Re: Blue Box Plans & hacker bbs's

[h2@juno.com (Michael B Amoruso)]

Oh yeah I forgot one thing.  What do you mean by NPA and why cant i just
dial like a regualr call??  And what is a DMTF dialer?

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.
>
>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)
>