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Notes

1 Phreaking for Fun

1 There is no firm lexicon for boxes. What one phreaker might call a red box could be called a black box by another. There were, however, three principal designations in the early days: red, black and blue. Present-day phreakers use devices that have been nick-named beige boxes.

2 Because of the publicity generated by his arrest - and later, because of Rosenbaum's article - Engressia became widely known as a telecommunications wizard. Shortly after his conviction he was offered a job at a local phone company; he later went to work as a troubleshooter for Mountain Bell, where - at the time of writing - he remains.

3 'Mark Bernay' eventually outgrew his fascination with phreaking and hacking. Today he is described as a 'respectable and respected citizen of Oakland, California'. He is still employed in the computer industry.

4 Within the computer industry the term PC is generally used to designate only the IBM PC. In this book, however, the term PC is used to denote any personal computer, regardless of the manufacturer.

2 Breaking and Entering

1 The GPO, which ran the phone system when the Captain was on his peregrinations around the country, was a publicly owned service. Its successor was the privatized British Telecom.

2 It is unlikely that Prince Philip actually used his Prestel MBX,

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