Phreaking is dying but alive. Nowadays it mostly is exploring Qualcomm chipsets and androids. Mediatek too, which is a much more open platform. 2600 meetings

Phreaking is dying but alive. Nowadays it mostly is exploring Qualcomm chipsets and androids. Mediatek too, which is a much more open platform. 2600 meetings are still around and every first Friday so you should try to go! As for operator/telcom abuse it is here and there. It’s not discussed as much but some things can happen but mostly since everything went to a “sim” card - that is not so much. Unlocking a phone if you consider it phreaking is active to an extent. Lineage and alternative android systems are around too but I wouldn’t say this is phreaking per se. In the 00- early 10s it was very much possible to phreak as Kevin mitnick did with CDMA operators - ran cloning was not so rampant but if you knew where to look you could find communities around it. Ironically not much was posted in 2600 magazines during this time. Gate keeping was and is still large for this. Ss7 abuse is rampant and I would consider that phreaking it is still in use today. The Wikipedia article is nice, but paints a more historical picture akin to what you’d read in a museum.