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Meaning of "phreaking" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PHREAKING

Blend of freaking + phone.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PHREAKING

phreaking  [ˈfriːkɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHREAKING

noun
adjective
verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Phreaking is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PHREAKING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Phreaking

Phreaking is a slang term coined to describe the activity of a culture of people who study, experiment with, or explore telecommunication systems, such as equipment and systems connected to public telephone networks. The term phreak is a portmanteau of the words phone and freak, and may also refer to the use of various audio frequencies to manipulate a phone system. Phreak, phreaker, or phone phreak are names used for and by individuals who participate in phreaking. The term first referred to groups who had reverse engineered the system of tones used to route long distance calls. By re-creating these tones, phreaks could switch calls from the phone handset, allowing free calls to be made around the world. To ease the creation of these tones, electronic tone generators known as blue boxes became a staple of the phreaker community, including future Apple Inc. cofounders, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The blue box era came to an end with the ever increasing use of computerized phone systems which sent dialling information on a separate, inaccessible channel.

Definition of phreaking in the English dictionary

The definition of phreaking in the dictionary is the act of gaining unauthorized access to telecommunication systems, esp to obtain free calls.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PHREAKING


attention-seeking
əˈtenʃənˌsiːkɪŋ
English-speaking
ˈɪŋɡlɪʃˌspiːkɪŋ
freaking
ˈfriːkɪŋ
French-speaking
ˈfrɛntʃˌspiːkɪŋ
German-speaking
ˈdʒɜːmənˌspiːkɪŋ
networking
ˈnɛtˌwɜːkɪŋ
nonspeaking
nɒnˈspiːkɪŋ
parking
ˈpɑːkɪŋ
piquing
ˈpiːkɪŋ
pleasure-seeking
ˈpleʒəˌsiːkɪŋ
profit-seeking
ˈprɒfɪtˌsiːkɪŋ
publicity-seeking
pʌˈblɪsɪtɪ ˈsiːkɪŋ
reeking
ˈriːkɪŋ
screaking
ˈskriːkɪŋ
slow-speaking
ˌsləʊˈspiːkɪŋ
sneaking
ˈsniːkɪŋ
speaking
ˈspiːkɪŋ
streaking
ˈstriːkɪŋ
talking
ˈtɔːkɪŋ
walking
ˈwɔːkɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHREAKING

phreak
phreaker
phreatic
phreatophyte
phreatophytic
phrenesiac
phrenesis
phrenetic
phrenetical
phrenetically
phreneticness
phrenic
phrenism
phrenitic
phrenitides
phrenitis
phrenologic
phrenological
phrenologically
phrenologise

WORDS THAT END LIKE PHREAKING

baking
banking
braking
breaking
breathtaking
decision-making
ground-breaking
heartbreaking
home baking
homemaking
in a manner of speaking
in the making
making
matchmaking
money-making
public speaking
record-breaking
soaking
taking
undertaking
waking

Synonyms and antonyms of phreaking in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «phreaking» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PHREAKING

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The translations of phreaking from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «phreaking» in English.

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盗用电话线路
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

phreaking
570 millions of speakers

English

phreaking
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Translator English - Hindi

phreaking
380 millions of speakers
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phreaking
280 millions of speakers

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фрикинг
278 millions of speakers

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phreaking
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

phreaking
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phreaking
220 millions of speakers

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Phreaking
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Phreaking
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

フリーキング
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

프리 킹
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Phreaking
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phreaking
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

phreaking
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फायरिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

phreaking
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

phreaking
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

phreakingu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Фрікінг
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

phreaking
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

phreaking
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

phreaken
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

phreakandet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

phreaking
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of phreaking

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PHREAKING»

The term «phreaking» is quite widely used and occupies the 42.609 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PHREAKING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about phreaking

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHREAKING»

Discover the use of phreaking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to phreaking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises, ...
Phreaking bears the same relationship to telecommunications systems that hacking bears to information systems. Like hacking, it is a tech-counterculture phenomenon that originated, insofar as it can be traced to any one origin, at the ...
Aaron Schwabach, 2014
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Exploding the Phone
But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same. Exploding the Phone tells this story in full for the first time.
Phil Lapsley, 2014
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Phreaking: Patrick K. Kroupa, Stankdawg, Phone Losers of ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, 2013
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Telephone Crimes: Phreaking, Pranknet, Strip Search Prank ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Books, LLC, General Books LLC, 2010
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Cybercrime: Investigating High-Technology Computer Crime
The first reported case of phreaking, even though no one called the activity phreaking at the time, occurred in 1870. Several teenagers were denied access to the newly established telephone system after they managed to tap into the phone ...
Robert Moore, 2010
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The Internet: Biographies
Blue boxing was hardly the earliest form of phone hacking,otherwise known as“ phreaking.” In The Hacker Crackdown (1992),author Bruce Sterling points out that the practice is as old as Alexander Graham Bell himself—the earliest telephone ...
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Articles on Phreaking, Including: War Dialing, John Draper, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
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Profiling Hackers: The Science of Criminal Profiling as ...
Age at approaching computer sciences At what age did you start getting interested in computer sciences and/or computers? At what age did you start getting involved in hacking/ phreaking? At the moment do you practice hacking/ phreaking?
Raoul Chiesa, Stefania Ducci, Silvio Ciappi, 2008
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Van Eck Phreaking
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Van Eck phreaking is the process of eavesdropping on the contents of a CRT- or LC-Display by detecting its electromagnetic emissions.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Criminal Psychology and Forensic Technology: A Collaborative ...
The second activity that we will discuss is phone phreaking. Usually called just " phreaking," it came into general practice after the adventures of John Draper, aka Capt. Crunch, were publicized in a 197 1.3 Phreaking is a way to circumvent the  ...
Grover Maurice Godwin, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHREAKING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term phreaking is used in the context of the following news items.
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A guide to switching to SIP trunking
As with any VoIP system, security issues (such as the capacity for DoS attacks and phreaking of unsecured PBXs) will be a concern. «Channel Pro, Jul 15»
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A Guide on switching to SIP trunking
As with any VoIP system, security issues (such as the capacity for DoS attacks and phreaking of unsecured PBXs) will be a concern. «Channel Pro, Jul 15»
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Want to think like a VC? Read these books
Their first venture was building and selling little hacker boxes called "blue boxes" in an underworld of "phone phreaking," allowing users to play ... «CNBC, Jul 15»
4
Physical security: The overlooked domain
In the early days of phone phreaking, for example, systems were breached as a result of hackers stealing manuals from Dumpsters. Another ... «Computerworld, Jun 15»
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Mystery woman recycles rare Apple-1 microcomputer
Apple Computers' inaugural product, funded by the sales of 'blue box' phone-phreaking equipment built by co-founder Steve Wozniak, the ... «bit-tech.net, Jun 15»
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Scam alert: Derbyshire schools put on alert for phone hacking
DERBYSHIRE schools have been put on alert for what has been described as "phone phreaking". The warning has been issued to all schools ... «Derby Telegraph, May 15»
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Send A Link To Your Deskmate Via Sound, With A New Google …
Proto-hackers gamed that system by "phreaking" or using devices called blue boxes to mimic those audio tones for free calls (and more ... «Fast Company, May 15»
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When will Mass. make it illegal to sic a SWAT team on a stranger?
Weigman and his friends took phreaking even further when they used their knowledge of the phone network to convince phone company ... «Boston.com, May 15»
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A website that lets you play with your phone phreak blue box
My friend Steve Lodefink and his son Harlan, who has become interested in vintage computing and phone phreaking, made the neat-looking, ... «Boing Boing, Apr 15»
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The Inside Story Of How Pakistan Took Down The FBI's Most …
Even Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak had fun with phreaking in the early 1970s. Somewhere around 1973, Wozniak claims, he managed to ... «International Business Times, Mar 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Phreaking [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/phreaking>. Apr 2024 ».
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