MetaFilter posts tagged with phreaking

Cap'n Crunch - Man of the (Breakfast) Hour

ziz — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:19:29 -0800

Cap'n Crunch may call up a few memories of mornings in front of the TV (or phone phreaking, for some of you). Now you can find out the rest of his story (or at least the first installment of it) - and, for the first time ever, his first name.

All Your Braille Are Belong To Us

Blue Stone — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 06:11:22 -0800

Three Blind Phreaks, See How They Scam ... The Badirs pulled off Mamet-worthy phone cons, employing cell phones, Braille-display computers, ace code-writing skills, and an uncanny ability to impersonate anyone from corporate suits to sex-starved females. On the phone, the brothers morph into verbal 007s, intimidating men, seducing women, and wheedling classified information from steely-voiced security personnel [...] An intense cat-and-mouse game developed: the Badirs on one side, with fraud investigator David Osmo and prosecutor Doron Porat on the other [...] his car's GPS system and email were repeatedly hacked. "There was a message waiting for him with his password in it," says Ramy, sounding quite pleased. "After that, he changed his password every hour before giving up on email altogether and using a typewriter."

dominic — Tue, 11 Jul 2000 16:52:42 -0800

If hacking and phreaking irc channels are any indication, hackers and phreaks don't get enough sex.