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Re:D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain U... by bsder on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @06:50PM (#21198128)
Remember: "We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the Phone Company"

Fake commercial on Saturday Night Season 2 Episode 1.

(It wasn't called Saturday Night Live until later.)

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Re:D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain U... by dredmorbius on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:29AM (#21200619)
I find the story of Walter Shaw Sr. even more instructive.

Independent inventor convicted and gaoled by AT&T for "misdemeanor attachment", the crime of attaching non-AT&T equipment to AT&T's phone network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_L._Shaw

More on this in the first bit of "The Inventor and the Thief" on Snap Judgement:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/snapjudgment/episodes/l...

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