Orange box
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An orange box is a piece of hardware or software that emulates Caller ID FSK signals to spoof Caller ID information on the target's Caller ID terminal. It takes advantage of Call Waiting Caller ID (also called off-hook Caller ID) by mimicking the phone company's Central office equipment and sending the Call Waiting tone followed by the audible Caller ID data. An orange box can also be used to spoof the initial Caller ID information sent after an incoming call rings, if the user has access to the target's phone line. An orange box used in conjunction with a Magenta box is called a Vermilion box.
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In software engineering, an orange box is any mechanism that record the sequence of events leading to a crash. The term "orange box" is used because "black box" already has a different meaning in software engineering (see black box testing).