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The Original Whistle Blower (Captian Crunch) is Born
John T. Draper, 1995 Canberra, Australia. -
John Enlists in the U.S. Air Force
After enlisting in the U.S. Air Force, John begins helping other service members make free phone calls by accessing a a local telephone switchboard without authorization. -
Draper Takes to The Airwaves
While stationed in Charleston Air Force Station in Maine, Draper created a pirate radio station "WKOS" [W-"chaos"], which he later shut down due to the objections of a licensed radio station. -
Birth of the Phone Phreaks
After leaving the Air Force, Draper moved to Silicon Valley and learns to use a modified toy whistle from a Captain Crunch Cereal box to manipulate and hack phone lines through a process which became known as "Phone Phreaking". -
The Article to End the Phreaks
Ron Rosenbaum with Esquire magazine publishes an investigative article "The secrets of the little blue box", which made the phone phreaks phone hacking activities public. -
Post Military Life
Draper begins attending De Anza College and working for KUPP radio in Cupertino, CA as an engineer and disk jokey. -
Drapers Arrest
Following the Esquire article, Draper was arrested on charges of toll fraud and sentenced to 5 years probation. -
Draper, Woz, and Jobs
Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Jonn Draper meet for the first time to discuss building blue boxes used for phone phreaking which then allowed Wozniak and Jobs to set up a small business selling blue boxes. -
A Hackers Gonna Hack
Draper is arrested for a second time under charges of phone fraud. -
The Apple II
Draper begins working for Apple and is tasked with developing a device that could connect the Apple II computer to phone lines. -
Staying True to the Hack
Draper serves another prison sentence for phone fraud. -
The EasyWriter
While serving his third prison sentence, Draper wrote EasyWriter, the first word processor for the Apple II. -
Autodesk
Draper joins Autodesk, Inc. as a designer of video driver software but was subsequently fired in 1988 after being charged in a scheme to create fake Bay Area Rapid Transit ("BART") tickets. -
Draper Named Chief Technology Officer ("CTO")
Draper is named CTO of a computer security firm, ShopIP. He served in this role until 2004 -
A Legend in Decline
Draper establishes a crowdfunding campaign to help pay for medical bills after undergoing multiple surgeries and cardiac arrest while under anesthesia. -
Draper Today
Today, Draper continues to battle allegations of misconduct, including unwanted sexual attention and stalking, which Draper denies. He currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada and has co-authored his autobiography "Beyond The Little Blue Box".
