147 WEST 42ND STREETNEW YORK, NY 10036BELIEVE ME:  IT WILL BE THE BEST $10 YOU WILL EVER SPEND...BLACK BOX<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>    THE  BLACK  BOX  IS  A  DEVICE  THAT ATTACHED TO A CALLED PARTIES PHONETHAT ALLOWS  HIM/HER  TO  RECEIVE  FREE LONG DISTANCE CALLS FROM FRIENDS WHOCALL.    YOU ONLY NEED  2 PARTS:  A SPST  TOGGLE SWITCH  AND  A 10,000  OHM (10  K),1/2 WATT,  10%  RESISTOR.  ANY  ELECTRONICS PLACE SHOULD HAVE THESE.    NOW, CUT TWO PIECES OF WIRE, ABOUT 6 INCHES, AND ATTACH THESE TO THE TWOSCREWS ON THE SWITCH. TURN YOUR NORMAL DDSIDE DOWN AND UNSCREW THE 2 SCREWS.LOCATE THE "F" AND "RR" SCREWS ON THE NETWORK BOX. WRAP THE RESISTOR BETWEENTHESE 2 SCREWS AND MAKE SURE THAT THE WIRES TOUCH ONLY THE PROPER TERMINALS!NOW CONNECT ONE WIRE FROM THE SWITCH TO THE RR TERMINAL. FINALLY, ATTACH THEREMAINING WIRE TO THE GREEN WIRE (DISCONNECT IT FROM ITS TERMINAL). NOW BRINGTHE SWITCH OUT THE REAR OF THE PHONE AND CLOSE IT UP. PUT THE SWITCH IN APOSITION WHERE YOU GET A DIAL TONE, MARK THIS NORMAL. MARK THE OTHER SIDEFREE.  WHEN YOUR FRIENDS CALL (AT A PREARRANGED TIME), QUICKLY LIFT &  DROP THERECEIVER AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. THIS WILL STOP THE RINGING, IF NOT TRY AGAIN. ITIS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU DO IT FAST! NOW PUT THE SWITCH IN THE FREE POSITIONAND PICK UP THE PHONE. KEEP ALL CALLS SHORT & UNDER  15 MINUTES.   WHEN SOMEONE CALLS YOU LONG-DISTANCE, THEY ARE BILLED FROM THE MOMENT YOUANSWER. THE TELCO KNOWS WHEN YOU ANSWER DUE TO A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF VOLTAGE THATFLOWS WHEN YOU PICK UP THE PHONE. HOWEVER, THE RESISTOR CUTS DOWN ON THEVOLTAGE SO IT IS BELOW THE BILLING RANGE BUT SUFFICIENT ENOUGH TO OPERATE THEMOUTHPIECE. ANSWERING THE PHONE FOR A FRACTION OF A SECOND STOPS THE RING BUTIT IS NOT ENOUGH FOR BILLING TO START. IF THE PHONE IS ANSWERED FOR EVEN ONE                                    Page 28                        The Official Phreaker's ManualFULL SECOND, BILLING WILL START AND YOU WILL BE CUT OFF WHEN YOU HANG UP ANDSWITCH TO FREE.WARNING:  BELL CAN RANDOMLY LOOK FOR BLACK BOXES SO BE CAREFUL! _____________________________________|                                     |---BLUE WIRE-->>F<                    ||              | |                    |--WHITE WIRE---/ |                    ||                |                    ||            RESISTOR                 ||                |                    ||                |                    ||              >RR<-------SWITCH--X   ||                                 |   |----GREEN WIRE--------------------/   ||                                     ||_____________________________________|DIAL LOCKS<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>    HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN AN OFFICE OR SOMEWHERE AND WANTED TO MAKE A FREE FONECALL BUT SOME ASSHOLE PUT A LOCK ON THE FONE TO PREVENT OUT-GOING CALLS? FRETKNOWLEDGE!    THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO BEAT THIS OBSTACLE, FIRST PICK THE LOCK, I DON'T HAVETHE TIME TO TEACH LOCKSMITHING SO WE GO TO THE SECOND METHOD WHICH TAKESADVANTAGE OF TELEPHONE ELECTRONICS.    TO BE AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE, WHEN YOU PICK UP THE FONE YOU COMPLETE ACIRCUIT KNOW AS A LOCAL LOOP.  WHEN YOU HANG-UP YOU BREAK THE CIRCUIT.  WHENYOU DIAL (PULSE) IT ALSO BREAKS THE CIRCUIT BUT NOT LONG ENOUGH TO HANG UP!  SOYOU CAN "PUSH-DIAL."  TO DO THIS YOU >>> RAPIDLY <<< DEPRESS THE SWITCHHOOK.FOR EXAMPLE, TO DIAL AN OPERATOR (AND THEN GIVE HER THE NUMBER YOU WANT CALLED)>>> RAPIDLY <<< & >>> EVENLY <<< DEPRESS THE SWITCHHOOK 10 TIMES.  TO DIAL634-1268, DEPRESS 6 X'S PAUSE, THEN 3 X'S, PAUSE, THEN 4X'S, ETC.  IT TAKES ALITTLE PRACTICE BUT YOU'LL GET THE HANG OF IT.  TRY  PRACTICING WITH YOUR OWN #SO YOU'LL GET A BUSY TONE WHEN RIGHT.  IT'LL ALSO WORK ON TOUCH-TONE(TM) SINCEA DTMF LINE WILL ALSO ACCEPT PULSE.  ALSO, NEVER DEPRESS THE SWITCHHOOK FORMORE THAN A SECOND OR IT'LL HANG-UP!    FINALLY, REMEMBER THAT YOU HAVE JUST AS MUCH RIGHT TO THAT FONE AS THEASSHOLE WHO PUT THE LOCK ON IT!EXCHANGE SCANNING<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>    ALMOST EVERY EXCHANGE IN THE BELL SYSTEM HAS TEST #'S AND OTHER "GOODIES"SUCH AS LOOPS WITH DIAL-UPS. THESE "GOODIES" ARE USUALLY FOUND BETWEEN 9900 AND9999 IN YOUR LOCAL EXCHANGE.  IF YOU HAVE THE TIME AND INITIATIVE, SCAN YOUREXCHANGE AND YOU MAY BECOME LUCKY!HERE ARE MY FINDINGS IN THE 914-268 EXCHANGE:                                    Page 29                        The Official Phreaker's Manual9900 - ANI (SEE SEPARATE BULLETIN)9901 - ANI (SEE SEPARATE BULLETIN)9927 - OSC. TONE (POSSIBLE TONE SIDE OF A LOOP)9936 - VOICE # TO THE TELCO CENTRAL OFFICE9937 - VOICE # TO THE TELCO CENTRAL OFFICE9941 - COMPUTER (DIGITAL VOICE TRANSMISSION?)9960 - OSC. TONE (TONE SIDE LOOP) MAY ALSO BE A COMPUTER IN SOME EXCHANGES9961 - NO RESPONSE (OTHER END OF LOOP?)9962 - NO RESPONSE (OTHER END OF LOOP?)9963 - NO RESPONSE (OTHER END OF LOOP?)9966 - COMPUTER (SEE 9941)9968 - TONE THAT DISAPPEARS--RESPONDS TO CERTAIN TOUCH-TONE KEYS    MOST OF THE NUMBERS BETWEEN 9900 & 9999 WILL RING OR GO TO A "WHAT #,PLEASE?" OPERATOR.HAVE PHUN AND REMEMBER IT'S ONLY A LOCAL CALL!TOUCH-TONE & FREE CALLS<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS TO MAKE FREE CALLS (SPRINT, MCI, ETC.) USING A ROTARYPHONE.  THEY ARE:1.  USE A NUMBER THAT ACCEPTS VOICE AS WELL AS DTMF. SUCH A # IS (800)521-8400. AS OF WRITING THIS, A CODE WAS 00717865.  A) IF USING VOICE, WAIT FOR THE COMPUTER TO SAY, "AUTHORIZATION #, PLEASE."THEN SAY EACH DIGIT SLOWLY, IT WILL BEEP AFTER EACH DIGIT IS  SAID. AFTER EVERYGROUP OF DIGITS, IT WILL REPEAT WHAT YOU HAVE SAID, THEN SAY YES IF IT ISCORRECT, OTHERWISE SAY NO. IF THE ACCESS CODE IS CORRECT, IT WILL THANK YOU ANDASK FOR THE DESTINATION #, THEN SAY THE AREA CODE + NUMBER AS ABOVE. ANOTHERSUCH # IS (800) 245-8173, WHICH HAS A 6 DIGIT ACCESS CODE. (NOTE: IF USINGTOUCH-TONE ON THIS #, ENTER THE CODE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TONE STOPS.)2.  HOOK UP A TOUCH-TONE FONE INTO YOUR ROTARY FONE. ATTACH THE RED WIRE FROMTHE TOUCH-TONE FONE TO THE "R" TERMINAL INSIDE THE FONE ON THE NETWORK BOX.THEN HOOK THE GREEN WIRE TO THE "B" TERMINAL. TO USE THIS DIAL THE # USINGROTARY & THEN USE THE TOUCH-TONE FOR THE CODES. (DON'T HANG UP THE ROTARY FONEWHILE DOING THIS THOUGH!) IF THIS DOESN'T WORK THEN REVERSE THE 2  WIRES.(NOTE:IF YOUR LINE CAN ACCEPT TOUCH-TONE BUT YOU HAVE A ROTARY FONE THEN YOUCAN HOOK UP A TONE FONE DIRECTLY FOR ALL CALLS BUT THIS USUALLY ISN'T THECASE.) SUCH AS RADIO SHACK'S 43-138.OTHER ALTERNATIVES<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>4.  USE A CHARGE-A-CALL FONE.  (THESE ALSO MAKE GREAT EXTENSIONS IF YOU REMOVEIT USING A HEX WRENCH WITH A HOLE IN THE MIDDLE ON THE CENTER SCREW!)--(THESEFONES, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, ARE BLUE WITH NO COIN SLOTS).5.  USE A PAY FONE THAT WANTS YOUR MONEY BEFORE THE DIAL TONE. PUT IN YOURDIME, DIAL THE #; IF IT'S AN 800 # THEN YOUR DIME WILL COME BACK, IMMEDIATELYPUT A DIME BACK IN (IT'LL COME BACK WHEN YOU HANG UP!) IF IT IS A TONE FIRSTFONE AND IT DISCONNECTS THE KEYPAD (SOME DON'T) THEN FIND ANOTHER FONE.                                    Page 30                        The Official Phreaker's Manual                                   Chapter 2   Well now we know a little vocabulary, and now its into history, Phreakhistory.  Back at MIT in 1964 arrived a student by the name of Stewart Nelson,who was extremely interested in the telephone.  Before entering MIT, he hadbuilt autodialers, cheese boxes, and many more gadgets.  But when he came toMIT he became even more interested in "fone-hacking" as they called it.  Aftera little while he naturally started using the PDP-1, the schools computer atthat time, and from there he decided that it would be interesting to seewhether the computer could generate the frequencies required for blue boxing.The hackers at MIT were not interested in ripping off Ma Bell, but justexploring the telephone network.  Stew (as he was called) wrote a program togenerate all the tones and set off into the vast network.   Now there were more people phreaking than the ones at MIT.  Most people haveheard of Captain Crunch (No not the cereal), he also discovered how to takerides through the fone system, with the aid of a small whistle found in acereal box (can we guess which one?).  By blowing this whistle, he generatedthe magical 2600hz and into the mouthpiece it sailed, giving him completecontrol over the system.  I have heard rumors that at one time he made about1/4 of the calls coming out of San Francisco.  He got famous fast.  He made thecover of people magazine and was interviewed several times (as you'll soonsee).  Well he finally got caught after a long adventurous career.  After hewas caught he was put in jail and was beaten up quite badly because he wouldnot teach other inmates how to box calls.  After getting out, he joined Applecomputer and is still out there somewhere.   Then there was Joe the Whistler, blind form the day he was born.  He couldwhistle a perfect 2600hz tone.  It was rumored phreaks used to call him to tunetheir boxes.   Well that was up to about 1970, then from 1970 to 1979, phreaking was mainlydone by college students, businessmen and anyone who knew enough aboutelectronics and the fone company to make a 555 Ic to generate those magictones.  Businessmen and a few college students mainly just blue box to get freecalls.  The others were still there, exploring 800#'s and the new ESS systems.ESS posed a big problem for phreaks then and even a bigger one now.  ESS wasnot widespread, but where it was, blue boxing was next to impossible except forthe most experienced phreak.  Today ESS is installed in almost all major citiesand blue boxing is getting harder and harder.   1978 marked a change in phreaking, the Apple ][, now a computer that wasaffordable, could be programmed, and could save all that precious work on acassette.  Then just a short while later came the Apple Cat modem.  With thismodem, generating all blue box tones was easy as writing a program to countform one to ten (a little exaggerated).  Pretty soon programs that couldimitate an operator just as good as the real thing were hitting the community,TSPS and Cat's Meow, are the standard now and are the best.   1982-1986: LD services were starting to appear in mass numbers.  People nowhad programs to hack LD services, telephone exchanges, and even passwords.  Bynow many phreaks were getting extremely good and BBS's started to spring upeverywhere, each having many documentations on phreaking for the novice.  Thenit happened, the movie War Games was released and mass numbers of sixth gradeto all ages flocked to see it.  The problem wasn't that the movie was bad, itwas that now EVERYONE wanted to be a hacker/phreak.  Novices came out in suchmass numbers, that bulletin boards started to be busy 24 hours a day.  To thisday, they still have not recovered.  Other problems started to occur, novicesguessed easy passwords on large government computers and started to playaround...  Well it wasn't long before they were caught, I think that manypeople remember the 414-hackers.  They were so stupid as to say "yes" when thecomputer asked them whether they'd like to play games.  Well at least it takesthe heat off the real phreaks/hacker/krackers.                                    Page 31                        The Official Phreaker's Manual   After a little history, how about a little thrill?  I don't know if thisstory is true but it sure is as bad as shit!                                    Page 32                        The Official Phreaker's Manual         ***** The AAG Proudly Presents The AAG Proudly Presents *****         *                                                           *         *      +----------------------------------------------+     *         *                                                           *         *              Secrets of the Little Blue Box               *         *                                                           *         *                     by Ron Rosenbaum                      *         *                 Typed by One Farad Cap/AAG                *         *                                                           *         *        -A story so incredible it may even make you        *         *             feel sorry for the phone company-             *         *                                                           *         *                  (First of four files)                    *         *                                                           *         *      +----------------------------------------------+     *         *                                                           *         ***** The AAG Proudly Presents The AAG Proudly Presents *****Dudes... These four files contain the story, "Secrets of the Little Blue Box",by Ron Rosenbaum.-A story so incredible it may even make you feel sorry for the phone company-Printed in the October 1971 issue of Esquire Magazine.  If you happen to be ina library and come across a collection of Esquire magazines, the October 1971issue is the first issue printed in the smaller format.  The story begins onpage 116 with a picture of a blue box.