Editing Blue box (section)

===Subculture===
The widespread ability to blue box, once limited to just a few isolated individuals exploring the telephone network, developed into a subculture.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fJVcgl8IJs4C&q=bluebox+subculture&pg=PA46|title=Scene of the Cybercrime|first1=Debra Littlejohn|last1=Shinder|first2=Michael|last2=Cross|date=July 21, 2008|publisher=Elsevier|via=Google Books|isbn=9780080486994}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/iwozcomputergeek00wozn|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/iwozcomputergeek00wozn/page/110 110]|quote=bluebox subculture.|title=iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon|first=Steve|last=Wozniak|date=October 17, 2007|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|via=Internet Archive|isbn=9780393066869}}</ref> Famous phone phreaks such as "Captain Crunch", Mark Bernay,{{sfn|Rosenbaum|1971}}{{rp|125}} and Al Bernay used blue boxes to explore the various "hidden codes" that could not be dialled by a standard telephone.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

Some of the more famous pranksters were [[Steve Wozniak]] and [[Steve Jobs]], founders of [[Apple Computer]].<ref name="jobsWozAtlantic">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/02/the-definitive-story-of-steve-wozniak-steve-jobs-and-phone-phreaking/273331/|title=The Definitive Story of Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Phone Phreaking|first=Phil|last=Lapsley|date=February 20, 2013|website=The Atlantic}}</ref> On one occasion, Wozniak dialed [[Vatican City]] and identified himself as [[Henry Kissinger]] (imitating Kissinger's German accent) and asked to speak to the Pope (who was sleeping at the time).<ref name="iwoz">{{Citation |last1=Wozniak |first1=S. G. |last2=Smith |first2=G. |year=2006 |title=iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It |location=New York |publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]] |isbn=0-393-06143-4 |title-link=iWoz }}</ref><ref name="jobsWozAtlantic"/> Wozniak said in 1986:<ref name="stix19860514">{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-05-14-vw-5389-story.html | title=A UC Berkeley Degree Is Now the Apple of Steve Wozniak's Eye | work=Los Angeles Times | date=May 14, 1986 | access-date=January 5, 2015 | author=Stix, Harriet}}</ref>

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|I called only to explore the phone company as a system, to learn the codes and tricks. I'd talk to the [[London]] operator, and convince her I was a New York operator. When I called my parents and my friends, I paid. After six months I quit—I'd done everything that I could.

I was so pure. Now I realize others were not as pure, they were just trying to make money. But then I thought we were all pure.
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Jobs later told his biographer that if it had not been for Wozniak's blue boxes, "there wouldn't have been an Apple."<ref>{{Cite book |first=Walter |last=Isaacson |year=2015 |title=Steve Jobs |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9781501127625}} p. 30</ref>