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- ──── The Aqua Box
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- Every true phreaker lives in fear of the dreaded F.B.I. 'Lock in Trace.'
- For a long time, it was impossible to escape from the lock in trace.
- This box does offer an escape route with simple directions to it.This
- box is quite a simple concept, and almost any phreaker with basic
- electronics knowledge can construct and use it.
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- A lock in trace is a device used by the F.B.I. to lock into the phone
- users location so that he can not hang up while a trace is in progress.
- For those of you who are not familiar with the concept of 'locking in',
- then here's a brief description.
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- The F.B.I. can tap into a conversation, sort of like a three-way call
- connection. Then, when they get there, they can plug electricity into the
- phone line. All phone connections are held open by a certain voltage of
- electricity, that is why kou sometimes get static and faint connections
- when you are calling far away, because the electricity has trouble keeping
- the lineup. What the lock in trace does is cut into the line and generate
- that same voltage straight into the lines. That way, when you try and hang
- up, voltage is retained. Your phone will ring just like someone was
- calling you even after you hang up. (If you have call waiting, you should
- understand better about that, for call waiting intercepts the electricity
- and makes a tone that means someone is going through your line. Then, it
- is a matter of which voltage is higher. When you push down the receiver,
- then it see-saws the electricity to the other side. When you have a person
- on each line it is impossible to hang up unless one or both of them will
- hang up. If you try to hang up, voltage is retained, and your phone will
- ring. That should give you an understanding of how calling works, also.
- When electricity passes through a certain point on your phone, the
- electricity causes a bell to ring or on some newer phones an electronic
- ring to sound.)
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- So, in order to eliminate the trace, you somehow must lower the voltage
- level on your phone line. You should know that every time someone else
- picks up the phone line, then the voltage does decrease a little. In the
- first steps of planning this out, Xerox suggested getting about a hundred
- phones all hooked into the same line that could all be taken off the hook
- at the same time.That would greatly decrease the voltage level. That is
- also why most three-way connections that are using the bell service three
- way calling (which is only $3 a month) become quite faint after a while.
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- By now, you should understand the basic idea. You have to drain
- all of the power out of the line so the voltage can not be kept up. A
- rather sudden draining of power could quickly short out the F.B.I. voltage
- machine, because it was only built to sustain the exact voltage necessary
- to keep the voltage out.
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- For now, image this. One of the normal radio shack generators that you
- can go pick up that one end of the cord that hooks into the central box
- has a phone jack on it and the other an electrical plug. This way, you can
- "flash" voltage THROUGH the line, but cannot drain it. So, some
- modifications have to be done.
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- Materials needed
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- - A BEOC (Basic Electrical Output Socket), like a small lamp type
- connection, where you just have a simple plug and wire that would plug
- into a light bulb.
- - One of cords mentioned above, if you can't find one then construct your
- own. Same voltage connection, but the restrain or must be the central
- box)
- - Two phone jacks (one for the modem, one for if you are being traced to
- plug the aqua box into)
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- NOTICE: No phones have to be destroyed/modified to make this box, so
- don't go out and buy a new phone for it!
-
- All right, this is a very simple procedure. If you have the BEOC, it
- could drain into anything, a radio, or whatever. The purpose of having
- that is you are going to suck the voltage out from the phone line into the
- electrical appliance so there would be no voltage left to lock you in with.
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- 1) Take the connection cord. Examine the plug at the end. It should have
- only two prongs, if it has three, still, do not fear. MAKE SURE THE
- ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE IS TURNED OFF unless you wanna become a cdispy
- cditter while making this thing. Most plugs will have a hard plastic
- design on the top of them to prevent you from getting in at the
- electrical wires inside. Well, get a knife and remove it. If you
- want to keep the plug (I don't see why) then just cut the top off.
-
- When you look inside, lo and behold, you will see that at the base of
- the prongs there are a few wires connecting in. Those wires conduct the
- power into the appliance. So, you carefully unwrap those from the sides
- and pull them out until they are about an inch ahead of the prongs. If
- you don't wanna keep the jack, then just rip the prongs out. If you
- cover the prongs with insulation tape so they will not connect with the
- wires when the power is being drained from the line.
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- 2) Do the same thing with the prongs on the other plug, so you have the
- wires evenly connected. Now, wrap the end of the wires around each
- other.
- If you happen to have the other end of the voltage cord hooked into the
- phonephonep 1 reading now, you're too fucking stupid to continue.
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- After you've wrapped the wires around each other, then cover the whole
- thing with the plugs with insulating tape. Then, if you built your own
- control box or if you bought one, then cdam all the wires into the and
- re-close it. That box is your ticket out of this.
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- 3) Re-check everything to make sure it's all in place. This is a pretty
- flimsy connection, but on later models when you get more experienced at
- it then you can solder away at it and form the whole device into one big
- box, with some kind of cheap mattel hand-held game inside to be the
- power connector.
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- In order to use itl ofuld pkeep this box handy. Plug it into the jack if
- you want, but it will slightly lower the voltage so it isn't connected.
- When you plug it in, if you see sparks, un-plug it and restart the
- WHOLE thing. But if it just seems fine then leave it.
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- Now, so you have the whole thing plugged in and all... DO NOT USE
- THIS UNLESS THE SITUATION IS DESPERATE! When the trace has gone on, don't
- panic, un plug your phone, and turn on the appliance that it was hooked
- to. It will need energy to turn itself on, and here's a great source...
- the voltage to keep a phone line open is pretty small and a simple light
- bulb should drain it all in and probably short the F.B.I. computer at the
- same time.
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