Phreaking Boxes Phreaking Boxes :This article refers to beige box phone phreaking devices. For information about beige boxes in personal computing, see Beige box. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beige box (phreaking)"
The black box (as distinguished from blue boxes and red boxes), sometimes called an Agnew (see Spiro for the origin of the nickname), was a device built by phone phreaks during the 1960s and 1970s in order to defeat long distance phone call toll charges, and specifically to block the supervision signal sent by the receiving telephone handset when the call was answered at the receiving end of the call. ...more on Wikipedia about "Black box (phreaking)"
An early phreaking tool, the blue box is an electronic device that simulates a telephone operator's dialing console. It functions by replicating the tones used to switch long-distance calls and using them to route the user's own call, bypassing the normal switching mechanism. The most typical use of a blue box was to get free telephone calls. Blue boxes no longer work in most western nations, as the switching system is now digital and no longer uses in-band signaling. Instead, signaling occurs on an out-of-band channel which cannot be accessed from the line you are using (called Common Channel Interoffice Signaling (CCIS)). ...more on Wikipedia about "Blue box"
A clear box was an amplifier used by phreaks to circumvent certain restrictions against using pay phones without paying. Some old pay phones would let the user connect without paying but the other person could not hear the caller until coins were deposited. A clear box got around that problem, as the phone signal from the other person was not entirely absent, simply very quiet. Clear boxes were used by phone phreaks, or people involved in the act of phreaking. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clear box (phreaking)"
The Gold Box is a Phreaking Box whose function is to create a bridge between two telephone lines. In its basic operation, the user calls one of the lines, the Gold box answers and connects the two lines together, yielding the dial tone of the second line to the user. The user can then place calls from the second line which are billed (and traced) to that line. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gold box (phreaking)"
A magenta box is a device used to simulate an incoming call by applying the correct amount of voltage to a POTS line to make the phone ring. A magenta box in conjunction with an orange box (which fakes caller ID information) is called a vermilion box. ...more on Wikipedia about "Magenta box"
An orange box is a piece of hardware or software that emulates Caller ID FSK signals to spoof Caller ID information on the target's Caller ID terminal. It takes advantage of Call Waiting Caller ID (also called off-hook Caller ID) by mimicking the phone company's Central office equipment and sending the Call Waiting tone followed by the audible Caller ID data. An orange box can also be used to spoof the initial Caller ID information sent after an incoming call rings, if the user has access to the target's phone line. An orange box used in conjunction with a Magenta box is called a Vermilion box. ...more on Wikipedia about "Orange box"
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A red box is a phreaking device that synthesizes these tones, which are not unlike the DTMF tones used for dialing. Other devices which generated these tones included modified Radio Shack tone dialers, and Hallmark audio-recording greeting cards. ...more on Wikipedia about "Red box"
Spiro was the name given to the blue box, a piece of telephone hacking equipment used in the 1970s to make long distance telephone calls without being billed. In a sarcastic reference, it was named after Spiro Agnew, the vice-president of the United States at the time, who was greatly unpopular with the youth and counterculture who largely made up the telephone hacking community. Other pieces of hacking equipment were named the Agnew, and even the T, Agnew's middle initial. ...more on Wikipedia about "Spiro"
The vermilion box is a hypothetical portable improvised line emulator. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vermilion box"
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