>> John Draper (the inventor) didn't invent phone phreaking >>> and system breakins > He waa Cap'n Crunch, right? (IIRC). That guy was/is hilarious. His antics > cracked me up. Even when he got out of jail, he wanted Woz to turn the > Apple II into the ultimate phone phreaking machine.
Actually he was hired by apple computer (through woz I believe, they met back at homebrew) to work on a telephone board for the apple. It just so happened that within that board he basically included the functionality of a blue box which allowed one to generate the tones used by the phone company's switches. Apple was run by markula at the time I believe, and once he heard about the things capabilities he freaked out and killed the project. Sometime later (shortly) after the phone companies equipment had improved he was caught by the phone companies when they noticed something like 20,000 calls coming out of his apartment to numbers that weren't even supposed to exist. :) > (he needed to get a life). He was just a different sort, in a different time. He didn't invent phone phreaking (I can't remember the guy's name who did, but it was done on a PDP-1 mainframe back at MIT) but whereas the other guy had some hacker scruples, cap'n crunch just loved sharing information with anyone and anybody whether or not they wanted it to get around paying the phone company or not. Heh, no one I have met or anything I have read has led me to believe anything but nice things out of the guy- except for the fact that he (at least used to be) almost violently against smoking... Which means if I ever met him we'd get along for about 2 hours before the addiction kicked in. :) Michael Bryan Bell ------------------ ICQ: 16106263 Yahoo: mhbell1 No Link for you! AIM: drunkenbatman -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
