[VoIP] Wikipedia entry on Phreaking, the section about Wawina

[Jayson Smith]

Hi there,
I do have the recordings I made from both the night time conference and the
daytime conference when the cutover actually occurred.  I don't want to make
the entire conference available, as there are large boring spots and some
things that I should edit out, so I'll probably make available certain
parts, with the involved people's permission of course!  I definitely want
to put up the part where Shane tells us all that the cutover has occurred, I
check the time, etc.  Shane, is this okay with you?  I'd love to put up the
part where Lucky225 calls Joybubbles and, let's just say something really
odd happens!  I think it was Lucky that did this.  I really ought to get
permission from Joybubbles to put that up, but since I don't know it if he
has access to Email I'd have to send him a voice message and maybe have him
call me back on CNET?  Don't really want to give out my PSTN number.  And of
course I've gotta include the part where I blow 2600 and kick the last two
N2 connections off!  Sorry, guys!
Jayson.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lucky 225" <Lucky225 at 2600.com>
To: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at bellsouth.net>; "Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog
Switches" <voip at ckts.info>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 4:56 AM
Subject: Re: [VoIP] Wikipedia entry on Phreaking, the section about Wawina


> Jayson- I'd love the recordings you have from wawina of the conference
> before the N2 trunks died if you got any of 'em
>
> On 10/9/06, Jayson Smith <ratguy at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >
> >    Hi,
> > I have no idea who wrote this, but in case you haven't seen it, here's
the
> > section of the "Phreaking" entry at Wikipedia concerning Wawina.  I have
> > to
> > say, they got it mostly right, although I certainly am not one of the
> > 'famous' phone phreaks.  I guess you could say I'm a phreak, except that
I
> > never did play around with MF back in the day, etc.  Anyway here goes,
and
> > hope you enjoy it!
> > Jayson.
> >
> > The End of MF
> >
> > The end of MF phreaking in the lower 48 United States occurred on June
15,
> > 2006.
> > The last exchange in the continental United States to use a "phreakable"
> > MF-signalled trunk replaced the aging (yet still well kept) N2 carrier
> > with
> > a T-1
> > carrier. This exchange was located in Wawina, MN, (218)-488. This
> > particular
> > exchange was run by the
> > Northern Telephone Company of Minnesota.
> > The days building up to the cutover were comparatively eventful, as many
> > phone phreaks from across North America and the world made calls into
what
> > was
> > the last group of MF-able inward trunks in the continental United
States.
> > A
> > message board was set up on +1 (218) 488-1307, for phone phreaks across
> > the
> > world to "say their goodbyes" to MF signalling and the N2 in Wawina.
> > During
> > the days prior to the cutover, many famous phone phreaks such as
> > Mark Bernay,
> > Joybubbles,
> > Bob Bernay,
> > and
> > Captain Crunch
> > could be heard leaving their comments on the message board. The official
> > date for the cutover from N2 to
> > T-carrier
> > was Wednesday, June 14. As early as June 7, there was a noticeable
static
> > on
> > what had previously been clear lines. By Monday, June 12, many numbers
> > were
> > unreachable, and the static had peaked. The recording on +1 (218)
488-1307
> > was generally inaccessible, and MFing through the switch was becoming
> > increasingly
> > more difficult due to the increased static. By the 15th, the end had
come.
> >
> > The cutover occurred around 1:38, Eastern Daylight Time. The Wawina
> > switchmen had disallowed any more incoming calls to the N2 system,
> > however,
> > a few phreaks
> > were still on the lines. The last two phone phreaks to sit on a
> > telephone-company-operated MF trunk in the continental United States
were
> > Lucky225
> > and Josh from Pittsburgh. Lucky and Josh were idling in a conference,
from
> > the N2 side. A few phone phreaks were sitting on the same conference,
but
> > coming
> > in through the T-carrier or the
> > Collector's Network.
> > Later on, another phone phreak, Jayson Smith, pulsed 2600 through the
> > Collector's Network (which does not respond to 2600 Hz or MF tones).
That
> > indicated
> > to all parties on the N2 that the called party had hung up, which in
turn
> > winked off Lucky and Josh's last remaining trunks, and ended the last
two
> > inbound
> > calls ever made on the Wawina N2. Shane, the switchman running the
> > operation, then placed a ceremonial "last call" from the
> > central office,
> > and shut down the system for good.
> >
> >
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