For the benefit of all you dudes who don't know what phreaking is all about, I'd better tell you what a phreaker does.

The phreaker takes great delight in finding out how telephone systems work, and in manipulating the phone companies equipment and telephone lines. Sometimes the aim is to get free phone calls, but the phreaker is mainly interested in understanding how the telecommunications network operates.

The hacker often takes advantage of phreaking techniques to make sure he remains anonymous and untraceable whilst he's trying to break into high profile networks by using his laptop with a phreaked connection ;)

This section isn't a definitive guide to phreaking, but is simply an overview of a few of the more common techniques the phreaker and hacker uses. I've also included plenty of tables with useful information.

BTW, everything discussed within this web site is my own interpretation as to how things work, gleaned from practical experience (and social engineering where necessary). There are far too many sites out there that are happy to trawl the internet on a daily basis and compile their web pages based on info they haven't even tried themselves.

I can guarantee everything published here has been duly tried and tested ;)