The History of Phone Phreaking Blog

"Exploding The Phone" Spotted In The Wild

It's really here!  Amazon is shipping copies and this photo was taken at Diesel bookstore in Oakland earlier today:

Holy crap!  It's real!

Michael Zelenko's "The Birth of Phone Hacking"

Michael Zelenko has just written a very nice article about the history of phone phreaking for BULLETT magazine.  Titled "The Birth of Phone Hacking and How It Set the Stage for the News Corp. Scandal," it lays out the start of the hobby in the 1950s and 60s and traces it up the present day, including some nice quotations from Mark Bernay and Ron Rosenbaum along the way.  Worth checking out!

Book Tour Schedule Announced

I'm excited to announce the book tour schedule for Exploding The Phone:

• Mon, Feb 11: Skylight Books / Los Angeles, CA        
• Wed, Feb 13: Kepler’s / Menlo Park, CA
• Fri, Feb 15: Diesel / Oakland, CA
• Tue, Feb 19: Powell’s (Burnside) / Portland, OR
• Wed, Feb 20: Town Hall / Seattle, WA
• Fri, Feb 22: Village Books, Chuckanut Radio Hour / Bellingham, WA
• Mon, Feb 25: Book Passage (Ferry Terminal) / San Francisco, CA
• Tue, Feb 26: RSA conference / San Francisco, CA
• Wed, Feb 27: Politics and Prose / Washington, DC
• Thu, Feb 28: Harvard Bookstore / Cambridge, MA
• Wed, Mar 6: Tattered Cover / Denver, CO

We're still nailing down the details of a reading in New York City, likely in early March.  The latest updates and additional details about each reading, including address, map, and start time, can be found on the Exploding The Phone Book Tour page.