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This is the personal site of Evan Doorbell, who was one of the big phone phreaks in the 70's along with people like Mark Bernay. He recorded all the old telepho
by unimpressive 12y ago
This is the personal site of Evan Doorbell, who was one of the big phone phreaks in the 70's along with people like Mark Bernay. He recorded all the old telephone sounds and put them into different series where he explains how the old telephone system worked.
His "How Bell Became a Phreaker" tapes are where I first encountered the genre of "Hacker stories that start at the beginning." and it's still one of my favorites even though it's incomplete.[0]
Some notable tapes in this collection:
How Evan Doorbell became a Phone Phreak, parts 1 through 6 (Incomplete)
Phreaks from Esquire article on "052" conference, parts 1 and 2 (January, 1972) [The Secrets of The Little Blue Box esquire article[1]]
MF Boogie numbers one and two (Music made from phone tones, actually composed on an electronic organ during a conference call with NPR reporters. [2])
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8452591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8452591
[1]: http://explodingthephone.com/hoppdocs/rosenbaum1971.pdf http://explodingthephone.com/hoppdocs/rosenbaum1971.pdf
[2]: Lapsley, Phil. Exploding the Phone, The Untold Story of The Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell. New York: Grove Press, 2013. 230.
- L_Rahman 12y agoAny other recommendations in the genre of "Hacker stories that start at the beginning"?
- unimpressive 12y agoBesides the above linked Exploding the Phone, no. They seem to be very rare, or at least I'm not searching in the right place for them. I would like to note though that the first chapter of Exploding is available through google books, and features my personal favorite story in this genre: http://books.google.com/books?id=ECiBd4mYkVwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=ECiBd4mYkVwC&printsec=front...
- dbarlett 12y agoClifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage http://www.amazon.com/The-Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Espionage/dp/1416507787 http://www.amazon.com/The-Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Espionage/dp/...
- lessnonymous 12y agoI'd probably include The Eudaemonic Pie in the list -- depending on how define 'hacker' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eudaemonic_Pie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eudaemonic_Pie
- damian2000 12y agoI found "Ghost in the Wires" by Kevin Mitnick and "Kingpin" by Kevin Poulsen to be decent reads.
- RIMR 12y agoI remember listening to these years ago. The only way I could listen was by creating an IAX connection to Evan's (maybe someone else's?) PBX and dialing into the recording archives. This isn't nearly as cool a way to access these recordings, but I downloading all of them anyway!