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- * The Tan Box *
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- * Samurai Cat and Tarkin Darklighter *
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- Introduction
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- The Tan box allows you to make recordings from a phone line, and it will
- only record once the victim's phone is picked up.
- Basically, this is a modified linesman's handset, or "Beige Box." For a
- copy of the Beige Box file, ask your friendly local sysop. A Beige Box
- consists of a speaker and two wires, a red (ring) and a green (tip). The Tan
- Box also works on this principle.
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- Construction
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- Parts:
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- A small cassette recorder, preferably a micro cassette recorder.
- (It MUST have both a microphone jack and a remote jack)
- A single line recording control. (Radio Shack part number 43-228)
- 2 alligator clips (Radio Shack number 270-374)
- A plastic box to contain the above parts (also available at Radio Shack)
- Tan or Black spray paint
- 7/16 inch hex driver
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- 1. Take the recording control and cut the modular plug off. Make sure you
- leave enough wire!
- 2. Strip the red and green wires. (The yellow and black wires are not
- necessary, and can be removed.)
- 3. Drill a hole on the end of the plastic box (enough for two wires to go
- through).
- 4. Put the recording control in the box and run the red and green wires
- through the hole. Attach one alligator clip to each of the wires.
- 5. Put the micro cassette recorder in the box and plug the remote and
- microphone wires from the recording control into it.
- 6. Close the box.
- 7. Spray paint the box and wires to make it look like it is supposed to be
- where it is. (BE SURE YOU LABEL THE WIRES BEFORE YOU PAINT THEM!)
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- Installation
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- You can either hook it up to the box on the side of their house or a
- bridging head. Use the 7/16" hex driver to open either of these. (On older
- houses, you may not have to use a hex driver.) Attach the red wire to the
- right terminal and the green to the left. (Remember: Red-Ring-Right) If you
- attached the box to a bridging head, there may be room to leave it inside.
- If you attached it to the side of a house, run the wires out of their box and
- close it. Attach the Tan Box to the side of their house.
- Make sure you come back and get the box pretty soon, or you may find it
- gone! Micro cassette recorders are not cheap!
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- Be careful, wiretapping is a felony (2-20 years, a $10,000 fine, or
- both), and various other laws may be broken (i.e., recording without the
- other party knowing it, etc.)
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- Ways to avoid being Beige/Tan Boxed
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- A tap detector may be purchased at Radio Shack (of course). If you do
- detect a tap, find the box, and you will have just gotten a new tape
- recorder!
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- Disclaimer
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- This file was written for informational purposes only, so the authors
- will not assume any responsiblity for either the use or construction of the
- Tan Box.
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