• andros_rex@lemmy.world
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    Look at how phone phreaking was treated in the 70s, or codes for getting long distance on BBS. The modern justice system would have wanted to make someone like Joybubbles an example.

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      iirc terrorism charges were levied against an activist that threw glitter at police during a demo for climate activists some years ago

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      My buddy Julian was linked up with our city’s biggest phreakers. Dude disappeared and word is he did 10 years. This was in the 80’s