Of course phreakers like to score points by showing other phreakers what new things they’ve learned how to do. I loved pulling pranks on friends, phreakers or not. One day I hacked into the phone company switch serving the area where my buddy Steve Rhoades lived with his grandmother, changing the "line class code" from residential to pay phone. When he or his grandmother tried to place a call, they would hear, "Please deposit ten cents." Of course he knew who had done it, and called to complain. I promised to undo it, and I did, but changed the service to a prison pay phone. Now when they tried to make a call, an operator would come on the line and say, "This will be a collect call. What is your name, please." Steve called to say, "Very funny—change it back." I had my laughs; I changed it back.