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Hacking has been around for more than a century. In the 1970s, several teenagers were flung off the country’s brand new phone system by enraged authorities. Here’s a peek at how busy hackers have been in the past 35 years. Early 1960s University facilities with huge mainframe computers, like MIT’s artificial intelligence lab, become staging grounds for hackers. At first, “hacker” was a positive term for a person with [...]