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The Twilight Years of Cap’n Crunch, an

The Twilight Years of Cap’n Crunch, an article on olde tyme hacker, phone phreak, and tech legend John Draper. I met Draper at Etech one year; he seemed like a brilliant man not quite at ease with society. (Also, when you see a phrase like “rave scene” in a WSJ article, it’s probably a euphemism for something.)