The Resource Exploding the phone : the untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell, Phil Lapsley
Exploding the phone : the untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell, Phil Lapsley
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- Summary
- 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 cuttting-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 Labsley'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, musicans, 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
- First edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Maps on endpapers
- 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
- Counterculture -- United States -- History
- AT & T (Firm) -- History
- Telephone companies -- Security measures | History
- Telephone systems -- Security measures | History
- Telecommunication systems -- Security measures | History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 cuttting-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 Labsley'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, musicans, 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
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lapsley, Philip D
- Dewey number
- 384.0657/3
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- 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
- Label
- Exploding the phone : the untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell, Phil Lapsley
- Note
- Maps 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.
- Control code
- 805055474
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- 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
- Label
- Exploding the phone : the untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell, Phil Lapsley
- Note
- Maps 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
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 805055474
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- 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
Subject
- American Telephone and Telegraph Company -- History
- Computer engineers -- United States -- History
- Counterculture -- United States -- History
- AT & T (Firm) -- History
- Telephone companies -- Security measures | History
- Telephone systems -- Security measures | History
- Telecommunication systems -- Security measures | History
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