Members of The Old School will regale the assembled throngs with tales of “The Golden Age of Phone Phreaking.” Those were the days of in-band signaling when anyone who could put out a tone of 2600 hertz could control the “Long Lines” network.
Tom Santa Monica Tom Santa Monica’s phreaking activities during 1970-1971 predate the Esquire magazine article of October 1971. Tom’s favorite activity was exploiting race conditions in Automatic Electric 53 directors and other step-by-step equipment.