Intercepting a telephone line to make long distance calls or insert embarrassing comments. Popular in the 1970s when long distance charges were far greater than today, phone phreakers would ...

The term Van Eck Phreaking may apply to emissions from keyboards and other electronic devices. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

There were obvious security implications, and now computer systems handling highly classified data are TEMPEST shielded – an NSA specification for protection from this van Eck phreaking.

Ah, phone phreaking. Some of us are just old enough to remember the ubiquity of land lines, but just young enough to have missed out on the golden years of phreaking. There’s something nostalgic ...