[XCSSA] "History of Hacking" Series on YouTube

[xcssa@xcssa.org]

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 20:45, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:16:06PM -0500, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> > Lot of good historical info on the early phreaking scene, blue boxing,
> > how the phreaking crowd and Captain Crunch inspired the creation of the
> > first Apple Computer, etc.
>
> Oddly, one of the only people to contact me about my dynamic firewall
> daemon was Crunch. 

Wow.. that's cool!

> He used to sell a obsd-based firewall box called 
> the Crunchbox, I assume it was related to that.  Still, odd.
> Apparently he's having a rough time making a living because although
> he had a felony conviction which was expunged, the private companies
> which collect this information don't always remove it, and to force
> them to he has to take them to court... since there are so many, a
> lawyer quoted him $750k...  and he's in poor health.

Wow.. that's un-cool.

Tweeks