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    Steve Wozniak, Segway Polo Pioneer, Aims for the Goal

    Phreaking the Phones: Before There Was Hacking

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/20/09

    In reply to Steve Wozniak, Segway Polo Pioneer, Aims for the Goal
    woz is a very aggressive player, but manages to maintain civility at all times. I once rubbed wheels with him, causing him to stack pretty hard. While riding a segway that he loaned to me. Suffice to say I felt like an asshole - until the next week, when he accidentally smashed my thumb with his mallet.
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    07/19/09

    In reply to Steve Wozniak, Segway Polo Pioneer, Aims for the Goal
    in the big picture this only reinforces my impression that he's a very cool guy who has a lot of fun doing his own thing.

    I wish him wellness and happiness in all things.
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    07/18/09

    In reply to Steve Wozniak, Segway Polo Pioneer, Aims for the Goal
    i love the action photo. got a little tuft of grass flying with a full extension and solid contact. should we expect to see this on sports center tonight? or at least on espn the ocho.
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    07/18/09

    In reply to Steve Wozniak, Segway Polo Pioneer, Aims for the Goal
    no, actually I didn't shoot well and blew some opportunities here in Cologne - but our team is good and hoping to win it all.
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    07/18/09

    @stevewoz:is there still a break to stomp the divots?
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    07/18/09

    @switchblade saints: Skid marks?
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    07/18/09

    @philibuster: exactly haha.
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    07/18/09


    @stevewoz: what are the league requirements for players. seems like there are some young characters playing. seems like a nice gig for some of the yougsters
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    07/18/09

    @stevewoz: Best of luck, Woz.
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    07/19/09

    @switchblade saints: Your daddy needs to make over $250k
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    07/19/09

    @stevewoz: Are there any other sports you'd try to play on a Segway?
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    Image of tehdorkz tehdorkz
    07/18/09

    In reply to Steve Wozniak, Segway Polo Pioneer, Aims for the Goal
    Segway Polo World Championsips? WOLRD Championships? Really?! There must be a hidden footnote or sidenote or something.
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    Image of Greg Lloyd Greg Lloyd
    07/18/09

    In reply to Steve Wozniak, Segway Polo Pioneer, Aims for the Goal
    It. Is. Awesome.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    07/18/09

    @Greg Lloyd: Woz. Is. Awesome.
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    Image of Die Fledermaus Die Fledermaus
    07/16/09

    In reply to Phreaking the Phones: Before There Was Hacking
    Those compact boxes for the mob sound cool. Then I read about the band of thermite. and I started to think about not only would it destroy the device, but it could be used to send a message to those who have done you wrong without potentially killing them.
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Phreaking the Phones: Before There Was Hacking
    In the 80s every computer nerd used the MCI 6 digit codes. MCI, a big phone company at the time with thousands of customers gave every customer their own 6 digit code that you would use when away from home to charge your long distance calls to your account. Of course with so many customers, it didn't take long, trying codes at random to find one that worked. I only knew of one kid who got busted for it. And he got busted because he was lazy and stupid and used old codes that were posted to bbs's that MCI had put a trace on. The funny thing is when you got busted for phreaking, they took your computer of course, all your phones (no phone for your entire family!), and they would also take your tv sets. So any kid who got busted would basically put their whole family back into the dark ages until they turned 18 and moved (or got kicked) out. There was usually a $100k fine involved too, which was quite a lot of money back then. And yet even with that terrible scenario looming over our heads, it was no deterrent. Setting up a trace was expensive and time consuming for the telcos back then, so if you used your own codes, the risk was about the same as winning the lottery. You would have to randomly stumble on a code that they had a trace on, a 1 in a million chance.
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Phreaking the Phones: Before There Was Hacking
    My brother had a Capn' Crunch Whistle and used it to make free long distance calls.



    AWESOMNESS
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    07/16/09

    In reply to Phreaking the Phones: Before There Was Hacking
    Where's the picture of the movie War Games? That was the quintessential hacking movie. It’s what got all the damn kids started thinking that they can be a hacker too.
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    Image of madog madog
    07/16/09

    @Noobs-R-Us: Would you like to play a game?
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    Image of Thanatos Thanatos
    07/16/09

    @madog: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
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    07/16/09

    @Thanatos: How about Global Thermal Nuclear War?
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Phreaking the Phones: Before There Was Hacking
    I remember when I first saw the movie Hackers. The two crazy hackers that wore lots of makeup used a tape recorder with the sound of quarters going into a payphone. It phreaked out the phone, and when I was less than 10 years old I wanted to do that so bad. And now that I think about it, how many payphones are still around?
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Phreaking the Phones: Before There Was Hacking
    From what I understand from a book ont he Steve's I read, he also designed a Apple II w/a built in blue box, but realized that if you strung a dozen together, you could bring down the US phone system, and it freaked him out.
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Phreaking the Phones: Before There Was Hacking


    don't forget about captain crunch and this little guy.

    John Drpaer, the cap'n, was apparently the one that taught Jobs and Woz their phreakin' skills.
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    07/16/09

    @Nick: My island name is Nicko: With all due respect to Draper, this was light years ahead as a fully featured and realized hacking gadget.
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    07/16/09

    @jibbly: agreed, but we can't forget our roots. that's the whole point of Gizmodo '79
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    07/16/09

    @Nick: My island name is Nicko: Met the "cap'n" several years ago, very strange fellow. Poor guy knew how to plow through the phone co's system, but couldn't hold a conversation with another human.
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    07/16/09

    @pist: i guess that kinda makes his knowledge of phones useless. eh, go figure.
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Phreaking the Phones: Before There Was Hacking
    This was something I always wanted to try out when I was young. Ever since I first found the Anarchist's Cookbook in one of the "macfilez" (or "zelifcam" when AOL first caught on) back when mass mailing software was still perfectly acceptable, and cool.



    At the time, I never knew what the "yellowbox", "bluebox" and whatever stood for although after reading the info did deduce that they were phones ("is it really a blue phone? Cool!").
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    07/16/09

    @madog: 2600 always has some little cool thing in it
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    Edited by Nick at 07/16/09 10:59 AM Nick was starred Nick was unstarred
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    07/16/09

    @madog: You ever hang out in the Zeraw or zerawcam chat rooms?
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    07/16/09

    @GitEmSteveDave: zerawcam2. I never got lucky enough to get in the main room. I think that was more toward the end of my AOL years too, though, so I didn't spend much time in there as compared with mf.

    Then I discovered the GIF room, and fell in love with interlaced boobies (and it's been a downward spiral ever since). I still have my AIM screen name that originates from AOL 3.0, and is some bastardization of its original from the multiple times I got TOS'ED back in 2.x (AOL4FREE!). "Mom! Uhhh, AOL changed their payment settings so I need to reenter your CC info....... it also has to be different than the one used before".
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    Image of marythegr8 marythegr8
    07/16/09

    In reply to Phreaking the Phones: Before There Was Hacking
    this is where the "hacker society" 2600 got it's name.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    07/16/09

    @marythegr8: well, no. it doesn't come from the box, but a key tone that they would try to replicate.
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    07/16/09

    @Nick: My island name is Nicko: and i don't mean key as in button, or key as in music, or a physical key, but key as in something that gives access.
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