Born blind in 1949, a 7-year-old bypassed AT&T to make free calls for 14 years by whistling a 2600Hz tone. Engineers took two decades to catch him before he became a Buddhist monk named Joybubbles.

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 1 month ago

Maiq@piefed.zip · 1 month ago

Phreaking cool!

TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 1 month ago

I miss 2600 magazine, where it got its name for the 2600Hz AT&T hack (and the phone phreak Capt Crunch). Ah the good ole days

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 1 month ago

I just realized how the alt.2600 news group got it’s name.

TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 1 month ago

I so miss USENET back before the pdf’s fucked it all up. I mean it was always there, but it blew up when newsgroups became popular.

Same w/ Panzer servers and BBS’s, porn ruined it all.

Davel23@fedia.io · 1 month ago

In the movie Sneakers there is a blind character named Whistler in tribute to this guy.

houndeyes@toast.ooo · 1 month ago

Great movie!

Zier@fedia.io · 1 month ago

Hack The Planet!

houndeyes@toast.ooo · 1 month ago

We doin’ phreaking references in heeyuh?