Wiktionary
n. A hacker or cracker specialized with telephone systems rather than computers.
Usage examples of "phreaker".
In the last few weeks, as a sort of sideshow, it had become a hangout for assorted hackers, crackers, phone phreakers and warez pirates: the computer underground, and those who aspired to it.
Thereby qualifying to apply for membership in the most highly ultra elite hacker cracker phreaker bulletin board .
Any decent phreaker board expected its members to contribute: passwords, newly discovered bugs, the unlisted dial- in numbers of computer systems.
My friend and another phone phreaker I met shortly thereafter let me listen in as they each made pretext calls to the phone company.
I recognized them and they recognized me--even as a teen, I already had a reputation as a phreaker and hacker because of a big story the LA Times had run about my first juvenile brush with the authorities.
It can decrypt them, and write the results into another region of the computer's memory, and leave that data there indefinitely, and the Van Eck phreakers will never be the wiser.
None of them have had title bars on their windows, and so the Van Eck phreakers surveilling him have presumably had a terrible time keeping track of which is which.
It can decrypt them, and write the results into another region of the computer’s memory, and leave that data there indefinitely, and the Van Eck phreakers will never be the wiser.