Tracking down the teenage hackers of the Inner Circle (2016)

Bill, Chris, and other members of their collective had been accessing all kinds of networks, from GTE’s Telemail—which hosted email for companies like Coca-Cola, Raytheon, Citibank, and NASA—to the Arpanet, which was largely used by university researchers and military personnel until Milnet was completed in the mid-1980s. The Inner Circle wasn’t the only teen hacking group of the early 1980s, but their interference with both government networks and the email accounts of large corporations put them on the FBI’s radar. After WarGames came out in June 1983, every wannabe hacker with more money than sense went out and got a computer and modem…The story of Bill and Chris is one of simple curiosity, and the birth of the modern internet in an era before computer hacking laws existed.

Source: paleofuture.gizmodo.com