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  • Telco officials wanted to punish the phone-phreak underground, in as public and exemplary a manner as possible.

    The Hacker Crackdown Sterling, Bruce 1992

  • Most every phone-phreak ever busted has swiftly implicated his mentors, his disciples, and his friends.

    The Hacker Crackdown Sterling, Bruce 1992

  • Or, if they don't have an organ, someone in the phone-phreak network sends them a cassette with all the tones recorded, with a voice saying 'Number one,' then you have the tone, 'Number two,' then the tone, and so on.

    Slate Magazine Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • Wizzywig, Volume 3: Fugitive, the new installment of Ed Piskor's comics biography of Phenicle from his early phone-phreak days to his eventual incarceration.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

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