The Anarchist Cookbook (45 page)
before they turn their toes up to the daisies, so to speak.
Note: If the syrup is too sticky, dilute it with a few drops of water. And while you are at
it, better add an extra drop to the coffee just to be sure!
144.Dried Seed Timer by The Jolly Roger
A time delay device for electrical firing circuits can be made using the principle of
expansion of dried seeds.
Material Required:
Dried peas, beans, or other dehydrated seeds
Wide-mouth glass jar with non-metal cap
Two screws or bolts
Thin metal plate
Hand drill
Screwdriver
Procedure:
Determine the rate of the rise of the dried seeds selected. This is necessary to determine
the delay time of the timer.
Place a sample of the dried seeds in the jar and cover with water.
Measure the time it takes for the seeds to rise a given height. Most dried
seeds increase 50% in one to two hours.
Cut a disc from thin metal plate. Disc should fit loosely inside the jar.
NOTE: If metal is painted, rusty, or otherwise coated, it must be scraped or sanded to
obtain a clean metal surface
Drill two holes in the cap of the jar about 2 inches apart. Diameter of holes should be such
that screws or bolts will thread tightly into them. If the jar has a metal cap or no cap,
a piece of wood or plastic (NOT METAL) can be used as a cover.
Turn the two screws or bolts through the holes in the cap. Bolts should extend about one
in. (2 « cm) into the jar.
IMPORTANT: Both bolts must extend the same distance below the container cover.
Pour dried seeds into the container. The level will depend upon the previously measured
rise time and the desired delay.
Place the metal disc in the jar on top of the seeds.
How to use:
Add just enough water to completely cover the seeds and place the cap on the jar.
Attach connecting wires from the firing circuit to the two screws on the cap.
Expansion of the seeds will raise the metal disc until it contacts the screws and closes the
circuit.
145.Nail Grenade by The Jolly Roger
Effective fragmentation grenades can be made from a block of TNT or other blasting
explosive and nails.
Material Required:
Block of TNT or other blasting explosive
Nails
Non-electric (military or improvised) blasting cap
Fuse Cord
Tape, string, wire, or glue
Procedure:
If an explosive charge other than a standard TNT block is used, make a hole in the center
of the charge for inserting the blasting cap. TNT can be drilled with relative safety.
With plastic explosives, a hole can be made by pressing a round stick into the center of
the charge. The hole should be deep enough that the blasting cap is totally within the
explosive.
Tape, tie, or glue one or two rows of closely packed nails to the sides of the explosive
block. Nails should completely cover the four surfaces of the block.
Place blasting cap on one end of the fuse cord and crimp with pliers.
NOTE: To find out how long the fuse cord should be, check the time it takes a known
length to burn. If 12 inches (30 cm) burns for 30 seconds, a 10 second delay will
require a 4 inch (10 cm) fuse.
Insert the blasting cap in the hole in the block of explosive. Tape or tie fuse cord securely
in place so that it will not fall out when the grenade is thrown.
Alternate Use:
An effective directional anti-personnel mine can be made by placing nails on only one side
of the explosive block. For the case, and electric blasting cap can be used.
146.The Bell Glossary by The Jolly Roger
ACD: Automatic Call Distributor - A system that automatically distributes calls to
operator pools (providing services such as intercept and directory assistance), to airline
ticket agents, etc.
Administration: The tasks of record-keeping, monitoring, rearranging, prediction need for
growth, etc.
AIS: Automatic Intercept System - A system employing an audio-response unit under
control of a processor to automatically provide pertinent info to callers routed to
intercept.
Alert: To indicate the existence of an incoming call, (ringing).
ANI: Automatic Number Identification - Often pronounced "Annie," a facility for
automatically identify the number of the calling party for charging purposes.
Appearance: A connection upon a network terminal, as in "the line has two network
appearances."
Attend: The operation of monitoring a line or an incoming trunk for off-hook or seizure,
respectively.
Audible: The subdued "image" of ringing transmitted to the calling party during
ringing; not derived from the actual ringing signal in later systems.
Backbone Route: The route made up of final-group trunks between end offices in different
regional center areas.
BHC: Busy Hour Calls - The number of calls placed in the busy hour.
Blocking: The ratio of unsuccessful to total attempts to use a facility; expresses as a
probability when computed a priority.
Blocking Network: A network that, under certain conditions, may be unable to form a
transmission path from one end of the network to the other. In general, all networks used
within the Bell Systems are of the blocking type.
Blue Box: Equipment used fraudulently to synthesize signals, gaining access to the toll
network for the placement of calls without charge.
BORSCHT Circuit: A name for the line circuit in the central office. It functions as a
mnemonic for the functions that must be performed by the circuit: Battery, Overvoltage,
Ringing, Supervision, Coding, Hybrid, and Testing.
Busy Signal: (Called-line-busy) An audible signal which, in the Bell System, comprises 480hz
and 620hz interrupted at 60IPM.
Bylink: A special high-speed means used in crossbar equipment for routing calls incoming
from a step-by-step office. Trunks from such offices are often referred to as "bylink"
trunks even when incoming to noncrossbar offices; they are more properly referred to as
"dc incoming trunks." Such high-speed means are necessary to assure that the first
incoming pulse is not lost.
Cable Vault: The point which phone cable enters the Central Office building.
CAMA: Centralized Automatic Message Accounting - Pronounced like Alabama.
CCIS: Common Channel Interoffice Signaling - Signaling information for trunk connections
over a separate, nonspeech data link rather that over the trunks themselves.
CCITT: International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee- An International
committee that formulates plans and sets standards for intercountry communication
means.
CDO: Community Dial Office - A small usually rural office typically served by step-by-step
equipment.
CO: Central Office - Comprises a switching network and its control and support equipment.
Occasionally improperly used to mean "office code."
Centrex: A service comparable in features to PBX service but implemented with some
(Centrex CU) or all (Centrex CO) of the control in the central office. In the later case,
each station's loop connects to the central office.
Customer Loop: The wire pair connecting a customer's station to the central office.
DDD: Direct Distance Dialing - Dialing without operator assistance over the nationwide
intertoll network.
Direct Trunk Group: A trunk group that is a direct connection between a given originating
and a given terminating office.
EOTT: End Office Toll Trunking - Trunking between end offices in different toll center
areas.
ESB: Emergency Service Bureau - A centralized agency to which 911 "universal" emergency
calls are routed.
ESS: Electronic Switching System - A generic term used to identify as a class, stored-
program switching systems such as the Bell System's No.1 No.2, No.3, No.4, or No«.
ETS: Electronic Translation Systems - An electronic replacement for the card translator
in 4A Crossbar systems. Makes use of the SPC 1A Processor.
False Start: An aborted dialing attempt.
Fast Busy: (often called reorder) - An audible busy signal interrupted at twice the rate of
the normal busy signal; sent to the originating station to indicate that the call blocked due
to busy equipment.
Final Trunk Group: The trunk group to which calls are routed when available high-usage
trunks overflow; these groups generally "home" on an office next highest in the hierarchy.
Full Group: A trunk group that does not permit rerouting off-contingent foreign traffic;
there are seven such offices.
Glare: The situation that occurs when a two-way trunk is seized more or less
simultaneously at both ends.
High Usage Trunk Group: The appellation for a trunk group that has alternate routes via
other similar groups, and ultimately via a final trunk group to a higher ranking office.
Intercept: The agency (usually an operator) to which calls are routed when made to a line
recently removed from a service, or in some other category requiring explanation.
Automated versions (ASI) with automatic voice response units are growing in use.
Interrupt: The interruption on a phone line to disconnect and connect with another station,
such as an Emergence Interrupt.
Junctor: A wire or circuit connection between networks in the same office. The functional
equivalent to an intraoffice trunk.
MF: Multi-Frequency - The method of signaling over a trunk making use of the simultaneous
application of two out of six possible frequencies.
NPA: Numbering Plan Area.
ONI: Operator Number Identification - The use of an operator in a CAMA office to
verbally obtain the calling number of a call originating in an office not equipped with ANI.
PBX: Private Branch Exchange - (PABX: Private Automatic Branch Exchange) An telephone
office serving a private customer, Typically , access to the outside telephone network is
provided.
Permanent Signal: A sustained off-hook condition without activity (no dialing or ringing or
completed connection); such a condition tends to tie up equipment, especially in earlier
systems. Usually accidental, but sometimes used intentionally by customers in high-crime-
rate areas to thwart off burglars.
POTS: Plain Old Telephone Service - Basic service with no extra "frills".
ROTL: Remote Office Test Line - A means for remotely testing trunks.
RTA: Remote Trunk Arrangement - An extension to the TSPS system permitting its
services to be provided up to 200 miles from the TSPS site.
SF: Single Frequency. A signaling method for trunks: 2600hz is impressed upon idle trunks.
Supervise: To monitor the status of a call.
SxS: (Step-by-Step or Strowger switch) - An electromechanical office type utilizing a
gross-motion stepping switch as a combination network and distributed control.
Talkoff: The phenomenon of accidental synthesis of a machine-intelligible signal by human
voice causing an unintended response. "whistling a tone".
Trunk: A path between central offices; in general 2-wire for interlocal, 4-wire for
intertoll.
TSPS: Traffic Service Position System - A system that provides, under stored-program
control, efficient operator assistance for toll calls. It does not switch the customer, but
provides a bridge connection to the operator.
X-bar: (Crossbar) - An electromechanical office type utilizing a "fine-motion" coordinate
switch and a multiplicity of central controls (called markers).
There are four varieties:
No.1 Crossbar: Used in large urban office application; (1938)
No.3 Crossbar: A small system started in (1974).
No.4A/4M Crossbar: A 4-wire toll machine; (1943).
No« Crossbar: A machine originally intended for relatively small suburban
applications; (1948)
Crossbar Tandem: A machine used for interlocal office switching.
147.Phone Dial Locks -- How to Beat'em by The Jolly Roger
Have you ever been in an office or somewhere and wanted to make a free phone call but
some asshole put a lock on the phone to prevent out-going calls? Fret no more phellow
phreak, for every system can be beaten with a little knowledge!
There are two ways to beat this obstacle, first pick the lock, I don't have the time to
teach locksmithing so we go to the second method which takes advantage of telephone
electronics.
To be as simple as possible when you pick up the phone you complete a circuit known as a
local loop. When you hang up you break the circuit. When you dial (pulse) it also breaks the
circuit but not long enough to hang up! So you can "Push-dial." To do this you >>> RAPIDLY
<<< depress the switchhook. For example, to dial an operator (and then give her the number