Re: Cap'n Crunch Whistle

Chad,

The email subject is a reference to
Phreaking<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking>,
and the first "phreaker", John Draper (aka, Captain
Crunch)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper>.
He was called this due to using a toy whistle found in a Cap'n Crunch cereal
box to hack the phone systems and make free calls to anywhere. This was
about 30 years ago.

I don't remember the comment last night that prompted this thread, but I'd
like an invitation to whatever it is also, I'm very interested now. :)

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Chad Bailey <[email protected]>wrote:

> I fail to see the relevance, but thanks for the history lesson
> On Jul 21, 2011 10:50 AM, "R P Herrold" <herrold-lD49m8UYmPxWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Chad Bailey wrote:
> >
> >> Hey guys, not sure the name of the guy who did the presentation, but
> >> he had mentioned another group he was trying to get going... had
> >> something to do with a whistle in a cereal box, or something like
> >> that. Mind sending me an invite for it?
> >
> > '2600' whistles have not worked for three decades to hack the
> > long distance network
> >
> > -- Russ herrold
>