUT DO NOT CALL 900's FROM THESE LINES! Customer lines can be accessed (bugged, heh) from the plastic, high tech connectors. There will be a test instrument, ususally with a phone right there for you to use! There are instructions printed on the side of the can, with pictures of course. Flip the plastic connector open and slide it in. The wires will lead to bolts on the side, connect your phone here and determine if there is a valid line. Use these lines for 900's. Sometimes it's useful to know the number you are calling from. (Carding, Collect Calls made to you at a specified time, etc) Dial ANI at 711 for the number, or 1-800-555-55555 (yep, 8 5's) IF these do not work, you'll be stuck with the test line, which will have the number written below it. One note: DO NOT VOICE PHREAK YOUR PHRIENDS AT HOME! Your calls may be logged, which is NO problem for LD BBS's, but voice calls will generate a lot of heat. I just arrange for my LD Phriends to call the test line collect at a specified time. (Account for different time zones!) And no, the operator will not know it's a test line. Nice, huh? When calling from a can, ALWAYS use _PULSE_ unless ABSOLUTELY necessary. (Alliance) Always dial with pulse regardless and switch to tones when you need them. Tones can be logged MUCH easier than pulse! Avoiding other problems: After you use the can once, it's no longer a virgin. Abuse the *hell* out of it from 11pm-6am (techs are out at 7am!) for the first nite, and then put the tape on the can. If nothing happens in a week, do it again. Techs do make regualar service calls, but if you notice a entry to your can, be weary. Since you have lots of cord connected, here's my plan: Just watch the box while you're leeching, if you see some techs coming, give the wire a *hard* yank, and pull it away. When they get there, they'll have NO idea where you are. (Running away at oluympic speed, of course) Also, don't vandilize the can. It's worth over $20,000, bigger ones a _LOT_ more. Blowing one up, for example, can knock 1000's of lines out for days. No ideas here or anything. If noticed, be sure to do SOMETHING with the cord, since it'll point RIGHT to you. I make sure it runs through some awkward places, and let me assure thee, the extra effort is WORTH IT! Testing for valid lines: Hook the multimeter to the wires and look for a voltage of about 50 VDC. (Varies between lines, around 50V though) Just look for anying above 6VDC and try connecting the phone to that. If someone calls the line while you're phucking with it, it'll go to 90V plus and you could get one MOTHER of a shock. Unlikely, you say? It's happened to me and is NOT a pleasant experience. Some final advice: Dress all in black or in military fatigues (best) and have a hankerchief you can pull over your face if need be. Wear a black sweater or jacket you can rip off if you have to be more normal-looking in a hurry. FIELD PHREAKING: CANNING WITH A TWIST What? Well, canning is _great_. With these skills you can have more phun! Go to someone's house that is on vacation, or that you _hate_. Look for where the wires enter their house. You will notice a small box there, usually black, and usually SMALL. Unscrew and remove. You'll see (4) screws with Red, Green, Yellow & Black wires. Connect to the red and green to dial out or bug the line. You may see a fone wire running down the side of the house, cut it, strip it, connect the two reds and greens together again, and attach your own little junction, and bug/dial away. Payfones also give you a excellent location: See my file on payfone fun for more information because I'm not typing another 100 lines. I hope this has enlightened you, and will aid you in the quest to rip the fucking phone company off. Keep Phreaking ALIVE! WRITE SOMETHING DOWN! As always, I can be reached at the Cellar, or at the Crypt. -- Wildman Out! 11:56:27.80 25/07/93