Tag: Charlatan
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John Thomas Draper: Setting the Record Straight re: Blue Box
The tl;dr cliffnotes: John Draper was not the inventor of the Blue Box. (Nor did he figure out the Captain Crunch whistle could be used for phreaking.) In April of 2015, several years after Phil Lapsley published “Exploding the Phone” giving a detailed history of the early days of phreaking, I wrote a blog largely…
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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’…