hacker crackdown :: essays research papers

THE HACKER CRACKDOWNLaw and Disorder on the Electronic FrontierCONTENTSPreface to the Electronic relieve of *The HackerCrackdown*Chronology of the Hacker Crackdown fundamentPart 1 CRASHING THE SYSTEMA Brief History of Telephony / Bells Golden Vaporware /Universal Service / Wild Boys and Wire Women / TheElectronic Communities / The Ungentle giant star / TheBreakup / In Defense of the System / The Crash Post-Mortem / Landslides in CyberspacePart 2 THE DIGITAL UNDERGROUNDSteal This Phone / Phreaking and Hacking / The View>From chthonic the Floorboards / Boards Core of theUnderground / Phile Phun / The Rakes Progress /Strongholds of the Elite / Sting Boards / Hot Potatoes /War on the Legion / Terminus / Phile 9-1-1 / War Games/ Real CyberpunkPart 3 LAW AND ORDERCrooked Boards / The Worlds Biggest Hacker Bust /Teach Them a Lesson / The U.S. Secret Service / TheSecret Service Battles the Boodlers / A Walk Downtown /FCIC The knife edge Mess / Cyberspace Rangers /FLETC Training the Ha cker-TrackersPart 4 THE CIVIL LIBERTARIANSNuPrometheus + FBI = Grateful Dead / Whole Earth +Computer Revolution = WELL / Phiber RunsUnderground and dot Spikes the Well / The Trial ofKnight Lightning / Shadowhawk Plummets to Earth /Kyrie in the Confessional / $79,499 / A ScholarInvestigates / Computers, Freedom, and PrivacyElectronic Afterword to *The Hacker Crackdown,*New Years Day 1994Preface to the Electronic Release of *The HackerCrackdown*January 1, 1994 -- Austin, TexasHi, Im Bruce Sterling, the author of thiselectronic book.Out in the traditional world of print, *TheHacker Crackdown* is ISBN 0-553-08058-X, and isformally catalogued by the Library of Congress as "1.Computer crimes -- unite States. 2. Telephone --United States -- Corrupt practices. 3. Programming(Electronic computers) -- United States -- Corruptpractices." Corrupt practices, I always get a kick outof that description. Librarians are very cunningpeople.The paperback is ISBN 0-553-56370-X. If you goand buy a print version of *The Hacker Crackdown,*an action I encourage heartily, you may notice thatin the front of the book, on a lower floor the copyrightnotice -- "Copyright (C) 1992 by Bruce Sterling" -- ithas this little block of printed legal boilerplate fromthe publisher. It says, and I quote"No part of this book may be reproduced ortransmitted in any form or by any means, electronicor mechanical, including photocopying, recording,or by any information memory board and retrieval system,without permission in writing from the publisher.For information address Bantam Books."This is a pretty good disclaimer, as suchdisclaimers go. I collect intellectual-propertydisclaimers, and Ive seen scads of them, and thisone is at least pretty straightforward.