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[Mynok]

2600 hertz.....(all hail Wikipedia!)

[:D]

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: fabertong

Innocence lost................

That'll happen when you mess with the Lacrimosa's of the world. [:D]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Mynok


2600 hertz.....(all hail Wikipedia!)

[:D]

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Kinda surprised you could find that...

OK - now that you have that information, this should be easy: what is the significance of 2600 hertz??? [&:]

[niceguy2005]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

OK - quiz time: the hacker zine i mentioned is called 2600 - does anyone know what 2600 stood for?? [&:]

The total number of posts a person can make to a forum in a year without spamming? [&:]

[:D] [:D]

No, we're talking Phone Phreaks here - this is pre-internet (hard for some of you to comprehend, i know). This was even pre-personal computers!! Ancient History (sorta) [:'(] [:'(]

Ah, did they code in cuneiform?

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005



The total number of posts a person can make to a forum in a year without spamming? [&:]

[:D] [:D]

No, we're talking Phone Phreaks here - this is pre-internet (hard for some of you to comprehend, i know). This was even pre-personal computers!! Ancient History (sorta) [:'(] [:'(]

Ah, did they code in cuneiform?

zeroes and ones only!! [:D] [:'(]

[niceguy2005]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

zeroes and ones only!! [:D] [:'(]

Uggh binary. That's more primative than cuneiform.

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
OK - now that you have that information, this should be easy: what is the significance of 2600 hertz??? [&:]

Transmitting a tone of that frequency on a long distance line would put the connection into "operator mode", allowing access to more functionality. Whistles that came free in Capn Crunch boxes were discovered to emit a perfect 2600hz tone. [:D]

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

zeroes and ones only!! [:D] [:'(]

Uggh binary. That's more primative than cuneiform.

Actually it's worse than that. It was *analog*, which isn't even binary.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Mynok

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
OK - now that you have that information, this should be easy: what is the significance of 2600 hertz??? [&:]

Transmitting a tone of that frequency on a long distance line would put the connection into "operator mode", allowing access to more functionality. Whistles that came free in Capn Crunch boxes were discovered to emit a perfect 2600hz tone. [:D]

Right! Don't think this works anymore. The 2600 tone could be heard at the end of long distance phone call for the "disconnect" signal.

Some blind fella could whistle this 2600 and supposedly the two-toned dialing codes (i have my doubts on this second one, but the first is easy). By doing this, he could "dial" long-distance for free. His nickname was "Captain Crunch" - and he ended up in jail for doing this (illegally obtaining long-distance service).

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Mynok

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

zeroes and ones only!! [:D] [:'(]

Uggh binary. That's more primative than cuneiform.

Actually it's worse than that. It was *analog*, which isn't even binary.

Right you are, although it was at the time when folks were messing with binary codes, so hackers ended up doing both.

[rtrapasso]

Y.I.P. = Youth International Party (not Industrial)

These Phone Phreakers could whistle the two-toned dialing codes by themselves, so they built devices called "Blue Boxes" that reproduced the tones.

Various clubs grew up around guys who did this, one was Homebrew Computer Club in California. Two members of the club had already made a name for themselves as manufacturers of 'blue boxes'. Their handles were Berkeley Blue (Steve Jobs) and Oak Toebark (Steve Wozniak), the founders of Apple Computers.

[rtrapasso]

Crunch - Zoing!

[DuckofTindalos]

Zoing!(tm)

[Mynok]

I foresee infringement suits in the offing....... [:D]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Mynok


I foresee infringement suits in the offing....... [:D]

Uh-oh! [:D] [:'(]

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: Mynok


I foresee infringement suits in the offing....... [:D]

Nah, I've got some Sicilian friends in dark suits and very narrow ties to take care of that sort of thing...

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: Mynok


I foresee infringement suits in the offing....... [:D]

Nah, I've got some Sicilian friends in dark suits and very narrow ties to take care of that sort of thing...

[:'(] [:'(]

Have them talk to my Calabrese friends in dark suits and wide ties (old school)... (not for naught that my name ends in a vowel!)

[Mynok]

My friends will take you all on.....

[DuckofTindalos]

Bah, when Keanu Reeves can kick his ass, how tough can he be?

[Mynok]

Keanu was taking roids. Not a fair fight. [:D]