>>213569080>it was was ahead of its time in the realm of datamining and everything becoming computerized. actually amazing in that regard,By 1996 AOL had become massive and stuff like carding and indentity and account theft was aready a mundane thing. It predicted nothing. Amateur hour scipt kids were using shit like AOL or Compuserv to pretend to be tech support to get accounts and trading bundles of other peoples files including credit card info in chat rooms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
Mitnick gained unauthorized access to a computer network in 1979, at 16, when a friend gave him the telephone number for the Ark, the computer system that Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) used for developing its RSTS/E operating system software. He broke into DEC's computer network and copied the company's software, a crime for which he was charged and convicted in 1988. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Near the end of his supervised release, Mitnick hacked into Pacific Bell voicemail computers. After a warrant was issued for his arrest, Mitnick fled, becoming a fugitive for two-and-a-half years.
According to the United States Department of Justice, Mitnick gained unauthorized access to dozens of computer networks while he was a fugitive. He used cloned cellular phones to hide his location and, among other things, copied valuable proprietary software from some of the country's largest cellular telephone and computer companies. Mitnick also intercepted and stole computer passwords, altered computer networks, and broke into and read private emails
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