Teen Who Sold White iPhone Kits

alan_ri · 05-28-2011, 01:19 PM

And How Apple Hunted Him Down

http://www.fastcompany.com/1755567/a...ne-fei-lam&usg

They must be angry about this virus thing going on too.

paulsm4 · 05-28-2011, 02:52 PM

That was no kid! That was Steve Wozniak (who was justifiably miffed at the "other Steve" for hogging all the Apple glory

)

Capn' Crunch rides again

PS:
The kid in question actually met Woz ... and the two hit it off together.

smeezekitty · 05-28-2011, 04:08 PM

Big evil companies at it again.
Two wrongs != right.
Apple, Google, Microsoft - They all need to go down.

alan_ri · 05-28-2011, 06:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paulsm4

Capn' Crunch rides again

Well you know the story then, it's lovely and it goes something like this;

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Draper picked up a public phone, then proceeded to “phreak” his call around the world. At no charge, he routed a call through different phone switches in countries such as Japan, Russia and England. Once he had set the call to go through dozens of countries, he dialed the number of the public phone next to him. A few minutes later, the phone next to him rang. Draper spoke into the first phone, and, after quite a few seconds, he heard his own voice very faintly on the other phone. Draper also claimed that he and a friend once managed to place a direct call to the White House and spoke directly with someone who sounded like Richard Nixon; Draper’s friend told the man about a toilet paper shortage in Los Angeles.

paulsm4 · 05-28-2011, 09:02 PM

Alan_ri -

Yup. Thanks for sharing - I forgot about the Richard Nixon/toilet paper part

Book recommendation: "The Master Switch", Timothy Wu

He makes a compelling argument about the "new", post-return-of-Steve-Jobs Apple being against everything that the original company stood for, in terms of the "open standards" Steve Wozniak embraced in the Apple II.

Another link you might enjoy:

The Merry Pranksters of Microcomputing

alan_ri · 05-29-2011, 09:26 AM

Thanks for the links, Paul! I will check them out.

And one for you; http://www.google.com/search?client=...utf-8&oe=utf-8

Second link there is pdf "THE ART OF DECEPTION"

And movie Takedown is worth watching. It's about Kevin; http://www.takedown.com/bio/mitnick.html

He also liked Captain Crunch, it seems...

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To facilitate later social engineering they planted their pseudonyms and phone numbers in a rolodex sitting on one of the desks in the room. With a flourish one of the fake names they used was "John Draper," who was an actual computer programmer also known as the legendary phone phreak, Captain Crunch, the phone numbers were actually misrouted numbers that would ring at a coffee shop pay phone in Van Nuys.

[EDIT]
About the link, well Google is doing... whatever, use thehackademy.net link.