[Intro] Walk into any public area and your sure to find many of them. Now, hypothetically speaking of course, lets say that you are wanting to access a payphone in an area lacking in people like a parking garage. the only thing from hindering you in your adventure is that camera. Heres a way to avoid being identified without cutting the cables to the camera, disabling it completely. [Body] In general, security cameras do not have the greatest resolution so the chances of you cutting in modifying the display and having it noticed are greatly reduced. as mentioned above you can simple cut the cables but why arouse suspicion when all you may be doing is inserting a tap into a payphone. First off your going to need a camcorder to do this failing that a VCR and access to A.C power it can be done just impractical. Next, you'll need things like a pair of wire strippers, a screwdriver, extra wire, a "Y" plug (a Y shaped cord that attaches to digital and most analogue camcorders allowing you to view what's on the tape on a TV) that will be destroyed so it would be wise to buy another one, and lastly a friend to stay back, out of view to watch the camera. Below is a photo of what you should look for: 
Most important is to find out when the busiest hours of the parking garage are so as not to do this at that time. After that it would be wise to find out when security does their rounds, this information can be found quite simply by calling the company or the city, which ever runs the security, and simply asking. Prior to you need to strip the wires of the Y plug and attach a pair of alligator clips, much like a beige box. Now to the camera, you need to find what's called the "Access Panel" where technicians patch in to fix/install the security system. Mind you your only going to need the camera access panel unless you want to do other things such as disable the phone/lights/power but these aren't necessary and may just attract unneeded heat. The panel for the camera is a silver rectangular shaped panel secured to the wall/pole with the same screws use to secure the ceiling in millennium phone booths, which are quite easy to remove using a small flathead screwdriver. Now once you have it open here is how you create the looping effect. As soon as you remove the panel you will notice a few wires (if your camera happens to be in a pole then all that will remain are the camera wire(s) and the power sourse for the lamp) within the panel used for other things within the system. All you need are the white and yellow ones. Once locating the needed wires splice them but be carefully not to cut through, then with the camera on attach the wire(s). Remember there may only be one relevant wire for the camera because most are not equipped with sound. now what you need to do is hit record and tape a few moments of film. Preferably footage without moving people/cars/etc. After this is done unplug and review the film, if all it set well and there isn't a time stamp in the corner then re-attach and hit play. The camera should override the signal sending the data your inputting instead of film of you in the top of a payphone. Now to back track a little if the film does have a time stamp, then it would be wise to come back the next day and attach and hit play at the same relative time as to what is on the display, however this is not entirely nessesary. [Closing Statement] When you are finished doing whatever it was you were doing close everything up and leave it as it was. If by chance this did not work then mostly you completely disabled the camera which won't make much of a difference if you stole a payphone, i think someone would notice the missing phone whereas with a tap the case may be different. [Info] E mail - Magma@SunOS.com Website - www.GHU.ca |