phone phreaking Archives - The Silicon Underground David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Fri, 10 Jan 2025 02:52:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://kerosin.digital/rss-chimp16321610 What keeps a good security guy from turning to the dark side https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-keeps-a-good-security-guy-from-turning-to-the-dark-side/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-keeps-a-good-security-guy-from-turning-to-the-dark-side Tue, 28 May 2013 11:00:51 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6626 I’m reading the excellent Blackhatonomics right now. And one thing I read in it reminded me of a question that someone asked me last year. I was probably the third or fourth guy with an advanced security certification he’d met,

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]]> 6626 CPE opportunity: Exploding the Phone https://dfarq.homeip.net/cpe-opportunity-exploding-the-phone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cpe-opportunity-exploding-the-phone Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:46:57 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6358 This week Cnet interviewed Phil Lapsley, the author of Exploding the Phone, a book about the early history of phone phreaking. Phone phreaking is absolutely fair game for the CISSP exam. I couldn’t tell you anymore how many phone phreaking

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]]> 6358 Busted at the Safeway for phone phreaking https://dfarq.homeip.net/busted-at-the-safeway-for-phone-phreaking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=busted-at-the-safeway-for-phone-phreaking https://dfarq.homeip.net/busted-at-the-safeway-for-phone-phreaking/#comments Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:48:52 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=5806 Software developer, author, and blogger Jeff Atwood wrote his confessions of the 1980s this week. As a teenager and not-quite-adult, he was a phone phreaker. More of this went on than anyone wants to admit. Rob O’Hara has podcasted about

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/busted-at-the-safeway-for-phone-phreaking/feed/ 1 5806 A question for you old-timers https://dfarq.homeip.net/a-question-for-you-old-timers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-question-for-you-old-timers https://dfarq.homeip.net/a-question-for-you-old-timers/#comments Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:10:53 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=2977 Dvorak was in rare form this week, as he writes something that reads more like an e-mail virus alert chain letter. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2376702,00.asp Read on for the money quote. I’m immediately reminded of the online scams that took place during the

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