Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2024-07-23

Books mentioned on Phone Phreaking: The Advent of Hacking

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Years ago the telephone network was like the internet is to us today: a vast, interconnected means of communicating and sharing information. And, like the internet today, it attracted people who were interested in learning how it worked by hacking it.

Josh Clark discussed Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

    Kaplan, Fred · at 25:35 · mentioned 2 times

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    “and there's a guy named Fred Kaplan who wrote a book about um the a history of cyber War called Dark territory and apparently Reagan saw this film was so freaked out by it that he got the Joint Chiefs together and was like can this happen”
    Where to get it