Palm "red box" Hacker tool
The PalmReader has a piece on how to turn your Palm into a "red box" In phone phreak jargon, a "red box" is any device that tricks pay phones by using sounds to make the phone think you've entered money for the call. The 99 Fall issue of 2600 magazine details how to make Canadian phone-system "red box." Apparently all you need is the cbasPad BASIC interpreter and this chunk of code:
#autonum
new
for a = 1 to 5
sound 2200,33,64
sound 1,33,2
next a
run
Are there any Canadians out there willing to give this a try? Let us know how it turns out.
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Umm, Isn't This Illegal?
any Canadians out there willing to give this a try?
Let us know how it turns out" could be interpreted
as incitement...
It's a neat hack, and I'm just as curious as the next
gadgetnerd, but phreaking (and let's be honest, this
is phreaking), is illegal in most countries.
Cheers,
Bander
Just Canada?
At least the Prime Minister of "just Canada" has the common sense to keep his little assistant where he belongs. Your country picked a fat, dishonest hick and you love him for it.
phone hack
BC is not the sticks
We don't live in igloos in Canada, in fact, we don't even have snow yet, it's raining.
theory & practice are 2 different things
Technically speaking, I doubt that this "Canadian Red Box" works. I first saw the code snippet in Autumn 99's issue of 2600. I spent the better part of yesterday coding my own "Beige Box", i.e., a lineman's handset. It's supposed to be just like your touch tone phone, with the addition of the A-D keys on a lineman's handset. It's done in Pocket C, & Pocket C GUI, both of which can be found at http://www.palmcentral.com" CLASS=NEWS>http://www.palmcentral.com & SO FAR IT DOESN'T WORK to dial phone numbers. So I gotta wonder about this Red Box snippet as well. I'll send the code on request in hope of some beta test feedback. I'm not going to consider posting it until I put the tuning dial. I may or may not have this done today.
RedPalm ... Comments from the *author* of it...
B) The guy trying to code a "beige box" for the pilot... well, if you had done any research at all you would know the Pilot speaker cannot reproduce DTMF. Canadian redbox tone is single tone. Once again.. IT WORKS.
cyb0rg/asm
www.hackcanada.com
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plan on trying it next time i'm in british columbia. i'll let ya know ;)