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From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Crunch, EGAD, and such
Message-ID: <891@killer.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-May-87 23:24:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 15 23:24:24 1987
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in article <302@osupyr.UUCP>, akw@osupyr.UUCP (Andrew Weaver) says:
> 
> Not to be insensitive and/or naive (definitely the latter here) but what
> exactly transpired that John Draper would have his hardware confiscated by
> what sounds like the Federal Gov't?

Well, see, back in the '70s he got thrown in jail a couple of times for phone
fraud (phreaking). So nowadays, whenever something goes wrong, they go up to
Cap'n Crunch's door and arrest him automatically :-).

If I recall right, the current situation started with Crunch being accused of
forging BART (Bay Area Rapit Transid, SF & environs) tickets. What that has to
do with Crunch's computer getting expert-witnessed to death is anybody's
guess, I suppose they think he wrote software that when you run it would spit
a BART ticket out the disk drive door?! More likely, they said "hmm, we can't
get him on the BART rap, but this dude has been in jail twice and is guilty of
SOMETHING, maybe computer junk since he has one, so we'll just empound his
computer and take our time and make things as hard on the slimeball as
possible". 

Sheesh.

DISCLAIMER: I don't know anything about the situation besides what I've heard
thru the net, and what a friend who talked to Crunch, before the situation
broke out, said (basically, "Poor Crunch has trouble getting a job because
despite being a good programmer, nobody wants to hire someone with that kind
of reputation, for some reason"). By which I can just imagine the reaction of
the typical suit-and-tie IBM-forever business ghoul when presented with
Crunch... 

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