a blue box using the information the blind teenagers gave him ("Cap'n Crunch in Cyberspace," 2003).
             His box worked, and he started using it to call special phone company numbers where many people could talk at the same time. These numbers were constantly used by phreaks to share information. On one of these lines, someone suggested that Draper take a hacking nickname, so he chose "Cap'n Crunch" because he had discovered that a whistle from a box of the cereal made the 2600 MHz tone, the phone company tone that gave you complete access to the system (Thomas 18).
             A writer named Ron Rosenbaum began talking to a lot of phreakers for an article he was writing for Esquire magazine. Eventually, he got in contact with Draper's blind friends who brought up Draper's name without his permission. His name was printed in the article, and the authorities started to keep an eye on him ("Cap'n Crunch in Cyberspace," 2003).
             Eventually, he was arrested and spent time in a minimum-security prison before his trial. In jail, the criminals beat him up until he agreed to teach them the tricks of the phreaking trade. Being able to make untraceable free calls would certainly help them in their activities on the outside ("Cap'n Crunch in Cyberspace," 2003).
             Draper was sentenced to five months of probation. He dabbled in phreaking a little more but eventually he got into computers. He became friends with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, the co-founders of Apple Computer. He wrote the first word processing program for the Apple, and his programming eventually made him a millionaire (Schnell, 2002).
             Today, blue box phreaking is no longer possible becau
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