Beige box (phreaking)

A beige box.

In phone phreaking, a beige box is a device that is technically equivalent to a telephone company lineman's handset — a telephone fitted with alligator clips to attach it to a line.[1]

  1. ^ Goldstein, Emmanuel (2009). The Best of 2600, Collector's Edition: A Hacker Odyssey. Indianapolis, IN: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 359–360. ISBN 978-0-470-47469-3.