http://www.osnews.com/story/20606/_Captain_Crunch_on_Apple Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:02:25 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?339174 http://osnews.com/thread?339174 Awesome, thanks for including the extra info into the article. Indeed, I am the new OSNews editor.

The paragraph before, in the Recollection article gives some more personal opinion about Cap'n Crunch from the phreaker in the interview:

He's like a legend to people often sold as being the first blueboxer, but in fact this is not close to being true. It's been only a few weeks ago that I got in touch with Cap'n Crunch. I expected some sort of a phreak willing to talk about the glorious days and being fanatic about what we did back then. However, the guy who I met was not even close of being a nerd. He rather looks and acted like some strange wannabe-business man who didn't really have much luck in his life, always looking for opportunities to share with other retards around the corner, without having the slightest knowledge about what he is actually talking about. Crunch was very unsophisticated in what made him so famous, there was not a single minute where I had the feeling I talked to someone who knows what he's talking about. Crunch actually had interest in the party line system that I was developing, but he never even really cared about the technology being used, he didn't even lift his eyebrows when I told him that even the CCITT5 standard was embedded into the system just for the f--king fun of it. All he wanted to know: If it would be possible to earn a buck or two selling it to local Californian companies.

The Recollection article goes into a lots of detail and history about phone hacking, all fascinating stuff. Highly recommended reading, you can even download a C64 disk image from the website http://www.atlantis-prophecy.org/recollection/?load=downloads and enjoy the whole magazine in 8-bit.

There's also Phacking too - Postal Hacking Edited 2008-12-04 13:55 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?339186 http://osnews.com/thread?339186 Congratulations! Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BluenoseJake) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?339199 http://osnews.com/thread?339199 Thank you kindly Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?339211 http://osnews.com/thread?339211 Congratulations Kroc. Maybe there will be a few less 'Apple sux' articles now! :-) Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Chicken Blood) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?339215 http://osnews.com/thread?339215 I'm not the head cheese, so the other editors can do as they please. I merely aim to add what quality I can.

(that's of course not saying that the other editors write "apple sux" articles -- that's just my poor grammar )Edited 2008-12-04 18:59 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?339435 http://osnews.com/thread?339435 Apple objectively sucks. Therefore there will be more "Apple sux" articles. Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lcube) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?339510 http://osnews.com/thread?339510 Nothing "objectively sux." To even say that is a contradiction, saying something sucks is an opinion, and therefore a bias. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's your opinion and not objective in the slightest. Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (darknexus) Comments