Evolved. It's simply moved form wires to airwaves. POTS is being replaced with IP technologies, which is the natural scheme of things. Wired or wireless, it's all going to be some form of IP. This is why any modern phreaker needs to get into wireless and network technologies.
Once cellular phones were considered essential and not just a status symbol or lifestyle device, then fiber optics and 4g radios replaced DSL and cable lines, POTS was doomed. The queen is dead, long live the queen...
As for the toolset. I used to get by with a minimalist toolset when I was still a teenager in the 90s. It was a modified conair telephone converted into a lineman's handset/tone dialer. Basic shit. Now, you need various radios and receiving equipment. Hacked phones can suffice, but this requires software programming expertise or much more advanced electronics skills than what we needed nearly 30 years ago.
This is where it evolved....we went past sticks and rocks and now have to forge our own tools. The old savages are making way for the new craftsmen.
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