This is the group that was known as the 414 Gang.
In 1982, the first hackers as we know them today are arrested. Hacking as we recognize it today only appeared in the early 80s. You may be surprised that we have only talked about phone hacking so far, but there is a good reason for that. Some of the best known of the kind from the underground were Catch-22 and Sherwood. It is also here in the 70s that the first Bulletin Board Systems (BBS’s) appear. However, it was not because of computer or phone fraud, but because of a conviction for trafficking in Cocaine. Hoffman was a mildly colourful character who for a long period of his life lived on the run from the authorities under an alias. The magazine was founded by Abbie Hoffman and existed until 1984. It is later renamed TAP magazines for Technical Assistance Program. In 1972, the first computer underground magazine is founded, it is called YIPL, which stands for Youth International Party Line. Therefore, it was seen as a sacred duty to cheat as much as possible to bring an end to the war. One of the reasons is of course that it is very easy, but also because at the time there was an additional tax on long distance calls that was used to finance the Vietnam war. After this is done, cheating with the telephone system becomes very common in the United States. The blueprints for this Blue Box are made public in a magazine called Esquire Magazine in an article called Secrets of the little Blue Box. The founders of Apple Computer, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, earn a little extra money during their studies by selling these ‘Blue Boxes’. The Hacker magazine that appears in 1984 under the name 2600 – The Hacker Quarterly got its name from this frequency.
Captain crunch whistle phone calls free#
The whistle emits a tone of 2600 hertz, and when it is sent down the phone line, all long-distance calls are free! Later, Draper builds what becomes known as the Blue Box, a small piece of electronics that can automate the trick of getting free phone calls. It happens when a Vietnam veteran named John Draper, also called Captain Crunch, discovers that a small whistle that comes with the Captain Crunch breakfast can be used to get free long-distance calls. He has been described far and wide in many places, including in a movie.ġ971 is the year when the concept of phreaking, hacking the telephone system, is born in its modern form. This is also the period when you start hearing the name Kevin Mitnick for the first time. There is a lot of disagreement about when exactly this happened, therefore I will refrain from giving a precise year. This happened when a journalist got the term changed after an interview. However, it was during this period that the term hacker changed from something positive to something negative. Initially, the term “hacker” was used as a term of honour for someone who was able to come up with creative solutions to programming problems. This first article will cover the years 1970 to 1990.
Captain crunch whistle phone calls series#
Welcome to this first article in a series of three, where I will cover the history of hacking.
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