EXPLODING THE PHONE
The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
Now Available in Paperback
From Grove/Atlantic Press:
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Exploding the Phone is available in hardback, paperback, and ebook forms wherever such things are sold.
TweetLinks to Related Web Sites
Below are links to some web sites you may find useful if you're interested in the history or culture of phone phreaking.
- Phone Trips is a wonderful collection of audio recordings from the telephone network of yesteryear. Be sure to check out Evan Doorbell's series called "How I Became a Phone Phreak".
- ElmerCat has been preserving and isolating some of the most interesting bits of sound related to the telephone network of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
- Textfiles is to hacker and phreak text history what Phone Trips is to telephone audio recordings. Don't miss Jason Scott's insightful blog and his BBS documentary.
- Project MF is a trip down phone-phreak memory lane. It lets you use a blue box on an accurate rendition of the old telephone network. Don't have a blue box? They'll help you build one. (And please note: this is all in good, clean, historical fun; blue boxes can't be used for fraud anymore.)
- Bell System Memorial remembers the people, history, and technology of the Bell System.
- Telephone Tribute provides telephone history and technical informaiton, including a section on phreaking.
- Long-Lines.Net celebrates the historical microwave radio and coax cable networks of AT&T Long Lines.
- Coldwar-C4I documents American's Cold War communications infrastructure.
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