Joybubbles aka Josef Carl Engressia, Jr. - Born blind, as a five-year old, Engressia discovered he could dial phone numbers by clicking the hang-up switch rapidly (“tapping”), and at the age of 7 he accidentally discovered that whistling at certain frequencies could activate phone switches.[4] A student at the University of South Florida in the late 1960s, he was given the nickname “Whistler” due to his ability to place free long distance phone calls by whistling the proper tones with his mouth. After a Canadian operator reported him for selling such calls for $1 at the university, he was suspended and fined $25 but soon reinstated.[4] He later graduated with a degree in philosophy and moved to Tennessee. According to FBI records, the phone company SBT&T first noticed his phreaking activities in summer 1968, and an employee of the Florida Bell Telephone Company illegally monitored Engressia’s telephone conversations and divulged them to the FBI.[4] After law enforcement raided his house, he was charged with malicious mischief, given a suspended sentence, and quickly abandoned phreaking. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joybubbles
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