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with enough a sense of everyone-knows-that
In the old days science fiction writers felt obliged to explain the far-out technologies they invented:
"You know, of course, my dear Throckmorton, that when you move that lever to the upper position it completes an electrical circuit that allows current to flow through a thread in the evacuated bulb, causing it to glow with the light that has replaced the gas flame of your parents."
Modern readers of science-fiction have become better able to fill in the gaps themselves:
"He slipped the cube in the upreader of his comppack and reviewed the case."
This is not to suggest that von Eck phreaking is not presently tchnologically possible, merely that one need not infer its present existence from casual mentions in a Neal Stephenson novel.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted phreaking Krzysztof 11/16/03 07:12 PM Re: phreaking wwh 11/16/03 07:20 PM Re: phreaking Capfka 12/08/03 05:51 PM Phreaking out wofahulicodoc 12/14/03 03:47 PM Re: Phreaking out sjmaxq 12/14/03 06:01 PM Re: Von Eck Phreaking out Faldage 12/14/03 07:19 PM Re: Von Eck Phreaking out of troy 12/14/03 07:40 PM Re: Von Eck Phreaking out wwh 12/14/03 07:59 PM Correction, please wofahulicodoc 12/14/03 08:15 PM since1985, no less! wofahulicodoc 12/15/03 12:55 AM Re: since1985, no less! Buffalo Shrdlu 12/15/03 01:03 AM In the immortal words of Major Hoople... wofahulicodoc 12/15/03 01:07 AM Re: since1985, no less! maverick 01/07/04 04:34 PM Re: since1985, no less! musick 01/08/04 10:29 PM Re: phreaking jheem 01/14/04 11:36 PM Re: phreaking Capfka 01/15/04 08:55 PM Re: phreaking wwh 01/15/04 09:04 PM Re: phreaking Wordwind 01/19/04 04:01 PM Re: phreaking wwh 01/19/04 04:45 PM
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