beige boxing?

[gangals]

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.

[Alpha Omicron]

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.

[AmishGangsta]

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?

[mr_doc]

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.

[PHISH-PHREAK]

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.

[trevelyn]

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.

[darrglud]

El Cheapo brand also features advanced hax0ring features and you won't get caught by ma bell.

[afreak]

(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.

[PHISH-PHREAK]

(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?

[trevelyn]

i think its like 50VDC which would hurt like fuck if it hit your mouth, believe me, i know. 

[jimb20]

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

[johnnyhacker]

Need cheap phones? you can usually find them in bulk on www.propertyroom.com

[I-baLL]

Need cheap phones? you can usually find them in bulk on 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.

[omega]

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

[frog]

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.