The phone network was the first large-scale network you could hack… and people did.
Joybubbles (Joe Engressia) discovers he can whistle at 2600 Hz.
John Draper discovers the Cap’n Crunch cereal box whistles emit 2600 Hz
Phone Phreak Captain Crunch — Rare 1978 Interview
Person of Interest - Finch Phone Phreaking scene
WarGames (1983) — Payphone soda-tab hack scene
WarGames (1983) — War Dialing scene
Sneakers (1992) — Whistler phone-hacking scene
The Secret History of Hacking (Discovery Channel doc)
Phil Lapsley: History of Phone Phreaking 1960–80 (The Last HOPE 2008)
Phil Lapsley: Cats and Mice — The Next HOPE 2010
Captain Crunch — A Historical Look at Phreaking (HITB 2012)
Unboxing Steve Wozniak's Blue Box (Henry Ford Museum)
Steve Wozniak Phreaks Out On The History Of Hacking
