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2020-01-31 at 5:13 AM UTC
Originally posted by Fuck Your World I wasn't denying it's existence back then you alien asshat.
I was saying my quarterly was a cheap comic-book style dot matrix printed magazine. like the kind printed on cheap paper towel like paper. but at the same time making it more of a collectable probably than high gloss magazines.
TIME & LIFE Used to print on high quality gloss even in the 50s-60s
so I never doubted it
Alrighty. My bad.
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Phracking didn't short circuit anything you dolt.
He was talking about my payphone free call hack that I posted on Totse. Really, any hack on a phone line is phreaking. Doesn't have to be just frequencies. With my hack, the cap on the transmitter end of the phone handle is unscrewed (most are now glued down with crazy glue, but can still be removed) and the circular transmitter is lifted out of the housing, at which point the two prongs that stick out the back of the transmitter holder are touched to a metal part of the phone, such as the phone cradle, replace the transmitter back into the handset and a call can then be placed for free - no coins required. If a long-distance call is required, touch metal once for each quarter while live operator is on the line and requesting toll coins. -
2020-01-31 at 5:49 AM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL Alrighty. My bad.
He was talking about my payphone free call hack that I posted on Totse. Really, any hack on a phone line is phreaking. Doesn't have to be just frequencies. With my hack, the cap on the transmitter end of the phone handle is unscrewed (most are now glued down with crazy glue, but can still be removed) and the circular transmitter is lifted out of the housing, at which point the two prongs that stick out the back of the transmitter are touched to a metal part of the phone, such as the phone cradle, replace the transmitter back into the handset and a call can then be placed for free - no coins required. If a long-distance call is required, touch metal once for each quarter while live operator is on the line and requesting toll coins.
dude.. the whistle-tone? the one that DJ Qualls hypes up in the film The Core or even Mathew Broderick in 1982's Wargames? ? I used to have that tone down as a kid and we knew about it in the 70s. but they figured it out at Ma Bell and changed it so you couldn't get a dialtone without dropping money in it.
using a can tab pull before they outlawed those removable ones. -
2020-01-31 at 5:53 AM UTC
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2020-01-31 at 6:06 AM UTC
Originally posted by Fuck Your World dude.. the whistle-tone? the one that DJ Qualls hypes up in the film The Core or even Mathew Broderick in 1982's Wargames? ? I used to have that tone down as a kid and we knew about it in the 70s. but they figured it out at Ma Bell and changed it so you couldn't get a dialtone without dropping money in it.
using a can tab pull before they outlawed those removable ones.
The Captain Crunch whistle.
While testing a pirate radio transmitter he had built, Draper broadcast a telephone number to listeners seeking feedback to gauge the station's reception. A call from Denny Teresi resulted in a meeting that led Draper into the world of "phone phreaks", people who study and experiment with telephone networks, and who sometimes use that knowledge to make free calls. Teresi and several other phone phreaks were blind. Learning of Draper's knowledge of electronic design, they asked him to build a multifrequency tone generator, known informally as a blue box, a device for emitting audio tones used to control the phone network. The group had previously used an organ and cassette recordings of tones to make free calls. Among the phone phreaks, one blind boy who had taken the moniker of Joybubbles had perfect pitch and was able to identify frequencies precisely.
Draper learned that a toy whistle packaged in boxes of Cap'n Crunch cereal emitted a tone at precisely 2600 hertz—the same frequency that AT&T long lines used to indicate that a trunk line was available for routing a new call. The tone disconnected one end of the trunk while the still-connected side entered an operator mode. The vulnerability they had exploited was limited to call-routing switches that relied on in-band signaling. After 1980 and the introduction of Signalling System No. 7 most U.S. phone lines relied almost exclusively on out-of-band signaling. This change rendered the toy whistles and blue boxes useless for phreaking purposes. The whistles are considered collectible souvenirs of a bygone era, and the magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly is named after the audio frequency.
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2020-01-31 at 6:12 AM UTCIs this why CDC Named their meet-ups 2600 while Totse was 2400bps?
So when you did this, it went into operator mode on a second node allowing you to dial even long distance without money collected by the box? -
2020-01-31 at 6:17 AM UTC
Originally posted by Fuck Your World Is this why CDC Named their meet-ups 2600 while Totse was 2400bps?
So when you did this, it went into operator mode on a second node allowing you to dial even long distance without money collected by the box?
Using my method, one could easily make free calls either locally or long distance. That's why they started gluing the caps on. It still works even to this day. I figured this out as a kid in the late '70's. -
2020-01-31 at 6:19 AM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL Using my method, one could easily make free calls either locally or long distance. That's why they started gluing the caps on. It still works even to this day. I figured this out as a kid in the late '70's.
I rarely see phone banks. even at airports I don't think they have many. even the white phones they took away because people would request silly Bart Simpson names -
2020-01-31 at 6:29 AM UTC
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