============================= CAPTURING REDIAL Quick & Dirty by oleBuzzard Written Today / 03-JAN-96 (c) 1996 Communications ============================= INTRO Ok, here's the scenario: You're at someone's house. That someone pick's up the phone, dials, and... "Hey Billy, how's the Missus?....Great glad to hear it. And How's Chelsea?...Oh really, thats fabulous. And how's Roger doin'?...Great, glad to hear it. I was just calling to see how you all were doin. Is Al or Tipper around?" The phone call's over and you're sayin to yourself "man, I wish I had that number." Well you could ask your friend point blank for it, but we both know that as two-faced and shallow as your so-called friendship with this guy is, theirs NO WAY he'd give you the number to information let alone to the White House. But that's alright, cuz you're pretty good at... CAPTURING REDIAL The principle behind Redial Capturing is simple. You basically capture the last number that was dialed from a TouchTone(c) phone and keep it for later use. So now the question is, how do you do the capture. Well there's a number of way you can do it, but after some consideration, I think I've come up with a method thats both fairly inexpensive, VERY effective, and quite practical. Heres what you need: * Radio Shack Pocket Dialer w/Memory Catalog Number: 43-146 Price: $24.99 * Any Brand Pager. Alrght, here it is, plain, simple, and effective: 1. Take your Radio Shack Dialer and program it with the number to your pager. 2. Keep your dialer with you at all times. (Every good phreak should have one anyway.) 3. When you need to make a Capture, wait for the person who has made the call to get off the phone (obviously.) 4. Pick-up the same phone the person has made the call from. 5. Hold the Pocket Dialer up to the Mouth Piece of the phone, and press the Memory button (assuming you did like I said and programmed the Dialer with your pager number. If not dial you're a bonehead and you have to dial your Pager number manually witht the Pocket Dialer.) 6. Once your Pager answers and requests you to "[E]nter the number you are dialing from at the tone," hit REDIAL on the phone. Once the phone has redialed, hang-up. 7. Beep-beep. Check your pager. You have just captured the last number dialed from that phone. Like I said, plain, simple, and cool enough to be in a James Cameron flick. WHAT DUMBASS?!? By the way, I've already been asked the Ingenious question: "how come you need a Pocket Dialer to do this? Why can't you just call your Pager and then hit Redial on the phone and Capture the Redial that way?" Well you can, but the only Number you'll be capturing is your own pager number you just dialed. (Duh!) If you wan't to Capture the redial you have to find away to dial a source which will decode the DTMF tones, and you have to be able to preserve the tones in the first place. The closest alternative to the method described in this file, is to call your Pager on one phone in the house, and once your page answers, pick-up the phone you want to Capture from and hit Redial. This'll work fine, but you might have a little trouble remaining inconspicuous about the whole thing--running back and forth and all. OUTRO Anyway, that's it. Thanx to Hades (IIRG-Net) for pointing out the obvious to me. Look for more oleBuzzard philez at kn0wledge phreak BBS or any UnionNET or IIRG-Net System **************************************************************************** *** oleBuzzard's kn0wledge phreak ** kn0wledge phreak World Wide Web Site ** ** AC 719.578.8288 / 28.8oo-24oo ** http://www.uccs.edu/~abusby/k0p.html *** ****************************************************************************