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- Steve Wozniak met Steve Jobs in the spring of 1971, taking a year to work and earn money before starting on his third year of college. It was when he was starting back at his classes again when the pair both heard about John Draper — who they knew only as Captain Crunch.
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Oct 27, 2017 · Wozniak and Jobs only know Draper by his notorious pseudonym, Captain Crunch, the elusive character at the center of an underground subculture of rebel hackers called the phone phreaks.
In 1977, Draper worked for Apple as an independent contractor, [5] and was assigned by Wozniak to develop a device that could connect the Apple II computer to phone lines. Wozniak said he thought computers could act like an answering machine , and modems were not yet widely available.
- What The Phreak?
- Phreaks and Pranks
- Apple and The Blue Box
- Programming Behind Bars
- Not Your Average Hacker
A blue box like those Draper helped develop Phone phreaking was a practice that started in the late 1950s in the USA, experiencing its so-called ‘Golden Age’ through the 60s and 70s. It was essentially a precursor to computer hacking as we know it today — although instead of hacking computers, ‘phreaks’ would hack the phone lines. It all began in 1...
The legendary antics of phone phreaks in the 70s are as numerous as they are unverifiable. There’s the story of a couple of phreaks — of which one was allegedly Draper — who called up the White House, dropped President Nixon’s secret codename ‘Olympus’ and were soon put through to the President himself — only to tell him of a ‘national emergency’ t...
Steve Wozniak met Steve Jobs in the spring of 1971, taking a year to work and earn money before starting on his third year of college. It was when he was starting back at his classes again when the pair both heard about John Draper — who they knew only as Captain Crunch. Finding out about the weird and wonderful world of phone phreaking, the pair w...
Draper ended up serving two prison sentences for phone fraud, despite the care with which he conducted himself after the FBI caught up with him in 1971. In 1979 — whilst serving a third prison sentence — Draper set to creating the EasyWriter, the first word processor for the Apple II. Even while serving his sentence he had access to a computer at a...
These days, Draper is still hacking and developing software, along with appearing as a speaker at a number of enthusiast events. He doesn’t think much of the modern breed of hackers, however — “Hacking eventually turned into activism, using hacking for political means,” he said in a 2012 interview with Venture Village. “Anonymous have their own pol...
Sep 29, 2014 · 𝕏. Perhaps you don’t know John Draper aka “Captain Crunch” but, if you’re using a MacBook or an iPhone today, it’s because of him. He and his blue box were a fundamental inspiration for Steve...
Draper and Woz and Jobs and a few friends spent the next several hours trading blue boxing techniques and circuit designs; Woz was particularly pleased that Draper taught him how to call overseas...
Jan 29, 2001 · Mr. Draper tutored Mr. Wozniak and Mr. Jobs in the art of programming their own blue boxes, capable of gaining free -- and illegal -- access to the phone network.
Nov 3, 2011 · John Draper is a famous phone phreaker and programmer. Draper first came to prominence as a proficient phone phreaker, earning his Captain Crunch moniker from his use of a Cap’n Crunch Bosun whistle to fool the phone systems. He later built blue boxes to mimic the tones used by phone systems.
