November 26, 2008
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Answer:
Quoting gammafunction’s answer
1. is John Draper who used to ‘Phreak’ i.e like hacking into phone line and for it he used a toy whistle that was, at the time, packaged in boxes of Cap’n Crunch cereal could emit a tone at precisely 2600 hertz—the same frequency that was used by AT&T long lines to indicate that a trunk line was ready and available to route a new call.
2. is Cap’n Crunch
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November 26th, 2008 at 9:37 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1227735436 )
John Draper chose Cap’n Crunch because some of the whistles he used were given free with cereal boxes…
November 26th, 2008 at 10:00 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1227736826 )
John Draper, Cap’n Crunch.
Draper was called the Crunchman cos he discovered that the toy whistle that was packaged in boxes of the cereal could be easily modified to emit a tone at precisely 2600 hertz, the same frequency that was used by AT&T long lines,thus hacking them.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:20 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1227738009 )
John Draper – Captain Crunch Whistle – 2600Hz – Phone phreaking
November 26th, 2008 at 10:22 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1227738135 )
John Draper. Cap n Crunch.. Big story i better paste the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.....ng_culture
November 26th, 2008 at 11:00 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1227740457 )
1. is John Draper who used to ‘Phreak’ i.e like hacking into phone line and for it he used a toy whistle that was, at the time, packaged in boxes of Cap’n Crunch cereal could emit a tone at precisely 2600 hertz—the same frequency that was used by AT&T long lines to indicate that a trunk line was ready and available to route a new call.
2. is Cap’n Crunch
November 26th, 2008 at 11:20 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1227741650 )
From Wiki:
In early 1971, a Vietnam War veteran named John Draper [1] (later nicknamed Captain Crunch, Crunch or Crunchman) discovered with his friend Joe Engressia that a toy whistle that was, at the time, packaged in boxes of the cereal [Captain Crunch, 2] could be easily modified to emit a tone at precisely 2600 hertz, the same frequency that was used by AT&T long lines to indicate that a trunk line was ready and available to route a new call. This would effectively disconnect one end of the trunk, allowing the still-connected side to enter an operator mode. This resulted in, among other things, the ability to place free phone calls to anywhere in the world and operator-like control over the phone system. Experimenting with this whistle inspired Draper to build blue boxes, electronic devices capable of reproducing this 2600 Hz tone. He was sentenced in October 1971 to five years’ probation for toll fraud.
November 27th, 2008 at 2:01 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227751309 )
didn’t you guys ask this earlier?
November 27th, 2008 at 2:03 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227751384 )
Aah… Sorry, guess what i was remembering was “The fourth E above middle C”.
November 27th, 2008 at 2:38 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227753516 )
A phreaker who went by the nick of Cap’n Crunch…..Capn crunch cereals used to give out a freebie whistle that could be used to mess up the billing of the phone company, this guy infamously used it…. dont kno his original name….
November 27th, 2008 at 2:46 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227753985 )
He is John Draper, the Phone Phreak. He chose Cap\’n Crunch as his mascot and Handle, because he used the toy whistle found inside the cereal box to manipulate AT&T long distance phone systems.
November 27th, 2008 at 2:50 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227754249 )
1. John T. Draper
2. Captain Crunch
2600 hertz whistle
November 27th, 2008 at 3:03 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227754988 )
John T Draper (1) who figured out that the whistle that came with Cap’n Crunch(2) cereal could be modified to emit a 2600Hz signal that would disconnect a phone call at one end, while allowing the other end to go into operator mode on AT&T networks, allowing you to make free phone calls.
November 27th, 2008 at 4:01 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227758494 )
John Draper aka Captain Crunch (cereal brand)
November 27th, 2008 at 4:59 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227761987 )
1= John Draper a.k.a Captain Crunch
He used the Cap’n Crunch(Pic 2) toy whistles to produce the same frequency as that of AT&T’s long distance calls, thereby resluting in the creation of the Blue Boxes.
November 27th, 2008 at 5:32 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227763976 )
Person in the pic is Mr. John Draper
and the cartoon is the mascot of a breakfast cereal Cap\’n crunch
John Draper used toy whistle(packaged in boxes of Cap\’n Crunch) for making free phone calls.
John Draper is also called Captain Crunch
To knw how he did it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper
November 27th, 2008 at 7:10 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227769832 )
John Draper modded a whistle that came along with cap n crunch to generate tones at a particular frequency, to come up with a blue box. Interesting!
November 27th, 2008 at 7:51 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227772268 )
John Draper and Captain Crunch.
He used the Captain Crunch whilstle for Phreaking.
November 27th, 2008 at 8:12 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227773534 )
John Draper. Captain Crunch.
Captain crunch came with a Whistle that could produce a frequency of 2600Hz, which was the same frequency as AT&T long distance lines. So Draper used it to phreak those lines.
November 27th, 2008 at 10:43 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227782634 )
John Draper. Cap’n'Crunch cereal used to give free whistles which coincidentally emitted whistles at the exact same frequency as AT&T’s something something signal which allowed him to phreak ‘em phones.
I had asked same question with different visuals in a quiz last year :D
November 27th, 2008 at 6:16 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1227809815 )
John T. Draper (1) who used the nickname Captain Crunch (2)
November 28th, 2008 at 1:22 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227835371 )
@sidsen: if you want a point, please type in the correct answer as a comment.. Otherwise our backend will have problems :)
November 30th, 2008 at 12:34 am, GMT +0000 ( 1228005250 )
John Draper Captain Crunch