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YMMV / The X-Files S01 E07 "Ghost in the Machine"

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  • Aluminum Christmas Trees: Some of the terms used to describe "expert" hackers sound like they were pulled out of a Cyberpunk novel, but at the very least techno-/crypto-anarchism was in its infancy at the time, and phone "phreaking" had already had a venerable 40+-year history when the episode was released.
    Mulder: Could someone have hacked into the system?
    Wilczek: Well, not your average phone phreak, that's for sure. But there's plenty of kooks out there. Data travelers, electro-wizards, techno-anarchists. Anything's possible.

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