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Hacking

	Nightwork: Hackito Ergo Sum, Hack, Hacker, Hacking - What Matters
		In the middle to late fifties, additional meanings for the word hack were developed by members of the Tech Model Railroad Club, including an article or project without constructive end or an unusual and original solution to a problem, such as inventing a new circuit for a switching system.
		Also in the late fifties, telephone hacking, the study of the internal codes and features of telephone switching systems, emerged.
		Hacking was investigating a subject for its own sake and not for academic advancement, exploring the inaccessible places on campus, doing something clandestine or out of the ordinary, and performing pranks.
	alum.mit.edu /ne/whatmatters/200304/hack.html (372 words)

	ePanorama
		Telephone line signal to noise ratio is not as easy to quantify because noise comes in many forms, such as electrical interference from fluorescent fixtures or hiss from the many amplifier stages in the voice path.
		Telephone line equipment are designed for specific 600 ohms impedance (or 900 ohms on some places, varies somewhat from country to country) to match the impedance of the line and the equipment on the other line end.
		Telephones are designed to work in such way that there can be many telephones on the line, but the system is designed so that only one of them can be in use at the time.
	www.epanorama.net /links/telephone.html (13472 words)

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		Hacking is an activity like few others: it is semi-legal, seldom encouraged, and in its full extent so vast that no individual or group, short of an organisation like GCHQ or NSA, could hope to grasp a fraction of the possibilities.
		It is one of the characteristics of hacking anecdotes, like those relating to espionage exploits, that almost no one closely involved has much stake in the truth; victims want to describe damage as minimal, and perpetrators like to paint themselves as heroes while carefully disguising sources and methods.
		Of all the ways in which hacking is portrayed in films, books and tv, the most misleading is the concentration on the image of the solitary genius bashing away at a keyboard trying to 'break in'.
	newdata.box.sk /raven/hhbk.txt (16700 words)

	History and Development of the Telephone
		It is important to note that there is no "inventor of the telephone." The modern telephone is the result of work done by many hands, all worthy of recognition of their addition to the field.
		Edison discovered that carbon grains, squeezed between two metal plates had a resistance that was related to the pressure, thus, the grains could vary their resistance as the plates moved in response to sound waves, and reproduce sound with good fidelity, without the problems associated with a liquid contact.
		The primitive telephone was rapidly improved, the double electromagnet being replaced by a single bar magnet having a small coil or bobbin of fine wire surrounding one pole, in front of which a thin disc of ferrotype is fixed in a circular mouthpiece, and serves as a combined membrane and armature.
	www.edinformatics.com /inventions_inventors/telephone.htm (3488 words)

	Hacking
		There is one view that the act of hacking is nothing but the combination of criminal trespass and mischief.
		Hacking will get Dutch citizens up to four years in prison and fines not to exceed 25,000 guilders.
		Someone is a hacker if he or she has general hacking ability, but is a wizard only if he or she has detailed knowledge.
	www.asianlaws.org /cyberlaw/library/cc/hacking.htm (1336 words)

	06. How prevalent is telephone hacking in the UK?
		All signs indicate that telephone hacking in the UK is on the increase.
		A much publicised victim of telephone hacking is New Scotland Yard, which lost £1 million.
		One of the main weapons that the telephone hacking community exploits is the general lack of awareness of the problem within the UK.
	freespace.virgin.net /datavox.systems/item50.htm (267 words)

	Computer Terrorism: What are the risks ?
		He diverted the telephone line of his victim to a telephone box in the small town of Paducah, and the line of the cabin towards to one of his telephones.
		Moreover, since the modern telephone exchanges are computers, the hacking of the telephone is very close to the hacking of a "traditional " computer.
		These test lines are characterized by the fact that each end has its own telephone number which is assigned to it and it's easy for two people, agreeing in advance on which line to use, to call each one one of the ends to be in contact for free.
	iwar.org.uk /cyberterror/resources/risks/crime.html (2478 words)

	Hacking Your Own Site
		The purpose of this article is not to teach you how to hack sites, but to show you some scenarios that may reveal to you how vulnerable your existing site may be, or will hopefully help you prevent any future sites from having these vulnerabilities.
		Not wanting to waste this equipment, they 'hacked' or modified it for use in their railroad system and were able to 'dial in' track switching commands using recycled dialers and other parts of the phone equipment.
		It was shortly after this, sometime in the early seventies, that malicious hacking began to come about in the form of phreaking, hacking into telephone networks and having telephone usage charged to other people or not at all.
	www.devshed.com /c/a/Security/Hacking-Your-Own-Site (1452 words)

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		In the most recent case, Poulsen, 24, was chaged Wednsday with illeagaly obtaining and using Pacific Bell Co. equipment and access codes, obtaining sensitive military documents and stealing a computer printout relating to an FBI investigation of former Philippene President Ferdinand Marcos.
		The indictment charges Poulsen with telephone crimes, such as evesdropping and recording conversations, that are far more sophisticated and rare than the activities of the typical phreak who makes free long-distance phone calls using illeagaly obtained telephone credit card numbers.
		In a case uncovered last year, a nationwide teen-age hacking ring allegdly infiltrated the voice-mail systems of 20 buisnesses and organizations, set up code lines and racked more than $200,000 in unauthorized calls, the Secret Service charges.
	www.textfiles.com /phreak/zone2.txt (2416 words)

	Com 485: "Computers and Society" Individual web page- Computers and Hacking
		With the advent of more computers on the market, coupled with the fact that both the software and hardware were designed to allow easier communication between large and small computers, a new definition of hacking arose: “a person who attempts to gain unauthorized access to large systems by using his personal computer equipment.”
		Another classification of hackers are tourists, who are out for nothing more than an adventure or the challenge of solving a puzzle, that puzzle being the particular system they're hacking into.
		They are illogical troublemakers, “motivated by the same elusive goals as a vandal.” Crashers can cause a variety of problems from simple removal of email all the way to erasure of an entire system or physical attacks on the computer.
	www.iit.edu /~cohojes (492 words)

	telefonia
		Telephone Line Indicator design - information on the characteristics of telephone lines and circuit which connects to a telephone line and indicates whether or not the line is in use (seems to be quite good design)
		Telephone call meter using calculator and COB - In this circuit, a simple calculator, in conjunction with a COB (chip-on-board) from an analogue quartz clock, is used to make a telephone call meter.
		Telephone tapping, a term the general public is well aware of, is the act of monitoring telephone conversations.
	www.messaggeri.it /xtelefonia.htm (5753 words)

	Open Directory - Computers: Hacking: Phreaking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Art of Hacking - Fixer's Box review which reviews the usefulness of the various phreaking boxes, original files, Beating Caller ID FAQ and The Vancouver Island Payphone Mapping Project.
		Hack Canada - The source for Canadian hacking and phreaking.
		This Is a Recording - Hundreds of telephone sounds and recordings including error recordings, signalling, colored box tones, and devices.
	dmoz.org /Computers/Hacking/Phreaking (524 words)

	- THE - HACKERS - HANDBOOK -
		INTRODUCTION The word 'hacker' is used in two different but associated ways: for some, a hacker is merely a computer enthusiast of any kind, who loves working with the beasties for their own sake, as opposed to operating them in order to enrich a company or research project --or to play games.
		It is probably bad taste to mention it, but of course people try to hack bulletin boards as well.
		The system allowed you to become the Sysop, even though you were sitting at a different computer; you could access the user file, complete with all passwords, validate or devalidate whomever you liked, destroy mail, write general notices, and create whole new areas...
	www.angelfire.com /on2/Warlock151/hacker.html (19328 words)

	TMRC @ Building 20
		Setting the mood for future activities housed in Building 20, TMRC became a place of engineering; creativity inundated the place to such a level that the term hacking was created by TMRC members.
		As time passed, the club grew in popularity, since it was one of the few places where MIT students could build and design electronic projects without having to turn in a lab report for it!
		From 1963 to 1966 all these donations were hacked into "System 2." This was truly a hack, since the donations were mainly telephone relays and cross-bars, usually pre-wired for telephone operation!
	tmrc.mit.edu /bldg20.html (785 words)

	Telephone hacking and fraud - vnunet.com
		The migration of corporate telephone networks from traditional PBXs to internet protocol (IP)-based systems was heralded as a revolution.
		Although telephone usage is recorded by most companies, analysing this is both labour-intensive and often only done after the fact.
		The telephone, now part of the office furniture, can be as much of a security risk as an unguarded desktop PC – and must be treated as such.
	www.vnunet.com /computing/news/2143852/telephone-hacking-fraud (1437 words)

	J!NX Forums - Hacking telephone numbers...???
		Posted - 04/18/2004 : 09:29:40 AM Recently i read a book named "Hackers Crackdown", the book mentioned a lot about hacking telephine numbers and digits.
		What i mean is that in Underground bases they post telephone passwords/numbers(i dont really known how they caled) that u can use them and phone to som1 while payng the guy with the number u stole from.
		Sorry, please post a new one with correct grammer and I will be happy to answere it.
	www.jinx.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4481 (169 words)

	Joe Engressia / Joybubbles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A mathematics student at USF in the late 1960s, Engressia found he could whistle into a pay telephone the precise pitch -- the 2600-cycle note, close to a high A -- that would trip phone circuits and allow him to make long-distance calls at no cost.
		A 1971 Esquire magazine article crowned him as one of the granddaddies of telephone hacking, known as "phone phreaking."
		But his hobby eventually came to USF's attention and, encouraged by the local phone company, he was disciplined by the university.
	www.lospadres.info /thorg/joy1.html (317 words)

	Information Security News Desk: Nearly 100 companies hit in phone hacking spree
		Telephone hacking is on the rise in Australia with more than 70
		Gadens Lawyers, said telephone hacking is emerging as a serious problem
		phone system was hacked into, and $5000 in calls run up, but the largest
	www.cwalsh.org /isnd/archives/000874.html (242 words)

	Enterprise VoIP Hardware Solutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Linksys SPA9000 marries the rich feature set of legacy PBX telephone systems with the convenience and cost advantages of internet telephony.
		Service level settings may be locked by the Internet Telephone Service Provider to ensure that they are not accidentally corrupted.
		While the SPA9000 will work with any SIP compatible IP telephone, it is the ideal host for Linksys business telephones, such as the SPA941.
	www.inphonex.com /products/enterprise-voip.php (753 words)

	NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program
		This course will explore the use of the telephone in interactive art, performance, social networking, and multimedia applications.
		Asterisk and low cost VoIP service will be used to develop applications that can work over both telephone networks and the internet.
		Topics will include: history of telephony, plain old telephone service (POTS), voice over IP (VoIP), interactive voice response systems (IVR), audio user interfaces, voice messaging systems (voicemail), text to speech and speech recognition, phreaking (telephone hacking), VoiceXML, conferencing and more.
	itp.nyu.edu /itp/object/H79.2574Lect.html (134 words)

	Infomonger Hacking Page - Tom Hundt
		Sun Performance Q&A by Adrian Cockcroft, SunWorld Online.
		Ian Harries Documents and Information is a great collection of hardware hacking info, including stepper motors and PC parallel port interfacing.
		Interfacing the PC (Craig Peacock) has extensive info on connecting to PC parallel and serial ports.
	www.slack.net /~thundt/hacking.htm (451 words)

	02. What is telephone hacking?
		Telephone hacking is illegal access into an organisation's telephone system by a person or group of people.
		What type of organisations are susceptible to hacking?
		Network House, 29 Station Road, Chertsey, Surrey, KT16 8BE United Kingdom
	freespace.virgin.net /datavox.systems/item46.htm (44 words)

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