(When the whistle was blown into a phone, it allowed him to route calls anywhere at no cost. His handle, another element of phreaking culture which would become common among future computer hackers, was derived from his use of a whistle found in Cap'n Crunch cereal which emitted a 2600-cycle tone. John Draper, Captain Crunch became the idol of phreakers. Ripping off the phone company became a protest for the liberation of technology.Ī.K.A. "Ma'Bell", as the phone company was referred to, was a favorite target. The icon of counter-culture, Abbie Hoffman spread the word about phreaking in his newsletter Youth International Party Line. However, the importance of the phreaking movement to the development of hacking in general is that a subculture with anti-establishment virtues soon grew around the practice. Soon a legion of young boys were passing around the new trick. He soon discovered that he could then dial (or whistle) another number, as his local office had never received the 'hang-up' notice of the 2600-cycle tone, without incurring further long-distance charges.
As legend has it, a blind boy who had a gift for perfect pitch whistled a 2600-cycle tone while speaking to his grandmother on the phone and caused the line to be disconnected. The new direct-dial system was based on multi-frequency tones. The fad began when Bell switched from human operators to a computer managed phone system.
Phreaking is a term created by a play on the words freak, phone and free.
I dont remember captain crunch oops all berries come out free#
The article outlined the methods by which a small, but growing, group of individuals were outsmarting America's telephone systems in order to make free phone calls around the globe. The underground world of phreaking came to the general public's attention in a 1971 article in Esquire magazine.
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