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WarGames Sequel Now Filming
iluvcapra writes "This news is a little late, but on November 20th WarGames 2: The Dead Code began filming in Montreal. (I only became aware of the new production when I read that MGM is suing the rightful owner of WarGames.com for his domain name.) The film will be produced and distributed by MGM — distributor of the original WarGames — and directed by Stewart Gillard, director of such gems as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3. Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, the team behind the original film, are not involved. The plot revolves around a hacker breaking into a terrorism-simulation computer."
The glaring technical problem is that you can't auto dial with an acoustic coupler because the computer obviously has no mechanism for pressing down the hookswitch on the damn phone to hang up between calls.
Well now, hang on there, chief. Recall that in answer to the question, "doesn't that cost a lot of money?" he replied "There's ways around that." Clearly, he was blue-boxing. Now, correct me if I recall wrongly, but when you're blue boxing, you don't actually have to ATH1 - instead, you broadcast a 2600 Hz tone so that the trunk line appears "dead", then stop the tone and transmit the routing digits for the remote telco office now listening to the trunk line. Coincidentally enough, broadcasting a 2600 Hz tone and routing digits could be done with an accoustic coupler. Maybe the directors knew a little more than you give them credit for?
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
Actually, it could if you had recorded a 1-800 calling card number, a calling card number and pin and the number you wished to access.
And you could actually record the tones of the coin drop from the remote end (it filtered out on the payphone end) by calling your friend and having a tape on the line. Then you just drop 2 or 3 bucks in various coins down the chute and when you're done you hit the coin return and get it all back. Of course, then they started cutting the transmitter part of the phone until you dropped at least one coin in, so you had to spend a minimum of a nickel.
Oh, and you could modify a radio shack tone dialer to generate the tones with a 6.565mhz crystal, then you used the "*" on speed dial to represent a nickel. 2 * for a dime and 5 * for a quarter.
I still have it around here somewhere. It doesn't work anymore, of course.
Cool! Amazing Toys.