Post #2027476
2025-09-17 19:27 UTC
@leymoo @401matthall the station probably had 20-30 incoming lines so that was the maximum number that could be on at once! People doing this kind of thing in the US were called phone phreaks, if that gives you a lead - I don't know if we had a different UK colloquialism?
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@leymoo@hachyderm.io 2025-09-17 20:26
@kitten_tech @401matthall I don’t know if us Brits had a different term but I do know as a student my next door neighbour’s son was a police investigator who worked on phone crimes (phreaking and scams) in the 80s - the new premium numbers in the late 80s meant lots of people worked out loopholes to make money - he talked about a bunch of scams which my now significantly older brain has lost to time, sadly.
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@punissuer@universeodon.com 2025-09-17 22:51
@kitten_tech I thought phreaks were the hackers™ that managed to bypass the telephone provider's accounting to stay connected for hours on end without having to pay anything @leymoo @401matthall