Hacker Crackdown

by Bruce Sterling
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Title: Hacker Crackdown
Author: Bruce Sterling

This is a PRELIMINARY Project Gutenberg Etext of Hacker Crackdown.
You may NOT repost this book until midnight, December 31, 1993.
That is the deal we made with Bruce Sterling. This PRELIMINARY
copy is for editing, comments, suggestions, corrections, etc.
Please note the official release date is not even until January
31, 1994, and you should be sure to get a new copy after then,
to insure you are getting all the corrections you all send in.


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THE HACKER CRACKDOWN

Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

by Bruce Sterling




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 Post-Mortem
Landslides in Cyberspace


Part 2: THE DIGITAL UNDERGROUND

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