I'm not paranoid, but I can detect things like that. Listen, is this line hot? I just heard someone tap in. "They don't understand, but Ma Bell knows everything they do.
#Blind man whistle phone trial#
The phone phreaks circulate the whole list of notes so there's no trial and error anymore." To produce the tone for 2 it's F 5 and C 6 . For instance, to get Ma Bell's tone for the number 1, you press down organ keys F 5 and A 5 at the same time. Since the frequencies are public knowledge now - one blind phone phreak has even had them recorded in one of those talking books for the blind - they just have to find the musical notes on the organ which correspond to the phone tones. Any cheap family home-entertainment organ. Now, what some of these phone phreaks have done is get themselves access to an electric organ. Like 1300 cycles per second and 900 cycles per second played together give you the tone for digit 5. They decided to use some very simple tones - the tone for each number is just two fixed single-frequency tones played simultaneously to create a certain beat frequency. Those are the tones you sometimes hear in the background after you've dialed a long-distance number. About twenty years ago AT&T made a multibillion-dollar decision to operate its entire long-distance switching system on twelve electronically generated combinations of six master tones. I can't believe it.' You probably won't believe it until you try it." They'd hold it in their palm like they never wanted to let it go, and they'd say, 'I can't believe it. You should have seen the faces on these syndicate guys when they came back after trying it out. I thought of everything for this model - I had it lined with a band of thermite which could be ignited by radio signal from a tiny button transmitter on your belt, so it could be burned to ashes instantly in case of a bust.
In fact, I had designed it with a tiny transistor receiver to get one AM channel so in case the law became suspicious the owner could switch on the radio part, start snapping his fingers, and no one could tell anything illegal was going on. It had flush touch panels for a keyboard, rather than these unsightly buttons sticking out. Anyway, the model I had ready for limited mass production was small enough to fit inside a flip-top Marlboro box. We had a manufacturing deal worked out in the Philippines.
Before then we retailed them for $1,500 apiece, but $300,000 in one lump was hard to turn down. The deal was a thousand blue boxes for $300 apiece. They use them to place bets coast to coast, keep lines open for hours, all of which can get expensive if you have to pay. "We had this order for a thousand beeper boxes from a syndicate front man in Las Vegas.
You can call yourself from one pay phone all the way around the world to a pay phone next to you.
You can call next door by way of White Plains, then over to Liverpool by cable, and then back here by satellite. And you can obscure your origins through as many levels as you like. They don't even know anything illegal is going on. But with your beeper box, once you hop onto a trunk, say from a Holiday Inn 800 number, they don't know where you are, or where you're coming from, they don't know how you slipped into their lines and popped up in that 800 number. An operator has to operate from a definite location: The phone company knows where she is and what she's doing. You seize a tandem with this top button," he presses the top button with his index finger and the blue box emits a high-pitched cheep, "and like that" - cheep goes the blue box again - "you control the phone company's long-distance switching systems from your cute little Princess phone or any old pay phone. “Essentially it gives you the power of a super operator.
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