- File 2. - ÉÍÍÍÍÍ» ÉÍÍÍÍÍ» º º º Ê ÜßÛ³þÜ¿ º º º Û³Û³Û³ Þ³ ÌÍÍÍÍͼ HUCK ÈÍÍÍÍÍ» YSTEM Û³ÛßßßÛ³ Û³ º ÉÍÍÍËÍÍÍ» º þÜÛ³ ÛÜ¿Ù º º º ÛßÜÜ Û³ÛÜ¿ º º HE Ë º Û³ ßÙ Û³ Ê º ÈÍÍÍÍͼ Ù Ù Ê Anarchy §FFicial File... ù Chaos, Revenge, Phreak, Hack, etc. ù Written áy National Headquarters ÄÄÄ Ä The ASYLUM II bbs Ä ÄÄÄThanatosÄÄÄ Ä 215/ 493-0934. Ä (aka- Adam Bom) ******************************************************************* oFFicial File # 2... * _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- * || More on Telecommunications || * _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- * - LOOPS - The first thing we'll cover is loops. No Phreak can go thru life without knowing what a loop is, or how to use and find one. There are different kinds of loops. But first, what is a loop you ask? Well lets imagine two telefone lines in the Telco Central Office, just sitting there doing nothing. Except, that when someone calls one of those numbers, and someone else calls the other one, they get connected. Hmmm you might be saying. Big deal, right? Well use some imagination. Imagine a friend waiting on a loop in Calif. and you calling the the other end of the loop with a collect call, your friend will be more then happy to except the charges, since he's not gonna be billed for it, it'll be billed to the loop, with no record of who was using it. They're mainly there for Telco linemen. Also pirate radio stations use loops often to recieve calls without being traced. There are also loops out there with muliple user capibilities, for late night conferencing. The list goes on and on, there is so much to do with loops, all you have to do is discover them. O.K., lets find some. First off, never look for loops during the day, like i already mentioned, linemen use them, we don't want to end up talking to a pissed off lineman. Having two seperate fone numbers is a definate plus, if not have a friend on stand-by to call out when he's needed. Get your telefone book, look for exchanged that are no MSU's (Message Unit) away, or only one MSU away. So you don't go broke dialing a hundered fone numbers or so. (More on MSU's later). Make a list of all the exchanges that aren't gonna cost alot to call. Then simply dial numbers, for i.e., say 736 is the exchange. Dial 736-9900, and see what happens. Most loops will occur with the 99xx suffix. Some common ones are 9977 and 9979. With the low side having a tone on it. So if you dial for example, 736-9935 and you hear a tone, you have the tone side of a loop, or the low side. Then you would simply keep dialing numbers around the area of 9935, for example 9936, 9937, 9938 etc. until you get nothing. This is the high side of the loop, if you hear nothing then chances are you found the other end of the loop. The loop numbers are usually always near each other. So to test it, you would dial the tone side first, then have your friend dial the high side, and if the tone on your end dissappears and you can hear each other, you found a loop. Congradulations. Remeber, the tone side of the loop is the one you want to wait on, cause when the tone stops, thats how you know someone is on the other end. You can wait on the high side, but you'll just have to guess when somone gets on, cause there is no tone on the high side. If you park on a loop, that is wait on a loop and some one calls, usually if other people call while it's busy, they can get automatically connected when the other person on the high side disconnects. Sometimes you'll find a loop but you'll run into problems. For example you might hear a click every 1/2 second, it's nothing major, but gets annoying. Or a loop might be muted, for example you call the low end, your friend calls the high end. The tone stops but you can't hear each other, or it's really low. Then that loop got muted. But the loops status changed every once in a while, so keep trying. Remember, doing alot of scanning is the only way to find loops. There's also alot of 1-800 loops floating around out there too. Imagine the capabilities of those. - MSU's - I'll take this opportunity to talk a little about how MaBell charges they're customers. They go by how many Message Units (MSU's) a call is from the caller. I won't go into great detail about this, cause it's very simple. here's what the charges are the last time i checked. # of MSU's ! - weekday - ! - evening - !- night and weekend - away. ! I min. |Ad min. ! I min. | Ad min.! I min. | Ad min. -----------!-----------------!-----------------!---------------------- 2 ! .09 | .03 ! .05 | .02 ! .03 | .01 3 ! .12 | .04 ! .07 | .03 ! .04 | .01 4 ! .15 | .06 ! .09 | .04 ! .05 | .02 5 ! .18 | .07 ! .01 | .04 ! .05 | .02 6 ! .21 | .08 ! .12 | .05 ! .06 | .02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Key - I min. - Price of the Initial Minute. Ad min. - Price of each addtional minute. All prices are in cents per minute. These prices are still valid today, as of 1992. if any question on how many MSU's an area is from you, either check the fone book, or call and ask an Operator. Of course things that are 0 MSU's, don't cost anything. They're included with your basic service and monthly charge. - Wats Extenders - Lets talk about how Wats Extenders came to be. Many years ago, business' came up with the idea of wats extenders. It was mainly for salesmen that had to make bussiness calls while out on the road. There are many different kinds of Wats (All wats are is 1-800 numbers.). Lets start with Inwats. Inwats are 1-800 numbers that business' get to allow people to call them from anywhere in the U.S., the main kinda 800 number is a band 6. If someone has a band 6 Inwat (800 #) they can recieve calls from anywhere in the U.S., except the state where the 800 number resides. Band 5 includes the 48 inter-continental states, ans so on all the way down to band 1, which only allows calls from the state where the 1-800 line is. That sums up Inwats, now lets get into Outwats. Outwats are simply for making out going calls only. Used by large companies mainly. They cannot have incoming calls. The format is 800-%XX-XXX. The % is always the digit 1 or 0. The entire prefix (%XX) is the identifier of the type of service and area that company can call. O.K., now onto the Wats Extenders. First picture this. A business man out on the road, and every hour he has to make a certain number of calls. Well they are business calls, so he's not billed for em. And if he were to use calling cards, it would be a sorta pain in the ass. So Wats extenders were born. Their main purpose was to allow businessmen to call into their headquarters, on a Inwats number, thus being toll free. Then automatically connect then to an Outwats number, thus allowing them to call out on a line that runs from the office. So to make a long story sorta-short, you would call a 1-800 number, then go through a couple of beeps and clicks, then you would find yourself on a dialtone, which is just waiting for you to dial out on it. Which the toll would be billed to the company, since it's their line that your on. Understand?!? But...yes there is a but here. BUT they started to figure out what was going on, so they added a security system to it. After you dialed their 1-800 number, you would here a tone, and before you could get their Outwats line, you'd have to enter a 3 to 5 digit passcode. So it does take a little hacking, but it's nothing more then hacking VMB's. And once you get through, you have unlimited dialing capabilities. - The Communication Link - Here is just a simple diagram of what goes on when you place a call and where the telefone lines run. A. Telefone -----------> B. Multiline Distribution Box | | D. Bridging Head Box <------------ C. Telefone Pole Distribution Box | | E. Underground Cable -----------------> F. Local Exchange | | H. Central or Switching Office <----- G. Microwave Transmitter | | I. Satellite ------------------> J. Central or Switching Office | | And so on, only reverse / from H (Central office) to the fone your calling. This is basically how your telefone calls are routed. Simply, from A to B (the little box on your house), then from there up to the little box on the telefone pole, C. Then it goes to a main Bridging Head Box, D. From there the cables run underground, thru the little underground cement caves at the bottom of those Bell manholes. Then it goes to the local exchange office, F, and then gets transmitted thru a microwave transmitter, G. It gets picked up at central office, H. Then goes thru a satellite, I. It then gets recieved by the central office of where the call is being directed to. And then it's reversed from H, to G, to F, and so, until it rings the fone your calling... Welp thats it for now. That sums up on easy ways of fone phreaking. There are many other ways, but between this and PTS-1, it should give ya a good idea of how easy it is to Phuck the telefone System. ************************************************************ Remeber, to become an oFFicial Phuck the System BBS, get in contact with me or one of the other Eliete SysOp's of an oFFicial 'Phuck the System' board. Headquarter's are listed: ***** National Headquarters- The ASYLUM II - 215/ 493-0934 **** Mac Headquarters- The Void - 215/ 862-9643 (c) Copyright, 1992 'Phuck the System' files. &1993 'PTS' files.