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Exploding The Phone: The Untold Story Of The Teenagers And Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell,Used
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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 Worlds Largest Machine: The Telephone System. Starting With Alexander Graham Bells Revolutionary Harmonic Telegraph, By The Middle Of The Twentieth Century The Phone System Had Grown Into Something Extraordinary, A Web Of Cuttingedge Switching Machines And Human Operators That Linked Together Millions Of People Like Never Before. But The Network Had A Billiondollar 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 Longdistance Communication And The Telephone, The Rise Of At&Ts Monopoly, The Creation Of The Sophisticated Machines That Made It All Work, And The Discovery Of Ma Bells 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 Groundbreaking, Captivating Book.
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