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Decades ago to crack into a computer you needed to be a hacker, since computers were all different. Today we have "script kiddies" who most definitely aren't hackers, but are crackers.

I don't think there's a script-kiddie equivalent for phone systems.

I thought the original hackers were almost exclusively using AT&T's system.

Considering that Ma Bell was a monopoly until 1984, I'd agree.

To paraphrase John Draper (aka Captain Crunch), "A system is a system, whether a phone network or a computer."

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