Computer Crime In The 90's

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the form of trespassing, invasion of privacy, or
vandalism. Quite often they are mearly out for a fun and games evening,
and they get entangled in the illegal use of their machines without
realizing the full import of what they are doing" , I have a hard time
believing that so lets see what a "hacker" has to say about what he does
"Just as they were enthraled with their pursuit of information, so are we.
The thrill of the hack is not in breaking the law, it's in the pursuit and
capture of knowledge." , as you can see the "hacker" doesn't go out to do
destroy things although some do. It's in the pursuit of knowledge. Of
course this is still against the law. But where did all of this start, MIT
is where hacking started the people there would learn and explore
computer systems all around the world. In the views of professional
hacking is like drugs or any other addictive substance, it's an addiction
for the mind and once started it's difficult to stop. This could be true,
as hackers ...

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of highly illegal boxes and machines in order to defeat the
security that is set up to avoid this sort of happening.

[fr'eaking] v. 2. A person who uses the above methods of destruction and
chaos in order to make a better life for all. A true phreaker will not go
against his fellows or narc on people who have ragged on him or do
anything termed to be dishonourable to phreaks.

[fr'eek] n. 3. A certain code or dialup useful in the action of being a
phreak. (Example: "I hacked a new metro phreak last night.")

The latter 2 ideas of what a phreak is, is rather weird. A Phreak like the
hacker likes to explore and experiment, however his choice of exploring is
not other computer but the ...

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