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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2025-01-15 at 20:12

📞 Exciting new (open access!) article from Jacob Bruggeman comparing "telephone enthusiasts" in the UK and phone #phreaking in the US. He argues compellingly that each contributed to a global movement of telco hackers.

Love this note about the availability of documentation: "To anyone paying close attention, the electronic keys to the telephone systems of both countries were ready for the taking."

🔗 Jacob A. Bruggeman, "Phreaking the U.K.", Interfaces, vol 6, 2025. https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

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Written by lpbkdotnet on 2025-01-15 at 20:59

@kdriscoll interesting! From a brief skim there seem to be a few inaccuracies about the early days in the UK (eg enthusiasts were dialling long distances in the UK long before the introduction of STD, Atkinson is a great book but it’s not the first that was easily available etc) but it’s nice to see this side of the pond getting any attention at all!

I’ll give it a proper read later!

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