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Talk It Over With Captain Crunch

Posted by Roblimo on from the whistle-a-happy-tune dept.

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.

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  1. Revised rules. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny


    > 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.

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  2. Gotta know by unicron · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mr. Crunch,

    Your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?

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  3. Check his website- White house toilet paper hoax! by mekkab · · Score: 4, Funny



    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.

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  4. Can't believe this one hasn't been asked by headjack · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, does the Crunchbox have a cereal interface?

  5. Re:What grab�s you now? by NixterAg · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

  6. Re:Cereal by outsider007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    and do you jokingly refer to your mouth as a 'cereal port'?

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