Exploding the Phone : The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell (9780802193759)
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Recorded announcements 10, 60–61, 86, 148, 153, 155, 269
Recordings: See recorded announcements, tape recordings
Red box 238–240, 256, 273, 291, 315
Regulating the Phone Company in Your Own Home: See Ramparts
Regulation: See antitrust, Carterfone, competition, Federal Communications Commission, Hush-a-Phone, monopoly, MCI
Rehearing 113–115
Reid, Ernie 77, 79–80
Rental of telephones 19–20, 188, 299
Rice University 86
Riddell, Bob 325
Ring forward signal 33, 36–37, 41
Ringer tests for unauthorized extensions 188
Rosenbaum, Ron 170–174, 179, 183–184, 218, 330, 333
Rosenthal, Frank “Lefty” 108
Ross, Ed 69–72, 77–79, 81–82, 326
Roth, Jim 383, 394
Roussell, Maurice 98
Routing of calls
Automated 42, 46–47, 55
Manual 33, 35, 39, 42
Sounds 137
Unusual 141, 160
See also: operator stacking, rate and route operator, tandem stacking
Russell, Jim 230
S & G Syndicate 108–109
Sanders, Thomas 18
Santa Barbara nuclear hoax 225–228, 267
Saxe, Nelson 274–275, 277–279
Scandal: See Ashley-Gravitt scandal
Scanning 10, 65, 70, 137, 163, 202, 313–314
Schaefer, Sidney 191, 292, 294–295
Schmidt, Walter 255, 257, 277–279
Schoolsky, Adam 223
Scientific method 119
Seaway Electronics 88
Secrecy vs. openness 165, 169, 245–246
Secret Service 128, 254, 267, 271
Secrets of the Little Blue Box: See Esquire
Security, telephone company 59–60, 80–83, 105–115, 127, 132–133, 144–145, 199, 204–206, 247–248, 262–264
See also: Alex, George; Cheney, Bill; Desmond, John; Doherty, Joseph; Doyle, Gerry; Hopper, Ken; Mason, Peter; Perrin, Wayne; Saxe, Nelson; Schmidt, Walter; Telephone Crime Lab; VanInwegen, J.C.
Sender 46
Service failures, 1969–1970 188–189
Sharp, Edwin J. 101–102
Shaw, Walter 102–104
Sheridan, Paul 267–268, 270–280, 284–286, 289–290, 293–294, 301, 331
Signaling: See in-band signaling, multifrequency signaling, single-frequency signaling, supervision
Signaling Systems for Control of Telephone Switching 10, 51–53, 351
See also: Bell System Technical Journal
Simultaneous seizure 226–228, 385
Singing machines 48, 53
Single-frequency (SF) signaling 47–49, 52–54, 56, 123–124, 140–141
Sirmons, Bob 161
Skulker, Midnight: See Bernay, Mark; Esquire magazine
Sleeve lead: See open sleeve-lead conference
Snell, Bill 272, 277–278
Social engineering 177–179, 372
SOL-20 309, 314
Sounds of the telephone network 121, 137–138, 141, 176–177
Southern Bell 105, 107, 127, 188, 304
Southern New England Telephone 188
Southern Pacific Communications 300–301
Southwestern Bell 127, 303–304, 306, 317, 322, 331
SPC: See stored program control
Spies and spy rings 3, 79–82, 165, 191, 215, 285
Sprint 300–301
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center 219, 333
State University of New York 180
Statistics
Arrests, electronic toll-fraud 114, 216, 248
Credit card fraud 194
Greenstar 92–97
Steal This Book 186–187, 197
Stearns, Hoyt 86, 355
Step-by-step switching system 25–26, 31, 41, 45–46, 48, 121, 160, 226–227, 232
Stewart and Jerome 71, 79
Stored program control (SPC) 233–238
Stories and Stuff 328
Strategic Air Command 267, 271
Strowger, Almon 24–25
Strowger switching system: See step-by-step switching system
Students for a Democratic Society 195
Subpoena 106, 111, 181, 216, 288–289
Sugden (Supreme Court case) 110–111, 113
Supervision 47–48
Directory assistance and blue boxes 143–146
Greenstar 93
Loop arounds 149, 237
Tandem stacking 177
Supreme Court 110–111, 113, 115, 208, 302, 306
Surveillance, toll-fraud: See Greenstar, Project
Sweeping (Bell System Practice) 191
Switchboard 20–26, 31–36, 42, 46, 70–71, 129–130, 191, 325
Switching systems: See crossbar switching system, electronic switching system (ESS), step-by-step switching system
Tandem
Simultaneous seizure 226–228, 385
Stacking 174–177, 183, 273
Switch 26, 162–163, 202
Switchboard 24
White Plains 175–176, 202–203, 207
See also: guard banding, operator stacking
TAP: See Technological American Party, Youth International Party Line
Tape recordings
Bells, pay phone 239
Bookmaking 104–108, 111–115
Draper FBI wiretaps 254–255, 289
Greenstar 94–95, 304–305
Los Angeles International Airport 86
MF tones 73, 141–143, 208, 214, 219
Round-the-country call 66–68
Sheridan, Paul interrogations 285–286
See also: recorded announcements
TARCASE (bookmaking) 105–107
Taxes: See telephone excise tax
Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) 11
Technological American Party (TAP) 240–241, 260, 276–277, 319–321, 330
Technological Hobbyist Conference, 1979 (THC-79) 319, 321
Tela-Tone 88
Telegraph 15–21, 27–28
See also: optical telegraph
Telephone 1–336 :-)
Telephone company: See American Telephone and Telegraph, General Telephone and Electronics, Independent telephone companies
Telephone Crime Lab 181–183
Telephone Electronics Line (TEL) 241–242
Telephone excise tax 192–193, 376
Teletronics Company of America 241–242
Teletype 162, 187, 308, 320, 370
Teresi, Denny 147, 151–156, 163–164, 170, 177–180, 247–248, 328
Test board 5–6, 40, 67, 130–131, 134, 250, 265
Tie lines 69–70, 80
Time of day recording 60, 118, 121
Toilet paper prank 228–229, 385–386
Toll records 101–103
Toll test unit: See Greenstar
Tomlin, Lily 191–192
Tones: See 2,600 Hz; multifrequency signaling; single-frequency signaling; touch tones
Tonette flute 139–142
Touch tones 6, 47, 50, 57, 138–139, 203, 207, 237, 247, 270, 300–301, 313, 314
TPC (The Phone Company) 191
Traffic analysis 101
Transistor 74, 83, 220, 231–235, 238, 296–297, 306–307, 332
Trashing: See Dumpster diving
Treichler, John 86, 355
Trouble card 61
Trunk lines
Automation 47, 50
AUTOVON 269, 273–274
Blue boxing 53–56, 296–297, 318, 322–323
Early 23–24, 26
Greenstar 93
Manual switchboard 33–36, 39
Simultaneous seizure 227
Single-frequency/whistling 124, 140, 154
Tandem stacking 175–178, 273–274
Verification 250
Turner, Ike 223, 243
Turner, Rick 64, 66–68
Twitter 150, 158
TWX converter 162
Underground newspapers 195, 197, 210, 241
Underground, phone phreak 171–172, 253, 256–257, 261
Unintended consequences 167–170, 179, 218, 311, 327
United Kingdom 203, 242–243
Universal information: See directory assistance
VanInwegen, J. C. 181
Vatican (Wozniak prank) 225
Verification 249–251, 256, 391
Vietnam War 151, 185–186, 192, 209, 230
Village Voice 170, 319
Wall Street Journal 283
War Tax Resistance 193
Washington State College 51, 59
WATS extender 313–315, 335
Watson, Robert 83–84
Watson, Thomas 18–19
Wawina, MN 325–326
Way, Tandy 122, 127
Weather Underground 251–252
Western Electric 28, 235, 298, 301–302, 322
Western Union 16, 18, 21, 27
Westin, Mr.: See Fettgather, Jim
Whistle/whistling
2111 conference 163–164, 202, 206
Cap’n Crunch 154–155, 166, 202, 209, 326
Draper, John 153, 165–166, 209
Engressia, Joe 122–126, 130, 132, 173, 326, 335
Pyne, Charlie 77
Trips 154
Wozniak, Steve 218
See also: Davy Crockett Cat and Canary Bird Call Flute, Tonette Flute
White House
800 number 229, 268, 280, 385–386, 393–394
Hotline 254
Secret telephone system 127–128
See also: Ford, Gerald; Nixon, Richard
White Plains Tandem 2 175–176, 203, 207
WHRB (Harvard student radio station) 68–70, 72–73, 77
Wiretapping
Ashley-Gravitt scandal 303–304, 306
Bookies 101
Engressia 127–128, 131
FBI 249–261, 272, 278
Legality 109–115, 288
Soviet undersea cables 182
Verification/blue box 249–261
White House 127–128, 229
See also: Greenstar; laws, 47 USC 605
Wink 54, 175, 371
Woolworth’s 29–30
Wozniak, Steve 218–225, 229, 243–244, 281, 309, 312–313, 333, 335
XBT: See crossbar tandem
YIPL: See Youth International Party Line
Yippies: See Youth International Party
Young Engineering 66
Young, Shane 326
Youth International Party 185–186, 197, 214, 257
Youth International Party Line 185–186, 192–193, 197–200, 213–214, 230, 238, 240, 330–331
See also: Technological American Party
Zzzzyzzerrific Funline 328
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