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The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus<p>Gonna tell the kids this is how we got free long distance calls from payphones.</p><p><a href="https://hackers.town/tags/phreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phreaking</span></a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/hacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hacking</span></a></p>
Kevin Driscoll 📳<p>📞 Exciting new (open access!) article from Jacob Bruggeman comparing "telephone enthusiasts" in the UK and phone <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/phreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phreaking</span></a> in the US. He argues compellingly that each contributed to a global movement of telco hackers.</p><p>Love this note about the availability of documentation: "To anyone paying close attention, the electronic keys to the telephone systems of both countries were ready for the taking."</p><p>🔗 Jacob A. Bruggeman, "Phreaking the U.K.", Interfaces, vol 6, 2025. <a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Rob Vincent 🎙️<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdD1LQs5Xak" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=UdD1LQs5Xa</span><span class="invisible">k</span></a><br><a href="https://hackers.town/tags/BoxingDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoxingDay</span></a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/Phreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Phreaking</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Unexpectedly Interesting Payphone Gives Up Its Secrets - Reverse engineering a payphone doesn’t sound like a very interesting project, at l... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/12/11/unexpectedly-interesting-payphone-gives-up-its-secrets/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/12/11/unexpe</span><span class="invisible">ctedly-interesting-payphone-gives-up-its-secrets/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/reverseengineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reverseengineering</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/phreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phreaking</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/assembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assembly</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/firmware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firmware</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/payphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>payphone</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/cdp1802" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cdp1802</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/phone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phone</span></a></p>
SpaceLifeForm<p>Out-of-band</p><p>Understand this if you do not.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6Y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6</span><span class="invisible">Y</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Phreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Phreaking</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SS7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SS7</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Security</span></a></p>
Imogen<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Radio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Radio</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Phreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Phreaking</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Hacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hacking</span></a> </p><p>Select the one that best describes you.</p>
SpaceLifeForm<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/@EricCarroll" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>EricCarroll</span></a></span> </p><p>SS7 came around because of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Phreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Phreaking</span></a> </p><p>It was never designed to be secure, it was put in place to stop people with Cap'n Crunch whistles.</p><p>So, the call setup was moved to out-of-band.</p><p>All about the money, not security.</p><p><a href="https://telephone-museum.org/telephone-collections/capn-crunch-bosun-whistle/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">telephone-museum.org/telephone</span><span class="invisible">-collections/capn-crunch-bosun-whistle/</span></a></p>
Imogen<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Telephone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Telephone</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Esquire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Esquire</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Phreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Phreaking</span></a> </p><p>The original article that introduced a generation to phone phreaking.</p><p>Secrets of the little blue box.</p><p><a href="https://telephone-museum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Secrets-of-The-Little-Blue-Box.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">telephone-museum.org/wp-conten</span><span class="invisible">t/uploads/2018/02/Secrets-of-The-Little-Blue-Box.pdf</span></a></p>
Imogen<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Telephone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Telephone</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Phreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Phreaking</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> </p><p>Phone Phreaks: What We Can Learn From the First Network Hackers?</p><p>AUDIO </p><p><a href="https://2459d6dc103cb5933875-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/sec14/lapsely.mp3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">2459d6dc103cb5933875-c0245c5c9</span><span class="invisible">37c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/sec14/lapsely.mp3</span></a></p><p>VIDEO </p><p><a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity14/technical-sessions/presentation/phone-phreaks-what-we-can-learn-first" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">usenix.org/conference/usenixse</span><span class="invisible">curity14/technical-sessions/presentation/phone-phreaks-what-we-can-learn-first</span></a></p>
Soldier of FORTRAN :ReBoot:​<p>Just reading while the kids swim</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/hackers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hackers</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/hacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hacking</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/mastersofdeception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastersofdeception</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/phreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phreaking</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
vga256<p>question for telephony phreaks:<br>when you dialed an international phone number in the 1980s/90s, after it was done going through all of the routing clicks and switching noises, did your phone ring with the *originating* ringtone, or the *destination* ringtone?</p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/telephony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>telephony</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/phreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phreaking</span></a></p>
The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus<p>A wall of payphones at Trenton Transit Center. Didn't get dialtones from any of them. <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/payphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>payphone</span></a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/phreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phreaking</span></a></p>
Lorry<p>Hummm... My old adversary, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/KevinMitnick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KevinMitnick</span></a> died.</p><p>I'll never be asked to contribute to his <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/obituary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obituary</span></a> but he was the best <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Social</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Engineer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Engineer</span></a> I ever knew and I think he'd have been pleased to hear that -- So if he faked his death just to get that out of me, you are still a bastard, Mr Mitnick!</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/technology/kevin-mitnick-dead-hacker.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2023/07/20/technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/kevin-mitnick-dead-hacker.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mitnick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mitnick</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Security</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Hackers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hackers</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Hacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hacking</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Hacker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hacker</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Hack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hack</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SocialEngineers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialEngineers</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Digital</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VMS</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Phreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Phreaking</span></a></p>
Shadytel<p>phreak pride \m/</p><p><a href="https://tacobelllabs.net/tags/lgbt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbt</span></a> <a href="https://tacobelllabs.net/tags/pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pride</span></a> <a href="https://tacobelllabs.net/tags/phreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phreaking</span></a></p>
ChatTC<p>I've been doing this computer stuff in some form for a very long time. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Phreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Phreaking</span></a> bust in 1980's. Software sales in the same time frame. BBS user and sysop. Multiple borland compilers. Started at desktop move up the ranks. Worked for UCHSC in @<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/denver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>denver</span></a> Proud #303 <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Defcon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Defcon</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/goon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goon</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/bsides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bsides</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/staff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>staff</span></a> BOD <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BSIdesDEN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BSIdesDEN</span></a> Occasional delegater but I'm not great at it. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/intro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intro</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/blahblaholdguy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blahblaholdguy</span></a> I've seen some shit. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BOFH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BOFH</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sysadmin</span></a></p>
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