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Talk It Over With Captain Crunch
John T. Draper is most famous as "Captain Crunch," the legendary phone phreak who taught others how to make illicit use of Ma Bell's facilities to call almost anywhere, almost any time, for free. But (as a glance at his personal page will show you), that is just about the least of Draper's accomplishments. Not only that, he's still going strong. This is your chance to talk directly to a man without whom the modern-day personal computer -- and modern hacking and many other things we take for granted -- might not exist at all, and certainly would not exist in their current forms. One question per post please, and try to avoid asking questions that could be answered with a little online research. We'll send 10 or 12 of the highest-moderated questions to Draper tomorrow, and run his answers as soon as he has time to reply.
How much Captain Crunch cereal do you eat these days? Would you say it has gone up or gone down since your now-infamous discovery?
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The aparent "Grandfather of Hacking" if you will... ...uses Macs?
Is this important to note?
I like him better already.
What a smart guy!
I got nothin'.
> One question per post please, and try to avoid asking questions that could be answered with a little online research.
And don't read this article in Michigan.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Dear Captain Crunch.
Big fan of your work. But I was wondering, how come you couldn't rig up a couple of fancy grey boxes to fix your god damn slashdot problem?
Love,
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Mr. Crunch,
Your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
Do you like the peanut butter flavor or the regular of your namesake's cereal?
Will you please stop making that horrible "Peanut Butter Crunch?" The stuff tastes like ass. Please focus on those yummy Crunch Berries.
This is kinda like taking pop-shots at rare or endangered species:
...
Tuesday April 15th:
wake-up
pay bills
Slashdot a living legends homepage
lunch
-bart
Do you regret adding the 'crunch berry' to your popular formula, just to hype up what was already a perfectly good product? Do you think that such actions will lead to cereal deflation among your territories?
"I only speak the truth"
Karma: null(Mostly affected by an unassigned variable)
Its a good story too- they got nixon on the phone through their phone phreaking ways and told them of a crisis in Los Angeles- THEY WERE OUT OF TOILET PAPER!
Nixon was not amused.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
So, does the Crunchbox have a cereal interface?
This is offtopic but the parent's question reminded me of a funny story.
A few years ago Larry King was interviewing Stephen Hawking, one of the great minds of our time and the world's best known physicist, and he asked a similar question.
"What problem do you think about the most? What problem plagues your mind the most?" queried King.
After a short pause, Hawking's synthesizer replied succintly: "Women."
Yes, questions that could be answered with a little online research are more appropriate for Ask Slashdot.
Did you really design a bluebox add-in card for the
Apple ][? What could the board do? How did
management react to it (I believe they had a
panic attack and canceled your project??)
Great, we slashdotted Captain Crunch, we're all going to hell.
Have you ever considered being a promotional figure for Cap'n Crunch cereal? *I* think it'd be a lot more interesting than the animated Captain...
May we never see th
Which long distance calling plan do you use?
That is all.
...of fame? Is it 15 minutes or 15 years?