What's up? Okay. This is not a response to anybody's message here on the board. This is just information for those who happen to be in the Verizon, as I like to call it, in the 215 area code of the Verizon, since Verizon country extends to more than just that.
There are certain locations in the 215 in the Philadelphia area, by the way, just to make it simpler for you, where there are some Verizon COCOTs.
From these, you're able to access SEPTA police and also SEPTA customer service at absolutely no charge in one of two ways.
SEPTA police can be accessed by either Star 18 or Star 88, and SEPTA customer service can be accessed by either Star 19 or Star 89.
The way to identify Verizon COCOTs is, well, first of all, they're mainly in the higher profile locations or in the subway stations,
market Frankfort L or the Broad Street subway or where have you, you know, areas like that, as you would figure.
The 10 cents a minute Verizon pay phones are COCOTs. You can't always tell to look at them which ones are COCOTs.
That's one way, though, for some of them, they're the 10 cents a minute, and the other ones, you can tell to look at them
because they have a different upper instruction card, and it mentions about calling SEPTA police and customer service
through the Star 88 and Star 89, but it doesn't mention about that Star 18 and Star 19.
But there are some of them that don't have that you can recognize to look at it. For those ones, just pick up and dial some toll-free numbers.
And if you hear James Earl Jones' voice saying,
Thank you for using a Verizon pay phone.
Well, you know you got a COCOT. I should say COCOTized. I shouldn't keep using the term COCOT.
In other words, they use the inside billing technique. So, got a few of them, not a whole lot of them.
Let's see. And other stuff within the area code from National Telecoin, COCOT, if you hit star 1.
This used to work. I don't know if it still does. I found ones that it doesn't work from and ones that still does.
You access Philadelphia County Community voice mail, and the boxes are four digits in the 9,000 range, I believe.
But the thing was that every time, like, you set up the box, it would not stay set up afterwards.
So, don't ask me. I don't know.
So, there you go. There's two things in the 215 area code here.
And if there's any phreaks out there from the 215, hit me up at 1-triple-8-4-3-7-8-3-7-1 if you want.
And, by the way, the name is Captain B. And, I guess that's about it. Catch you all on the flip side.
This is Captain B from the 215 following the previous message of mine up with one more message.
Just because I figure maybe it needs to be said.
If anybody is going to hit me up, please, I beg if you don't, hit me up, you know, only to ask for,
oh, do you have this, do you have that, do you have, you know, another thing in that.
I don't give out stuff to anybody. I've done stuff for things.
I've done things for people in the past.
And, over and over again, I've been screwed over by people.
So, I do nothing for nobody anymore.
So, if you want to hit me up for the sake of talking about anything telecom related, you know,
just for the sake of sharing information back and forth, hey, I'm cool with that, no problem.
But, if you're going to voice me up to ask for anything, please do not.
I beg of you, do not.
Okay.
Just another side thing to mention, too, that also will only be of interest to people in the 215 area code.
So, it apparently seems like now, when you optivert within the area code here,
or at least from my particular part of the area code at least, if nothing else,
it passes along area code followed by seven zeros.
I bring this up because it used to be the case from what I remember.
It used to pass along ten zeros, and there may still be parts of the country that do that when you optivert.
And, two ways to optivert.
I think you already know both of them, but just to cover it for those who do not already know,
either route through carrier access code like AT&T, like 1010ATT0,
just like it was mentioned in the magazine a while back, dialing your toll-free number minus the one,
or simply dial up your operator, tell them that you're visually impaired, having trouble dialing a number,
and then give them the toll-free number.
The one thing to bear in mind, though, that I've heard talked about sometimes,
is that operators sometimes will sit on the line, even though you think that they've disconnected that,
and they may listen in. So, that is the one thing to bear in mind.
I don't know how true it is, but, you know, just something to keep in mind, if nothing else.
So, anyway, it is good to see the Voice BBS back up once again. It's been a damn long time.
Very, very, very, very long time. Also good to see it being used a lot.
So, once again, back up to, well, now with this one, what, 323 messages? Yeah.
But, enough of the pleasantries out there. Like I said, anybody that wants to hit me back to talk telecom stuff,
you know, definitely I'm all for that. So, 1-888-437-8371.
And if you're figuring you're going to look for other boxes in that same area on my system for other direct dial stuff,
don't bother, because it's just the case that those particular ones are few and far between.
They don't put one right next to another. They put them completely nowhere near each other.
Just to cover about that, too. So, I hope everybody's doing good out there. The captain says, peace out.
Okay.
Wouldn't it be great to have H2K2 in Orlando already in the fucking lawn of the government? The White House?
Gotta go, my moon, darn it.
Now, here's something special, if you can call it that, in this area code also, too. But, if this serves some sort of purpose, God only knows.
Here's hoping maybe somebody out there might know a little something about this.
When you dial star 9-4 or star 0-1 before any number, I mean any number, toll free, local long-distance, whatever.
If you dial star 0-1 or star 9-4 before dialing any number, you will always get a busy signal for that number that you dial.
There's gotta be more purpose to it than that. You know, certainly, just making a number that it's busy when you dial.
It can't be just that. There's something I'm missing here. But, what? I do not know. But, I don't know. Maybe it's just like a shot in the dark.
I'm hoping on the off chance somebody out there might already know about this and know also more about it than I do.
So, yeah, once again, that works in the 215. Well, I should mention, too, all these things I'm saying here is actually the 215 slash 267 area code for the overlay.
And, I don't know, maybe these things also might apply to the 610 area code as well. 610484, I should say. They have an overlay area code, too, really.
So, yeah, that being the case, also, too, anybody out there in that area code outside the city here in the 610484, if you know anything about this,
about any of this stuff I'm mentioning about here, you know, the respond here on the BBS or hit me back where I was saying to voice me up at.
And, peace out, everybody.
Yeah, I called the, I think it was the voice DVS.
The number was 516-473-2626 from Missouri on my Verizon phone.
And it didn't want to go through. It said, error 51-MO-01.
I think probably the MO is for the state. I don't know what else it is.
Maybe they blocked it just because it was you guys.
Or maybe I'm just being paranoid. I don't know.
Also, I listen to Off the Hook a lot.
And I was going to call in last week, but I missed the show.
I'm probably going to download it here in a couple minutes.
One thing I'd like to hear, though, is like, what kind of software, or what actually do you use to make your voice, your phone system work at 2600?
Like the whole voicemail, all that kind of stuff.
Because I've been looking to set up something like that here in Missouri just to play around with.
Anyway, I'll tune in next week to hear what I have to say.
And I guess I'll try star or pound to stop the message here.
This is Fallman out of 718.
This response is to Captain D.
I believe I have that right.
You were mentioning about the Verizon cold cards, and I was listening to the messages.
And I'm not aware of Scepter Police and Scepter Customer Service.
I'm wondering what that is, if you can enlighten me on that.
And also, as far as Verizon cold cards goes, it sounds very interesting.
It's something I wouldn't mind looking into.
It piqued my interest with that.
Basically, to tell the difference between the cold card and, I guess, the regular pay phone.
But I was wondering if you could tell me about that.
And, you know.
So, uh, thanks.
Hey, well, it seems like someone's got to kick this thing off.
There's no messages on the moderated board.
But, my name's Andrew.
I'm in London.
And, uh, if anyone wants to kick off any kind of discussion.
It's about 3 o'clock in the morning.
It's Sunday.
I think it's the 11th or 12th of May.
Just want to kick off the moderated board, really.
If anyone wants to leave a message.
Um, I'm in London.
You're in the US.
Let's talk.
Bye.
Hey, it seems like, uh, this moderated board's a little bit broken.
Uh, I'm trying to leave a message to kick it off.
There doesn't seem to be any messages.
But, my name's Andrew.
I'm in London.
And, uh, if anyone wants to kick off any kind of discussion or whatever.
Then, uh, please do.
Um, I'm a user of FreeBSD and HPUX.
Don't laugh.
Uh, I'm also in London.
So, let's get a bit of international kind of discussion going on.
Not on operating systems or anything.
Just on whatever.
Whatever you want.
I figured the moderated board would be a bit more civilized than the unmoderated board.
So, let's have a nice civilized international conversation.
Goodnight.
Alright, see.
It's May 14th and it's been a long, long time since I've been back here.
And I gotta say that I'm pretty surprised that, uh, I got a response.
I was checking for quite some time.
I know it's the case that this really doesn't see a lot of use anymore.
But, good to see somebody responding.
Um, okay.
Well, let me see.
COCOT.
Now, in the case of the Verizon COCOT, there is no way to tell by looking at it.
Because it looks exactly like the standard Verizon phone.
It looks exactly the same.
There's no difference in appearance.
The difference is in the inside.
Because it has the, uh, inside computer that all COCOT have.
As compared to the regular standard Fortress one, you know, for the Verizon phone.
Um, SEPTA.
Yeah, my bad on that, as far as that goes.
Uh, well, SEPTA is our local transit system.
Now, it stands for Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.
But, in my opinion, it might as well stand for something more along the lines of slow, exceptionally pathetic transportation authority.
Or maybe slow, expensive, uh, expensive price transportation authority.
Yeah, that's especially good, because at two bucks, one way, and 60 cents for a transfer.
We're one of the most expensive transportation systems in the nation.
There's only one that's more expensive than us.
That would be San Diego.
But, I digress.
Um, that's another topic anyway.
That doesn't have to do with anything tech.
So, why I'm bothering to bring that up?
God only knows.
But, uh, now there are some of the Verizon cOCOT's that have been configured to, uh,
charge 10 cents a minute in some locations.
And, uh, these Verizon COCOT's, you only find them in select locations.
I didn't already mention that before.
I think I did, but just to make sure.
Um, all of which are in Center City, as we call it.
Which means downtown Philly.
You find it in more high-profile locations.
You won't find them on the street anywhere in the city.
Even in downtown, uh, Center City.
You only find them, uh, in 30th Street stations.
They have a few.
They have some suburban stations.
Um, they have...
There are other places I can't think of.
Most interesting of all is the bus terminal.
Which is nothing but Millennium.
But Millennium.
It's the only place in the city that has any Millennium.
So they have them all in one spot.
I tried out that trick that, uh, mentioned in the previous issue.
About the trick for the Millennium phone.
Pretty cool trick.
I really like it quite a bit.
It's just a shame when you get the second pin prompt to come up.
You know, you can't manage to hit upon the right three-digit code.
I tried all the standard fare stuff.
I know all the...
The thing about regular simple defaults.
Like three of the same digit.
Like 3-1.
Or 1-2-3.
Or things like that.
Nothing I tried for.
It was simplistic default stuff.
But I don't know.
Um, and they have them also, too, that they have the card reader, uh, thing installed.
Because I know for Millennium phones, they don't come with that install.
That's separate.
The paid phone owner, if they want that, they have to, uh, you know, get that installed separately.
It's a separate speed board.
And, uh, I've seen those phones on paidphone.com, I think it was.
The paid phone or paid phone.
With or without the S, I forget.
But I know I've seen them there.
And, yeah, as you would imagine, they're not particularly cheap.
I've seen another model, I think it was on there.
Also, too, that looked just like the, the ones that we have, but without the building, uh, LED screen.
That was the only difference.
Um, let me see.
And, well, one more thing.
You know, while we're on the topic of COCOT, I've found a number of times in COCOT that there's ones that haven't configured.
You know, if you hit star, and either a single digit, or in some cases, double digit.
You know, you might have to punch in two digits of some type or another.
You can get three calls, you know, to a certain other number than that.
I already mentioned some of the variety, but I'm talking about for other companies' COCOT.
Um, I've also found that there's cases, too, for some companies' COCOT, where you can dial the company without putting any money in, you know, that will cover the cost of the call.
It's all a matter of whether that particular company's COCOT hasn't configured that it'll allow you to make the call free.
Yeah.
But then again, in other cases, you've got COCOTs throughout the country where they still haven't even configured it to recognize 866 and 855.
Well, then again, 855 is a man-used still as of yet, anyway.
Um, and, uh, I hope it doesn't seem like I'm kind of tooting my own horn here, or whatever phrase you want to use for it, but you'll find an article from me in the latest issue of the magazine if you did not already know that, if you came here first.
But, uh, more likely than not, by the time the next person comes here, it'll be old news.
Be like, yeah, yeah, I've seen that about an eon ago, right?
Um, anyway, I thought about dropping my email address on here, but I don't know if I want to do that.
I don't know.
If I can count on it that the only people that would hit me up via email would be people that are people that are alright, uh, as people, as human beings, then it would be a different story.
But I don't know.
Anyway, I don't know if Emanuel or anybody from the magazine is calling us up listening to this.
Maybe not, since it's unmoderated after all, but just in case Emanuel or any of you guys are listening, I can't begin to thank you enough for printing my article in the magazine.
I had also given up hope of getting anything printed in the magazine, because I know the credentials of that.
Not the credentials, the, uh, criteria is the word I'm looking for.
The criteria of getting printed is not all that easy.
I know that.
I know it's gotta be concise, uh, understandable, and, uh, hell of a phrase, not a lot of fluff in that.
And, I don't know, I was beginning to give up hope.
That's the ironic thing.
I really didn't think anything I was, uh, sending you guys would get printed.
But now, um, in relation to what has happened that you printed my article, you know, maybe I'll keep sending you guys more stuff.
Hopefully I'll send you more stuff that you feel is worth printing, I hope.
Of course, I, uh, I've been full well at this point.
I'm still, for me, myself, my knowledge is, uh, intermediate.
I don't, I don't really claim to be 31337 and all that stuff, you know.
Um, I'm no lamer, but I'm not the creme de la creme either, but I'm always working towards that.
I'm always interested in learning new stuff.
Not just because it becomes good, but because anything telecom related really interests me a lot.
Um, not every last thing in telecom stuff, actually, I should say.
Like cell phone stuff like that.
But I know this is getting boring here now.
So let me see if I can go back to any tech talk stuff.
Um, I don't know.
Maybe I'll just wait for the, the next person to come along in about a neon or two.
Well, I will send one more part here.
Um, and, uh, the only other thing to make mention about, uh, something I've learned a little more recently.
I've been working with potentiometers.
Very great things to work with, you know, because as long as you get one that covers a wide enough range,
you can connect it up to your phone line.
You can use it for the purposes of, uh, simulating the invisible box that Lucky 225 talks about.
You could use it, uh, for the purposes of the black box.
But just like Lucky 225 said, it doesn't really work.
I mean, you can keep bringing voltage on the line there.
And by the way, that's the black box, of course, in case you didn't already guess what it was talking about there.
The whole thing of keeping bringing voltage on the line.
Um, that's about all you can do with the black box anymore, at least in my area and maybe a lot of areas.
I don't know if, uh, any of the secluded areas in the country or anywhere else in the world if it still works.
To some extent or another, but it doesn't work here.
But anyway, I just wanted to suggest that to anybody who may not have thought of the concept of trying out a potentiometer.
Doesn't mean, after all, what is a potentiometer?
Nothing more than a variable resistance, right?
So, that being the case, as long as you've got a wide enough range on it.
You know, any time that you need to add resistance to the phone line.
If you don't know how much you need, but you have an idea, like a ballpark figure,
as long as you can pick up a potentiometer that covers a wide enough range from Rat Shack, our favorite place.
Yeah.
Right.
You've got questions, we've got your money.
Well, anyway.
Yeah, like I said, so.
Interesting thing to work with.
But, there's other ways to stimulate it, like for instance, the invisible box.
It can be done with batteries, too.
Connecting them up and using two 9 volts, and then connecting it to either the ring or tip.
And that will stimulate enough voltage that it, you know, won't set off to an indicator light to pick up.
Just to make mention, I didn't say.
But, for those of you who remember Lucky 225's article, you'll remember that that's what the invisible box is all about.
One of the things I've been working on is trying to get payphones to ground themselves.
You know, for the standard fortress ones.
When I come across one with a loose panel at the bottom, I've got to rely on finding ones like that
because I still don't have a security hex driver set at them yet.
Personally, that doesn't seem to be as easy to come by.
And if anybody knows where I can pick up one at, certainly by all means, please let me know on here, you know.
If anybody's listening to this.
But, it's the standard fortress phones to ground themselves.
Just in case you didn't already know.
Well, if you do so, if you can manage to do so, it means you get local calls for nada.
Not long-distance, just local calls.
Or long-distance as well.
As long as you're in an area where red boxes are still working for you.
And then, there you go.
That's what you can do.
You can ground it and then on top of it.
And you can make your local calls for nothing and on top of it.
And you're long-distance, once by red boxes, of course.
But, as we know, red boxes are just not around too much anymore.
Especially as more and more Kokotten populate the streets and less and less fortress ones are around.
And now, with the Mimas turning the old western electric ones for the bell phones into Kokotten.
Boy, these messages really haven't been coming through all that good.
And that would be because this is a Kokotten.
We know how Kokots are.
And I just wanted to go into one more part to make mention for anybody here that, you know,
if you ever want to try looking for me online in cyberspace anywhere,
you're not going to find me in any of the IRC channels or anything like that.
I definitely make it a point to steer clear of those hellholes since IRC is a nightmare.
That's because people do their part to make it that way.
Not that this is news to anybody that's been on IRC, right?
For me, myself, I have not, but I still know the reputation of IRC.
But if you're looking for any other files of mine that I've written,
you can find them on textfiles.com, some of the ones I've written, as well as in other places.
And, uh, let me give a quick shout-out to teamphreak.net.
As you would imagine, their website would be at http going slash slash www.teamphreak.net.
That's teamphreak, not team, T-E-A-M-phreak.net.
Phreak, of course, spelled in the standard way that we always spell it, P-H-R-E-A-K.
Um, I write files for a lot of different places in cyberspace.
Basically, anybody that's interested in my stuff, you know, but, uh, like I already said,
it really amazes the hell out of me that the magazine was interested in my stuff.
I didn't think that would be the case.
Once again, I don't know if anybody from the magazine is listening wrong, really.
Not much anybody is listening here to this.
Nobody comes here to be watching things like that.
Emmanuel, or anybody, ShapeShifter, anybody with the magazine,
thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
If it's the case that so much is, you know, it's never the, you know,
you never print another article of mine ever again, that's fine,
because just to have printed one of mine is one more than I thought would ever get printed.
So, it really is amazing.
I love it, and can't help but get at least a little bit of a swell head about it,
because when you get printed, you know, anywhere else in cyberspace, you know,
for your files and that on some site, some phreaker site, some scene.
Well, that's great, that's cool and all, but when you get printed in 2600,
you got printed in Z place, Z main place.
You know what I'm saying, of course, right?
So, that's why this is humongous for me, and I can't believe it, like I said.
I just, I love it, and I appreciate it.
Um, let's see.
So, anybody else, if you're calling this, you know, if you have any questions,
then hopefully I have the answer to.
There's still things that I've done and things that I haven't done,
some things I have an idea of how to do, but try to answer any questions on here
whenever I come back here about anything.
and, uh, okay, that's it, so take care, everybody.
The captain says peace out.
Okay, there we go.
One stop under.
Good.
Yeah.
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And Icon.
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polls.
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the Amigo icon of LPH, but obviously that didn't work out and I was hoping that it didn't
post, but it did post, so too late now. But something pretty important that I wanted to
cover about here for my article that got printed in the most recent issue, well, recent at
the time that I'm posting this, that would be the spring issue of the magazine. A screw
up on my part in the article that I didn't realize that I made until after seeing it
in the magazine. I think really it should go without saying to anybody that, maybe even
for some novice pheaks out there too, but I'll still say it just in case for anybody that
didn't already know. The one thing that I omitted, that I left out was, you know, when you cut
a plug off, obviously you first have to strip the cord a little bit at each end before you
crimp on a line cord plug. This would be for the bungee box, the file that I wrote, which
of course is nothing more than a modified handset cord. So, if it confused anybody about that
for that screw up, let me apologize for causing the confusion there, you know, because of
not making mention of that in the article. So, it's my bad on that as far as that goes.
And I accept the blame and responsibility about that. I try to be pretty thorough in articles
when I write them, and files on the internet when I write them too, but the thing is, you know,
the case I'm working within time restrictions. I'm not one of those that has a computer at
home, and I don't know if any of you know how it is when you use these public terminals,
you know, at places like libraries, internet cafes, and things like that. Simply put, it
is a pain in the ass. Pardon my French. There was no other kinder, there's no gentle way of
putting it. And it gets to be that way because of basically the people running the show, shall
we say, at those places. So, as a result, anytime I'm writing any kind of thing, you know, file
or article or anything like that, that's what I'm doing. Knowing that I'm working within certain
time restrictions, it always keeps me pretty nervous, thinking I gotta finish up, I gotta finish
up, hurry really fast, you know. Not to mention that I don't exactly like the people that are
running the show at my local library. They're pretty cocky, arrogant, condescending, and I
just simply don't like them, you know, as a result. Although I doubt that my library is an
exclusive as far as that goes. I've heard stories from other people that, even those with computers
and that, that have used library computers a little bit from time to time, the things
they went through. It's really something because I think these people forget that it's our taxpayer
dollars that pay for all that stuff, the computers, the software on them, the library books, including
even their salaries. But they don't seem to act like that, you know. It all comes down to, I
don't even think that there is such a thing as set rule guidelines. There doesn't tend to
be at a lot of libraries, I don't think. I mean, yeah, the whole thing of content material,
that much is obvious, but there are other rules beyond that that they don't exactly come
outright and say, or even so much as imply. And I think that really, more often than not,
it just comes down to the, sorry for all that rant for the previous post, but as you can
tell, it's a soft spot or strikes a nerve with me, I guess we should say. So, maybe if I had
a real computer instead of the archaic monster that I have, it's not that I don't have a computer,
it's just that what I have does not qualify as a computer. You definitely could not get on
the net with what I have. No, I'm absolutely sure about it. Even though I've even seen on
one website where you could, you know, pump it up quite a bit in terms of its power and
speed and that, which is a grand total of 20 megahertz per clock speed that you can get
up to. The regular top speed is one megahertz. We're talking about a Commodore 128 here,
after all, so. Ah, well. Hey, if I wasn't poor, I'd go out and get a computer, but not all
of us are made of money. Some of us are working dead-end minimum wage jobs, after all. Um, anyway,
I know that a lot of this stuff I'm talking about doesn't have to do with tech stuff, but
I just, I don't know, I feel that, well, it's not like anybody's coming back here too
much anyway, like I said. But one thing that I wish was the case that didn't keep happening
so much again and again and again, and I've been experiencing it certainly more than once
or twice or three times over the course of my past seven years involved with the whole
thing of telecom stuff. Whenever you're talking to anybody in cyberspace, these friggin' kids
can't just drop the whole attitude for five minutes and talk like a human being, you know?
And it really takes it down for all of us. It doesn't help matters, you know? So as a result,
I've gotten pretty cold towards people myself, all because you got so many like that out there.
It's really stupid, ridiculous, and there's no reason whatsoever that it has to happen.
But people always want to be like that. Why? Because they can. That's the way they see it.
Yeah. Well, that still doesn't mean that you should or that you have the right, but they don't care.
So as a result, any time you're talking about anything that's communication, you know,
whether you're talking about IRC, whether you're talking about teleconferences, message boards, anything,
you know, it's always the case that you got so many jerks out there that just have to try to start stuff
for no particular reason, just because they desire to do so. That's one thing that I despise about our community.
I really wish we could get rid of that and focus on things that really matter.
There's any number of other things that, you know, would be better for our energy to be put on.
But nobody ever thinks of it like that. Nobody ever takes the time to care about much of anything other than causing trouble.
in all those forums, like I was saying, in cyberspace, message boards, everything.
I really fail to see why it has to be like that. Because as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't have to be like that.
And anybody that says otherwise is somebody I disagree with. Simple as that.
Because, I mean, you tell me if it has to be like that. Well, you explain to me.
You give me a good reason as to why it has to be like that.
Any way you slice it, it's just so many kids acting like kids, you know? And that's unfortunate, you know? Because...
Hey, I just tried calling the VBBS and it said that the PCS phone could not be found after a good laugh.
If I called back, I'll let you guys know if you did not already.
Hope you see this fixed. Goodbye.
I'm just going to drop you the new URL for the new Philly 2600 website, which at this point is still a very early work in progress.
But here it goes anyway.
Uh, http colon slash slash www.philly2600.com. So, that's where we finally are on .com, finally.
Previously we were on .net. For that it was like on surf.2 something or other, or cum.2 or whatever.
So, just wanted to drop the 411 there.
FYI, for those in the 215267 area code and also the 610484 area code, the new Philly 2600 website is up to some extent.
It's still a work in progress at this point. But, the new website for those interested can be found at www.philly2600.com. So, there you go.
Hey, this is Leigh from the Orange County 2600 meetings. I'm just calling to tell you everything is peachy and fine.
Uh, this number was given to me to be told to call this number just about the Orange County meetings.
Alright, see ya. Bye.
I don't know how to hang up.
This is Professor Diabolic. I've broken the RSA cipher. The procedure is very simple.
You take a set of prime numbers, find the multiplicative inverse modulo n, n being part of the public key.
You then take, multiply the prime with the multiplicative inverse, subtract 1, divide by n.
You then find the, uh, the greatest common divisor for all of these.
And, you will find that it's the, uh, totient of n, which is used to find the private key.
The, uh, procedure can be used very quickly on a mainframe or supercomputer.
And I believe the government has been doing this for 20 years, because I suggested this to them approximately 20 years ago.
I was never able to follow up on it. Thank you.
Okay, this message is left quite a bit after the other ones that I posted here.
Uh, question I wanted to ask, but since nobody seems to be coming back here, I'm probably going to go unanswered, but I'll ask anyway.
You'll have a chance that somebody's actually listening.
All right. Um, out of one of the central offices around here, around here meaning in the 215 area code,
it's the case that if you hit pound and any three-digit number between 120 and 149, you get kind of a strange error message,
or at least strange to me, I never heard it before and it doesn't work for the other central offices.
It starts out sounding like a regular error message with the three-tone part, like so.
And then, you know, traditional, we're sorry, you know, yadda yadda blah blah.
But then it eventually goes on to say, please check your instruction manual or call the business office for assistance.
I asked one of the people about this at my local 26 meet last month, and all I got is the blank stare of death.
So, I'm hoping somebody out there knows something about this and shed a little light on this.
And let me thank anybody that steps forward that helps out on this in advance.
Well, Captain, thank you.
Hey, my name is Andrew.
I would like to start a meeting in Rockford, Illinois, at the Cherryvale Mall in the food court, near the pay phone.
If you need any more information, I will try to call back and make sure it's all set.
Thanks. Bye.
Check out Donatlink.com. This is from Minnesota. Thank you.
Okay, let's see. I'm back again. Nobody's been back here since I last posted, which was what, back in July, and now it's mid-September 17th. 2K2.
A little experiment that I was just trying out. You buy an AC adapter from Radio Shack, switchable between 18 to 24 VAC volts AC.
Switchable to keep it switched on 24 volts AC. And what you want to do is, you want to get this type of connector that connects to the, you know, Rat Shack radio hack, whatever you want to call them, with these AC adapters.
Let me first mention that they have connectors, you know, like for their things, adapter plugs, maybe you've heard of it, maybe you haven't.
You've got this one type that connects, and on the other end, it's like a, I guess what you'd call a, yeah, it's a plug on one end, and it's bare wire leads on the other.
That's what you have to connect up to the female end of the AC power cord. And you connect that up to a phone, and what can you do when you do this, you say?
I don't know if you want to make a phone ring has apparently just enough voltage to be able to make a phone ring.
Although I don't know if I'd recommend keeping it connected up for long periods of time, because the thing is, you know, it's on house current, but it's, you know, although it's 24 volts AC,
it's still house current in the sense of the amount of cycles per second, which when you're talking about house current is 60 on average.
Whereas when a phone is ringing, it's around 20 cycles per second. But this is something that you can do to test your phone's ringer,
if like you have like an old phone around the house, and you're just curious if the ringer inside works or something like that.
I don't know, maybe this isn't particularly useful information. Maybe it is if you don't have phone service in your house,
and you want to test the phone out for its ringer, or if you just like it for novelty's sake or whatever.
I also was able to power two phones to make them ring at the same time, too, through this same method, using what you call it,
that three-way adapter thing, you know, that connects and connects up to two phones, and that just barely has enough power to ring both.
When you pick up on one's phone, it'll stop it from ringing on one of them. Whereas if you have it connected to just one,
even when you pick up the phone, it'll just keep on ringing and ringing. By the way, also, too, it doesn't like ring and then stop,
and then another ring, like how the phone company does. It just keeps going on and on and on, you know?
So you unplug it from the low outlet.
This is not to be confused with the executioner box, because it's not that. This is different.
The executioner box, yeah, it'll make a phone ring all right until it's destroyed.
Executioner box, the creation of mine, by the way.
All right, so that's it from the captain.
Yeah, I haven't been out here in a while, but just thought I'd come up and see who's leaving messages.
This is the phone man again. I listened to the last ten messages or so.
This goes out to that gentleman. I think his name might be Captain D. I'm not sure.
But you were talking about cold cards, payphones, also devices you were using to feed voltage into the phone line to make the phone ring and all that stuff.
I've actually done things like that using a handset amplifier, like Radio Shack.
I can't recall how I did it right now, because that was a long time ago.
But I just find it interesting what you're saying, and something just came up, you know, as far as with the payphones.
I guess I got reminded of something. I was wondering if you happen to know about it.
There's like a, I don't know if it's with Verizon payphones or just other companies, because I don't recall right now.
But there's like a certain code you can enter into the payphone, and it probably either starts with the pound button or the start button.
It might be like a three or four digit code. And when you enter this code, like you pick up the phone, you get the dial tone, then you enter the code.
And when you do that, it actually gives you a recording telling you how much money is in that phone at the moment, like how much money is deposited.
And I found out about that way back in 1994. This is like a year before I got into free game.
And I really wish I remembered what that was. If you happen to know about that, I would like to, you know, find out what that code is again.
But it's just too bad. I don't remember. Also, as far as the one other thing you were talking about with the, actually you said something about entering a code and the area code where you're in, the 215 and getting the recording, saying something about the instruction card.
I've gotten recordings over here, where I am in New York, like that, but I really don't think that's anything, like, anything significant, to be honest.
There's nothing really, even if it's with that one central office you're talking about and not with the others, I don't think it's really anything significant.
But I could be wrong. I wouldn't think much of that if I ran across that myself, but anyway, hope to hear from you or something.
Okay, phone man, listening to your response here. Right now it seems you and I are the only one even checking in with this.
I'm really surprised to hear anybody respond, actually. Nice change of pace, I guess I should say here.
But anyway, listen to what you said about the whole thing about amplifier and that, and I don't understand how that's supposed to make a phone ring.
Because, you know, a handset amplifier just, obviously it amplifies the handset, you know.
When it comes to ringing a phone, you have to supply AC voltage, and normally on a phone line, from what I understand, I know a lot of these things depend on who you ask.
Well, according to what I've read, so if I'm wrong, it ain't my fault because this is what I've read in a phone book.
Actually, it was the phone book, you know, I mean like, not the telephone book, I mean, you know, telephone instruction book.
It was that one that Radio Shack used to sell. I don't think they carry that anymore.
But actually, the same thing is actually in libraries anyway, that same book, actually in an expanded version, too.
And getting to the point here, what it said is that 85 to 90 volts AC is on the phone line when it's ringing.
But I've heard some people swear it's as high as 110.
Well, 110 is house current from my understanding.
But I don't know.
There's also something else different, too, if I didn't already make mention about it before.
But I think I might have, though, already, but just in case I didn't.
The amount of cycles per second, you know, that the current changes direction in, you know, back and forth in one second.
It's 20, it's around on average 20 cycles per second for a phone line when it's ringing as compared to house current, which is around 60.
So, although with this adapter from Radio Hack I was able to run 24 volts AC, the one thing that kind of bothered me is the fact that the cycles per second, also known as hertz, of course, is much higher than that of, you know, of what it normally is on a phone line.
Like I said, around 20 on average.
Yeah, cycles per second is also known as hertz.
Not to be confused with hertz like 2600 hertz, like the blue box tone.
I know it's also used to describe sound, but hertz is also used to describe how many times in a second the current changes direction with AC current.
Uh, just for reference here.
But anyway, I don't know.
Let me move on to the other stuff that you're talking about there.
Now what you're saying about that code, obviously that has to be for a COCOT because it would require a computer inside the phone, which is what COCOTs have, the whole thing of inside billing.
Because normal Western electric pay phones, whether they're maintained by Verizon or Bell, whatever, you know, any regular ILEC, incoming local exchange carrier, as long as it's actually even some ILECs now operate COCOT eyes phones.
Especially, I thought I've heard Bell South quite a bit.
In our area, Verizon does too, to some extent, a little bit in certain spots, selected spots.
They've COCOT eyes certain Verizon pay phones in certain locations.
But simply put, as long as it's not a COCOT or COCOT eyes type phone and that, you know, actually I should say as long as it is a COCOT type phone, I meant to say, then what you mentioned will work as long as you hit the right button sequence, whatever it is.
But yeah, unfortunately, I do not know what that button sequence is.
And also, I do think that there is more than one COCOT manufacturer, but the main one that always keeps coming up that I always hear about, boy, the volume on all these posts always comes through so quiet.
I know it's not the phones I'm using, it's something with the system here, but I went so long on that previous message I didn't finish up, so I'm going into another one to finish up that thought.
But like I was saying, ProTel is the main company I always hear a lot as far as manufacturer of COCOT.
So, with ProTel COCOT, I know that you can hit star pound too to make it get updates for the, you know, computer inside and that.
Sometimes also too on some of them I found that they also have star pound 68 program for what seems like the same function apparently.
Star pound 65, I think it is, like reads back the number and star pound 62 reads back the dial-up number or I might have those reversed, I think.
Let me put it this way, anything that starts like star pound 6 and then a digit afterwards does things.
Actually, you can even hit just star pound 6 with no digit followed after and even that did something too, but I forget what.
Um, not all the things though, not all the things with star pound 6 have a function assigned to them.
Uh, but yeah, like I said, one reads back the number of the pay phone, of the COCOT, another reads back the dial-up number.
I remember for a COCOT Eyes Verizon phone, it read back a toll-free dial-up number, uh, 800-483-1237 if I remember correct.
I know I have the first half of that right. The last three digits I'm not sure about.
I think I got it right though, actually, now I think about it again.
Um, and the thing that surprised me is that usually dial-up numbers for a COCOT are usually local, not toll-free or long-distance.
But in the case of that, it's toll-free.
Makes me wonder if they set it for toll-uh, toll-free dial-up number because they want to log ANI or what.
I don't know.
Who knows?
Because as we know, that's the main, uh, thing to worry about when it comes to toll-free numbers, the fact of ANI.
But hey, as long as there's Optivert, well, eh, you're not left out in the cold or if you're routin' through a PBX
or even dial them through a payphone, whatever, you know.
Uh, of course, in the case of somethin' like that, though, you still gotta be runnin' the right software in that.
You have to be runnin' ExpressNet 3.
And from what I hear, it's not particularly easy to find on the Internet anymore.
Uh, this was, now I think about it, this was covered in an old issue of 2600 back in 99,
uh, when I got a year of back issues in 99.
Uh, somebody did an article on it, and some of this stuff that I'm sayin' was in that.
It was, might have been the spring 99 issues, depending upon, like, how long you've been a reader.
Uh, for me, I've been a reader for since, actually, the beginning of 2000, got the year of back issues from 99.
Uh, let me see. Now, if 2600, if a manual or whoever decides that the magazine, you know, maybe my next article,
intercepting and retransmitting data over phone lines might get printed in the magazine.
I hope that sure would be cool.
Uh, and hopefully the information I gave you helped out here.
Uh, it's definitely a cocot, what you were talking about.
I'm sorry I don't know the button sequence that you mentioned, but I do know that you're talking about a cocot.
That much is definitely evident to me.
Um, so when you hear this, whenever that may be, whenever you're back here, respond if you like.
And that's it. The captain says, page.
Whoops, there is something else that I did forget to cover, now that I realize it.
I was just about to leave the, uh, system behind here.
Uh, let's see, you know, I mean for now, of course.
But anyway, about that whole thing about, yeah, you saying the instruction part.
It didn't say anything about instruction part.
It said instruction manual.
Instruction manual.
You know, like as in the kind of thing that linemen carry around with them.
Instruction manuals.
Instruction manuals about what are they talking about?
In this case, I have no idea.
All I know is that it really stood out as a strange thing.
It's certainly something I had never encountered before.
And the fact that I encountered this at all, you know, is really just, uh, you know, I guess it is kind of surprising.
But it was by chance in that.
Since like I said, you know, out of the CO that I'm on, this same thing does not work from payphone.
Yet it does work from payphone out of this other CO that, uh, where it works at that I'm on right now, actually I should say.
And just to re-mention, pound followed by any three digits as long as it's between 120 and 149, I think.
And sure, uh, started out sounding like your standard error message.
I was thinking maybe it was going to give me, like, not in service or, you know, something that's more standard fare.
But when it eventually went into, please check your instruction manual or call the business office for assistance.
Well, obviously that caught my attention.
There's something else you didn't, uh, even make mention about.
Call the business office for assistance.
Assistance with what?
I mean, doesn't it make you wonder?
It makes me wonder.
I'll tell you that much.
It makes me curious.
Both about the whole thing about the instruction manuals and why is there a need to call the business office?
For what?
For what purpose?
All I know is that it's obvious that this error message apparently seems to be geared towards linemen and that.
Uh, and it does make me wonder, like, if there's a way to do something a little differently,
that you'll get something to happen other than that error message.
But everything I've tried doesn't work.
Like I said, if you go outside that range of numbers, it just, uh, you know, it won't happen in that.
Um, you'll just get, uh, some sort of regular type error message.
I forget what, uh, if you'd like to make a call, yadda yadda or whatever.
I don't know.
Um, but, I don't know.
I think about that situation and it seems like you just, you just, like, skipped over it.
Not for me.
I take notice to that fact that, you know, that it gives this kind of error message and it says the things that it's saying
and also taking notice to the fact that it only works out of this central office.
Well, at least so far, as far as I know, who knows, maybe there's other central offices that it works out of.
It does show one very important thing that, you know, depending upon even what central office you're out of,
in the same town, things can vary by more than some phreakers realize, I guess.
I don't know.
At least it does in this case.
Um, let me give you another example here, too, of how things vary drastically from one central office to the next.
Now, around here, if you want to do the whole thing of 958, you know, ANAC, ANAC, you know, to get the ANI read back,
it's 958 followed by any four digits.
Now, in another part of the city, actually in the center of town, it's just 958 by itself.
In still another part of the city, it's the area code followed by 958 and any four digits.
Well, the only other thing that I want to cover about that I got cut a little short is that,
out of certain central offices also, too, you can sometimes use 311 instead of 958.
They have that, apparently, set forward to 958, but only out of the other central offices, not this one.
Out of this one, when you tried to dial it, it wouldn't you put money in the phone.
Go figure.
But, I don't know, maybe it still might work if you put money in the phone,
but why shouldn't you put money in the phone just to get a number read back to you, right?
Stupid.
No point in it.
And, uh, it's the case no matter which method you use around here, too,
whether you use 311 or the 958 method, either way prompts you to put money in.
And, even for the ring back, uh, trick that works here, they want you to put money in,
out of this central office, they want you to put money in the phone,
yet not out of other central offices.
Once again, strange, baffling, I don't understand it.
And, also, for reference, if I never made mention, here, if you hit 811 followed by the last four digits of the pay phone number,
not out of this central office, but out of the other one, like I already said.
Uh, you know, it clicks over, it goes back to a dial tone.
Flash the switch hook, and then you hear the ring back tone on the line indicating that it's ready to ring back.
You hang up after a moment and ring back, of course.
Um, and I definitely regret teaching some non-phreakers that trick and that, since they seem to feel the need to abuse that.
Because, I mean, after all, you know, it's something that wasn't meant for such a purpose of just all the time going up to every pay phone that it worked for doing that trick.
I don't know.
Well, hey, my bad on that.
My fault.
I didn't have to teach it.
Uh, but anyway, yeah, so maybe the same trick might work for ring back in your area for any of you listening to this.
Or the other stuff that was mentioned.
Try it out.
I don't know.
But things, of course, vary from, um, as you can tell, from one central office to the next, let alone from one city to the next, or one state to the next.
And remember, though, that, uh, this stuff that I mentioned, that not all of it works from, uh, COCOTs.
You know, COCOTs have, like, their own separate way of doing things, and then the regular phones have another way.
Just like I mentioned for about the whole thing of getting the pay phone number read to you, the whole other thing, COCOTs, at least the type that I know about.
Um, yeah, I forget.
I, it might be the case that none of those things work with COCOTs.
Just because, like, the computer inside the COCOTs is not programmed to recognize these things, you know?
I'll just give you some pre-programmed error message from the computer itself side.
Remember that that's the main difference between COCOTs and non-cocotts, the computer inside.
Not to be confused with Intel inside.
Uh, inside billing, that's the term, inside billing.
Whereas with, you know, non-COCOTs, all the billing verification is handled back at the central office.
That's the whole reason behind the coin tones, better known as red box tones.
You know, to signal to the central office what you're putting in.
And that COCOTs, of course, don't have those tones.
The billing verification is happening right there at the phone, not downstream anywhere back at the central office or anything like that.
I think probably most people call on the phone.
Unbelievable.
Hey, this is Jay. I'm up in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
And this is the first 2600 meeting I've been to in Arkansas.
I've gone to the Portland ones a few times.
But there doesn't seem to be anybody here.
And I was wondering if there's any information about it being canceled or anything.
I hope not anyways.
But I just figured you guys would want to know.
I seem to be pretty much the only person here this month.
Hey, what's up?
We've been trying to start a 2600 chapter down here in Pensacola, Florida.
There was an attempt at one-to-one time, but it kind of fell through.
But, you know, as time goes, more and more people are getting interested.
And there's a cyber cafe at this cop shop called The Daily Grind.
It's downtown Pensacola.
On the corner of Pal Fox and Lane Street.
And we meet there every Friday, Saturday and Sunday anyway.
So a bunch of fucking hacker-cracker, cyber-phreak type people.
You know, we play Counter-Strike all the damn time.
But we're trying to start a meeting.
We've emailed you about this.
We haven't heard anything back.
So just call and leave a message too, see if we can start one up.
Pensacola, Florida.
Thanks a lot.
And good luck, guys.
Yeah, I wanted to start a meeting in the Wilmington, North Carolina area.
At Barnes & Noble at 7.30 p.m.
The number there for the pay phone in Barnes & Noble is 910-395-8348.
Thank you.
Hello?
This is Dude.
Yo, Dude.
What's up, man?
Nothing much, man.
I'm going to start a meeting in the Wilmington, North Carolina area at 7.30 p.m.
at Barnes & Noble's.
The number for the pay phone there is 910-395-8348.
And that's at 7.30 p.m.
Thank you.
Hello?
This is Dude.
Yo, Dude.
What's up, man?
Not too much, man.
I heard your little educational story last night.
I just didn't want to say nothing.
Yo.
That's pretty cool, dude.
I guess.
I guess so.
Oh, shit.
Are we recording on the 2600 pole?
Yeah, like, dude, like, where's my car?
Yeah.
Probably the most action the board here has seen in quite some time.
Message 341.
Actually, any messages.
Yeah.
Like, dude, shah.
Shah.
Whatever.
Shah.
If anybody happens to care, my latest file, Executioner Box 2 is out.
You can find it, uh, maybe if they print it in the magazine and that.
I don't know.
Hey.
I'll have to wait and see.
They don't print that one.
Always from time to time I work on new ones.
Yeah.
Executioner Box 2.
In case you couldn't already tell, I wrote an Executioner Box 1 file.
Duh.
And, admittedly, it's, you know, only just so much of an improvement over the original.
But, hey, I suppose any improvement's better than none.
Let's see if we can get back to talking about more telecom related stuff the next time somebody
puts a new, uh, post on here.
Probably two years from today.
Hi.
This is Captain Crunch.
I need to get an AOL number, an AOL toll-free number.
Not from the company.
I need to get my, uh, email.
I don't need to get a local number to get into AOL.
I need a toll-free number that's not connected to the AOL company.
Maybe through another private firm or maybe another agency.
I'd really appreciate it.
Thank you.
This is Captain Crunch.
I need a toll-free number to access AOL so I can get email.
Um, I don't need to get an 800 number that AOL has because they charge you for that service.
They charge you for the 800 number that they have.
I need to get an 800 number that's accessed by a company or another governmental or private agency.
And if you have an AOL account, um, can you please post?
You know, there'll be no, um, changes to the password that's posted.
Thank you.
Okay, well, I'm just only putting this on here to let you know that I don't have what you're looking for.
Actually, it's a little confusing based on the way you described it, but as best as I can tell,
what I think you're saying is you're looking for some kind of internal number, I guess.
Not on AOL.
That's why I wouldn't know.
Um, and really, I'm a little surprised that you came here for help because there's almost nobody coming here anymore.
Um, I'm sorry that I wasn't able to be of help on this, but, you know, it only figures, like I said,
it's just I'm not an AOL member myself.
Um, yeah, Captain Crunch, huh?
Okay, um, I don't know. That's all I'm going to say about it.
That's all I'm going to say about it.
Well, what's up? Johnny up here.
Oh my god, what the fuck happened to this board, guys?
This board, fucking, this ain't the 2600 board. No matter what, it's like the Captain B board.
Shit. Um, dude asking for AOL dial-ups.
Oh, man, what happened to this fucking board?
This shit fucking sucks.
So, if there's like anybody out there who's got like a good fucking, uh, board that we can post up some good shit on, let me know.
Cause I got some cool shit, but I ain't posting nothing up here.
Hell no.
Come on, AOL dial-ups?
Ha, shit. Bye.
I'm beginning to wonder, is that the Johnny that I think it is?
The Johnny that I know? Sure sounds like it's me.
No, it's not the Captain B board, it's the nothing board.
Nothing as in nobody.
You know?
As in the board that isn't seeing use anymore.
And if you're the Johnny that I think you are, this isn't news to you, man.
We were already talking about that the other night.
AOL dial-ups.
Who in their right mind would want to be on AOL?
Or is it AOL hell?
So many people have said.
Between their policies and their prices that are anything but cost effective.
I don't know.
Nevertheless, I know that that's where most everybody is at.
And it's all good.
For those that want to be there, fine.
More power to you.
Alright, Johnny, if that's you, Johnny Hacker. What's up, dude?
Good to hear from you here. Peace out.
Okay.
Is he gone yet?
Uh, yeah, hi.
A comment on the BBS.
Uh, I tried calling in both on the 516 area code and the 631 area code.
Uh, seems to be down.
Okay, bye.
Hello?
Yeah, what's up, everybody?
This is Phone Man calling out of New York.
You know, Verizon land over here.
Uh, basically, uh, I'm just gonna refer to, uh, the last message out here in regard to phreaking and everything.
Um, which had to do with ring back and all that stuff.
Um, over here, just to point out to anybody that is interested, um, the ring back number over here is, uh, it starts with 660.
Um, so depending on, um, what central office it's from, it's either 660 with the last four digits of the phone number, or 660 with the, uh, full seven digit phone number after that.
And, you know, just the usual way.
You get the dial tone, press flash, hang up, and let it ring you back, you know?
Uh, it also works on pay phones that don't normally receive incoming calls.
And as far as I last tried, which is a long time ago, the pay phone only rings back like two times.
And then it cuts off automatically.
So, uh, you know, that, that's as far as ring back.
So I'm just referring to the last message about phreaking on here.
And, uh, there's really not much of anything out here anymore.
Um, just really, I don't know, I don't know how useful the information is out here.
Um, gotta, you know, gotta have some kind of organization out here that way, you know, got something going.
Um, anyway, uh, if anybody has something to say about that or anything else, just, uh, post it up and then, uh, we'll just take it from there, that's all.
Now, Friday, December 27th, uh, 2K2, 2002.
And I hope everybody out there had a good Christmas.
And, uh, if anybody's hearing this before New Year's, I hope you have a good New Year's.
Or for anybody hearing it after New Year's, I hope your New Year's was a good one.
Anyway, to cover about the last thing once again, on by the way, this is the captain here once again, Captain Bizarro from the 215 Verizon Country.
And ring back here, um, it seems to be invariably 811 plus the last four digits.
But, out of certain central offices, they won't let you access it unless you put money into the phone.
Uh-uh, ridiculous. Just for a ring back? No, I'm not going to put money into a phone just to ring it back.
Uh-uh. Same goes for, uh, for ANAC, out of that same CO, too.
Actually, the CO that I'm out of right now at the moment, in fact, it holds true for both of those things.
You've got to put money in, for ANAC and for ring back.
And, uh, regardless of which way you try to access ring back, uh, or I mean ANAC, I meant to say.
Because ANAC has two ways to access it here.
Uh, 311 or 958 followed by any four digits.
Out of another part of the city, I found that you had to punch in 958 followed by any, the next three digits could be anywhere between 200 and 999.
And the last four obviously can, you know, it's XXXX, 94 digits from there, you know.
Strange. It's amazing how much things can vary from one central office to the next.
If there's one thing I've come to know, that's it, definitely.
More than anything else, there's the more unusual, surprising stuff, I guess, you know.
Um, let's see. And I found that out of my central office, for the whole thing of ANAC, it has a different voice.
And it also has a hidden menu for linemen. Um, nothing too spectacular in what you can do, though.
Well, you can perform some tone tests, including a sweep tone test, a 1004 hertz test.
Um, caller ID, sweep, whatever kind of tone that is.
And some other stuff.
Four digit password.
Nothing, uh, too hard to crack.
Four digits that are exactly the same for all four.
Um, I'll let you figure it from there if anybody's even listened to this from the 215 or any other place for that matter.
I do know that this voice BBS used to, at one time, be the place that all the top phreakers would hang at.
But that was then, and this is now, of course.
Um, let's see. I'll give you guys a website. I don't think I've dropped this already. Hopefully I haven't.
If I have, just disregard.
www.hackerhost.com slash LPH.
That's the main place hosting my files.
But you can find other places hosting my files by doing a Google search and typing in Captain B text, too.
I'm in the process of writing another file right now, too, as a matter of fact.
It's currently up to 11K.
At least as far as how much space it's taken up in my inbox.
First I save it to my own inbox and send it out.
Um, let's see.
Yeah.
Well, I guess I can't think of anything else much to cover for right now, so that's it.
Thank you.