Cybercrime History: Curious Captains are Calling, Pt 3

More about Our Guest

https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/grabosky-pn

Persons of Note:

Abbie Hoffman

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-new-york-stock-exchange-gave-abbie-hoffman-his-start-guerrilla-theater-180964612/

JoyBubbles, Josef Carl Engressia Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joybubbles

Captain Crunch

(VIDEO) 2015: "History of Hacking" by John "Captain Crunch" Draper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK-352AWaKk

Yan Laura (22 Oct 2019) An Early Hacker Used a Cereal Box Whistle to Take Over Phone Lines

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a20762221/an-early-hacker-used-a-cereal-box-whistle-to-take-over-phone-lines/

CSO, (20 Nov, 2017) Captain Crunch aka John Draper banned from DefCon for sexual misconduct

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3237591/captain-crunch-aka-john-draper-banned-from-defcon-for-sexual-misconduct.html

Captain Zap

Delio, Michelle (Feb 6, 2001) The Greatest Hacks of All Time

https://www.wired.com/2001/02/the-greatest-hacks-of-all-time/

CaptainZap

https://hackstory.net/Captain_Zap

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

Lapsley, Phil (Feb 20, 2013) The Definitive Story of Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Phone Phreaking

(VIDEO) 1984: "Wozniak Meets Steve Jobs: Blue Box Free Phone Calls Worldwide" by Steve Wozniak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeVOpDUWwpU

Reading

Donn B Parker Crime by Computer (1976)

August Bequai Computer Crime (1978)

Steve Levy Hackers: Heroes of the computer revolution (1984)

Gordon Meyer & Jim Thomas COMPUTER UNDERGROUND DIGEST (1990-2000)

http://www.computer-underground-digest.org/

Clough and Mungo Approaching Zero 1992

C. Stoll Cuckoo’s Egg (1989)

Other

A few things that you missed:

You could read this paper from 1977, in which August Bequai attempts to define and illustrate the then 100 million dollar problem of computer crime :

https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/polqua6&i=22

The Equity Funding Scam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_Funding

Barbash, Fred(Nov 16, 1982) High Court to Review SEC Action on Whistleblower,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/11/16/high-court-to-review-sec-action-on-whistleblower/5d132a9e-f411-4138-acff-19d464c99189/

Initial findings of the SEC on The Equity Funding Corporation

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/aljdec/1978/id19780901djm.pdf

MIT still has a Model railway club

http://tmrc.mit.edu/

Rod Stewart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Stewart) is a railway enthusiast. I once worked with a guy who had a beer with Rod Stewart and insisted he was a good bloke.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50403561

Information wants to be free

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free

What is a punch card?

https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/punccard.htm

DARPA, the group behind the internet infrastructure, still exists

https://www.darpa.mil/