Born blind in 1949, a 7-year-old bypassed AT&T to make free calls for 14 years by whistling a 2600Hz tone. Engineers took two decades to catch him before he became a Buddhist monk named Joybubbles.

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In the movie Sneakers there is a blind character named Whistler in tribute to this guy.

Great movie!

Phreaking cool!

I miss 2600 magazine, where it got its name for the 2600Hz AT&T hack (and the phone phreak Capt Crunch). Ah the good ole days

I just realized how the alt.2600 news group got it's name.

I so miss USENET back before the pdf's fucked it all up. I mean it was always there, but it blew up when newsgroups became popular.

Same w/ Panzer servers and BBS's, porn ruined it all.

We doin' phreaking references in heeyuh?

Hack The Planet!