Editing Blue box (section)

===In the media===
Blue boxing hit the mainstream media when an article by [[Ron Rosenbaum]] titled ''Secrets of the Little Blue Box'' was published in the October 1971 issue of ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire magazine]]''.{{sfn|Rosenbaum|1971}} Suddenly, many more people wanted to get into the [[phone phreaking]] culture spawned by the blue box, and it furthered the fame of Captain Crunch.

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In June 1972, [[Ramparts_(magazine)|''Ramparts'' magazine]] printed the wiring schematics necessary to create a mute box (a variant of the blue box).<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Regulating the Phone Company In Your Home|magazine=Ramparts |date=June 1972|volume=10|issue=12|pages=54–57}}</ref> All sold issues were recalled or seized from newsstands by police and officials of [[Pacific Bell]], causing financial loss to the magazine.<ref>{{cite book|last=Sterling|first=Bruce|title=The hacker crackdown: law and disorder on the electronic frontier|year=1993|publisher=Bantam|location=New York|isbn=0-553-56370-X|edition=[2nd print.]|chapter-url=https://www.mit.edu/hacker/part2.html|chapter=Part 2}}</ref> The magazine ceased operations for good in 1975.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Day |first1=Meagan |title=When Ramparts Reigned |url=https://jacobin.com/2018/05/when-ramparts-reigned |access-date=6 December 2022 |magazine=Jacobin |issue=29 |date=23 May 2018 |pages=52–56 |url-access=subscription |issn=2470-6930}} p. 56.</ref>

The June 1975 issue of [[73 (magazine)|''73'' magazine]] carried an article describing the rudiments of the long-distance signaling network, and how to construct and operate red and blue boxes.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=73 |title=Inside Ma Bell |url=http://archive.org/details/73-magazine-1975-06 |date=June 1, 1975 |access-date=May 9, 2019 |via=Internet Archive |first=Spencer |last=Whipple Jr. |pages=68–80}}</ref> This article included a blue box schematic using the Intersil 8038 voltage controlled oscillator chip.  Around the same time, do-it-yourself blue box [[Electronic kit|kits]] became available.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QeQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA65 |title=New York Magazine|first=New York Media|last=LLC|date=June 6, 1977|publisher=New York Media, LLC|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o2hRAAAAMAAJ |title=Technology in Postwar America: A History|first=Carroll W.|last=Pursell|date=December 6, 2007|publisher=Columbia University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9780231123044}}</ref>

In November 1988, the [[CCITT]] (now known as [[ITU-T]]) published recommendation Q.140 for the [[Signaling System No. 5]], which caused a resurgence of blue boxing by a new generation of users.{{Citation needed|date=July 2008}}

In the early 1990s, blue boxing became popular with the international [[warez scene]], especially in Europe. Software was made to enable blue boxing using a computer to generate and play the signaling tones. For the PC there were [[BlueBEEP]], TLO, and others, and blue boxes were available for other platforms such as [[Amiga]].{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}