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FBI Illegally Tapped Phone Phreaks In 1969

Posted by kdawson on from the nothing-new-under-the-sun dept.

xmedar writes "In his talks about the history of Apple, Woz has often recounted how the 1971 Esquire article 'Secrets of the Little Blue Box' set him on the road to phone phreaking. Now someone has obtained the FBI file of one of the phreaks, Joe Engressia (who later changed his name to Joybubbles), via Freedom of Information requests. The file reveals that Engressia was illegally wiretapped by the FBI and the phone company back in 1969. J. Edgar Hoover considered the blind college student a national security risk and wrote a memo about him to John Ehrlichman."

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  1. Re:Well... by Narpak · · Score: 5, Funny

    "But... but... all the other world leaders are doing in!"
    "If all the other world leaders jumped of a cliff, would you?"
    /sulk

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  2. That's ok by pngwen · · Score: 5, Funny

    The phreaks illegally tapped the FBI at the same time!

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  3. My Reply: by anti-human+1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hopefully, yes.