cheese box

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See also: cheesebox, and cheese-box

English

Etymology

(phreaking device): The device could originally be fitted into a wooden box intended for cheese. Compare blue box.

Noun

cheese box (plural cheese boxes)

  1. Alternative form of cheesebox (“container for cheese”)
  2. A device formerly used by phreakers to convert a home telephone line into a payphone.
    • 1967, William Surface, Inside Internal Revenue:
      Then the bookie leaves the site of the phone and stations himself blocks away in another room with a phone attached to a similar cheese box.
    • 1978, Bell telephone magazine, volumes 57-58:
      The cheese box bridges two separate telephone lines. It is often used by bookmakers and bettors to place free calls for accepting or placing bets.
    • 2009, Emmanuel Goldstein, The Best of 2600, Collector's Edition: A Hacker Odyssey, page 40:
      There are files circulating about the modem/phreak world regarding a device known as a cheese box.
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