Cap’n Crunch’s Whistle: How It Led to Phone Hacking
Unraveling how a toy whistle from Cap’n Crunch cereal boxes led hackers to crack AT&T’s phone network and sparked a tech revolution.
Unraveling how a toy whistle from Cap’n Crunch cereal boxes led hackers to crack AT&T’s phone network and sparked a tech revolution.
In 1971, a toy whistle from a cereal box exposed AT&T’s billion-dollar network, sparking a tech revolution that influenced Apple’s founders.
Phone phreakers discovered a simple cereal box whistle could hack AT&T’s entire network, launching a tech revolution that changed computing forever.
Secrets of Cap’n Crunch’s cereal whistle reveal how a simple toy sparked the global hacking revolution and changed telecommunications forever.