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[–] nodiet@feddit.de 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are more like yesterday's geeks. These are ancient geeks:

[–] Droechai@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Phreaker is a super cool name though

[–] nodiet@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is actually just a person using a portable modem to connect to the internet in a phone booth. I don't think they are phreaking

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

That phone booth and handset adaptor are way too old. He's conecting to ur-internet like a BBS or FIDOnet, if he's not attacking a non-public server.