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verb - to gain illegal access to a long-distance telephone service to avoid tolls
PHREAKS - Phreaking is a slang term coined to describe the activity of a culture of people who study, experiment with, or explore telecommunication systems, su...
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Plural form of phreak. |
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of phreak. |
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Phreaking is a slang term coined to describe the activity of a culture of people who study, experiment with, or explore telecommunication systems, such as equipment and systems connected to public telephone networks. The term phreak is a sensational spelling of the word freak with the ph- from phone, and may also refer to the use of various audio frequencies to manipulate a phone system. Phreak, phreaker, or phone phreak are names used for and by individuals who participate in phreaking. * The term first referred to groups who had reverse engineered the system of tones used to route long-distance calls. By re-creating these tones, phreaks could switch calls from the phone handset, allowing free calls to be made around the world. To ease the creation of these tones, electronic tone generators known as blue boxes became a staple of the phreaker community, including future Apple Inc. cofounders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. * The blue box era came to an end with the ever-increasing use of com |