Phreaks

01/08/2022 14 min
Phreaks

Episode Synopsis

Podcast: The Hackers (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: PhreaksPub date: 2021-12-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBiella explores the earliest hacking subculture - The Phone Phreaks - an entire subculture that learned to manipulate the phone system with plastic whistles and tone generating blue boxes, and played a part in birthing the modern digital world. She talks with Phil Lapsley, author of ‘Exploding the Phone’ and a UK hacker who was one of the last generation of traditional phone phreaks about the joy and the risks of the earliest type of hacking.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC Radio 4, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.