Bibliograph

Exploding the phone, the untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell, Phil Lapsley ; [foreword by Steve Wozniak]

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Exploding the phone, the untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell, Phil Lapsley ; [foreword by Steve Wozniak]

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-392) and index

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Exploding the phone

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electronic resource eBook

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Responsibility statement

Phil Lapsley ; [foreword by Steve Wozniak]

Sub title

the untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell

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

Table Of Contents

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

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