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SUMMARY Paul lived in New York City. He had his first encounter with a computer when he was about nine of ten. He was at his dad's office Christmas party. One of his father's colleagues turned one on for him and he became emideatly obsessed. From then on he read e ....

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.... all met through the phone lines. Back then there was no Internet or AOL yet people could still communicate through computers. All they needed was a modem and some phone #'s of other modems and they were in business. Paul met Eli first. They learned to hack together. After a while they started looking for bigger and better hacks. They came across a famous hacker named Phiber Optic (Mark). He taught them all he knew about the telephone company. Then they were able to break into the New York phone company. This was only the beginning of their hacking endeavors. Paul, Mark, Eli became best friends, and not just through the computer but the ....