To: Celtic Conservative
Good idea, but we never thought of that.
A few years ago, I saw a story on the Phonephreaks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking
Sort of the ancestors of modern hackers. They had all kinds of work-arounds.
38 posted on
11/18/2013 8:41:44 AM PST by
lacrew
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To: lacrew
Yes, people think that a certain episode of WKRP in which a paranoid Dr. Johnny Fever freaked out over the possible arrival of the phone cops was just fiction.
It wasn’t. There WERE phone cops back then. I know that for a fact.
55 posted on
11/18/2013 3:23:19 PM PST by
Fresh Wind
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To: lacrew
Good read, thanks. Phone phreaks: computer hackers forefathers, LOL.
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75 posted on
11/19/2013 4:41:04 AM PST by
Celtic Conservative
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