-
therefore rendering blue
boxes obsolete.
Phreaking has
since become closely linked with
computer hacking.
Phreaking began in the 1960s when it was discovered...
- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
- in Cupertino, California.
Draper was
introduced to the
world of
phone phreaking in 1969 by
Denny Teresi, who, like Draper, was a
pirate radio broadcaster...
- However, very few
physical specimens of
phreaking boxes are
actually the
color for
which they are named. Most
phreaking boxes are
electronic devices which...
-
instructions for the
manufacture of explosives,
rudimentary telecommunications phreaking devices, and
related weapons, as well as
instructions for the home manufacture...
- In
phone phreaking, a
beige box is a
device that is
technically equivalent to a
telephone company lineman's
handset — a
telephone ****ed with alligator...
- 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...
- 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...
