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The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier (Mass Market Paperback)

by Bruce Sterling (Author) "On January 15, 1990, AT&T's long-distance telephone switching system crashed..." (more)
Key Phrases: anarchy files, telco security, telco people, Secret Service, Legion of Doom, New York (more...)
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Bruce Sterling's classic work highlights the 1990 assault on hackers, when law-enforcement officials successfully arrested scores of suspected illicit hackers and other computer-based law-breakers. These raids became symbolic of the debate between fighting serious computer crime and protecting civil liberties. However, The Hacker Crackdown is about far more than a series of police sting operations. It's a lively tour of three cyberspace subcultures--the hacker underworld, the realm of the cybercops, and the idealistic culture of the cybercivil libertarians.

Sterling begins his story at the birth of cyberspace: the invention of the telephone. We meet the first hackers--teenage boys hired as telephone operators