I also ran a war dialer I had downloaded off of a BBS. I woke up a lot of people. After some testing, I ran it only once overnight. The next day we received a

I also ran a war dialer I had downloaded off of a BBS. I woke up a lot of people. After some testing, I ran it only once overnight. The next day we received at least three calls from people who were upset about being woken up. I placed the calls from our family phone number, so my mom answered them. She mentioned these callers but I think she assumed they were confused or something. I did not explain my “experiment” and never got in trouble. But I did not war dial again. It ran all night so I collected a fair amount of data but did absolutely nothing with it. I think I thought I would find some secret line to the White House. Society got its revenge though. Due to spam and robocalls, all unknown calls go to silent for me now, I leave my voicemail “full” and POTS is rarely useful.