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" <[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]
