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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!
{{<youtube "8PmkUPBhL4U" "2600? How Phreaking Really Worked">}}
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