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This unusually poetic article on #hacking from the LA Times back in February of 1989, by Sid Moody

"In the days of youth, hacking can become a compulsion, its practitioners an obsessive brotherhood. The hacker’s world shrinks into the machine and blooms inside like a Chinese chrysanthemum dropped into a water glass."
latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-19…

Hacking Away : Computer Fiends Wring Magic From Keyboards

SUBJECT FILE: Hackers. Computer hackers.

^{SID MOODY (Los Angeles Times)}

#hacking

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I came across this article because of this mention of Dave Flory:

"Dave Flory tracks down computer malfeasance as head of the fraud squad for the San Jose police. Although 50, he hacks in his spare time but was not amused when someone, possibly a nerd, filched his password and ran up an $80 bill on his telephone playing computer games long distance."

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Dave Flory is mentioned in passing here, but was heavily involved in investigations and arrests of Californian hackers and phreaks.
hackernoon.com/the-american-co…

Yes, Lyons told the investigators, she had some information they might find valuable. She knew all about hackers and phreakers. In fact, the San Jose Police had just busted two guys trying to phreak at a pay phone. The phreakers seemed to know something about a Citibank system.

When the agents showed up at the San Jose Police Department for their appointment with Sergeant Dave Flory, they received another pleasant surprise. The sergeant had a book filled with hackers' names and numbers seized during the arrest of the two pay-phone phreakers. He also happened to be in possession of a tape recording of the phreakers talking to Par from a prison phone.

The American Connection.

`I'm on my way over to pick you up and take you to a lawyer's office where you can get some sort of protection.'

^{Suelette Dreyfus (hackernoon.com)}

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I came across Sargent Dave Flory because of this really weird part of an article from the Rome News-Tribune, 27th of February, 1989.

Hackers who sign off on computer bulletin boards as Crimson Death, Phantom Phreaker, Nightstalker add a darker dimension. Dave Flory, who heads the fraud unit for the San Jose police, cites studies and experience that indicate that 2 percent of the population are sociopathic and 1 percent of them criminally so. They tend to be brighter than average and young- er males, as are those intrigued by computers, Flory leaves the inference standing.
But when does hacking become cracking?
A hacker has been breaking into Flory's police bulletin board and says he won't leave unless the cops pay his phone bills to play long-distance computer games.
"That's extortion," says Flory. San Jose cops caught two teenagers in a phone booth trying to hook up a laptop to a phone.
"They were in it for the sexual thrill of knowing secrets," says Flory. But it's also attempted theft from the phone company. "They'll probably get three months at the most."

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"Dave Flory, who heads the fraud unit for the San Jose police, cites studies and experience that indicate that 2 percent of the population are sociopathic and 1 percent of them criminally so. They tend to be brighter than average and younger males, as are those intrigued by computers, Flory leaves the inference standing."

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San Jose cops caught two teenagers in a phone booth trying to hook up a laptop to a phone. "They were in it for the sexual thrill of knowing secrets," says Flory. But it's also attempted theft from the phone company. "They'll probably get three months at the most."

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"The sexual thrill of knowing secrets", so many odd characters in the history of hacking.

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