It's funny, I know exactly what passage you mean and even though it's been many years since I read Cryptonomicon it's one of two specific passages I vividly rem

It's funny, I know exactly what passage you mean and even though it's been many years since I read Cryptonomicon it's one of two specific passages I vividly remember reading and enjoying. This is even though I've never had Captain Crunch in my life. (The other passage was the one about one of the characters using a computer while in prison and setting up a profusion of xterms scrolling through random files because he suspected he was being spied on using van Eck phreaking.)