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Perhaps there is more to hack? At least when I was 20 years old, the only thing to be hacked was the dial-phone, a paper phonebook and perhaps a fax. Social media didn't exist.

Having so many accounts where some stuff might (or might not) be important, folks get very sensitive to being "hacked". Or in other words, having a stranger break in and rummage through their underwear.



I remember on boring days reading the factual entries in the beginning of the phonebook. I remember it as a broad description of how the bell system worked and how to use it.

In the late 70s in a central Pennsylvania farmhouse that was some of the earliest technical documentation I ran into.




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