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Phreaking

Phreaking is a slang term coined to describe the activity of a culture of people who study, experiment with, or explore telecommunication systems, such as equipment and systems connected to public telephone networks. The term phreak is a sensational spelling of the word freak with the ph- from phone, and may also refer to the use of various audio…

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Phreaking

Nodes85
Edges84
Triples150
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.023529
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related to External links · 37
Phreaking → Above, All, Australia's, Bevard, Boys Recordings, Calls, Charles, Christopher, Digital Information Society Archived, Esquire, Five Students Psych Bell, Kelty, Large, Little Blue Box, Little Pamphlet, May, Minnesota, October, Phone Phreaking, Place Free Long Distance
related to Phone hacking · 21
Phreaking → AT, BBS, BBSes, Computer, Corporation, Deception, Doom, During, Erik Bloodaxe, Groups, H/P, In, Legion, Masters, Phiber Optik, Phrack, Sundevil, These BBSes, This, US
related to Blue boxes · 19
Phreaking → Abbie Hoffman, Al Bell, Apple Computer, Engressia, Esquire, In, In October, John Draper, Little Blue Box, Ron Rosenbaum, Secrets, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, The, This, We, YIPL, Yippies, Youth International Party Line
related to End of multi-frequency in the United States · 11
Phreaking → June, MF, MF-signalled, Minnesota, N2, Northern Telephone Company, T1, The, This, United States, Wawina Township
related to Voice mail boxes and bridges · 11
Phreaking → BBS, BBSs, Before, Eventually, In, Once, Phreakers, The, They, This, Voice
see also · 11
Phreaking → AmericaPhrackPhreaking, Computer Frontier, Eck, Hackers, John MarkoffNovation CATPhone, Katie Hafner, Losers, Outlaws, Software, Telephones, The Hacker QuarterlyBlueBEEPBusy
related to Switch hook and tone dialer · 10
Phreaking → Back, By, Depending, Even, It, One, Possibly, Some, The, This
related to 2600 hertz · 9
Phreaking → AT, Engressia, Hz, Joe Engressia, One, T's, The, These, Unaware
related to From 2010 to present · 7
Phreaking → FBI, In, Pakistani, PBX, Philippines, Recent, VOIP
related to history · 6
Phreaking → Before, Hz, In, Phone, To, United States

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phone telephone use calls would long-distance call also one phreaks system tone numbers systems computer used could company signaling hacking

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Phreakingis aslang term coined to describe the activity of a culture of people who study0.90text
listening to the pattern of tones to figure out how calls were routedinstance ofengaging in activities0.80text
reading obscure telephone company technical journalsinstance ofengaging in activities0.80text
Cheshire Catalyst met with journalists at the 1982 West Coast Computer Faireinstance ofMembers0.80text
where the group provided an address to subscribe to its newsletterinstance ofMembers0.80text
the famous Masters of Deceptioninstance ofcommunity0.80text
phone-company test numbersinstance ofbut the many other types0.80text
remote PBX DISAs are still used as divertersinstance ofbut the many other types0.80text
Phreakingrelated to 2600 hertzThe0.60section
Phreakingrelated to 2600 hertzAT0.60section
Phreakingrelated to 2600 hertzT's0.60section
Phreakingrelated to 2600 hertzThese0.60section

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