pay phone question

[Xie]

For me to risk a felony it would have to be at least 500k nothing less is really worth it. As even if you where arrested, say 5 yrs in prison that 500k will be worth about $80,000 in interest. with a good mutual fund.

Except the cops don't let you keep any of it if your caught (plus you'll pay out $ in fines).

 

[Xie]

Hehe, everyone should remember cap'n'crunch and his 2600hz whistles

hehe phreaking .. led to the "hacker" group 2600

 

[SPeedY_B]

Phreaking is, and always will be, fun

 

[Perris Calderon]

according to that admittedly old link, that I posted, cap'n crunch might have something to do with the founding of apple.

Apple founders Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak, who was then a student at the University of California at Berkeley, were so impressed by the article that they sought out Draper. After getting in touch with Draper, legend has it he turned up at Wozniak's dormitory sporting an outlandish moustache and horn rim glasses who announced, "It is I!" A typically flamboyant entrance for Draper, who is well known for his manic intensity and insistent curiosity.

According to the International Herald Tribune, Draper schooled Wozniak and Jobs in the art of making their own 'blue boxes', electronic devices that allow users to gain free and illegal access to the phone network. Legend has it that the two novice entrepreneurs sold the blue boxes door-to-door on the Berkeley campus, several years before they founded Apple Computer.

 

[Perris Calderon]

now, if that story is true, I do believe that would give everybody some kind of legal standing and license to crack anything they want from apple.

of course, the defense would fail in court, but it would make interesting fodder to be sure.
anyone know if the story has been verified?

 

[SPeedY_B]

now, if that story is true, I do believe that would give everybody some kind of legal standing and license to crack anything they want from apple.

How exactly?

 

[LeeJend]

Yeah, I remember them all. But I'm wondering why Gates and Woz haven't done any jail time when the other hackers of their time did...

One guy I knew actually bought a payphone and installed it for his kids to use. He was tired of them always tying up the phone line.

Hey Perris. When your "buddy" cracks a pay phone let us know how much it will actually hold.

 

[SPeedY_B]

They never ended up behind bars because they were probably careful or clever. It's easy to evade the law when you know what you're doing.

 

[Xie]

I think I remember something about the "blue boxes" in the movie, Pirates of Silicon Valley.

 

[Perris Calderon]

let's see if I remember my colors;

black box..this one was a resister 5600 which lowered the voltage when you picked up the phone so it wouldn't register as answered, and the caller didn't get charged

I think the red box was the one that toned the sound of coins...in the beginning, the operator just listened, so the frequenct wasn't critical, but then computers tool over, and the frequency had to be more precise

then I think was the blue box.

you would call an 800 number, and the right frequency would open up the trunk line as if you were an administrator for a t & t...then tone in the numbers you wanted to call.

I did that from ,memory, so I don't know if I got my colors right