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Re:Early Hackers Used Whistles from Cap’n Crunch Cereal Boxes by latchkey on Sunday March 17, 2019 @10:37AM (#19414212)
Sorry, it bugs me when I see this guy get written about. Please do not pass up his sexual misconduct issues (mentioned in the article as well). He might be an early legend, but I don't think he should be idolized any longer.

https://hackaday.com/2017/12/01/we-need-to-have-a-chat-about...

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3237591/captain-crunch-aka...

Re:Early Hackers Used Whistles from Cap’n Crunch Cereal Boxes by wkearney99 on Sunday March 17, 2019 @11:09AM (#19414405)
Yow. That's sad. Crunch is a mess. Arguably brilliant with some of the things he's created, but the madness is a pretty high price to pay. Personally, I could never get past his lack of basic hygiene. The back thing, though, prison was not kind to Draper and left him with a lot of on-going pain.

I saw similarities with some of the folks Aaron Swartz associated with back in the 90's. That jackass Winer, for one.

There's a lot of fragility in young minds, do them a favor and call out against this festering abusive behavior. Otherwise they continue to get away with it.

Re:Early Hackers Used Whistles from Cap’n Crunch Cereal Boxes by alexisnorman on Sunday March 17, 2019 @01:34PM (#19415163)
Thank you. People are just now starting to ban him from conferences and what not, but he's still finding his way to prey upon young people in our communities.