Any old phreakers still here?

Any old phreakers still here?
Share your exploits.

>theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/02/whatever-happened-to-the-phone-phreaks/273332/

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I wish I lived back in those days...
Just imagine how awesome it would be to go trashing for documentation

Captain Crunch's book is coming out soon I think.

Phreakers are phaggots

>Just imagine how awesome it would be to go trashing for documentation
More like hassling blind kids until one of them gives you something good

before my time unfortunately, but i knew phreakers on efnet and have read pic related. definitely seems like an awesome era.
the kevin mitnick books (ghost in the wires, the fugitive game, takedown), the kevin poulson book (the watchman), and the masters of deception book (the gang who ruled cyberspace) also have some great phreaking escapades in them.

rofl, hell no phreakers are not here. Extinct. I mean, I know how to hack a fax machine, but why would I even bother today?

Gayest article I've read this year
Back in MY day there were some guys that made prank calls, 'member that? I loved that haha

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Im phreaky as phuck gramps
ill phreak your phone and phuck ur mum so phrig off phagget

>"for documentation"
kek
I love this lad.

I remember red boxing back in the day. Shit was fun

>Extinct
I thought they all just became Indians that need urgent payments to the IRS and to upgrade your windows machine or kiddies swating each other over video gaymes.

Phreaking for free cellular data access are pretty much alive here in jungle asian.

Ahh... Good times. I miss those days.

>AWWW YEAH let's make some free phone calls and write the recipient's address on the part of the envelope where the sender's address is supposed to go! Also, homemade thermite
Seems almost quaint in retrospect

Unfortunately I was too young to have being involved in phreaking.

I'd really like to visit the Museum of Communications in Seattle. See: youtube.com/user/museumofcomm/videos and www.museumofcommunications.org/

I have this book sitting on my shelf, yet to read it though.

I have read Dr K's Hackers Tales, nothing in there about phreaking but I enjoyed it none the less.

El Goblino...

What is there to hack anymore? almost everyone uses mobile phones nowadays, maybe if you can access the ISP repeaters that are usually located in private property and surrounded by metal fences, you could try something.
Kids just don't care and they are the ones who would be more likely to try hacking stuff like that. Even if someone succeeds, they would never go around bragging about it, mobile traffic is expensive and if you get found out you're gonna have to pay a pretty heavy fine.

I'm too young to have phreaked the phone company, but I did exploit my apartment building's intercom system.

There was a panel by the main entrance where you'd enter an apartment number, then the phone would ring in that apartment and they'd press '6' to buzz you in. I lost my building key and the landlord wanted $200 for a new one. Fuck that. I got an old answering machine, recorded DTMF '6' as the greeting message and put that on my phone line. I just had to dial my own apartment and the answering machine would buzz me in.

>Any old phreakers still here?
I wasn't a "phreaker", but I did try some things out on a payphone.
>Share your exploits
I tried out the free phone calls with tones trick, and it worked for a while, but only at a certain set of payphones around my neighborhood. To be honest it's been a long time, so I don't remember what else I tried.

I was around people that were at the time (modemtraders getting 0-day Amiga warez and so on), they were usually using roxbox and dialing ancient telephone exchanges in South America where you could still box from. Then as that died, and more and more filters were put in to stop in-band signalling it seemed to move towards exploiting badly configured PBX systems and to AT+T and MCI calling card scams (some hotels etc would give you calling cards for x amount of free international call time, some people got jobs with the phone companies so they could leak calling cards, and at least one got cracked when they figured out the keygen algorithm).

Pls don't bully the Woz.

What

The apartment building had a system that would let residents buzz in guests calling from an intercom outside. They call up to your room and if you want to let them in you press the six on your phone, that tone unlocks the door for your guest to let them in. user lost their key and didn't want to buy a new one so they set up an answering machine in their room that played the tone of the six key when it picked up. So when they called in to their room it would buzz them in automatically.

One time I pressed 0 and got to speak to a live customer service agent

Yeah I got that, but who the fuck got the great idea of using such a shitty insecure system? That's just absolute madness.

>Yeah I got that, but who the fuck got the great idea of using such a shitty insecure system? That's just absolute madness.

I've seen those kinds of systems in lots of places. It's all security theater anyway. If someone wants to get past the gate, they can just climb over it.

> It's all security theater anyway.

You pretty much described all forms of security, including national security. Its all based around "feels" rather than actual effectiveness.

was it female?
(was it good?)

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This is a leftover from a simpler time. People weren't all that swift about things like this prior to the internet.

Back in the 90's (Maybe it still works, I haven't touched a pay phone in probably a decade at least) there used to be a small dimple located below the receiver cradle. If you placed an unbent paperclip on this and connected the other end to the center hole in the mouthpiece of the receiver, you could make free local calls. Being a fanatical skateboarder at the time, thus always roaming the streets, my friends and I made a habit of hiding paperclips in the vicinity of every pay phone in town.

early 90's south missouri, all communication tech was still ancient . shit it still is. Lots of payphones.

MFTG tones recorded into a minidisc that fed a small speaker that had a little coned sleeve that fit well onto the phone receiver.

playback

650 hz 2 seconds
1300 hz 2 seconds
325 hz 2 seconds

hangup

out dropped two quarters, two dimes, two nickels.

Rumor was these were used to test the tones assigned to each coin by a service dood.

one weekend we noticed it didnt work anymore, but regular free car washes and cigs for 7 months or so.

There was a lack of negroes and mexicans back then and people just had an honour system

most people just mod sim cards for free data these days, same thing as bleeps and bloops getting a free payphone call

>most people just mod sim cards for free data these days
where can i get more info on this?

Tone detectors are easy to build with analog circuits. A lot of the digital stuff we take for granted now was extremely expensive forty years ago. Phone companies have upgraded; but a lot of similar systems are still in use . My city's subway system still uses tone signaling in its intercom system to select which trains and stations play broadcasted announcements.

>where can i get more info on this?
You're a decade too late on this. You used to be able to scratch off a quarter off the plating from sims to get unlimited data, but telecom companies got wise to that.

Blue boxing was already out when I was a kid, but red boxing still worked. I did end up building a blue box, as one of my earlier projects. Mmmm 2600 hz....

youtube.com/watch?v=PUf1d-GuK0Q

I'm far too young for it, but I had an interest in it growing up in the late 90s/early 00s.

I was able to get free calls through payphones, but the biggest success was redirecting my mobile phone messages through alternative message centre numbers, so that I could use SMS for free.