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Exploding the phone : the untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell, Phil Lapsley
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- Summary
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- Describes how "phone phreaks" learned how to make illicit but technologically innovative free phone calls and shared the technique, and places the process in the development of telecommunications and the behavior of the telephone monopoly
- "Before smartphones, before the Internet and before the personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell's revolutionary 'harmonic telegraph,' by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. Unfortunately for the telephone company, the network has a billion-dollar flaw. And once people discovered it, things would never the be the same. Phil Lapsley's 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. Lapsley expertly weaves together the clandestine underground of 'phone phreaks' who turned the network into the electronic playground, the mobsters who exploited its flaws to avoid the feds, and the counterculture movement that argued you should rip off the phone company to fight against the war in Vietnam... AT&T responded with 'Greenstar'... The FBI fought back, too... Phone phreaking exploded into the popular culture, with famous actors, musicians, and investors caught with 'blue boxes,' many of them built by two young phone phreaks named Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak... The product of extensive original research, including exclusive interviews and declassified government documents, Exploding the phone is a captivating, ground-breaking work about an important part of our cultural and technological history"--
- Before smartphones, before the Internet and before the personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell's revolutionary "harmonic telegraph," by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. Unfortunately for the telephone company, the network has a billion-dollar flaw. And once people discovered it, things would never the be the same. Phil Lapsley's 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. Lapsley expertly weaves together the clandestine underground of "phone phreaks" who turned the network into the electronic playground, the mobsters who exploited its flaws to avoid the feds, and the counterculture movement that argued you should rip off the phone company to fight against the war in Vietnam...AT&T responded with "Greenstar"...The FBI fought back, too...Phone phreaking exploded into the popular culture, with famous actors, musicians, and investors caught with "blue boxes," many of them built by two young phone phreaks named Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak...The product of extensive original research, including exclusive interviews and declassified government documents, Exploding the Phone is a captivating, ground-breaking work about an important part of our cultural and technological history -- Publisher's description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xvi, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Map on endpapers
- Contents
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- Little Jojo learns to whistle
- Bill Acker learns to play the flute
- The phone freaks of America
- The law of unintended consequences
- Counterculture
- Busted
- Pranks
- The story of a war
- A little bit stupid
- Snitch
- Fine arts 13
- Crunched
- Twilight
- Nightfall
- Birth of a playground
- Cat and canary
- The largest machine in the world
- Blue box
- "Some people collect stamps"
- Headache
- Blue box bookies
- Fine arts 13 -- Birth of a playground -- Cat and canary -- The largest machine in the world -- Blue box -- "Some people collect stamps" -- Headache -- Blue box bookies -- Little Jojo learns to whistle -- Bill Acker learns to play the flute -- The phone freaks of America -- The law of unintended consequences -- Counterculture -- Busted -- Pranks -- The story of a war -- A little bit stupid -- Snitch -- Crunched -- Twilight -- Nightfall
- Isbn
- 9780802120618
- Label
- Exploding the phone : the untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell
- Title
- Exploding the phone
- Title remainder
- the untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell
- Statement of responsibility
- Phil Lapsley
- Subject
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- American Telephone and Telegraph Company -- History
- Computer engineers -- United States -- History
- Computersicherheit
- Counterculture -- United States -- History
- Datenschutz
- Gegenkultur
- AT & T (Firm) -- History
- Telecommunication systems -- Security measures | History
- Telekommunikation
- Telephone companies -- Security measures | History
- Telephone systems -- Security measures | History
- USA
- Hacker
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- Describes how "phone phreaks" learned how to make illicit but technologically innovative free phone calls and shared the technique, and places the process in the development of telecommunications and the behavior of the telephone monopoly
- "Before smartphones, before the Internet and before the personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell's revolutionary 'harmonic telegraph,' by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. Unfortunately for the telephone company, the network has a billion-dollar flaw. And once people discovered it, things would never the be the same. Phil Lapsley's 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. Lapsley expertly weaves together the clandestine underground of 'phone phreaks' who turned the network into the electronic playground, the mobsters who exploited its flaws to avoid the feds, and the counterculture movement that argued you should rip off the phone company to fight against the war in Vietnam... AT&T responded with 'Greenstar'... The FBI fought back, too... Phone phreaking exploded into the popular culture, with famous actors, musicians, and investors caught with 'blue boxes,' many of them built by two young phone phreaks named Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak... The product of extensive original research, including exclusive interviews and declassified government documents, Exploding the phone is a captivating, ground-breaking work about an important part of our cultural and technological history"--
- Before smartphones, before the Internet and before the personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell's revolutionary "harmonic telegraph," by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. Unfortunately for the telephone company, the network has a billion-dollar flaw. And once people discovered it, things would never the be the same. Phil Lapsley's 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. Lapsley expertly weaves together the clandestine underground of "phone phreaks" who turned the network into the electronic playground, the mobsters who exploited its flaws to avoid the feds, and the counterculture movement that argued you should rip off the phone company to fight against the war in Vietnam...AT&T responded with "Greenstar"...The FBI fought back, too...Phone phreaking exploded into the popular culture, with famous actors, musicians, and investors caught with "blue boxes," many of them built by two young phone phreaks named Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak...The product of extensive original research, including exclusive interviews and declassified government documents, Exploding the Phone is a captivating, ground-breaking work about an important part of our cultural and technological history -- Publisher's description
- Assigning source
- Publisher's description
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1965-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lapsley, Phil
- Dewey number
- 384.0657/3
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
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- HD9697.T454
- TK6343
- LC item number
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- A44 2013
- .L37 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- American Telephone and Telegraph Company
- AT & T (Firm)
- Telecommunication systems
- Telephone companies
- Telephone systems
- Computer engineers
- Counterculture
- Gegenkultur
- Telekommunikation
- Computersicherheit
- Datenschutz
- Hacker
- USA
- Label
- Exploding the phone : the untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell, Phil Lapsley
- Note
- Map on endpapers
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-406) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
-
- Little Jojo learns to whistle
- Bill Acker learns to play the flute
- The phone freaks of America
- The law of unintended consequences
- Counterculture
- Busted
- Pranks
- The story of a war
- A little bit stupid
- Snitch
- Fine arts 13
- Crunched
- Twilight
- Nightfall
- Birth of a playground
- Cat and canary
- The largest machine in the world
- Blue box
- "Some people collect stamps"
- Headache
- Blue box bookies
- Fine arts 13 -- Birth of a playground -- Cat and canary -- The largest machine in the world -- Blue box -- "Some people collect stamps" -- Headache -- Blue box bookies -- Little Jojo learns to whistle -- Bill Acker learns to play the flute -- The phone freaks of America -- The law of unintended consequences -- Counterculture -- Busted -- Pranks -- The story of a war -- A little bit stupid -- Snitch -- Crunched -- Twilight -- Nightfall
- Control code
- 805055474
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xvi, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780802120618
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)805055474
- Label
- Exploding the phone : the untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell, Phil Lapsley
- Note
- Map on endpapers
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-406) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
-
- Little Jojo learns to whistle
- Bill Acker learns to play the flute
- The phone freaks of America
- The law of unintended consequences
- Counterculture
- Busted
- Pranks
- The story of a war
- A little bit stupid
- Snitch
- Fine arts 13
- Crunched
- Twilight
- Nightfall
- Birth of a playground
- Cat and canary
- The largest machine in the world
- Blue box
- "Some people collect stamps"
- Headache
- Blue box bookies
- Fine arts 13 -- Birth of a playground -- Cat and canary -- The largest machine in the world -- Blue box -- "Some people collect stamps" -- Headache -- Blue box bookies -- Little Jojo learns to whistle -- Bill Acker learns to play the flute -- The phone freaks of America -- The law of unintended consequences -- Counterculture -- Busted -- Pranks -- The story of a war -- A little bit stupid -- Snitch -- Crunched -- Twilight -- Nightfall
- Control code
- 805055474
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xvi, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780802120618
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)805055474
Subject
- American Telephone and Telegraph Company -- History
- Computer engineers -- United States -- History
- Computersicherheit
- Counterculture -- United States -- History
- Datenschutz
- Gegenkultur
- AT & T (Firm) -- History
- Telecommunication systems -- Security measures | History
- Telekommunikation
- Telephone companies -- Security measures | History
- Telephone systems -- Security measures | History
- USA
- Hacker
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