Re: TIB: Form


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Re: TIB: Form




>Grant Stockly wrote:
>>
>> >Grant Stockly wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Naw...phreaking and cracking is still arround
>>
>> I know they are not the same.  I said they were still arround.  Yes, I have
>> numerous (100MB on phreaking) and its all fairly new.
>
>Could you send me some addresses?

Sorry, didn't see this message nested it with alot of others...I will as
soon as a I can...

>
>> >Cracking has nothing to do with phreaking. Phreaking (aka
>> >phone-phreaking) is the use of loop lines and fake numbers in the
>> >telephone companies' systems. This was very popular once and carried
>> >with it numerous cases of fraud. An excellent tool for hustling.
>> >Do people really still do this? The boxes (black-box, blue-box etc.) are
>> >no longer made, simply because the lines are more secure now (digital,
>> >not analogue) so one would think they'd fixed the other problems as
>> >well. I think the calling card biz is dying too, isn't it?
>> >
>> >> ...btw, anyone who , by the
>> >> 80s definition, programs is a hacker.
>> >[...]
>>
>> I just misspelled programmers.  That is what I said.
>
>Yes, but the essence was, you are not necessarily a hacker just because
>you're a programmer. Not all programmers are good enough to make
>qualified hacks.

Then they aren't a "programmer"...  :P  People at my school think that
making a database is programming...



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