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Tim (he/him) @timemastertim.bsky.social

#otd 1972: Captain Crunch, John Thomas Draper, arrested by the FBI in Los Gatos, CA. Named after the cereal which used to give away toy whistles that had a perfect 2,600 cycle tone, the tone needed to enter the "tandems", long distance telephone circuits between cities. He was the friend of (1/2)

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Tim (he/him) @timemastertim.bsky.social

"Phone Phreaks" everywhere, famous for his free telephone conversations which sometimes reached his friends via every continent on Earth. (2/2)

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