For hackers, shop talk, a warning and advice

Monday, 12 July 2004, 2:14 PM EST

His choir was a group of self-described hackers, about 2,000 of them, listening to Wozniak's keynote speech at the HOPE conference--Hackers on Planet Earth--put on by the hacker magazine 2600 News.

Wozniak described his relationship with John T. Draper, a man who became known as "Captain Crunch" 35 years ago when he showed how a plastic whistle that came in Cap'n Crunch cereal boxes could be used to manipulate the national phone system.

By Nicholas Thompson at ZDNet.

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