[henning]

Wardialing is over 40 years old? Learn something new every day.

[_b8r0]

Wierd, I thought war dialing (at least by hand) came about around the time of the Strowger Switch? I read somewhere (sorry, no link) that as telephones became popular people would ring numbers sequentially to see who was at the other end.

[gustavo_duarte]

It's unclear to me exactly what's going on, but

"'brute force techniques' - mass dialing until something 'interesting' is found"

Sounds an awful lot like war dialing. Not sure what was on the other side though and what got done.