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A Brief History of Hacking

Hacking in one sense started back in the 1940′s and 1950′s when amateur touchtone phone system enthusiasts would tune in on police or military touchtone phone system signals to listen in on what was vacant on. Most of the time these “neo-hackers” were simply curious “information junkies,” looking for fascinating pieces of information about government or military actions.The thrill was in life privy to information channels that others were not and doing so undetected.

Hacking and technology married up as ahead of schedule as the late sixties, when Ma Bell’s ahead of schedule phone technology was easily exploited, and hackers learned the ability to make free phone calls, which we discuss in the next part. As technology advanced, so did the hacking methods used. It has been suggested that the term hacker, when used in reference to computer hacking, was first adopted by MIT’s computer culture. At the time, the word only referred to a gifted and enthusiastic programmer who was somewhat of a maverick or rebel.

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