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\\//////////////// The Birth of Phreaking \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//
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\\ SOLDIERX.COM and Legion of The Damned //
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\\ May, 2000 //
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\\ NOBODY CAN STOP INFORMATION INSEMINATION //
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[ Author's E-mail - durandal@soldierx.com ]
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| The author hereby grants permission to reproduce, redistribute, |
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| newletter, or any other form of transmission that you choose, as |
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| long as it is kept intact and whole, with no ommissions, delet- |
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| ions, or changes. (C)2000 SOLDIERX.COM - http://www.soldierx.com |
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I am sure that everyone reading this article at least knows a
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little about the art of phreaking, at least the fact that it exists and
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it is all about getting free calls out of phones. Some might know
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about the fact that phreaks reverse the usage of "ph" and f. Example:
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fag becomes phag and phone would be fone, but not many reach back to
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the beginning, the dawn of phreakdom. We will now go back to the birth of
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phreaking.
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In the beginning, there was darkness brought about by AT&T, or as many call
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it, Ma Bell. They used their monopoly to raise phone prices. Some of the workers
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at Ma Bell quit and took a book called the "Blue Book", a book that told about the
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Bell Electronic Switching System, or ESS, the computerized system Ma Bell set up to
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tell the calls where to go and how to bill them.
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Then, in 1971, in Berkely, CA, a man who will forever be remembered as
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Cap'n Crunch got his name by figuring out that a blue whistle you used to get in
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boxes of Cap'n Crunch cereal emitted the same tone that the Ma Bell workers used to
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take control of an ESS, in essence getting a free call. He was almost instantly
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made a hero for finding a way to beat the system. Two other people that went to
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Berkely, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, found out about Cap'n Crunch and worked on
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his discovery. They discovered that the whistle emitted a 2600hz tone. Steve
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Wozniak invented a device called the Blue Box that used the tone. Steve Jobs,
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Steve Wozniak, and Cap'n Crunch tested the device by calling the Pope. They were
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surprised when their device actually connected them. This moment must always be
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remembered.
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The three of them eventually went their separate ways. The two Steves went
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on to create Apple Computers and Cap'n Crunch, like so many great phreaks,
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disappeared into history. The Blue was used up until the mid-80's, when Ma Bell
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changed the ESS so that the device can't be used except in the most rural of areas.
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We are now facing a dilemma. This dilemma is largely because Ma Bell has
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fixed a lot of their holes, but moreover because of the lack of real phreaks. All
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the great minds were snuffed out when the FBI shut down the Renegade Legion and
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sent all the members to prison. But the worst part is that there aren't any good
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articles for would-be phreaks. All the would-be phreaks have to learn from is
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outdated articles that were written on Atari's, Apple //e's, and IBM AT's. No one
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can find out how pissed I get when I go to the alt.2600.phreakz newsgroup and see
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all the requests there are for Blue Boxes. I ask anyone who wants to be a phreak
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to join the Legion of the Damned. To join, send an email to Durandal@softhome.net
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and put APPLICATION as the subject. Includeyour handle, preferred email, and why
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you should join, and remember...you can READ all you want, but if you don't get
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your ASS out there and try stuff out for yourself, you are nothing but a POSER!
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Share the wealth...Information is power...SHARE IT!
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