Masters of Deception (MOD) was a New York-based group of crackers, most widely known in media for their exploits of telephone company infrastructure and later prosecution, as well as being the subject of the book Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace.
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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
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