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, involved ...

[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 someone might ...

The history of early personal computing is interwoven with that of phone phreaking, where people would try to figure out ways to take advantage of the automated phone systems becoming common. One ...

Apple founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs had a brief and highly illegal business manufacturing and selling phone phreaking gear prior to founding Apple computer in 1976. Now one of the original ...

Phreaking example The classic early example of phreaking was hacker John Draper’s use of cereal-box toy whistles which, when blown into a telephone handset, hit a pitch normally used by phone ...

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 simulate a ...