plapsley

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by plapsley 14d ago
I just came back from the The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) in the UK at Bletchley Park. It was fantastic. They have a wide variety of working systems that you can play with, from home computers to mainframes, as well as Bombes and t
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by plapsley 5mo ago
This is such a great site. Any of Evan Doorbell's "How I Became a Phone Phreak" or "Sounds of Long Distance" are especially great.
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by plapsley 5mo ago
Rachael Morrison and her team poured their heart into this and it shows... it is just so good. (Disclaimer: I was interviewed for the movie and narrate parts of it.) See it if you can.
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by plapsley 8mo ago
Rachael Morrison, the director, was kind enough to invite me to the premier at Sundance, since she interviewed me for the film. She and her crew did an amazing job. She found so much archival material and she and her team stitched it tog
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by plapsley 9mo ago
Hey Fogus! A few links or resources you might enjoy: * Nationwide Operator Toll Dialing, 1945: https://explodingthephone.com/hoppdocs/nootd1945.pdf * General Switching Plan for Telephone Toll Service, 1930: https:&#x2
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by plapsley 1y ago
That's awesome, thank you!
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by plapsley 1y ago
Evan's stuff is excellent and worth watching/listening to. Shameless plug: if you like his stuff, you might also like my book, "Exploding The Phone", which is a history of phone phreaking. https://explodingth
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by plapsley 1y ago
Thanks for the mention and honored to be in the same mention as Soni and Goodman's book on Shannon!
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by plapsley 2y ago
CCITT (ITU-T) version can be downloaded for free (!) from their website. https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-Q.140-Q.180-198811-I/en Specific download link in English is https://www.itu.int/rec/dol
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by plapsley 2y ago
Yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling_System_No._5 SS5 was derived from AT&T's US MF signaling system, described in "Signaling Systems for Control of Telephone Switching" by Breen and Dah
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by plapsley 2y ago
Yes! This is what I concluded when, a few years back, I did a similar analysis to what matthiasl posted. <shameless plug> If you're interested in this kind of thing, please check out my book, Exploding the Phone. https:/&
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by plapsley 2y ago
Oh yeah. Something I was so interested in, I wrote a history book about it: https://explodingthephone.com/ If you like old documents, check out, e.g., https://explodingthephone.com/search.php?q=captain+crun
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by plapsley 3y ago
If you want something really ancient, check out YIPL/TAP, which was the first phone phreak newsletter (started publishing in May 1971) that was the granddaddy of 2600. You can get it on the Internet Archive: https://archive
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by plapsley 3y ago
Thank you, appreciate the plug! :-)
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by plapsley 3y ago
Thanks!
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by plapsley 3y ago
Thank you!
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by plapsley 3y ago
Thanks for the kind words, they mean a lot!
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by plapsley 3y ago
That's a very kind question, thanks! In terms of what I get in the end, it doesn't really matter where you buy it (e.g., Amazon, local bookstore, whatever), although I'd love it if you supported your local bookstore -- they n
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by plapsley 3y ago
Thanks for the heads up! I'll attend to that!
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by plapsley 3y ago
Shameless plug for my book on the history of the subject, for those interested: https://explodingthephone.com/
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by plapsley 3y ago
Author of Exploding The Phone here, thanks for the mention and glad you enjoyed it! One thing I did that I'm pretty proud of is that I put almost all the research documents that I dug up (FOIA, newspaper articles, etc.) up on my websit
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by plapsley 3y ago
Shameless plug for my book on the history of phone phreaking: "Exploding The Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell". Plus tons of original research documents here: http://explodingthep
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by plapsley 4y ago
Thank you!
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by plapsley 4y ago
Great story! :-)
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by plapsley 4y ago
Phone freak (with an f) was the original term, in the late 1960s. When Ron Rosenbaum wrote "Secrets of the Little Blue Box" he made it into "phone phreak". "Phreaker" came a bit later (1980s is about right).
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by plapsley 5y ago
His "How Evan Doorbell Became a Phone Phreak" series is fantastic: http://www.evan-doorbell.com/production/#phonephreak
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by plapsley 5y ago
His voice is dreamy. And, he was kind enough to narrate the audible version of "Exploding The Phone", my history of phone phreaking: https://www.audible.com/pd/Exploding-the-Phone-Audiobook/B00...
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by plapsley 5y ago
Draper was definitely not first hacker ever arrested, but perhaps "first hacker sentenced to prison." (Ralph Barclay, inventor of the blue box used for phone phreaking, was arrested in 1961 or so, almost a decade before Draper ca
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by plapsley 5y ago
Loew's 1972 article in Ramparts magazine, "Regulating the Telephone Company In Your Home" ( http://explodingthephone.com/docs/dbx0431.pdf ) taught phone hacking to thousands and resulted in the telephone c
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by plapsley 5y ago
<shameless plug> I love this stuff. So much so that I spent years researching and writing a book about it: "Exploding the Phone", a history of phone phreaking and the telephone systems the phreaks hacked on, from 1950-1980.

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