computer crime

A detailed Summary of computer crime


Computer crime started as early as the 1960's. One form of a computer crime is phreaking. Phreaking consisted of using a telephone to make long distance phone calls for free. A guy named John Draper discovered this and called it phone phreaking. He went by the alias Cap'n Crunch, because he found out that the whistles in Cap'n Crunch cereal made a 2600 hertz tone. When you blew into the phone with whistle it would connect you to a line so you could make long distance calls. It mainly worked on payphones and when you used the whistle you didn't have to pay for the call.

Some of the computer crime today consists of stealing. Most hackers do it for fame, others do it for money. One form of stealing



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