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, back even before the Internet and 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. But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same. 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Isbn
- 9780802193759
- 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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- AT & T (Firm) -- History
- American Telephone and Telegraph Company -- History
- Computer engineers -- United States -- History
- Counterculture -- United States -- History
- Telecommunication systems -- Security measures | History
- Telephone companies -- Security measures | History
- Telephone systems -- Security measures | History
- Electronic books
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and 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. But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same. 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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- Midwest
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
- hoopla (Digital media service)
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1965-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lapsley, Phil
- Dewey number
- 384.0657/3
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- 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
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Exploding the phone : the untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell, Phil Lapsley
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- MWT12212808
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9780802193759
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- c
- Publisher number
- MWT12212808
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 12212808
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Label
- Exploding the phone : the untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell, Phil Lapsley
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- MWT12212808
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
-
- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9780802193759
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- c
- Publisher number
- MWT12212808
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 12212808
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
Subject
- AT & T (Firm) -- History
- American Telephone and Telegraph Company -- History
- Computer engineers -- United States -- History
- Counterculture -- United States -- History
- Telecommunication systems -- Security measures | History
- Telephone companies -- Security measures | History
- Telephone systems -- Security measures | History
- Electronic books
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