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(originally published on my entered the field as a COMSEC engineer in the Canadian military in 1989. For another Art Bell take on phreaking, you can listen to Art Bell discusses phone phreaking with Kevin Mitnick on Midnight In The Desert
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If you can find this particular episode on one of the archive sites, I recommend it. Another caller talked of using the 2600 tone whistle and also listening for and learning other control tones for phones.
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As blind, they really relied on phones for communicating, so they apparently shared tips on how to use phones to their benefit. Captain Crunch explained it came from phone freaks, a name chosen by a group of blind folks, dating back to the 1960s who he met in the 80s. One caller asked about the origin pf the word phreak. There was brief talk about ISDN speed and use by companies, but not really available for individuals. Art also refused to allow any hint of discussion about possible (government) wire tapping on phones or the net. There were caller questions about secret phone codes to determine if a line was bing tapped Art knew of these but did not want them discussed don the air. When he mentioned it, Crunch asked if it was CU-SeeMe (the first video program for the net, with came form Cornell University), and Art said it was better. Art was running a video feed from his studio using a color camera with sound, very unusual in those days. They also spoke of connecting to the net with modems at 14,400 bps, and one bragged of having 28.8 kbps.Ĭaptain Crunch talked of his site, hosted on a granddaddy of hosts, The Well, (again, now defunct). There was a bit of trash talk from callers about “real techies” stooping to have an AOL account. This show took place during the first few years of the Callers complained that could not be reached through AOL or CompuServe. They agreed to meet for coffee in San Francisco.Ĭlassic old tech topics came up during the wide-ranging discussion. He and the Captain kind of knew each other but were not really friends. One caller was the hacker with handle Seven (7even?) who was told to call in by a friend after he had been mentioned.
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Honoring the phone theme, callers identified their location by area code instead of city. Last night was a show from the early-1990s with a four hour interview of famed phreak Captain Crunch, John Draper. Several nights a week I listen to his shows on U7 Radio, Stream 1, through. His shows are still so popular there are several sources online to hear his archived shows. In the case of AT&T, the focus was the telecommunication system.Probably the best radio talk show host in the past 50 years was Art Bell. There are plenty of examples of this: Edison’s first power systems, IBM’s 360 computer. I told you only an MBA would find that interesting.Īs any engineer will tell you, the easiest way to ensure compatibility between technologies is to have it all come from one source. This spin-off had originally been set up to run the long distance lines for Bell Telephone, but now the child ate the parent.
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Through a series of business shenanigans that only an MBA could find interesting, the Bell Telephone Company sold its assets to one of its own spin-offs: American Telephone & Telegraph company, AT&T for short. In one of those great historical ironies, “Bell” was the inventor of the first practical telephone, so that the “Bell Telephone Company” was named after the inventor and not the ringer. No one cared about ripping off the phone company because people hated AT&T. This whistle, found inside boxes of Capn Crunch cereal, allowed people to make free phone calls in the 1970s.