"Tele-Phun" OK, here are a few tricks you
can do via telecommunications channels..... - Did you know that some BBS
programs crash when the number of users gets too large? I wrote a program
called "Byter Writer", named for Jas0n "c0ckbyter" Anders0n, which gives
your favorite sysop all the users he could want and then some.....It spent
all night logging onto Byter's Board logging on plebian users... BYTER
1 BYTER 2 BYTER 3 BYTER 4 . . . BYTER 376 BYTER 377 "Fatal error! Too Many
UserXHXYglyGYLF7r87('07f0f7('(rfvF68I['0:0@9u@* *erhy8v828b98v0v0(08bp0@:*@90*8vvVVVv0@q:q:udmnqnq8bq@f121f*6FNFCB0BN0
HF8HN781N0NVB8Q2N2878287874NJVL7VBNFNKJTKNHKG56G4 You get the idea. - Here's
a quick way to take a pay phone off line: (Thanx to TT for this one) Just
go up to a fortress, dial 0, and yell "Hey Wench, You Suck, I Rule". The
operator will disconnect the phone from service, and these have been known
to stay out of service for hours this way (until the op that disconnected
it ends her shift...) Ah, the joys of auto-dialing Jas0n Anders0n's voice
line. Before I put up a BBS, and before Byter Writer was written, I used
to sick non-carrier detecting auto-dialers on him. (jas0n was an asshole,
he deserved everything he got and more) One day, though, I heard a recording
emanate from my Hayes: "The number you have reached is not in service".
He had changed the number! Well, most vengeful types would say "SHIT! I'M
SCREWED!" but not me. We simply went over to Byter's house at 4 AM one
day with a Bud Box. After making free calls at Byter's expense for awhile
(we also did a lot of Blue Boxing, just to make sure he got a visit from
Bell, thay are about his only friends now that they make a killing changing
his number all the time), we did a ANI (it's 211 around these parts) and
within 6 hours everyone had the new number. We haven't been back to his
place lately but it is rumored that he has Krazy-Glued his grey Terminal
box shut. *SIGH* guess I will have to go over there with some KRAZY GLUE
SOLVENT (remember you are reading a file by KING Krazy Glue) and open that
sucker up again. Maybe install a nice scarlet box and re-glue it. Some
auto-dialing tips (while we're still on the topic). - Overnight, it's best
to have the dialer go only once an hour or so. This is because, no matter
how often your dialer dials, the victim will only let it ring his phone
3 or 4 times before he wises up and takes the phone off the hook. If you
let it run 10 times a minute, the victim will leave the phone off the hook
all night, and get a good night's sleep, and that won't do, will it? You
let the dialer run every hour on the hour and you will completely ruin
the victim's sleep, for he will be up every hour all night answering the
phone. - Conversely, when auto-dialing a business during the day, have
your dialer run as fast as it can. In fact, since there are usually two
lines in a business fone, have two dialers running (get a friend to help).
A business can't just leave the phone off the hook and if both lines are
tied up by your dialers, they can't call the phone company to complain
either. This worked rather successfully when I had just quit a local Bingo
place. I set my dialer to wait a while before dialing so that it wouldn't
start until I got there. I wanted to see the look on everyone's faces,
plus I could not be blamed because I was right there and obviously not
at a phone... Anyways, almost the second I walked in the door of the Bingo
Place to pick up my pay check, the fortress fone on the wall started ringing.
It rang 3 times, and stopped. Then the business phone rang. It was answered
by an employee who got silence (the modem was in originate mode so it sent
no carrier). CLICK, and the payphone went again. Then the business phone.
This was all very noisy and pissed a lot of people off because they couldn't
hear the Bingo Caller over the phones ringing. On my way home, passersby
couldn't understand why this crazy guy with a paycheck in his hand who
just came out of the Bingo Place was laughing so hard..... - If you have
a CAT or other modem that supports digitized speech, have your dialer utter
a few words every time it dials..... phone: DRRRRRRRRNG! Jas0n: "Hello"
modem: "Jas0n is a Space Fagg0t!!!" Jas0n: CLUNK!!!!!! (he fainted, this
is the 27th time today this has happened...) What else is fun? Ah yes,
everywhere you go you see rodents bitching that their Call Alert fucks
up their data calls. And it does, and unless you have selective call alert,
you can't do much about it. Wouldn't it be REALLY r0dently if a BBS line
had Call Alert? Every time it was busy and someone else called in, "poof"
BOTH callers get fried. So, call up your local CO's business office and
order Call Alert for your favorite sysop today! Here is a way to defeat
callback security found on some BBS systems and other online systems: When
you call a number, you remain connected to them until YOU hang up, not
them. So, when you call a BBS with callback security, you just stay on
the line after it tells you to hang up. The BBS's modem will hang up, and
then pick up again, and you will hear it touch-tone the number of the person
whose account you are trying to get into. The BBS will then offer you its
carrier......and you're in! PROPOSAL: THE FISH BOX (I will be building
one of these in early 1988, it has not been tried yet to my knowledge).
A while ago some friends and I were talking about gaining Calling card
codes by eavesdropping at payphones and listen to the codes that the saps
verbally told the operators. Well, we came across a problem. Now that you
can directly dial a calling card call without going through the operator,
it is rare that someone will still use a calling card verbally these days,
and so standing around eavesdropping didn't sound very productive anymore.
Well, at the time some of us were playing with bugs and wiretaps, and the
thought came to me: What if I were to install a bug in a fortress? I could
tape record everything said on the line plus I would have every touch tone
dialed! This sounded fine until I got to the touch tones. I for one am
tone deaf; I couldn't tell what tone was what number if I tried. So, why
not run the tones through a DTMF receiver? Sure, then every single digit
dialed on the pay phone would just appear on my computer monitor...this
would not only include calling cards but also any extenders that anyone
might legitimately use, plus accounts to ADS systems. The potential to
gain phreak codes in this manner is enormous.. Anyways, now you can see
why I call it the FISH box; you are essentially fishing for codes and if
you are persistent eventually someone will bite..... PROBLEMS: - Getting
the bug into the payphone can be a problem but we are working on it...
- You still have to be relatively close to the fone in order to get good
reception of the bug. Don't sit around for hours, find a place to stash
your tape recoder and bug receiver where no one can find it and come back
for it later. If there are lockers nearby and they are not made of metal
they will do fine. Anyways, I will be writing the official box plans next
month. If anyone has any luck with this project before then, let me know
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