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Internet using public telephone booth?

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I finally purchased my notebook but I will go for vacations in a village where I have no static telephone and the GPRS cell phone service in my country is very expensive. So I was thinking about connecting my notebook to the only telephone booth there is in the area as seen in films. How exactly can I do this?

Oh, the telephone booth's device has no inputs/plugs as far as I can see. I remember though in "Operation Takedown" where Mitnick is in the airport (about 39th minute in the film) and he has attached a device to the phone's handset/telephone receiver (bad english- I mean the device which you use to speak and here :P ). Is this doable in real life and if so is it legal?
post #2 of 5
Well, not all phones allow you to do this. I know that payphones in O'Hare Airport have inputs (i am sure other airports do too) so you can plug in your phone wire to the phone and to the laptop and get online, i've seen people doing that (of course, other airports like Ft.Lauderdale/Holywood FL just gave you free wifi service).
post #3 of 5
acoustic coupler

oldschool and slow

I don't know if they're made anymore.
post #4 of 5
Im sure it is illegal, but I remember reading in Anarchy Cookbook about 5 years ago (no "Boo"'s please, I was younger, and never did anything from the book ) that if you can find the box on the outside of the telelphone booth, you can open in up and there will be a phone jack in there, ready to go. Like I said, never tried it, pretty damned sure you'd get in trouble if you used it.
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Originally Posted by abf
(...) (of course, other airports like Ft.Lauderdale/Holywood FL just gave you free wifi service).
Aahhh.... the goods of accessible technology...... ..::return to real life::..
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