What Is Phreaking Exactly

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on a universal language of sounds
transfered through the modem. Modem stands for the work Modulator/Demodulator
This is like receiveing and sending. Now, with most modems, before connecting,
tones just are just the same as the tones that a common phone can make.

But the phone can make many tones and some have purposes that are very
useful, tones that are reserved for At&t, and thus dangerous. To go through
all the tone would be senseless and a book on tones alone could be written
(Hmm... maybe I could...) so I will not go into that.
But, assuming that you know what a box is I will explain what the odd
types of modems can do.
If you own an Apple Cat modem you may use it to generate any tone.
This is very useful. Some people are against the Cat for various. I will
remain neutral on the topic but if you have no understand then phreak the
way you see easiest and safest.
The other way is by using an acoustic modem. You may modify a ...

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call and sends you to either the At&t switching station or to
another long distance service if you have chose to use other than At&t.
If you are using a At&t the call goes through the long distance switch
ing station where unit per minute is determined and then it is refured to the
number you called. The call may be slowed down depending on how many times
the switching station changes between you and the place you are calling. If
it changes between ESS and X-Bar (described below) one it would go through
fast. If it changed between them 50 times it would be a very slow call going
through. Plus the sound quality may decrease but that is not a fact, just an
...

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