[Sussex] Do we confuse you?

[Mark Barber]

Hi Paul,

'Phishing', I believe, comes from the earlier 'phreaking' whereby free 
phonecalls could be made by whistling a 400Hz(?) tone into a public 
telephone to disable the mechanism whereby call tariffs are originated.

As to why 'phreaking' I would guess it is an acronym of 'phone breaking'.

Mark

PS Vote conservative!

paul at paulgraydon.co.uk wrote:

>But again, to be fair, the computing world does have a stupid tendancy
>to invent new words to describe stuff.  Why phishing?  What purpose was
>their for coming up with a new name?  What was wrong with calling it a
>scam e-mail?  I bet if they were referred to as that a lot more people
>would understand what you're talking about.
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>[mailto:sussex-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of John D.
>Sent: 06 April 2005 16:34
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>Subject: Re: [Sussex] Do we confuse you?
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>On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 15:42 +0100, Geoffrey J. Teale wrote:
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>>See here:
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>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4413155.stm
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>To be fair Geoff, the article did point out that the survey was done for
>AOL ! :-P
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>regards
>
>John D.
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