phreaking
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of phreaking
C20: blend of freaking + phone
Example Sentences
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The golden age of phreaking was in the 1970s, when folks like Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were selling phreaking starter kits in the University of California-Berkeley dorms.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2022
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
Telecom was owned by the government, meaning the court would view phreaking from their exchanges not as defrauding a company but as defrauding the Commonwealth.
From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus
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