His  handle  name  was Cap'n Crunch. He got his name 

from the Cap'n Crunch cereal. As a teenager he would 

try  to  have  the pay phone return his coin and put 

his calls  through.  His contribution to the hacking

world  was, phreaking. He created Phreaking by using 

a toy whistle from the boxes of Cap'n Crunch cereal. 

What  the  whistle  would  do  was simulate the 2600 

hertz  tone  that  would  be used to authorize phone 

calls. Used in conjunction with a bluebox it allowed 

the user to make free phone  calls.  There  are  two 

things  that  are not readily know about John Draper.

First,  in August, 1968, he was honorably discharged 

from the U.S. Air Force.  Second  he Wrote the first 

word processor program for the IBM  PC.  By  writing 

this  program  he beat Bill Gates out on the bid for  

the IBM contract. John Draper is currently the owner 

of a security firm. He has also developed a firewall 

system called Crunchbox.  What  it does is halts the

spread of computer viruses. 



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