I was a very young hacker. In 1982 I paid $300 ($300.00 in 1982 had the same buying power as $770.53 in 2017) I got a 300 baud modem for my C64. I started on th

I was a very young hacker. In 1982 I paid $300 ($300.00 in 1982 had the same buying power as $770.53 in 2017) I got a 300 baud modem for my C64. I started on the BBS and then I ended up with multiple garbage bags of floppy disk of pirated software. I learned a lot from the phreakers and learned to built more hardware, RAM Disk etc... One of my friends (two brothers) got arrested in 1983 when they accidentally tried to enter a Pentagon server. They called me and were so scared. The FBI took everything they owned and they ended up not going to jail but no computer's till they went to college. Then "Capt. Kirk" who was 17 and lived in my town was buying illegal goods through credit card carbon copies. He would steal the carbons from stores trash cans (People only ripped them once. He says he did over $30,000 in goods when he got caught, he was charged with about $6,000. He ended up with a job at Compuserve on their security team. Personally I got a few "pen tester" jobs through my Uncle and just worried about the trading of games with my software alliance with friends in UK and the Northeast. I never bought illegal goods and never spammed a area code again by the time I was 15 I was done with the darker side of hackers. My main hacks were assembly hacking the games security back then. Eagle Soft were the kings and I was a little kid that tried hard. Watching the movie was painful in the movie theater. I knew the technology was not there and thought it was just not possible. I was a jaded Hacker in my young teens who preferred Isaac Asimov books.