[LUAU] You know this world famous hacker?

Jim Thompson jim at netgate.com
Thu Nov 3 11:38:28 PST 2005


Tim Newsham wrote:

>> Jim -- who won't admit that he has a complete 'brick' of TAP and a 
>> Bud set somewhere, or that he ever got TAP in the mail while he was 
>> in Jr. High, (likely putting him on the FBI watch list for life) or 
>> that he once, back when computers consumed his life, coded a DSP to 
>> generate not only a "complete" set of blue, red and black boxes, but 
>> also one end of a UUCP
>
>
> Phrack magazine published some code to generate (encode) and detect
> (decode) DTMF tones: http://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=50&a=13
> The code detected "blue box" MF, but didn't generate them (although
> its fairly easy to modify it to add that functionality).

Yeah, but that was published in 97, Blueboxes and UUCP were (mostly) 
dead by then.

The DSP work was done before that.  Analog Devices had an app note that 
I cribbed.







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