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[realhackhistory@home]# · 1w
How had I never heard of this guy before? Jerry Schneider was in his twenties in Los Angeles when he worked out a way to get the local phone company to box up supplies for him using remote computer ac...
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"Schneider, who possessed keys to the loading docks, would then proceed at night to pick up the equipment in a telephone company truck purchased for the purpose at auction. He was careful to remove the invoices along with the equipment, so that the supplies were never missed."
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[realhackhistory@home]# · 1w
The reason that so much of computer crime before the advent of home computing in the early 1980s was insider crime by employees was that systems that could do things that were worth money were only accessible in physical offices. This guy managed to make a business of hacking related thefts in 1972!