Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
Language: English
Published by Grove Press, 2013
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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- Title
- Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
- Author
- Lapsley, Phil
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 080212061X
- ISBN 13
- 9780802120618
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Exploding the Phone tells this story in full for the first time. It traces the birth of long-distance communication and the telephone, the rise of AT&T’s monopoly, the creation of the sophisticated machines that made it all work, and the discovery of Ma Bell’s Achilles’ heel. Phil Lapsley expertly weaves together the clandestine underground of “phone phreaks” who turned the network into their electronic playground, the mobsters who exploited its flaws to avoid the feds, the explosion of telephone hacking in the counterculture, and the war between the phreaks, the phone company, and the FBI.
The product of extensive original research, Exploding the Phone is a ground-breaking, captivating book.
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