Chad, The email subject is a reference to Phreaking<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking>, and the first "phreaker", John Draper (aka, Captain Crunch)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper>. He was called this due to using a toy whistle found in a Cap'n Crunch cereal box to hack the phone systems and make free calls to anywhere. This was about 30 years ago.
I don't remember the comment last night that prompted this thread, but I'd like an invitation to whatever it is also, I'm very interested now. :) On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Chad Bailey <[email protected]>wrote: > I fail to see the relevance, but thanks for the history lesson > On Jul 21, 2011 10:50 AM, "R P Herrold" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Chad Bailey wrote: > > > >> Hey guys, not sure the name of the guy who did the presentation, but > >> he had mentioned another group he was trying to get going... had > >> something to do with a whistle in a cereal box, or something like > >> that. Mind sending me an invite for it? > > > > '2600' whistles have not worked for three decades to hack the > > long distance network > > > > -- Russ herrold >
