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- Written by: Billy Heif 80 columns
- Date : 12/02/88------------------------------------------------Date : 12/02/88
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- Introduction
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- Since the beginning of the telephone revolution, there have been ways to
- trace a line. When there used to be operators with plugs and huge switchboards,
- they could manually trace the line. Then came the crossbar switching, in which
- they could trace the line three ways: Lock-In tracing, manual tracing
- (Never done, anymore), or time syncronization.
- The ESS (Electronic Switching System) brought an "Impossible"
- to beat tracing mechanism, ANI.
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- Chapter One : Lock-In tracing
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- Lock-In tracing is exactly what the name says. It is a type of tracing most
- often used by the FBI. The method of which Lock-In works is quite simple.When
- a conversation is going on, there is voltage going through the line to keep i
- t open for those people talking. When lock-in is used, after the caller-to-be-
- traced hangs up, a special FBI machine sends voltage down the line to make the P
- hone Co's machines think that the line is still being used. Then that gives the
- FBI time to trace manually.
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- The DIFT Box
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- There is only one way that I have heard of beating Lock-In. If you keep picking
- up the phone and hanging up, and the line doesn't go to a dialtone,there
- is a chance that you are being traced. The way to stop this is to send a curre
- nt down the lin, too.First you have to find a corner in your house where the
- phone wire is running along. Then you can install 'Billy Heif's Peachy Tracer Bre
- aker', or simply, "The DIFT box". Here's the simple schmatics for it:
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- -----> RED -----> -----/----- >---------- RED TO LINE -------->
- Fromuphone----->Green-----> -----\----- >----------Green to line ------->
- ----->Black-----> -----/----- >----------Black to line ------->
- \
- / \
- + -
- Tracer Breaker
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- Where you see the plus and minus, you hook up a big 6 or 12 volt battery
- Make sure you put a switch in there somewhere, so you can switch it on fast.
- Hook the + and - to all the lines going out.I think that will work,I am pretty
- sure. Try testing it out first. While you are talking to one of your buds,click
- it on. Chapter Two : Manual Tracing
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- Manual tracing is just following a line back to its source. I am not talking
- loterally,just following it from circuits.This takes a HELL of a long time
- like 10-20 mins or more. The only way to prevent this is to make your calls
- short and sweet so they don't have time. Of course, if you get Locked-In,
- you should click on yoir DIFT rox yor ubouf 30 seconds.
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- Chapter Three : Time Syncro Tracing
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- Time Syncro Tracing is very simple. Let's say Bob Retard is getting 100
- prank calls a night,Now Bob calls up the phone company,who sends out
- a techie with a clock syncronized to the phone co.'s clock. When Bob gets
- his prank call that night,he just hits the button that stops the clock.Then he calls
- the company and tells m`┤┤e`┤ime`┤hat`¿e`ºot`┤he`úalln T╪ey Σun it through their computers and come up
- with a call made at that exact time, and where it came from.This tracing is
- instoppable,
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- so just don't crank someone all the time. B
- ut if you do it on some night like Friday, when there are a million calls going
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- on at once, then it is pretty safe.
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- Chapter Four : Automatic Number Identification (ANI)
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- Automatic Number Identification (ANI) is a tracing mechanism available O
- NLY in ESS areas. ANI works because the YOUR phone co.'s computer sends a few di
- gital-encoded numbers to the DESTINATION'S phone co's computer. Then the other c
- omputer, and yo
- ±àur co.'s computer knows INSTANTLY where it is coming from.
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- Ways to tell if you have ESS: (Stolen from some G-File)
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- 1) 911 service
- 2) dialtone first at payphones
- 3) call waiting and that shit
-
- Well, ANI is not absolutely foolproof. I guess you could make a cheesebo
- x to get around it or something. It would not be hard to do that.
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- √ There was an incident back in March, 1988, concerning ANI. Some idiot
- introduced the idea of the "Sprint Back Door", which gave you access to call any
- where in the world for "Free". Little did they know that Sprint's ANI machine wa
- s working hard, a
- nd everyone was sent a cill at the end of the month. So, watch
- it with this thing. I think there used to be a number you could call, and the th
- ing would call you back, using ANI. Pretty sure it's gone now.
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- √ Conclusion
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- Well, that does it for most tracing tectniques. I hope you guys kinda un
- derstood my DIFT box. If you don't, contact me through E-Mail at any of the boar
- ds at the end of this file. I have my computer answer sometimes, with an Answeri
- ng Machine type
- program, where you can leave mail and crap. Ask me for the #.
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- -> Disclaimer <- Like every piece of great literature, comes this. I don't take responsib
- lity for any of YOUR fuck ups. If you get busted with your DIFT box, it IS a fed
- eral offense. This file was meant as INFORMATIONAL purposes only, and the author
- does not accep
- t any responsiblity for anyone's use or thrs fcle. Thanks.
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