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==Phrack Inc.==
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Volume One, Issue Eight, Phile #5 of 9
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******************** The Art of Junction Box Modeming ********************
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******** Written Exclusively For: ********
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******** PHRACK INC.! ********
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* by Mad Hacker of 616 *
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* Watch for Thieve's World ][ coming soon, now with 33 megs! *
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**********************************************************************
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This file will detail the use of a rural junction box to fraud the
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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
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Group boxes. I will first discuss Residential as they are easier to find
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and easier to use. There are a couple of requirements before you can make
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full use of a Junction Box. First you must have some kind of portable
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computer with a built-in modem or at least a hand phone if all you want to
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do is make free calls to your friends. For computer I would recommend
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something like a Model 100 from Radio Shack. Small, inexpensive but only
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300 baud and only 32K of total storage.
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Anyway you can find residential junction boxes in most any rural area
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just a few feet off the road and usually covered over with local weeds. Fish
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your way thru the weeds and open it up. Some just open with a twist or a
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turn, others are actually locked and require a little more patience. Anyway
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once you have it open, you should see at least 4 pairs (possibly more) of
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wires. You are only concerned with the pair containing both a red and a green
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wire.
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Now you need to make a choice: Do you want to totally cut off the
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regular owners of the phone line and do actual damage to this junction box or
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leave them connected but have the possibility of them picking up their phone
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and hearing your carrier?
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Usually you will want to cut them out totally, so simply find a bit of
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slack in the line and cut both wires. Now in most boxes the connection to the
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outside world comes from the bottom of the box, but sometimes you will find
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one that doesn't conform. Simply attach a hand phone to the wires (matching
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up colors, of course) and see if you get a dial tone. Anyway once you have
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the proper pair then hook up to your modem line and dial anyway. Meanwhile
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the lawful owners of the line will get a dead line on their end, so try to
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do this only when you think no one would be using the phone, like 11PM to 7AM
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or else they will probably call their LOC and tell them to fix the line and
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when they see the cut wires, they will wonder what went on there. Finally be
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a good guy and when you are done, resplice the wires together and shut the
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box.
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Now usually you don't want to cause permanent damage to the box, so
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simply strip off the insulation on the line and attach the red and green ends
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of your modem cord to them. Now when you cut in, it will be much like an
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extension was picked up. Simply dial away and have fun. Of course if anyone
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at the house picks up the line they will get your carrier and will wonder, so
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try to limit your activities also to the same hours mentioned above, unless you
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know who you are ripping off and when they use the phone. The advantages of
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this method is that once you strip the wires, there is little work to do each
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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
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first you are confronted with a multitude of wires, anywhere from 10 pairs up
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to 100 if you use a box on the edge of a small town. Finding a pair of the
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right wires is a little more difficult unless your LOC has done repairs at
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this box in the last couple of months, in which case a lot of the wires will
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already be paired off. If you aren't so lucky find a couple of wires and try
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them out. Once again you have the choice of stripping or cutting the wires,
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but the advantage here is that you can use this box for about 4-6 months
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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
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when you use a junction box in this manner, you are basically adding an
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illegal extension to a private line. Any calls you make will show up on the
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rightful owners bill. If you are only using the box for one or two short to
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medium length calls a week, then you might not have any problems. However if
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you use a box too much and the people keep calling the billing office about
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the extra calls, the billing office will call those numbers and hear the
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carrier. This will tip them off to the fact that someone is either lying at
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the rightful owner's house or that someone has tapped into their phone line.
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At this present time in the Midwest, it take about 2-3 months for the LOC to
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realize that someone is playing with their junction box. What they do is come
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out and repair the wires and usually put a newer lockable box on the site to
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discourage illegal use. I haven't yet really pushed the LOC to any limits
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yet, but one might suspect that has Junction boxing catches on to those of us
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who have access to laptop computers, the LOC may find some way of catching us
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at our little game.
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If anyone has any new information on how your LOC is handling this use
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of their junction boxes please let us know by leaving mail for Thomas Covenant
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on any Metal Shop board.
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[Postscriptum note by Thomas Covenant: I'd recommend one of those so-
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called "portable" AT-compatibles. Great clock speed, 1200 baud, and a bigger
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screen. And why not pack a picnic lunch and some booze? You'll be there all
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day once you get started!]
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^Z, or "EOF"
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