A 19th Century Hack
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What was the world\\u2019s first telecommunications hack? Some sort of electronic banking theft in the 80s? Perhaps it was the \\u201cphone breaks\\u201d of the 1960s, who used tricks to make calls for free? Or the scientific hooligans who hacked Marconi\\u2019s wireless? Well, according to Tom Standage, Deputy Editor of The Economist, you have to go back even further than that. To 19th-century France, and a new technology called the mechanical telegraph.
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