History of Telephone Hacking
I. Introduction - The '60s and '70sIII. The Technical Aspects That Allowed Phreaking To WorkVI. What's Left For The Phreaking CommunityVII. Bibliography. I. Introduction - The '60s and '70s It's hard for one not to be familiar with the state of our nation in the '60s and'70s. The period was arguably the high point of independent thought for the century. Average, everyday people began to question and disagree with aspects of society that had formerly been respected and revered. The new line of thinking greatly influenced the way society would advanced through that period. The period in question was marked by a particularly hostile attitude towards those who were in positions of authority. The public was unhappy with the events surrounding the Vietnam War. For the first time, there was a large number of people who felt the need to speak up for what they believed in, even if it was against the government. The nation began to see the laying of foundations towards equal civil rights and disarmamen
A more interesting person in the history of phreaking is "Joe the Whistler. In-band means that the signals were sent over the normal telephone line, right along with the voice signals, and staying within the bandwidth of the line. The inner workings of the phone system don't lend themselves to analysis very easily. In the midst of war, technology always tends to profit from the race to improve the nation's war machine. As home computing became more popular, and the modem was made available to people, phreaking text files were typed up. Then the switch would send a combination of MF signals to signify the start of a number (Key Pulse, or KP), then the actual number in dial (consisting of unique MF signals to represent the digits 0-9), followed by the signal to signify the end of the number (ST). It is said that other phreakers would call him to set their tones generators to his whistle. Many people began to blame the phone company for cutting corners in their infrastructure design, rather than blame the people who were exploiting it. This was the earliest type of phreaking. However, the inquisitive nature of the younger generation naturally caused them to tack the more defiant path. As I'll soon explain, there are many signaling tones involved.
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