EXPLODING THE PHONE
The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
News, Updates, and Events
Sadness: Legendary phone phreak Bill Acker has passed away.
Audio: Phil discusses Joybubbles, the famous blind whistling phone phreak, on NPR's award-winning show RadioLab.
Video: Watch Phone Phreak Confidential, Phil's talk at this year's Hackers on Planet Earth conference.
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Now Available in Paperback
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Exploding the Phone is available in hardback, paperback, and ebook forms wherever such things are sold.
TweetBook Tour Schedule
I am delighted to be reading at the following bookstores and events:
| Mon, 2/11 | Skylight Books | Los Angeles |
| 7:30 pm | 1818 North Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA map | |
| Wed, 2/13 | Kepler's Books | Menlo Park |
| 7:30 pm | 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA map | |
| Fri, 2/15 | Diesel Book Store | Oakland |
| 7:00 pm | 5433 College Ave., Oakland, CA 94618 map | |
| Tue, 2/19 | Powell's Books | Portland |
| 7:30 pm | 1005 West Burnside St., Portland, OR map | |
| Wed, 2/20 | Town Hall | Seattle |
| 6:00 pm | 1119 Eighth Avenue, Seattle, WA map | |
| Admission is $5, tickets available here. | ||
| Fri, 2/22 | Chuckanut Radio Hour/Village Books | Bellingham |
| 7:00 pm | 1224 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham, WA map | |
| Mon, 2/25 | Book Passage | San Francisco |
| 6:00 pm | 1 Sausalito, Ferry Building #42, SF, CA map | |
| Tue, 2/26 | RSA Security Conference | San Francisco |
| 2:30 pm | (Attendance limited to RSA Security Conference attendees) | |
| Wed, 2/27 | Politics & Prose | Washington, DC |
| 7:00 pm | 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW Washington, DC map | |
| Thu, 2/28 | Harvard Book Store | Cambridge, MA |
| 7:00 pm | 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA map | |
| Fri, 3/1 | MIT | Cambridge, MA |
| noon | Room E62-250, MIT Campus, MA | |
| Tue, 3/5 | Alpha One Labs Community Hackerspace | Brooklyn |
| 7:00 pm | 231 Norman Ave., #312, Brooklyn, NY, 11222 map | |
| Wed, 3/6 | Tattered Cover Book Store | Denver |
| 7:30 pm | 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver, CO map | |
| Sat, 3/9 | Writers With Drinks | San Francisco |
| 7:30 pm | 3225 22nd St., San Francisco, CA map | |
| Fri, 4/5 | Noisebridge | San Francisco |
| 6:30 pm | 2169 Mission St. (between 16th and 17th), San Francisco, CA info | |
Please email publicity@groveatlantic.com if you're interested in having Phil give a reading or talk at your book store, company, conference, or event.