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Title: beige boxing?
Post by: stoneofshadow on February 25, 2007, 04:22:05 PM
i need to find out more about beige boxing.
can someone post a link to a part of the site that tells about that or just post here how to do it?
do i need any special wires or anything?
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: gangals on February 25, 2007, 04:36:15 PM
Mind you it took me a couple of hours to find this link, but I think it's what you are looking for:

http://www.google.com/search?q=beige+box
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: trevelyn on February 25, 2007, 04:39:46 PM
 :D hAHHAHAAAH wtf? thats just rude, asking a beige boxxing question, BEOGEBOXING IS TEH SERIOUS HAX.  You WANT TEH CODEZ? TO BEIGEBOXXORZ?
J00 ARE TEH FED'S!?? j()() WILL BUST US FOR PRISON FOR TEH CODEZ?
OMGHAX!1



EDIT: wait a minute.. this is a bot i bet! if i were a moderator i'd get this topic out of PLA RADIO DISCUSSIONS. this is proposterous!!
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: thesilente on February 26, 2007, 12:29:39 AM
l337
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: splynt0r on February 26, 2007, 06:57:43 AM
*cough*  ;D
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: Enamon on May 01, 2007, 08:28:22 AM
Seconded. Could someone please explain the whole beige boxing thing to us non-technical types? I want to get into phreaking but some of this stuff sounds really confusing, especially all this stuff with boxes. Do they have to be boxes, by the way? Can't they be cylinders or something? Why just one shape?
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: gangals on May 01, 2007, 08:38:44 AM
AHHHHH.

A beige box is just a normal telephone, except instead of having an RJ-11 end, it has two alligator clips.

This isn't a beige box, it's actually a tone generator, but you can use the device as a passive adapter.
(http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/7176/qvtimg20051027150310065zs0.jpg)

So think, normal phone, just with clips.
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: Enamon on May 01, 2007, 08:48:40 AM
Whoa! RJ-11! Alligator clips? Tone generator? Jesus, slow down! Now what do you mean it's like a normal phone with clips? What are clips? You mean movies?
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: gangals on May 01, 2007, 09:15:51 AM
Take your normal el cheapo phone and look at the clear plastic end that you would plug into the wall. That plastic end is a male RJ-11 adapter. Now look at the wires that terminate(end) in the plastic end, you will notice there are two wires.

Now if you were to cut that end off and strip the insulation off the phone cord, you would be left with two insulated wires. Just strip each of those wires and solder an alligator clip to each wire. You are now a proud owner of your very own beige box.
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: Enamon on May 01, 2007, 10:04:17 AM
Cool! So where can buy these special El Cheapo phones? I usually buy phones at Radio Shack and I haven't seen the El Cheapo brand there. I'll ask the guy at the counter next time I'm there.
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: gangals on May 01, 2007, 11:38:31 AM
I'm about to cry. Please say that was a sarcastic remark?
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: PHISH-PHREAK on May 01, 2007, 12:04:18 PM
I hope its not. I could just picture the results.
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: samo on May 01, 2007, 12:34:39 PM
(sorry for the off-topicness of this reply) I've been having some trouble stripping the green and red wires. I've tried so many times that its starting to look like christmas from all of the cut off red and green wires. Any advice?
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: rbcp on May 01, 2007, 12:41:28 PM
(sorry for the off-topicness of this reply) I've been having some trouble stripping the green and red wires. I've tried so many times that its starting to look like christmas from all of the cut off red and green wires. Any advice?

If you're too cheap for wire strippers, use your teeth.  Teeth work perfectly for phone wire.  Just hope the phone doesn't ring while they're in your mouth because that hurts.
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: Enamon on May 01, 2007, 12:44:19 PM
Oh, by the way, will El Cheapo phones help me hack phone company "switches"?
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: gangals on May 01, 2007, 12:57:02 PM
Oh, by the way, will El Cheapo phones help me hack phone company "switches"?

Yes. Only El Cheapo brand phones will do. Watch out for the Chinese remakes; they have a built in security chip that notifies Ma Bell security if you use them for switch hax0ring.
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: Alpha Omicron on May 01, 2007, 03:34:04 PM
ZOMFG, headdesk.

Make sure you hook a flux resistance modulator in parallel with the green wire though, so the telcos won't detect your any residual oscillation signature tone echoes. And be sure to get a good list of fun numbers. And give JoyBubbles a call.
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: AmishGangsta on May 02, 2007, 06:14:57 AM
Oh, by the way, will El Cheapo phones help me hack phone company "switches"?

You really wanted to ask, "how do I hack?" didn't you?
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: mr_doc on May 02, 2007, 06:24:34 PM
Oh, by the way, will El Cheapo phones help me hack phone company "switches"?

el cheapo
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a.   1.   cheap; inexpensive and of inferior quality; as, an el cheapo cigar.
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: PHISH-PHREAK on May 02, 2007, 07:02:16 PM
El Cheapo is a Mexican name brand. They supply inexpensive items witch may not be the best of quality however they still function properly. They are a top suppliers of dollar stores across the United States and parts of Canada.

Lately El Cheapo has had trouble with the law because of they have been using sweat shops in Mexico and in South America to create most of their merchandise.
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: trevelyn on May 03, 2007, 06:03:25 PM
Quote
If you're too cheap for wire strippers, use your teeth.  Teeth work perfectly for phone wire.  Just hope the phone doesn't ring while they're in your mouth because that hurts.

i use a lighter and my shirt.  the heat usually unravels the copper inside when i pull the plastic off though. heh. but you just put the cord under the tip of the flame and then have your hand under your shirt (old shirt) and pull it off. :)
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: darrglud on May 06, 2007, 12:11:30 PM
El Cheapo brand also features advanced hax0ring features and you won't get caught by ma bell.
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: afreak on May 28, 2007, 04:16:35 PM
(sorry for the off-topicness of this reply) I've been having some trouble stripping the green and red wires. I've tried so many times that its starting to look like christmas from all of the cut off red and green wires. Any advice?

If you're too cheap for wire strippers, use your teeth.  Teeth work perfectly for phone wire.  Just hope the phone doesn't ring while they're in your mouth because that hurts.
I've seen this happen to someone at work. It's funny how much voltage a phone line carries.

If you really want an easy method of making a beige box: buy a $2 phone from Value Village, and then strip those wires. After that, it is just a matter of going to Radio Shack and purchasing some alligator clips, and then somehow attaching the clips to the wires. You have to make sure that the right coloured wires are used, although I have heard of cases where there are some really cheap phones that can just have any wire used.
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: PHISH-PHREAK on May 28, 2007, 05:25:44 PM
(sorry for the off-topicness of this reply) I've been having some trouble stripping the green and red wires. I've tried so many times that its starting to look like christmas from all of the cut off red and green wires. Any advice?

If you're too cheap for wire strippers, use your teeth.  Teeth work perfectly for phone wire.  Just hope the phone doesn't ring while they're in your mouth because that hurts.
I've seen this happen to someone at work. It's funny how much voltage a phone line carries.

If you really want an easy method of making a beige box: buy a $2 phone from Value Village, and then strip those wires. After that, it is just a matter of going to Radio Shack and purchasing some alligator clips, and then somehow attaching the clips to the wires. You have to make sure that the right coloured wires are used, although I have heard of cases where there are some really cheap phones that can just have any wire used.

Your "its funny how much voltage a phone line carries" is a joke right?
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: trevelyn on May 28, 2007, 06:44:11 PM
i think its like 50VDC which would hurt like fuck if it hit your mouth, believe me, i know.  *rainbowsmiley*
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: jimb20 on May 28, 2007, 09:44:05 PM
i have a old conairphone that i can easily switch out to be just an ordinary land line phone and the cool thing is its a flip phone with ringer on/off and volume switch hi/low its pretty cool
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: johnnyhacker on May 28, 2007, 11:56:05 PM
Need cheap phones? you can usually find them in bulk on www.propertyroom.com (http://www.propertyroom.com)
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: I-baLL on June 02, 2007, 06:38:50 AM
Need cheap phones? you can usually find them in bulk on www.propertyroom.com (http://www.propertyroom.com)

I once saw a baby for sale there once.

Okay, okay, bad joke.

I recently realized that with the advent of POTS over Fiber (I'm coining a new term! "POTSoF") beige boxing might actually start to die out.
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: omega on June 09, 2007, 07:45:43 PM
beige boxing is simple.  all you do is take a cheap phone so you don't mess up on a good phone like a noobie, then you get a phone cord and you cut of one end so one of the jacks is off.  then what you do is take the red ( ring ) and the green ( tip ) wires and you trash the black and yellow wires.  if there are no color coated wires then you need a new phone cord.  cut the red a green wires and connect the two wires to aligator clips and make sure they are connected perfectly.  then go to a tni box and pwn. if you have questions email me at teleomega@gmail.com. 

later
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: frog on June 11, 2007, 04:29:19 AM
so you don't mess up on a good phone like a noobie

Says the guy who's 'coding a computer to make herz tones.' And thinks it's funny.

if there are no color coated wires then you need a new phone cord.

Says the guy who said 'mess up ... like a noobie.'

cut the red and green wires

Not everybody takes cut to mean circumcise, boy-o. It's called 'stripping.'

if you have questions email me at teleomega@gmail.com. 

Because your great advice that poorly mirrored about 300 posts on this site and a few in this thread alone was so demonstrative of your telephonic might that someone who started the thread in February is going to avoid using a public forum filled with phone losers to give you a boner while you refer back to totse .txt files on the subject.
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: trevelyn on June 11, 2007, 08:48:15 AM
Make sure you hook a flux resistance modulator in parallel with the green wire though, so the telcos won't detect your any residual oscillation signature tone echoes. And be sure to get a good list of fun numbers. And give JoyBubbles a call.

LOLERSKATES!!! LMAOBEIGEBOX!11
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: Zabulon on June 11, 2007, 09:08:55 AM
Lawlz, I think he haxx0red you there.

Seriously, If you have to look at totse everytime you talk about phreaking... You have problems... Totse's nice... But there's a reason everyone hates it. You'll have to find out for yourself

so you don't mess up on a good phone like a noobie

Says the guy who's 'coding a computer to make herz tones.' And thinks it's funny.

if there are no color coated wires then you need a new phone cord.

Says the guy who said 'mess up ... like a noobie.'

cut the red and green wires

Not everybody takes cut to mean circumcise, boy-o. It's called 'stripping.'

if you have questions email me at teleomega@gmail.com. 

Because your great advice that poorly mirrored about 300 posts on this site and a few in this thread alone was so demonstrative of your telephonic might that someone who started the thread in February is going to avoid using a public forum filled with phone losers to give you a boner while you refer back to totse .txt files on the subject.
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: mr_doc on June 12, 2007, 03:00:51 PM
how do I use this device to hack?  ???
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: MattGSX on August 05, 2007, 08:35:47 PM
how do I use this device to hack?  ???

I too am curious. I've found my method of hacking switches to be most ineffective:

(http://www.phonelosers.org/photos/albums/userpics/10545/hackingswitches.JPG)
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: MattGSX on August 11, 2007, 11:18:06 AM
Not even a chuckle? I thought the horrible image transfer alone was worth something.
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: gangals on August 11, 2007, 11:27:24 AM
I've been too busy laughing to post.
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: MattGSX on August 12, 2007, 10:09:27 AM
well thanks.
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: nak on August 12, 2007, 01:47:14 PM
...and Ive been too busy tying a noose to kill myself  :D
This thread makes me sad  :'(
Title: Re: beige boxing?
Post by: M-26-7 on August 12, 2007, 02:00:25 PM
Welcome to the forums, newb.