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Public pay-phones must survive in a world of unfriendly, greedy people, and a modern payphone is as exquisitely evolved as a cactus.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce

Hoffman, like many a later conspirator, made extensive use of pay-phones for his agitation work—in his case, generally through the use of cheap brass washers as coin-slugs.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce