Dear Eric, Are you really 71 ? Beautiful profile you got.
I track some of the tech news. Way back with CDMA phones, it was possible to hack at the BTS stations, but now I think with the newer technology, hacker is not outsider, but mostly insider jobs only. To eves drop into business and data mining, check the internet traffic and make money out of the same.
We get to see ads of things we try to watch on internet or search, is a classic example.