ok. here it is. for any of you who know a thing or to about phreaking i'm sure your heard of the Telephone Network Interface (TNI) box. The little grey one on the side of the house. What would happen if you ran a line from the TNI box and hooked your four phone wires to say, the neighbors four TNI wires? could you pick up your phone and hear the neighbors phone conversations?

If those four wires were connected to a phone, yes.

This isn't interesting at all.

u cant just cross wire ur tni with ur neighbours. y you ask? one, when someone notices, AND IT WONT E THAT HARD youll be in shit upto your ears. two, im not sure what this would cause but im sure it would inhibit both ur phones unusable.

perhaps i misunderstood, and u where talkign about a beige box. (modified phone cord adapted to hook to the tni screws to make outgoing, recieve incoming, and listen in on calls) if so yes u could hear but it would be tricky cuz u know when someone picks up.

I've read a file about something like this except it had to do with 2 crisscrossed wires between to Cocot's, the guy was able to hear the girl on the other line(like 2 payphones over)...Unless you're talkin' about a linesman handset or a beige box, then yes it will work...

i have a linesman handset at home. I think. It's one of those blue phones with the dial pad on the back. I'm afraid to use it though, because i heard that it emits a certain tone across the the wire that the phone company can trace.

I also have been reading up on the beige box. I've been fooling around with some old phones, and i think that i made one without realizing it. only instead of the two wires (red and green on a beige box is it?) mine has four. I attached four wires to the back of a phone jack and put aligator clips on the tips of them. Then i can just attach the aligator clips to the TNI box, and plug the phone in. Hasn't worked yet, but i'm still fooling around.

the best boxes to use are either black boxes or blue. I made a black boxe using the componants out of a old phone and it works brilliant i am making a blue at the moment i just need a circuit board to finish it