--- title: "How Did Phreaking Work?" categories: - blog abstract: A short movie explaining how it worked. date: 2023-03-30T12:30:30+02:00 year: 2023 draft: false tags: - TIL - phreaking - hacking --- Reading about people abusing machines to achieve anything was unbelievably cool when I was a kid. Back then, they were called hackers, but nowadays, this name is taken over by Russian kids encrypting data on hospital networks. One of those magical things was phreaking - a way to gain control over telephone networks. There [were brute force ways](https://youtu.be/Sy9DueBpHx8) and intelligent methods. A few days ago, [Connections Museum](https://www.youtube.com/@ConnectionsMuseum) published a vlog explaining how the [Blue Box](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box) worked. It's well worth the time! {{}}