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000467246 1001_ $$aLapsley, Phil,$$d1965-
000467246 24510 $$aExploding the phone :$$bthe untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell /$$cPhil Lapsley.
000467246 250__ $$a1st ed.
000467246 260__ $$aNew York :$$bGrove Press ;$$a[Berkeley, Calif.] :$$bDistributed by Publishers Group West,$$cc2013.
000467246 300__ $$axvi, 431, [16] p. of plates :$$bill., map ;$$c24 cm.
000467246 500__ $$aMap on endpapers.
000467246 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 339-406) and index.
000467246 5050_ $$aFine arts 13 -- Birth of a playground -- Cat and canary -- The largest machine in the world -- Blue box -- "Some people collect stamps" -- Headache -- Blue box bookies -- Little Jojo learns to whistle -- Bill Acker learns to play the flute -- The phone freaks of America -- The law of unintended consequences -- Counterculture -- Busted -- Pranks -- The story of a war -- A little bit stupid -- Snitch -- Crunched -- Twilight -- Nightfall.
000467246 520__ $$aDescribes 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.
000467246 520__ $$aBefore smartphones, before the Internet and before the personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell's revolutionary "harmonic telegraph," by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. Unfortunately for the telephone company, the network has a billion-dollar flaw. And once people discovered it, things would never the be the same. Phil Lapsley's Exploding the Phone tells this story in full for the first time. It traces the birth of long distance communication and the telephone, the rise of AT&T's monopoly, the creation of the sophisticated machines that made it all work, and the discovery of Ma Bell's Achilles' heel. Lapsley expertly weaves together the clandestine underground of "phone phreaks" who turned the network into the electronic playground, the mobsters who exploited its flaws to avoid the feds, and the counterculture movement that argued you should rip off the phone company to fight against the war in Vietnam...AT&T responded with "Greenstar"...The FBI fought back, too...Phone phreaking exploded into the popular culture, with famous actors, musicians, and investors caught with "blue boxes," many of them built by two young phone phreaks named Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak...The product of extensive original research, including exclusive interviews and declassified government documents, Exploding the Phone is a captivating, ground-breaking work about an important part of our cultural and technological history -- Publisher's description.
000467246 61020 $$aAmerican Telephone and Telegraph Company$$xHistory.
000467246 61020 $$aAT & T (Firm)$$xHistory.
000467246 650_0 $$aTelecommunication systems$$xSecurity measures$$xHistory.
000467246 650_0 $$aTelephone companies$$xSecurity measures$$xHistory.
000467246 650_0 $$aTelephone systems$$xSecurity measures$$xHistory.
000467246 650_0 $$aComputer engineers$$zUnited States$$xHistory.
000467246 650_0 $$aCounterculture$$zUnited States$$xHistory.
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