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August 21, 2007 Archive

August 21, 2007

The bygone days of the phone phreaks

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The death of a man named Joybubbles in Minneapolis earlier this month put the spotlight on phone phreaks -- a group of people who took great joy in hacking the country's telephone system back in the late 1960s and 70s.

Phil Lapsley, who's writing a book on phone phreaks, says telephone hackers are the forefathers of computer hackers.


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