You can get these for all sorts of stuff. Not just secret squirrel things. Running a critical network, supporting critical application, leadership of organizations that impact health and safety, key personnel at hospitals, etc. Huh, I wonder why my comment above was downvoted. It seems like a very strange comment to downvote. Little known fact: sometimes the other exchanges in area code will translate to places going to military bases and such, depending on the time of year. The best way to tell is by calling If you'd care to look around random exchanges and thousand blocks, you might be in for a fun day.
Or a knock at your door. But yeah - it's all the luck of the draw. It isn't; is a valid translation, and is easy to remember. There's other, working numbers out there you'll eventually find if you look around.
MichaelRenor on June 10, parent next [—]. The internet is amazing, hours upon hours of quality content about nothing else but telephone networks!
That was interesting, a telecom museum should make sure these recordings don't go missing. I remember something in an old Phrack or another hacker zine where someone was recounting a rumor about this mechanism that he heard from someone who worked in a telco viz. It's interesting to see the progression from underground rumor to Wikipedia article. Spooky23 on June 11, parent next [—]. There used to be a designation for landlines where they would be unlisted and have priority when there was congested outgoing lines or a shutdown.
I had a relative who was a public safety official. It was pretty wacky, they had an old school western electric leased phone, this magic line and other weird features like custom short codes that would hit "internal" extensions in the office. If a number was not an active customer it was put in an outbound call list to solicit long distance. The best story i remember was when the navy wanted to know why we called one of their nuclear submarines.
This implied that the right 10 random digits contacted a sub. Wait, you mean targeted advertising before the internet? We had integrity then! Some numbers forward via DSN to "red phones" and what not.
Please don't prank them or waste their time. I had a spouse social engineer the number to an overseas camp. Then she wanted to get pissed when I told her to hang up and call a civilian phone We are divorced now, of course. The article mentions that individuals placing calls though GETS, with a valid access code, receive "alternate carrier routing, high probability of completion, trunk queuing and exemptions from network management controls".
I find this fascinating, and it's hard not to wonder if any rough equivalent exists for government-related internet traffic. Can anyone enlighten me here? Niksko on June 11, parent next [—]. Presumably they just have dedicated fibre lines between critical infrastructure?
With dedicated routing hardware. Another odd area code is You could program it to "follow" you. Meaning that if, for example, someone called your number between 9a-5p M-F, it would ring your office. I suspect it got killed off because so many businesses were switching to cheapo, poorly-made, Winmodem-based PBXes that didn't recognize the area code.
No, it was actively blocked not unrecognized by lots of places because, like , it was caller paid and, like , it saw significant upkeep for phone sex lines. I'm guessing don't try calling the number? Don't want to flood some poor government operator with internet trolls. The Wikipedia page describes what happens when someone does call.
I wonder if that was a priori knowledge or if the writer called to see what would happen and then shared his findings :P. Hopefully the former, since the latter would be "original research" and therefore against Wikipedia policy ;.
There's also no citation for that claim. Makes me wonder if the call center will see the HN effect. I was tempted to call it just reading the article! Please hold. Is there anywhere else to read more about these kinds of special phone numbers? Something about the current state of phreaking? I'm sure old issues of have a lot of articles on phreaking.
I used to red box a lot of old pay phones to get free calls using a tape recorder. Sadly there aren't too many phreaking hacks these days with everything moving to the cloud. The internet. I imagine this was part of what was dialed in last week's Twin Peaks. KevinIsMyName on June 11, parent next [—]. The job is a job. I assume they have quite a lot of operators and they are crucial for certain processes which make their fairly simple job - a phone operator - crucial.
Sure, but now they're getting dozens of calls from curious HNers. Why would people call? It's not a mystery what happensthey'll ask you for the access code, and do nothing else if you don't provide it. It'd be a waste of time to call them. I don't think you understand the breadth of legitimate responses to your "why" question. Lots of us called. Oh, that's really interesting! What were you looking to find out, and what did they say?
So's commenting on HN, but look how many of us do it! There's lots of good lore about stuff like this in phreaker circles. I remember a story about someone who supposedly found some listings of numbers including things like the presidents bunker and such. The folks answering the phones for some of these numbers were not amused and were also caught off guard by calls from kids asking to talk to the president and such.
I wonder what it's like being an operator on that line; is it mostly hours or boredom, punctuated by a few phone calls? Or is it actually busy throughout the day? In order to avoid this kind of situation, it is better to not answer a call that is unrecognizable.
If the caller provides a company name, look it up on the internet and check if the number used for calling is given on their official website. Did not find the number? Hang up the call immediately and proceed to blocking the number. Is the call you received seems suspicious? Blocking the number from your mobile phone might help lessen the possibility in getting scammed. To block a number on your mobile phone, below is a guide for you to follow:.
Even though area code was used as a special area code for the Federal Government of the United States, it is definitely not toll free. If you call the telephone number used for this area code, a charge on your account could be done. Answering calls or text messages from an unfamiliar area code could lead you to getting scammed. It is important to make sure that you know where is the call coming from, or recognizes who is calling.
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