The Boy Who Heard Too Much

He was a 14-year-old blind kid, angry and alone. Then he discovered that he possessed a strange and fearsome superpower — one that put him in the cross hairs of the FBI. Met Matthew Weigman — a fat, lonely blind kid who lived with his mom in a working-class neighborhood of East Boston. Who discovered the power of party lines and phone phreaking. Rolling stone details how it all happened: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/29787673/the_boy_who_heard_too_much/print

He was a 14-year-old blind kid, angry and alone. Then he discovered that he possessed a strange and fearsome superpower — one that put him in the cross hairs of the FBI. Met Matthew Weigman — a fat, lonely blind kid who lived with his mom in a working-class neighborhood of East Boston. Who discovered the power of party lines and phone phreaking. Rolling stone details how it all happened: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/29787673/the_boy_who_heard_too_much/print