📞 Phone-system boxes
BLUE BOX — 2600 Hz trunk seize
RED BOX — payphone coin tones
RAINBOW BOX — flashes the page
BEIGE BOX — lineman's test set
SILVER BOX — secret DTMF A/B/C/D
BLOTTO BOX — "destroy the CO" prank countdown
GREEN BOX — coin-return supervisory tones
PURPLE BOX — cancels hold music
CHEESE BOX — two-phone bookie relay
AQUA BOX — defeats lock-and-trace
MAGENTA BOX — pen-register detector
OLIVE BOX — rings remote phones
PINK BOX — conference-call disruptor
LAVENDER BOX — 16 Hz line hum
📟 BBS / phreak culture
BBS NODE 13 — ACCESS DENIED login
NODE 14 RIP — sysop went to Y2K bunker
2600 MAGAZINE — hack the planet
PHRACK #1 — Nov 17, 1985 editorial
L0pht — take down the internet in 30 min
CAP'N CRUNCH — Draper's 2600 Hz whistle
MA BELL — "Number please?"
🎭 Hacker handles
PHIBER OPTIK — MOD, NYC switch days
ERIK BLOODAXE — LOD, founded Phrack
SHADOW HAWK — first CFAA minor conviction
🎬 Pop culture
W.O.P.R. — shall we play a game
WARGAMES DIALER — war-dial 555-01XX
HOTLINE 555-RICK — a 1987 pop hit
NSA INTERCEPT — [REDACTED]
🛠️ Tooling
PHREAKING TONES — random DTMF burst
BUSY SIGNAL — 5s of beeeep beeeep
ACOUSTIC COUPLER — 300-baud handshake
HAYES AT — ATDT8675309, NO CARRIER
ANI SPOOFER — caller-ID fakery
SWITCH HOOK FLASH — click click hang up
THE COOKIE CRUMBLER — we don't track you