Re: Cap'n Crunch Whistle

Looks like you should reconsider your domain in that case lol. Saturday
mid-day is an odd time, any particular reasoning behind that?
On Jul 21, 2011 10:59 PM, "Gene Cronk" <[email protected]> wrote:
> www.jax2600.org
>
> 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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