The Inner Circle Hackers & Telenet (1983)

In the United States in 1983 there were two big hacker group busts. The first was in July, a group of Milwaukee high-schoolers known as the 414s, the resulting FBI investigation and the identification of the youths involved generated intense media attention. Three months after the 414s were raided there was a second huge ongoing FBI hack investigation and impending nationwide raids of hacking groups named the Inner Circle and the Phalsers. This second FBI inquiry was in many ways more significant than that of the 414s in terms of hacker history but it doesn't even appear on many timelines on the topic. This video will focus mainly on the Inner Circle but we'll of course discuss the Phalsers and other random hackers caught up in the fed's dragnet along the way. In this first video we're going to look at what was hacked and how, then in the second video we'll examine the ways in which the hackers involved were caught and what happened next. TIMECODES 00:00 - introduction 00:30 - exte