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 ...

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Depending on who you ask, phone phreaking is either "a dead art" or alive and well even if it "looks different" now. However, everyone I talked to had a great deal of respect for the global ...

"We'd do our presentation," he says, "where I was the emcee talking bout all the folklore of phone phreaking. Steve was there to do the sales and money. You read books about Steve Jobs [version ...

[Corelatus] said recently that “someone” asked them to identify the phone signals in the 1982 film The Wall, based on the Pink Floyd song of the same name. We suspect that, like us, that ...

HENN: From that point on, he was obsessed with hacking the phone system - phone phreaking. In the beginning, he didn't even know those words, hacking or phreaking. He was just curious. Soon ...

Phone phreaking isn’t dead, it has just gone digital. One of the possibly apocryphal origins of phone phreaking was a toy bo’sun whistle in boxes of cereal, that just happened to play a 2600 ...

One of the original circuit boards hand-made by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak for the first iteration "blue box" phone phreaking device in 1972 is going to auction, with an estimate of US$8,000 ...