Phone Phreak Captain Crunch Rare Interview from '78

[BarneySecurity]

Amazing!

The grandfather of Anonymous itself in flesh and bones .

[oleesquivel87]

This is awesome:......hard to believe this pc was cutting edge back then

[ThisisAliFareedshow]

I respect This guy even though the Old Phone Era ended No More Phone Phreaking

[Teledyol]

Great to see Crunch hasn't changed much in almost the 30 years that I've known him. This footage should be in the Computer History Museum for sure as part of the permanent collection.

[joetrip]

@Teledyol Thanks for the suggestion. I offered this video to the Computer History Museum, and it is now part of their permanent collection.

[geoharmonic]

In that court case, Crunch did a plea bargain and got the charges dropped by telling the FBI everything he knew about their phone system. He told then things about their system that they never even knew. They were shaking in their boots after this disclosure. This triggered in a complete restructuring of Bell Telephone company and caused them to seriously upgrade how phone systems work today. An important stepping stone on the path to the modern internet.

[geoharmonic]

That is an amazing interview especially the last five minutes!!!!  A man I know well but never knew back then. What a treat to see this. The last five minutes is the amazing bit about one man fighting the system and catching the government spying on people's phone calls

[Ragooman]

We salute you Cap'n Crunch <whistle~2600hz)