Phone Lines, war dialing, laptops & the like

By: Zaxil

This being the first article I've wrote for something like this I thought I would start out with something simple to stop any of you kiddies from getting yourselves caught for playing with things. A lot of places are very worried and push for legal action to be taken even over nothing. Lets get started. Well make a few assumptions in this. The first and vital part being you know how to think for yourself and how to learn more on things that your not sure on (google.com).

That you have a laptop, or for the truly adventerous, you've drug your whole desktop setup outside and have it stashed in a nice safe area. That you have a modem of some sort. You have a lot of phone cord. You have some kind of dial-up account (theres lots of ways to get these so no point detailing this). You have a 7/14 socket wrench, a phillips screwdriver, and a flashlight because I doubt well be doing this by the day. Now some preperation.

We want all of your phone cord to attract as little attention as possible so get black if you can, or you can do like I did while bored and spraypaint the length of it green so that it wont be noticed as easily if its laying in the grass. Now depending on your situation you might want to mod the end of the cord to clip onto wires and terminals in phone boxes and such, theres plenty of sources to find out about beige boxing so lets not waste time, just remember to look for the christmas colors. If your not going to mod it because your lazy or too cheap to get alligator clips, or theres no boxes you trust using we can go to someone else house and if you've ever noticed those phone boxes around their house.

Well if you unscrew and open that box you found that those give us access to an RJ-11 port to plug our phone cord into. The socket wrench is to open up any phone boxes you run into. Now for the computer we want some wardialing software along with whatever else you would want to do, run or exploit while anonymous. If your running windows I would reccomend getting tHc-Scan 2.0 if on a *nix system I havent found a wardialer I've liked so im writting my own. Email me if anyone would like to have a copy when its done or wants to help.

Now we scope out our boxes during the day and wait until night falls. Once dark you hook up to your new phone line and then we sneak off to our safe place. From there we can begin to wardial. Wardialing lets us scan a certain number range for things like carriers, tones, PBX's voicemails and the like. So this can be usefull in some ways, although its probably not as much as it used to be. If you get online from your newly found line you will be anonymous to a point of course.

The isp you've dialed in from will think the other number will have dialed in and also you wont be held for what you do on this account. We wouldnt want to give ourselves away incase anyone logs anything by checking our normal emails or just doing things that can link back to you. Lets have some respect for technology people and not do anything stupid with this. Also if you have an accoustic coupler it would make things a bit easier so look into that if your interested.

This is all common sense and will hopefully make you all see how easy it is for someone else to use your line so lets thank our phone companies everyone...

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