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Captain Crunch

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1.(person)Captain Crunch - ("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".

http://well.com/user/crunch/.
2.Captain Crunch - (After the above) wardialer.
3.Captain Crunch - Reportedly, a program which crashes a computer by overloading the interrupt stack.
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Captain Crunch of The Sun, Britain's biggest-selling daily newspaper, gave readers "top tips for turning today into Value-tine's Day.
Love comes cheap this Valentine's Day by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Byline: Paul Jarvey COLUMN: PAUL JARVEY Faster than he could've ever imagined, Jason Varitek went from Captain Crunch to just Captain Crouch.
Varitek's offense long gone by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
Bad characters Moo the Dairylea cow (Kraft): promotes 17 less healthy foods; one with more than a third of the recommended salt intake Pom Bear (Intersnack): crisps rated high in saturated fat by Food Standards Agency Tony the Tiger (Kellogg): endorses Frosties, whose ingredients are more than a third sugar Captain Crunch (Red Mill Snack Foods): advertises Transform-A-Snack crisps, high in salt and fat Captain Rik (Kellogg): promotes Ricicles, which are more than a third sugar.
Call to ban use of cartoons to sell unhealthy food to children by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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