TAP No. 11 - Black Box

SPECIAL CONVENTION ISSUE? YOUTH INTERNATIONAL PARTY LINE | | The World's First Phone Phreak Con- vention is being held on July 11- 15, in Miami Beach! The Celebration of Change will include, in addition, teach-ins on telephones, contests, meetings with nationally-known phone phreaks. Plus the unveiling of new devices never yet revealed. Courses are going to be held on Phone Pol- itics,Phone ripoffs, establishment ripoffs, and peoples technology. If you want to help or teach a class, write us immediately and in- clude your phone no. At the same time there will be other events too, such as antiwar demos, women's rights, health care, anti- smack information and actions, and many other happenings. Get in touch with YIP in Miami for these if you want to be involved. The Convention and the Celebration of Change will be an incredible learning scene and you should start telling everyone you know to be there. If you are a budding phone phreak, you.'11 learn how a phone works, and how to make it work for you. Or come down for the pot parade to legalize Mari- - juana, but COME DOWN, AND BRING YOUR FRIENDS. Put signs in freak stores and post notices in schools-MIAMI BEACH- JULY 11-15, There'll be food, sun and fun. WRITE To: JUNE-JULY 1972 LETTERS Gentlemen: I am including the name of the Company that can provide those interested with all types of telephone devices as well as info. They also have two correspon- dence courses that I believe are the best (only) of their kind.One is a telephone engineering course-how to make your own clandestine devices. The second is a "spy" course. You §& your readers will flip over their catalog. Cost is $1 deductable from any purchase-anhd well worth it. Don Britton Enterprise,P.0O.Drawer G, Waikiki,Hawaii 96815. -G.B. Readers have written for info on the Peoples Yellow Pages. We're making a list of the PYP's all over the coun- try, so if you know one in your area, send us the address and whether or not they're doing more of the same. New York PYP is at N.Y. Switchboard, 134 w. 4 St.,NYC 10012. For more on telephone groups working for changing the Bell System, the Source Catalog #1 has many groups listed, such'as Womens groups,U.S. Govt. inspecting phones, Grass Roots, etc. Write to Source at Box 21066, Washington,D.C. 20009. YIP, R0om 2Ol 1674 MERIDIAN AVE MIAN) BEACH PHONE 305-531-8845 RECEIVE FREE LONG-DISTANCE CALLS! Now you can receive calls at no charge to the caller,and anyone, even a child, can convert their phone to do this in less than 30 minutes. You only need two parts: A "single pole,single throw toggle switch" and a "10,000 ohm, 1/2 watt, 10% resistor" .Hardware stores carry switches with two wires already on them, and these are convenient to use. The resistor can be bought for 20¢ at a radio-tv supply or electronic hobbyist store, such as Lafayette Radio. If you can't find a switch with wires already on it, get oné with screw terminals so you can easily attacn on wires. Cut two pieces of wire at least 6 inches long. Strip off the insulation 1/2 inch from each end. Attach one wire to each of the two switch screws, and you now have a switch with two 6 inch wires connected. Turn your normal _djal phone upside down and unscrew the two screws, and remove the case. You wi now see a small metal box with 16 screws on top and wires connected to them. Locate the screw marked "F" using our diagram and loosen it. Wrap one of the resistor wires around it and tighten the screw. Loosen the "RR" screw and remove the green wire. Then wrap the other resistor wire around the "RR" screw along with one of the switch wires. Tighten the "RR" screw and be sure the wires only touch the proper terminals and no others. Finally,wrap the remaining switch wire around the green wire you just removed and wrap the two up tightly in scotch or electrical tape. Close up the phone, running the switch wires out the side or rear of ‘the case. Hang up receiver and get a piece of tape and a pen. Pick up the phone and flip switch to the position that gives you a dial tone. Using tape, mark this position of the switch "Normal". Now flip the switch to the other pos- ition and the dial tone should stop. Mark this position of the switch "Free". If you don't get it to work right, check your wiring for a break or a wire touching a nearby screw inside the phone. Leave the switch "Normal" for everyday use. When your frieuds call, quickly 1ift and drop receiver as fast as you can. This is very important that you do it quickly. This should stop the rings. If not,do it again. Then switch to "Free’,pick up the phone and talk. Keep all calls as short as you can, always less than 15 minutes. At end of call, hang up, then switch to "Normal". If the call is local, switch to "Normal" immediately or you may be cut off. Your friend can call right back, so the shorter the call the better it is. TOWARDS REAR OF PHONE HOW IT WORKS . When you call someone long distance, you are billed from the moment they _ answer. The phone company knows you answer when a certain amount of electric current flows through the phone. However, the resistor cuts down the amount of current below the point of billing,yet lets enough go by to operate the mouthpiece. Inside the phone, connected across the F and RR terminals, is a capacitor, a device which allows more volume for your voice without using any more electric current. . . Answering the phone normally for a fraction of a_ second stops the rings, but does not let enough current flow to start the billing. If you answer normally for even one full second, however, billing will start. Therefore, hanging up and switching to free will cut you off. To render the device ineffective, the phone company would have to spend billions of dollars and nany years of changing the country's phone systems. Using this device is illegal in some places, and we strongly urge you to inspect all phones you see for the device. If you see it, rip it out and eat it immediately. By the way, you cannot use an ext....10n phone during a free call unless it too is modified and the switch is in "Free". YIPL is $2 for a year's issues, if you TECHNICAL DATA as¢exe can afford it. If you can, send stamps ~3Lvue Sox INFO + TONING or bread to pay for those who can't,§ —CREDIT CARD CALLS turn someone on to YIPL today! This article is essentially the same as published in Ramparts, who has been suppressed by the Phone Company. Ramparts has taken apart the State Dept.,the Defense Dept. and the whole fucking government and no hassles but the article about the phone company and POW! Which is why YIPL exists, to get the vital information to the people if there's no other way to get it to them. You supply the information, and you get more back. Send us ideas, tell your friends to write to us, and get phone <o. people to get in touch with us. See 'ya in Miami, phreaks! Stay tuned for the Rip-Off Institute! LETTERS High- If you come across a pay phone minus the cash box(large gaping hole in front) put hand in hole find small square hole in top rear of large hole. Insert your good finger(you know which one)in the hole and feel for button(feels familiar,right- like Deja Vu). Push it and any bread up in the machine will be liberated thru hole. There's more than one way to fuck the phone co. It's a great way to get some bread. Bye. B.L.,Pearl River,N.Y. Dear YIPL, Here is a tip for people who are going across country. Take along phone numbers on both coasts that won't. answer. Whenever you stop near a pay phone tell the operator you want to call the further away of the numbers, and put the coins in the phone. After she returns the money, insist that it didn't come back. Give her the address that you're going to, and when you get there you'll have a lot of refunds waiting. I also think its a good idea to dial operator whenever you're near a pay phone and say that you lost a dime and already made the call, so would they send you the dime. Then select a name at random for them to send it to from the phone book. -Bill BOYCOTT WAR PRODUCTS The following products represent the consumer lines of companies now making bombs,guns, or automated warfare systems for use in Southeast Asia. These products, curiously enough, are in many cases a rip-off to American consumers as well. kefuse to buy them, and urge your frinds and relatives to do the same. Tell store managers why you're doing it, also. General Electric appliances,Hot Point Refrigerators,Stouffer foods and Restaurants,Royal Typewriters, Wilson sporting goods,meats and food products, Four Seasons and Niagara carpet,Remington Rand machines and Remington shavers and appliances,Bostitch staplers,Talon zippers ,Gorham silverware,Eaton paper and desk accesories,Spiedel jewelry and watchbands, Shaeffer pens,Skip writing fluid, Amana appliances,Caloric appliances, Paul Revere life insurance,Carte Blanche credit cards,Moffats appliances, Avco Embassy Pictures and records,Avis,Sheraton hotels,Wonder products, Hostess products,Morton frozen foods,Westinghouse appliances,Ford cars, Philco appliances,Autolite car parts,GM cars, Frigidaire appliances ,AC spark plugs. (Thanks to National action/research on the Military Indus- trial Complex). Published for informational purposes only byThe Youth International Party Line. SUPPORT CAPTAIN CRUNCH | As some of you might know from a recent Rolling Stone article, the fees, Please contribute what you can, FBI and the phone co. has arrested It might be you next. If you learn of the supposed Cap'n Crunch of Blue people needing support of this kind, Box fame for allegedly making a write to YIPL at once with details. few Box calls. We are now setting Make checks to Cap'n Crunch Defense up the Cap'n Crunch Defense Fund, Fund,c/o YIPL. This is needed to for the benefit of such obviously show our solidarity against facist political telephone busts. The Ma Bell, so do it today. We will money will go for support of those try to have a statement by Cap'n in harrased and busted for phone co. the next issue. specials, and for legal and bail Published for informational purposes only by Youth Hot Line Reports, Inc. Address all mail and checks to : TAP, 152 W. 42 ST, ROOM 418, NY 10036