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In Reply to: RE: One thing to point out... posted by Bob_C on March 20, 2014 at 22:13:24:
Our group were the first people east of the Mississippi to build a blue box. We thought we were the first in the world, but it turns out that one lone wolf in the Pacific NW had figured out how to build one a year or two before us. The term "blue box" came from the color of the chassis that we built our hardware on, which came from an electronics surplus supply house called Eli's, later acquired by Fry's.
We used our blue box to demonstrate that it worked. We called the weather in Nome, Alaska, etc... We did not use it to cheat ATT out of phone calls that we would conceivably have paid for, nor did we sell any products or services. As it turned out, this was fortunate, because had we done so, then the Deputy Federal District Attorney for Boston would not have told the Boston ATT security head that we had not committed any crime and hence could not be prosecuted. (This letter in files obtained by FOIA by the book's author, with our release.) ATT dropped all civil charges against us as part of a deal we negotiated in return for writing up a detailed report on what we had done, how we had done it, how they should design future networks to be less hackable, and how they could detect fellow blue boxers. When we handed in our report we had to sign a contract and were paid $1.00 for the report and given promises of jobs at Bell Labs after college graduation.
N.B. Were someone to do the same thing today (or otherwise hack any computer) they would be sent up for hard time. A lot of fascist laws have been passed since 1963. No thinking person can continue to claim that the USA is still a free country.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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- RE: One thing to point out... - Tony Lauck 19:53:31 03/21/14 (2)
- RE: One thing to point out... - Bob_C 20:45:20 03/21/14 (1)
- RE: One thing to point out... - Tony Lauck 21:29:25 03/21/14 (0)
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