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Captain Crunch is the alias of John Draper, a famous hacker and phone phreak from the Unites States. He had been sent to prison several times in the 1980s for his phone phreaking activities. Crunch’s name refers to the breakfast cereal from which one could obtain a small whistle that ‘Captain Crunch’ used to hack the phone system because this whistle generated the right ‘2600’ frequencies. Crunch was connected to the Well, one of San Francisco’s first Internet communities. He also worked with Autodesk, an innovative software company at the time.