Chapter Two — Click here for Chapter One: Arrested with a Commodore 64. Three years probation. No computer usage during probation. Agree to never “blue box” again. Pay a fine and all court costs. I was officially charged with credit card fraud. Thankfully, my foolish behavior was in 1985, a full year before…

Chapter One — Cold, smelly, tired. That’s how I felt around 4:00 AM as I rummaged through the dumpsters of the Sandusky Mall, looking for carbons. In the mid-1980s, 1985 to be exact, finding and collecting carbon copies from credit card transactions was like finding gold. They were a new form of currency…