phreaking

The art of cracking into the phone company to make free calls or just for the challenge of it is known as phreaking.

The Blue Nowhere Jeffery Deaver 2001

He and two others founded International Subversives magazine, offering tips on "phreaking" - how to break into telephone systems illegally and make free calls.

The Guardian World News David Leigh 2011

Hackers made headlines for breaking into phone company systems more than 20 years ago -- a practice that was known as phreaking -- but as the traditional telephone system has become integrated with the Internet, it's creating new opportunities for fraud that are only just beginning to be understood.

CSO 2009

A Web site operated by the Muslim Hackers Club offers tutorials in cybermischief: viruses, hacking strategems, network "phreaking" and secret codes.

Computer Lessons For Terrorists 2007

Wozniak writes about his obsession with finding "Cap'n Crunch," a renowned hacker and a maestro of phone "phreaking," or tapping into phone lines to make free calls and discover weaknesses in the system.

Apple's Other Steve 2006

"War Dialer," which references phone phreaking and early proto-hackery through a non-narrative, droning flow of sound and speech-babble, was originally created as an 8-channel audio-only installation in a bandstand on Brighton seafront as part of the Sonic Sea Air project, ten years ago.

Boing Boing 2009

"It covers war dialing, social engineering and even phone phreaking rather well," he says.

Breaking Into the Big Screen David Ferry 2011

And phone phreaking is the manipulation of the telephone system for anything from making free calls to gaining access to computer networks.

Breaking Into the Big Screen David Ferry 2011

It's been about a year since Joybubbles passed away, and I wanted to let you know my project to document the history of phone phreaking continues.

Boing Boing 2008

Here's an excerpt from Phil's phreaking history site:

Boing Boing 2008