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Three Blind Phreaks

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday January 31, 2004 @05:08AM from the see-them-have-teh-phun dept.

Post writes "'When they dial, they use the middle finger.' - Wired's story about three sightless brothers who 'have devoted their lives to proving they can out-think, out-program, and out-hack anyone with vision.'"

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Re:Three Blind Mice by OS24Ever · 2004-01-31 05:16 · Score: 4, Informative

Would that be John 'Captain Crunch' Draper?

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Re:Three Blind Mice by stankyho · 2004-01-31 05:31 · Score: 5, Informative

It was a blind phreaker named Denny that showed John Draper what the whistle could do. cap'n Crunch just got popular because of it.
Google's cache of the story.

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Re:Three Blind Mice by Rex+Code · 2004-01-31 07:04 · Score: 4, Informative

It was a blind phreaker named Denny that showed John Draper what the whistle could do. cap'n Crunch just got popular because of it.

Actually, the blind phreak was named Joe Engressia, and he didn't need the plastic whistle to produce 2600 Hz or other multifrequency tones. He could simply whistle them. IIRC, John did discover that the whistle would cause long-distance calls to drop. If only I could find my old '71 Esquire issue...

Trivia: Joe now lives in Minneapolis and has changed his name to Joybubbles.