       Info on Boxes
    For: 31337 Phreaking 
     By: ic0n
 E-mail: ic0n@pla440.zzn.com


Red Box 
What is a Red Box?
Okay have you ever pushed a number while your on the phone and it makes that tone(beep) for each button?
Well that tone tells the phone what button you pushed. With payphones it makes a tone for the diffrent coins you put in. 
Say you put in a quarter and you will hear 5 fast tones. thous tones just told the payphone you just put in a quarter. 
Now, a Red Box has the quarter tones programed into it. So all you need to do is pick up the payphone, put the Red Box 
up to the part you talk into and push a button on the Red Box, and that button just made the tone of a quarter. 
Now the payphone thinks you just put in a quarter when you just made the tone of it. (Free phone calls) 

Beige Box 
What is a Beige Box
A beige box mimics a lineman's handset, which means that you can do anything a telephone company lineman
can. Just open up any of the telephone compnay's protesctive metal boxes (usualy found on a street corner), 
attach your beige box to existing phone line (preferably not your own, wicth would defeat the whole purpose of the beige box)
and you can make free long-distance calls (at your neihbors expense) or eavesdrop on their calls. 

Lunch Box 
What is a Lunch Box
The lunch box connects to an ordinary phone and turns that phone into a transmitter. That way you can
use a receiver and eavesdrop on other people's phone calls while listening from a safe distance away. 

Black Box 
What is a Black Box
Before you can receive a phone call, the voltage in your phone line is zero. The moment someone calls 
you and the phone starts ringing, the voltage jumps to 48. As soon as you pick up the phone, the voltage
drops to 10, and the phone company starts billing the calling party. A black box keeps the voltage on 
your phone line at a steady 36 volts so that it never drops low enough to signal the phone company to start
billing-incoming callers never get billed for talking to you. 

Cheese Box 
What is a Cheese Box
A cheese box tricks the phone company into thinking that your ordinary phone is actually a pay phone
that can make outgoing calls but can't accept incoming calls. Cheese boxes were supposedly invented
by bookies as a way of making calls to people while making it impossible for others (such as the polic)
to call them. 

Crimson Box 
What is a Crimson Box
A crimson box is a divice that lets you put someone on hold so that they can't hear you but you
still hear them. Geat for listing to what telemarketers say to their co-workers when they think you're
not listening. 

Aqua Box 
What is a Aqua Box?
The surest way to catch a phone phreak is to trace his phone calls. One technique that the FBI
 uses is called a Lock-in-Trace, which allows the FBI to tap into a phone line much like a three-way
call connection. Becaous every phone connection is held open by electicity, the Lock-in-Trace device
simply cuts into a phone line and generates that same voltage as when the phone line is being used.
The voltage of the phone line as if the phone were still in use, thus allowing the FBI (or anyone else) 
to continue tracing the origin of a particular phone call. The aqua box simply lowers the voltage level 
on a phone line, preventing the Lock-in-Trace device from maintaining the necessary voltage to keep
the line open (and possibly evan shorting out the Lock-in-Trace devic itself) and preventing the FBI 
(or anyone else) from tracing your phone call(s). 


well that's the end of this file keep a look out for part 2 of this text coming soon
http://www.skytelphreaks.com or http://iconja.cjb.net 
