The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier 9781504063098
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Table of contents :
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 Postmortem • 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 • $79,449 • A Scholar Investigates • Computers, Freedom, and Privacy
Index
