On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 15:40 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote: > I don't follow this, "We would sit in my friend's dad's custom van > down the street with a long roll of speaker cable, with clips on one > end and a RJ-Jack on the other. High TECH, Radio Shack!!!" What > exactly does that do?
they would clip in at the box, run the wire to the van and place the calls. In this way they arent visible at the box, they are in an enclosed area which can shield light they may be using for other things, and they are climate controlled. It lets you basically do it for longer, and if you have multiple pairs of wire, in parallel, all from the comfort of a poofy chair or sofa in the back. Further if you just get a hard hat and a harris buttset most people will ignore you thinking you really are the phone company. The hard hat goes a long way, especially if its the same color (most are white) with a bell (or whatever) logo on the side. You are only there for a couple minutes long enough to use the 3/8" wrench (no locks on most) and your wire prefabricated with clips on the end, you just clip them in and away you go. These boxes exist in neighborhoods of various sizes (even here in NL, but they are all punched wire here) from small square ones for a couple homes to larger ones for an entire neighborhood. Strip malls generally have them exposed in the back, a lot of homes have TNIs that provide access for both rj11 and clips. Many of the TNIs cant be fully locked, while they provide a lock facility, a socket can open them trivially. So in essence its not that hard to find a vulnerable pair, its harder to find one that lets you set ani/clid, or target a specific person. Knowing the neighborhood they are in along wtih the local ANAC number can go a long way, and if you can pull the cable pair that someone is off of you can target them specifically, but yeah. The biggest limitation with what he is proposing is the inability to specify arbitrary ani/clid, and the fact that at some point you have to physically go somewhere. With voip you can be anywhere in the world that has inet, you can pick and choose your access method and point, you can use proxies to make traffic seem like its an entirely different jurisdiction, and with some ITSPs set arbitrary clid/ani. Thus I think that beige boxing is much more limited to the types of mischief that someone can do with voip. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
