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Early Hackers Used Whistles From Cap’n Crunch Cereal Boxes
Cereal companies have long used box prizes as an inducement for children to nag parents into buying sugary breakfast food. From movie tie-in toys to video games on CD-ROM (remember Chex Quest?), cereal box baubles tend to be momentarily thrilling and then quickly forgotten. Except when they’re used for hacking.
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Otherwise known as phreakers... does anyone remember good ol' Captain Crunch aka John Draper?