Hackers and Computer Security

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Hackers and Computer Security

Phone Phreak (someone who "hacks" the telephone system) John Draper took phreaking to another level. The focus of his work was not attempting to obtain free phone calls as others did, but rather to access and manipulate the computer security system which lay behind the phone to place even more complex calls with each new attempt, sending calls around the world, bouncing them off satellites only to ask a passerby at Victoria station how the weather was that morning.

   

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