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* SE Weekly ; SIWeexLy.coM | INOWS : Peauig © Wary w sraunsi bossee perrretns After a sleepless night and a long day, Lamo is about to head downstairs to a meeting of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, He has occasionally contributed to the magazine, named after the 2600-hertz signal that enabled hackers in the 1970s to access AT&T's long- distance switching system and make free calls, and considers it his duty, when in San Francisco, to drop by the meeting and hobnob with his fellow hackers. Most of the dozen or so attendees tonight are males with backpacks, although one is a woman with gray hair, and the best T-shirt says: "I see dumb people." Before Lamo sidles up to the group, clustered in the plaza, he mutters, "My God, I started going to meetings in 1996 -- I feel old.” NEXT » a 1 no sfweekly.com | originally published: April 16, 2003 = Printer friendly version of this story Email this story to a friend Email matt Paimquist E] More stories by Matt Palmquist © send a letter to the editor Home | News & Features | Letters | Dining | Culture | Music | Film | Night & Day | Best Of | Classified Romance | Wildside | Promotions | Web Extra | Archive | Unbuttoned | eSubscribe j About Us | Careers Contact Us | ©2003 New Times All rights reserved. | Privacy Policy | Bug. rt FBI(19-cv-1495)-180 http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2003-04-1 6/feature.html/L/index.htm] 6/20/2003