Exploding the Phone
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (606 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802122280 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Neurasthenic said An almost total success, and better than Steven Levy's "Hackers". I had not expected to particularly like this book -- I was wary about the subtitle, "The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell," figuring that the story of the early phone phreaks had in fact been told many times, and that if the book cover contained such sensationalism, the content of the book was likely to be of little value.I was wrong. The material in this book is new, and interesting, and fun, it's written with passion and an understanding of what motivated these early phreaks and what we owe them today (good and bad). The book contains some historica. Five Stars An excellent, very well researched book on the good-old-days of phone system hacking. It would make a great movie. "Five Stars" according to David G. Thompson. Great book about the Phreaking culture, start to finish!
Sure, these guys, these phreaks, were breaking the law, but they were also innovators, technological geniuses, precursors of today’s computer hackers. --David Pitt . It’s also the story of a giant phone company so desperate to maintain its monopoly that it resorted to outrageously illegal practices and of the war between the FBI and the phreaks, who claimed ripping off the phone company was a form of political protest. From Booklist Sporting a foreword by Steve Wozniak (who, before he founded Apple computers, was a phone phreak himself) and the kind of detailed history
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. 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. 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.. But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and onc