Cell phone crash

I read a book called Little Brother, i bet everyone here has read it, and in it they crashed a cell phones hard drive by putting there number through a program that made so many calls to it in a second that it crashed the phones system. Now is this actully possible, I want to to try this on this track phone to see if it will work, does anyone know how to go about doing this?

that was a good book. but i dont remember that part.

http://craphound.com/littlebrother/Cory_Doctorow_-_Little_Brother.htm

edit: are you refering to this?:> "What about calling 911?" Jolu said.

I felt like an idiot. I whipped my phone out and punched 911. The sound I got wasn't even a busy signal – it was like a whimper of pain from the phone system. You don't get sounds like that unless there's three million people all dialing the same number at once. Who needs botnets when you've got terrorists?

This is the part I'm talkng about

"OK," I said. "OK, time for emergency countermeasures." I got my phone out. I'd planned this well in advance. Charles would never get me again. I emailed my server at home, and it got into motion.

A few seconds later, Charles's phone spazzed out spectacularly. I'd had tens of thousands of simultaneous random calls and text messages sent to it, causing every chirp and ring it had to go off and keep on going off. The attack was accomplished by means of a botnet, and for that I felt bad, but it was in the service of a good cause."

He metions something bout a botnet but i dont get how to set it up

umm he explains how to do it right after that…?

I'd just rented 10 seconds' time on three thousand PCs and had each of them send a text message or voice-over-IP call to Charles's phone, whose number I'd extracted from a sticky note on Benson's desk during one fateful office-visit.

Needless to say, Charles's phone was not equipped to handle this. First the SMSes filled the memory on his phone, causing it to start choking on the routine operations it needed to do things like manage the ringer and log all those incoming calls' bogus return numbers (did you know that it's really easy to fake the return number on a caller ID? There are about fifty ways of doing it – just google "spoof caller id").

1. rent a botnet
2. set up skype
3. call the phone or SMS
4. ?????
5. PROFIT

you can get to calls for sure, i got two just yesterday. i dont know about more than that though. i too suspect the network would crash before the phone.