At that time,
phreaks were trying all sorts of ways to duplicate the frequency needed to jack the system, and Engressia discovered that a free whistle being given out in boxes of cereal could be used to that end.
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A
phreak is a person who breaks into telephone networks or other secured telecommunication systems to see how they work.
Hackers, crackers, phreaks, script kiddies, and cyberpunks..... (Security)
Phreak: "Some, as you predict, will anesthetize their minds with visual opiates peddled over the network.
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191); early hackers were known as "phone
phreaks" in the 1970s because they attempted to make free telephone calls (Coleman, 2012).
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Steinmetz correctly takes a broad view of hacking, encompassing early assembly language programmers working tirelessly to optimize code, phone "
phreaks" exploiting telephone systems, security consultants, pranksters, free and open software developers, and myriad other branches.
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There was 1992's Sneakers, which took some of its inspiration from real-world phone
phreaks John "Cap'n Crunch" Draper and Josef "Joybubbles" Engressia.
Mr. Robot killed the Hollywood hacker: the popular portrayal of computers as magic boxes capable of anything has done real societal harm. Now one TV show wants to save us
Hackers are no longer
phreaks or society's fringe dwellers.
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The phrase "information superhighway" was preceded by a century in an AT&T ad announcing "a highway of communication: Computer hacking grew out of the culture of "phone
phreaks"--those early-1970s technological obsessives (Steve Jobs among them) who figured out how to manipulate the phone system to place free phone calls.
The call-of the future: today we worry about the social effects of the Internet. A century ago, it was the telephone that threatened to reinvent society
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Readers of a certain age might remember the "phone
phreaks" of the 1960s and '70s who deviously manipulated telephone technology in order to make free long distance calls, disclose American Telephone and Telegraph secrets and, in general, drive AT&T crazy.
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We've seen a rise in businesses that have either been
phreaked or know of victims."
Firms warned on 'phreaking'
"We've seen a rise in businesses that have either been
phreaked or know of companies who have been subject to this kind of criminal activity."
Warning over rise in 'phreaking'
From that venue they have brought in national and international acts such as Mark E (Jisco Music), Charles Webster, inset, (Miso, Furry
Phreaks), John Daly (Feel, Wave, Drumpoet Community), FishgoDeep (Go Deep, Defected), The Unabombers (Elektrons, Electric Chair), and Max Essa (Bear Funk) to name but a few.
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There were also some repetitive entries--for example, Crackers Lamers and
Phreaks, Hackers Crackers and Hacking, and Phreaking, which could have been combined somehow.
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The episode of BBS that focuses on the darker side of the scene--hackers, crackers, phone
phreaks, and software pirates--opens with a monologue from a portly aging biker called Bootleg with a great frizzy white beard and long hair, who sits astride a great black Harley taking drags from a cigarette.
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