TAP No. 18 - Outgoing Long Distance Call Stopper

THE YOUTH INTERNATIONAL PARTY LINE’ a special no. 18 may 1972 Dear YIPL, I dig what you're doing and it certainly comes out of hav- ing a “high level of consciousness''-so why not be that on all levels? ---and stop using the term "MA BELL". (ok, quit making that face and listen!) First, that term is just another way to lay Something negative on females-Mom, Momism, etc. (another dirty name, if you will) and second, we all know its an elite, white, male power group that rules and oppresses all of us =*so c'mon féllows, be really hip and together and change the term (radical women did at least 3 years ago) to “PA BELL"---cause you know there's not one women with any kind of power at AT&T! Keep on keepin on... -CC NY- Dear Brothers and.Sisters, Tam writing this letter in an effort to obtain your assis- tance in putting a stop to this neo-Nazi brainwashing START here at the U.S, Medical Center, Springfield, Mo. 8,T. A, R.T. (Special Treatment and Rehabilitation Training) bas been in operation since Sept. 1972, I have been here since Feb. , 1973 and I can hon- estly state that this"programt' is only punishment under the guise of treatment; I have personally seen fellow pri- Soners drugged and brutally beaten for having the courage to stand up as men. If you care to know more about 8. T. A.R.T. , please let me know. We need your help, in the following manner. 1) Write to Norman A. Carlson, Dir., U.S. Bureau of Prisons; 101 Indiana Ave. N.W., Wash., D.C. 20537 and ask him to either abolish 8, T. A. R.T. or make it voluntary. 2) Write to the U.S, Magistrate; U.S, District Court; Western District of Missouri; Spr- ingtield, Mo, 65801_and ask him to rule on behalf of the isoners who are Challenging this "program", We sin- cerely thank you in advance. Peace and Power, Note: -Inmate, Missouri-~ Call Norman Carlson at (202) 737-8200 ext. 2226 and talk to some surprisingly nice people about your concern. sex change issue AMMO The Carter Phone decision gave birth to the booming interconnect" industry, allowing manufactures other than -Western Electric to produce and sell phone equipment for connection to the phase system, and in place of otherwise high monthly rental rates for BELL equipment, Now, the Phone kompany is striking back! They're undercutting their rates for the equivalent independent equipment, and raising the rates upon which they have a monopoly, namely monthly service. This rate - juggling is being rubber Stamped by the public service‘commissions around the Kountry. That means that you pay more for your own phon to make up for losses PA BELL sustains strangling free enterprize... Donn Parker, computer scientist at the Stanford Research Institute has investigated one hundred computer-related crimes and "in almost every case there is some new aspect-something that hasn't occurred before. Computer criminals, he Said, tend to be "very young, very ‘bright and highly motivated" persons who see na wrong in attacking a large corporation. Their intelligence and mot- ivation, coupled with security techniques far behind the rest of the industry, leave large corporations facing poten- tially staggering losses of info, computer programs and valuable equipment. :. The University of Arizona Student Union took AT&T before the FCC, because of their refusal to lease a toll free WATS line'to them. WATS is designed, AT&T said for high-voliime commerical customers who find it cheaper to buy phone service at a flat rate rather than by the unit call, (English Translation-Quantity dis- counts for the biggies only, and screw everyone elsel)... Ringback for Madison step exchanges 255, 256 is 91911. 251 and 257 are ESS exchanges. Ringback is 978 plus 4 digits plus push switch-hook once and hang up... AT&T has no device to attach to residential phones to prevent unauth- orized long distance phone calls. "We frown upon such devices." When asked about the model they offer to large businesses, a Bell service rep said, "Yes we do have that, but cannot install it on Private lines," Ever felt like cutting down on the amount of long distance calls made from your Phone? One guess why the Phone Kompany has no such device for YOUI...A phreak in Wisconsin was-recently busted when a central office repairman'overheard"' multi- frequency _tones on the line. Just happened to be through... Tel Aviv (AP)-Two international telephone operators in Tel Aviv are looking for new jobs. Premier Golda Meir was on the overseas phone recently, talking with her ambassador to Washington, Yitzhak Rabin. ‘The conversation turned to an article in an American newspaper. "Which newspaper was it in?" Rabin asked, "In the Washington Post," came the unsolicted answer from an operator, one of two who Subsequently were fired for eavesdropping, . L, Patrick Gray, Director YIPL Dear Pat, By dialing (212) 797-8079, you can get a recording which will let you practice listening to Australian and Japanese telephone signals. -DICK- no MORE LONG DISTANCE CALLS! 01\0DE GREEN ‘This device will prevent outgoing long-distance calls on your telephone or phone line. It waS devised by a reader who discovered that the local phone office in his area reverses the polarity of the low-voltage for one second after a long-distance, or operator, or 211 call is dialed. Installing a diode, which does not permit current to flow through it in one direction, prevents this one-second reverse current from flowing and thus the phone acts as if it was hung up for that second. Thus you get a new dial tone. To see if it will work on vour line, try it. The diode, which should be at least 100 volts and 1 amp, will give you a dial tone if installed correctly, and will allow no sound at all if you put in backwards. In that case you should reverse the two wires. Hf you wire/ & switch across the diode, you can bypass it for special\ use, A magnetic reed switch in the phone can be used by placing a magnet near the switch for that critical one- second period after dialing the long-distance call. Then the magnet can be removed, UST THINK if people it mmole tbo t Tis inf Homes! (probed for ther Try me to Miami! enrife. lives) ‘Thin touch-tone keyboards with 12 buttons are made by Raytheon 12EF-20457 for $8.25. They can be obtained from Connector Concepts, Box 511, Port Washington, N.Y. 11050, Miniature capacitors, smaller than the Sprague 192P, are made by U.S. Capacitor. Most are available with NPO(zero capacitance change from -55 to ae. .) Address:2151 N. Lincoln St., Burbank, Ca. Many phreaks have expressed the interest in contacting other YIPL readers in their area. However, we won't just give out names to anyone who asks. There may be way, however, and that is for anyone who wants to meet other phreaks to write us, and we'll pair you up with an- other phreak who has written us, then we'll write the two of you and let you both know the other persons name and number or adress. If anyone has a better idea, let us know, and we'll announce next month how we're doing it. Im (BM! ATS fblic Fornary UST THINK if ALL THOSE WIRES: WENT INTO ONE. BUILDING ——— \AND YOU OWNED THE. BUILDING) J WE TRY HARDER By Abbie Hoffman Obviously one reason for publishing YIPL has to do with free speech. Free speech like in "why should anyone pay for talking" and Free speech like in "Why shouldn't any- one be allowed to print any kind of information they want: including how to rip off the phone company. As revealed in issue no. 14, the phone company is trying to build a case against YIPL. [t is also moving on other grounds, namely to convince legislators to pass laws prohibiting the publishing of this info. Many states, notably Califor- nia have already moved in this area. However, none of these laws has yet to be tested constitutionally, Neither YIPL nor Steal This Book nor any underground public- ation here has been prevented from publishing any info, namely because there are no New York laws making it illegal. Last year through the determined efforts of Gerald Schutzer ((212)394-4141)extension 3924) Legis- lative Representative for NYT&T, Assemblyman Robert F. Kelly (D) Brooklyn tried to railroad just such a bill into law. It passed the State Assembly and the Senate with little debate by overwhelming votes, however, Gov. Rockefeller (who uses a blue box) vetoed the bill. His reasons were basically First Amendment. "It does not appear desirable that conversation which might:be direc~ ted at theft of services be raised to the level of a crim- inal act per se". Persons in other states fighting similar statutes are advised to get the full text of the ruling. Write to: Executive Chamber, Albany, N, Y, Ask for Memorandum #170 filed with Assembly Bill #10564(6-4- Recently my closest friend had an unusual experience on the phone. He was talking to the receptionist at a major insurance company when a freak connection occured. AS clear as day they both found themselves listening to a conversation between two big narcotics dealers arranging for an exchange of a brown package containing raw heroin for $300, 000 in cash. The person with the heroin was to pull up to a midtown Manhattan newstand in a heavily Populated area at 10 minutes before 8:00 P,M, He was to leave the package on the newstand. Simultaneously _ the other party was to leave tte cash in a folded up newspaper on the same newstand. The car was clearly identified as was the place.To make it even heavier, one of the dudes discussed having to bump off two people the /—— night before. It was 4:30 P,M. My friend had 3 hours to come up with a plan. What would you have done? The n next 3 hours were jam-packed with excitement and he's currently working on a screenplay about the whole not-to- be-believed event. What happened will be in the next issue. Maybe. . [JUST THN ac iF AL aa mo ovt. nay umawe eee sc aS PRamIsnON PE ba ab Goecccas oostoog apoaccong o8000 50g As we said in the February issue, Pa Bell is making the operators question credit-carders to make the phreaks - hang up. So it's good to know the area code and company name, and of course the telephone number which is most always the first 7 digits of the credit card. And don't be Surprised to learn that they ask for your name, which can of course be faked. They have.the facility for out-of-town credit cards only as far as the area code is for the proper RAO code (the last 3 digits), and possibly the company’ name or number, The only purpose of the interrogation is to discour: and knowin: it ° thing is easier than ever. ages § that the whale ‘This month we salute the Bureau of Indian Affairs, who confines the original inhabitants of this country to rotten holes called reservations, not allowing the people the right to determine their own futures, while their land is being raped by corporations. The BIA, whose credit card number in Washington, D, C. is 343 1100 032 N (area code 202), and in Los Angeles (area code 213) is 688 2860 184N is partly to blame for the deaths at Wounded Knee, and @ continuing policy of Indian genocide, For credit calls back to the U.S, -Say to the International operator-This is an international credit card call. My credit card number is: 1-F (then repeat your number as usual). From Canada, Bermuda and the Caribbean, 1-F is not required. DEAR YIPL, T recently obtained a copy of the party line from a friend, and I am interested in recieving it myself. I think you're doing a great job if you can keep it up. Now for some info, to drive the Nashville info op's out of their gourds try this, dial 615 555 1212 after a few rings a hick operator witha drawl says "What city?" When you say Nashville she connects you With Nashville, thus you are going through one info op to get to another, here's where the fuh begins, Ask for WLAC-TV while she is looking that up whistle a Short burst of 2600HZ into the phone and the original op Starts ringing again while the nashville op is still on the line. This really blows their minds and yours because you are connected with the original op asking "what city?" You can do this forty or fifty times if your good. Other things to ask for are WSM radio, WLAC-FM, Ramada Inn, Hertz, etc. Here in the majority of the Bay State area the ring back codes are 670,890,780, and 960. Identificat- ion is 830, also the number to the Sari Jose communicators are 408 748 7777 and 7487740 also 408 Other communict- ors are 702 789 6711, 415 630 1212/ 707 482 4000,/ 213 842 9151/ 213 624 7171/ 714 238 3111/ 714 832 8282/ and 714 682 7771 other phun numbers that will get you in touch with most Cal switchboards are local prefix +0010/0015/ 0009/0012/0055, local loops here are prefixed +0044/0045 /0048/0049. For the BB crowd try this routing KP+011+ 0444ST then KP+182+ST , KP +044+834 4790:ST Hf you can't get an IOTC trunk use this route KP+182+ST/ KP+044+834 4799+ST both routings get you to the same place which is a pay phone in Victoria Station. in London, England. Note to all Chief Special Agents: Get Screwed! ‘The inflationary spiral is taking its toll around the world today, especially in the U.S. We blame greedy corporations, the prime example being AT&T. ‘With all the profits they are making, why are people borrowing more and saving less? Because, friends, our public utility, the phone company, does not use the profits to improve phone service. As you can see by the chart, more than 45% of your #14 brass washer pays for profit and expenses which are unnecessary in a true public service giving free local service to everyone(marketing, part of accounting, interest, and regressive taxation). Ina socialist economy, the phone company wouldn't have to advertise(marketing expenses), It doesn't have to now! There's no.competition! As far as taxation goes, a poor person pays the same amount of tax on a monthly basic charge as someone better off, even though the tax goes Straight to the government(and to the military waste). And local telephone service costs the phone company that same 45%1 Which means that a socialist economy would provide service improvements like this in the other so- called public utilities in this country. WHERE YOUR SLUG GOES. This is the first in a series of monthly articles exdrmn-* ining how telephone service may be improved, in both the short and the long range. Write us your ideas, BACK ISSUES-60¢ 1+ Extenstons, conference switehes 2- Blue Box Story and Abbie on ripoffs 3+ Telecommand Story 4- Pay Phone Issue S- Blue Box 1 Now obsolete & Blue Box 2 ‘7 ‘Tuning your organ Credit card calls and 1972 code [Super dupor projectiSee issue 11) [Receive tong distance calls Free 12-Bluo Box Plans 13-Intornational Calls 14-International Calls & AT&T Papers +18-1973 Credit Code, T Network 16-Red Box Plans 17-Red Box, Line Relay FACT SHEETS-25¢ ‘How not to get caught making credit calls Recolving long distance calls Freefissue 11) ANTI-BELL BUTTON- 50¢ 10/83.00 DESTRUCTORY ASSISTANCE- Free-Just send as much info as you want back in a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Renew if your address has 2 Zor less on it, ‘YIPL, Room 604, 152 W. 42.8t., N,Y.,N.¥, 10036 ‘Mailing address only, don't send cash, PLEASE! Dear YIPL- A "Diez Centavos" piece(translation: Ten Centavos) from Mexico, can be used as quarters in ALL pay Phones in the U.S. A Ten Centavo piece can be purcha- Sed at any bank in Mexico for 3/4 of a cent, or can be purchased in the U.S, at most coin exchanges for about 5¢. (Many banks are coin exchanges-Ed. ) -B.B, CAL, - YIPL, Re. #16, p. 3, lower right corner: Telco Info (free) San Francisco 415-630-1212 San Jose 408-748-7777 Sacramento 916-480-8000 Also Honolulu(not sure if free) 808-533-4426 This is not top secret but designed for Telco employees. Keep up good work, YIPL, On most older exchanges, you can get the phone to ring by dialing 660 then waiting for a whining sound, and only after you hear the whine, dial 6 and hang up. The phone will ring. . If you dial 660, wait for the whine, dial 7 instead of 6,& hang up, the phone will ring in 4 short bursts. Sounds very important, urgent, Keep up the good work. -M. 8. N.Y.- Dear YIPL, T called one of the loop nos. in Chicago, and the next afternoon a man from the tel. co. called and asked why I would call a test no. ,and where I got the no. I said that when I got home there was a written message to call that no, , and it was sloppily written and I must have not made it out right. The guy seemed satisfied. -B. E.- RENEW Tf you subscribed before issue no. 8 and don't renew im- mediately you won't get the next issue of YIPL. If you cannot afford the two bucks, write us and we'll renew you, And if you from time to time miss an issue, go to your Post office and fill out a form. When people start doing something the post office will stop censoring our mail. Published for informational purpeses only by The Youth International Party Line.