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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lapsley, Phil, 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Grove Press ; [2013]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
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.