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March 14, 2012 04:00 pm PDT
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Story of the first phone phreak
Joe Engressia Jr. was the father of phone phreaking. In the 1950s, the blind 7-year-old realized that his high-pitched whistle could control the phone system. Over the years, he learned the electronic language of clicks and tones and tapped into a network of phone freaks around the country, most of whom had previously phreaked in [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ZJ1hvsklsbg/story-of-the-first-phone-phrea.html
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