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FBI Illegally Tapped Phone Phreaks In 1969

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:Doesn't mean it should be fixed.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So you are a fascist wishing to enforce your personal visions on others by changing laws to fit your warped world view. Quite fitting for a Paul supporter, refreshing to see one be honest about it for once.

  2. Re:That's ok by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Excellent sir, you deserved to be modded up further than +5 insightful.

    "Aren't you supposed to be the good guy?"

    Ha ha! Using funny american quote. They are so full of themselves!

    I know you're not talking about Japan - right? They're so West it's like living next door to rednecks.

    But seriously, there's nothing really wrong with the East. People always complain about North Korea... So what if they're strict. They don't do anything else wrong, they're decent, honest and love freedom and children, just like we do. Have you seen how disciplined those children are, wow!

    There are no problems with our coal, oil or pollution. The Americans are so fat they just come here and drop dead from a little smoke and city water. And they complain about our mining? So what if one or two people die digging up coal. Those idiots should just be more careful. If you dug your way down there, and it caves in, just dig your way back out.

    Now if only we can get rid of the fake news and clean up the internet.