• therefore rendering blue boxes obsolete. Phreaking has since become closely linked with computer hacking. Phreaking began in the 1960s when it was discovered...
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  • However, very few physical specimens of phreaking boxes are actually the color for which they are named. Most phreaking boxes are electronic devices which...
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  • Van Eck phreaking, also known as Van Eck radiation, is a form of network eavesdropping in which special equipment is used for a side-channel attack on...
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  • obsolete with the widespread conversion of post-pay phones to pre-pay operation. Phreaking boxes "Clear box plans" - 1984 text file on the clear box...
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    Esquire magazine. Suddenly, many more people wanted to get into the phone phreaking culture spawned by the blue box, and it furthered the fame of Captain...
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    In phone phreaking, a beige box is a device that is technically equivalent to a telephone company lineman's handset — a telephone fitted with alligator...
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    signaling. This change rendered the toy whistles and blue boxes useless for phreaking purposes. The whistles are considered collectible souvenirs of a bygone...
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  • A red box is a phreaking device that generates tones to simulate inserting coins in pay phones, thus fooling the system into completing free calls. In...
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    2011. "The Camillagate Tapes". Textfiles.com (phone transcript). Phone Phreaking. 18 December 1989. Archived from the original on 1 July 2010. "Royals...
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  • briefcases used by the British government and monarch Red box (phreaking), a phreaking device Eucalyptus polyanthemos, a tree species commonly known as...
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  • gold Gold Box, a series of video games of 1988 to 1992 Gold box (phreaking), a phreaking box to create a bridge between two telephone lines This disambiguation...
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    the Jargon File reports that considerable overlap existed for the early phreaking at the beginning of the 1970s. An article from MIT's student paper The...
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  • recipient, was similarly affected by the demise of mechanical switching. Phreaking Rosenbaum, Ron (October 1971). "Secrets of the Little Blue Box". Esquire...
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    instructions for the manufacture of explosives, rudimentary telecommunications phreaking devices, and related weapons, as well as instructions for the home manufacture...
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  • signaling, the systems proved vulnerable to misuse and fraud by phone phreaking with devices such as a blue box. Multifrequency signaling is a technological...
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  • 2600 may refer to: 2600 hertz, the audio tone used in phreaking to gain control of telephone networks 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, a magazine named after...
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  • Joybubbles (category Phreaking)
    successful plan to get a job by purposely getting arrested for phreaking. Phone phreaking and specifically Joybubbles were the subject of "A Call from Joybubbles"...
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  • The Secret History of Hacking (category Phreaking)
    starts by reviewing the concept and the early days of phreaking, featuring anecdotes of phreaking experiences (often involving the use of a blue box) recounted...
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    Practices Act Hacked Off Operation Glade Operation Motorman Phone hacking Phreaking Politico-media complex Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 Social...
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  • The gold box is a phreaking box whose function is to create a bridge between two telephone lines. In its basic operation, the user calls one of the lines...
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  • scene, or computer underground. It initially developed in the context of phreaking during the 1960s and the microcomputer BBS scene of the 1980s. It is implicated...
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  • Center for Genomic Gastronomy. Retrieved 24 March 2020. "Food Phreaking". Food Phreaking. Retrieved 25 March 2020. Tigner, Amy L.; Carruth, Allison (2017)...
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  • Part of a series on Computer hacking History Phreaking Cryptovirology Hacking of consumer electronics List of hackers Hacker culture and ethic Hackathon...
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    Part of a series on Computer hacking History Phreaking Cryptovirology Hacking of consumer electronics List of hackers Hacker culture and ethic Hackathon...
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  • the American Academy of Pediatrics Phone Losers of America, a US phone phreaking group Port of London Authority, England Pre-school Learning Alliance,...
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    Wozniak's blue box design earned him the nickname "Berkeley Blue" in the phreaking community. Wozniak has credited watching Star Trek and attending Star...
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     21–32. Isaacson 2011, p. 31. Brennan 2013, pp. 1–11. "How Blue Box Phone Phreaking Put Steve Jobs and Woz on the Road to Apple". Esquire. October 15, 2015...
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  • Blue box is an early phreaking tool that simulates a telephone operator's dialing console. Blue box may also refer to: Link Trainer or Blue Box, a flight...
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    "software", typically referring to cracked and redistributed software. Phreaking refers to the hacking of telephone systems and other non-Internet equipment...
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    Practices Act Hacked Off Operation Glade Operation Motorman Phone hacking Phreaking Politico-media complex Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 Social...
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