Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!well!rab From: rab@well.UUCP (Bob Bickford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Delay in EGAD updates Message-ID: <2366@well.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 06:29:41 EST Article-I.D.: well.2366 Posted: Mon Jan 12 06:29:41 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Jan-87 21:47:17 EST References: <134@mentat.UUCP> Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 38 Keywords: ridiculous reasons to get arrested In a previous article Doug Merrit writes: > Since John Draper (a.k.a. Cap'n Crunch, well!crunch) has been arrested > on charges of counterfeiting $32 BART tickets (public transit), it looks > like it may be awhile before we see another release of EGAD. > > BTW Draper got his nickname for using free whistles from boxes of > Captain Crunch cereal for "phone phreaking" in the 70's (the whistles just > happened to be the right frequency to fool the phone equipment) and was > convicted in 1976 for this activity. Not quite the whole truth. John built and sold some of the first "Blue Boxes" and it was this that got him into jail. And got his back broken and his two front teeth knocked out by some mob types who didn't like it when he said he wouldn't build any more boxes.... > > EGAD is a great idea, sorry to see Draper unavailable for work on it, > especially on such a ridiculous alleged activity. > Doug Merritt ihnp4!hoptoad!mentat!doug, > ucbvax!unisoft!certes!mentat!doug We've been discussing this on the WELL, and the general feeling here is that John probably isn't that stupid (many of us know him personally). On the BART tickets, well, almost ten years ago IEEE Spectrum ran an article that detailed how incredibly unsecure they are; I'd be VERY surprised if there weren't fake tickets for sale out there somewhere. Whether John might have been dumb enough to buy some of these I don't know..... He is out on bail, and arraignment is set for. But, the moron police took his computer equipment, so he's not on-line. -- Robert Bickford {hplabs, ucbvax, lll-lcc, ptsfa, msudoc}!well!rab terrorist cryptography DES drugs cipher secret decode NSA CIA NRO IRS coke crack pot LSD russian missile atom nuclear assassinate libyan RSA The above is food for the NSA line eater. Add it to your .signature and you too can help overflow the NSA's ability to scan all traffic going in or out of the USA looking for "significant" words. (This is not a joke, sadly.)