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" <[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
>>
