Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Before smartphones and iPads, before the internet or the 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. The following is an excerpt from the new book Exploding the Phone written by Philip D. Lapsley and published by Grove/Atlantic, which tells the story of the "phone phreaks."



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