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Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story..., Lapsley, Phil

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État
Très bon: Un livre qui n’a pas l’air neuf et qui a été lu, mais qui est en excellent état. La ...
ISBN
080212061X
EAN
9780802120618
Publication Name
N/A
Type
Hardback
Release Title
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Out...
Artist
Lapsley, Phil
Brand
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Book Title
Exploding the Phone : the Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
Item Length
9 in
Publisher
GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
Publication Year
2013
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.5 in
Author
Phil Lapsley
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, History, Social Science
Topic
Sociology / General, Industries / Media & Communications, Telecommunications, Modern / General
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
26.1 Oz
Number of Pages
416 Pages

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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 world's largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell's revolutionary "harmonic telegraph," by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. But the network had a billion-dollar 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 long-distance communication and the telephone, the rise of AT&T's monopoly, the creation of the sophisticated machines that made it all work, and the discovery of Ma Bell's 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 ground-breaking, captivating book.

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Publisher
GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-10
080212061x
ISBN-13
9780802120618
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13038684241

Product Key Features

Book Title
Exploding the Phone : the Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
Author
Phil Lapsley
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Industries / Media & Communications, Telecommunications, Modern / General
Publication Year
2013
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
416 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
26.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Hd9697.T454a44 2013
Reviews
"A rocking great read about the unknown teenagers and hobbyists who defied AT&T when it was foolish to do so. In Lapsley's magnificent research he has uncovered what amounts to a secret pre-history of the computer and internet revolutions."--Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch "With terrific reporting and story-telling. Phil Lapsley has put voluptuous flesh and bones on the legendary tales of the phone phreaks."--Steven Levy, author of Hackers and In the Plex "The definitive account of the first generation of network hackers . . . . At turns a technological love story, a counter cultural history and a generation-spanning epic, Exploding the Phone is obsessively researched and told with wit and clarity. It captures a moment in time that might otherwise have been lost forever."--Kevin Poulsen, author of Kingpin "Before he was the god of sexy computers, Steve Jobs sold blue boxes to Hollywood stars and Bay Area hippies. Exploding the Phone connects the cultural lines that run from hacking Ma Bell to building personal computers. Here, for your amusement, is the story of the frothy counterculture that helped create today's connected world."--Thomas A. Bass, Author of The Eudaemonic Pie and The Spy Who Loved Us "Seldom are criminals this much fun. Even the phone company had a soft spot for these misfits. They are as well-behaved a band of troublemakers as you are ever likely to meet." - Robert Sabbag, author of Snow Blind "With verve and technical accuracy, Phil Lapsley captures the excitement of the days when phone hackers explored Ma Bell's cabled paradise of dial phones and electromechanical switches. . . . Here's the intriguing story of those first electronic adventurers."--Cliff Stoll, author of The Cuckoo's Egg "A rollicking history of the telephone system and the hackers who exploited its flaws. [Lapsley] weaves together a brilliant tapestry of richly detailed stories ... A first-rate chronicle of an unexamined subculture." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review), "Brilliantly researched." --The Atlantic "Lapsley uses his main subject as a jumping-off point for a highly engaging history of the telephone itself and plenty of intrigue. Sure, these guys, these [phone] phreaks, were breaking the law, but they were also innovators, technological geniuses, precursors of today's computer hackers. A fascinating book." --David Pitt, Booklist "A rollicking history of the telephone system and the hackers who exploited its flaws. [Lapsley] weaves together a brilliant tapestry of richly detailed stories ... A first-rate chronicle of an unexamined subculture." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Phil Lapsley's Exploding the Phone is an authoritative, jaunty and enjoyable account of their sometimes comical, sometimes impressive and sometimes disquieting misdeeds.... The author's love of his subject pervades Exploding the Phone and persuaded this reader, at least, that the phone phreaks are worthy of thoughtful attention." --Howard Schneider, The Wall Street Journal "A deep dive into how the telephone network evolved, and how the phreakers came to launch their assaults on the integrity of the networks, the book is at once enjoyable and educational. Especially in an era where hackers are among the biggest stars around." --Daniel Terdiman, CNET "A fascinating book steeped in the rich history of phreakers and hackers." --Xeni Jardin, BoingBoing.net " Exploding the Phone opens like a cold war spy caper, with a young, incurably curious Harvard student discovering a cryptic message in the classified section of the student newspaper in 1967... The produce of years of research ... this is the eminently interesting and completely original history of the proto-hackers (counting among their number a couple of youngsters named Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs)." --Nicholas Mancusi, The Daily Beast "Phil Lapsley's great history of those hackers is packed with schemes, plots, discoveries, and brainy, oddball personalities... [The stories] he uncovers--and the questions he poses, about the nature of the relationship between criminality, curiosity, and technology--is compelling, fascinating stuff." --Alison Hallett, Portland Mercury "Fascinating ... Exploding the Phone manages to pull of the seemingly impossible - make one nostalgic for the days of busy signals, operators and rotary dials." --Greg Di Cresce, Winnipeg Free Press "A rocking great read about the unknown teenagers and hobbyists who defied AT&T when it was foolish to do so. In Lapsley's magnificent research he has uncovered what amounts to a secret pre-history of the computer and internet revolutions."--Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch "With terrific reporting and story-telling. Phil Lapsley has put voluptuous flesh and bones on the legendary tales of the phone phreaks."--Steven Levy, author of Hackers and In the Plex, "A rocking great read about the unknown teenagers and hobbyists who defied AT&T when it was foolish to do so. In Lapsley's magnificent research he has uncovered what amounts to a secret pre-history of the computer and internet revolutions."--Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch "The definitive account of the first generation of network hackers . . . . At turns a technological love story, a counter cultural history and a generation-spanning epic, Exploding the Phone is obsessively researched and told with wit and clarity. It captures a moment in time that might otherwise have been lost forever."--Kevin Poulsen, author of Kingpin "Before he was the god of sexy computers, Steve Jobs sold blue boxes to Hollywood stars and Bay Area hippies. Exploding the Phone connects the cultural lines that run from hacking Ma Bell to building personal computers. Here, for your amusement, is the story of the frothy counterculture that helped create today's connected world."--Thomas A. Bass, Author of The Eudaemonic Pie and The Spy Who Loved Us "Seldom are criminals this much fun. Even the phone company had a soft spot for these misfits. They are as well-behaved a band of troublemakers as you are ever likely to meet." - Robert Sabbag, author of Snow Blind "With verve and technical accuracy, Phil Lapsley captures the excitement of the days when phone hackers explored Ma Bell's cabled paradise of dial phones and electromechanical switches. . . . Here's the intriguing story of those first electronic adventurers."--Cliff Stoll, author of The Cuckoo's Egg, "Brilliantly researched."-- The Atlantic "A rocking great read about the unknown teenagers and hobbyists who defied AT&T when it was foolish to do so. In Lapsley's magnificent research he has uncovered what amounts to a secret pre-history of the computer and internet revolutions."--Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch "With terrific reporting and story-telling. Phil Lapsley has put voluptuous flesh and bones on the legendary tales of the phone phreaks."--Steven Levy, author of Hackers and In the Plex "The definitive account of the first generation of network hackers . . . . At turns a technological love story, a counter cultural history and a generation-spanning epic, Exploding the Phone is obsessively researched and told with wit and clarity. It captures a moment in time that might otherwise have been lost forever."--Kevin Poulsen, author of Kingpin "Before he was the god of sexy computers, Steve Jobs sold blue boxes to Hollywood stars and Bay Area hippies. Exploding the Phone connects the cultural lines that run from hacking Ma Bell to building personal computers. Here, for your amusement, is the story of the frothy counterculture that helped create today's connected world."--Thomas A. Bass, Author of The Eudaemonic Pie and The Spy Who Loved Us "Seldom are criminals this much fun. Even the phone company had a soft spot for these misfits. They are as well-behaved a band of troublemakers as you are ever likely to meet." - Robert Sabbag, author of Snow Blind "With verve and technical accuracy, Phil Lapsley captures the excitement of the days when phone hackers explored Ma Bell's cabled paradise of dial phones and electromechanical switches. . . . Here's the intriguing story of those first electronic adventurers."--Cliff Stoll, author of The Cuckoo's Egg "A rollicking history of the telephone system and the hackers who exploited its flaws. [Lapsley] weaves together a brilliant tapestry of richly detailed stories ... A first-rate chronicle of an unexamined subculture." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Copyright Date
2013
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2018-419591

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