{"id":12522,"date":"2017-04-04T16:46:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T16:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/itexpo_attendee_capn_crunch_needs_your_help.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:30:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:30:30","slug":"itexpo-attendee-capn-crunch-needs-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/itexpo-attendee-capn-crunch-needs-your-help.html","title":{"rendered":"ITEXPO Attendee Cap&#8217;n Crunch Needs Your Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/john-draper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2017\/04\/john-draper-thumb-500x333-15709.jpg\" alt=\"john-draper.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I first met John Draper or Cap&#8217;n Crunch at ITEXPO in Los Angeles as he was looking to connect with Asterisk Creator and Digium founder Mark Spencer. I still remember how mystified people at the conference were when they learned this gentleman&#8217;s nickname was a breakfast cereal. In case you don&#8217;t know the story, John blew the whistle that came in the box of Captain Crunch cereal into a phone and was able to subsequently hack into the AT&#038;T Central Office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/Captain_Crunch_at_Maker_Faire_Berlin_IMG_1282_by_sebaso.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2017\/04\/Captain_Crunch_at_Maker_Faire_Berlin_IMG_1282_by_sebaso-thumb-500x333-15711.jpg\" alt=\"Captain_Crunch_at_Maker_Faire_Berlin_IMG_1282_by_sebaso.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He became the first hacker by accident.<\/p>\n<p>Draper also knew Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, a past <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\">ITEXPO <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/steve-wozniak-to-keynote-itexpo-las-vegas.html\">keynoter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Cap&#8217;n now needs our help. He has a major medical situation. From his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/crunch-medical-fund\">GoFundMe<\/a> page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Captain Crunch<\/span><span>&nbsp;will be facing&nbsp;some very difficult&nbsp;surgery on&nbsp;<\/span><span>March 28, 2017<\/span><span>&nbsp;involving 3 incisions, 1 in his side after removal of one of his ribs. 1 in the front of his stomach where they have to move all of his vital organs aside and 1 in his back requiring an 8 inch incision to gain access to his spinal column.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span>They have to put a &#8220;cage&#8221; surrounding his discs and add 4 more screws to help support his spine.The surgery will last approximately 9 hours or more, and may involve a second surgery the following week&nbsp;if there isn&#8217;t enough time to complete the entire surgery at once.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span>This extremely complex and dangerous surgery gives Crunch a&nbsp;<\/span><span>50\/50<\/span><span>&nbsp;chance of a normal life. A&nbsp;<\/span><span>10%<\/span><span>&nbsp;chance he may not recover at all and a&nbsp;<\/span><span>20%<\/span><span>&nbsp;chance of becoming&nbsp;<\/span><span>permantly paralyzed<\/span><span>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span>There is&nbsp;<\/span><span>4 to 6 months of recovery&nbsp;<\/span>and requires significant homecare after he is discharged from the&nbsp;rehab center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Telecom has a few <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2017\/04\/02\/hacking-pioneer-john-draper-aka-capn-crunch-needs-funds-for-medical-help\/\">iconic characters<\/a> &#8211; Cap&#8217;n Crunch is one of them and now he needs the community to support him.<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, 106 donations have been made worth just over $4,000.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/crunch-medical-fund\/donate\">This<\/a>&nbsp;is how you can make one as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first met John Draper or Cap&#8217;n Crunch at ITEXPO in Los Angeles as he was looking to connect with Asterisk Creator and Digium founder Mark Spencer. I still remember how mystified people at the conference were when they learned this gentleman&#8217;s nickname was a breakfast cereal. In case you don&#8217;t know the story, John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,156,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18388,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12522\/revisions\/18388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}