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In a similar vein of social engineering, Exploding The Phone is good read about the Phreakers of yore.

>>dylan6+(OP)
It's in my Amazon list and now I know why. I'm 34 and learned about phreaking well after it was a thing but it inspired me.

Now I'm a cybersecurity consultant (glorified sysadmin) making a nice salary but without any of the joy that was present in my 20s rebelling against my F100 company's IT policy. Installing Dokuwiki on a shadow server just to get shit done. Helping write a custom request system to get shit done. Consequences came after.

I'm not comparing myself to Mitnick, rest in peace, only reflecting on the passing of a titan before my prime that represents a moment in communication hacking that may never exist again.

>>unethi+9g
> making a nice salary but without any of the joy that was present in my 20s rebelling against my F100 company's IT policy

You just hit it. That feeling. Me too, nowadays I mostly go through the motions. No enthusiasm, no joy, no interest, no energy... no "spark". Mitnick lived and shined at a time when showing off didn't just land you in jail. Until it did.

Long live the legend.

>>unethi+9g
Labelling the installation of DokuWiki as rebellion just made my day :-D

>>unethi+9g
I feel you. I'm the security champion for my team. It's no joy and all paper pushing. Just the other day they handed over some systems to me... 20 open vulnerabilities and 6 missing assessments. Nobody gives a damn about security.

>>splitb+Mp
Confluence was a piece of crap 10 years ago.

>>unethi+xU1
Eh... it still kinda sucks.