04-29-2009, 09:01 PM
scubadude Wrote:MountainMan Wrote:For a while when I was in high school, we could make telephone calls from any public pay phone for free by using just a bobby pin. We all carried one. Does that mean I was a "hacker"?Actually, I think it made you a thief!!
Stealing from the phone company was also called phreaking or blue boxing and the most famous of all phone phreaks were the Steves...Wozniak and Jobs. They later went on to steal a corporate name from the Beatles an operating system from Xerox and a GUI from Atari.
Yes I do have a Mac.
Tony.