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

Informationen zum Autor Phil Lapsley co-founded two high technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and was a consultant at McKinsey & Company where he advised Fortune 100 companies on strategy. He holds a Master's degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences from U. C. Berkeley and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Lapsley has been interviewed by NPR and the BBC and quoted in The New York Times and Boston Globe on telephone and computer security issues, and is the author of one textbook, sixteen patents, an Internet standard, and many technical articles. Klappentext Before smart phones, 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.

Product details

• Authors: Phil Lapsley, Phil/ Wozniak Lapsley, Philip Lapsley, Lapsley Phil
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.02.2013
• EAN: 9780802120618
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-2061-8
• No. of pages: 431
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; True Crime, TRUE CRIME / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Telecommunications, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology, Telephone technology