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Title: Hacker Crackdown
Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

Author: Bruce Sterling

Release Date: June 19, 2008 [EBook #101]

Language: English

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THE HACKER CRACKDOWN

Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

by

Bruce Sterling

COPYRIGHT 1992, 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 Post-Mortem
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 Runs Underground and Acid Spikes the Well
The Trial of 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, Halloween 1993

THE HACKER CRACKDOWN

Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

by Bruce Sterling