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The Hacker Crackdown

by Bruce Sterling

  • FINISHED
  • Finished June 2019
  • First published 1992

security internet history

Sterling reports on the 1990 US government crackdown on hackers and the legal fights that followed.   The book also describes the early culture of phone phreaks, hackers and civil liberties groups.