phreaking

The 1971 Esquire article which told the world about phone phreaking got Draper in hot water.

"Phreaking and computer hacking, they're the same?"

An early way of Social Engineering first occurred in the 1980's and was named Phreaking.

Since then Christos had used his free telephone line only in emergencies, because as a practice phreaking was completely out of character for him.

The history of phone phreaking shows that many 'phreaks' used their vast knowledge of the network to help telephone companies.

However, the Jargon File reports that considerable overlap existed for the early phreaking at the beginning of the 1970s.

"Phreaking is moral," said an 18-year old California hacker who calls himself "Frank Drake" in messages he leaves on the bulletin boards.

In Phreaking, the Green box was a device whose function was to manipulate the coin collection mechanism of Payphones.

She utterly disdained the "phreaking," the breaking and entering of elecðtronic bulletin boards and systems that interested a few of her malicious classmates.

This is the least, I STRESS *LEAST*, risky form of Phreaking.

Prior to the BBS era of the 1980s phone phreaking was more of a solitary venture as it was difficult for phreaks to connect with one another.

People were phone phreaking in the 1950s, Van Eck was 30 years later, and the "phreaking" from the name was a direct reference to phone phreaking.

While few details have been offered up by AT&T or law enforcement, at least one of the the four has been involved in previous "phreaking," or phone hacking, of telecom customers' private branch exchanges (PBXs) in the past-and in fact was indicted in the US in 2009 for a similar crime.

"Phreaking" is a really bad name for phone hacking; there's already a hacking technique called Van Eck Phreaking, which allows the remote viewing of a CRT or LCD screen if specialized hardware can be placed within a few feet of the target.