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Hacking | What’s in the Blue Box? | 1

American Innovations

English - April 29, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
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Hackers: the criminals who prey on our digital lives. Today they steal credit cards and personal information, or even commit acts of cyber-terrorism. But in the early days, hackers were largely seen as harmless pranksters. And it wasn’t computers they were initially interested in, but phones -- which they hacked with a mysterious device called the Blue Box.

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