It just wasn't widely published at the time, otherwise everyone would have hooked up their Newtons to the phone lines. I think there were quite a few people charged and prosecuted with "theft of electricity". Apparently, it only took minutes for them to arrive on the scene.Īs for their only being one charge ever brought - not so sure about that. I think there was one in Yorkshire, in the middle of nowhere, where the phreaker was hiding behind a wall when the cops turned up. IIRC by the time the scene was coming to a close, phreakers used to time the Police and BT engineers arriving at a compromised phone. Sounds strange, but you had to be in the group to understand it. Interesting as this is, isn't it a bit like discussing breaking and entering techniques as per the forum linked to a day or two ago? Or was phreaking legal if annoying?It was illegal, no matter how anyone dresses it up, but it was more about rebelling than being out and out criminal and you weren't depriving anyone of anything largely either.
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