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There's definitely a story here. I haven't experienced it myself. I met him a loooong time ago, and he seemed as normal as anyone else at DefCon (back in the la
by ax0n 16y ago
There's definitely a story here. I haven't experienced it myself. I met him a loooong time ago, and he seemed as normal as anyone else at DefCon (back in the late 1990s). But I've heard the stories, too, from multiple people.
- david_shaw 16y agoFor those looking for references to the "massage" stories, it's actually pretty well documented in an old CNN story covering the HOPE conference a few years ago: http://edition.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/07/24/paranoia.idg/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/07/24/paranoia.id... Not to say that Capn Crunch didn't contribute greatly to the hacking/phone phreaking scene, but now a days it seems like he's pretty much just a rude creep. Excerpt from the article: "Script kiddies!" spits John Draper, 57. "Think they're hot (stuff)." The grizzled veteran got his handle, Captain Crunch, in the early '70s, when he discovered that a plastic whistle from a cereal box emitted a tone crucial to phreaking. In 1978, Draper spent four months in jail for his illicit proclivities and these days, tries to stay legit. "You should try one of my body tune-ups," he says. "It's a great energy boost." Indeed, he spends a good deal of the conference enticing young attendees back to his hotel room, where he offers full-contact "stretching" sessions. And the Captain seems to have absorbed the lesson of the "Selling Out" talk all too well. "Did you get my URL?" he says. "ShopIP.com. It's e-commerce for the rest of us!"