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With the FBI watching us all the time,
you can never be sure if its safe to
say something. Even if your not into
good stuff, its still nice to know
that your the only one on the phone.
You don't want your sister listening
in on you. It is also well known that
alot of the major BBS's are being
monitored by the feds. Well, we hope
that the information presented here
will allow you to feel safer on your
telephone.
Most telephone surveillance devices
used on hackers numbers are very
simple. They usually save the good
stuff for spys and people like that.
It is impossible to tell if the good
stuff is on, but we have listed ways
to detect some of the cheaper
machines, and in some cases how to
shut them off or screw them up.
The MLT-2. This device is one of the
mainstays of BS (BELL security). Its
main weakness is in that give tones to
do its operation. A friend of MAD!'s
is currently working on a device he
plans to call a purple box that will
detect these tones. You will just be
able to keep it on, and it will report
on any such tones. We will keep you
updated in future files. Ok, if the
MLT-2 is in MON (monitor) mode, you
can do the following: A good old loud
2600hz will usually switch it to LOOP
mode. Some times a 7200 will execute
a TT (dial mode). These will get them
off your back for a while. If you own
a MLT-2 also, you can damage the other
MLT-2. First get the other MLT-2 into
loop mode. Now wait till it gets to
LIN (test the inside part of the
loop). Now do a K2. This will put
the MLT-2 into a state of limbo. Now
to finish up, do a MLT SOAK test.
This will put the offending machine
out of commission for a little while.
If you have an OMEGA BOX (nice little
things), a flat tone will put the
MLT-2 into a LRM (fast loop
measurement), thus getting it off your
line).
CONDUCTER TAGGER and ANALYZER test.
This will show you approxamatly how
many people are on a line.
First you need to hook a volt/ohms
meter up to the phone box in your
wall. Hook the line and the ground up
to the red and green wires. You can
use one made for it, or you can modity
the kind you use to check batterys by
putting aligator clips on it.
Now the volt meter will rise an fall
depending on how many people pick up
the phone, and how good the connection
is. If your sister picks up the
phone, it will fall. It picks up
operators, and whatever. Most of the
cheaper tapping machines will be
detectable. Tape recorders can also
be detected. Even a person on a test
phone will show up. Its a great tool.
Try using it on conferences some
time.
If you have friends (or enemys) that
like to listen to their phone
conversation out a phone boxes with
test phone theres something you can do
about it. The following information
comes from Abbie Hoffman and George
Hayduke in the classic book 'Getting
Even' the complete book of dirty
tricks.
Cut the female end off an ordinary
extension cord. Unscrew the
mouthpiece on the telephone. You will
see a terminal for a red wire and one
for a black. Attach one of the wires
from the extension cord to the red,
and one to the black. Now plug the
extension cord into a power socket.
According to Hoffman you are sending
20 volts of electricity back through
equipment made for 6 volts. Fizz.
Any infomation that is passed over
phone line can be intercepted by the
phone company.
Thanks to MR. X of a bell company we
have learned how to defeat most
surveillance devices using Blue/Omega
boxes. The blues range is very
limited, but the omega boxes covers
most of them. See MAD!'s new OMEGA
BOX handbook for more info.
Device name range tone
notes.
MLT-2 1400-7200 4800
see DETECTING TAPS #1
MLT-1 1400-6400 1200
AT&T scancat 900-1200 2600
see SCANNER by CAN-AM pirating
network
scancat 2 1200-2600 2600
ADS scanning system 2600-4800 12000
Bell 1021 7200 12000
Bell 1100 400-800+1200-7200 gold 2600
See OMEGA BOX HANDBOOK and FUN/OMEGA
BOXES 1-2
MACE(nickname if you know the real name
to this machine, please give it to
us.)
6200 gold 6200
This doesn't always work.
ADS monitoring test.
ADS is the new trace/monitoring test
being used by AT&T, MCI, soon SPRINT,
and more. It is very fast and
accurate, but it has many many faults.
After much testing we found that if you
do a 7200 and ADS is on the line, a
volt meter will go go crazy. A simple
gold will make a pop if ADS is on the
line. For a lot more on ADS see
MAD!'s upcoming DETECTING LINE TRACES.
TAP TEST NUMBERS
Lately MAD! has as been seeing alot of
those tap test #'s. Our friends at
the phone company said there are such
#'s, but they will only detect certain
things. Here is a small list. We are
not sure if they work, and didn't have
time to test them. We will print the
results in an upcoming file. If they
do, we will print about 25 of them.
This came from someone named JOHN DOE
but were not sure what system.
Here it is...
I GOT A # TO SEE IF YOUR BEING TRACED.
WHEN YOU CALL IT USING YOUR PHREAKING
SERVICE,YOU SHOULD HEAR A TONE THAT
GOES UP IN FREQUENCY,THAT MEANS YOUR
NOT BEING TRACED. IF YOU HEAR A STEADY
TONE, THEN YOUR BEING TRACED AN YOU'D
BETTER HANG UP IN LESS THAN 30 SECONDS
OR YOU RUN THE RISK OF BEING
TRACED...THE # IS 617-890-9900.
ENJOY,
HACKER SMITH
Also you see the number posted around
200-xxx-xxxx. This is a ADS system
used by bell linemen from phone boxes
(see the MAD! file on TEST PHONES for
info on phone boxing.). It is not a
trace test at all.