What is Phreaking Attack?
Phreaking is a very old type of hacking. In this post I will make you understand what is phreaking.
Phreaking is the process of old age times which is used to hack telephone lines to get free long range calls.
At the old age times when the people used telephones they at first call the workers who are switching the calls to the other countries(ex:- I am calling from India and want to contact to London we have to tell the telephone no. their details to the person who is switching the calls then they will switch the calls).
For switching the calls they use a specific tone to connect to another country. Now the tones travels in Hertz(Hz). Once a person in the telephone booth was calling to another country his child was crying, the child was having a bad voice because of his crying a signal of 2600 Hertz was formed which switched the connection free of cost . After some days a person named William Bill made a recorder box his box also produced a frequency of 2600 Hertz. Then after him John Deaper discovered that the free whistles given out in Cap'n Crunch cereal boxes also produced a 2600 Hz tone when blown (providing his nickname, "Captain Crunch"). This allowed control of phone systems that worked on single frequency (SF) controls. One could sound a long whistle to reset the line, followed by groups of whistles (a short tone for a "1", two for a "2", etc.) to dial numbers.
Blue Box
In October 1971, phreaking was introduced to the masses when Esquire Magazine published a story called "Secrets of the Little Blue Box" by Ron Rosenbaum. This article featured Engressia and John Draper prominently, synonymising their names with phreaking. The article also attracted the interest of other soon-to-be phreaks, such as Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, who went on to found Apple Computer.
2600Hz Sound- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2600_Hz.ogg#
Who are Phreakers?
A phreaker is someone who breaks into the telephone network illegally, typically to make free long-distance phone calls or to tap phone lines. The term is now sometimes used to include anyone who breaks or tries to break the security of any network.
Phreaking is the process of old age times which is used to hack telephone lines to get free long range calls.
At the old age times when the people used telephones they at first call the workers who are switching the calls to the other countries(ex:- I am calling from India and want to contact to London we have to tell the telephone no. their details to the person who is switching the calls then they will switch the calls).
For switching the calls they use a specific tone to connect to another country. Now the tones travels in Hertz(Hz). Once a person in the telephone booth was calling to another country his child was crying, the child was having a bad voice because of his crying a signal of 2600 Hertz was formed which switched the connection free of cost . After some days a person named William Bill made a recorder box his box also produced a frequency of 2600 Hertz. Then after him John Deaper discovered that the free whistles given out in Cap'n Crunch cereal boxes also produced a 2600 Hz tone when blown (providing his nickname, "Captain Crunch"). This allowed control of phone systems that worked on single frequency (SF) controls. One could sound a long whistle to reset the line, followed by groups of whistles (a short tone for a "1", two for a "2", etc.) to dial numbers.
Blue Box
In October 1971, phreaking was introduced to the masses when Esquire Magazine published a story called "Secrets of the Little Blue Box" by Ron Rosenbaum. This article featured Engressia and John Draper prominently, synonymising their names with phreaking. The article also attracted the interest of other soon-to-be phreaks, such as Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, who went on to found Apple Computer.
2600Hz Sound- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2600_Hz.ogg#
Who are Phreakers?
A phreaker is someone who breaks into the telephone network illegally, typically to make free long-distance phone calls or to tap phone lines. The term is now sometimes used to include anyone who breaks or tries to break the security of any network.
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