phreaking
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of phreaking
C20: blend of freaking + phone
Example Sentences
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After he taught Apple's co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak the "phone phreaking" trick, they produced and sold the hardware to college students, and used the funds generated to launch their computer company.
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2017
Modern phones are just computers sending data over strands of glass like every other computer, and while you can still totally hack them, it’s not really phreaking in the classical sense.
From The Verge • Jul. 20, 2016
But he couldn’t get his mind off of blue boxes and phone phreaking.
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2013
A man who drove around Silicon Valley-to-Be in a Volkswagen van equipped with a computerized phone phreaking device.
From Slate • Oct. 7, 2011
In practice, today, the line between "phreaking" and "hacking" is very blurred, just as the distinction between telephones and computers has blurred.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce
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