e in the nation. One that was complex enough to grab attention, but simple enough to be dissected by those with enough determination or intent. This technology was the telephone system.
             The Jargon dictionary defines phreaking as: "The art and science of cracking the phone network (so as, for example, to make free long-distance calls)." This was no easy task. The inner workings of the phone system don't lend themselves to analysis very easily. As I'll soon explain, there are many signaling tones involved. The forerunners of the phreaking community must have done some research into the phone system before they developed the methods to manipulate the system. Some sources say that a lot of information about the phone system was
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