Software developer, author, and blogger Jeff Atwood wrote his confessions of the 1980s this week. As a teenager and not-quite-adult, he was a phone phreaker. More of this went on than anyone wants to admit.
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Busted at the Safeway for phone phreaking
by Dave Farquhar on August 11, 2012
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Posted in Retro Computing, security
Tagged 1980s, bbs, bbs number, blogger, commodore, correction, hacker, Jeff Atwood, LED, modem, PC, phone phreaking, security, shrewsbury, st. louis, United States, US, watson, watson road
Posted by Dave Farquhar on August 11, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/08/busted-at-the-safeway-for-phone-phreaking/
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