FBI Illegally Tapped Phone Phreaks In 1969 296
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."
Oh, now it's time for the Nixon haters! (Score:0, Funny)
What are you people going to say? He's like Bush? A crook that can't be trusted? Don't talk about President Nixon that way!
Re:Well... (Score:5, Funny)
"If all the other world leaders jumped of a cliff, would you?"
/sulk
That's ok (Score:5, Funny)
The phreaks illegally tapped the FBI at the same time!
Re:If you are illegally hacking phone systems (Score:1, Funny)
I presume you're referring to the FBI.
So what files do they have on the other phreaks? (Score:3, Funny)
Seems way out of line, this kid could dial phones by whistling up 2600Hz, and this rates memos from Hoover (head of FBI) to Laird (head of DoD) to Ehrlichmann (WH Chief of Staff), in the middle of the Vietnam War?? Imagine the files they must have on the phreaks who could only whistle up to 2540Hz or so.
Re:If you are illegally hacking phone systems (Score:2, Funny)
Indeed, and he should keep an eye out
My Reply: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Doesn't mean it should be fixed.. (Score:5, Funny)
You're new here, aren't you?
Re:Doesn't mean it should be fixed.. (Score:2, Funny)
Mr. Corbettw Goes To Washington. Say, you're not the leader of the Boy Rangers are you?
Re:Well... (Score:3, Funny)
Can you see world's population assembling under that cliff, chanting "Jump! Jump!"?
Hell, I could see quite a few people giving them a nudge in the 'right' direction...
Re:My Reply: (Score:5, Funny)
If you were Control, you'd have jumped off the cliff.
Neither of us have jumped off the cliff, so obviously I'm not Control.
Oblig. quote (Score:3, Funny)
Mustard: "Why is J. Edgar Hoover on your phone?"
Wadsworth: "I don't know. He's on everybody else's, so why shouldn't he be on mine!"
Re:Oh, now it's time for the Nixon haters! (Score:4, Funny)
Of course not, he's dead. It's more like:
He was like Bush. A crook that couldn't be trusted.
Re:Doesn't mean it should be fixed.. (Score:4, Funny)
Hence the "Crisis" crisis (tm). Everything is a "crisis".
Funny, I thought it was "FUCK YEAH!" (from Team America: World Police)
Health Care ... FUCK YEAH! ... FUCK YEAH! ... FUCK YEAH! ... FUCK YEAH! ... FUCK YEAH! ... FUCK YEAH! ... FUCK YEAH! ... FUCK YEAH!
Environment
Energy/Oil
Republicans
Democrats
Terroism
Drugs
Immigration
Re:whither now, 2nd amendment? (Score:2, Funny)
Withered now it is.