Just Say No

by Hudson

     The NO-Box is a simple-type phreak box, which really isn't a box at all.
It's like a new and improved gold box, without wires, and without mess.

     What the NO-Box does is take the wires where the phone company set it up
for your extra lines, and hook it to someone else's.  This works best when
there is a trunk close to your house (like mine, 30 feet away).  And it works
really easy if you have only one line in your house already.

     You'll need:

     Alligator Clips (2)
     Wire Cutters

     Go to the box inside/outside your house that contains the incoming telco
wires.

     You'll see a mess of wires.  Look for ones not hooked into anything,
just either dangling or separated.

     Try to find the two closest wires not hooked to anything.  Remember their
color.  (The colors won't be solid so write it down or something.)

     Go to your trunk box.

     Find your phone terminals (use an ANI or ANAC number).

     Find a close target, to an ANI or ANAC.

     Near your terminals there should be either a thick wire or a whole mess of
tangled wires.  Look for the two colors you found in your house.

     Cut those two wires in your trunk box.

     Hook up alligator clips to both wires.

     Hook up the wire (and new clips) to your target's terminal.  Usually the
more red (i.e., orange, yellow, etc.) the wire is, the more probability that
that's the ring wire.

     Go home.

     Go back to your telco ox and open it back up.

     Connect the wires from before to the ring and tip lines of the extra 
terminals in your telco box.  If you don't have extra terminals that means 
either you have an older telephone system that can only support two lines 
and both are full, or you have too many phone lines as it is.  My house
can support six lines, as do most.

     We aren't done.  We are going to need voltage.  There should be a 
pure white wire there somewhere.  Hook that up to the left (tip).
Were rubber gloves or at least use electricity resistant tools if you don't 
want a nasty shock.

     Now assuming that you hooked up the ring/tip/voltage wires correctly in
your box, and that in the trunk, you cut the right wires and hooked them
up right to your target, and that you are using a target whose number
is activated, you now have a free phone line in your house.  But
remember - don't use it during the day or whenever you think someone
might pick up the phone.

     To use the phone yourself, you have two options:

     A) If you have it hooked up as your second phone line, just find the
        wires and in whatever modular outlet you want, hook that up to the
        yellow/black terminals with the voltage wire.

     B) If you have four lines already, go to that modular outlet, disconnect
        whatever is on the secondary port (yellow/black) and hook those wires
        up.

     Then get either a two-line phone, or make yourself a phone switcher, just
by getting a two-way splitter, cutting the wires on one of the ports, and 
switching the yellow and black coming in from the phone line with the red and
green going out to the port.  This way you are plugged into "Jack 1" you'll get
your own legit phone line, but when in "Jack 2" you'll get your free one.

     That's it.  Just remember to use common sense on who you call from your
"new" line.

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