What is phreaking exactly
What is phreaking exactlyThis file was just to be a short set of definitions for those of you
who don't know all the phreaking terms. This was requested by a few people
on a small 312 board called The Magnetic Field Elite (312-966-0708, call,
board has potential) like The Don. But I have decided against making this
small file that is common in many places but instead to make something that
I have never seen before. Not just a common file but one of high technical
use. With a printout of this you will never need to missout on a definition
again. But that's not all. The file will discuss, indepth, the working of
each of these operations below. If you are viewing this file simply for the
sake of finding one meaning I suggest that you get the entire thing and then
never need to call and view phreak files again.
Topic 1: The Phone/Modem
Since phreaking is impossible without a phone or modem you I will
start with the most important and most complex part of phreaking. The Phone.
Now, the phone is a device that transfer sounds as sound enters a receiver,
is transfered to an amount of voltage, sent through the telephone lines and
decodes back to sound. A modem is based on a universal language of sounds
transfered through the modem. Modem stands for the work Modulator/Demodulator
This is like receiveing and sending. Now, with most modems, before connecting,
tones just are just the same as the tones that a common phone can make.
But the phone can make many tones and some have purposes that are very
useful, tones that are reserved for At&t, and thus dangerous. To go through
all the tone would be senseless and a book on tones alone could be written
(Hmm... maybe I could...) so I will not go into that.
But, assuming that you know what a box is I will explain what the odd
types of modems can do.
If you own an Apple Cat modem you may use it to generate any tone.
This is very useful. Some people are against the Cat for various. I will
remain neutral on the topic but if you have no understand then phreak the
way you see easiest and safest.
The other way is by using an acoustic modem. You may modify a phone
to make certain tones and you may make then send these tones through the
acoustic modem by placing the headset of the phone on the...
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