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Wire Pirates
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Someday the Internet may become an information superhighway, but right now it is
more like a 19th-century railroad that passes through the badlands of the Old
West. As waves of new settlers flock to cyberspace in search for free
information or commercial opportunity, they make easy marks for sharpe ....
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....-distance network in order to make unpaid telephone calls by playing certain
tones into the receiver. One phreak, John Draper, was known as "Captain Crunch"
for his discovery that a modified cereal-box whistle could make the 2,600-hertz
tone required to unlock a trunk line.
The next generation of security were the telephone credit cards. When the cards
were first introduced, credit card consisted of a sequence of digits (usually
area code, number and billing office code) followed by a "check d.... |
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