"Rio Ancho " - Paco de Lucia
Norton, Chris
chrisn at Kronos.com
Wed Feb 21 21:26:02 UTC 2001
At 12:18 21.02.2001 -0300, Gerardo Richarte wrote:
>Now I'm reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson where he mentions
>something named Van Heck phreaking (I guess it's his invention).
I don't know anything about Van Heck, but I've read about phreaking in the
news recently. This is a term that was used by the media to describe people
who obtain illegal telephone numbers and use them for free & for mischief.
:-)
As I understand it, phone phreakers are telephone hackers.
Cheers,
---==> Chris
PS> Neal Stephenson is an excellent storyteller! :-)
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