Code Hacking 1-2

derisory term meant something vastly different in its heyday. Hackers then, as now, were concerned about how things fit together, what makes things tick. Generally, many early hackers concerned themselves with understanding the nature of the telephone system, which encouraged the development of “blue boxes” and war dialers such as Ton Loc. Public bulletin boards (such as Prestel) had security flaws exposed and various services disrupted. Ten years later, teenagers with the same mindsets were “nuking” each other over IRC and discovering the inherent flaws in various implementations of Windows File Sharing. These teenagers of yesterday are now the security professionals...

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