of being a phreak. (Example: "I hacked a new metro phreak lastnight.")" The latter 2 ideas of what a phreak is, is rather weird. APhreak like the hacker likes to explore and experiment, however his choiceof exploring is not other computer but the phone system as a whole. Phreaksexplore the phone system finding many different ways to do things, mostoften make free calls. Why do they do this, " A hacker and phreaker willhave need to use telephone systems much more than an average individual,therefore, methods which can be used to avoid toll charges are in order. ".A phreak has two basic ways of making free calls, he can call up codes orPBXs on his phone and then enter a code and make his call or he can useElectronic Toll Fraud Devices. Codes are rather easy to get the phreakwill scan for them, but unlike a hacker will only save the tone(s) numberinstead of the carrier(s). Then he will attempt to hack the code to use it,these codes range from numbers 0 - 9 and can be any length, although mostare not more than 10. Electronic Toll Fraud Devices are known as Boxes inthe underground. Most are the size of a pack of smokes, or than can besmaller or bigger. I will not go too deep. They are electronic devicesthan do various things, such as make outgoing calls free, make incomingcalls free, simulate coins dropping in a phone, etc. People who "Phreak"are caught alot these days thanks to the new technology. Software Piracy is the most common computer crime, it is the illegalcoping of software. "People wouldn't think of shoplifting software from aretail store, but don't think twice about going home and making severalillegal copies of the same software." and this is true because I myself amguilty of this. The major problem is not people going out and buying thesoftware then making copies for everyone, it's the Bulletin Boards thatcater to pirating software, that really cause the problem. On anyone oneof these boards one can find an upwar...
