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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>phreaking</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="phreaker.html" title="phreaker"/><link rel="next" href="pico-.html" title="pico-"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">phreaking</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="phreaker.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="pico-.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="phreaking"/><dt xmlns="" id="phreaking"><b>phreaking</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/freek<65>ing/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from ‘phone phreak’] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. The art and science of <a href="../C/cracking.html"><i class="glossterm">cracking</i></a> the phone
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network (so as, for example, to make free long-distance calls). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. By extension, security-cracking in any other context (especially,
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but not exclusively, on communications networks) (see
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<a href="../C/cracking.html"><i class="glossterm">cracking</i></a>).</p></dd><dd><p>At one time phreaking was a semi-respectable activity among hackers;
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there was a gentleman's agreement that phreaking as an intellectual game
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and a form of exploration was OK, but serious theft of services was taboo.
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There was significant crossover between the hacker community and the
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hard-core phone phreaks who ran semi-underground networks of their own
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through such media as the legendary <i class="citetitle">TAP Newsletter</i>.
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This ethos began to break down in the mid-1980s as wider dissemination of
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the techniques put them in the hands of less responsible phreaks. Around
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the same time, changes in the phone network made old-style technical
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ingenuity less effective as a way of hacking it, so phreaking came to
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depend more on overtly criminal acts such as stealing phone-card numbers.
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The crimes and punishments of gangs like the ‘414 group’ turned
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that game very ugly. A few old-time hackers still phreak casually just to
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keep their hand in, but most these days have hardly even heard of
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‘blue boxes’ or any of the other paraphernalia of the great
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phreaks of yore.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="phreaker.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="pico-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">phreaker<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>pico-</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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