The Hacker Crackdown

Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

by Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling
bruces@well.sf.ca.us

Literary Freeware: Not for Commercial Use

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 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 RunsUnderground 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, New Years' Day 1994