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- ******************** The Art of Junction Box Modeming ********************
- ******** Written Exclusively For: ********
- ******** PHRACK INC.! ********
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- * by Mad Hacker of 616 *
- * Watch for Thieve's World ][ coming soon, now with 33 megs! *
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- This file will detail the use of a rural junction box to fraud the
- phone company and make all the free phone calls you want to BBS or AE by.
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- There are two basic types of rural junction boxes: Residential and
- Group boxes. I will first discuss Residential as they are easier to find
- and easier to use. There are a couple of requirements before you can make
- full use of a Junction Box. First you must have some kind of portable
- computer with a built-in modem or at least a hand phone if all you want to
- do is make free calls to your friends. For computer I would recommend
- something like a Model 100 from Radio Shack. Small, inexpensive but only
- 300 baud and only 32K of total storage.
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- Anyway you can find residential junction boxes in most any rural area
- just a few feet off the road and usually covered over with local weeds. Fish
- your way thru the weeds and open it up. Some just open with a twist or a
- turn, others are actually locked and require a little more patience. Anyway
- once you have it open, you should see at least 4 pairs (possibly more) of
- wires. You are only concerned with the pair containing both a red and a green
- wire.
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- Now you need to make a choice: Do you want to totally cut off the
- regular owners of the phone line and do actual damage to this junction box or
- leave them connected but have the possibility of them picking up their phone
- and hearing your carrier?
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- Usually you will want to cut them out totally, so simply find a bit of
- slack in the line and cut both wires. Now in most boxes the connection to the
- outside world comes from the bottom of the box, but sometimes you will find
- one that doesn't conform. Simply attach a hand phone to the wires (matching
- up colors, of course) and see if you get a dial tone. Anyway once you have
- the proper pair then hook up to your modem line and dial anyway. Meanwhile
- the lawful owners of the line will get a dead line on their end, so try to
- do this only when you think no one would be using the phone, like 11PM to 7AM
- or else they will probably call their LOC and tell them to fix the line and
- when they see the cut wires, they will wonder what went on there. Finally be
- a good guy and when you are done, resplice the wires together and shut the
- box.
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- Now usually you don't want to cause permanent damage to the box, so
- simply strip off the insulation on the line and attach the red and green ends
- of your modem cord to them. Now when you cut in, it will be much like an
- extension was picked up. Simply dial away and have fun. Of course if anyone
- at the house picks up the line they will get your carrier and will wonder, so
- try to limit your activities also to the same hours mentioned above, unless you
- know who you are ripping off and when they use the phone. The advantages of
- this method is that once you strip the wires, there is little work to do each
- time you use the box again.
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- Now what do you do if you are lucky enough to find a Group box? Well
- first you are confronted with a multitude of wires, anywhere from 10 pairs up
- to 100 if you use a box on the edge of a small town. Finding a pair of the
- right wires is a little more difficult unless your LOC has done repairs at
- this box in the last couple of months, in which case a lot of the wires will
- already be paired off. If you aren't so lucky find a couple of wires and try
- them out. Once again you have the choice of stripping or cutting the wires,
- but the advantage here is that you can use this box for about 4-6 months
- without having to find a new one.
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- What is the this junk about having to find a new box? Well you see
- when you use a junction box in this manner, you are basically adding an
- illegal extension to a private line. Any calls you make will show up on the
- rightful owners bill. If you are only using the box for one or two short to
- medium length calls a week, then you might not have any problems. However if
- you use a box too much and the people keep calling the billing office about
- the extra calls, the billing office will call those numbers and hear the
- carrier. This will tip them off to the fact that someone is either lying at
- the rightful owner's house or that someone has tapped into their phone line.
- At this present time in the Midwest, it take about 2-3 months for the LOC to
- realize that someone is playing with their junction box. What they do is come
- out and repair the wires and usually put a newer lockable box on the site to
- discourage illegal use. I haven't yet really pushed the LOC to any limits
- yet,ut one might suspect that has Junction boxing catches on to those of us
- who have access to laptop computers, the LOC may find some way of catching us
- at our little game.
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- If anyone has any new information on how your LOC is handling this use
- of their junction boxes please let us know by leaving mail for Thomas Covenant
- on any Metal Shop board.
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- [Postscriptum note by Thomas Covenant: I'd recommend one of those so-
- called "portable" AT-compatibles. Great clock speed, 1200 baud, and a bigger
- screen. And why not pack a picnic lunch and some booze? You'll be there all
- day once you get started!]
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