From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:34:01 -0700 (PDT)
To: Michael B Amoruso <h2@juno.com>
Subject: Re: Blue Box Plans & hacker bbs's
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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Michael B Amoruso wrote:

> Thanks for the tip!  My friend is good with electronics and he is
> building a red box using all chips and shit.  He found out some equation
> to use so when a capacitor fills up and then discharges to a resistor,
> using a certain equation u can generate frequencys.  I also found out
> that you can do the same with QBasic.  I wish there was a way to blue
> box, but it seems that there's not.  Thanks for everything.

cypherpunks is not 2600.  Readers and posters would do well to understand
that this list has among its readers at least one former federal
prosecutor and several active law enforcement officials.

Please take your discussion elsewhere.

> On Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Perry Farrell <pneyz@armory.com>
> writes:
> >> Also, the network's signalling has changed, and the basic 
> >> Captain Crunch Whistle doesn't work many places any more -
> >> most of the signalling is digital out-of-band rather than
> >> inband audio.  Phreaking isn't impossible (or there wouldn't be 
> >> as many people chasing the Dread Pirate Mitnick), but at this point
> >> you actually need to know what you're doing to succeed at it,
> >> and merely having plans for a device you don't know well enough to
> >> emulate in code on your PC isn't going to buy you much.

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