paid prison system tries to make you have a violation so they can arbitrarily extend your stay.

Not trolling and don't mean this disparagingly but 'oops, sorta missed those computers' is basically unimaginable.

I hope I'm a mega-cute old lady like this some day.

Shake hands with danger! Bum bum bumbumbum buuuum.

When I took an AI class at UCLA the early 1980s, my favorite definition of AI was: An attempt to replace humans with somelthing lower cost. 4 decades latter it still describes most AI well. Most tech that is claimed to be AI is not.

"Whether you're on a payphone or getting irradiated in your balls, stay safe out there". LOLed IRL

Sounds like a class action multibillion lawsuit

Is this all a massive setup to equip us with a special new tool that can't be bypassed... Only to have a bypass gizmo for sale in the next year? I am sure this isn't your intention - but I expect a bypass for these to eventually gets developed.

Fine, I re-open my own payphone and start working on fixing it again.

I have samsung smart tags and we can already share the locations with other android phones. Not sure about iphone though.too bad they cant use each others network. Then wed have good coverage

Didn’t realise I was a phone nerd until I watched this, pretty interesting stuff, hopefully you do a part 2 follow up on getting it working 🤞

I forgot to mention that my single slot phone has the standard board similar to the one shown in this video. My phone line is actually a dedicated VOIP box installed by the cable company. I was getting really distorted sound whenever I tried to talk on the pay phone. I found the fix was to install a 100 Ohm resistor in series with the talk path to create a bit of voltage drop. The VOIP box was just too hot a signal without a long loop from the CO to knock the signal down a bit. The sound quality is pretty good and the DTMF from the keypad is still strong now that I have added the resistor.

That looks like a pretty standard late ‘70s board. What is great about the single slot body is that everything is modular and easy to swap. I got a really sweet super clean Pac Bell phone with T-handle, security keys and mounting frame from eBay which was apparently cabbaged up by Pac Bell to work like an extension phone. The vault was missing, and they had cut the 1A relay and put a cable tie through the armature so it just rejected coins to the chute. What a mess! I found a place called Triad in Youngstown, Ohio that has just about any pay phone or COCOT part you could want for very reasonable prices. I got a new 1A relay and newer DIP switch programmable totalizer, electronic coin rejecter, vault and a few cosmetic parts. I put everything back to spec and set it up as dial tone first. If someone puts coins in, they’ll hear the beeps from the totalizer, but the coins will sit in the 1A hopper. I’ve toyed with the idea of doing a coin exchange simulator with an Arduino and a 60 volt supply to operate the relay. I’ve also got a very nice chrome Northern Electric 3-slot coin first which has a Cincinnati, Ohio exchange on the dial card. The 3-slot requires an external subset to supply the network and ringer. I found a brand new in box subset on eBay. It is pretty easy to bridge a couple contacts on the 1A relay to just make the talk path live all the time and use it as an extension phone. Triad has advanced boards if you want to turn your single slot pay phone into a COCOT. You can set local call rate as well as rate tables and local timers for long distance calls, if you want. I kept my original board, but I suspect the sound quality on newer boards is better because they have better networks. I found having a Station Services Specialty Manual is a must to de-cabbage eBay finds and put them back to normal spec. There are so many which are all hacked up by people who don’t know what they’re doing. The Station Services Specialty Manual is really a condensation of Bell System Practices relevant to customer premise equipment and suitable for carrying by installers. The different RBOCs apparently had their own flavors of the manual. I have one from Pac Bell which is as thick as a large metro area phone book which I found on Amazon for a few bucks. I’ve also got one from Oregon Bell supplied back in the day by a helpful family member and it is much smaller and less detailed. If you can find the Pac Bell version, grab it.

Skip this video unless youre a phone nerd? Do you know your audience at all? 😂

Very cool. I love how proud she seemed to be of the work she'd done... and like, not in a boastful way, but just in a "yeah, I did that, and that was good work" sort of way. Very cool.

now u gotta vacuum your walls tho......

I see Sarah in a video thumbnail and I click on it :D Despite 40 years in server and big iron programming/maintenance I wasn't a phone geek until lockdown, all down to the Connections Museum videos.

Love the collection of keys!!!❤

you gotta get her into giving a talk somewhere

@1:37 you missed a golden opportunity for the two of you to turn to the camera and say "... don't ask!"

My wallet somehow kills tap to pay cards my card will tap for a month or 2 then no longer work for tap but the chip and mag still work

I heard the warrning at the beginning and I was like, eh, how bad can it be. An hour in and I'm sobbing. Thanks to you I'll try to prepare for such horrible situations. If anything like that ever happens to me or someone I know you will be the one that saved us, thank you.

Hyperbole doesn't help your argument. 20% maybe.

So I guess I'm a hyper phone nerd! Good. Thanks for sharing this

You and Sarah on the same video - I guess I AM a hyper phone nerd! She is the best!

I hope you end up hooking up with save it for parts via rando sat phones

24:12 Kyle Hill

There better be a series of videos showing off various phreaking boxes in collaboration with Connections Museum with this!

in my country it's national IDs that have RFID. If i keep it in my phone case my phone keeps getting popups for new NFC tag detected. But the chip inside also stores social security and proof of address and tap to sign (because some people find it more convinient to tap their ID and enter a PIN than grab a pen...). Catch 22 so i ended up just putting it inside my wallet and its thick enough to not be detected

This in fact only works on DoorKing keypads 2019 and older

This triggered so many memories of working on arcade and pinball machines in the early 00s

Being trans, and having been in the crowbar hotel as such, it's not fun. I'm in Canuckistan, though, and I've not been a guest at any of the facilities down your way. I think I'll write to her, I know from my own experience how nice it is to receive mail, a connection to the outside world can be a big deal. Thank you for sharing the story of your friend here and what she's been dealing with, I sincerely hope that she's soon returned to her life with no additional issues.

The TSA is a criminal organization

Such an amazing crossover! love Sarah and Connections Museum!

Really looking forward to seeing part 2, seeing two of my favourite hackers collaborating on something so cool. To be fair, I've never stopped being a phreak, so phone stuff like this is candy to me.

If you don’t carry a lock pick set; you’re not any good at picking locks.

I remember spending hours staring at the divots in the cinderblocks on the wall. I'd imagine they were maps of territories and write stories in my head about them. I remember getting mildly upset at one block because it was almost perfect, but was missing an island I wanted. Escaping into your own mind is sometimes the only thing you can do in a place like that. Being inside is like watching a party through a one-way soundproof piece of glass. EDIT: for magazines, try to make sure that they don't have staples. They may have relaxed that a bit, but some magazines used to have non-staple versions for facility use.

I'm just a regular hyper nerd; still enjoyed!

This is the simplest of electronic circuits. Just get a scope and trace the problem. It will be good for you ;o) A bit of practice and you'll be drawing out schematics into KiCad.

What I've learnt is that Deviant should be a writer.

I started this watch not being a hyper phone nerd, but I might be heading there now.

Dev, this is the content I love to see from you!! I really need to check out this museum. Are there ever any hacker cons in the Seattle area?

Old Phones.. check. Guns....check. Seattle area... check.. OK I subbed

So I don't mind your channel, but I had to ask my grandson to leave their room. You have one filthy mouth for a 3-year-old to sit and listen to. I'm 62 worked most of my life in a factory and my language around children is good.

So many memories, you're actually covering a topic I'm super familiar with having "experimented" with phones especially payphones since around 1994, and 10 years in telecom starting around 2002 - Just small steps in my journey - I'm more computers and servers now.

I saw Sarah in the thumbnail and stopped scrolling! 😅