They're not as famous as their male counterparts, and yet women were at the core of phreaking operations: Susan Headley, Jude Milhon, and many others knew phone systems inside out, and were not afraid to exploit them.

#hacking #hackers #phreaks

https://negativepid.blog/the-women-of-the-phreaking-era/
https://negativepid.blog/the-women-of-the-phreaking-era/

The women of the phreaking era - Negative PID

Long before the internet existed, hackers explored a different kind of network, the global phone system. These early explorers, known as phreakers, learned how

Negative PID

They're not as famous as their male counterparts, and yet women were at the core of phreaking operations: Susan Headley, Jude Milhon, and many others knew phone systems inside out, and were not afraid to exploit them.

#hacking #hackers #phreaks

https://negativepid.blog/the-women-of-the-phreaking-era/
https://negativepid.blog/the-women-of-the-phreaking-era/

The women of the phreaking era - Negative PID

Long before the internet existed, hackers explored a different kind of network, the global phone system. These early explorers, known as phreakers, learned how

Negative PID

That latest report on mass location surveillance using SS7 makes me want to try a test.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/firstwap-altamides-phone-tracking-surveillance-secrets-assad-erik-prince-jared-leto-anne-wojcicki/

I’ll enable airplane mode and VoLTE, and see how calls and messages perform when only using VPN over WiFi.

If that works reasonably well then the next step is to us a mobile hotspot for the WiFi.

In the end my SS7 location would always show the geolocated IP address of where the VPN terminates.

Does that sound about right #Privacy #DefCon #Phreaks?

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

Mother Jones
For all my old #phreaks out there, I picked up this beauty on a recent trip to Oregon.
Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

YouTube

Now this is a nice find!

I've been passed a scan of a notebook from the late 1950s containing details of all the #telephoneExchanges in the UK

This sort of information was used by #telephone enthusiasts (UK #phreaks) to navigate their way around the toll (trunk) network

There were various techniques to get yourself onto a trunk, but once you were there the dialling codes in this notebook would get you anywhere in the country!

#phone #telephoneHistory #telecoms #phreak #telephoneHeritage

'MY DAUGHTER WAS MURDERED BY GENDER IDEOLOGY'

PeerTube

Hello phreaks and hackers! I just fully modernized my python blue box DTMF tone generator, apparently someone was actually using it  check it out! https://github.com/zeyus/Python3BlueBox

#phreak #phreaks #phreaking #dtmf #bluebox #blueboxing #python #coding

GitHub - zeyus/Python3BlueBox: The most modern way to live in the 90s, a phreaking awesome Blue Box DTMF tone generator

The most modern way to live in the 90s, a phreaking awesome Blue Box DTMF tone generator - GitHub - zeyus/Python3BlueBox: The most modern way to live in the 90s, a phreaking awesome Blue Box DTMF t...

GitHub

Any old #phone #phreaks about? I’ve seen a couple of historical references recently to people #phreaking transatlantic calls from the USA to London, terminating the call on a payphone at Waterloo train station because it was in a busy area and was likely to be answered by a passer by.

Most of those #payphones are long gone, but

Does anyone have a record of what the #payphone number was?

@annmlipton Trivia: Back in the early 90s in #Sweden two things happened at once: We got toll numbers anybody could set up for some service, and #hackers (phone #phreaks) found an exploit for the public phone booths.

I happen to know for a fact that some of the more profitable toll numbers got there by paying people to abuse the phone booths (scamming the phone company) to call them over and over.

Very profitable.