Build Your Own Blue Box!

Presented at ToorCamp 2022, July 16, 2022, noon (90 minutes)

Grab a soldering iron and build your own phone-phreakin' blue box! Learn to hack like it's 1974 - and practice your skills on the Shadytel phone network. 25 kits based on an [open-source design](https://661.org/proj/bluebox) will be made available for purchase prior to and during the event. Plan to spend 1-2 hours with us if you are familiar with soldering, or ~4 hours if you are a beginner. A blue box is a device that produces special signalling tones that were used within the long-distance telephone network. Used by famous phreaks such as Evan Doorbell, Ben Decibel, Steve Wozniak and Mark Bernay, the multi-frequency tones generated by blue boxes and red boxes could be used to route telephone calls, host chat lines, or fool a payphone into thinking coins have been deposited. Come and build a blue box with our engineering experts, and learn how to use it from an experienced phone phreak! While you probably can't use the bluebox on the _real_ phone network anymore (and we would _never_ condone such action!) you just might be able to use it on the Shadytel network...

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