From: Dauber@yabbs
To: Justin@yabbs
Subject: re: boxes
Date: Thu Feb 24 14:11:03 1994
Well, Justin, the bluebox is the phreaker's best friend, but 
unfortunately, they are so easily and quickly detected...

It all started back in the '50's when a blind 8-year-old was screwing 
around with 800 numbers on the phone, listening to the recordings.  Well, 
one day, he was habitually whistling while on the phone, and when one of 
the recordings was playing, one of the tones he whistled shut off the 
recording, so he tried experiementing with different tones, and eventually 
people adapted his idea and invented the bluebox, which produces special 
tones, blah blah blah.

Read more about it in the book _Outside The Inner Circle_..