Proceedings of the Summer 1993 USENIX Conference
Title | Proceedings of the Summer 1993 USENIX Conference PDF eBook |
Author | USENIX Association |
Publisher | Usenix Assoc |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Computer networks |
ISBN |
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Real Large Distributed Systems
Title | Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Real Large Distributed Systems PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Computer network architectures |
ISBN | 9781931971409 |
Proceedings of the winter ... USENIX conference. 1993. January 25 - 29, 1993, San Diego, California, USA
Title | Proceedings of the winter ... USENIX conference. 1993. January 25 - 29, 1993, San Diego, California, USA PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Usenix Association |
Pages | 530 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Computer networks |
ISBN | 9781880446485 |
Exploding the Phone
Title | Exploding the Phone PDF eBook |
Author | Phil Lapsley |
Publisher | Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2013-02-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0802193757 |
“A rollicking history of the telephone system and the hackers who exploited its flaws.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computers, 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 groundbreaking, captivating book that “does for the phone phreaks what Steven Levy’s Hackers did for computer pioneers” (Boing Boing). “An authoritative, jaunty and enjoyable account of their sometimes comical, sometimes impressive and sometimes disquieting misdeeds.” —The Wall Street Journal “Brilliantly researched.” —The Atlantic “A fantastically fun romp through the world of early phone hackers, who sought free long distance, and in the end helped launch the computer era.” —The Seattle Times
Proceedings of the Summer 1990 USENIX Conference, June 11-June 15, 1990, Anaheim, California, USA
Title | Proceedings of the Summer 1990 USENIX Conference, June 11-June 15, 1990, Anaheim, California, USA PDF eBook |
Author | USENIX Association. Summer Conference |
Publisher | |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Computer networks |
ISBN |
Proceedings of the Winter 1990 USENIX Conference, January 22-January 26, 1990, Washington
Title | Proceedings of the Winter 1990 USENIX Conference, January 22-January 26, 1990, Washington PDF eBook |
Author | USENIX Association. Winter Conference |
Publisher | |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Computer networks |
ISBN |
Proceedings of the Winter 1990 USENIX Conference
Title | Proceedings of the Winter 1990 USENIX Conference PDF eBook |
Author | USENIX Association. Winter Conference |
Publisher | |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | UNIX (Computer file) |
ISBN |