Phone Phreaking: Innovation at 2600Hz - YouTube

Here's a 17-minute video about the history of "phone phreaking," the particular corner of early hacker history at issue in the Riggs case. Riggs and his co-defendant Niedorf were both "phreaks": people who found and exploited security vulnerabilities in telecommunications networks. Phreaks' usual incentive was to avoid paying the high rates then charged for long-distance phone calls, so they could connect to faraway BBSes for free.

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