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I like the 2600Hz phone phreaking stories, how people could whistle the codes into the phone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box https://en.wikipedia.org/w
by rb808 9y ago
I like the 2600Hz phone phreaking stories, how people could whistle the codes into the phone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box
- dghughes 9y agoThere's a good article (the Wikipedia article and sources have most of it) around somewhere about the meeting of Captain Crunch and Joybubbles, who was blind and had perfect pitch. And how they altered the Captain Crunch toy by drilling a hole in it then when the phone system went digital they created the blue box. Some of the stories how they could cause a telephone to go live and listen in to people at home. Virtual meeting rooms party line where phone phreaks from all over the US would meet. It's amazing stuff. Worthy of a movie.
- digi_owl 9y agoAll because the telcos operated with "security through obscurity" back then. You had things like switches being equipped with modems on unlisted numbers that sent the caller straight to a root prompt. The biggest hilarity perhaps would be payphones where you could record the tones of the coins being inserted, and then play them back to get effectively free calls.