Oh yeah I forgot one thing. What do you mean by NPA and why cant i just dial like a regualr call?? And what is a DMTF dialer? On Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Perry Farrell <pneyz@armory.com> writes:
Also, the network's signalling has changed, and the basic Captain Crunch Whistle doesn't work many places any more - most of the signalling is digital out-of-band rather than inband audio. Phreaking isn't impossible (or there wouldn't be as many people chasing the Dread Pirate Mitnick), but at this point you actually need to know what you're doing to succeed at it, and merely having plans for a device you don't know well enough to emulate in code on your PC isn't going to buy you much.
Very good point, phreaking's getting tricky. First of all, forget blue
boxes, they're worthless, especially to an amateur, which you (HeLiuM)
obviouisly are. Get a red box. Go to Radio Shack and buy a digital recorder pocket memo thing. They're about ten bucks and it's alot easier than getting a handheld DTMF dialer (which is annoying to solder because RS doesn't make them very well). Get BlueBeep or something (ftp.fc.net/pub/defcon/BLUEBEEP) and record some quarter tones. Go to a Bell payphone (CoCoTs and USWest phones do not work) and dial "1+area+npa+number", like a normal call. Then play the tones. For a local call, dial "10288+area+npa+number", which makes AT&T think it's along distance call.
pneyz (pneyz@armory.com)