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The Hacker Crackdown
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Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
By Bruce Sterling
Published by Penguin ISBN 0-14-017734-5
OK here is a quote from the Introduction of the book,
'This book is about cops, and wild teenage whiz kids, and lawyers, and
hairy-eyed anarchists, and industrial technicians, and hippies, and high
tech millionaires, and game hobbyists, and computer security experts, and
Secret Service agents, and grifters, and thieves. This book is about the
electronic frontier of the 1990s. It concerns activities that take place
inside computers and over telephone lines.'
Thats basically the book all summed up, but for one major thing THE
CRACKDOWN. The book follows the exploits of many Hackers, Phone Phreaks
and computer users across the US. Then as the authorities gain knowledge
of the scale of computer hacking the typical paranoid US government
starts a crackdown. The crackdown in it self is a total farce, coasting
the US tax payer thousands if not millions and very few people are
charged.
The one thing that makes this book stand head and tails above the rest is
the way Bruce Sterling explains the terminology of the hackers and their
methods, thus making the book real easy to read and understand. This
book is still the best book on computer hacking and fraud.
Oh yea there are one hell of a lot of hackers in the world using Amiga's,
is this good?
I dunno.
Madness
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