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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>war dialer</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="wannabee.html" title="wannabee"/><link rel="next" href="war-driving.html" title="war-driving"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">war dialer</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wannabee.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="war-driving.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="war-dialer"/><dt xmlns="" id="war-dialer"><b>war dialer</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [originally from ‘wargames dialer’, a reference to the
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movie <i class="citetitle">War Games</i>] A cracking tool, a program that
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calls a given list or range of phone numbers and records those which answer
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with handshake tones (and so might be entry points to computer or
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telecommunications systems). Some of these programs have become quite
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sophisticated, and can now detect modem, fax, or PBX tones and log each one
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separately. The war dialer is one of the most important tools in the
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<a href="../P/phreaker.html"><i class="glossterm">phreaker</i></a>'s kit. These programs evolved from early
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