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Inside the Hidden World of Elevator Phone Phreaking

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Geekz Snow
Inside the Hidden World of Elevator Phone Phreaking

The first time I called into an elevator, I picked up my iPhone and dialed the number—labeled on my list as the Crown Plaza Hotel in Chicago—and immediately heard two beeps, then a recording of a woman's voice, who told me to press one to talk.

After just one ring I heard a series of four tones and was immediately listening to the inside of another elevator.

This time I heard a few muffled voices, then a woman answered: "There are people in here, yes."

"Turn it over," I heard a woman's voice say in a Midwestern accent.

This was my introduction to the illicit thrill of elevator phone phreaking.

I had learned about this hobby—and received my list of working elevator phones—just a few days earlier from Will Caruana, a thirtysomething freelance security researcher.

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