Talk:John Draper

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Contents 1 NPOV in final paragraph 2 Apple II Telephone Interface 3 Currently almost homeless? 4 source of the captain crunch info

[edit] NPOV in final paragraph

I removed NPOV statements in the final paragraph. It originally read, "An interesting story about Captain Crunch involves what is possibly the most insane phone-call ever. Draper picked up a public phone, then proceeded to literally "phreak" his call around the world. At no charge, he routed a call through different phone "servers" in countries such as Japan, Russia and England. Once he had set the call to go through nths of countries, he dialed the number of the public phone right next to him. Sure enough, a few minutes later, the phone next to him rang. John spoke into the first phone, and, after quite a few seconds, he heard his own voice very faintly on the other phone. This is just one example of his career in phreaking exploits."

'Possibly the most insane... ever', struck me as highly subjective and too 'slangy'. I also struck 'Sure enough', from the sentence 'sure enough, a few minutes later...' Wisco 08:49, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

I removed the irrelevant link to the ad-filled blog [1]. If this was in fact not irrelevant, my apologies - just add it back. 128.135.108.122 02:52, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apple II Telephone Interface

This sounds fishy, anyone else care to comment?

Wozniak has said that the reason that the board was never marketed was that he was the only one in the company who liked him and partially due to Draper's arrest and conviction for wire fraud in 1977.

--Blakeops 10:04, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

That can be backed up. Simply listen to the interview from Gnomedex 4.0! That's practically verbatim! http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail215.html

SiennaLizard 17:18, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

The bit about Draper is about 30 minutes in to the recording: "but everyone else at apple didn't like Crunch, only me." I'm going to go ahead and add that link as a reference, although I'm not totally familiar with Wikipedia's reference policy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.146.130.162 (talk) 21:19, 16 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Currently almost homeless?

See http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116863379291775523-_EQCu93LyjSommsN6J7qiCozuu8_20070122.html?mod=blogs —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.174.117.184 (talk) 23:12, 17 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] source of the captain crunch info

In the bonus features of the Sneakers DVD, John mentions that the name of his friend who mentioned the whistle to him is "Sid." Do we have a citation that Joe is his friend's name? Cheers, Debivort 03:57, 24 March 2007 (UTC)