The term, from the growing lexicon of computer-linked banter, refers to the art and science of cracking the phone network in order to make free calls. For computer hackers, phreaking was once a ...

This was my introduction to the illicit thrill of elevator phone phreaking. I had learned about this hobby—and received my list of working elevator phones—just a few days earlier from Will ...

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Cartoon from Volume 1, Issue 1 of Telephone Electronics Line (1974), a newsletter devoted to phone phreaking (Archive.org) "Let's say a shopping center," says the hacker I'm talking to online.

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.

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Before there were computer hackers, there were phreakers. And before there were Macs, Jobs and Woz kept themselves busy building their own blue boxes ...

In his new history of phone phreaking, Exploding the Phone, engineer and consultant Phil Lapsley details the story of the 1960s and 1970s culture of hackers who, like Tufte, devised numerous ways ...

Phreaking is a type of phone line hacking that allows people to make free phone calls. It was most prominent in the early 1980s, before lines were upgraded to common channel interoffice signaling.

CONVERTINO: I also kept in contact with all my friends from my early phone phreaking days. HENN: Some phone phreakers from Mike's era ended up infamous. They were on the lam, running from the feds.

In the 1960s and 70s, technically savvy enthusiasts sought to game telecommunications systems to make free calls, keeping telecom engineers on their toes. That practice, known as phreaking ...

That practice, known as phreaking, involved such luminaries as Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and John Draper, known as Cap’n Crunch, who used a whistle from a cereal box to meddle with AT&T’s long ...