[gumballindie]

Stealing content is not the type of rule breaking that phreaking was about.

[pelasaco]

you were probably not there or in any warez bbc...

[HeWhoLurksLate]

phreaking was literally theft lol

[pelasaco]

> phreaking was literally theft lol

Right? People get so attached to their political views that they dont even notice it.

Kevin Poulsen, just wanted to win the Porsche for the poor...

[quesera]

"Theft of services", yes -- but the marginal cost/loss to the provider was effectively zero.

In this way, phreaking was exactly like media piracy.

But all of the above are entirely unrelated to the meaning of "Hacker" in HN.