Month: April 2015

  • John Thomas Draper: Setting the Record Straight re: Cap’n Crunch Whistle

    The tl;dr cliffnotes: John Draper was not the first to discover that a Cap’n Crunch whistle could be used for phreaking. It is almost a ‘fact’ that John Draper, also known as Captain Crunch, discovered that a toy whistle in a box of cereal could be used to make free phone calls. I say ‘almost’…

  • A Note on the Verizon DBIR 2015, “Incident Counting”, and VDBs

    [This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] Recently, the Verizon 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) was released to much fanfare as usual, prompting a variety of media outlets to analyze the analysis. A few days after the release, I caught a Tweet linking to a blog from Rory McCune that challenged one aspect…