Tag: Phreaking
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Cyber Security Interview Podcast w/ Douglas Brush – The Hacker Mindset
On September 23, 2019, I was a guest on the Cyber Security Interview Podcast hosted by Douglas Brush. The topic was ‘The Hacker Mindset‘. The show summary: In this episode, we discuss starting as a phreak and phone systems, BBS hacking forums, sharing knowledge, calling people out, cybersecurity skill shortages, understanding the adversaries mindset, PCI…
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Colorado Security Podcast Interview Episode #31
On July 17, 2017, I dud an interview for Robb Reck for the Colorado Security Podcast. In it he interviewed me about… me, rather than a current event or the world of vulnerabilities. The episode aired on September 4th, and is summarized as: Brian Martin (nom de plume – Jericho) is one of the most…
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John Thomas Draper: Setting the Record Straight re: Cap’n Crunch Whistle
The tl;dr cliffnotes: John Draper was not the first to discover that a Cap’n Crunch whistle could be used for phreaking. It is almost a ‘fact’ that John Draper, also known as Captain Crunch, discovered that a toy whistle in a box of cereal could be used to make free phone calls. I say ‘almost’…
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Exploding the Review
In the early 90’s, when I was moving in the world of computer bulletin board systems (BBS), it ultimately ended in my interest in phreaking. It started out reading t-files, moved into wardialing, and a few years later would result in PBX, voice mail, and switch hacking. While I got a late start in the…
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The Tao of 1AESS
[This was originally published in Communications of The New order (CoTNO) Issue #6. It was written by Deadkat and myself with special thanks to Gatsby and Mark Tabas. It was published in the fall of 1995, sometime after September 21. Note, that while this gave a great introduction to the 1AESS switch, we deliberately held…