Captain Crunch




1. <person> ("Cap'n Crunch") An early 1970s hacker/phreaker/{phacker} who used a free whistle included with "Cap'n Crunch" breakfast cereal to fake pay phone system tones and make large quantities of free phone calls.

Also alludes to "crunch".

Home (http://www.well.com/user/crunch/)}.

2. (After the above) wardialer.

3. Reportedly, a program which crashes a computer by overloading the interruptstack.



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