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#TheSerialPort YouTube channel is on a roll!
Last month they published a high-quality documentary about the origins of internet telephony (the og "IPhone"), featuring original interviews with the people directly involved.
Just 3 weeks later, they're following up with #curl, featuring @bagder .
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They have a video where Sarah explains how Blue Boxing came to be possible, and shows it working on original US telco hardware. The video thumbnail has a blue box around it because why not.
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"Exploding the Phone" is great, but I haven't read the other 2 that you mentioned: I must check them out.
I have read many other non-fiction "Hacker Crackdown" type books that cover hack/phreak and other tech areas.
There's a brilliant book that covers the stories behind Concorde, Vodafone, and Elite (the game).
https://www.waterstones.com/book/backroom-boys/francis-spufford/9780571214976
My current Blue Box is ToneDef on Android:
https://mastodon.ie/@dec23k/111920412026088739
@dec23k What are the other crackdown books? Maybe there's some I don't know either? There's The Cuckoo's Egg of course, read it as a kid and it was fascinating. There's also an interesting CCC book telling the story from the opposite side. And there's the lovely documentary "The KGB, the Computer and Me" in which Cliff plays himself. I've put Backroom Boys on my reading list. Last time I've used a blue box was on the Amiga though ;-)
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Just from what's close to hand, I have 2 co-authored by Katie Hafner: "CYBERPUNK", and "Where Wizards Stay Up Late".
"Zeros + Ones" by Sadie Plant.
And of course, "The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook", by the staff of Mondo 2000 magazine.
I have it in paperback, but it's here too:
https://archive.org/details/TheRealCyberpunkFakeBook
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