Editing Red box (phreaking) (section)

==History==

The term "red box" to refer to a [[phreaking box]] dates to 1973 or earlier.<ref>{{cite news |last=Diamond |first=Stuart |date=October 7, 1973 |title=Phone Phreaks: they've got Ma Bell's number |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/69908663/red-box-1973/ |work=The Home News |location=New Brunswick, NJ |access-date=February 11, 2021}}</ref> Red box use became more widespread in the 1990s following the publication in [[2600 Magazine]] of instructions on how to make a red box by replacing a [[crystal oscillator]] in a tone dialer.<ref>{{cite book |last=Goldstein |first=Emmanuel |author-link=Eric Corley |date=2009 |title=The Best of 2600 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GEQlEx3XUWoC |location= |publisher=Wiley |pages=438–441 |isbn=9780470474693}}</ref> Red boxes grew obsolete in the 2000s as phone systems in the US and other nations updated their signaling technology.