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Ran across this very interesting read about the hacker days. Very good history of the "back in the day" of phone phreaking, hackers, and law enforcement. I thoroughly enjoyed the read.

Bruce Sterling


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THE HACKER CRACKDOWN
Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
by Bruce Sterling

CONTENTS

Preface to the Electronic Release of *The Hacker Crackdown

Chronology of the Hacker Crackdown

Introduction

Part 1: CRASHING THE SYSTEM
A Brief History of Telephony / Bell's Golden Vaporware / Universal Service/
Wild Boys and Wire Women / The Electronic Communities / The Ungentle
Giant / The Breakup / In Defense of the System / The Crash PostMortem /
Landslides in Cyberspace

Part 2: THE DIGITAL UNDERGROUND
Steal This Phone / Phreaking and Hacking / The View From Under the
Floorboards / Boards: Core of the Underground / Phile Phun / The Rake's
Progress / Strongholds of the Elite / Sting Boards / Hot Potatoes / War on
the Legion / Terminus / Phile 9-1-1 / War Games / Real Cyberpunk

Part 3: LAW AND ORDER
Crooked Boards / The World's Biggest Hacker Bust / Teach Them a Lesson /
The U.S. Secret Service / The Secret Service Battles the Boodlers / A Walk
Downtown / FCIC: The Cutting-Edge Mess / Cyberspace Rangers / FLETC:
Training the Hacker-Trackers

Part 4: THE CIVIL LIBERTARIANS
NuPrometheus + FBI = Grateful Dead / Whole Earth + Computer Revolution =
WELL / Phiber RunsUnderground and Acid Spikes the Well / The Trial o
Knight Lightning / Shadowhawk Plummets to Earth / Kyrie in the
Confessional / $79,499 / A Scholar Investigates / Computers, Freedom, and
Privacy

Electronic Afterword to *The Hacker Crackdown,* New Years' Day 1994

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