The Boy Who Heard Too Much
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- domacle
http://www.rollingstone.com/news…
Incredible story:
In short; hacked the FBI at age 14, blind and with only the use of a telephone.
- sublocked0
Interesting article. Reminds me of my youth...
Back in the 90s I was interested in similar things. Hacking/phreaking is what got me into programming and design oddly enough...
Anyone else here ever read PHRACK or attend a 2600 meeting or dumpster dive? :)
- Pupsipu0
yea I heard about 2600, I was into that stuff too. And these stories about blind people doing phreaky phone tricks are a dime a dozen. Their hearing is more developed so they can differentiate the tones.
- graphiknature0
Cool story. i had a friend who got visited by the FBI for phreaking back He was making boxes and seeding them all over the place.
- mydo0
me and a mate somehow worked out how to make free international phone calls by phreaking the at&t operators in the states. We'd hook up the international students at our school and sell them our services for 50p.
big business. i think we made £3
- __TM0
amazing story. If this was a fiction, it would probably seem too far fetched...
- graphiknature0
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel…
This article actually has some recordings of him in action.
- digdre0
whats the movie with bruce willis called?
- ok_not_ok0
wow..for a rock magazine rolling stone's page sure does suck balls.
But great story nonetheless.
- vaxorcist0
Love the Captain Crunch stories....
http://www.atariarchives.org/del…
- climbatree0
it wasnt long enough
- Redmond0
Social services should've taken him in care before he got that bad. Now society's thrown in him with the worst possible set of parental figures possible. What a sad waste of genius.
