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phreaking - /freek'ing/ "phone phreak" 1. The art and science of cracking the telephone network so as, for example, to make free long-distance calls.

2. By extension, security-cracking in any other context (especially, but not exclusively, on communications networks).

At one time phreaking was a semi-respectable activity among hackers; there was a gentleman's agreement that phreaking as an intellectual game and a form of exploration was OK, but serious theft of services was taboo. There was significant crossover between the hacker community and the hard-core phone phreaks who ran semi-underground networks of their own through such media as the legendary "TAP Newsletter".

This ethos began to break down in the mid-1980s as wider dissemination of the techniques put them in the hands of less responsible phreaks. Around the same time, changes in the phone network made old-style technical ingenuity less effective as a way of hacking it, so phreaking came to depend more on overtly criminal acts such as stealing phone-card numbers.

The crimes and punishments of gangs like the "414 group" turned that game very ugly. A few old-time hackers still phreak casually just to keep their hand in, but most these days have hardly even heard of "blue boxes" or any of the other paraphernalia of the great phreaks of yore.

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The row broke out after the Guardian reported that News Group Newspapers - part of Rupert Murdoch's News International empire which publishes the News of the World - has paid out more than Au1 million to settle cases that threatened to reveal evidence of its journalists' involvement in telephone hacking.

Prosecutors review tabloid phone tap case by Independent Television News Limited (ITN)

The furore broke after the Guardian claimed that News Group Newspapers, which publishes the News of the World, had paid out more than pounds 1 million to settle cases that threatened to reveal evidence of its journalists' alleged involvement in telephone hacking.

Fresh probe into celeb 'phone taps' 'THOUSANDS TARGETED' CLAIM OVER ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

He spoke out after The Guardian claimed News Group Newspapers, which publishes titles including the News of the World, had paid out more than pounds 1m to settle cases that threatened to reveal evidence of its journalists' alleged involvement in telephone hacking.

Tabloid chiefs accused in phone tap row; Claims police knew about ... by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)