Phil Lapsley

Immensely enjoyable book about phone hacking (phreaking) in the 60s and 70s - and incidentally a great history of the development of the phone system over the whole 20th century. Lots of interesting personalities. So much fun to read, for a computer nerd anyway.

Finished this, finally. Excellent book on the early days of telephone "phreaking". My one regret is that it only covered events up through the 1980s - I would have loved to see another take on the events of the early 90's - the big AT&T system crash that led to the Operation Sundevil raids on hackers/phreakers, for example. Otherwise, excellent history.

nonfiction; techno-geekery/phone company scandals.

good but techy