Blue Box Evidence Images from the FBI, 1971

Boing Boing reader Phil Lapsley, the guy who introduced us to details of the legendary phone phreaker Joybubbles' life after he passed away, says:

I just posted some oddly haunting old photos from an FBI file covering a 1971 blue box bust in Montana at blog.historyofphonephreaking.org. I thought you might enjoy them, especially the telephone handset with the evidence tag on it, which seems like somebody ought to be able to use for some cool art project!

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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