At 07:31 PM 9/20/05 -0700, you wrote:
>What's phone phreaking?
Artificially sending tones through a telephone handset in order to
make telephone calls with no charges. One popularist was nicknamed Cap'n
Crunch, because of a whistle that came in Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal
could be used for phreaking purposes. Woz designed the blue box. Read all
about it in "Fire in the Valley".
Edwin
>
>On 9/20/05, Russell Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This one's for all the oldbies on the list, and the interested younger
>> generation (like me).
>>
>> Through eBay, I have obtained a copy of the October 1971 issue of Esquire
>> with the legendary article "Secrets of the Little Blue Box" in which phone
>> phreaking was introduced to the general public.
>>
>> What's the connection to the list? Upon reading this article, Jobs and
>> Scully sought out atleast one of the people mentioned in it; later hiring
>> him as one of the first Apple employees. Compact? Well, it's a little blue
>> box. I'd call it compact.. :)
>>
>> -Russ
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