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FREE CALLS ON PAY PHONES
The Paper Clip Method
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By: Master Mind
Many of people of the phreak community has asked the same question:
Why? Why does this thing work? I doesn't work for me, Why?. Well, hopefully
this article will put to rest many misconceptions about the procedure. This
procedure has become very popular, even in the movie wargames. In the movie,
the hacker twists open the microphone on the phone and connects one of the
two wires to the coin box. Then continues to make a long distance phone call
to his girlfriend. While the idea is correct, one can only make local calls
and are limited to one quarter's time. This scene is so close to the actual
truth that the "Made for TV version" has cut that specific scene. Imagine
what would happen if every youngster and some adults saw this and proceeded
to rip apart pay phones, not a pretty sight. This also demostrates how much
power the phone company had.
Nynex, in creating their fortress fones, has made an engineering
blunder. The whole concept of the method, is based on their short-sightness
and because of this are paying the price. The theory of the operation of the
phone works like this on paper: The first quarter that is deposited seems to
be based on an electrical impulse, but any addition coins will be audio
signals. Due to short cuts in engineering designs has left themselves open
to attack. By simply grounding the positive end of the microphone, enough
current and voltage is deferred to arter
in the coin box. An easy way to accomplish this is to connect the center of
the mouthpiece to the coin box, touch tone pad, or any thing that looks like
metal with a piece of wire. A most convenient piece of wire is a bend out
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