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  John Draper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John T. Draper (born 1944), also known as Captain Crunch, Crunch or Crunchman (after Cap'n Crunch, the mascot of a breakfast cereal), was a phone phreaker.
The class of vulnerabities Draper and others discovered was limited to call routing switches that employed in-band signaling, whereas newer equipment relies almost exclusively on out-of-band signaling, the use of separate circuits to transmit voice and signals.
Draper was arrested on toll fraud charges in 1972 and sentenced to five years' probation.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: John Draper
John William Draper was greatly interested in the chemical effects of light; among other accomplishments, he took the first daguerreotype of the Moon in the winter of 1839-1840 and one of the first human portraits in 1840.
Draper was married in 1867 to Anna Mary Palmer, a wealthy socialite who proved as able a laboratory assistant as she was a hostess.
Draper received numerous awards, including honorary law degrees from NYU and the University of Wisconsin, a Congressional medal for directing the U.S. expedition to photograph the 1874 transit of Venus, and election to both the National Academy of Sciences and the Astronomische Gesellschaft.
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 Draper, John William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Draper’s chief contribution to abstract science was research in radiant energy.
Draper’s research in the effect of light upon chemicals led him to take up photography.
His son, Henry Draper, 1837–82, was a physician by vocation, but he made major contributions in the field of astronomical photography and spectroscopy.
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 John Draper, Phone Hacker
John Draper was one of the first well known phone hackers, and the first famous "phone phreak".
John popularized the use of this whistle, and became known by the hacker handle "Cap'n Crunch".
John became infamous, and was arrested in May, 1972 for illegal use of the telephone company's system.
www.livinginternet.com /i/ia_hackers_draper.htm   (259 words)

  
 DRAPER, John | British History Online
Mr John Draper was examined a third time and he was considered to have answered to all, if not appositely, at least not without learning and he was approved a third time.
Mr John Draper asked to be examined but he was advised that he should have come about it before and so he was deferred until the next Censors' day.
John Draper of Trinity College, Cambridge, was examined for a Licence and approved for the first time.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=17385   (268 words)

  
 John William Draper
His son, John Christopher Draper, physician, born in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, 31 March 1835; died in New York City, 20 December 1885, entered the University of New York in 1852, but, leaving the classical department, was graduated at the medical school in 1857.
Draper was a member of the New York academy of medicine, and in 1873 received the degree of LL.
Draper was a member of scientific societies in the United States and in Europe, and in 1877 was elected to the National academy of sciences.
www.famousamericans.net /johnwilliamdraper   (2083 words)

  
 Blue Ridge Country: Mary Draper Ingles
George Draper (Mary's widowed mother), Casper Barger (an elderly widower whose head was carried away in a cloth bag and gruesomely displayed at the next settlement), and John Draper's infant son (who was "brained" against Ingles' log cabin walls).
The manuscript by John Ingles, Sr., the son of Mary and George who was born 10 years after his mother's return from captivity, makes no mention of a baby born on the trail.
Son John built her "a proper house" near the ferry along the Stagecoach Road, Mary continued to live in the windowless log home that her husband had built for them, saying she felt safer there.
www.blueridgecountry.com /ingles/ingles.html   (3089 words)

  
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As John wrestled with the CIA agents on the floor, a third appeared from the front door and hit John with a billy club, rendering him unconscious.
John Draper had been wheeled into a similar room, but it was padded.
John Draper was released from the stretcher and thrown onto the padded floor.
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 Draper
Draper also created a second antithesis to strengthen his claim that Christianity in general, and Roman Catholicism in particular, was anti-science: the Creation and evolution antithesis, with revelation on one side, and science in an apparently mutually exclusive opposite position.
Draper argued that the assertion of Papal Infallibility was an attempt to regain power amidst worries that the Pope might lose power in political upheavals.
Draper’s presentation was deemed to be unfair – he did not (since he was aiming at a popular audience) reference his work, but tried to teach as one with authority, so his questionable assertions carried no external support or justification.
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 A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: DRAPER, John William   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Draper, an Englishman by birth, was a professor of chemistry at New York University.
Draper set up a partnership with Samuel Morse, a colleague at New York University.
Draper and Morse have also been credited with the discovery that since the exposures were long, there would be no harm in blinking, so the eyes could be kept open - something that other photographers of their time had not grasped.
www.rleggat.com /photohistory/history/draper.htm   (202 words)

  
 Mary Ingles' Escape Story Like 'Thriller' Fiction Tale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Draper's Meadows and Ingles Ferry were two early settlements in Kanawha county settled by the Draper and the Ingles families.
Draper her son and daughter, Adam Harmon, Henry Lenard, and James Burke left for the west and made the first settlement west of the Allegheny Great Divide.
Draper, notwithstanding her lame arm, was subjected to this painful ordeal.
www.wvculture.org /hiStory/notewv/ingles1.html   (2405 words)

  
 Australian Journal of Anthropology, The: John Norman Draper, 1955-1994 - anthropologist - Obituary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Even if well, this is a conference John probably would not have attended, for in recent years he had been engaged in several aid projects in Vietnam, where he lived with his wife Laurie Zivetz and their children Sion, aged twelve, and Sara, aged seven.
Although it seemed that John's death was immanent at that time, his condition stabilised and health improved somewhat, enabling him to leave the hospice in Sydney and return to his home in Canberra, where he had lived previously, and where his parents and brother live also.
John was forced by his illness and his appreciation of how little time he had left to bring his dissertation to a form with which he was at least content, so that it would be available to others.
www.dynomind.com /p/articles/mi_m2472/is_n3_v5/ai_17382008   (476 words)

  
 Henry Draper Biography
Draper's mother was the former Antonia Coetana de Paiva Pereira Gardner, whose own father was personal physician to the emperor of Brazil.
Draper had an older brother, John Christopher, who became a noted physician and chemist like his father, and a younger brother, Daniel, who distinguished himself in meteorology.
Young Henry Draper assisted his father in photographing microscope slides for a textbook at the age of thirteen and used similar techniques for his own medical thesis on the spleen in 1857.
www2.naic.edu /~gibson/draper   (949 words)

  
 Independent, The (London): Obituary: John Draper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
JOHN DRAPER has a unique place in British motorcycling history as the first British rider to win the European Moto Cross Championship.
Just a year later John Draper was leading the prestigious Scottish Six Days Trial on the third day, until the flooded River Arnisdale drowned the BSA's engine and delayed Draper's progress enough to rob him of all hope of presenting BSA with their first victory in one of the most demanding sporting trials.
Draper was followed home by a phalanx of British talent to a convincing domination of what was then the Olympic Games of motorcycling.
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 John Draper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Experimenting with this whistle inspired Draper to build blue box es: electronic devices capable of reproducing other tones used by the phone company.
Some hackers sometimes go by the handle "Captain Crunch" even today, as a result of this incident and 2600 The Hacker Quarterly is named after the frequency of the whistle.
John Gailey, Boy Scouts: a"oeWe just found out in the last few minutes, we obviously would like to know more, we're just grateful that he is okay." A 20-year old scout leader who has been missing all day has...
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-John_Draper.html   (980 words)

  
 NYU > GSAS > News & Events > Events > John W. Draper Lecture Series
Periodically, the John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Humanities and Social Thought in co-production with the Graduate School of Arts and Science, presents a Distinguished Lecture delivered by an outstanding figure whose life and work inspire excellence in others.
John W. Draper, for whom the lecture series and the Graduate School's Program in Humanities and Social Thought are named, taught in the sciences at N.Y.U. He was one of the Medical School¹s founders and also pursued research on photography.
Draper's scholarly curiosity was not limited to the sciences, however.
www.nyu.edu /gsas/faculty/cgi/beads/gsas_local/NewsEvents/Events/draper.html   (306 words)

  
 JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He is well known also as the author of The History of the Intellectual Development of Europe (1862), applying the methods of physical science to history, a History of the American Civil War (3 vols., 1867-1870), and a History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874).
His son, HENRY DRAPER (1837-1882), graduated at the University of New York in 1858, became professor of natural science there in 186o,,and was professor of physiology (in the medical school) and dean of the faculty in f 8661873.
Henry Drapers most important contributions to science were made in spectroscopy; he ruled~ metal gratings in 1869-1870, made valuable spectrum photographs after 1871, and proved the presence of oxygen in the sun in a monograph of 1877.
www.1911ency.org /D/DR/DRAPER_JOHN_WILLIAM.htm   (352 words)

  
 John Draper: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A whistle is a one-note woodwind instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air....
Draper was arrested on toll fraud[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] charges in 1972 and sentenced to five years' probation.
Draper later ported Easywriter to the IBM PC[Click link for more facts about this topic], EHandler: no quick summary.
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 John draper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 John T. Draper - Bedeutung, Definition, Erklärung im netlexikon
Draper studierte Ingenieurwesen und beschäftigte sich in seiner Freizeit mit Funkgeräten.
John Draper wurde schließlich 1971 vom FBI verhaftet, da die US-amerikanische Telefongesellschaft Ma Bell ihn deswegen angezeigt hatte und ein Journalist namens John Rosenbaum vor der Sache Wind bekam.
Auch später kam Draper mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt: von Oktober 1976 bis Februar 1977 saß er in einem Federal Correctional Complex (FCC), dem Staatsgefängnis Lompoc, Kalifornien (auch genannt The New Rock, da es das legendäre Alcatraz, The Rock, in San Francisco Bay ersetzte).
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 Henry Draper (1837-1882)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, the son of John William Draper (1811-1882), a professor of chemistry and botany at the New York University, who invented photochemistry and did important pioneering research in order to develop photographic techniques.
John William Draper obtained the first daguerrotype of the Moon in 1840, of the Solar spectrum in 1843.
Henry Draper died in New York on November 20, 1882 of a respiratory ailment at age of only 45.
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 John Draper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John T. Draper, also known as Captain Crunch (after Cap'n Crunch, the mascot of a breakfast cereal),was a phone phreaker.
Experimentingwith this whistle inspired Draper to build blue boxes : electronic devices capableof reproducing other tones used by the phone company.
Some hackers sometimes go by the handle"Captain Crunch" even today, as a result of this incident and 2600 The Hacker Quarterly is named after the frequency of the whistle.
www.therfcc.org /john-draper-90126.html   (237 words)

  
 Captain Crunch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Of course, Draper didn't actually discover that fact (the honor goes to a blind phone phreak named Joe Engressia) but he was quite happy to not go out of his way to correct people when they claimed he had.
This propensity to snag the spotlight got John the first of several prison sentences because of the publication of an article called "Secrets of the Little Blue Box", which was about a telephone device favored by Draper and others to fuck majorly with Ma Bell.
Draper, as he now resembles how Jim Henson would have looked if he'd lived a little longer and ceased taking any care of himself.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/hackers/captain-crunch   (330 words)

  
 The Anniston Star - John Draper for school board
His name is John Draper, and he brings a wealth of practical experience and knowledge to the table.
Yes, Draper currently serves as president of the Council of Leaders in Alabama Schools, a group that represents the state’s public school administrators.
Draper is a conscientious man, a man who is willing to listen to arguments before casting his vote.
www.annistonstar.com /opinion/2004/as-editorials-0628-editorial-4f25r1412.htm   (461 words)

  
 John william - The JW Miller Fellowship Fund
By John William Draper, MD, LL.D. Late Professor in the University of New York John William Draper.
John W. Snow President George W. Bush nominated John William Snow to be the 73rd Secretary of the Treasury on January 13, 2003.
Lord Rayleigh was born John William Strutt into a barony begun in 1821 on the occasion of King George IV's coronation.
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 Gan HaLev: John Draper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Draper was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1919 and moved around a lot as a child.
His father, John Draper Sr., operated paper / pulp mills throughout New England, eventually settling in West Groton, Massachusetts.
My grandfather eventually acquired a modest mill of his own but lost it in the Depression and soon thereafter experienced the onset of glaucoma and blindness.
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 Freedom of the City and the London Livery Companies
The "political bent" of John COMBES, draper, was possibly due to his master, Sir Thomas PULLYSON, who served as an alderman from 1573 to 1588, and as mayor in 1584, just one year after John was admitted to freedom.
John COMBE of Aldermanbury and Richard ARCHDALE of Elbow Lane (son of Barnard and Anne FERNE Archdale) were Drapers who both invested in a variety of trading companies, including the Levantine, East India and London companies (the latter spearheading efforts to colonize Virginia).
Mary the Virgin Aldermanbury parish records show that John COMBE was a "common counsellman" at the time of his death in 1610.
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 Draper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the 1892 publication, The Drapers of America, 1630-1892, authored by Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, he indicated that little was known of the family’s history, that it was supposed that Thomas Draper of SC was a son of Peter and Hannah Draper of VA. Today, we know that is an error.
John Burgess died suddenly in 1858 and was buried in the Draper cemetery at Twelve Mile.
John was the last of that generation to expire, per RW Draper’s letter.
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