The Mac Geek Geek Cab number 414 for Sunday, August 26, 2012. Oh, I'm not. Greetings folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Matt Geek Cab the show where

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I'm Dave Hamilton.

Glad you got that out, got that out of your system.

Had to wrap it up somehow, that's right. You work with what you got. Here in Fairfield, Connecticut, John F. Braun, and I like the episode number for one reason and it probably was was swimming around in your memory

the significance of that number yes yeah but I don't I can, I've had, I am working on literally three hours of sleep in a long day in the sun.

My entire weekend was devoted to the benefit of kids sports in many different ways.

So, uh, so tell me why 414 sounds familiar to me.

Well, it was the name of a group of people

who I gather came from Area Code I can't imagine what else

here though I'm skimming the article here but it was it was a group of people that so

this was in the 80s when you know like war Games was the cool movie and everybody, you know,

knew how to be a hacker and Joshua and all that great stuff.

And apparently it was a group of people that busted into some computers and got caught.

So, but the 414s, so that's why it wrung a bell in my mind and

I'm sure as you were saying it, it sounded out you're like, wait, what is this mean?

So for people that remember all those shenanigans and

Was Newt Sears a member of that group?

Because that was one of the guys that our friend Jason will keep his last name out of this because he works for a fruit company now

He introduced me to and he was this major Unix guy and I saw his name mentioned in the cuckoo's Egg, you know, but yeah, he he okay. Yeah, I see no specific names, but it was just a group that made some high profile

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