Phreaking - Revision history

Clintxxx: /* Phreaking */

2025-12-04T17:51:17Z

Phreaking

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	public by the company in the late 1950's - an incident subsequently blamed on		public by the company in the late 1950's - an incident subsequently blamed on
	the burgeoning (but notoriously passive) phreaking community, including		the burgeoning (but notoriously passive) phreaking community, including
	members of the [[he-~~man~~\|Masters of Deception]]. In June of 1972, ''[[ramparts-magazine\|Ramparts]]'' magazine published an article entitled "Regulating the Phone Company in Your Home" outlining schematics for replicable construction of a "[[cybernetics\|black box]]" facilitating access to free long distance calling and was subsequently sued by <!-- links to self --> Ma Bell, with the covert assistance of the [[FBI\|FBI]]. Notably, many eventual <!-- links to self --> [[Silicon-valley\|Silicon Valley]] oligarchs began their careers in technology as phreakers, including MacIntosh founders Steven Wozniak and Steve		members of the [[The-legion-of-doom\|Masters of Deception]]. In June of 1972, ''[[ramparts-magazine\|Ramparts]]'' magazine published an article entitled "Regulating the Phone Company in Your Home" outlining schematics for replicable construction of a "[[cybernetics\|black box]]" facilitating access to free long distance calling and was subsequently sued by <!-- links to self --> Ma Bell, with the covert assistance of the [[FBI\|FBI]]. Notably, many eventual <!-- links to self --> [[Silicon-valley\|Silicon Valley]] oligarchs began their careers in technology as phreakers, including MacIntosh founders Steven Wozniak and Steve
	Jobs.		Jobs.

	<ref>''"Shredders are the guys in your friend’s basement who play insanely fast, and it just looks so mind-blowing and amazingly cool with their fingers flying all around the neck, but if you close your eyes and actually listen, what you hear is a pile of shit. It's ego music, akin to masturbation - actually, to wanting someone else to watch you masturbate. It's not a gift of joy, it's like a navel-gazing journey down a dark chasm of nothingness - the siren song of a twisted mind. I prefer the economy, the sculpted beauty and concision of [[hysteria\|Def Leppard]] over the phallic fireworks of Steve Via any day of the week."''</ref>		<ref>''"Shredders are the guys in your friend’s basement who play insanely fast, and it just looks so mind-blowing and amazingly cool with their fingers flying all around the neck, but if you close your eyes and actually listen, what you hear is a pile of shit. It's ego music, akin to masturbation - actually, to wanting someone else to watch you masturbate. It's not a gift of joy, it's like a navel-gazing journey down a dark chasm of nothingness - the siren song of a twisted mind. I prefer the economy, the sculpted beauty and concision of [[hysteria\|Def Leppard]] over the phallic fireworks of Steve Via any day of the week."''</ref>

Clintxxx: /* Phreaking */

2025-07-20T16:45:17Z

Phreaking

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	Jobs.		Jobs.

	''"Shredders are the guys in your friend’s basement who play insanely fast, and it just looks so mind-blowing and amazingly cool with their fingers flying all around the neck, but if you close your eyes and actually listen, what you hear is a pile of shit. It's ego music, akin to masturbation - actually, to wanting someone else to watch you masturbate. It's not a gift of joy, it's like a navel-gazing journey down a dark chasm of nothingness - the siren song of a twisted mind. I prefer the economy, the sculpted beauty and concision of [[hysteria\|Def Leppard]] over the phallic fireworks of Steve Via any day of the week."''		<ref>''"Shredders are the guys in your friend’s basement who play insanely fast, and it just looks so mind-blowing and amazingly cool with their fingers flying all around the neck, but if you close your eyes and actually listen, what you hear is a pile of shit. It's ego music, akin to masturbation - actually, to wanting someone else to watch you masturbate. It's not a gift of joy, it's like a navel-gazing journey down a dark chasm of nothingness - the siren song of a twisted mind. I prefer the economy, the sculpted beauty and concision of [[hysteria\|Def Leppard]] over the phallic fireworks of Steve Via any day of the week."''</ref>

Nemo: /* Phreaking */

2025-07-17T02:23:31Z

Phreaking

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	public by the company in the late 1950's - an incident subsequently blamed on		public by the company in the late 1950's - an incident subsequently blamed on
	the burgeoning (but notoriously passive) phreaking community, including		the burgeoning (but notoriously passive) phreaking community, including
	members of the [[he-man\|Masters of Deception]]. In June of 1972, ''[[ramparts-magazine\|Ramparts]]'' magazine published an article entitled "Regulating the Phone Company in Your Home" outlining schematics for replicable construction of a "[[cybernetics\|black box]]" facilitating access to free long distance calling and was subsequently sued by <!-- links to self --> Ma Bell, with the covert assistance of the [[~~error~~\|FBI]]. Notably, many eventual <!-- links to self --> [[Silicon-valley\|Silicon Valley]] oligarchs began their careers in technology as phreakers, including MacIntosh founders Steven Wozniak and Steve		members of the [[he-man\|Masters of Deception]]. In June of 1972, ''[[ramparts-magazine\|Ramparts]]'' magazine published an article entitled "Regulating the Phone Company in Your Home" outlining schematics for replicable construction of a "[[cybernetics\|black box]]" facilitating access to free long distance calling and was subsequently sued by <!-- links to self --> Ma Bell, with the covert assistance of the [[FBI\|FBI]]. Notably, many eventual <!-- links to self --> [[Silicon-valley\|Silicon Valley]] oligarchs began their careers in technology as phreakers, including MacIntosh founders Steven Wozniak and Steve
	Jobs.		Jobs.

	''"Shredders are the guys in your friend’s basement who play insanely fast, and it just looks so mind-blowing and amazingly cool with their fingers flying all around the neck, but if you close your eyes and actually listen, what you hear is a pile of shit. It's ego music, akin to masturbation - actually, to wanting someone else to watch you masturbate. It's not a gift of joy, it's like a navel-gazing journey down a dark chasm of nothingness - the siren song of a twisted mind. I prefer the economy, the sculpted beauty and concision of [[hysteria\|Def Leppard]] over the phallic fireworks of Steve Via any day of the week."''		''"Shredders are the guys in your friend’s basement who play insanely fast, and it just looks so mind-blowing and amazingly cool with their fingers flying all around the neck, but if you close your eyes and actually listen, what you hear is a pile of shit. It's ego music, akin to masturbation - actually, to wanting someone else to watch you masturbate. It's not a gift of joy, it's like a navel-gazing journey down a dark chasm of nothingness - the siren song of a twisted mind. I prefer the economy, the sculpted beauty and concision of [[hysteria\|Def Leppard]] over the phallic fireworks of Steve Via any day of the week."''

Clintxxx: /* Phreaking */

2025-07-10T16:20:20Z

Phreaking

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	==Phreaking==		==Phreaking==
	[''related'': Trigger Tone]		'''[related: Trigger Tone]'''
	----		----
	A hacking term derived from a mash-up of ''phone'' and ''freak''.The expression originated as a colloquialism for the reverse engineering of long distance phone calls via audio tone generation. The origins of phone phreaking trace back to the automation of <!-- links to self --> [[ma-bell\|Ma Bell]] switchboards in the 1950's via the implementation of in-band signaling. The system, developed internally, included the use of secret or shrouded tones to signal various functions within the network. For example, a tone of 2600 Hz <ref> Actualized within the Ma Bell circuitry as sine tone, internally referred to by mathematicians as a [[rose-pattern\|rose pattern]]. </ref> was used to trigger the end of a call and the opening of a usable long distance line. Use of this tone was first discovered and manipulated via precise whistling by [[joybubbles\|Joybubbles]], a blind seven-year old with perfect pitch from Richmond, Virginia. Following exploitation of its initial system, Ma Bell developed multi-frequency or MF <ref> Known within the phreaking community as "Marty Freidman" tones -		A hacking term derived from a mash-up of ''phone'' and ''freak''.The expression originated as a colloquialism for the reverse engineering of long distance phone calls via audio tone generation. The origins of phone phreaking trace back to the automation of <!-- links to self --> [[ma-bell\|Ma Bell]] switchboards in the 1950's via the implementation of in-band signaling. The system, developed internally, included the use of secret or shrouded tones to signal various functions within the network. For example, a tone of 2600 Hz <ref> Actualized within the Ma Bell circuitry as sine tone, internally referred to by mathematicians as a [[rose-pattern\|rose pattern]]. </ref> was used to trigger the end of a call and the opening of a usable long distance line. Use of this tone was first discovered and manipulated via precise whistling by [[joybubbles\|Joybubbles]], a blind seven-year old with perfect pitch from Richmond, Virginia. Following exploitation of its initial system, Ma Bell developed multi-frequency or MF <ref> Known within the phreaking community as "Marty Freidman" tones -

Nemo: /* Phreaking */

2025-06-19T23:21:56Z

Phreaking

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	public by the company in the late 1950's - an incident subsequently blamed on		public by the company in the late 1950's - an incident subsequently blamed on
	the burgeoning (but notoriously passive) phreaking community, including		the burgeoning (but notoriously passive) phreaking community, including
	members of the [[he-man\|Masters of Deception]]. In June of 1972, ''[[ramparts-magazine\|Ramparts]]'' magazine published an article entitled "Regulating the Phone Company in Your Home" outlining schematics for replicable construction of a "[[cybernetics\|black box]]" facilitating access to free long distance calling and was subsequently sued by <!-- links to self --> ~~[[ma-bell\|~~Ma Bell]], with the covert assistance of the [[error\|FBI]]. Notably, many eventual <!-- links to self --> [[Silicon-valley\|Silicon Valley]] oligarchs began their careers in technology as phreakers, including MacIntosh founders Steven Wozniak and Steve		members of the [[he-man\|Masters of Deception]]. In June of 1972, ''[[ramparts-magazine\|Ramparts]]'' magazine published an article entitled "Regulating the Phone Company in Your Home" outlining schematics for replicable construction of a "[[cybernetics\|black box]]" facilitating access to free long distance calling and was subsequently sued by <!-- links to self --> Ma Bell, with the covert assistance of the [[error\|FBI]]. Notably, many eventual <!-- links to self --> [[Silicon-valley\|Silicon Valley]] oligarchs began their careers in technology as phreakers, including MacIntosh founders Steven Wozniak and Steve
	Jobs.		Jobs.

	''"Shredders are the guys in your friend’s basement who play insanely fast, and it just looks so mind-blowing and amazingly cool with their fingers flying all around the neck, but if you close your eyes and actually listen, what you hear is a pile of shit. It's ego music, akin to masturbation - actually, to wanting someone else to watch you masturbate. It's not a gift of joy, it's like a navel-gazing journey down a dark chasm of nothingness - the siren song of a twisted mind. I prefer the economy, the sculpted beauty and concision of [[hysteria\|Def Leppard]] over the phallic fireworks of Steve Via any day of the week."''		''"Shredders are the guys in your friend’s basement who play insanely fast, and it just looks so mind-blowing and amazingly cool with their fingers flying all around the neck, but if you close your eyes and actually listen, what you hear is a pile of shit. It's ego music, akin to masturbation - actually, to wanting someone else to watch you masturbate. It's not a gift of joy, it's like a navel-gazing journey down a dark chasm of nothingness - the siren song of a twisted mind. I prefer the economy, the sculpted beauty and concision of [[hysteria\|Def Leppard]] over the phallic fireworks of Steve Via any day of the week."''

Nemo: /* Phreaking */

2025-06-19T23:21:33Z

Phreaking

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	[''related'': Trigger Tone]		[''related'': Trigger Tone]
	----		----
	A hacking term derived from a mash-up of ''phone'' and ''freak''.The expression originated as a colloquialism for the reverse engineering of long distance phone calls via audio tone generation. The origins of phone phreaking trace back to the automation of <!-- links to self --> [[ma-bell\|Ma Bell]] switchboards in the 1950's via the implementation of in-band signaling. The system, developed internally, included the use of secret or shrouded tones to signal various functions within the network. For example, a tone of 2600 Hz <ref> Actualized within the ~~AT&T~~ circuitry as sine tone, internally referred to by mathematicians as a [[rose-pattern\|rose pattern]]. </ref> was used to trigger the end of a call and the opening of a usable long distance line. Use of this tone was first discovered and manipulated via precise whistling by [[joybubbles\|Joybubbles]], a blind seven-year old with perfect pitch from Richmond, Virginia. Following exploitation of its initial system, Ma Bell developed multi-frequency or MF <ref> Known within the phreaking community as "Marty Freidman" tones -		A hacking term derived from a mash-up of ''phone'' and ''freak''.The expression originated as a colloquialism for the reverse engineering of long distance phone calls via audio tone generation. The origins of phone phreaking trace back to the automation of <!-- links to self --> [[ma-bell\|Ma Bell]] switchboards in the 1950's via the implementation of in-band signaling. The system, developed internally, included the use of secret or shrouded tones to signal various functions within the network. For example, a tone of 2600 Hz <ref> Actualized within the Ma Bell circuitry as sine tone, internally referred to by mathematicians as a [[rose-pattern\|rose pattern]]. </ref> was used to trigger the end of a call and the opening of a usable long distance line. Use of this tone was first discovered and manipulated via precise whistling by [[joybubbles\|Joybubbles]], a blind seven-year old with perfect pitch from Richmond, Virginia. Following exploitation of its initial system, Ma Bell developed multi-frequency or MF <ref> Known within the phreaking community as "Marty Freidman" tones -
	commonly understood as reference to the former Megadeth guitarist of the		commonly understood as reference to the former Megadeth guitarist of the
	same name. An outspoken opponent to "shredding", Marty relocated to Tokyo in		same name. An outspoken opponent to "shredding", Marty relocated to Tokyo in
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	public by the company in the late 1950's - an incident subsequently blamed on		public by the company in the late 1950's - an incident subsequently blamed on
	the burgeoning (but notoriously passive) phreaking community, including		the burgeoning (but notoriously passive) phreaking community, including
	members of the [[he-man\|Masters of Deception]]. In June of 1972, ''[[ramparts-magazine\|Ramparts]]'' magazine published an article entitled "Regulating the Phone Company in Your Home" outlining schematics for replicable construction of a "[[cybernetics\|black box]]" facilitating access to free long distance calling and was subsequently sued by <!-- links to self --> [[ma-bell\|Ma Bell]], with the covert assistance of the [[~~CIA~~\|~~CIA~~]]. Notably, many eventual <!-- links to self --> [[Silicon-valley\|Silicon Valley]] oligarchs began their careers in technology as phreakers, including MacIntosh founders Steven Wozniak and Steve		members of the [[he-man\|Masters of Deception]]. In June of 1972, ''[[ramparts-magazine\|Ramparts]]'' magazine published an article entitled "Regulating the Phone Company in Your Home" outlining schematics for replicable construction of a "[[cybernetics\|black box]]" facilitating access to free long distance calling and was subsequently sued by <!-- links to self --> [[ma-bell\|Ma Bell]], with the covert assistance of the [[error\|FBI]]. Notably, many eventual <!-- links to self --> [[Silicon-valley\|Silicon Valley]] oligarchs began their careers in technology as phreakers, including MacIntosh founders Steven Wozniak and Steve
	Jobs.		Jobs.

	''"Shredders are the guys in your friend’s basement who play insanely fast, and it just looks so mind-blowing and amazingly cool with their fingers flying all around the neck, but if you close your eyes and actually listen, what you hear is a pile of shit. It's ego music, akin to masturbation - actually, to wanting someone else to watch you masturbate. It's not a gift of joy, it's like a navel-gazing journey down a dark chasm of nothingness - the siren song of a twisted mind. I prefer the economy, the sculpted beauty and concision of [[hysteria\|Def Leppard]] over the phallic fireworks of Steve Via any day of the week."''		''"Shredders are the guys in your friend’s basement who play insanely fast, and it just looks so mind-blowing and amazingly cool with their fingers flying all around the neck, but if you close your eyes and actually listen, what you hear is a pile of shit. It's ego music, akin to masturbation - actually, to wanting someone else to watch you masturbate. It's not a gift of joy, it's like a navel-gazing journey down a dark chasm of nothingness - the siren song of a twisted mind. I prefer the economy, the sculpted beauty and concision of [[hysteria\|Def Leppard]] over the phallic fireworks of Steve Via any day of the week."''

Nemo: /* Phreaking */

2025-06-17T02:48:40Z

Phreaking

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	public by the company in the late 1950's - an incident subsequently blamed on		public by the company in the late 1950's - an incident subsequently blamed on
	the burgeoning (but notoriously passive) phreaking community, including		the burgeoning (but notoriously passive) phreaking community, including
	members of the [[he-man\|Masters of Deception]]. In June of 1972, ''[[ramparts-magazine\|Ramparts]]'' magazine published an article entitled "Regulating the Phone Company in Your Home" outlining schematics for replicable construction of a "[[cybernetics\|black box]]" facilitating access to free long distance calling and was subsequently sued by <!-- links to self --> [[ma-bell\|Ma Bell]], with the covert assistance of the CIA. Notably, many eventual <!-- links to self --> [[Silicon-valley\|Silicon Valley]] oligarchs began their careers in technology as phreakers, including MacIntosh founders Steven Wozniak and Steve		members of the [[he-man\|Masters of Deception]]. In June of 1972, ''[[ramparts-magazine\|Ramparts]]'' magazine published an article entitled "Regulating the Phone Company in Your Home" outlining schematics for replicable construction of a "[[cybernetics\|black box]]" facilitating access to free long distance calling and was subsequently sued by <!-- links to self --> [[ma-bell\|Ma Bell]], with the covert assistance of the [[CIA\|CIA]]. Notably, many eventual <!-- links to self --> [[Silicon-valley\|Silicon Valley]] oligarchs began their careers in technology as phreakers, including MacIntosh founders Steven Wozniak and Steve
	Jobs.		Jobs.

	''"Shredders are the guys in your friend’s basement who play insanely fast, and it just looks so mind-blowing and amazingly cool with their fingers flying all around the neck, but if you close your eyes and actually listen, what you hear is a pile of shit. It's ego music, akin to masturbation - actually, to wanting someone else to watch you masturbate. It's not a gift of joy, it's like a navel-gazing journey down a dark chasm of nothingness - the siren song of a twisted mind. I prefer the economy, the sculpted beauty and concision of [[hysteria\|Def Leppard]] over the phallic fireworks of Steve Via any day of the week."''		''"Shredders are the guys in your friend’s basement who play insanely fast, and it just looks so mind-blowing and amazingly cool with their fingers flying all around the neck, but if you close your eyes and actually listen, what you hear is a pile of shit. It's ego music, akin to masturbation - actually, to wanting someone else to watch you masturbate. It's not a gift of joy, it's like a navel-gazing journey down a dark chasm of nothingness - the siren song of a twisted mind. I prefer the economy, the sculpted beauty and concision of [[hysteria\|Def Leppard]] over the phallic fireworks of Steve Via any day of the week."''

Nemo: /* Phreaking */

2025-06-17T02:48:11Z

Phreaking

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	public by the company in the late 1950's - an incident subsequently blamed on		public by the company in the late 1950's - an incident subsequently blamed on
	the burgeoning (but notoriously passive) phreaking community, including		the burgeoning (but notoriously passive) phreaking community, including
	members of the [[he-man\|Masters of Deception]]. In June of 1972, ''[[ramparts-magazine\|Ramparts]]'' magazine published an article entitled "Regulating the Phone Company in Your Home" outlining schematics for replicable construction of a "[[cybernetics\|black box]]" facilitating access to free long distance calling and was subsequently sued by <!-- links to self --> [[ma-bell\|Ma Bell]], with the covert assistance of the CIA. Notably, many eventual <!-- links to self --> [[~~error~~\|Silicon Valley]] oligarchs began their careers in technology as phreakers, including MacIntosh founders Steven Wozniak and Steve		members of the [[he-man\|Masters of Deception]]. In June of 1972, ''[[ramparts-magazine\|Ramparts]]'' magazine published an article entitled "Regulating the Phone Company in Your Home" outlining schematics for replicable construction of a "[[cybernetics\|black box]]" facilitating access to free long distance calling and was subsequently sued by <!-- links to self --> [[ma-bell\|Ma Bell]], with the covert assistance of the CIA. Notably, many eventual <!-- links to self --> [[Silicon-valley\|Silicon Valley]] oligarchs began their careers in technology as phreakers, including MacIntosh founders Steven Wozniak and Steve
	Jobs.		Jobs.

	''"Shredders are the guys in your friend’s basement who play insanely fast, and it just looks so mind-blowing and amazingly cool with their fingers flying all around the neck, but if you close your eyes and actually listen, what you hear is a pile of shit. It's ego music, akin to masturbation - actually, to wanting someone else to watch you masturbate. It's not a gift of joy, it's like a navel-gazing journey down a dark chasm of nothingness - the siren song of a twisted mind. I prefer the economy, the sculpted beauty and concision of [[hysteria\|Def Leppard]] over the phallic fireworks of Steve Via any day of the week."''		''"Shredders are the guys in your friend’s basement who play insanely fast, and it just looks so mind-blowing and amazingly cool with their fingers flying all around the neck, but if you close your eyes and actually listen, what you hear is a pile of shit. It's ego music, akin to masturbation - actually, to wanting someone else to watch you masturbate. It's not a gift of joy, it's like a navel-gazing journey down a dark chasm of nothingness - the siren song of a twisted mind. I prefer the economy, the sculpted beauty and concision of [[hysteria\|Def Leppard]] over the phallic fireworks of Steve Via any day of the week."''

Lmsuarez: /* Phreaking */

2025-01-06T16:39:57Z

Phreaking

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	public by the company in the late 1950's - an incident subsequently blamed on		public by the company in the late 1950's - an incident subsequently blamed on
	the burgeoning (but notoriously passive) phreaking community, including		the burgeoning (but notoriously passive) phreaking community, including
	members of the [[he-man\|Masters of Deception]]. In June of 1972, ''[[ramparts-magazine\|Ramparts]]'' magazine published an article entitled "Regulating the Phone Company in Your Home" outlining schematics for replicable construction of a "[[cybernetics\|black box]]" facilitating access to free long distance calling and was subsequently sued by <!-- links to self --> [[~~error~~\|Ma Bell]], with the covert assistance of the CIA. Notably, many eventual <!-- links to self --> [[error\|Silicon Valley]] oligarchs began their careers in technology as phreakers, including MacIntosh founders Steven Wozniak and Steve		members of the [[he-man\|Masters of Deception]]. In June of 1972, ''[[ramparts-magazine\|Ramparts]]'' magazine published an article entitled "Regulating the Phone Company in Your Home" outlining schematics for replicable construction of a "[[cybernetics\|black box]]" facilitating access to free long distance calling and was subsequently sued by <!-- links to self --> [[ma-bell\|Ma Bell]], with the covert assistance of the CIA. Notably, many eventual <!-- links to self --> [[error\|Silicon Valley]] oligarchs began their careers in technology as phreakers, including MacIntosh founders Steven Wozniak and Steve
	Jobs.		Jobs.

	''"Shredders are the guys in your friend’s basement who play insanely fast, and it just looks so mind-blowing and amazingly cool with their fingers flying all around the neck, but if you close your eyes and actually listen, what you hear is a pile of shit. It's ego music, akin to masturbation - actually, to wanting someone else to watch you masturbate. It's not a gift of joy, it's like a navel-gazing journey down a dark chasm of nothingness - the siren song of a twisted mind. I prefer the economy, the sculpted beauty and concision of [[hysteria\|Def Leppard]] over the phallic fireworks of Steve Via any day of the week."''		''"Shredders are the guys in your friend’s basement who play insanely fast, and it just looks so mind-blowing and amazingly cool with their fingers flying all around the neck, but if you close your eyes and actually listen, what you hear is a pile of shit. It's ego music, akin to masturbation - actually, to wanting someone else to watch you masturbate. It's not a gift of joy, it's like a navel-gazing journey down a dark chasm of nothingness - the siren song of a twisted mind. I prefer the economy, the sculpted beauty and concision of [[hysteria\|Def Leppard]] over the phallic fireworks of Steve Via any day of the week."''

Lmsuarez: /* Phreaking */

2025-01-06T16:39:45Z

Phreaking

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	[''related'': Trigger Tone]		[''related'': Trigger Tone]
	----		----
	A hacking term derived from a mash-up of ''phone'' and ''freak''.The expression originated as a colloquialism for the reverse engineering of long distance phone calls via audio tone generation. The origins of phone phreaking trace back to the automation of <!-- links to self --> [[~~error~~\|Ma Bell]] switchboards in the 1950's via the implementation of in-band signaling. The system, developed internally, included the use of secret or shrouded tones to signal various functions within the network. For example, a tone of 2600 Hz <ref> Actualized within the AT&T circuitry as sine tone, internally referred to by mathematicians as a [[rose-pattern\|rose pattern]]. </ref> was used to trigger the end of a call and the opening of a usable long distance line. Use of this tone was first discovered and manipulated via precise whistling by [[joybubbles\|Joybubbles]], a blind seven-year old with perfect pitch from Richmond, Virginia. Following exploitation of its initial system, Ma Bell developed multi-frequency or MF <ref> Known within the phreaking community as "Marty Freidman" tones -		A hacking term derived from a mash-up of ''phone'' and ''freak''.The expression originated as a colloquialism for the reverse engineering of long distance phone calls via audio tone generation. The origins of phone phreaking trace back to the automation of <!-- links to self --> [[ma-bell\|Ma Bell]] switchboards in the 1950's via the implementation of in-band signaling. The system, developed internally, included the use of secret or shrouded tones to signal various functions within the network. For example, a tone of 2600 Hz <ref> Actualized within the AT&T circuitry as sine tone, internally referred to by mathematicians as a [[rose-pattern\|rose pattern]]. </ref> was used to trigger the end of a call and the opening of a usable long distance line. Use of this tone was first discovered and manipulated via precise whistling by [[joybubbles\|Joybubbles]], a blind seven-year old with perfect pitch from Richmond, Virginia. Following exploitation of its initial system, Ma Bell developed multi-frequency or MF <ref> Known within the phreaking community as "Marty Freidman" tones -
	commonly understood as reference to the former Megadeth guitarist of the		commonly understood as reference to the former Megadeth guitarist of the
	same name. An outspoken opponent to "shredding", Marty relocated to Tokyo in		same name. An outspoken opponent to "shredding", Marty relocated to Tokyo in