Re: Cap'n Crunch Whistle
ixcrit <[email protected]>
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Another useless history lesson is Steve Wozniak use to sell Blue Boxes(tone generators to dodge long distance fees. History was fun, when all you needed was a lineman's phone and a blue shirt and you could ruin anyones day. On Jul 21, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Jess Hires wrote: > 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 >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]