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-<p>
-<strong>
-Phreaking [related: Trigger Tone]
-</strong>
-<br/>
-A hacking term derived from a mash-up of
-<em>
-phone
-</em>
-and
-<em>
-freak.
-</em>
-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
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-[[error]]
-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
-<sup>
-</sup>
-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]]
-, a blind seven-year old with
-perfect pitch from Richmond, Virginia. Following exploitation of its initial
-system, Ma Bell developed multi-frequency or MF
-<sup>
-</sup>
-tones. However a
-document detailing the use and production of these new frequencies entitled
-the
-<em>
-Bell System Technical Journal
-</em>
-was mistakenly released to the
-public by the company in the late 1950's - an incident subsequently blamed on
-the burgeoning (but notoriously passive) phreaking community, including
-members of the
-[[he-man]]
-. In June of
-,
-<em>
-[[ramparts-magazine]]
-</em>
-magazine
-published an article entitled "Regulating the Phone Company in Your Home"
-outlining schematics for replicable construction of a "
-[[cybernetics]]
-" facilitating access to free long distance calling and was subsequently sued
-by
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-[[error]]
-, with the covert assistance of the
-CIA. Notably, many eventual
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-[[error]]
-oligarchs began their careers in
-technology as phreakers, including MacIntosh founders Steven Wozniak and Steve
-Jobs.
-</p>
-<div class="footnote">
-<p>
-<sup>
-</sup>
-Actualized within the AT&amp;T circuitry as sine tone, internally
-referred to by mathematicians as a
-[[rose-pattern]]
-.
-</p>
-<p>
-<sup>
-</sup>
-Known within the phreaking community as "Marty Freidman" tones -
-commonly understood as reference to the former Megadeth guitarist of the
-same name. An outspoken opponent to "shredding", Marty relocated to Tokyo in
-the late 1990s and subsequently starred as Paul Weinberg, an English language teacher,
-in Isshin Inudou's
-<em>
-Gou-Gou Datte Neko de Aru
-</em>
-.
-</p>
-</div>
-<div class="pointfive">
-<p>
-<em>
-"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]]
-over the phallic fireworks
-of Steve Via any day of the week.
-</em>
-"
-</p>
-</div>
-]]>

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