Secret Service Counterfeit Currency Report, Reader Questions on Black Box Detection, etc. Read more →

Al Bell’s origin-story editorial frames YIPL as a deliberate provocation against the phone company, explaining the Black Box for dodging message-unit charges, a tone trick for triggering false alarms on Bell’s new blue-box detectors, and a new reader information-trading department called ‘Destructory Assistance.’ Read more →

Announces the ‘World’s First Phone Phreak Convention’ in Miami Beach and publishes complete build instructions for a black box that lets any phone receive free long-distance calls, noting the article mirrors one Ramparts magazine had published and then suppressed under phone company pressure. Read more →

Publishes full build instructions for the ‘Super-Duper Project,’ an early black box circuit that lets a home phone receive long-distance calls free of charge, alongside a renewed boycott call against ITT and its subsidiaries. Read more →

Explains the redesigned 1972 credit card billing code and a separate ‘Code Billing System’ exploit, encourages readers to prank-call Southern Bell’s chief of security, and gives an early write-up of what would become the ‘black box’ for receiving free long-distance calls. Read more →