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rusk
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Quindar Tones: the beeps heard in recordings of as...
Didnt some guy figure out how to get free phone calls using a cheap whistle from a cereal box :-)
dylan604
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The book "Exploding The Phone" goes into all of these stories and much more. If you ever wanted to know about how and why the analog phone system was so hackable/phreakable, this book is for you.
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http://explodingthephone.com/
derekja
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Wow, don't know how I missed that book. Looks great!
jasonjayr
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Captain Crunch!
CapitalistCartr
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John Draper
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper
Piskvorrr
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Yes, that's the most famous
application
. As to
why
it worked...that's the more interesting story IMHO.
eskaytwo
on Jan 17, 2020
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And Wozniak had his blue boxes
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