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PHACKER

Specialty Definition: PHACKER

DomainDefinition

Computing

Phacker A telephone system cracker. A phacker may attempt to gain unauthorised access to a phone system in order to make free or untraceable calls or he may disrupt, alter or illegally tap phone systems via computer. The disruptions may include causing a phone line to be engaged so no calls go in or out, redirecting outgoing or incoming calls, as well as listening to actual calls made. Phackers are frequently confidence tricksters or phone freaks (nuisance callers who can only relate to other people by phone). Phackers are sometimes employed by illegal enterprises to conduct business using untraceable calls, or to disrupt, or follow legal authorities' investigations. Phackers interventions may be lethal to the person being phacked. A phacker may be a phone company employee, or usually, ex-employee who specialises in illegal phone system disruption, alteration or tapping via physically altering installations. A phacker is generally considered to be a socially and intellectually retarded cracker. See Captain Crunch. (1998-08-09). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PHACKER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

phacker

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: PHACKER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-k-p-r"

-1 letter: eparch, hacker, packer, preach, repack.

-2 letters: caper, chape, chare, chark, cheap, crake, crape, creak, hacek, pacer, parch, peach, perch, raphe, reach, recap.

-3 letters: ache, acre, aper, arch, cake, cape, caph, care, cark, carp, chap, char, crap, each, epha, hack, hake, hare, hark, harp, heap, hear, heck, kaph, pace, pack, pare, park, peak, pear.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-k-p-r"
 

+1 letter: kreplach.

 

+2 letters: packhorse.

 

+3 letters: packhorses, packthread.

 

+4 letters: packthreads.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PHACKER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 48 41 43 4B 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001000 01000001 01000011 01001011 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#72 &#65 &#67 &#75 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0048 0041 0043 004B 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50423537453952

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2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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