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Blind phone phreaker coughs to harassment charges

DZ-Jay

Phone phreaker? 

Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 02:20 GMT

Isn't it "phone phreak"? The name of the act came from the name kids called themselves, so "phreaking" is what a "phreak" does.

I'm just saying...

-dZ.

Anonymous Coward

This is no prank. 

Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 02:20 GMT

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It's flat out criminal activity and not a prank at all. Give him all the 13 years and fine him for the full expenses of every emergency run made and then put him in the stocks for a flogging. It isn't funny and it isn't a prank.

luzer.

jeremy

Coincidence? I think not. 

Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 02:20 GMT

Pirate

Wasn't Captain Crunch (the p|r@t3, not the Pirate) blind too?

Moss Icely Spaceport

Equal Opportunity Jail Time 

Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 05:57 GMT

Boffin

If this dude gets jail time it won't be phone-phreaking he'll be worrried about. He'll have an appointment with some phreaks of another kind.

Neoc

No sympathy 

Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 05:57 GMT

While I have, in my time, done some hacking, you were doing for the Kudos. These days, it seems the majority of hackers and phreakers are anti-social little gits who think the world owes them a living.

This is not hacking, this is criminal behaviour.

Henry Wertz

What a piece... 

Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 09:59 GMT

I have no problem with the phone phreaking. That's some mere youthful indescretion. BUT...

Weigman sounds like a real piece of work though. SWATing? evil. Screwing with some person because they wouldn't have phone sex with you? WTF. Getting pissed and battling William Smith because he "DARED" to close your account for paying for it fraudulently? Get a life.

Kudos to William Smith for taking this piece of crap in.