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Blue Boxing Comes to VoIP
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:08:33 GMT
Definately fun. :-) Kevin Poulsen writes over on 27B Stroke 6: [snip] In a delightful bit of retro engineering, veteran phone hacker Mark "Phiber Optik" Abene has written a module for the Asterisk open source telephone switch that replaces its fancy schmancy digital signaling with good old fashioned in-band MF. Mark demonstrated the Project MF module at the HOPE hacker's conference in New York last month. He says he built a 1980s-style blue box the day before the conference, then took the stage and made a call to his Asterisk machine, blew the trunk with a blast of 2600 hz -- from a Cap'n Crunch whistle, no less -- and boxed a new call with the sweet, sonorous tones of multi-frequency signaling. "The crowd went wild," Mark says in an e-mail. "I'm trying to encourage more people to set up their own 'switches' that we can all blue box off of." Oooh. I'm getting all tingly. [snip] More here: http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1539183 - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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