History of Hacking Part 2

In History of Hacking Part 2, we see that by now the Phone Phreaking has become widespread and due to the easy availability of Blue Boxes, more and more people are resorting to making free phone calls. Of course, AT&T discovered the glitch and set the cops behind Phone Phreakers. Blue Boxes became banned items and possession of one, constituted a crime.

During this time Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs met up with John Draper, learnt the art of Phone Phreaking and started selling Blue Boxes. This was Apple's humble beginning ;-)

Links:

1. Captain Crunch a.k.a John Draper

2. Phone Phreaking

3. Steve Jobs

4. Steve Wozniak

5. Apple Computers

Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the founder of an online startup (currently in stealth mode). Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net