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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>demon dialer</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="demon.html" title="demon"/><link rel="next" href="demoparty.html" title="demoparty"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">demon dialer</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demon.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="demoparty.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="demon-dialer"/><dt xmlns="" id="demon-dialer"><b>demon dialer</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A program which repeatedly calls the same telephone number. Demon
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dialing may be benign (as when a number of communications programs contend
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for legitimate access to a <a href="../B/BBS.html"><i class="glossterm">BBS</i></a> line) or malign (that
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is, used as a prank or denial-of-service attack). This term dates from the
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<a href="../B/blue-box.html"><i class="glossterm">blue box</i></a> days of the 1970s and early 1980s and is
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now semi-obsolescent among <a href="../P/phreaker.html"><i class="glossterm">phreaker</i></a>s; see
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<a href="../W/war-dialer.html"><i class="glossterm">war dialer</i></a> for its contemporary progeny.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demon.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="demoparty.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">demon </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> demoparty</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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