Claim

Paul Stira USES War dialing

Paul Stira used war dialing to call phone numbers looking for computers that answered.

Episode
EP 168 — LoD
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
99% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Jack Rhysider
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“What Paul liked doing was war dialing. He’d just dial phone number after phone number to see if there was a computer on the other end that would pick up.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 18901–19054

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T08:51:22.420970+00:00

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