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John T. Draper, 1995 Canberra, Australia.
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After enlisting in the U.S. Air Force, John begins helping other service members make free phone calls by accessing a a local telephone switchboard without authorization.
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While stationed in Charleston Air Force Station in Maine, Draper created a pirate radio station "WKOS" [W-"chaos"], which he later shut down due to the objections of a licensed radio station.
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After leaving the Air Force, Draper moved to Silicon Valley and learns to use a modified toy whistle from a Captain Crunch Cereal box to manipulate and hack phone lines through a process which became known as "Phone Phreaking".
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Ron Rosenbaum with Esquire magazine publishes an investigative article "The secrets of the little blue box", which made the phone phreaks phone hacking activities public.
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Draper begins attending De Anza College and working for KUPP radio in Cupertino, CA as an engineer and disk jokey.
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Following the Esquire article, Draper was arrested on charges of toll fraud and sentenced to 5 years probation.
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Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Jonn Draper meet for the first time to discuss building blue boxes used for phone phreaking which then allowed Wozniak and Jobs to set up a small business selling blue boxes.
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Draper is arrested for a second time under charges of phone fraud.
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Draper begins working for Apple and is tasked with developing a device that could connect the Apple II computer to phone lines.
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Draper serves another prison sentence for phone fraud.
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While serving his third prison sentence, Draper wrote EasyWriter, the first word processor for the Apple II.
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Draper joins Autodesk, Inc. as a designer of video driver software but was subsequently fired in 1988 after being charged in a scheme to create fake Bay Area Rapid Transit ("BART") tickets.
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Draper is named CTO of a computer security firm, ShopIP. He served in this role until 2004
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Draper establishes a crowdfunding campaign to help pay for medical bills after undergoing multiple surgeries and cardiac arrest while under anesthesia.
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Today, Draper continues to battle allegations of misconduct, including unwanted sexual attention and stalking, which Draper denies. He currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada and has co-authored his autobiography "Beyond The Little Blue Box".
