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Co-Founders of Apple Sold Illegal Hardware

Did ya know that the co-founders of Apple Inc. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were involved in building and selling illegal hardware?  Prior to Apple the Steves were into phone phreaking which is the act of using generated tone to hack the phone networks of the world. They build and sold devices called “blue boxes” that generated all the needed tone to phreak the phone systems. Like modern day hackers the used anonymous nick names.  According to Steve Wozniak’s 2006 biography iWoz he went by the name of “Berkeley Blue” (he was currently attending Berkeley College) and Steve Jobs went by “Ouff Tolbar”

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