===================================== [> HACKERS DIRECTORY VOLUME 4 <] [> COMPLIED FOR YOU BY, <] [> HACKER SUPREME, THE CARTEL, <] [> And THE 'NIN TEMPLE'. (Elite) <] [> MASTER - NINJA SQUIRREL /+\ <] ===================================== ======================================= [ Hack Copyright: Hacker Supreme 1986 ] ======================================= Phone Taps Here is some info on phone taps. I have enclosed a schematic for a simple wiretap & instructions for hooking up a tape recorder control relay to 4he phone line. First i'll discuss taps a little. There are many different types of taps. There are tranmitters, wired taps and induction taps to name a few. Wired and wireless transmitters must be physically connected to the line before they'll do any good. Once a wireless tap is connected to the line, it can transmit all conversations over a limited range. The phones in the house can even be modified to pick up conversations in the room & transmit them too! These taps are usually powered off the phone line, but can have an external power source. Wired taps, on the other hand, need no power source, but a wire must be run from the line to the listener or to a transmitter. There are obvious advantages of wireless taps over wired ones. There is one type of wireless tap that looks like a normal telephone mike. All you have to do is replace the original mike with this & it'll transmit all conversations! There is an exotic type of wired tap known as the 'infinity transmitter' or 'harmonica bug'. In order to hook up one of these, you need access to the target telephone. It has a tone decoder & switch inside. When it is installed, someone calls the tapped phone & *before* it rings, blows a whistle over the line. The x-mitter receives the tone & picks up the phone via a relay. The mike on the phone is activated so the caller can hear all conversations in the room. There is a sweep tone test at 415/bug-1111 which can be used to detect on of these taps. If one og these is on your line & the test # sends the correct tone, you'll hear a click. Induction taps have one big advantage over taps that must be physically wired to the phone. They don't have to be touching the phone in order to pick up the conversation. They work on the same principle as the little suction-cup tape recorder mikes you can get at radio shack. Induction mikes can be hooked up to a transmitter or be wired. Here is an example of industrial espionage using the phone: a salesman walks into an office & makes a fone call. He fakes the conversation, but when he hangs up he slips some foam-rubber cubes under the handset, so the fone is still off the hook. The called party can still hear all conversations in the room. When someone picks up the fone, the cubes fall away unnoticed. I use a tap on my line to monitor what ae-pro is doing when it auto-dials, since it doesn't take advantage of the handset on the apple cat ii. I can also hook up the tap to a cassette recorder or amplifier. Here is the schematic: -------)!----)!(-------------> )!( CAP ^ )!( )!( )!( )!( ^^^^^---)!(-------------> ^ 100K ! ! No DTMF or pulsing digits after the dialing. <2> If you go near the CO., it will sound like a bunch of typewriters. <3> No speed calling, call forwarding, and other custom customer services. <4> Fortress Phones that want your money first opposed to the dial tone first ones. Well if you have all of the characteristics it doesn't mean that you definitely have SxS, but it does mean for sure that you don't have ESS! Also SxS has, for the most part been eradicated from larger cities such as Houston, NYC, and such. Crossbar This is the second type of switching system in our phone co. There are 3 major types of Crossbar, called: No. 1 Crossbar (1XB), No. 4 Crossbar (4XB), and No. 5 Crossbar (5XB). 5XB has been the primary end office switch of Bell since the 60's, thus it is in wide use. Crossbar uses a common control switching method. When there is an incoming call,a stored program determines it's route through the switching matrix. In Crossbar, the basic operation principle is that a horizontal & vertical line are energized in a matrix (the crosspoint matrix). The point where these two lines meet in the matrix is the connection. -^^^- --+ESS+-- -^^^- Electronic Switching System The Phreak's Nightmare Come True ESS is Bell's move to bust some phreaks, and they went about it the right way. With ESS, *EVERY* single digit that you dial is recorded--even if it is a mistake. They know who you call when you call, how long you talked, and in some cases, what you talked about. ESS can (and is) programmed to print out the #'s of people who make excessive calls to 800 #'s or directory assistance. This is called the "800 Exeptional Calling Report." ESS could also be programmed to print out logs of who calls certain no.'s, such as; a bookie, BBS, MCI dial-up, etc. The thing to remember about ESS is that is a mass of programs working together, and these programs can be easily changed to do any task you want it to do! This system maes the job of the FBI, Bell Security, NSA, and other organizations that like to invade our privacy, incredibly easy. With ESS, tracing is done in microseconds & the results are printed out in on the monitor of a Bell Security officer! WOW! It will also pick up any foreign tones on the line, such as 2600 Hz! Bell has said that the entire country will be ESSed by the 1990's. You can identify ESS by these, which are usually ESS functions: [1] Dialing 911 for emergencies [2] Dial-tone first fortress phones. [3] Custom Calling Services such as: Call forwarding, Speed Dialing, Call Waiting. (ask your business if these services are available.) [4] ANI (Automatic Number Identification) on long distance calls. This doesn't mean that inder ESS Phreaking has come to a complete halt, it just shows you how careful you are going to have to be! ESS sends an "Artificial Ring" generated by a computer, so the voice is not directly connected to the called parties until he picks up the phone. Thus Black Boxes won't do any good, and Infinity Transmitters will not work! Another way to find out what type of equipment your on, is to Trash your local CO.!!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another Great Directory from Hacker Supreme. 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