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Post #ATpAVREsOJPle4hwGG by [email protected] |
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Every few years, I remember that https://ProjectMF.org/intro.html exists, dust … |
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Post #ATpBPOGwblHuf3M4bQ by [email protected] |
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Very quick and approximate explanation: Back in the mid-late 20th century, long… |
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Post #ATpByL3kXrKKpeqdOK by [email protected] |
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This technique - called "blue boxing" for precise reasons probably lo… |
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Post #ATpC4hb1fQ3KSxRlxY by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze Obligatory related plug of Phil Lapsley's fantastic book "E… |
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Post #ATpC4hh3J0sCleGaLw by [email protected] |
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@ToddVierling And you can listen to the audio book on ProjectMF! |
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Post #ATpDsVPLMDa567IK9Y by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze In NZ in the 80s we used to “tap” phone boxes. You’d tap the h… |
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Post #ATpDscPbJewiowT81g by [email protected] |
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@Adman @mattblaze Sorry I deleted when making an edit.The reason you had to sub… |
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Post #ATpDscUD2WdH3EcoD2 by [email protected] |
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@felix @Adman Yes, beige boxing, for the color of the "42A" box with … |
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Post #ATpEVORVBgsimzqakS by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze Not lost to history!Here are pictures of my "Blue" Berry E… |
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Post #ATpEVOW6uYZH1I0Gvo by [email protected] |
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@thedarktangent Yeah but the Berry test sets were (slyly) made in blue cases *a… |
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Post #ATpFmNBBEmXNkSsCgK by [email protected] |
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My favorite toll fraud arms race story, which I've never seen documented:As… |
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Post #ATpG8fBexw55y9j6Ia by [email protected] |
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You'd be billed by the company according your your 5 digit customer code. B… |
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Post #ATpGT1pKV7fhydzbLE by [email protected] |
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The search software would dial one code after another until it found one that w… |
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Post #ATpGouvyoCISyEXZbc by [email protected] |
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This made scanning for codes very easy. You could just set the software running… |
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Post #ATpGy5pFgS0NM8ljcG by [email protected] |
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That only briefly stopped the phreaks. They just modified the software to dial … |
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Post #ATpH4n8PZgutPjvOb2 by [email protected] |
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Not long afterward, I was on the other side (sort of), at Bell Labs. |
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Post #ATpHjIR0camk4YwChM by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze @thedarktangent Many of the original ones are also lost to time, bec… |
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Post #ATpHjIVcLSTIIr5ssi by [email protected] |
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@ToddVierling @thedarktangent None of the ones I saw in AT&Ts collection we… |
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Post #ATpIKECfJfzPfDq5Gy by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze I think there was a little bit of an issue in these times because AT… |
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Post #ATpIKEHd1DxXucA30a by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze actually I just remembered the dial around codes were in the 90s |
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Post #ATpIKELslPMW7o9Rdg by [email protected] |
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@machias @mattblaze Equal Access dialing codes (10xxx, later 101xxxx, known for… |
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Post #ATpIKEQUUH34M6J7p2 by [email protected] |
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@ToddVierling @machias The equal access codes were a later thing, introduced ab… |
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Post #ATpIjjVS4NQ3zJmuYK by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze "Bluetooth-POTS simulator box" excellent. |
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Post #ATpIjjalkbfmFoH9qC by [email protected] |
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@radio The Xlink BT-HD, which you can get on Amazon for $89. Works great for co… |
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Post #ATpJ9OjHwKpd4xUvVQ by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze it's mentioned in your first link "The blue box got its nam… |
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Post #ATpJ9OntfCWBJFebgm by [email protected] |
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@entropealabs Yeah, I don''t actually think that's all that well es… |
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Post #ATpJLpScNcbzSWd040 by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze One other interesting difference was that an invalid code would get … |
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Post #ATpJLpWs7o0xficOh6 by [email protected] |
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@williampietri Indeed. Probably the best countermeasure, which I don't thin… |
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Post #ATpJZGDsBqlsE18UEK by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze @radio Does it handle pulse dialling? Until recently you could still… |
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Post #ATpJZGI7w2AqRD7srQ by [email protected] |
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@kentindell @radio No, DTMF only. But there are SIP gateway boxes that do dial … |
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Post #ATpKOEMerJPnELY7do by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze the reason is in a link in your first post: when the cops first disc… |
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Post #ATpKOERyXXfVUq2Mvg by [email protected] |
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@crashglasshouses Please see other replies. I'm tired of typing the same th… |
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Post #ATpL5dd0nwRS2KtgEi by [email protected] |
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@kentindell @mattblaze 100 years was the benchmark for utilities. Systems were … |
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Post #ATpL5dlAJcxoRciBwe by [email protected] |
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@radio @kentindell The POTS phone interface is a marvel. Two wires provide powe… |
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Post #ATpQB6VrL5Ksq6ye3c by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze Will that simulator work with an acoustic modem?(Thinking about data… |
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Post #ATpQB6bB1Jab6bStLU by [email protected] |
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@nazgul Sadly probably not, at least at any suitable data rate. I was unable to… |
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Post #ATpRJlA2C7zXB5SZm4 by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze the amount of time i spent at the pay phone at my high school workin… |
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Post #ATpRJlFLsMFFRZwp3w by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze i remembered the prefix we were “hacking” (950-xxxx) and just fo… |
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Post #ATpRJlJbcXeDelwDh2 by [email protected] |
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@joshua No, this predated that. These were upstart long distance providers (ear… |
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Post #ATpSYdKRhEC3BWzBgm by [email protected] |
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PS on the phone phreaking era. None of it was really about making free calls. I… |
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Post #ATpSeMW57JR4mQ9zc0 by [email protected] |
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It's important that there always be some version of that kind of discovery … |
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Post #ATqayWwH4Nk7ghV1eK by [email protected] |
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@20002ist @SteveBellovin it’s also notable that before SPC was spun off, and … |
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Post #ATqjTed9K1W89XuEEq by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze @20002ist My guess is that it was to serve sales offices, sales reps… |
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Post #ATqjTehP4Cv6Mjtcrw by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin @20002ist could be. I’d be curious to read an authoritative hi… |
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Post #ATql7ra4gxONr6Ckk4 by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze SPC as in Southern Pacific Communications, a predecessor of Sprint? … |
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Post #ATql7reKR8nM4IC9NA by [email protected] |
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@ldelavaissiere yep |
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Post #ATrLFb2nehKnEacy24 by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze @entropealabs It’s telling that the 1971 Esquire article, that dug… |
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Post #ATrLFb7lMFIvTywvlg by [email protected] |
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@grwster @entropealabs Yeah, I even tried to track down the "earliest"… |
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Post #AU1RMhyqo6ho509bt2 by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze The Connections Museum just put out a (another) nice video about the… |
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Post #AU5g9HyCThhFackTSK by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze Just spotted this and thought of you. ❤️ https://www.youtube.com… |
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Post #AU5g9I2oCZNnouu9dg by [email protected] |
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@nerd Yes, a terrific video! |
