Recipes for Disaster: an anarchist cookbook

Once inside a TNI box, you can monitor and/or hijack your target's phone lines. To monitor through a TNI with jacks, all you need is a standard telephone and a line-splitting adapter. Unplug the line you want to tap, plug in your adapter in its place, and plug their line and your line into the adapter. Once you have done this, you can use the line as if you were inside using an extension. You can make calls and monitor conversations by simply picking up the line. If you need to gain information from your target, this is a risky but effective way to do so. Make sure your ringer is turned off so an incoming call vriU not draw attention to your activities.

To build what is known as a "beige box/' first find a normal home phone. Use one of the simple ones that have a base and a headset connected by a curled wire. Find the plug that runs from the phone to the wall jack. Cut the cord approximately four inches from where it plugs into the phone. Expose the vvdre in the cord and find the red and green wires. Solder alligator clips to these two wires. You can now attach the alligator clips to the terminals on the box to monitor or hijack the phone line. To connect the box, simply match the red and green wires to the red and green terminals. For further information on beige boxes, search hacking websites.

You can freeze gasoline supplies at offensive gas stations by pushing the emergency shut-off button. This can often be found outside, sometimes even out of the cashier's line of sight. A coordinated group could arrange a gas-free rush hour by hitting all such buttons in a given area.

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Security Another lifeline of a standard corporate business location is its simple security. Don't look at tills security as a hindrance to sabotage, but as another opportunity for it. The security designed to keep you out can also be used to keep the doors shut. You can glue their locks, and strategically place your own. If a lock is properly glued, a locksmith will have to be called?^there you are again, creating jobs?and the lock will have to be drilled. This takes a lot of time and money. If you are striking multiple lifelines of the same target, start vidth gluing the locks and then move on.

In order to glue a lock, you need an appropriate glue and a method of getting it into the lock. Appropriate glues will indicate that they can be used to fasten metal to metal, Superglue and other brands of cyanoacrylate work well and come with tips for easy application. If your glue has a blunt applicator, you can construct a syringe by fastening one of those hollow coffee-stirring sticks to the tip. You can also fill a syringe, minus needle, with epoxy glue?get the slow-setting, high-strength kind and you'll have an hour of working time once you've mixed it. Whatever glue you use, get as much in as you can, as deep as possible; you can also add wire, toothpicks, paperclips, or random shards of metal, glass, or plastic. Use a small screwdriver to wedge stuff in. Even if you have no glue, enough dirt and grit can disable a lock if introduced deep enough into it. You can also use a metal-to-metal glue to fasten a coin?obtained from a vending machine and never handled without gloves, of course?over the keyhole of the lock, which will keep the glue in the lock and make things that much more difficult for the locksmith. This method also works for car doors, keyholes on vending machines, and coin slots. Don't forget to wear gloves.

Once you have glued existing locks, you can search around the building for places to

add your own locks. When you find a padlock, cut it off and replace it with your own. If

utilities ^^^ locks are similar, confusion will increase and your action will be less obvious. There

^go are many places that can be locked. The trash area is often gated, and can be locked shut.

If you can close fences in loading areas, access to necessary supplies and services wiU be restricted. If there is an area with double doors, you may be able to run a bicycle U-lock through both handles, thus locking the doors together. If your target has metal shutters that are pulled down at night, keep the shutters closed all day by gluing the locks or by adding your own.