Mark Abene
“Phiber Optik”Masters of Deception
The MOD-versus-LOD hacker war
Rating
84Impact score
Domains
Telecom switchingCrews
Scouting report
Teenage authority on telephone switching systems and the public face of Masters of Deception. His 1994 prison sentence was widely read as a message being sent to a whole generation; New York magazine had already named him one of the city’s smartest people.
Curator’s note
The last of the pure telephone hackers before the internet took over.
Sources
- 01Mark Abene en.wikipedia.org
- 02Masters of Deception en.wikipedia.org