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

Phil Lapsley

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 m...

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It was mentioned as a great book that would play on the Mojave Phone Booth number if no one is on the conference line.

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you'll connect to a conference line where you can talk to people from around the world. If no one's on the conference line, it plays a recording of the book Exploding the Phone, which is a really grea...

— Episode: Mojave Phone Booth

Episode: Mojave Phone Booth

It was mentioned as a great book that would play on the Mojave Phone Booth number if no one is on the conference line.

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you'll connect to a conference line where you can talk to people from around the world. If no one's on the conference line, it plays a recording of the book Exploding the Phone, which is a really great book. You should listen to it.

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