单词 | phone phreaking |
释义 | phone phreakingn. Originally and chiefly U.S. The use of an electronic device to make illegal telephone calls, usually long-distance, either at a cheap rate or without paying. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > telephoning > without payment phone phreaking1971 phreaking1971 phone hacking1984 1971 R. Rosenbaum in Esquire Oct. 119/1 The bigger the phone company gets and the further away from human operators it gets, the more vulnerable it becomes to all sorts of phone phreaking. 1989 New Scientist 26 Aug. 36/2 The aim is to..stop people from making long-distance calls for the price of a local call... Therrien first explains how to perpetrate this type of fraud, known as ‘phone freaking’. 2002 D. Verton Hacker Diaries i. 5 He had taught Genocide at an early age the finer points of phone phreaking—replicating the tone used by the telephone companies to initiate long-distance telephone calls. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1971 |
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