Re: Cap'n Crunch Whistle

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We're violating the official 2600 meeting rules by holding it on 3rd
Saturday, so technically you're attending a DC904 (Defcon Groups) meeting
:-).

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Dan Bidleman <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would also like to hang out with some 2600 people if this meeting exists.
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Chad Bailey <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I was aware of the reference due to being the one that made it. I guess
> what
> > I meant was I made no indication that I believed this still worked. I was
> > simply making a reference to the whistle because it did (and still would
> if
> > you could find one) generate a 2600hz tone which is the name of the
> group.
> > This fact is still accurate regardless of the effect of a 2600hz tone on
> the
> > modern day PSTN.
> > On Jul 21, 2011 4:39 PM, "Jess Hires" <[email protected]> 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
> >>>
> >
>
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