red box
A phreaking device that generates tones to simulate the insertion of coins into a payphone, thus enabling the user to make illegitimate free calls.
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A phreaking device that generates tones to simulate the insertion of coins into a payphone, thus enabling the user to make illegitimate free calls.
Downing Street has rejected suggestions that David Cameron might have caused a security breach by briefly leaving his official ministerial red box unaccompanied on the table of a train carriage.
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(UK politics) A secure briefcase-like box used by ministers in the British government to carry their documents.
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(US, military) A safe located at a nuclear installation containing launch codes.
Downing Street has rejected suggestions that David Cameron might have caused a security breach by briefly leaving his official ministerial red box unaccompanied on the table of a train carriage.
“i thought the metal cap was rarer than the wing cap like i see that red box everywhere”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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