\t\t\t\tI went for a walk after spendiing an hour or so in a strange place. A strange online space inhabited by people from a certain place in my past, a place with which I never publicly connected myself until recently. I moved on from there and mostly forgot about it, but revisiting it today revived the anxiety I felt about the place.<\/p>\n
It was my first connection to the pure Internet but that is not memorable. I made friends there, friends I talk to and chat with to this very day, but that is not the point on which the place stands out from any other place in my past.<\/p>\n
No ,this place connected me, unwittingly, to a world of computer hackers and phone phreakers — the very world occupied by the very people I encountered during college when friends and I phone-phreaked our way into a world of shit, a world made worse by the independent but (to the FBI) suspiciously simultaneouous activities of ouurselves and the considerably more well-heeled and destructive hacker organizations.<\/p>\n
The only people I know who have heard the whole story are some ex-girlfriends and some off-the-record newspaper and magazine reporters. For my own posterity I do not particularly care about keeping the story secret. There are others, though, whose reputations could be sullied. For them even the merest mention of these affairs is like a darkness rising up, a long-forgotten nightmare laid to rest in an adolescent dream journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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