the three funnest things i did in the waning age of the phreak era in the mid-2000s in highschool: 1. finding this test extension number, xxx-4111, which i bro

the three funnest things i did in the waning age of the phreak era in the mid-2000s in highschool: 1. finding this test extension number, xxx-4111, which i broke the truancy bot with which would call everyone's parents who had skipped class that day from the nortel meridan pbx and inform them that their son or daughter (name) was skipping (period). this test extension number cut out the line for noise testing completely for a few minutes, so the bot would just skip people ahead of me too whenever i would skip class (Almost every day, I had more fun taking girls out to do bad things after convincing them I broke the robot, zero regrets). I think it's called a silent termination test line - you might be able to find your own here: https://www.sandman.com/colookup https://www.sandman.com/colookup 2. finding another number on that test extension. i think it was xxx-8111, and since this was a toll free extension this was dialable for free from payphones. you waited like 30 seconds hearing nothing but silence, then a dial tone. you could dial anywhere for free with this. none of the phone company employees i've asked seems to know wtf this was but the school was close to a headquarters so i'm just thinking we were on the same trunk. and back then, you could just download gargantuan phone number lists in .txt format from people with waaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands like phonelosers for fun numbers to call. was hilarious when some friend of mine made the mistake of trying to print this out cause it was filled with obscenities and stuff without realizing it was goddamn reams of paper. he used some dead kid's account though so he didn't get caught. haha i think the guy who did those lists went to jail, rbcp? 3. getting onto my school's intercom. *, 5, 1 and boom that was it. I found it handscanning. I only went on to actually say something the last day and I just pretended like I was crazy when I was caught so they let me go. I think the girl who went on after me was like GRAD '07 WOOOOOOO! I think a couple of these could still be done.