[Asterisk-Users] Very Cool.........Asterisk Made Wired Magazine

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, JR Richardson wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> The article "They've Got Your number" in the Dec 2004 issue of WIRED
> magazine mentions Asterisk PBX (on p.100).  The article is about phone
> phreaks hijacking cell phones with Bluetooth technology along with spoofing
> CID to pull some clandestine hacks on the PSTN.  Anyhow, Asterisk is
> mentioned as the PBX of choice for an outfit: Telephreaks.org out of Florida
> that has built their own free VoIP service.
> 
> Quotes:
> 
> "Slestak, Da Beave, and GiD are the crew behind Florida-based
> Telephreaks.org, a free VoIP service that they've built to run on a
> roll-your-own, open source private branch exchange (PBX) system called
> Asterisk"  "But with Asterisk, there's no need for the phone company to
> manage your phone lines anymore.  Your can do it yourself."
> 
> Well, it's good that Asterisk made WIRED magazine but really it should be on
> the front page with Mark's smiling mug on the cover like Linus' was on the
> Nov 2003 issue of WIRED.

Well.. it took 11 years from the first Linux release for Linus to make it 
onto the cover. Mark has a way to go yet! ;)

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