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John “Captain Crunch” Draper, legendary phone-phreaker and hacker, helped inspire Apple and a generation of technologists with his groundbreaking exploits. This biography-adventure traces his life through invention, mischief, and chaos, combining the outrageous stories he told with the wild escapades of his later years. Told with humor and irreverence, it…
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I didn’t read this book about a hacker who broke into the phone number system just for a fun read. I read it as a chance to try something similar with artificial intelligence to protect myself. I get tons of spam and phishing emails.
I get fifty robocalls a day. At first, I just ignored them. But then they became impossible to continuously ignore because some seemed so real. I needed a way to understand the current landscape and how this stuff spreads.
I became a lot more curious and looked beneath the surface. The book forced me to stop…
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