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John Draper was Born. -
Once John joins the U.S. Air Force he begins to help his fellow Airmen make free phone calls by accessing a local telephone switchboard with any authorization. -
When Draper is stationed in Charleston Air Force Station in Maine he creates a pirated Radio Station and calls it "WKOS" [W-"Chaos"] and after a little while does have to shut down the station due to a couple of things like objections of a licensed radio station etc. -
Draper ended up leaving the Air Fore and moved to Silicon Valley and then he learns how to use this toy whistle that's modified from a Captain Crunch Cereal box and he uses that to Manipulate and hack phone lines through a certain process which became known as "Phone Phreaking". -
Ron Rosenbaum a journalist with Esquire Magazine publishes a investigation article called "The secrets of the little blue box" which exposed phone phreaks phone hacking activities to the public. -
Steve Wozniak, John Draper, and Steve Jobs meet and after meeting they discuss building blue boxes used for phone phreaking which then leads to Wozniak and Jobs setting up a small business selling blue boxes. -
After leaving the Airforce Draper begins attending De Anza college and starts working for KUPP radio in Cupertino, CA as a engineer and disk jokey. -
Once this article is released Draper then gets arrested and is charged with toll fraud and sentenced to 5 years of probation. -
Draper continues breaking the law and is arrested for a second time on phone fraud. -
Draper begins to work for apple and is given an assignment to develop a device that could connect the apple II computer to phone lines. -
While serving his third prison sentence he was obviously bored in jail and wrote the EasyWriter the first word processor for the Apple II. -
Draper is caught again and arrested and serves another prison sentence for phone fraud. -
Draper eventually joins Autodesk Inc. as a video driver software designer but later was fired in 1988 after he was caught in a scheme to create fake Bay Area Rapid Transit tickets ("BART") -
Draper is named CTO of a computer security firm, ShopIP and he serves as the CTO until 2004 -
Draper ends up crowdfunding a campaign to help him pay for his medical bills after undergoing multiple surgeries and also cardiac arrest while under anesthesia