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Description of  Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell

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 worlds largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bells 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. Read more