Perhaps one of the most dominant trends in the area of Phone Phreaking was the constant creation of "Boxes": Devices of all types and complexity that would do a specific activity, usually illegal or potentially illegal. The first and most famous of these was the Blue Box, which would simulate the tones generated by an Operator from any phone, allowing the user to do an amazing variety of tricks and, occasionally, fraud.
However, this box was quickly surrounded by every box color in the visible spectrum (and some beyond) as phreaks and phone hackers across the country came up with odd new ideas of what to do with phones, and created electronic plans to demonstrate to others how to build them.
No doubt a major contributor to this unique situation was the romance of creating an all-in-one, solid box that would do a magic trick on a phone or phone line, giving the phone phreak a leg up against the phone company. As time went on, this idea of a magic box spread to other arenas, and there are plans for television transmitters and traffic light hacks as well.
To speed browsing, the supposed function of the box is included in italics after the first set of plans for that color. This has nothing to do with the plan's actual success at its goal or whether it even comes close. In the case of multiple plans, no favoritism is being played as to which plans are the first, second, etc. It's just how they came.
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10.box | 2283 | How to make a Portable Silver Box by The Phone Phantom
| 11.box | 1984 | Assorted Box Frequencies
| 12.box | 3835 | How to Blue Box into Russia, by Mark Tabas
| 15.box | 7474 | How to Make and Use a Beige Box (Lineman's Handset)
| 16.box | 6587 | The Switch Box, by Autopsy Saw
| 17.box | 2266 | Brown Box Plans
| 18.box | 2856 | White Box Plans
| 20.box | 1482 | Cheese Box Plans
| 21.box | 7969 | Making and Using Beige Boxes, by The Exterminator and The Terminal Man (May 17, 1985)
| 25.box | 2517 | How to Make The Pearl Box
| 2600dect.txt | 6703 | The Myth of the 2600 Detector, by Scarface and Zardoz
| 2600hrtz.box | 3024 | The Poor Man's 2600 Hertz, by Sir Briggs of SCDW
| 2600plan.txt | 1993 | 2600 Hertz Single Tone Generator Schematic
| 2600stgs.txt | 2048 | 2600 Hertz Single Tone Generator Schematic
| 3-way.box | 1776 | How to Build a Three-Way Phone
| 35.box | 8990 | Messages about Building a Silver Box by the Aluminum Gerbil
| 36.box | 10181 | Boxing Around the World in 10 Easy Lessons or Less by MOB-RULES (October 30, 1984)
| 41.box | 4239 | Information on Infinity Transmitters from MISC.SECURITY (November, 1987)
| 9999trut.phk | 5413 | The truth behind those 9999 numbers, by Mark Bluebox
| acrylic | 2196 | Acrylic Box Plans
| acrylic.box | 3226 | Acrylic Box Plans by The Pimp
| acrylic2.box | 4163 | Acrylic Box Plans, by The Pimp
| aio | 2560 | All In One Box, by The Disk Doctor
| all.about.loops | 2939 | Loop File, by Quasi Moto and the Blue Archer
| all.box | 202368 | Large Assembly of Different Phreaking Box Plans
| allboxes.txt | 2826 | What do all the Colored Boxes Do? (List of Phone Boxes)
| aqua | 7296 | The Aqua Box by Xerox and The Traveler
| aqua.box | 7651 | The Aqua Box, by Captain Xerox and The Traveler
| aqua001.box | 7742 | The Aqua Box by Captain Xerox and The Traveler
| aqua2.box | 8969 | Same as above, but with a SysOp chat broken in the middle of it.
| aqua3.box | 8432 | Aqua Box Plans by Game Warlord, Hyperspace Bandit, Frequency Bandit, and Twilight Phantom
| assasin.box | 7003 | The Assassin Box, by the Grim Reaper
| assassin.box | 7420 | The Assassin Box, by The Grim Reaper | Sends a large amount of voltage on a line to maim or kill assassin.txt | 8595 | The Assassin Box, by Grim Reaper
| at-red.hch | 4504 | Converting a Tone Dialer into a Red Box by Atomic Teddybear (June 14, 1994)
| basboxin.txt | 2116 | Getting Phree Calls, by the Seker
| bbbuild.box | 10751 | How to Build a Blue Box
| bbd3.txt | 13280 | Blue Box Plans, Edited and Uploaded by Lex Luthor and Written by Osuny BBS (Heavily Modified File) (1985)
| bbsadver | 1003 | AD: The Styx BBS by R$| and Sprm
| bbuild.txt | 10752 | How to Build a Blue Box
| beagan.box | 3749 | The Beagan Box by Black Box and Lord Reagan | Same as a Beige Box But with 1000 feet of cable attached to it beagon | 5242 | P/HARM Presents: The Beagan Box by Black Box and Lord Reagan
| beige | 8820 | Introducing the Beige Box, by The Exterminator and The Terminal Man
| beige.box | 4631 | Beige Box Plans
| beige001.box | 9820 | Introducing the Beige Box: Construction and Use, by The Exterminator and The Terminal Man
| beige2.box | 6222 | The Beige Box, by The Kez and Jolly Rogger
| beige3.box | 8560 | An Introduction to Beige Boxes and Beige Boxing
| beige4.box | 3072 | Beige Box Plans, done over by The Kez
| beige5.box | 3718 | The Beige Box Revisited, by The Mercenary
| beige6.box | 7545 | How to make a Genuine Phone Tap, by Jello Biafra
| beigebox.box | 4722 | Introducing the Beige Box: Construction and Use by The Exterminator and The Terminal Man
| beigebox.txt | 9739 | MIM Magazine's Coverage of Beige Boxing by DMV DR. (July 16, 1994)
| beigebrn.box | 7169 | The Beige/Bud/Razz/etc... Box and The Brown Box by The White Ninja
| black | 4584 | How to Build a Black Box (Also Known as a Mute Box)
| black.box | 4460 | How to Build a Black Box: To All Who Dare
| black001.box | 2494 | Black Box Plans
| black002.box | 4986 | Black Box Plans
| black1.txt | 3472 | The Truth About Black Boxing! By Fabulist of Enigma (1992)
| black2.box | 5632 | Black Box Plans
| black3.box | 2389 | Some Additional Changes to The Black Box
| black4.box | 3422 | The TRUTH about Black Boxing! By Fabulist
| black_2.box | 5054 | How to Build a Black Box, by Cracker Jack of The Pirate Club/1200
| blackbox.txt | 2986 | British Version of the Telephone Black Box
| blackmod.txt | 2583 | Black Box Mods from Jack Plug
| blast | 1547 | The Blast Box! An Original Box
| blast.box | 2048 | Blast Box Plans, by Shadow Hawk | Attaches an Amplifier to the phone for obnoxiously loud speaking blast.txt | 1368 | The Blast Box, and usage
| blast2.box | 1759 | The Blast Box! An Original Box (More Complete)
| blk_box.txt | 4464 | Black Box Plans for Calls from Granma
| blkbox.txt | 4351 | How to Make a Black Box
| blkbx2.txt | 2670 | Black Box Plans
| bloto.box | 6656 | How to Build a Blotto Box
| blotto | 6137 | How to Build a Blotto Box
| blotto.box | 6131 | How to Build a Blotto Box
| blotto2.box | 4434 | How to Build a Blotto Box
| blue | 17164 | The Art and Practice of Blue Boxing
| blue-1.box | 7093 | Blue Box Plans! By The Spirit of Radio and Mr. America from OSUNY BBS
| blue.box | 5120 | Blue Box Plans!!
| blue.red.freqs | 3100 | Blue, Red Box Frequencies and TASI Locking Frequency, from Phantom
| blue0003.box | 4785 | Blue Boxing Safely Today by The Micro Master
| blue1.box | 8861 | Blue Boxing, by Mr. America
| blue2.box | 6350 | The Blue Box
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