[Project Idea] Plain Old Telephone Service and Phreaking

denzuko · April 25, 2018, 1:33pm

If we ever wanted to play around with public payphone systems and POTS then there are a few auctions that are within our budget.

But why one may ask?

We built it and make it work then our photo could be put on the back cover of 2600 Magazine with the DMS logo.
Could be used as a intercom and keybox
Remember those old dial in 800 numbers for listening to music? Well, now you can… 90’s payphone boombox
Its in that place that I put that one time or ** FILE TRANSFERRING IN EMERGENCIES**
skype has nothing on voip enabled payphones
and of course ADA compliance

Post your thoughts and comments below…

denzuko · December 12, 2018, 8:37pm

So much for the one we got a few months ago, this one actually is a fully working pay phone.

denzuko · December 12, 2018, 8:42pm

Tracking shipment

carpa · December 13, 2018, 4:15pm

I just wanted to point out there is a (still active, I believe) number that plays only Hall and Oates. They call it “Callin’ Oates”.

Adam_Oas · December 13, 2018, 4:30pm

I for one will appreciate another exit point for the Matrix.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/matrix/images/b/bc/Exit.png/revision/latest?cb=20130205012543

denzuko · December 13, 2018, 6:03pm

If we can work it out then we may end up getting this on the C*Net since we already have a spare Obi200 google voice to phone adaptor.

Also we do have an (separate) asterisk server setup for dial in to the BBS it might be easy enough to patch it so we can bluebox and redbox the thing or transfer to the space’s asterisk extension for the comms around the space and maybe to each classroom. While other extension can pull from random quotes off talk/discord/twitter.

Or if anything we at lease can throw a raspberry pi or two inside it and turn it into a BBS/Plan9 Host/or something cool like that.

denzuko · December 13, 2018, 6:17pm

lol…

well I don’t know about an exit of the matrix but we may tie it into XM Core so we have FTN style message board links to boards like Tardis, Necronomicon, and ACiD Underworld BBSs…

Plus it would be a good way to jack into the matrix

No promises though.

denzuko · December 14, 2018, 7:45pm

Whooot!! The phone arrives today. Unboxing party 7pm.

Adam_Overman · December 14, 2018, 8:17pm

That’s awesome, I’m hoping I can make the member meeting tonight ( fingers crossed that the brolo will be done in time for me to borrow the van) and I’d love to swing by after to check it out. does the space already have a payphone? I swear I remember seeing one on the vintage computing nook a while back.

It’s amusing to think that the device that killed off the payphone can now make red/blue/rainbow boxes as trivial as downloading an app

denzuko · December 14, 2018, 8:27pm

We have the upper body of one but couldn’t track down the rest of it so had to order a new one. The old body is either going to be auctioned off for committee funds or used to build as a case mod for a cluster of Raspberry Pis that we’ll take to QuakeCon next year.

Adam_Overman · December 14, 2018, 8:47pm

One of the projects I’ve had on the far back burner (just waiting for time and $) has been to get an Arduino/rPI with a GSM module to work with an old rotary phone to make the ultimate hipster cellphone. A backpack style payphone/cellphone would be awesome.

denzuko · December 14, 2018, 8:54pm

Nice! One could even get “free” service with freedompop

denzuko · December 16, 2018, 8:55am

Connecting up to an Asterisk system:

https://www.pjrc.com/payphone-connection-to-asterisk-pbx-system/

Sites on phone phreaking:

http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/

http://www.textfiles.com/phreak//

http://www.projectmf.org/intro.html

https://www.payphone-directory.org/

https://telephreak.org/

Google Voice, Obihai and Asterisk

http://nerdvittles.com/?p=25846

Current planned dialplan:

...
exten => _9X.,1,NoOp(Call to Project MF  - Rainbow Boxing test line)
exten => _9X.,n,Dial(IAX2/[email protected]/17622600)
exten => 0,1,NoOp(Call SDF Public Access Telephone Musuem via C*Net - https://sdf.org/?tour/museum/index)
exten => 0,n,Dial(DAHDI/g0/12320074)
exten => _1X.,1,NoOp(Call to PSTN)
exten => _1X.,n,Dial(DAHDI/g0/${EXTEN:1})
exten => 1337,n,NoOp(Open Mystic Login)
exten => 1337,1,Answer
exten => 1337,n,PPPD(/mystic/mysticctl)
exten => 1337,n,Busy
exten => 1337,n,Hangup


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brenly · December 16, 2018, 9:22am

I’d love to hop in this project if i wasn’t so busy trying to learn cake php for the calendar interface. I got like 3 pdfs open right now just for that -.-
this look soo coooool
i’ll file it under “look at this tomorrow or next week”

steve_a · December 16, 2018, 8:32pm

Aw, I used to work on those… Still have the manual but you’re just gonna gut them. Oh well.

denzuko · December 17, 2018, 6:54pm

Don’t think we’ll “gut” this one, we’ll keep it as original as posible while still plugging it into the asterisk system.

But the upper body on our first attempt would fit our needs to “gut”, just need some help machining the rest of the case for that one.

edit

Also if you have a pdf of the manual then we’d love to get a copy for the archives.

steve_a · December 18, 2018, 5:06am

I will attempt to make a PDF of the manual pages. There are 32 but I believe I can easily do the conversion, AND, Oh By The Way… if this is a vintage unit, there may be a Mercury Relay in it. Probably a “Can” type but you should be aware just in case.

denzuko · December 19, 2018, 3:36am

Its in!!! Video to go live in the morning of the unboxing. We have a lot of work ahead of us to get it ready but the hardpart is done.

jast · December 19, 2018, 3:40am

I’m just dying to know if “Phraking” is a phrase with which I’m not familiar, or if it’s a typo for “phreaking”.

The rest of this post appears to be about phreaking, so I’m pretty sure that’s it, but I’m also thinking if “phraking” isn’t a thing yet, it needs to be…

Draco · December 19, 2018, 4:12am

Correct … however Phrack is a e-zine about many things including phreaking …