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I was chill'n in the crib late one night about a few weeks ago, and thinking about what I wanted to put on my web page. And suddenly, it hit me. I needed to make a box, It's been a while since a really kick ass box waz invented so....
I thought 'bout what made the Blue Box, and various other boxes so popular among phreakers:
So I thought about what i needed to make: a ESS compatible, cheap and easy to make, have lots of features, and all be in a compact package
I decided to include these boxes: Beige Box, aqua box
Enough of the small talk here's the shit!
VIC 20 plans
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The beigebox is simply a consumer lineman's handset, which is a phone that can be attached to the outside of a person's house, or for that matter ANY RED & GREEN PHONE LINE. To fabricate a beigebox, follow along.
(1) GREEN JUMPER WITH INSULATED BOOT
soldering iron
Solder
The construction is very simple. First you must understand the concept of the device. In a modular jack, there are four wires. These are red, green, yellow, and black. For a single line telephone, however, only two matter: the red (ring) and green (tip). The yellow and the black are not necessary for this project.
A lineman's handset has two clips on it: the ring and the tip.
RED=RING, usually on the right
GREEN=TIP, usually on the left
1)Get your female phone(the kind that has red and green colored wires), and clip off the plug 3" from one of the plugs (save the plug, it might come in handy)
2) Strip 2-3" of insulation off both the red and the green wire
3) To the red wire solder a red alligator clip. To the end of the green wire solder a green alligator clip.
4) insulate you wires well with black tape
Now insert your telephone's modular plug into the modular jack. That's it. This particular model is nice because it is can be easily made, is inexpensive, uses common parts that are readily available, is small, is lightweight, and does not require the destruction of a phone.
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V V ! + ! + ! + ! + ! + I I I I I 0 0 To the next section --------------------- = = = Caller ID box = =____________________=
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This section gives details to add nice features such as a LED to let you know when the line is in use and a switch to "hang up" so that you can't accidently leave the line in use. I used a Trim Line fone I bought at a store for about $10. I installed the switch and LED in the phone and drilled holes for the switch and the LED, you could just install it by splicing into the phone cord. This requries no instruction because the schematic should explain everything.
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Every true phreaker lives in fear of the dreaded FBI 'Lock In Trace'. For a long time, it was impossible to escape from the Lock In Trace. This box does offer an escape route with simple directions to it. This box is quite a simple concept, and almost any phreaker with basic electronics knowledge can construct and use it.
A lock in trace is a device used by the FBI to lock into the phone users location so that he can not hang up while a trace is in progress. For those of you who are not familiar with the concept of 'locking in', then here's a brief description. The FBI can tap into a conversation, sort of like a three-way call connection. Then, when they get there, they can plug electricity into the phone line. All phone connections are held open by a certain voltage of electricity. That is why you sometimes get static and faint connections when you are calling far away, because the electricity has trouble keeping the line up. What the lock in trace does is cut into the line and generate that same voltage straight into the lines. That way, when you try and hang up, voltage is retained. Your phone will ring just like someone was calling you even after you hang up. (If you have call waiting, you should understand better about that, for call waiting intercepts the electricity and makes a tone that means someone is going through your line. Then, it is a matter of which voltage is higher. When you push down the receiver, then it see-saws the electricity to the other side. When you have a person on each line it is impossible to hang up unless one or both of them will hang up. If you try to hang up, voltage is retained, and your phone will ring. That should give you an understanding of how calling works. Also, when electricity passes through a certain point on your phone, the electricity causes a bell to ring, or on some newer phones an electronic ring to sound.) So, in order to eliminate the trace, you somehow must lower the voltage level on your phone line. You should know that every time someone else picks up the phone line, then the voltage does decrease a little. In the first steps of planning this out, Xerox suggested getting about a hundred phones all hooked into the same line that could all be taken off the hook at the same time. That would greatly decrease the voltage level. That is also why most three-way connections that are using the bell service three way calling (which is only $3 a month) become quite faint after a while. By now, you should understand the basic idea. You have to drain all of the power out of the line so the voltage can not be kept up. Rather sudden draining of power could quickly short out the FBI voltage machine, because it was only built to sustain the exact voltage necessary to keep the voltage out. For now, imagine this. One of the normal Radio Shack generators that you can go pick up that one end of the cord that hooks into the central box has a phone jack on it and the other has an electrical plug. This way, you can "flash" voltage through the line, but cannot drain it. So, some modifications have to be done.
A BEOC (Basic Electrical Output Socket), like a small lamp-type connection, where you just have a simple plug and wire that would plug into a light bulb. A female modular phone jack.. Same voltage connection, but the restrainer must be built in (I.E. The central box) . Some creativity and easy work.
Notice: No phones have to be destroyed/modified to make this box, so don't go out and buy a new phone for it!
All right, this is a very simple procedure. If you have the BEOC, it could drain into anything: a radio, or whatever. The purpose of having that is you are going to suck the voltage out from the phone line into the electrical appliance so there would be no voltage left to lock you in with.
1. Take the connection cord. Examine the plug at the end. It should have only two prongs. If it has three, still, do not fear. Make sure the electrical appliance is turned off unless you want to become a crispy critter while making this thing. Most plugs will have a hard plastic design on the top of them to prevent you from getting in at the electrical wires inside. Well, remove it. When you look inside, Low and Behold, you will see that at the base of the prongs there are a few wires connecting in. Those wires conduct the power into the appliance. So, you carefully unwrap those from the sides and pull them out until they are about an inch ahead of the prongs. After trying out out what wire should be hooked to red and what
2. Do the same thing with the prongs on the other plug, so you have the wires evenly connected. Now, wrap the end of the wires around each other. If you happen to have the other end of the voltage cord hooked into the phone, stop reading now, you're too fucking stupid to continue. After you've wrapped the wires around each other, then cover the whole thing with the plugs with insulating tape. Then, if you built your own control box or if you bought one, then cram all the wires into it and reclose it. That box is your ticket out of this.
3. Re-check everything to make sure it's all in place. This is a pretty flimsy connection, but on later models when you get more experienced at it then you can solder away at it and form the whole device into one big box, with some kind of cheap Mattel hand-held game inside to be the power connector. In order to use it, just keep this box handy. Plug it into the jack if you want, but it will slightly lower the voltage so it isn't connected. When you plug it in, if you see sparks, unplug it and restart the whole thing. But if it just seems fine then leave it.
Now, so you have the whole thing plugged in and all... Do not use this unless the situation is desperate! When the trace has gone on, don't panic, unplug your phone, and turn on the appliance that it was hooked to. It will need energy to turn itself on, and here's a great source... The voltage to keep a phone line open is pretty small and a simple light bulb should drain it all in and probably short the FBI computer at the same time.
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This schematic is quite different in construction but the same idea is used only I apply it in a way much more suited to the all-in-one design of this box. I installed a spst switch on the Ring so that all you have to do is flip a switch.
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I-phone cord from last section I I I I I ! + ! + ! + spst switch ! + 1 / ! + 1 / ! +___1___=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-/ ! + = o = Drainage device, I used a radio ! + = o = Make sure you device runs on DC, Not AC !__+ ______=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ! + ! + ! + !+ I I I-next section
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This section will tackle "how-to" install a stero jack so you can record some of those spicy chats. You will need three things to do this section: tape recorder(portable, uses batteries), Stero jack, and a patch cable to run from your stero jack to your recorder. I used the schematic to instruct you on how to do this.
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As of August 13,2001, that's as far as I have gotten, at the end of the last section I would install a modular phone jack so you could plug you phone in and use the Vic 20 Box.
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V V ! + ! + ! + ! + ! + I I I I I 0 0 To the next section --------------------- = = = Caller ID box = =____________________=
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I I I -Phone cord from the caller ID I I I ! + ! + ! + ! + ! L ! E ! D ! + ! + / ! __/___ ! = Spst = -SPST SWITCH ! =______= ! + ! + !+ I I I-to the next section
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I-phone cord from last section I I I I I ! + ! + ! + spst switch ! + 1 / ! + 1 / ! +___1___=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-/ ! + = o = Drainage device, I used a radio ! + = o = Make sure you device runs on DC, Not AC !__+ ______=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ! + ! + ! + !+ I I I-next section
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I-from the last section I I I I !+ ! + ! + ! + ! + ! + ! +________ !__+ _______@ -stero jack ! + ! + ! + !+ I I I I-next section
That's it for now, I plan to add a box that will let you record all the numbers dialed from that fone and other stuff. Thanks a lot to Thomas Edison for making a damn good schematic in about three days time. THE MIDWEST STRANGLER e-mail me:[email protected]