hackers

Below the surface of the Internet lies a new community that is testing its moral and ethical boundaries. The advent of the computer has brought about many new subcultures. Its technology has helped form the ethics and morals of this new underground. They have thus far developed, with a liberal 60’s attitude of free speech and little government control. This report will hopefully give some insight on the views within the subculture, as opposed to …

…no one could afford the long distance charges for being on the phone connected to a computer, for five hours. One of the more famous phreakers is John Draper (A.K.A. Captain Crunch), who used a whistle that came inside boxes of Captain Crunch serials, which emitted the 2600mhz. Today phreaking lives on, by understanding how a simple invention like the telephone operates, and how it can become more! perfected and secure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**