// Phreaking.... from a ninja standpoint
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// by Agent5
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// http://www.oldskoolphreak.com

About about half of outdoor phreaking exploits happen during night. Darkness
massively aids in keeping yourself hidden from other people. Especially when
you are in a rural area and people tend to be paranoid about rapists, peeping
toms, or whatever their minds wish to cook up. It helps if you have a good
idea of what your doing, otherwise you'll have to explain some things to the
"Law Enforcement Professionals" aka PIGS.

Only in very very specific instances would you want to wear all black; black
stands out against lighter things for the most part. Camouflage doesnt stand
out as much at all, but if you are seen anywhere in camo, people will notice
you immediately. Same thing with all black. Darker colors such as greens,
maroon, and dark blues, serve the purpose while also making you look fairly
normal. Jogging clothes are great. They make a nice excuse for being wherever
you are at that time of night. For the most part I like to keep my tools in
my pockets. For some things that I wouldnt want caught on me I keep them in a
small bag attached to my belt that I can ditch if necessary (mini notebook,
tone dialer, my beigebox, etc...). A red LED flashlight is pretty nice too as
it's normal for some buildings to have red lights on the boxes outside of
them.

When going into an area where there's traffic, you might stay in the open
until theres no one on that road at all or just walk up someone's driveway
that's close. Once you have good placement and you get your bearings, make
your way into the woods (for lack of woods there's not too much you can do
but stick close to the walls and behind the large dumpsters). Once you are in
the woods stay low, move with the noise around you. (When cars drive by, you
may run without much noise. When there's wind, you may move a bit faster than
walking pace while keeping quiet.) Training your night vision may prove very
beneficial also.

A thick sweatshirt is always nice for climbing over barbed wire. Just sling
it over the top and climb over. I stress the word THICK in this situation
unless you want to become holy.

When and if you are confronted by someone asking "What are you doing here?"
use your brain according to the situation. If the person sees your face,
don't just ditch unless you have no excuse ready at all. If the person is far
away, get your ass out of there!!! Saying something while your running may
even help in masking your previous intentions. "Fuck! I knew I would get
raped out here!" or "Praise Satan!" will certainly not make people think of
anything even close to telephones.

In daytime phreaking I prefer to dress for the occasion since I will
definitely be seen - Verizon shirt, helmet, and toolbelt for boxes and cans.
I would put my COX communications magnetic sticker on my car and wear my COX
attire for people with that service. I have only personally done this once
and man its fuckin' scary sittin there while people are goin' by you in their
cars. As long as a Verizon truck doesn't go by, you're golden. I definitely
would not recommend doing this as it's very likely you will be caught. I
still however buy any telco uniform I see at the thrift stores. Kinda fun
standing around in Cingular and tellin' people to go away when they ask you
for service.

Self-Defense
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Regardless of whether you have had any training in martial arts or not you
can still take care of yourself against the odd angry person trying to attack
you while your playing with phones. Make use of your tools. Get out of there
as soon as you have the opportunity. Also keep in mind the less you hurt the
other person, the less they will try to press charges and come looking for
you. The art of ninjutsu is fun that way. We like to make it look like you
are doing nothing while the other person keeps falling down, running into
your fist, or punching/stabbing/shooting themselves. Whatever you do make
sure you realize you have options other than staying there and fighting.
Unless of course you really feel like kicking someone's ass.

"Brought to you by the makers of sharp things."

Shoutouts to Epiphany, Icon, MaddJimBeam, Kordie, JOhnny Lightning, Bizurke,
Bagel, Master Slate, and all the mabell ninjas.