beige boxing?

[stoneofshadow]

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?

[gangals]

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

[trevelyn]

  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!!

[thesilente]

l337

[splynt0r]

*cough* 

[Enamon]

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?

[gangals]

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.


So think, normal phone, just with clips.

[Enamon]

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?

[gangals]

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.

[Enamon]

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.

[gangals]

I'm about to cry. Please say that was a sarcastic remark?

[PHISH-PHREAK]

I hope its not. I could just picture the results.

[samo]

(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?

[rbcp]

(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.

[Enamon]

Oh, by the way, will El Cheapo phones help me hack phone company "switches"?