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Exploding the phone : the untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell / Phil Lapsley.

By: Lapsley, Phil, 1965-.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : [Berkeley, Calif.] : Grove Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2013Edition: 1st ed.General Notes: Map on endpapers.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-406) and index.Description: xvi, 431, [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.ISBN: 080212061X; 9780802120618.Subject(s): American Telephone and Telegraph Company -- History | AT & T (Firm) -- History | Telecommunication systems -- Security measures -- History | Telephone companies -- Security measures -- History | Telephone systems -- Security measures -- History | Computer engineers -- United States -- History | Counterculture -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 384.0657/3
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.
Summary: Traces AT&T's birth, rise to monopoly status, and the creation of sophisticated machines that made it all work. Then underground "phone phreaks," (including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak) discovered AT&T's Achilles' heel, and turned the network into an electronic playground used by mobsters, and the counterculture movement,
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Map on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-406) and index.

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.

Traces AT&T's birth, rise to monopoly status, and the creation of sophisticated machines that made it all work. Then underground "phone phreaks," (including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak) discovered AT&T's Achilles' heel, and turned the network into an electronic playground used by mobsters, and the counterculture movement,

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