Breakfast with John Draper
Montag, 08. September 2008 - 10:30 Uhr
RaumD / Q21
aka Cap’n Crunch at net culture lab
We invite hackers, users, entrepreneurs and all general intersted to a
technology bruch on Monday, Sep 8, 10.30. John Draper will give a talk
and presentation about his recent engagement in en2go, a media
delivery platform backed by Steve Wozniak.
John Draper was one of the first well known phone hackers, and the first
famous“phone phreak”. A blind friend of John Draper’s named Joe
Engressia informed him that a toy whistle that was, at the time,
packaged in boxes of Cap’n Crunch cereal could emit a tone at
precisely 2600 hertz—the same frequency that was used by AT&T long lines
to indicate that a trunk line was ready and available to route a new
call. When the telephone system heard the whistle it stopped all long
distance charges, even though the call continued until one of the
parties hung up. John popularized the use of this whistle, and became
known by the hacker handle “Cap’n Crunch”. John became infamous, and was
arrested in May, 1972 for illegal use of the telephone company’s system.
Since then, he has held a variety of positions and given interviews on
his experiences during the earliest days of long
distance hacking.
Right now, John is the CTO of En2go. En2go is a full-service media
company delivering videos.