Talk It Over With Captain Crunch 444
John T. Draper is most famous as "Captain Crunch," the legendary phone phreak who taught others how to make illicit use of Ma Bell's facilities to call almost anywhere, almost any time, for free. But (as a glance at his personal page will show you), that is just about the least of Draper's accomplishments. Not only that, he's still going strong. This is your chance to talk directly to a man without whom the modern-day personal computer -- and modern hacking and many other things we take for granted -- might not exist at all, and certainly would not exist in their current forms. One question per post please, and try to avoid asking questions that could be answered with a little online research. We'll send 10 or 12 of the highest-moderated questions to Draper tomorrow, and run his answers as soon as he has time to reply.
Cereal (Score:2, Funny)
Does this mean something? (Score:1, Funny)
Is this important to note?
I like him better already.
What a smart guy!
Revised rules. (Score:4, Funny)
> One question per post please, and try to avoid asking questions that could be answered with a little online research.
And don't read this article in Michigan.
Dear Captain Crunch, (Score:3, Funny)
Big fan of your work. But I was wondering, how come you couldn't rig up a couple of fancy grey boxes to fix your god damn slashdot problem?
Love,
Rizzizzle Rizzzzazzzat. Bizzat.
My question (Score:2, Funny)
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1337 d00d
Gotta know (Score:5, Funny)
Your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?
My question for Cap N Crunch: (Score:1, Funny)
Dear Cap'n Crunch... (Score:2, Funny)
Another one down (Score:3, Funny)
Tuesday April 15th:
wake-up
pay bills
Slashdot a living legends homepage
lunch
-bart
Oh captain, my captain. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Cereal (Score:3, Funny)
Re: Cereal (Score:3, Funny)
> It's much easier to mod me down than to post an intelligent reply.
More satisfying, too!
Check his website- White house toilet paper hoax! (Score:5, Funny)
Its a good story too- they got nixon on the phone through their phone phreaking ways and told them of a crisis in Los Angeles- THEY WERE OUT OF TOILET PAPER!
Nixon was not amused.
Can't believe this one hasn't been asked (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What grab’s you now? (Score:5, Funny)
A few years ago Larry King was interviewing Stephen Hawking, one of the great minds of our time and the world's best known physicist, and he asked a similar question.
"What problem do you think about the most? What problem plagues your mind the most?" queried King.
After a short pause, Hawking's synthesizer replied succintly: "Women."
Not a question, but... (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, questions that could be answered with a little online research are more appropriate for Ask Slashdot.
bluebox board on apple ][ (Score:2, Funny)
Apple ][? What could the board do? How did
management react to it (I believe they had a
panic attack and canceled your project??)
Slashdot Effect (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Cereal (Score:5, Funny)
Promotional figure for Cap'n Crunch cereal? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dear Cap'n Crunch... (Score:2, Funny)
The question on everybody's mind... (Score:4, Funny)
How do you measure 15 minutes... (Score:1, Funny)