[3/4/2006 3:03 PM] <D31337> Okay, so phreaking got started around the 50s
[3/4/2006 3:03 PM] <D31337> There is some debate over when it really got started, but it started to pick up then
[3/4/2006 3:04 PM] <D31337> There was this one phreak, Joybubbles
[3/4/2006 3:04 PM] <D31337> He was blind
[3/4/2006 3:04 PM] <D31337> and he could acually whistle a 2600hz tone
[3/4/2006 3:05 PM] <D31337> he was one of the first phreaks
[3/4/2006 3:05 PM] <D31337> The 2600hz tone, thats important because it just happends to be the tone that would casue a trunk to reset itself
[3/4/2006 3:06 PM] <D31337> now a trunk is not just wants n the back of a pickup
[3/4/2006 3:07 PM] <D31337> what im talking about is a trunk as in a circuit between switchboards
[3/4/2006 3:08 PM] <D31337> the use of  2600hz tone gave access to AT&T's long distance service, for free
[3/4/2006 3:08 PM] <chedder> but what about those crazy kids who say "phreaking isent about making free calls"?
[3/4/2006 3:08 PM] <D31337> This tone, was used in the first phreaking device, aka a box, called the blue box
[3/4/2006 3:09 PM] <D31337> Once the blue box was created, this opened the door to new phreaks everywhere
[3/4/2006 3:10 PM] <D31337> phreaking became somewhat popular in october 1971, when Esquir Magazine printed an article called "Secrets of the Little Blue BoX'
[3/4/2006 3:11 PM] <D31337> The story talked about our friend Mr. Joybubbles and Jphn Draper
[3/4/2006 3:11 PM] <D31337> John*
[3/4/2006 3:12 PM] <D31337> John Draper, probaly one of the most known phreaks, is also known as Capt'n Crunch
[3/4/2006 3:12 PM] <D31337> He became friends with two guys you've probaly never heard of, Steave Jobs and Steave Wozniak
[3/4/2006 3:13 PM] <D31337> The blue box was the first box, and their are many more
[3/4/2006 3:13 PM] <D31337> but this blue box, it was the most important, since it started phreaking altogather
[3/4/2006 3:14 PM] <D31337> So, now, lets move into the 70s and 80s
[3/4/2006 3:14 PM] <D31337> any questions so far?
[3/4/2006 3:14 PM] <chedder> ... it dident start phreaking, it started kids freaking out wanting to make free calls
[3/4/2006 3:14 PM] <Ch4r> D31337, nope, no questions
[3/4/2006 3:14 PM] <D31337> Alright
[3/4/2006 3:15 PM] <D31337> So, with computers being around
[3/4/2006 3:15 PM] <D31337> in the 70s, phreaks and MaBell moved into computers as well
[3/4/2006 3:16 PM] =-= Ch4r has changed the topic to ``Phreaking lecture in progress.''
[3/4/2006 3:16 PM] <D31337> Many phreaks would share ideas and converse on bulletin board systems, or BBSs
[3/4/2006 3:17 PM] <D31337> There was also new phreaking techniques created, such as wardailing
[3/4/2006 3:18 PM] <D31337> With wardailing, one could scan exchanges for terminals to explore later, like in the move Wargames
[3/4/2006 3:18 PM] <D31337> movie*
[3/4/2006 3:19 PM] <D31337> When computers came into play, many phreaks also became hackers
[3/4/2006 3:20 PM] <D31337> and with the use of BBSs, many new ideas were tested in many areas, and test numbers, exchage scans, just about anything because avalible to a phreak wanting to learn
[3/4/2006 3:21 PM] <D31337> Many of these texts can be found on the textfiles.com phreaking section
[3/4/2006 3:21 PM] <D31337> So, you've got these BSSs, lots of information sharing going on, and you also have phreaking groups
[3/4/2006 3:22 PM] <D31337> There have been many, but more famous ones are the Legion of Doom
[3/4/2006 3:23 PM] <D31337> Masters of Deception, and Phone Losers of America
[3/4/2006 3:23 PM] <D31337> Okay, so in the 80s and 90s
[3/4/2006 3:23 PM] <D31337> Payphones were the target of one box, called the red box
[3/4/2006 3:24 PM] <D31337> You see, when you put a quarter in a payphone, it plays a tone
[3/4/2006 3:24 PM] <D31337> that tone, that's what the red box mimics
[3/4/2006 3:25 PM] <chedder> loonies, dimes, nickles ect to..
[3/4/2006 3:25 PM] <D31337> You pick up the phone's handset, put the box up to the earpeice, and press a button, it plays the tone, and you get your dailtone
[3/4/2006 3:25 PM] <D31337> Free calls on a payphone, gotta love it
[3/4/2006 3:27 PM] <D31337> The Red box died out when payphone manufactorers changed the way the phone read money
[3/4/2006 3:28 PM] <D31337> Another popular box, called the beige box, is still used today, and is my favorite.
[3/4/2006 3:28 PM] <D31337> The beige box was created to replace a lineman's butt-set, you know, that weird looking phone that the phone man has hooked on his belt.
[3/4/2006 3:29 PM] <D31337> Some phreaks couldn't find a butt-set, so they made their own using an old telephone.
[3/4/2006 3:30 PM] <chedder> you chop the wire, and replace the plug thing with two aligator clips..
[3/4/2006 3:30 PM] <Ch4r> chedder, you aren't giving the lecture... ;)
[3/4/2006 3:30 PM] <D31337> The beige box is used to access a line on a person's phone line on their TNI box
[3/4/2006 3:31 PM] <D31337> The reason for doing this could range from testing a new line, or to tap someone elses line
[3/4/2006 3:32 PM] <D31337> Mostly, it's used to use the person's line to make prank calls, or to call numbers they wouldn't want to on their line because ther pheer the telco
[3/4/2006 3:33 PM] <D31337> If you would like to look more into how to make a beige box, I made a tutorial for the lecture that you can find at http://giblee.googlepages.com/beigebox
[3/4/2006 3:33 PM] <D31337> I would cover it here, but This way you can look at photos and it saves time.
[3/4/2006 3:33 PM] <D31337> Any questions so far?
[3/4/2006 3:33 PM] <Ch4r> nope
[3/4/2006 3:34 PM] <D31337> Okay, moving on then
[3/4/2006 3:34 PM] <chedder> D31337: dont forget charging services to the line
[3/4/2006 3:34 PM] <chedder> :P
[3/4/2006 3:34 PM] <D31337> yeah, lol, but I dont want to give people ideas
[3/4/2006 3:35 PM] <D31337> So, lets talk about today's phreak.
[3/4/2006 3:35 PM] <qwertydawom> ok :)
[3/4/2006 3:35 PM] <D31337> Since the blue box and ed box don't work, whats a phreak to do? Alot.
[3/4/2006 3:36 PM] <D31337> Lets see, oh eah, there's this little thing called VoIP I could talk about...
[3/4/2006 3:37 PM] <D31337> VoIP = Voice over Internet Protocol.
[3/4/2006 3:38 PM] <D31337> VoIp has been around since like 1999, but wasn't popular untill broadband became avalible in most areas.
[3/4/2006 3:39 PM] <D31337> There are many major VoIp providers, such as Vonage, FreeWorld Dialup, and Skype.
[3/4/2006 3:40 PM] <D31337> One huge jump in VoIP usage was the creation of Asterisk, an open source PBX server
[3/4/2006 3:40 PM] <D31337> Asterisk is what has opened the playing feild for phreaks again
[3/4/2006 3:41 PM] <D31337> With new ideas coming from everywhere, and an easy and cheap way to play with the systems, it really has made a huge impact.
[3/4/2006 3:41 PM] <D31337> Caller ID Spoofing, for example, was previously done using an orange box, and did a horrible job of spoofing.
[3/4/2006 3:42 PM] <D31337> Now, you can set up a PBX using Asterisk@Home and start spoofing in under 2 hours.
[3/4/2006 3:44 PM] <D31337> With VoIP based PBXes, you need a way to script menus and funtions, so a new language was developed, calld VXML, or Voice XML
[3/4/2006 3:47 PM] <D31337> There are many scripts you can try out with VXML, and there are service that allow you to use their PBX to learn for free
[3/4/2006 3:48 PM] <D31337> In 2004, Kevin Mitnick was on a TV show called The Screen Savers, in which he spoofed the white house's caller id and called a host of the show's cell phone
[3/4/2006 3:48 PM] <D31337> this created alot of unwanted buzz in the phreaking community with the show's fanboys attempting to learn this "new" technique
[3/4/2006 3:50 PM] <D31337> Once they learned that he used VXML and PBXs, many found a popular caller id spoofing script and abused the heck out of a vxml service
[3/4/2006 3:50 PM] <D31337> the service provider noticed the abuse, and automaticly deleted the script and user account of people who used it
[3/4/2006 3:51 PM] <D31337> SO, basicly, Kevin Mitnick fanboys screwed alot of us over
[3/4/2006 3:51 PM] <D31337> So, Asterisk became the new HAM Radio of phreaks and has picked up ever since early 2005.
[3/4/2006 3:53 PM] <D31337> You can pick up Asterisk@Home at http://asteriskathome.sf.net
[3/4/2006 3:53 PM] <D31337>  and read this wonderful set of tutorials at http://mundy.org/blog/index.php?p=81 to being using a PBX in your own home
[3/4/2006 3:55 PM] <D31337> One more subject I'll talk about, cell phones
[3/4/2006 3:56 PM] <D31337> Well, cell phones in some form can be dated back to the radio, since that's basicly what the first cell phones were untill the 90s
[3/4/2006 3:56 PM] <D31337> Today's cell phones are digital, but before the mid-90s, cell phones for the most part were analog
[3/4/2006 3:57 PM] <D31337> These analog phones were REAL easy to listen to, all you would need is a scanner or a satalite dish.
[3/4/2006 3:59 PM] <D31337> For example, when I was like 6, we had a satalite dish that would move around and pint to other satalite dishes
[3/4/2006 3:59 PM] <D31337> not like the Dishnetwork or directTV ones we have today, i'm talkign about htose big ones
[3/4/2006 4:00 PM] <D31337> Well, if we got on the Telestar satalites, and turn through the channels, we could her people talking on their cell phones
[3/4/2006 4:01 PM] <D31337> I recall once hearing a couple break up and cursing each other. I bet they would have died knowing a 6 year old was listening to what they were saying
[3/4/2006 4:02 PM] <D31337> Another example, is from my father's police scanner. He was on the local fire department, so he had that thing on al the time
[3/4/2006 4:02 PM] <D31337> well, every once in awhile, he would turn it to certain freqs that would pick up a guy talking on the phone
[3/4/2006 4:03 PM] <D31337> He told me it was the police cheif in the next town, the dude was talking to his wife about stuff
[3/4/2006 4:03 PM] <D31337> So, cell phones, before moving to analog were real easy to listen in on
[3/4/2006 4:03 PM] <D31337> there is one other thing, cloning
[3/4/2006 4:04 PM] <D31337> Whe nyou clone one's cell phone, your basicly using their account
[3/4/2006 4:04 PM] <D31337> think of it like beige boxing their cell phone
[3/4/2006 4:05 PM] <D31337> There are many methods to this, and the person cloning has to have some pretty hefty equiptment
[3/4/2006 4:06 PM] <D31337> One method that is used today, is to copy data fro mtheir SIM card, and put in on your own
[3/4/2006 4:07 PM] <D31337> I'm sure your local Cingular employee could do this if they had the nerve to
[3/4/2006 4:07 PM] <D31337> Anyway, let me talk about one last thing about cell phones, and that is voicemail
[3/4/2006 4:08 PM] <D31337> With caller id spoofing, people found that logging into people's cell phone voicemail was easy- because they didnt have a password set up
[3/4/2006 4:08 PM] <D31337> or, if they did, they had an auto-login when calling from their cell phone
[3/4/2006 4:09 PM] <D31337> So, when you do set up your voicemail, do not set up the auto-login, its just not smart.
[3/4/2006 4:10 PM] <D31337> Some carriers are still open to this, so read up on if your carrier is stupid or not