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The Aqua Box

Any advanced phone phreaker knows that the F.B.I. will catch up sooner or later, and if you're dumb enough to be at home, they will establish the dreaded lock-in trace. In order to understand how the lock-in trace works, I'll have to explain it. When the F.B.I. wants to lock-in your call, they activate a machine which jumps into your call (like 3-way) and transmits a certain voltage of electricty so the lines can't be closed. Usually when you pick up the phone and dial/talk/etc, a certain amount of electricity goes through the lines to keep it open. When you hangup, the electricty stops and the lines are closed. Normally when being traced, you could just hang-up and the lines would be closed. But when the F.B.I. do their lock-in trace, they transmit their electricity to keep the lines open, even after you hangup. The solution? Drain all the electricity from the line.


Instructions


First you need to aquire these materials, you can "borrow" them from your local Radio Shack.

A BEOC (Basic Electrical Output Socket), like a small lamp-type connection, where you just have a simple plug and wire that would plug into a light bulb.
One of cords mentioned above, if you can't find one then construct your own... Same voltage connection, but the restrainor must be built in (I.E. The central box)
Two phone jacks (one for the modem, one for if you are being traced to plug the aqua box into)

All right, this is a very simple procedure. If you have the BEOC, it could drain into anything: a radio, or whatever. The purpose of having that is you are going to suck the voltage out from the phone line into the electrical appliance so there would be no voltage left to lock you in with.
1)Take the connection cord. Examine the plug at the end. It should have only two prongs. If it has three, still, do not fear. Make sure the electrical appliance is turned off unless you wanna become a crispy critter while making this thing. Most plugs will have a hard plastic design on the top of them to prevent you from getting in at the electrical wires inside. Well, remove it. If you want to keep the plug (I don't see why...) then just cut the top off. When you look inside, Lo and Behold, you will see that at the base of the prongs there are a few wires connecting in. Those wires conduct the power into the appliance. So, you carefully unwrap those from the sides and pull them out until they are about an inch ahead of the prongs. If you don't wanna keep the jack, then just rip the prongs out. If you are, cover the prongs with insultation tape so they will not connect with the wires when the power is being drained from the line.

2)Do the same thing with the prongs on the other plug, so you have the wires evenly connected. Now, wrap the end of the wires around each other. If you happen to have the other end of the voltage cord hooked into the phone, stop reading now, you're too fucking stupid to continue. After you've wrapped the wires around each other, then cover the whole thing with the plugs with insulating tape. Then, if you built your own control box or if you bought one, then cram all the wires into it and reclose it. That box is your ticket out of this.

3)Re-check everything to make sure it's all in place. This is a pretty flimsy connection, but on later models when you get more experienced at it then you can solder away at it and form the whole device into one big box, with some kind of cheap mattel hand-held game inside to be the power connector. In order to use it, just keep this box handy. Plug it into the jack if you want, but it will slightly lower the voltage so it isn't connected. When you plug it in, if you see sparks, unplug it and restart the whole thing. But if it just seems fine then leave it.

Uses


Now, so you have the whole thing plugged in and all... Do not use this unless the situation is desperate! When the trace has gone on, don't panic, unplug your phone, and turn on the appliance that it was hooked to. It will need energy to turn itself on, and here's a great source. The voltage to keep a phone line open is pretty small and a simple light bulb should drain it all in and probably short the F.B.I. computer at the same time.

1. Hanging up on the F.B.I.
2. Hanging up on someone without them hearing the *click*
Useful when you want to stop talking to someone, and a "power surge" disconnects you. Fun when you can't call the person back because "the line was down"


Risks


Of course, the only risk is the Aqua Box will not work correctly and you will get caught by the F.B.I.


Tips


If you're calling from a pay phone, you don't really need this and can't really use it. If you start getting traced at a pay phone, run like hell. If you're being traced through your own line or a Beige Box line, take a sledgehammer and destroy everything (including your hard drive, I don't want the F.B.I. to arrest me) in case they find you.