TAP No. 70 - Freebasing Cocaine

Naked came the crook ‘Arne man wto came tn from the cold to rab a gas tation earty yesterday bad a Geeided advantage, police anid. The attendant ys female. She fad, leeving the ngrried man free to empty the cash register, then stroll cansally from the scene of the crime. FREEBASING COCAINE by Dr. Atomic Freebasing cocaine is basically a California phenomenon, but it's'a practice that is popular swith entertainers and with others who can afford te indulge in the pleasures of cocaine. Freebase cocaine is smoked in a special, glass water pipe called a freebase pipe, and after taking a toke the onset of the high is quick: it comes on faster than snorting and almost as quick as an i.v. injec- tion <- it's like injecting cocaine without using a needle, After inhaling the freebase cocaine va~ pors, your hearing drops, and you get an incredible rush even before enough time passes to exhale the smoke. Unfortunately, the rush and the high don't ast long, and the desire to smoke some more coke 4s compulsive, In fact, it is so compulsive that people who hang around the freebase pipe, impa- tiently waiting to get another toke, are known in the vernacular as "freebase vultures". But before .the cocaine can be smoked, it must first be pre- pared. The cocaine purchased on the street is usu- ally cocaine hydrochloride (HCl), a water soluble salt of cocaine that is suitable for snorting or injecting, but not for smoking, Cocaine HCl burns at'a high temperature, about 200°C, and if it's amoked, much of the cocaine gets carbonized, burned up, instead of reaching your lungi by changing the cocaine HCl to coc: you get more of the desired cocain carbon because the freebase vaporizes a ,@r temperature than the cocaine HCl doe: All it takes to change the cocaine HCl into cocaine freebase is a little home chemistry. It's easy: if you can bake brownies by following a cook book, you can freebase coke. ‘The only supplies needed are some inexpensive chemicals and equipment that are easily obtainable at your local parapher- nalia shop. pment 1 freebase water pipe, glass 2 screens, fine mesh, for pipe 1 glass freebase vial, 1 oz, with top? 1 mirror 1 single edge razor blade * 1 box baking soda 1 bottle of petroleum ether or ethyl ether? 1 book matches or butane lighter NOTE 1: kthyl ether and petroleum ether will dis- solve many plastics, so the tops of freebase vials ‘are specially made of ether resistant plastic. .NOTE 2: Use caution when handling ether. The pors of both ethyl ether and petroleum ether will ignite explosively near an open flame. Make sure t the room is well ventilated when extractii with ether. When freebasing in the kitchen, mal sure the pilot lights e cut on the stove and the hot water heater if they are nearby, Also, don't gnoke or Light matches while there are atiil funes in the air, The Freebase Process 1) To a 1 oz glass freebase vial, add 4mi to 6m) of warm water, Lesa than 1/4 of the vial is more than sufficient water. 2) Dissolve 1/4 to 1/2 gram of cocaine HCl in the water to make a cocaine solution, Shake or stir if necessary to dissolve the cocaine, 3) Add about 1/4 gram, more or less, of baking soda to the cocaine HCl solution, It is better to have an excess of baking soda than not enough. Next, shake 11, This changes the cocaine HCl to the freebase, eyedropper, add 2ml to 3ml of 1, The ether extracts the free- base cocaine from the water layer. As a rule of thumb, use half aa mich ether as water. Since ether and water do not form a solution, the ether will. rise to the top and form a distinct layer. -TAP — Room 603 A 147 W. 42 St. New York 10036 No. 70 = 1s wo 4 YY %, —— Ether layer g in 3 Water layer OTe Because the cocaine freebase is more soluble in ether than in water, the ether layer will contain most of the freebase; in effect, the ether has ex- itracted the freebase cocaine from the water layer, ‘This first ether extraction is known as the “first wash". The water layer can be washed one or two more times with ether to extract the small amount of freebase remaining after the first wash. 5)__ Siphon off the cther layer with the eyedropper, making sure not to take any of the water layer, Drop the freebase saturated ether carefully onto a clean mirror or glasa surface, When the ether evaporates, a white powder should remain: this is the cocaine freebase, and it's ready to smoke. So what are you waiting for? : The freebasing process removes some of the water soluble contaminants (cuts) like mannitol and lactose, so the yeild, i.e. the weight of the co- caine freebase obtained will weigh less than the cut-coke that was started with; however, no sig- nificant amount of cocaine is lost; only the cut is removed. ‘Thus, a gram of cocaine HCl that is only 25% pure is not a gram of cocaine’ but a 1/4 gram of cocaine, and the yeild of freebase cocaine, for this particular sample, will be slightly less than 1/4 gram. The cocaine freebase, however, is compared to the starting material, dose of the freebase will be just as potent an a. larger amount of the cut cocaine. So, start with @ small hit, a match size line or less (20mg to 50mg). Remember, just like snorting or injecting, you can consume too much by smoking. Se careful” | how much you smoke, and be careful, too, for pplice end informers: cocaine is still illegal, Have fun yith your chemistry projects, stay high, and stay ree. Man nabbed in phone fraud EAST BRUNSWICK — A man vin Ne MEK — Aman win Key Jey Bel Telephone On. pala flocer bas been arrested on Inesigator James Witanck of the from thease ofa“thoobex,” phone company’s security division tn a guises he sae of a catzenlatoe hat Newark, sd’ the Investigation had ‘emis elecionie signals tht bypames been in progres for several roths, enter Sin eg mapa Tartesbwar Sigh, $0 of 16 1-wr Ciswdapaent tong Range, Place is was fred oo hit own resogn “ye samen moons Kong, seis pehle porns Bante aha Pena 7p glee conlsated a cchecnatic despa ina pe poe igh a Rote 18 earnest ye BSE fattest, Donat pam Sen o Sigh by an acqualataney ees Sees ben © bee ooo work a eee een pape ane Calling his buff quater ime ee was chiheson L TO PHONE LINE #Z (OUT GOING) DO IT YOURSELF CALL, FORWARDING DEVICE TO "AAME CALLER” DIALING CONTACTS Jail phone line busy DEZAND, Fla. — A defendant usually gets to mate one tree phone Call but fora few imate tx Vala County Ja at . _apperently waar’ enough, Using coin-operated telephones ln the jal, at least siz inmates made $32,000 worth of (legal calls, eccording to ~ASsstunt ae Auoroty Horaceih The mates charg te redit cards or to telephone numbers of unsuspecting citizens in this central Floris city, be said. Three inmates have 1s Soc, g oe % o = > = ° swib OTe Dear TAP: To_ 110 vag In response to several pleas trom your pub, enclosed is some techninal dara on the Pacific Telephones in Pasadena. On Hooks 45 VNC Off Hook: 7.5 VNC @ 60 wa Phone input res: 200 ohms Ring: aprox 50 VAC (My cheap fmilti-meter dosen't read AC mils) Ti (mic button) res: 600 obns V3 (ear piece) res: 20 ohms (leads feeding earpiece show 80 ohms i across them) Ringer coil res: aprox 3Kohms, only one coil. Ring Back @ 6105-6: _ (Prefix)-1-(Prefix) gets a weird “ticky-tock” ‘sounds (Prefix)-0002 gets a nice 1000 cps tones (Prefix)-1118 gets a real loud tones (Prefix)-0000 gets a central office Tecordinr, which_includes the unlisted phone number for the office (in this case 576-6119)s What was suppos. to be the verifying munber (Prefix)-1111, gets the t in service” recordings (Prefix)-0003 pets the referal onerator: (Prefix)-0119 is a private party's home fones “1'm tryina, to come up with a design for a “Dial through Cheese Box” enrt uf a gimick, but the best I've been able to come up with is enclosed, but it's not what I want. I could do it if we had T-T phone hereabouts, but we're stuck with impulse dials. Drat. Any ideas? DO-IT-YOURSELF CALL FORWARDING DEVICE MATERIALS» Cl= 1,0mfd4 2 400 vnc" Rul= 4P.PT Relay, 115 vac cbil Tl=* audio isolarion xmformer, ‘aprox 600 ohms imped, 100 to 200 ohms DC Res. Mi= Timer Motor, 115 VAC 60 CPS SWla= First section of timer switch, set for aprox 3 min closed, 10 sec. open (due to circuit configuration, timer will self-index to “onen" position of this switch). SWlb= Second section of timer switch, set for minim possible duration “on”, Indexed to close after SWla has come out of detent. This 1s the critical factor in choosing the tyne of timer, “an" duration must be less than time required for “name caller" to finish dialing. ADDITIONAL ITEM REQUIRED, BUT NOT SHOWN: 1, ea, battery powered “Name Caller” dialing machine or equiv. NOTE: Over-ride disconnect switch (Tone Sens, Relay?) may be connected at point x-x. ‘been found guilty of charges in connection with the telephone case, and thres others are awaiting trial, Smith sald. 1 ca TO "NAME CALLER" START SWITCIT ‘Michtgan Beil Telephone Co. the glant corporat tatita,. Seale es actly a separate line forthe kids! Geta car phone! Gives phar (0 a poor person! And, do invest in ont of those recording devices oo you wl never, neve a a cal even rong ‘umber. Bch never miss collecting forthe call We wl alive Baplly evr afer memre advertising. thave oo argument with t. [would rather write than phone, or receive ateter than a cal, Written words are to me. Spoken words tranmuitied ty electronls. tury be special to other people, The absurdity that ‘otriguism is wot tn the: even In ths concept cf the telephoge as an extensioa of the human mouth and esr. ‘Here's the absurdity: In its determination to ‘ing protiems and geneely6o your tephooe bates, ‘These places are destgned ‘Toarefere— and here comes (elephoos Doak Utings. Thi snot an ‘The Pboos (Centers have onistedtelepbone numbers. This{s watt call sbaard, emenrberiog everything Bel hs ead about bow ‘comamunicatice ts to Ute itself. Treo ringy-dingies. . . “1 coukio’t find a sting.” he exid, “eo 1 dialed the ‘information operator. It rang 20 times and Thang up. Then, 1 “dialed Bell headquarters, and somenne there to18 me the ‘oumber is unilsted. The person said Bell doesn’t want its peopl bothered by phone calls Tewear to yon tat what ‘was tok.” 1 betve him, eafimed it rth a telephone copay. Site dacorepstrphonscotct I apposed tbe 6 He told me a lot of other things, He sald Bell workers at ‘the Phone Centers do not have access to central records and to help with billing problems or retremecta wtich ty wll tat are ace a ‘them and a hold-up for costamers He sald the main pbof the Phone Centers is to sell phones and to tor service, (end that having an uallsted oumber betps, Ail that transtates fo meas the same Ching as, “Bell Cosen’t want 1's people ‘bothered by phone calla” ‘Love! Us opie eetaremrcmene Computer ‘erases’ phones SESE aces SES Creed teary foey boars bak for the ‘21 Bank of Ternple and a ee oe J ohn Petrie has a problem. Petrie (not his reat name) is the communications manager for a medium size company in the Midwest, His company has installed a tong distance control system to monitor usage and get better utilization of long distance facilities, Because the company has a large number of people traveling, remote access to the company’s long distance facilitics was installed to reduce the number of credit card calls. A series of inward WATS fines are connected to the long distance control system at head- quarters. When traveling, company representatives can simply diat ‘an **800" number and then their personal authorization code to get ‘access to the company's long distance facilities including roll and out- ward WATS. ‘The remote access system seemed to be working gi calls had been all but eliminated and the overall cost, ed. Then about six months ago, Petrie was in the midst of doing the tion users when he noticed that ‘one person had been making a targe number of 800 number calls via 5. i “This guy's got to be a stupid foo! to dial our 800 number to place a free 800 number call ‘When questioned about the calls, the man denied making any remote detailed monthly billing of calls to st ‘access calls at all that mo: Totally confused at this point, Petrie called several of the 800 In every case, when the call was answered, the familiar tones indicating entrance to a remote access systemwere heard. A phone freak clearly was at work! numbers listed on the billing repo Petrie immediately changed all codes, pauses and methods of gaining access to the company's system. That night, the mysterious caller tried 60 times before he finally figured out the new pro- cedures and codes, Petrie made another major change, but the caller cracked that in about 20 tries, and then placed a call to Germany. Petrie removed international dialing from the system and called the telephone company security department. Meanwhile, he decided to have some fun by calling the 800 numbers on the billing report, contacting each company's switchboard operator andasking to be connected to the com- munications manager. According to Petrie, “The moments of silence were deafening when | told these managers how I had reached them." After about a week, the telephone company security people showed up and after reviewing the documentation were amazed. They traced all of the called numbers, and came up with nothing ‘but remote access numbers, ‘“‘meet-me" con- ference numbers and lentes such 03 Tine aed ‘Temperature in upstate Michigan. They did their best to trace calls back to the originating number, and came up with calls from California ‘out of another company’s remote access system. Petrie says that to date his company has been ‘hit with about 6,000 fraudutent calls, which cost about $10 an hour. “Even with ail this,” he says, ‘I don’t feel we look too bad compared to companies | know who have been hit for in ex- cess of $2,500 a month on international calls alone. He seems to take great delight in calling Hertz Rent-A-Car on Guam." John Petrie’s problem is not unique. An in- formal survey by BCR reveals that a number of large companies, although by no means all, have had some type of a problem with unauthorized use of remote access facilities. Indeed, at least one large consulting firm has been investigating this problem for several clients. The difficuty in getting access to a company’s long distance facilities via remote ac- cess varies considerably, The system used by Petrie’s company is one of the more difficult to ‘crack in that it requires knowing the proper in- ward WATS number plus vali : code. The system used in AT& PBX may be less secure in that there is one com- mon access code for everyone. In some systems, no access or authorization code at allis required, ‘Simply dialing the special toca) or inward WATS umber gives the caller immediate access to the Jong distance facilities. The communications |. Credit cord been reduc- manager of one large company says that his ‘organization once used inward WATS to access long distance facilities through a Centrex system without any restriction. A caller simpler diated 9" and got access to the world. In one month there was $5,000 to $6,000 in unauthorized calls to destinations such as Israel, Hong Kong and Portugal, Belatedly, the company changed the system to restrict remote access calls to the com- pany’s tie line network. A consultant who has studied the problem believes that most abuse of remote access 10 long distance facilities involves insiders or other per- sons closely associated with the company, Often, it is a customer ar a supplier who finds ‘ut how to use the remote access, Sometimes itis just the difficulty in keeping authorization codes from becoming common knowledge within an organization, One company the consultant recalls was using MCI Execunet service, and the authorization code was supposed to be known by only a small group of persons. Eventually, it became known by a very large group. “I don’t know how much security you can really put into the consultant says, “*because once you tell secretaries and they have to write memos to someone else, it is very hard to clamp down on in” One of the country's largest manufacturing firms uses an operator-controlled system in which someone calling from outside wanting to use the long distance facilities must give the operator a four character code. The communica- sions manager told BCR that while abuse is “not 1 significant problem for us, we know that there are people using the network who are not authorized to do it. Some of them are retirees from the company who have been around for a while and know the score. With 10,000 authorization codes, itis not too difficult to find good one," sppears that most cases of abuse are the result of people wanting to make free telephone calls. But there also seems to be an elerient of pranksterism involved. One company in the East, located near a large university, found they had 4 lot of outsiders accessing their tetephone system. Suspecting university students, they got permission to install a call data recorder on the main university Centrex system. The data they collected confirmed that the students were, in- deed, living up to their reputation for technical wizardry. They had not only found out how to ‘access the company’s long distance facilities, but its computer. system as well. Fortunately, they Wrong line, indeed (AP) had not yet found out how to obtain or manipulate data in the computer, John Petrie says one of the pranksters’ tricks “tis to place a call to Company A's remote ac- ‘cess. From Company A's system, they then call Company B's remote access; then call from Company B to Company C; then call from Company C back again to Company A and finally to a non-releasing Time and Temperature number that, of course, will never hang up. By doing this on a Friday evening (none of the com- panies being aware of it until Monday morning), they can tie up entire systems for many hours of overtime charges. How casy is it to find a remote access umber? If you have some association with a company that has one or with the telephone company, the answer is probably: not too hard. But if you have no inside information, the dif- ficulty is much greater. To find out how hard it might be for an out Sider, we decided 10 become a phone freak, and ty t6 find an inward WATS line connected t0 a temote access. AT&T says that there are about 40,000 intersiate inward WATS lines, of which about one-half have unlisted numbers. Presumably, a small percentage of these unlisted fumbers are for remote access. Our experience ‘Suggests they are not easy to find, Knowing nothing about how the telephone company assigns inwards WATS numbers, we began by consulting a readily available directory ‘of fisted 800 numbers to see if there was any pat- tern to how numbers are assigned. Our assumy tion was that unlisted numbers would follow the same pattern as listed numbers, an assumption that seems to be true. fu appears from the directory that 800 numbers do have some pattern: that the digits in the exchange code vary with the geographical area. WATS lines in New York, for example, have exchange codes that begin with a different digit than WATS lines in California, (We deduc- the location from the fact that the listing said that the number was good anywhere except New York or except California.) Knowing that a fot of company headquarters are located in New York, we selected some ex- change codes that appear to be used very fre- quently in New York. We dialed these codes with varying combinations of the last four digits. After getting three answers and six recorded an- Aouncements saying the number was no good in . the first ten tries (one number did not answer), we further analyzed the digits and dialed 30 good numbers out of the next 40. None of these ‘numbers, however, was connected to remote ac- cess, Afier these $0 unsuccessful attempts, we got bored and gave up, deciding we were not cut out to be a phone freak. But had we more perseverance or an automatic dialer, perhaps- eventually we would have found a remote access system. Of course, even if we had, we would be If way home if the system required an ion code. * It is this difficulty in getting through the security precautions that makes most observers belie ‘of remote access results generally information. For the user being hit, inction might seem academic but it does suggest that a company can cut its losses substantially by concentrating on more internal security. The following are some effective measures: 1. Require a proper authorization code in addition to the access number. 2. Assign remote access authorization codes 10 a minimum number of people, 3. Provide enough digits in the authorization ‘codeso that you need assign only a small percen- tage‘of the maximum number of combinations. 4, Change authorization codes frequently. 5. When someone with a code leaves the company, retire the code. 6.1 possible, install as system which tells 2° lf a series of invais codes has been dialed, in, 7. Never give information on remote access to someone you do not know. A while back, an individual posing as an Action Communications ‘Systems employee was calling WATSBOX users and asking for remote access numbers and codes, ostensibly to update Action's records. ‘The caller was not from Action. These precautions should minimize abuse of, remote access, but they will not eliminate it. Ask* John’ Petrie. He knows. How To Cheat Your Ass Off In Skool “, cy ‘% WAVE eWLy LE ARMED, By CORyIvG MAKING If: Nice people just don't cheat. This is a fact of life. If ‘heat, you are most likely a rotten no good stinker with commie tredie, dirty underware and a host of social disea try to Ciscouroge this type of behavior. I! cated. 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After thet A ths gutter in front of the Moonlight to the back bristly black hairy tarantula ran screaming from my mouth, Unknown sub- stences mingled with cigarette butts in my hair, I had a mid-term exen in ancient Chinese history in 2 hours, You could say that I wes unpre- pared, I asked myself, "What would Mao tse-fly do in a case like this?” But the Red Guarda were nowhere in sight, I was on my own. I entered tho class, paused and slowly labled my blue book #2. I took my timo writing a single grandiloquent concluding paregraph and handed it in. The pro- fessor later apologized for losing my first blue book and gave me a 8. A cheat must always be resourceful. 1)Chengs the answora on graded tests. Bring them beck to the prof and sey, "Hey, I hed this answer right".2) Carry in completed blue books to the exam.3)At the and of the quarter professors leave graded tests and term papers in the halls for their stu- Take the best oner and save thes for future -4)Keop all tests and papers to use again and agein, use your friends'end visit fraternity files.5)Remember to never put down what you plegtarize! from es a source. Use master theses from other colleges, tho papers kept by departments at other colleges for the’serious researcher" and obscure books from other Despite propsgenda, term paper companies are OK. TAKING IT: I know of one student who walked into the schvol print shop a5 ‘exams were being run off, sat down on a inked gally and walked of with » set of tests on his panta.l)Bribe or get friends who can get tests, suchas janitors and print whop workers. 2)Go through waste paper cans for copic: GHIBING IT: What I nave come to call the "Ethiopian Shuffle"was given to me by a foreign exchange student end has proven to be one of the best crib notes in the dusiness.Taking a long narrow strip of paper that is folded nationwide. Itean range from eharging like an accordion into a tiny book,you ere able to write 10 times the s- Fy call toa stranger to csing a cslen mount of info that a norms] orib sheet bolds.It is then manipulated with ard but also are rouse bere, thumb and forefinger.).)Magic shops bave special pencils which write in- win Bllplams to introduce especial bling system thst visible notes thet cen be seen with speciel glasses.2)Intelligence is tellers being sed by banks Cutormers alo il be ale sansmitted to several cheaters through en elaborate signa) system.Pen Step nog eat eri point up is true, down 1s folse. 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