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Lu  ·  4682 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Boy Who Heard Too Much
A recent radiolab show talks about a boy trying to escape his present through the phone system, and learns how to make unique tones with his voice to hack the system and make free calls anywhere in the world. He is certainly a part of the phreak phenomena, interesting listen, http://www.radiolab.org/2012/feb/20/




notseamus  ·  4681 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yeah I listened to that the other day, amazing right?
mitzy  ·  4681 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I listened to only the first story of that episode yesterday (about the man who escaped from jail many times), and while reading this article kept thinking how perfect of a story it would be for "Escape". Now I'm even more excited to listen to the rest, and another story about another phreak. Very interesting phenomenon that I was completely unaware of.
mk  ·  4682 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Joybubbles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joybubbles

I just listened to that podcast a few days ago. Really interesting.

mitzy  ·  4678 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I love radiolabs, but it's unfortunate that this article was a much more interesting story than the boy they chose to talk about on the show. Not their fault, of course.