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TAN BOX 
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------------ 
Introduction 
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The Tan box allows you to make recordings from a phone line,  and
it  will  only record once the victim's phone is picked up. Basi-
cally, this is a modified linesman's  handset,  or  "Beige  Box."
For  a copy of the Beige Box file, ask your friendly local sysop.
A Beige Box consists of a speaker and two wires, a red (ring) and
a  green  (tip).  The Tan 2 minute(s) remaining Box also works on
this principle.



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Construction 
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Parts:

1 - small cassette recorder, preferably a micro cassette  record-
    er. (It MUST have both a microphone jack and a remote jack)

1 - single line recording control. 
    (Radio Shack part number 43-228)

2 - alligator clips 
    (Radio Shack number 270-374)

1 - plastic box to contain the above parts 
    (also available at Radio Shack) 

Tan or Black spray paint 7/16 inch hex driver


1.  Take the recording control and  cut  the  modular  plug  off.
    Make sure you leave enough wire!  

2.  Strip the red and green wires (The yellow and black wires are 
    not necessary, and can be removed). 

3.  Drill a hole on  the  end of the plastic box (enough for  two
    wires to go through).  

4.  Put the recording control in the box and run the red and 
    green wires through the hole. Attach one alligator clip to 
    each of the wires.   

5.  Put the micro cassette recorder in the box and plug the 
    remote and microphone wires from the  recording  control into  
    it.   

6.  Close the box.  

7.  Spray paint the box and wires to make it look like it is sup-
    posed to be where it is.  (BE SURE YOU LABEL THE WIRES BEFORE  
    YOU PAINT THEM!)



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Installation 
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You can either hook it up to the box on the side of  their  house
or  a  bridging head.  Use the 7/16" hex driver to open either of
these.  (On older houses, you may not have to use a hex  driver.)
Attach  the  red  wire to the right terminal and the green to the
left.  (Remember: Red-Ring-Right)  If you attached the box  to  a
bridging  head, there may be room to leave it inside.  If you at-
tached it to the side of a house, run the wires out of their  box
and  close  it.   Attach  the Tan Box to the side of their house.
Make sure you come back and get the box pretty soon, or  you  may
find it gone!  Micro cassette recorders are not cheap!

Be careful, wiretapping is a felony (2-20 years, a $10,000  fine,
or  both),  and various other laws may be broken (i.e., recording
without the other party knowing it, etc.)



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Ways to avoid being Beige/Tan Boxed 
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A tap detector may be purchased at Radio Shack (of  course).   If
you  do detect a tap, find the box, and you will have just gotten
a new tape recorder!


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