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Reddit mentions of Exploding the Phone
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Remember? How could I forget? My primary blue box was my amiga. For years. I think my program of choice might have been UADialer? Ultimate Access Dialer, I think? Some of these had weird keyboard combinations required to access them on startup.
https://www.amazon.com/Exploding-Phone-Phil-Lapsley/dp/0802122280/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=exploding+the+phone&qid=1556293395&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Pretty good book here. Get close enough to anything, though, and you'll find faults. I especially dislike the lack of coverage for 1980s and 1990s, for the US, where it was supposedly "no longer possible." I STARTED in the late 80s, and participated off and on until after 2000!
Recommended reading for follow-up on the Capt'n Crunch thread: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802122280
Aside: you might also find some of the equivalent books about the early tech movements interesting; I got into them when I had trouble finding good retro-gaming books several years. Two neat examples would be Exploding The Phone and The Soul Of A New Machine. I never would've guessed that early phreaking or the development of a mainframe could be fascinating, touching and suspenseful, but those books managed to make it seem that way.