Re: LZ: blue boxes


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Re: LZ: blue boxes



On Wed, 23 Oct 1996 21:30:55 -0400 (EDT) Nate Godin <pamelnat@ime.net>
writes:
>At 16:05 10-23-96 -0400, you wrote:
>>aren't blue boxes(ahem) illegal? and I'm confused. how do they work. 
>i
>>mean, i know that they allow you to make free phone calls and stuff 
>but,
>>other than that, how do they work?
>>
>>btw. i've got one of those little things from RShack that you put up 
>to
>>the phone to make a call and it produces the tones(that's all it 
>does).
>>would this help?
>>
>>  
>>Andy Haninger                 
>>aka &amp;y                        
>>ahaning@freenet.columbus.oh.us
>>
>All you need to do to convert it into a red box or a blue box is take 
>out a
>crystal in the dialer and replace it with another one...I can get the 
>URL w/
>plans from a friend of mine who's built one if you're interested.
>
>Nate
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>
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>This is Nate, signing off...


I thought that the phone companies upgraded their equipment so that the
blue and red box tones don't work anymore.


-|/|/esley McGrew                                                    


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