I know a lot of the stuff I've read about is terribly outdated now, and just listening to Kevin Mitnick talking about his life on the PaulDotCom podcast gave me this feeling of "damn, those sounded like the good old days", but is phreaking still about? Can you still hack phone systems, and how?
I'd imagine most of the stuff is obsolete now thanks to new technologies, but hey - if a technology exists, it's hackable. So, can someone tell me about modern day phreaking?
Oh, and I'm not talking about News of the World type phone hacking. I'm on about the real deal, Kevin Mitnick style
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Beige boxing won't die in any hurry though (modified phone handset). I am compiling data on the NZ phone system to test some old school phreaking methods. The phreaking era sounds like it would have been awesome.
The different phreaking boxes are
* Beige box: Modified phone with alligator clips to connect to the wiring (Still works)
* Red box: Emulates the tones used to signal what coins have been inserted into a payphone (Doubt it still works)
* Blue box: Emulates the tones used to set up long distance calls so you get free calling (No longer works)
* Orange box: spoofs the caller ID service (Still works)
* Magenta box: Emulates the A.C ringing signal that makes the phone ring (Still works)
* Silver box: emulates the DTMF tones for the ABCD keys on a phone (unsure if it works)
* Green box: emulates the coin return tone on a payphone (Doubt it still works)
* Gold box: Joins two lines together so you can use someone elses line from your own or another persons. (May still work)
* Clear box: inductively bypasses the microphone mute on some payphones allowing the red box or green box to work (Doubt it still works)
* Black box: Makes the phone appear on hook so that you don't get charged for calls (Doubt it still works)
* Vermilion box: Phone line emulator for making prank calls. User disconnects the person from the network and connects it to this box and makes completely untraceable calls to the persons phone (Still works)
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Will do. I built a magenta box (phone ringing signal generator) last night, Could also be used as a weapon on night ops as it gives a painful electric shock if you touch the output terminals. I am going to test the black box idea to see if it works in this modern age.
The black box doesn't even make sense to me. As far as I know land line phone plans have a flat rate with unlimited calling and collect calls would bill you anyways if you verbally accepted the call. Can anyone clarify the use of this?