March 1, 1977 · TAP
TAP No. 43 - Report From England, Silver Box

A long letter from a UK reader compares British and American credit-card billing schemes and phone-network quirks, and closes with pointed commentary on British telecom monopoly practices and civil-liberties concerns, expressing enthusiasm for the Libertarian-leaning politics TAP had been running.
Report From
Merrie Olde England
‘There is very little Credit Card iraud.here, since some
years agonumbers corresponding to actual phone numbers
were abandoned. It used to be an amalgam of your number.
Now the number must fit into a secret matrix the operators
have. Thus fraud comes about only by people amalgamating
two or more numbers using bits of each to form a'yood"
one. If you are off by just one digit, they know immediately
and tell you so. All UK CC's start 44K which I think is
international ~ the
code, then a "year" letter. US
now is 1K, right? (1976). I have tried to figure out this
matrix number but to no avail. Here are some examples of
cards
that are billed to the same phone number. Do not use
or reveal them,
DELETED
but
if you
bave any budding genius who would
like to see if he can
devise the matrix, then
let him. I think it would
be far too
expensive to equip cach operator console with a computer
validation all at once, so this is probably the forthcoming
US system. Has anyone had any experience of any comeback
by security or anyone else as a result of making phony inter-
national calls using CCs¥
‘When making internationa! calls here, you call operator
(Dial 100) whn first checks te see that you are not on a pay
phone and possibly verify your mimber as busy, then she
calls the international operator and clicks off. International
then takes your number and calls
you back after setting up
the call. So if you are at a center remote to her, she cannot
verify your phone's status, If you had the # to call interna-
tional direct, you could do it from a pay phone safely and
have her think it is a domestic phone. If you had these #s
then, they could be rather useful; certainly here, possibly
in the US, too. /typical British understatemer
‘When using fake CCs, some people in UK go to a pay phone,
lift receiver (this gives you dial tone immediately here), dial
any digit and leave receiver off its rest. Then they go to
another pay phone, preferably some distance away but from
which they can see the first one. Make
the call, and when the
operator asks for your number (which they always do here),
give the number
of the other box. If they check, they get
‘busy tone - even if they check on their special interior phone
Circuits, they get the right condition; i,e., someone waiting
on the line. If the Feds come, you have a grandstand view
from a safe distance,
If the operator is going to call the Feds, she may:
1. Spend an abnormally long time putting you through.
2, Give you a ringing tone, the sort that never gets an-
Swered, to keep you there as long as possible.
‘Try #KPO44124680728T for a recorded description of
clap symptoms. The London (01) 246 xxxx exchange is the
equivalent of Big Apple's 999 exchange. Do you have any
interesting 999 #s? I only know Dial-a-Joke. If you have
1DDD then (4412468015 and 8017 are not souped. They
are only continental and US tones demo, tho,
When traveling from.
UK to Germany take plenty of
shillings - 5p. pieces (worth 8¢) work as 1DM (worth 50¢)
in German slot machines,
METER JUMPING
In order to avoid any breaking of seals or disturbing of
meters, as well as having a system that can be removed
immediately when the power man calls, some UK power
freaks do the following: Two neon screwdrivers are insert-
ed where wires run in and wiggled about until they light.
Copper wire on crocodile clips is run between them. The
methods
you have shown make getting caught
too easy.
I°ll be sending you what I have on computer crime.
PDP - 10 operator only commands would be very useful,
Please. I could send passwords, etc. but unless you had
CCITT vol. 24 {or 21, not sure) modems, it would be of
little use to you.
TAP
MAR-APRIL 1977
No. 43
THE SILVER BOX
The "Silver Box" referred to by one of your correspon-
dents is a 2280Hz tone interrupted at dial pulse speed “sig-
nalling system-ACI9), I imagine 2600Hz pulsing is used in
US in exactly the same way. I sent you articles on how.
SF generators are so much easier to build, it's a pity you've
not published more about them.
Here the problem is that for SF you need the secret inter-
nal P.O. trunk routings, which are completely different for
each
. So either you need your local operator as
a girl friend, or you randomly dial bleeps and ask people
their number and build up lists that way.
One question more: In UK about 50% of coin boxes (pay
phones) can be used to make IS
International Subscriber
Dialing - to the rest
of Europe. The boxes can't handle the
high metering rate to US. So if the machine would let you,
they would be free. How then does the automatic interna-
tional equipment validate and discriminate between pay phones
phones and domestic phones (which can call US direct)? I
thought the most likely answer is that the off hook resist-
ance of pay phones is different and can be measured auto-
matically. Ifso, would payphone or domestic phone resist-
ance be higher? I realize I'm talking about foreign equip-
ment but any thoughts you have would be appreciated.
You think Bell smelis, well the PO stinks to high heaven!
Calls over 30 miles f4ren't you metric yet?7 midmorning
are L2 (about $3.20) for ten mimutes. Also 200 bits/
minute Mlegible7 rental L 100 per anmm, weigh 20lbs,
and are based on 20 year old technology. All international
charges are at least twice to three times as much as other
countries. No "foreign" attachments allowed at all (except
answering machines). Complete and total monopoly on all
forms of communication - even modulated light and carrier
Pigeons. No CB, and to become a Ham you need to be a
fucking electronic genius, and then there are so many re~
Strictions, it isn't worth it, Celebrate your independence!
You're right about this being a Police State. You can't
even breathe without permission from our Communist
government, Police here can search anyone or any premises
on whom or in which they "suspect" drugs, which gives them
carte blanche.
‘The laws on currency exchange control are not even pub-
lished, You can't even find out what they are; you can only
get a "Yes" or "No" answer from the Treasury.
You're right; phones aren't everything. Thanks a million
for the Libertarian stuff. It's exactly what I'm into political-
ly. Until now I thought I was unique (I probably am, here),
There's only one thing a government should
do for its people,
only one social service, and that's to keep 'em free.
T'a very much like to get that printed circuit layout, How's
it coming? (See #41)
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Radio Shack are very good and deserve a plug from you
(plug=mention, in case of language barrier. Oscar Wilde:
"the English and the Americans are separated
by a common
language")
Would anyone wany a standard English phone in exchange
for 2??? I doubt it - they're grotty (nasty). I have Ameri-
can, Austrian, German, Swedish, and private system phones
in my collection. .
Have you ever gone on Holiday and thought of the true cost
of it? Not only is there the cost of your holiday accomoda-
tion, but the continued cost of your own home. For a Bri-
ton like me to come to the US, it is ludicrously expensive,
However, what
I have in mind is a swap, for, say, three
weeks next September. I have a very nice modern apart-
ment, two bedrooms, color TV, etc., 400 yards from the
Sea on the South coast near Brighton, which has every-
thing and is the place to holiday. I would
also like to swap
ears, if possible. Mine is a 3.5 Liter auto saloon, thoI
don't care what kind of car I get in return, Bomb throwing
anarchists are requested to leave their bombs behind, as
this is rather a conservative area. No more than three
people. I would like in return, for my girlfriend and myself,
anything similar in the Big Apple or somewhere relatively
near in NJ, or even fossibly Cleveland, OH or Montreal/
Toronto.
‘We'd have to negotiate about phones. Mine is permanent-
ly tapped - yes, I've made a lotta mistakes. You could
retune a BlueBox to SSMF2 and use the call box opposite
or credit cards to call the US.- /Tt's a GREAT idea, and if
anyone is interested, we'll forward your Jetters. We as-
sume NO responsibility,7
Enclosed are some photocopied articles from Undercur-
rents. They're a bit intellectual and heavy and have tended
to
reject Fone Fucking as not being "respectable" and what
AT (Alternate Technology) is all about, TAP readers may
be interested in subscribing. YES! Undercurrents, 11
Shadwell, Uley, Dursley, Gloucestershire, England is
$7. 50 for 6 bimonthly issues, and don't ask for it for free,
‘Things are rough enough over there. It is GREAT! The
best thing to come out of England since...ah... maybe the
best thing ever to come out of England. It's what TAP
could be like if we had enough people. Maybe we should
just send them our entire files, and retire.7
‘Thanks for the Esquirearticle. The article gives the
impression that the typical freak is a blind, spaced-out,
Jewish homosexual. Another.impression is that there is
a hard core of super-techno-freaks who know everything
there is to know, and who, quite rightly haven't publicized
it - like you wouldn't want everyone to know how to bring
Bell to its knees,
There is the same cadre here. Duncan Campbell is the
most famous, a veteran from the trial some three years
ago which made the PO look like a bunch of dummies,
(which they are, of course), He's tied in with Undercur- _
rents, for whom many of the other freaks work. They are
also interlinked with B,I.T, - whom you know about.
SIT Alternative Information Exchange and Energy Center,
146 Great Western Road, London WII, England
7
‘The rest are a few mavericks working on their own - mostly
PO operators with access to the AC9 translation codes,
which are kept in a special safe at each exchange, and which,
of course, are unique for each exchange.
Kilgore Trout mentions in #37 the boxes the military use,
with the five extra buttons used presumably for different
levels of priority and for interception and possibly for
"seizing" and rerouting of calls in progress. Lemond and
Fry say in No Place to Hide "... the bluebox could also have
been used to intercept
a phone call-in progress," They do
not explain this... Any ideas?
Here is CCITT #5. Note the remarkable similarity to
your own, with the addition of Ul and 12, all possible permu-
tations of frequencies are used. Add one extra frequency
and you get six more possibilities,
All MF systems - SSMF2 (Western Europe's up and com-
ing system) Touch Tone frequencies, etc. follow the same
pattern; when they need five extra numbers, they add one
frequency spaced up the "same distance". from the others.
2100Hz we know is used to make satellite circuits possible
for data traffic, 2100 is "disable echo suppressors". That
makes @ neat gap between 1700 and 2100 ~ to wit: 1900Hz,
our magic Open Sesame frequencies. Your mission, shoul
should you decide to accept it, is to test 700 & 1900, 900 &
1900, 1100 & 1800, 1300 & 1900, 1500 & 1900, and perhaps
even 1700 & 1900 (since 1700 is used as a control frequency
anyway, used with our special control frequencies 1900
might be a super special control #).
Where you insert these numbers, I don't know. Before
KP, in conjunction with KP2, using two of these special #s
to unlock the system, this is anybody's guess. Best to
Bractive calling a phone # you know to be busy with conver-
sation or music on the line. If you hit it, Whoopie!
Sorry to close on a down note: The world is coming to an
end, or very near it, beginning 1982, through to 1984 =
nuclear war, all of America's seaboard cities and all of
Europe destroyed. Both chemical and biological warfare,
total economic chaos and starvation. No, I'm not a Jehovah's
Witness or a headcase. It's all there, in the heavens, Ask
any astrologist, or any futurologist, or Bowie"We got five
years", or anyone. I suggest an Alaskan igloo and two years'
‘supply of everything.
Depravo the Rat
England is a bit further down the road to collapse than
the US. I could list dozens of my favorite books about dis-
aster, but will-settle for these: Asimov's Foundation
trilogy, John Christopher's No Blade of Grass, Pat Frank's
Alas, Babylon, E,T, Tennyson's The Time of The End.
"The Earth has become a rotten egg, held together with too
many technological Band-Aids, and unless the vast majority
of people vocalizes and expresses opposition and repulsion
to the vulture-like desecration of the planet, then they will
become the cannibal rabble of Soylent Green, and the para-
noid powerless of 1984." Chris Barry in The
‘After I saw the classic map of fallout patterns,-I figured
on retreating to the Siskiyou region (CA-OR border), but
the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is in the vicinity. Buried
there are more than 75 million gallons of radioactive
wastes, which may be dangerous for up to 500, 000years,
in tanks which may last only 25 years, Some are already
And then there's Geophysical Warfare, described in the .
December Saga magazine. "Science-fiction weapons"
like the "Stoneburner” of Dune and "green lights" of Day
of the Triffids actually exist, in the form of laser weapons.
And then there are ones we don't even know about] So I
may follow Dr. Asimov's advice: Eat, Drink, #2 Be
ALIEN PORN ©
TV pirecy is happening
ina
mail way in the South
of
France,
One vi
now has its own
the weekly unofficial spot in
cludes the mayor's account of
the past week plus odd focal
‘gossip. But at least the local
stgnel into the TV transmitter
‘with their own programme —
recorded
on a videotape, and
played
back through @ tow
Power transmitter
close to
the receiving
aerial of the
Lesevew transmitter. Because
the
station normally acts ax @
local relay for the mein trans-
imitter many miles away, any
Jes) on a British local
‘TV relay transmitter
‘group transmitting
on the
same frequency
0s the mein
‘transmitter
have got them-
‘Selves a pleesingly powerful
‘broadcasting station. Since
you are much closer to the
‘receiver,
you don’t need to
use very much power. And
you're guarenteed a big,
‘attentive audlence glued to
thelr boxes!
Radio One Hijack
AN AMAZING
hfuek of BUC Radio took place over the whale of
South Eng rece. ipm
on April Ist Radio I lsteoers
tetcilt
wat utaihed oe
evarywhee
Sona Feet opeding rears dowd ine tal of a
{owed madistey by a
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into
of Tae Wes cas it Su
igus 1s the faraiflar coffee-tableeock-
‘Mot gave way to bizare anthotogy of tanned records, esoteric
aubversie
mous and
comment
Far 35 mings te go folk of the South Const head» demons.
lon of uninhibited
free rei in sereo.
A apo?
troadoast from the Metiation Sosrd warned the fearful populace
that
fed their
the night.” That
‘wu followed
by a binond 10ce track edvocating
degrees of intima
{odreamt of fn Broadcasting
Hours... and e Gutibe by “thew”
‘Ghairmas
of the
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pot» thowsind metres
Crystal Palace Jam
SPOILSPORT RADIO jemmens sre
2 nightly
same of cate
playicg
2d mouse with Post Office engincers in the streets of South Londoa,
| And as BRC offal: receivers
‘With thelr transmitters hidden in the boots of cars and the backs of
(Sevcry portlcula about the wort
tans the Jammers ave waging electronic guerilla warfere agains! the
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patformance,
‘After the midnight news and
‘weather forecast ia the wee small
bbours
of April 2nd drowsy Radios
Land 2 listeners were treated to
‘an unusual announcement, In the
sseeetest possible way the pre-
‘sentation Lady apotzised 10
listeners in Southern England whe
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‘noble trnamittere which would otherwisa be Iimlied to a rangp of
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of tw jammen,
and were
‘whom are themselves Ueenced
comevtat
dio hams, regard is ascheating.
"The ergialjamaning campaign
‘They say azateut broadcasters
was intended
to get GBSLO losed
should overcome
the problem of
dawn which tertualy scored
ange by using their ingecuity
4 doting for 2 moatha
in 1975.
instead of hitching ride om
‘Recently,
thongh, it has became a
GB3LO, and for the lst J years
(pretext for ritual uggro between
cnginecrs
were
wrestling
manfully
ffom the 1oW mast
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and the Post Office
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breaking out all over. Uo
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the fact Ut every night the BBC
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quality but it was
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installing high quality Lanchines to
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fines rather lager han £12.
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the private lives of
Fost Office engineers.
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to crush this violation
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POST SCRIPT
‘Things are really getting heavy over here. Duncan Camp-
bell - the guy most responsible for UCT and the single most
knowledgeable source in the UK has been busted and held
without bail under Official Secrets charges {i.e. in no other
countries, except Red ones, would it be an offence). I don't
know but I think he's been framed/set up by a special branch
for revealing innocuous info about gov't communications HQ.
monitoring of all international phone calls.
"More arrests are expected..." so everyone is going to
have to go to ground, since anyone DC communicated such
info to is also lable for two years inside. Hence I expect to
see most of the Undercurrents crew, possibly B.I. T. etc
hassled at least. It would be a nice touch to dedicate an
issue to DC and Mark Hosenball, the latter now being deported.
Consider it dedicated7 It's worth a thought that perhaps
80% of what TAP prints couldn't be printed here without
making yourself liable to O.S. Act charges.
Our P.O. trained receptionist tells me the following.
Normally when someone comes in on the board, on auto
boards anyway, she has no was of knowing where the call is
coming from on that exchange. So if the caller places a
call and gives a wrong own number, the P.O. pays. To
guard against this, she "TKOs" onto the number she is
given via another line (Not quite true. The positions that
are told to TKC each and every call rotate.) If she hears
the sound of the exchange coming back to her, she knows
it's ok. If she gets nothing, she then checks out the # with
the # clerk who tells her if the # given is part of
a business
multi-line setup or not. if it isn't, she knows it's an in-
valid call - because on a single line she'd have been able to
TKO on it.
‘On a business # say 999-3010 with 10 lines, depending on
the traffic on the private board the call giving the #999-3010
could be on any line 3010-9 inclusive, so the operator can't
check. Moral of story: if you want to make free operator
connected calls, give a # that is a business with a large
PMBX or PABX on your exchange.
DR
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[NUPE official at Walton losptta)
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to convince
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The third part will be a subject list, sorted alphabetically.
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HELP TELCO!
According to Southern New England Telephone's
‘Telephone News, "If you know of Someone who's been
shoplifting phone service, report the person to our
security office. Call collect to (203) 771-2134. We'll
take it from there.”
So... if someone like your boss, or high school
principal, or nosy neighbor, or anyone else gives you
a hard time about anything, or if someone gives you a
bad check (see Bullshit!), and you suspect they may be
cheating The Phone Company, be sure to notify Telco.
Should be good for a lot of laffs,
BULLSHIT! PART
2
by TOM EDISON
Tf you think my edtorial in the December issue of TAP
entitled "When The Shit Hits The Fan" was too rough on our
readers, then you'll really shit in your pants when you read
these new policy changes! Ordinarily, the rubber checks that
some of you cheap bastards dre sending us would be bad enough,
but our bank has a handling charge that they pass along to us,
So in addition to being ripped off on merchandise and postage
(not to mention Elmer's’Glue-All!}, we're also forced to pay
for your rubber check processing! When you start biting the
hand that feeds you, it's time to revise our own "systems &
practices".
immediately: When we get notified that
your rubber check has bounced, we will send you a little note
"politely" informing you of your "oversight". If at that time
you decide that you do not want the ordered merchandise, all
we ask is that you reimburse us for the check handling cost
charged us by our bank. I think that this is fair and reasonable.
If we do not hear from you within a reasonable amount of time,
we will assume that you intentionally wanted to rip us off. We
will then repay your "kindness" by giving your name and
address to Bell Security, the FBI, the CIA, the IRS, the Post
Office, the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and any
other appropriate government investigatory agency. This will
ultimately result in many “fun filled" years ahead trying to
clear your "good " name and reputation. All for a lousy $4.
An eye for an eye!
Please remember that for immediate processing of your
order you must send either a money order or a cashier's
cbeck. All personal checks MUST clear your bank before we
process your order, This could possibly cause your sub to
start several months after we get your personal check, so if
you do not want this delay, please send either a money order
or a cashier's check.
T've received many recent requests for ringback, loop, and
verification numbers for various cities. We have some but
I'd like a hell of
a lot more. You can help by sending me a
st of all ringback, loop, and verification numbers for your
area, I will compile a listing alphabetically by city and print
up a table of numbers when I get a sufficient amount to warrant
it, Let's get off your respective asses and send in this requested
information. You can never tell when YOU might need some
specific info. I hope that
I get better reader response on this
than I did when I requested readers to send me their off-hook
ling current. Only 23 readers responded! Priddy Piss Poor!
Dear TAP Folks
Re Xerox access keys: if you use a legit key, but make
only one copy at
a time end pull the key out after you push
the "make copy" button, the counter in the key doesn't
increment - altho the machine counter still does. This
works on a Xerox 3100; I don't know about others.
Clance
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“BEAT THE SYSTEM WITH THE SYSTEM™
Millions of TV watchers at 5 pan. February
8 heard Jana Fonda
laughingly explain how techno-subversion has been carried to the
level of absurdity, os hard=to=track=down middle=class white-mnales
outwit the telephone company. “While you ate being worried about
being caught in petty theft, the big boys practice bribery on a multi
national scale, crime in the suites to match crime In the streets."
‘The Privacy Commission will report by end of June...Telephone
co has new $23,000 box to Invade our privacy; Libertarians, unite
to throw off these chains!....A new book, The Science of Electronic
Survelllance, (35 from AASD, P.O.Box 3154,
rand
Oaks,
‘STIS9, describes the bewildering varlety
of electronic Invasion &
countermeasures, the vast majority of police & national security
wiretaps not covered by any wiretap legislation. o MUST book with
reference bibliography & glossary. ..MAGNETIC REVOLUTION
tactics might take advantage of Fact thot o permanent magnet, re~
quiring no extemal power source, con Instentaneously erase the
magnetic computerized records of a business, bank or govt agency.
No technical countermeasure discovered yet according to Dept. of
Commeres Technical Note #735(July 1972). But magnetle field
detectors installed at entry doorways to computer centers....New
product ads In new magazines Secutinews, 210 Lyndhurst Road,
Lyndhurst, Johannesburg 2001, South Africa ,bimonthly, covers
broad range of security subjects unique In South Africa.....Use of
Subliminal Techniques rumored used In movie The Exercist in
coming book Remote Control to be published by Quadrangle/New
York Times.....A new system of “explosives tagging" based
on tiny
grains of phosphors encapsulated in polyethylene plostle claimed to
code explosives & provide almost any data desired. ....Research
studies Initicted by Natlonal Institute of Law En forcement and
Criminal Justice fs researching Innovative approtches & concepts
In crchitectural design & organizotion In Portland, Ore...
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