************************************************************************ * * * U.C.P.H. #8 * * Title: Little Green Boxes * * By: Electric Gypsy * * * ************************************************************************ Little green boxes,you know those boxes on the side of the road with your local telephone companys logo on it. Now,these boxes are more important than people might think. They are the routers of the lines they hold the lines that come up from underground and hold the ringing generators. Now there are many types of boxes,the most significant boxes are the LORAIN ringing generators,they are by far the most expensive. They hold the fieber optic ducts,which are ran in underground by the local company. They are there because optics cannot carry electricity, or more importantly the standard lines.(electric) They recieve the light pulses and convert them into electrivcal signals which are then sent to your home. They are like one big computer,has several 'cards' in it,which holds about 100homes per card(As my information supplies). There is around 200volts DC power at 125amps. So there is enough to kill you if you are not careful. To find these boxes just drive around,you'll find them in sort of a small cement drive-way with a fence around it,but one side is open,sometimes you'll find small cement poles around it. There is generaly 2 or 3 other boxes by it. One box is called a cabinet,it looks like a small double doored refrigerator,and when opened has many,many lines which are plugged into small connectors,this is the pairs comming out of the trunk connected to the output of the LORAIN generater. Then you have your power conduit. Don't mess with it,it is brown and has a red light on it and has many warnings. Leave it. The next is usually a MTU for the local houses. If they are within 1 block of the generater,now we all know what the MTU does..(U.C.P.H. #4 'Phreakin' While you sleepin') Now in the Cabinet the is usually a spool of wire. This wire is very very helpful,there is usualy 400 feet of wire which comes in very handy when Phreakin while people sleepin'. When you do this alot,you can obtain a fairly large amount of wire(I myself have around 6000 feet of wire.. Yes over a mile.) which can make 'beige' boxing a great thing to do. You can string in as many lines as you want,double them and give the operaters hell. The next thing is dis-assembling the LORAIN generater to down the people who have the phones connected to it. It makes great revenge people usually don't have a phone for 11 or 12 hrs. And the phone company pays out the ass for it. Now there is one thing that is of utmost importance when dealing with lorain ringing gernaters, THEY HAVE ALARMS! They have silent door alarms. It isn't a great huge emergency the first time one is opened and the police won't come and arrest you. But the phone company knows as soon as you open the doors that it has been opened. So make it quick,and always do this really late at night. Now,the best way to down it is to just pull the power supplys out,they are on either the left or right side of the generater like so: Top view: /----------------------------------------\ | | this is | | This is where the CPU is |the power.| | to the generater | it has | | | batteries| \----------------------------------------/ Front View: pretend the doors are opend /----------------------------------------------------\ = Now here there are | = now this door = shelves of cards. And maybe | here is the power = opens from right = some manuals. There will be | supplies. = over here. = spare parts,maybe some tools | = it is the side = sometimes a map. | = panel. = | = = | = = | and then the = = | batteries = = =_______________________________|____________________= When downing the generaters you must move fast,because after the generater has stopped responding they move fast. They don't know somebody has tampered with it though,for all they know it was hit by a car. And was demolished. But once they find out they will wait for you. And they *WILL* get you,so if you do it. Do it carefully. And remember once is the only it will work. Well,thats my artical for 10-94, Later all.. And remember this is for entertainment only.