This interesting documentary charts the “beginnings of hacking and phreaking, featuring such technology legends as Steve Wozniak (Apple) John Draper (Cap’n Crunch) and Kevin Mitnick.” What are your thoughts? Video after the jump.

The hacker community, the set of people who would describe themselves as hackers or described by others as hackers, falls into at least four partially overlapping categories. Sometimes alternate terms such as “cracker” are used in an attempt to more exactly distinguish which category of hacker is intended, or when attempting to put a contextual distance between the categories due to the Hacker definition controversy

[via Hack247Wikipedia]

This interesting documentary charts the “beginnings of hacking and phreaking, featuring such technology legends as Steve Wozniak (Apple) John Draper (Cap’n Crunch) and Kevin Mitnick.” What are your thoughts? Video after the jump.

The hacker community, the set of people who would describe themselves as hackers or described by others as hackers, falls into at least four partially overlapping categories. Sometimes alternate terms such as “cracker” are used in an attempt to more exactly distinguish which category of hacker is intended, or when attempting to put a contextual distance between the categories due to the Hacker definition controversy

[via Hack247Wikipedia]

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