Re:Email in the 18th century: the optical telegraph
by jpl56 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:40AM
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Fraud happened on this network. I learned this at the "Musée des Arts et Métiers" in Paris.
From this Wikipedia article [0] :
The network was reserved for government use, but an early case of wire fraud occurred in 1834 when two bankers, François and Joseph Blanc, bribed the operators at a station near Tours on the line between Paris and Bordeaux to pass Paris stock exchange information to an accomplice in Bordeaux.
From this Wikipedia article [0] : The network was reserved for government use, but an early case of wire fraud occurred in 1834 when two bankers, François and Joseph Blanc, bribed the operators at a station near Tours on the line between Paris and Bordeaux to pass Paris stock exchange information to an accomplice in Bordeaux.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph