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Phreaking spelled with a "ph", otherwise known as phone hacking began in the 1960's when John Draper discovered that the whistle included in the Captain Crunch cereal boxes emitted a tone of precisely 2600 hertz.
This was the same frequency the AT&T used for long distance and allowed people to make free calls. Some famous pranksters who also explored this were Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, the founders of Apple Computer.
People started building "blue boxes" which were used to facilitate exploring long distance phone call routing.
2600 also became a quarterly publication that you can still buy today in places like Chapters, Barnes & Nobles, and even Amazon. There are current issues containing news of the computer underground. The magazine is a platform for speaking out against digital surveillance and advocating for digital and personal freedom.
You can now begin recognizing the use of "2600" references in books and movies, whenever hackers are involved you start seeing 2600 mentionned.
As an aside, this stopped working in the 1980's and the laws are much more strict. So don't even try this at home, it won't work. This was just to educate on some history of phone hacking and 2600.
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By dpappPhreaking spelled with a "ph", otherwise known as phone hacking began in the 1960's when John Draper discovered that the whistle included in the Captain Crunch cereal boxes emitted a tone of precisely 2600 hertz.
This was the same frequency the AT&T used for long distance and allowed people to make free calls. Some famous pranksters who also explored this were Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, the founders of Apple Computer.
People started building "blue boxes" which were used to facilitate exploring long distance phone call routing.
2600 also became a quarterly publication that you can still buy today in places like Chapters, Barnes & Nobles, and even Amazon. There are current issues containing news of the computer underground. The magazine is a platform for speaking out against digital surveillance and advocating for digital and personal freedom.
You can now begin recognizing the use of "2600" references in books and movies, whenever hackers are involved you start seeing 2600 mentionned.
As an aside, this stopped working in the 1980's and the laws are much more strict. So don't even try this at home, it won't work. This was just to educate on some history of phone hacking and 2600.