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I think I read somewhere that the system was designed specifically for this kind of attack. It uses two tones of widely different frequencies.

Of course, if you had a friend....




The tones used in DTMF were chosen to minimize accidental talk-off. They're relatively widely separated, with no harmonic relationship between any given pair.


I don't know about carrier tone, but each key on a touch-tone phone has two freqs: one for the row, one for the column.


Or you could whistle a 2600Hz tone.




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