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A Look Back at One of the Original Phreaks

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the pioneers-of-the-past dept.

tmalone writes "The New York Times is running an end of year piece about the most interesting people who have died this year. One of their picks is Joybubbles, also known as Josef Engressia, or 'Whistler.' He was born blind and discovered at the age of 7 that he could whistle 2600 hertz into a phone to make free long-distance calls. He was one of the original phone phreaks, got arrested for phone fraud, and was even employed by the phone company. The article deals more with his personal life than with his technical exploits, but is a very interesting story."

8 of 98 comments (clear)

  1. Re:get my hopes up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Weird. Kathleen fent spreads her lips when she blows.

  2. Hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I googled it and actually couldn't find anything. What on earth do you mean?

  3. Re:Interesting.... by celardore · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    With PHP probably...

  4. Talking of cities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://spamslashdot.myminicity.com/

  5. and not one link to a source.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    typical slashdot talk

  6. Re:"I'm Rick James, Bitch!" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Never mind who you thought I was...

    Oh and fuck your couch.

    Captcha: ballers (hehehe)

  7. Cheep by simtricknon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Kerchunk

  8. Re:History of Hacking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    warning more minicity spam!