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This immediately reminded me of the slightly infamous and almost certainly apocryphal "box" of the phreaking era for supposedly overloading and destroying your
by CPLX 12y ago
This immediately reminded me of the slightly infamous and almost certainly apocryphal "box" of the phreaking era for supposedly overloading and destroying your adversary's phone, or even taking down the local POTS switch. It was called a urine box most commonly, or sometimes a copper box or assassin box if I recall correctly.
- BuildTheRobots 12y agoThis [1] seems to indicate the urine box and the assassin box were actually different, even though they seemed to achieve similar results. I'd be curious to find circuit diagrams. [1] http://www.aboutphone.info/lib/phreak/boxes-2.html http://www.aboutphone.info/lib/phreak/boxes-2.html
- CPLX 12y agoAha, that also reminded me of my favorite name for the thing, the Blotto Box.