This is so awesome - phone phreaks wore fuckin' MASKS at phone phreak conventions in the 70's.
"Al Bell," the 20-year-old whiz kid who organized both conventions and who publishes Youth International Party Line, the fact-filled phone phreak newsletter, brought a carton full of black Lone Ranger masks to this year's gathering and handed them out at the door. Most of the serious -- i.e., criminally active -- phone freaks put the masks on. [...] (The only participants not wearing masks, it seemed, were a group of four blind phone phreaks and their two seeing eye dogs.)
Click here to read the rest of it. It's really good stuff. This was posted on the
History of Phone Phreaking blog, which always has really good stuff on it.
I wanna see a group photo of phreaks from the 70's wearing masks.
