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Introduction To
 Beige  Boxing
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By Shooting Shark - AOOFF
 
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        Beige Boxes are amazingly simple to make -  They are just test sets, which are used by telepinemen for connecting to any phone line.  And test sets are just ordinary telephones.  They arecle ege boxes because they are a combination of a brown box, a device for listening into phone ins,an awhte box, which is a portable touch-tone generator, sold by Radio Shack and AT&T. (AT&Tactall coorsthers white, which I find hilarious.)  Beige Boxing is easy, fun, and offers dialin optons ftenunavilabe through LDC ports or extenders - you are physically using an unsuspectingperso's phne lie formakin calls anywhere - even to the 0-700 and 900 SACs (Special Area Codes) nd 976 numbes.  Th only eason  am writing this file is to make this enjoyable hobby aware to pheaks wh want smethingdifferet to tr.
 
Building The Beige Box
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        Take any phone (a touch-tone phone is prefered) and strip off the modular plug down to four   Connect heavy-duty alligator clamps to the red and green wires (these are the only wires you elyne to make phone calls).
 
Using The Box
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        Drive to a downtown location.  Go behind a business, and look for any metal boxes on the wal say General Electric, AT&T, the name of your BOC etc.  Open the box.  You may find wires of forclr eading to bolts.  Just find any two places where a red and green wire terminate and connec te llgaorclips of your Beige Box to these wires.  If you don't get a dial tone, try another cobintio ofwhaevrred and green wire endings you find (If the box has non-standard wire coloring, ou ae infor  bitmorework).  Once you have a hookup where you have a dial tone, you're ready to o.  Nte - f youget aconnetion where you hear talking, HANG UP and note the connection as a goodone.  hat lie is jst beig usednow.  If you are daring, speak into the mouthpiece, and tell themthat yo are a elephon repairan, andthat they should not use the phone for an hour.  This gives ou time o call Dal-A-Mupet, set p your cnference, etc!    
 
        Another good source of phone wiring is an apartment complex - all the connections for the vaapartments will be in one box, giving you many choices!  This can be a little more dangerous.  fi si a quiet area, you may find yourself being stared at from a second-story window by an old omn n urer who simply wondered why there was a conversation going on by her trash can.  One posibl reedyto hisis to get a hat that has the emblem of your local BOC - If anybody asks you whatyou'e dong, heerullysay "Telephone maintenance!".  A phellow phreaked named David Letterman sucessfuly ra a ta fromthe bx of his own apartment building through his window and to his telephon.  He new th famil who'sphone ill he was adding to, and swore that he knew nothing about it whe their ill wit $50 woth of "nplacedcalls" came.  Pacific Bell reimbursed them, and he removed te tap son after. If you ant to d this, yu may even consider connecting the guts of a cordless pone to th phone bo and keepng the hadset in yur home.  That way, if someone goes nosing around he tampere-with phon box, the ource of te tap willbe untracable. 
 
        One good thing to do is to call your local ANI # and the number of the line you are borrowin be read off to you.  If the robot voice seems to have trouble reciting the number, you have a pr ie and you're only ripping off the phone company!  If not, you can then call that # from anohe lcaio t find out who it is, or perhaps to tell them that you are the phone company and that heyshold ot se heir phone for a few hours.  In fact, if you are talking with someone on a line nd te ower o thelinepicks up hishher phone to make a call, tell them that you are the telco, et. etc we'r doin sometestig, please don't use your phone, etc.  Works all the time!
 
 
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Written 8113885 By Shooting Sharkee