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I don't do that. I don't do that anymore at all. And if I do it, I do it for one reason and one reason only. I'm learning about a system. The phone company is a System. A computer is a System, do you understand? If I do what I do, it is only to explore a system. Computers, systems, that's my bag. The
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resulted in a meeting that led Draper into the world of "phone phreaks", people who study and experiment with telephone networks, and who sometimes use that knowledge to make free calls. Teresi and several other phone phreaks were blind. Learning of Draper's knowledge of electronic design, they asked
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Describing one such workout with Draper in an authorized biography, writer Craig Wilson Fraser wrote: "The first time he showed me his technique, my drug-fueled paranoia went through the roof that he had some kind of sexual intent. His over-eagerness, the close physical contact and his noises of
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in use by those companies. In theory, this would allow unlimited and free long-distance phone calls. "It was an incredible board. But no one at Apple liked Crunch. Only me. They wouldn't let his device become a product," Wozniak said of the episode. Some of its techniques would later be used in
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of which he claims to be an advocate. Draper conceded that in some instances he may have experienced an erection during the encounters which allegedly included massages of the leg and arm muscles as well as squats and pushups while carrying Draper's bodyweight.
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system. He pled guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges in 1988 and entered a diversion program. While facing prosecution, he remained on the
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was available for routing a new call. The tone disconnected one end of the trunk while the still-connected side entered an operator mode. The vulnerability they had exploited was limited to call-routing switches that relied on
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Beyond The Little Blue Box: The biographical adventures of John T Draper (aka
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engineer. As a child, he built a home radio station from discarded military components. He was frequently bullied in school and briefly received psychological treatment.
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relief would likely give the soberest of minds cause for concern, so augmentation by hallucinogens made it a little terrifying. Thankfully it was just my own paranoia."
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recordings of tones to make free calls. Among the phone phreaks, one blind boy who had taken the moniker of
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