#phreak

[0nlyhere4phil]

[soapdispensersalesman]

Hackers (1995)

Dir. Iain Softley

Costume design by Roger Burton

[1800rio]

Mauga vs Phreak should be an enemy dynamic pleassseeee

[tail4tail]

I'm going to ffucjk vlc media player and. no one can stop me

[venusbetter]

Phreaky….

[magnetictapedatastorage]

ooh this is amazing.

[amanedachi]

moscovium / here we are, don't look away now

Part of LoL Esports Elemental Series.

[sinsofsinister]

the only thought i had after seeing the season trailer

[madhattersez]

Hell yeah! Had an awesome find at a thrift shop today - A 1929 Southwestern Bell Telephone technical manual and installation guide for phones of the era.

Maybe you're asking why I think this is awesome? Haha. That makes sense - Well, first of all, I -live- vintage stuff. Antiques, old books, weird ephemera of the past. This definitely fits in with all of that, and has a gorgeous, punched leather cover with the gold stamping. Such a slick piece of history.

Second, I'm an old computer nerd cat. Back in the early '90s, I was a phone phreak - a phone hacker back before mobile phones and even alphanumeric pagers were a thing. It was in these days that "Ma Bell" (Southwestern Bell) was a big Queen on the scene, in her prime.

What were common phreaker practices back in the day? Well, it was all about exploration and curiosity. We would wardial (using our home landline connections and modems to dial a huge list of numbers in a row to try and find systems on the other end rather than regular phones - I'd leave it on all day and come back with a shorter list of various systems to dial in and play around on), we would build blue (and other color) boxes from RadioShack parts to use payphones to make free calls and do all sorts of rad tricks, we would prank folks that deserved it or use said tricks to disrupt schools and business, we would navigate voicemail systems and change automatic messages, and we would generate credit card numbers (which was incredibly easy back in the day) to make free calls to our first girlfriends in Canada. Well, that last one was mostly a me thing, haha.

Basically, payphones and early phone systems were a wonderful, incredible playground for me and I have SO many fond memories of these times. To have a book like this in my hands feels like I just looked inside the Ark of the Covenant and instead of melting my face off, it just glowed real bright and whistled a 2600hz tone sweetly into my ears.

This has so many cool photos like the ones above, and lots of radical technical diagrams, too.

As a bonus, there are hand-typed notes from a division head telephone engineer that wrote about systems they were building in Galveston, TX in the '60s:

Anyways, this is such a cool relic and I'll probably not be able to bring myself to sell it.

Did you know I wrote a verse about being a phreaker for a song with Nerdcore legend YTCracker wayyyyyy back in 2010? Well, now you do. You can hear that here (I'm the second dude, of course):

[pedaloftheday]

TIME TO GET WEIRD, KIDDOS!! Journey down an exciting and odd path as we explore the wild Phreak Ring Modulator from our friends at Dr. Scientist Sounds!! Lots of modes, onboard presets, MIDI and more, this one has it all…!!

[chronivore]

1965. The notorious Captain Crunch whistle. Found to to be able to be used to steal free long telephone calls from the telephone company.

The Bo'sun Whistle was a prize included in Cap'n Crunch cereal boxes in the late-1960s. The cereal company didn't realize the whistles emitted a 2600hz tone--a sound that could trick telephone routing equipment into giving people free long-distance telephone calls. "Phone phreakers"--a group of pranksters that repurposed technology to infiltrate and test telephone system limits--prized these whistles.

[ros1eartts]

Phweak!!

[pinksnow]

Very special boys birthday today.....

Hi guya goodbye

[changa-husky]

Phreakers Part 3: VMB Drop Box, Various short drops (Plus some sid music)

Back in the late 80s and early 90s people were using stolen voice mail boxes at various companies as drops for various hacking/phreaking info. I remember looking for access to the old X25 network and trading in network access on said X25 network was very much on peoples desires back then. This was before widespread email so people communicated as they could. Since most phone calls cost money outside of a few miles people would take over voice mail boxes at companies with toll free numbers to trade in accounts, long distance calling cards various interesting phone system oddities like bridge lines and other voice mail boxes you would hop to. That is how you stayed in the scene by calling these numbers a lot to keep in this underground voice phone network.

Here is an example of some of these voice mail drops from around early 1990.

The screen visuals are a video recording from a sysop side of a C64 BBS running a VERY modified version of CNet.

[rotten-gal13]

What if phreaking was called 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 and instead of hacking phones we sucked toes

[dnpg-hiatus-survivor]

so…

pride month is in 2 days

dan’s 33rd birthday is in 12 days

dan’s 5 year coming out anniversary is in 14 days

phil’s 5 year coming out anniversary is in 31 days

AND their 15 year anniversary since becoming facebook friends (haha millennials) is in 22 days

oh and phil is BLONDE

june is going to be an insane month.