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...practically as long as there's been an Internet, vandals, troublemakers and criminals have sought to exploit it. Even before the advent of the personal computer, "phone phreaks" manipulated computerized phone systems to make free long-distance calls. (Reportedly among them, by many accounts: future computer pioneers Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, who would go on to found Apple Computer.) One infamous phreak, John Draper, became known as Captain Crunch after discovering in 1972 that he could fool AT&T's network with the tone from a plastic whistle distributed with the breakfast cereal. Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick became...
...considerable knowledge of Cyberspace and the computer world with insights from guest speakers, who include Alan K. Simpson, a life-long friend, director of the IOP and U.S. Senator of Wyoming from 1978 to 1996; Charles R. Nesson '60, Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; and "Acid Phreak," a former member of a group of Internet hackers known as the "Legion of Doom...
...Internet friendship between Barlow and "Acid Phreak," which evolved on the computer bulletin board "The Well," that first inspired Barlow to create...
This interest, combined with the "virtual"meeting of Acid Phreak, led Barlow to considerCyberspace a "social space instead of a network ofwires, [or a] community in absence of place...
...Learning Link, a computer owned by a New York City public-TV station that provides educational information for hundreds of schools. A chilling electronic message was left behind: "Happy Thanksgiving, you turkeys, from all of us at MOD." It was signed with five code names: Phiber Optik, Acid Phreak, Outlaw, Corrupt and Scorpion...
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