Phile 1.13 of 1.14 FREE CALLS ON PAY PHONES The Paper Clip Method --------------------- By: Master Mind Many of people of the phreak community has asked the same question: Why? Why does this thing work? I doesn't work for me, Why?. Well, hopefully this article will put to rest many misconceptions about the procedure. This procedure has become very popular, even in the movie wargames. In the movie, the hacker twists open the microphone on the phone and connects one of the two wires to the coin box. Then continues to make a long distance phone call to his girlfriend. While the idea is correct, one can only make local calls and are limited to one quarter's time. This scene is so close to the actual truth that the "Made for TV version" has cut that specific scene. Imagine what would happen if every youngster and some adults saw this and proceeded to rip apart pay phones, not a pretty sight. This also demostrates how much power the phone company had. Nynex, in creating their fortress fones, has made an engineering blunder. The whole concept of the method, is based on their short-sightness and because of this are paying the price. The theory of the operation of the phone works like this on paper: The first quarter that is deposited seems to be based on an electrical impulse, but any addition coins will be audio signals. Due to short cuts in engineering designs has left themselves open to attack. By simply grounding the positive end of the microphone, enough current and voltage is deferred to arter in the coin box. An easy way to accomplish this is to connect the center of the mouthpiece to the coin box, touch tone pad, or any thing that looks like metal with a piece of wire. A most convenient piece of wire is a bend out n