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MCI phreaking?

2003-07-29 22:52:34.744197+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Tossing this one up there because I always thought that phreaking was over somewhere around the late '80s, but no: MCI apparently masked long-distance calls as local calls to avoid interconnect charges. This takes me right back to the BBS days.

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