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Why not call it the [edit] phreaker manifesto? Particularly when it's on a magazine called Phrack?
by akkartik 7y ago
Why not call it the [edit] phreaker manifesto? Particularly when it's on a magazine called Phrack?
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- shoes_for_thee 7y agoBy this logic, ever article published in the NYT would be "New York Times"
- yarrel 7y agoThe Times of Manhattan.
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoBecause it's a manifesto of hackers, not of people who read Phrack.
- Torwald 7y agoThose guys were called 'phreaks', not 'phrakers". BTW, Apple was founded by two phreaks.
- cronix 7y agoApple wouldn't exist if not for Allen's original Blue Box Tone Generator. It's what funded them.
- munk-a 7y agoTo correct, it was actually Wozniak that was assembling the phreaking boxes. Apparently they made a revenue of 3k from the venture[1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#1975%E2%80%931985:_Jobs_and_Wozniak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#1975%E2%...
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoIt was founded by one phreak and a slick-talking salesman. (And also by Ronald Wayne, poor bastard.)