Good-bye, Joybubbles

[farkinidjot]

Somehow it only just hit the news. Most of us have no idea how much we actually owe this blind genius.

Joybubbles, 58, Peter Pan of phone hackers, dies

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You used to hang with some of his younger proteges

[torchspop]

A student at the University of South Florida in the late 1960s, he was given the nickname "Whistler," due to his ability to place free long-distance phone calls with his whistle. He was disciplined by the university early on; but after graduating his studies in philosophy and moving to Tennessee, law enforcement raided his house. He was charged with malicious mischief and given a suspended sentence and quickly abandoned phreaking, although was able to whistle 2600 hertz throughout his life.

Re: You used to hang with some of his younger proteges

[farkinidjot]

See the things I learn about myself all these years later?