Phreaking programs

Before the Internet or the personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone system. By the middle of the twentieth century the telephone network had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same.

Lapsley expertly weaves together the clandestine underground of phone phreaks who turned the network into their electronic playground, the mobsters who exploited its flaws to avoid the feds, and the counterculture movement that argued you should rip off the phone company to fight against the war in Vietnam.

The FBI fought back, too, especially when a phone phreak showed a confidential informant how he could remotely eavesdrop on FBI calls. Phone phreaking exploded into the popular culture, with famous actors, musicians, and investors caught with "blue boxes," many of them built by two young phone phreaks named Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

Soon, the phone phreaks, the feds, and the phone company were at war. Some of the documents on this site have been preserved electronically for decades. A couple have had their existence threatened due to server failures and so forth. While sites like textfiles. A footnote for the eager phreak: the historical files contained on this site are no longer of any use in the phreaking scene and pose no risk at all to the modern phone system.

As the information screen says, "if you don't understand it, give it up. Released on August 10th, by Demonspawn. This is your basic war dialer with the ability to save results to a file. Not of much use these days, but still a piece of history. ISI Wardialer written by someone they use a terrible font in this program and released in This handy phreaking tool has all the best boxing tools silver, blue, red along with instructions on how to use them built into the program. By Italian Stallion, released on February 23rd, This program has a code hacker mode, a super pranker, and your typical box tone generator.

Doc built into program. National Pirates Network c 0 Designed for the modem. I'm sure you can guess what this does. If you don't know, download it and find out. Outdial Directory Utility v1. Obviously not useful at all these days, but sometimes it's just fun to reminisce about the days gone by. Uploaded by Mr. Mostly written in BASIC except for the transfer routines, this is a pretty standard term with a Phreak dialer hz, etc Scan-Man v1.

It will save results to a. Supposedly it can also handle pulse dialing but unfortunately the 80's have come and gone and I doubt even third world countries are that far behind.

Written by Chris Lazarus, Super Phreak is a pretty nice program with many boxing options and more. The Phreakers Phriend. By Sgt. Although this program has a box mode, it seems more geared towards the modem nibbler aspect.

It's your basic sequential war dialer and code finder. As quoted from the program - "Hang Ten's long distance code hacker for the Commodore modem". The Ultimate War Utilities v1. Man those were the good ole days! Interesting little code hacker. Has 24 carriers built-in but you can also use your own service numbers.

Will do random or sequential codes. Only works with the modem. VMB Hacker v2. Back in the day this would have been a handy tool for hacking voice mailboxes.

By Jim Everingham c Has a sequential dialer and a Teletek access code finder. Hayes modem compatible. War Utilities 2 released by Onyx of Coderz is a nice little war dialer along with a pager harasser.

All-Net Hacker v1. This is your standard code hacker. Auto Hacker 64 HOT. Code Hacker v1.