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 ...

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 ...

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 about ...

Jesse talks to Huey Lewis about his pub rock beginnings, his multi-platinum success with the album Sports, and how he wrote songs for movies like Back to the Future and Pineapple Express. He also ...

Imagine a day when it cost an arm and a leg to use the phone, especially for long-distance calls. Then imagine that buried deep within the telephone network infrastructure was a flaw -- a hole that ...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) co-founder Steve Wozniak reminisced about the early days when he and Steve Jobs built their first digital blue box, which eventually led to the foundation for the creation of ...

Way back in the day (1972), Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak designed and started selling “blue boxes,” devices that generated specific tones that would game the telephone networks of the day (called ...

What was the first gadget Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak ever manufactured and sold? No, we’re not talking about the Apple-1, but rather the “blue box,” a device which allowed users to make free ...

I use the word “hack” advisedly in this column. It sets off alarms for GT Staff Writer Lucas Ropek and columnist Dan Lohrmann, who think in terms of white, gray and black hats in their coverage of ...