The Hacker Crackdown - Law and Disorder On the Electronic Frontier The Hacker Crackdown - Law and Disorder On the Electronic Frontier

The Hacker Crackdown - Law and Disorder On the Electronic Frontier

Bruce Sterling
    • 3.5 • 57 Ratings

Publisher Description

The book discusses watershed events in the hacker subculture in the early 1990s. The most notable topic covered is Operation Sundevil and the events surrounding the 1987-1990 war on the Legion of Doom network: theraid on Steve Jackson Games, the trial of "Knight Lightning" (one of the original journalists of Phrack), and the subsequent formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The book also profiles the likes of "Emmanuel Goldstein" (publisher of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly), the former Assistant Attorney General of Arizona Gail Thackeray, FLETC instructor Carlton Fitzpatrick, Mitch Kapor, and John Perry Barlow.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
1954
January 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
421
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SELLER
Public Domain
SIZE
266.7
KB

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