Things like 'security' weren't a big priority back then for many governmental entities, corporations, phone companies and so on. Things were not very digital back in the day, so all these analogue signals and all the other very cheapest things the corporations could make work, were easy to phreak into, as they were so widely used.
If you research what phreaking was, how it started, watch the interviews of those people, maybe view some 'HOPE seminars' and such, you might start to get a pretty clear idea that it was actually SURPRISINGLY easy to do things like these, and many others this movie wouldn't show, because it would've looked too ridiculous.
If you were skilled, you could actually WHISTLE certain tones so the phone call would become free and so on, because it was all about tones and frequencies back in the day.
Though it is pretty ridiculous that a judge and jury actually BELIEVED Kevin Mitnick could whistle nuclear codes into a payphone and start World War 3, but that's how ignorant people were - and reading this board and these posts, people still are, sigh.
Please learn already, please?
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