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war dialing

War dialing is scanning a range of telephones (ex. 555-555-xxxx) to find all sorts of stuff, like fax machines, carriers, and BBSes (remember this was a loooong time ago)!

Joe: Hey, I was war dialing our area code and found a hacking BBS!

Bob: Sweet! What's the number?

war dial

To call someone an excessive number of times. This can also be used to describe text messages and instant messages

Jesus, she's called me 14 times already today. She won't stop war dialing me

war dial

When you war dial,at least back in the days of BBSes, you are scanning every phone number in a range (eg 555-555-xxxx) to find BBSes,fax machines,carriers, company dial-in computers, and more!

Person 1: Hey, do you want to war dial?

Person 2: Sure, I need some hacking BBSes!

war dialing

Using a port scanner to find vulnerable computer systems.

"I was war dialing the school's network and found a backdoor, so I gave myself strait A's."