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 Definitions for phreaking: Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
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phreaking /freek'ing/ n. [from `phone phreak'] 1. The art and science
of cracking the phone network (so as, for example, to make free
long-distance calls). 2. By extension, security-cracking in any other
context (especially, but not exclusively, on communications networks)
(see cracking).
At one time phreaking was a semi-respectable activity among hackers;
there was a gentleman's agreement that phreaking as an intellectual game
and a form of exploration was OK, but serious theft of services was
taboo. There was significant crossover between the hacker community and
the hard-core phone phreaks who ran semi-underground networks of their
own through such media as the legendary "TAP Newsletter". This ethos
began to break down in the mid-1980s as wider dissemination of the
techniques put them in the hands of less responsible phreaks. Around the
same time, changes in the phone network made old-style technical
ingenuity less effective as a way of hacking it, so phreaking came to
depend more on overtly criminal acts such as stealing phone-card
numbers. The crimes and punishments of gangs like the `414 group' turned
that game very ugly. A few old-time hackers still phreak casually just
to keep their hand in, but most these days have hardly even heard of
`blue boxes' or any of the other paraphernalia of the great phreaks of
yore.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
:
phreaking
/freek'ing/ "phone phreak" 1. The art and science of
cracking the telephone network so as, for example, to make
free long-distance calls.
2. By extension, security-cracking in any other context
(especially, but not exclusively, on communications networks).
At one time phreaking was a semi-respectable activity among
hackers; there was a gentleman's agreement that phreaking as
an intellectual game and a form of exploration was OK, but
serious theft of services was taboo. There was significant
crossover between the hacker community and the hard-core phone
phreaks who ran semi-underground networks of their own through
such media as the legendary "TAP Newsletter".
This ethos began to break down in the mid-1980s as wider
dissemination of the techniques put them in the hands of less
responsible phreaks. Around the same time, changes in the
phone network made old-style technical ingenuity less
effective as a way of hacking it, so phreaking came to depend
more on overtly criminal acts such as stealing phone-card
numbers.
The crimes and punishments of gangs like the "414 group"
turned that game very ugly. A few old-time hackers still
phreak casually just to keep their hand in, but most these
days have hardly even heard of "blue boxes" or any of the
other paraphernalia of the great phreaks of yore.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-09)
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