KALW 91.7 FM KALW 91.7 FM November 8, 2017 070000
The space for the best and public radio podcasts and storytelling I'm your host Ashley and click bombed. In the 1950 s. Through seventy's a subculture of hackers swung from telephone line to telephone line testing the technology and limits of the new modernized telephone system dubbed phone phreaks they spent lots of time dialing around and telephone network to understand how the system worked they listened to the clicks and clunks and beeps and boops to figure out how calls were being routed they learned how to impersonate operators and other telephone company personnel and some even snuck i...