Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System

this is lonus from lonus Tech tips and we hacked the phone network in order to spy on him that's pretty messed up Derek I slept easier not knowing that we intercepted his phone calls and stole his two Factor passcodes is that your number elus yeah uh but I didn't get I mine didn't even ring we didn't touch his phone we didn't send him an email or a text nothing we did it all remotely and the worst part is it could happen to you I think I'm really surprised that no offense but like you guys did it well you're not a career criminal hacker Mastermind necessarily indeed but here it is a normal looking and feeling device with no you know obvious problem with it and you just receive my call instead of me receiving it just what like on command you just it's an app on your computer or what I I don't even know but before we explain how we did all that [Music] the first startup that Steve Jobs and Steve wak made wasn't Apple no they were tackling a different problem one where their product was actually illegal so back in the 1970s long-distance phone calls were really expensive adjusted for inflation a call from New York to London could run you $25 a minute so these two entrepreneurs created a little blue box and what it did was it hacked the telephone Network they could trick the telephone company into connecting the calls for free among other things we were young and what we learned was that we could build something ourselves that could control billions of dollars worth of infrastructure in the world I don't think there would have ever been an Apple computer had there not been blue boxing was said you called the pope yeah we did call the pope was pretended to be Henry Kissinger and we got the number of the Vatican and we called the pope and they started waking people up in the hierarchy you know I don't Cardinals and this and that and and they actually sent someone to wake up the pope when when finally we just burst out laughing and they realized that we weren't Henry Kissinger but how were they able to do all of this with one electronic box made from Radio Shack Parts until the mid 1920s most ...