TAP No. 5 - Blue Box 1 (Early Model)

W | IP IL CIRCULATION: 400 CCTOSER DO NOT READ THISIY 191° Oops! We must correct an error in issue no. 2. The Start and Stop tones were VOLUME 5 s J a incorrectly identified. The following are the correct tones, guaranteed to work perfectly. Please, if you save back issues, or pass them out, change the info on them right now. ° _ REMENMGER THE BLUE Box: 1 700. 900 We have received, in response to the blue box story, 2 700 1100 requests from many people for schematics. We have 3 900 1100 no such schematics, and would not publish them if we 4 700 1300 . did, for.that would be unlawful activity. 5 900 1300 The following is a reader-supplied schematic for 6 1100 1300 well-known phase shift oscillator. This transistor 7 700 1500 oscillator can be operated from a 9-volt battery, but 8 900 1500 its output is not sufficient to feed a speaker. Next 9 1100 1500 month we will show a mixing and boosting circuit for 0 1300 1500 amplification through a speaker. This circuit is useful Start 1100 1700 in the 500-5000 cycle range and as such makes an easy- Stop 1500 1700 to-build, low-cost, toy organ. Disconnect 2600 ? oscillators required. HEP-54 TRANSISTOR %* All resistors ave soy. wattage . * Capacrtovs ey. should be high-que Iity silveved-mica} ove, ‘ Yisc ¢e ave fen — LETTERS They've been fucking us over good. We owed them a hunk-a-money and after end- less arguments with their machine ladies (strangely loyal for low down clerks) we agreed to mail them the money. They screamed back- No,we want you to bring it down in person tomorrow! What fuckers! This country's gotten too dependent on them. Send all the anti-phone shit you got. E.1I.,Wash.,D.C. Questions: 1-How can I get around paying a $50 installation deposit? 2-How can an extra line be installed? 3-Is it easy to get electrocuted if you have a phone in the bathtub and it falls in? 4-Credit card #'s of environment-destroy- ing companies(oil, chemical). You can only get a free extra line if you know someone in your local exchange who can pull it off. If you're daring, extend your neighbor's wires from where they connect into his house. If you are living in a college dorm or apt., ask a friend if you can use his/her line, & run a 2-conductor wire to your conference switch(issue no. 1). If you don't have any friends where you live, and you need an extra outgoing line, the junction box is a good access point to other lines. Usually, the lines all connect from out- side to the individual rooms in this box or mini-closet. The lines connect via 4-conductor cable, 2 conductors of which are used. The remaining two are cut off or wrapped around the cable in the box, and are present in the wall box in your room. Connect your spare pair to some straight's line, and in your room connect to a conference switch. When he goes to sleep at Il on the dot, you're free to call out on his number. Don't leave the box connected up that way all the time or someone might spot it on a check. We doubt a phone can electrocute you in a bathtub, but since they're not al- lowed to install a movable phone in a bathroom, take a tip and mount your phone somehow. When some readers send us a few tested numbers, we'll print them. And if any- one knows how to get away without paying the deposit, write us. t+ AM SWERS ++sIf you're well off, Surplus Center, Lincoln, Nebraska 68501 has phones, test sets(good for tapping) ,switchboards. Write for catalogs. I got my phone free. Phones for sale at Radio shack, Lafayette, Allied Radio, etc., aren't Western Electric or new looking, but they're OK. Next time you see a phone man talk awhile, then ask if you can set up an intercom with a phone that he'll "lose" from his truck. I got free a new decorator color phone. Most don't mind. -A reader : YIPL TIP- Go into a big pig hotel sometime if you need a phone. They have them in lobbies for calling within the building. If they're in a bad location, go up a few flights. They probably'11 have them in the hall near the elevator. Bring a knife or scissors, and a shopping bag. Although there are some cool phone repairmen around, many are to be feared. If you have a repair or installation visit, don't leave dope, non-Bell phones, or subversive literature just lying around, or he may report you to his super- visor for suspicion. That may result in a bust, through cooperation with the local precinct, or a tap on your line. This isn't paranoia, it's fucking good sense. Brothers and Sisters, Need your help on a special project for our news collective here in Houston...I am planning a documentary special on phone phreaking and related subjects and need as much info as is possible...Could you please send me what info you have and possibly the adresses of other Phone phreaks, and can you relay my intentions into the phone phreak network and if they can help me they can call me here at Pacifica 713- 224-4000, no collect calls please I'm poor as hell. But if they can call via phone phreaking network so I can tape interviews, demonstrations, and other such shit I would be eternally grate- ful....POWER! Scoop Sweeney,Arch fiend,pervert, degenerate, and sometimes newsman. KPFT,618 Prairie, Houston, Texas 77002 Church Withholds Phone Tax The congregation of Hollis Unitarian Church escalated its protest against American war policies yesterday by not paying the federal excise tax portion of the church's monthly telephone bill. “The war, and only the war, makes this tax Necessary,” said the chureh's minister, the Rev. F. Allen Wells Jr. “It has become, more than any other tax, symbolic of the war." WAR TAX RESISTANCE 339 Lafayette Street New York 10012 CAROLINA PLAIN DEALER RIPOFF TICK CREEK, NC (CMC)- American Telephone and Telegraph, one of the largest war contractors and oppressor of millions of employees is trying its hand at censorship of the underground press. Three staffers and one hawker of the CAROLINA PLAIN DEALER have been charged with “providing information for the theft of telecommunication service," a 6 month and/or $500 misdemeanor. The February PLAIN DEALER contained the commonly known information of how the telephone credit card system works. The bust is an attempt to intimidate the free Press and possibly to regain some of AT&T's billions lost on fake credit card calls. But they have lost even more by this attempted ripoff of the DEALER staff. They hired two full-time special security investigators who spent two months traveling around the Caro- linas tracking us dow. They followed and harrased hundreds of highschool and university students during their investigations. They have subpoened two witnesses: a young HS woman, and .a college student caught making credit card calls. Schools cooperated fully with the private pigs. People were dragged out of classes and questioned by the principal and the telephone pigs. The first attempt at a "trial" was postponed by the state because they have not been able to locate our printer. Thirty beautiful people from all over the Carolinas ignored the boring trial proceedings and picniced in the courthouse hall, sang and danced before the astonished pigs. The next trial date has not been set. We are gathering information to prove that some of their evidence is based on an illegal phonetap. It took the state and local pigs three months to fina us all. One of us spent three weeks in a woodland hideout while the $1000 bond was being secured. We live in rural North Carolina. One of the pigs that was visiting us while looking for the fugitives said "If you people don't break it up out here we're going to have to arrest you for cohabitation, fornication, and adultry." We wanted to tell him none of us were married. If convicted, the implications are not clear. AT&T may attempt busts of other newspapers in other areas. But they lose no matter what they do if we exploit the contradictions. (Now they have to prove in court that they have the right to charge for public service). The dis- trict telephone manager who signed the warrant is quoted as saying "We definitly see ourselves as the establishment." cai anywhere ... but dial with care HOW NOT TO GET CAUGHT MAKING FAKE CREDIT CARD CALLS Bell Telephone, subsidiery of AT&T with 1970 assets of $49.6 Billion, the world's big- gest pig corporation, is losing millions monthly on fake credit card calls. They are not taking it lightly. Their methods of attempted repression would make the FBI proud. Here's how they work it. First, the phone company sometimes makes the operator that took a fake credit call at- tempt to trace the caller. They tell her/him that they will take the cost of the call out of their salary if she doesn't try to find out who made the call. The operator will call the number that you placed the call to, attempting to track you down. Obviously only make credit card calls to people you trust not to reveal your identity. When an-operator calls you inquiring about a credit card call, have a story ready. If she (or he) sounds friendly, use a story like, "I only know their first name was George and he was calling from Boston, operator." If a nasty supervisor bitch calls, be nasty offensive. You don't have to give out any information. Usually they want to know whose name the number is listed under. Let them find out ‘the hard way. Sometimes they ask if your mother is home. Sometimes they guess who called and bill them by examining the past accounts of the person called to see who has called previously from the same city as the credit card call was made from. Some- . times they bill the number called. Sometimes they put it on the bill as a third party chafge or a collect call. REFUSE TO PAY. Keep track of the calls you actually do make and the credit card calls you receive (so you can refuse to pay them). If the operator gets a lead to who made the credit card call, she turns the name over to, the telephone security division. They have special security pigs that can spend their full time tracking us down. They will stop at nothing. They stakeout phone booths; don't always use the same location to call from. In some states they are allowed to tap your phone if there is a case of "defrauding the phone co." And of course they tap phones in all states whether they are allowed to or not. Their easist victims are highschool and university people. They investigate with the cooperation of the school pigs. In high schools they work with the principal. They call the suspected person into the office and give her/him the third degree, promising not to prosecute if they will tell the pigs everyone else mak- ing credit card calls. Divide and conquor it's called. At universities, the special telephone security pigs work in conjunction with the campus cops. They may follow you around and attempt to question you. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TELL THEM’ANYTHING! Refuse to talk without your lawyer present. Above all, do not sign anything. They try to get you to sign a confession just like in the movies. Don't be intimidated by these junior facists! Throw tomatoes at them; put sugar.in their gas tanks. All power to the imagination! The way we make credit card.calls is as important as knowing the system. Operators take many real credit card calls daily and know what the average call sounds like. The average caller is Mr. or Mrs. Pig Businessperson. They come on fast and usually have the number memorized. It sounds suspicious if you sounds suspicious if you sound like you are reading it off, or if you say, "841 dash 7767 dash 167N." The béginning numbers are a phone number and should be read as "841 7767" with the last part read as a single unit, 167N. A good opener is, "Operator, credit card call. My number is 893 4452 359J. The number I wish to call is 777-8787." Don't hesitate, memorize your credit card number, and have all the info handy. Do not call from your home phone. When making a credit card call, you do not have to give the operator the number you are calling from. If she asks, change the last digit or two. Operators usually only know the prefix you are calling from. She may say hold on, and call the number yeu give to see if it's busy. So if you call from a pay phone, which you should, give her the number of your pay phone, it's cool, The July 16 (issue 104) BERKELEY TRIBE has much more "good info on telephone procedures in ripoffs! BACK ISSUES cost 50 cents each. Think about’ it. No. l- Credit card code, installing conference lines and free extensions. No. 2-Thé Blue Box Story, dialogue with Abbie Hoffman and Russel Baker on Phones. No. 3-The Telecommand, and other shit. No. 4-Special Pay phone issue. . Confucious say; "Those who receive YIPL should have small mouth when on telephone." 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