From: Perry Farrell <pneyz@armory.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:08:04 -0700 (PDT)
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Blue Box Plans & hacker bbs's
In-Reply-To: <199610210213.TAA28765@dfw-ix5.ix.netcom.com>
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> 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.

Very good point, phreaking's getting tricky. First of all, forget blue 
boxes, they're worthless, especially to an amateur, which you (HeLiuM) 
obviouisly are. Get a red box. Go to Radio Shack and buy a digital 
recorder pocket memo thing. They're about ten bucks and it's alot easier 
than getting a handheld DTMF dialer (which is annoying to solder because 
RS doesn't make them very well). Get BlueBeep or something 
(ftp.fc.net/pub/defcon/BLUEBEEP) and record some quarter tones. Go to a 
Bell payphone (CoCoTs and USWest phones do not work) and dial 
"1+area+npa+number", like a normal call. Then play the tones. For a local 
call, dial "10288+area+npa+number", which makes AT&T think it's along 
distance call. 

					pneyz (pneyz@armory.com)