A slightly condescending journey through the early days of Phone Phreaking.
During the late 70s, John Draper discovered that a Captain Crunch serial whistle allowed free long-distance phone calling
John also wrote EasyWriter, the first word processor for the Apple //, so he was well known in the Apple community. I met him years later at a WWDC party. He had just returned from a cultural/technical exchange with Russia. He was telling us stories about seeing the still vulnerable Soviet phone system, and suspecting they did not know who he was.
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