Definitions
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- noun A
hacker orcracker specialized withtelephone systems rather than computers.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Last year, I posted about the passing of a legendary phone phreaker named Joybubbles.
Boing Boing 2008
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Rolling Stone profile of a young, blind phone phreaker
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There have been six books, one feature film, a documentary, and endless hagiography in the quarterly phreaker bible Ed Piskor.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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There have been six books, one feature film, a documentary, and endless hagiography in the quarterly phreaker bible Ed Piskor.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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The hackers use one of hundreds of cheap, illicit phreaker programs.
Stealing Minutes 2007
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Perhaps because of the fear of certain people that a bunch of teenagers or wacked out internet phreaker/hacker trolls were going to trash it people got scared and started trying to control certain aspects of it.
Discuss: Future of Wikipedia? Cliff Pickover 2006
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Hi again this is a very useful list of telephony acronyms which i recommend you print out because if your a learner or novice phreaker they become very handy anyway so dont you forget it!
Tricks of the Trade Issue #6 by Hype (Christmas Edition) 1996
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Cap'n Software's version was written by John Draper, the legendary phone phreaker "Cap'n Crunch" who had worked at Apple in its early days.
The Apple II History, by Steven Weyhrich : Languages, Continued 1992
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It pits the hacker/cracker/phreaker community with their latter-day Robin Hood persona against the free enterprise business community with their 'what's mine is mine' attitude.
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We've decided to do a brief sidebar treatment of the controversy over the use of words such as hacker, cracker, phreaker, codez kids, etc.
vendingmachine commented on the word phreaker
One of the Ten Commandments of Phreaking (as published in the famous TAP Magazine) is that every third phreaker is an FBI agent.
Computer Underground Digest Volume 1, Issue #1.02
phreaker: one who illegally uses a telephone system
June 2, 2015