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This reads like my life...
Edvard:
Closest I ever got (vague 50th place) was one of the phone company test codes (now long forgotten) that when you dialed it, caused a phone-company dial-back like testing a line.
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IIRC, it was 555-1212 (there were other uses for that line that I forget, and not just as a 'throwaway' number), wait for the click, and hang up.
Though I may be wrong as that was long, long ago in a place far, far away. Ah, for a table phone and a pair of alligator clips...
Renegade:
When I was a kid, other than breaking into the teachers files on the network, some typical piracy, and a tiny bit of fun phreaking, I really didn't do anything remotely like hacking. I was a pretty good kid. Not always sober, but good none-the-less. :D :P
wraith808:
When I was a kid, other than breaking into the teachers files on the network, some typical piracy, and a tiny bit of fun phreaking, I really didn't do anything remotely like hacking. I was a pretty good kid. Not always sober, but good none-the-less. :D :P
-Renegade (August 23, 2012, 10:22 PM)
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That's about me... except for the phreaking was for the reason that the guy says in the article- access was sooooo expensive! He even admits he wasn't really a hacker. My friends on the other hand...
barney:
You damned kids ;D! I couldn't do any of that 'til I was in my late thirties :P. There wasn't anything to hack before that except for Ma Bell :P :P.
TaoPhoenix:
Closest I ever got (vague 50th place) was one of the phone company test codes (now long forgotten) that when you dialed it, caused a phone-company dial-back like testing a line.
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IIRC, it was 555-1212 (there were other uses for that line that I forget, and not just as a 'throwaway' number), wait for the click, and hang up.
Though I may be wrong as that was long, long ago in a place far, far away. Ah, for a table phone and a pair of alligator clips...
-Edvard (August 23, 2012, 10:16 PM)
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No, from what feeble amount I remember, 555-XXXX is the famous movie code for phone numbers that do not exist. This was something like 98X-YYYY (last four of your own phone number.)
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