EXPLODING THE PHONE
The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
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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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TweetHOPE 2010: Cats and Mice
In 2010 I presented a talk at the Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference in New York City called "Cats and Mice: Phone Phreaks, The Telephone Company, and the FBI." It gives a brief overview of the history of phone phreaking and then gets into some fun stories of the games that the phreaks, telephone company, and FBI played with each other.