CAPTIN CRUNCH FREE
Air Force engineer, according to a profile in the Wall Street Journal, and by 1964, at the age of 21, John had already enlisted in the Air Force himself, where - stationed in Alaska - he helped the other servicemen make free phone calls through a local switchboard.īut after his discharge, Draper soon gained lifelong notoriety for jerry-rigging an infamous “blue box” which could mimic the tones which controlled the entire U.S. “In the early ’70s, I found various ways to hack the phone company and get free calls.” He describes them - with a smile - as “heinous crimes.”īorn during World War II, Draper was the son of a U.S. “I was an outlaw,” Draper stated on his Kickstarter page. He gained notoriety by hacking the phone company in a time when few even thought about the possibility of doing such a thing. I heartily endorse this book…I love stories of interesting people…Woz ĭraper’s life has long been known to be one of the most colorful stories from the early history of Silicon Valley. It promises to tell a wild tale of “an eccentric genius who went from being a penniless hacker to a millionaire and back again.” Draper was a hacker “so consumed by his vision that the real world around him has always played second fiddle.” The book’s foreword has already been written by his long-time friend, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and the campaign’s page promises a “ Kerouacian journey” that “gives us an inside look at the birth of modern computing through the eyes of one of its most influential pioneers.” The book is due next March.īeyond The Little Blue Box. may not exist today.Īnd now, the Captain has just raised $26,000 on Kickstarter to publish his biography. If it wasn’t for the incessant technical curiosity of John Draper, the now 74-year-old former phone hacker known as “Captain Crunch,” Apple Inc.
0 kommentar(er)
