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Jacob Bruggeman: “Phone Phreaking: The Political Economy of Computer Hacking”

Bangor Room, Memorial Union

Jacob Bruggeman's presentation will reconstruct the long-overlooked political history of American hackers. Moving from phone phreakers to digital coders, wearing both black and white hats, he traces the development of this influential group as they moved from the margins of the counterculture to the mainstream of American institutional power.

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