Phone Phreaking: Hacking Before The Internet. By Cybercrime Magazine.

For a generation of today’s youths raised on smartphones, multi megabit downloads and digital home phones before them, the idea that the phone system was once primitive enough that it could be manipulated with a plastic toy whistle is at once both strange and tantalizing.

But that’s exactly what happened back in the 1970s, when natural curiosity about evolving phone networks birthed a generation of inquisitive “phone phreaks” who spent considerable time and energy poking and prodding the phone network …

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