The Anarchist Cookbook (32 page)
114.How to start your own conferences! by The Jolly Roger
Black Bart showed how to start a conference call thru an 800 exchange, and I will now
explain how to start a conference call in a more orthodox fashion, the 2600Hz. Tone.
Firstly, the fone company has what is called switching systems. There are several types,
but the one we will concern ourselves with, is ESS (electronic switching system). If your
area is zoned for ESS, do not start a conference call via the 2600Hz. Tone, or bell
security will nail your ass! To find out if you are under ESS, call your local business office,
and ask them if you can get call waiting/forwarding, and if you can, that means that you
are in ESS country, and conference calling is very, very dangerous! ! Now, if you are not in
ESS, you will need the following equipment:
An Apple CAT II modem
A copy of TSPS 2 or CAT'S Meow
A touch tone fone line
A touch tone fone. (True tone)
Now, with TSPS 2, do the following:
Run tsps 2
Chose option 1
Chose option 6
Chose sub-option 9
Now type: 1-514-555-1212 (dashes are not needed)
Listen with your handset, and as soon as you hear a loud click, then type: $
To generate the 2600 hz. Tone. This obnoxious tone will continue for a few
Seconds, then listen again and you should hear another loud 'click'.
Now type: km2130801050s
'K' = kp tone
'M' = multi frequency mode
'S' = s tone
Now listen to the handset again, and wait until you hear the 'click' again. Then type:
km2139752975s
2139751975 is the number to bill the conference call to.
Note: 213-975-1975 is a disconnected number, and I strongly advise that you only bill the
call to this number, or the fone company will find out, and then.. remember, conference
calls are itemized, so if you do bill it to an enemy's number, he can easily find out who did
it and he can bust you!
You should now hear 3 beeps, and a short pre-recorded message. From here on, everything
is all menu driven.
Conference call commands
From the '#' mode:
1 = call a number
6 = transfer control
7 = hangs up the conference call
9 = will call a conference operator
Stay away from 7 and 9! If for some reason an operator gets on-line, hang up! If you get a
busy signal after km2130801050s, that means that the teleconference line is temporarily
down. Try later, preferably from 9am to 5pm week days, since conference calls are
primarily designed for business people.
115.Gold Box Plans by The Jolly Roger
HOW TO BUILD IT
You will need the following:
Two 10K OHM and three 1.4K OHM resistors
Two 2N3904 transistors
Two Photo Cells
Two Red LED'S (The more light produced the better)
A box that will not let light in
Red and Green Wire
Light from the #1 LED must shine directly on the photocell #1. The gold box I made
needed the top of the LED's to touch the photo cell for it to work.
The same applies to the #2 photo cell and LED.
1
:-PHOTOCELL--:
: :
: :BASE
: 1 TTTTT
: +LED- TRANSISTOR
: TTTTT
: : :
: -I(-- : :COLLECTOR
RED1--< >:--: :-------:-----GREEN2
-I(-- : ----------:
: :
2 :-/+/+/-/+/+/-/+/+/-/+/+/
LED 10K 10K 1.4K 1.4K
RESISTORES
2
-PHOTOCELL-----------------
: :
:BASE :
TTTTT :
TRANSISTOR :
TTTTT :
: :EMITTER :
GREEN1- --------------------------RED2
: :
/+/+/
1.4K
The 1.4K resistor is variable and if the second part of the gold box is skipped it will still
work but when someone picks up the phone they will hear a faint dial tone in the
background and might report it to the Gestapo er...(AT&T). 1.4K will give you good
reception with little risk of a Gestapo agent at your door.
Now that you have built it take two green wires of the same length and strip the ends,
twist two ends together and connect them to green1 and place a piece of tape on it with
"line #1" writing on it.
Continue the process with red1 only use red wire. Repeat with red2 and green2 but change
to line #2.
HOW TO INSTALL
You will need to find two phone lines that are close together. Label one of the phone lines
"Line #1". Cut the phone lines and take the outer coating off it. There should be 4 wires.
Cut the yellow and black wires off and strip the red and green wires for both lines.
Line #1 should be in two pieces. Take the green wire of one end and connect it to one of
the green wires on the gold box. Take the other half of line #1 and hook the free green
wire to the green wire on the phone line. Repeat the process with red1 and the other line.
All you need to do now is to write down the phone numbers of the place you hooked it up at
and go home and call it. You should get a dial tone! ! If not, try changing the emitter with
the collector.
116.The History of ESS by The Jolly Roger
Of all the new 1960s wonders of telephone technology - satellites, ultra modern Traffic
Service Positions (TSPS) for operators, the picturephone, and so on - the one that gave
Bell Labs the most trouble, and unexpectedly became the greatest development effort in
Bell System's history, was the perfection of an electronic switching system, or ESS.
It may be recalled that such a system was the specific end in view when the project that
had culminated in the invention of the transistor had been launched back in the 1930s.
After successful accomplishment of that planned miracle in 1947-48, further delays were
brought about by financial stringency and the need for further development of the
transistor itself. In the early 1950s, a Labs team began serious work on electronic
switching. As early as 1955, Western Electric became involved when five engineers from
the Hawthorne works were assigned to collaborate with the Labs on the project. The
president of AT&T in 1956, wrote confidently, "At Bell Labs, development of the new
electronic switching system is going full speed ahead. We are sure this will lead to many
improvements in service and also to greater efficiency. The first service trial will start in
Morris, Ill., in 1959." Shortly thereafter, Kappel said that the cost of the whole project
would probably be $45 million.
But it gradually became apparent that the development of a commercially usable electronic
switching system - in effect, a computerized telephone exchange - presented vastly
greater technical problems than had been anticipated, and that, accordingly, Bell Labs had
vastly underestimated both the time and the investment needed to do the job. The year
1959 passed without the promised first trial at Morris, Illinois; it was finally made in
November 1960, and quickly showed how much more work remained to be done. As time
dragged on and costs mounted, there was a concern at AT&T and something approaching
panic at Bell Labs. But the project had to go forward; by this time the investment was too
great to be sacrificed, and in any case, forward projections of increased demand for
telephone service indicated that within a few years a time would come when, without the
quantum leap in speed and flexibility that electronic switching would provide, the national
network would be unable to meet the demand. In November 1963, an all-electronic
switching system went into use at the Brown Engineering Company at Cocoa Beach, Florida.
But this was a small installation, essentially another test installation, serving only a single
company. Kappel's tone on the subject in the 1964 annual report was, for him, an almost
apologetic: "Electronic switching equipment must be manufactured in volume to
unprecedented standards of reliability.... To turn out the equipment economically and with
good speed, mass production methods must be developed; but, at the same time, there can
be no loss of precision..." Another year and millions of dollars later, on May 30, 1965, the
first commercial electric central office was put into service at Succasunna, New Jersey.
Even at Succasunna, only 200 of the town's 4,300 subscribers initially had the benefit of
electronic switching's added speed and additional services, such as provision for three
party conversations and automatic transfer of incoming calls. But after that, ESS was on
its way. In January 1966, the second commercial installation, this one serving 2,900
telephones, went into service in Chase, Maryland. By the end of 1967 there were additional
ESS offices in California, Connecticut, Minnesota, Georgia, NY, Florida, and Pennsylvania;
by the end of 1970 there were 120 offices serving 1.8 million customers; and by 1974
there were 475 offices serving 5.6 million customers.
The difference between conventional switching and electronic switching is the difference
between "hardware" and "software"; in the former case, maintenance is done on the spot,
with screwdriver and pliers, while in the case of electronic switching, it can be done
remotely, by computer, from a central point, making it possible to have only one or two
technicians on duty at a time at each switching center. The development program, when
the final figures were added up, was found to have required a staggering four thousand
man-years of work at Bell Labs and to have cost not $45 million but $500 million!
117.The Lunch Box by The Jolly Roger
The Lunch Box is a VERY simple transmitter which can be handy for all sorts of things. It
is quite small and can easily be put in a number of places. I have successfully used it for
tapping fones, getting inside info, blackmail and other such things. The possibilities are
endless. I will also include the plans or an equally small receiver for your newly made toy.
Use it for just about anything. You can also make the transmitter and receiver together in
one box and use it as a walkie talkie.
Materials you will need
(1) 9 volt battery with battery clip
(1) 25-mfd, 15 volt electrolytic capacitor
(2) .0047 mfd capacitors
(1) .022 mfd capacitor
(1) 51 pf capacitor
(1) 365 pf variable capacitor
(1) Transistor antenna coil
(1) 2N366 transistor
(1) 2N464 transistor
(1) 100k resistor
(1) 5.6k resistor
(1) 10k resistor
(1) 2meg potentiometer with SPST switch
Some good wire, solder, soldering iron, board to put it on, box (optional)
Schematic for The Lunch Box
This may get a tad confusing but just print it out and pay attention.
[!]
!
51 pf
!
---+---- ------------base collector
! )( 2N366 +----+------/\/\/----GND
365 pf () emitter !
! )( ! !
+-------- ---+---- ! !
! ! ! ! !
GND / .022mfd ! !
10k\ ! ! !
/ GND +------------------------emitter
! ! ! 2N464
/ .0047 ! base collector
2meg \----+ ! ! +--------+ !
/ ! GND ! ! !
GND ! ! !
+-------------+.0047+--------------------+ ! !
! +--25mfd-----+
-----------------------------------------+ ! !
microphone +--/\/\/-----+
---------------------------------------------+ 100k !
!
GND---->/<---------------------!+!+!+---------------+
switch Battery
from 2meg pot.
Notes about the schematic
GND means ground
The GND near the switch and the GND by the 2meg potentiometer should be connected.
Where you see: )(
()
)( it is the transistor antenna coil with 15 turns of regular hook-up wire around
it.
The middle of the loop on the left side (the left of "()") you should run a wire down to the
"+" which has nothing attached to it. There is a .0047 capacitor on the correct piece of