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The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
 
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The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (Paperback)

by Bruce Sterling (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (27 Jan 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140177345
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140177343
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 754,019 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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The American long-distance telephone network crashes, and millions of calls go unanswered. A computer hacker reprogrammes a switching station, and calls to a Florida probation office are shunted to a New York telephone-sex hotline. An underground computer bulletin board publishes a pilfered document on the 911 emergency system, making it available to anyone who dials. How did so much illicit power reach the hands of an undisciplined few - and what should be done about it? This book is about the electronic frontier of the 1990s. It concerns activities that take place inside computers and over telephone lines - "cyberspace". By the author of "Involution Ocean" and "The Artificial Kid" and the co-author of "The Difference Engine".

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4.0 out of 5 stars 10 yrsa old and well worth a read, 25 Nov 2003
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I found this book recently in a second hand bookshop in the UK and thought it looked 'interesting'. I had no idea how interesting till I blew out a day at work and one evening reading it!

As someone involved in the broadband industry in the UK in 2000+, finding out the US telco/hacker/political background from the US certainly gave a lot of food for thought. Much seems to still to be relevant in Europe today. And one certainly feels the need for "a decade on" book to bring us all up to date......

I've been on the Net since around the time this book relates to and can recall much of the culture though not the US centric side of it all, (just the phone bills - my first Net bill was some $2500 thanks to BBS!). Although if I had not had the luck to be connected back then, then just grasping what a BBS was and some of the ground-breaking that went on back then may have left me floundering a little during my unstoppable read of this book. (Cyberspace has come a long way in 15 short years)

Too many bells (bad pun, intended) rang during this book for me to be entirely comfortable with the 100 yr+ historical power of telcos which is still in existence today and which they seem reluctant, seemingly at any costs according to this book and to the current situation, to give up. Also, the political and policial agenda is still of concern in a world which should be more devoted to its citizens than the denizens of power.

I recommend this book as a read for anyone involved in the Net to discover some of the history of cyberspace, the legal issues which have surrounded it, some recent history of the telcos, and to see how much has and hasn't changed since the cyberspace era began.

One of those books you want to pass on but daren't in case it doesn't come back for a re-read!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless prose..., 5 Jun 2000
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This book is nearly 10 years old, yet it is still readable and relevant now. The fact that the technology named in it has long since been replaced by newer kit is more or less irrelevant to the book - Stirling guides you through a world you wouldn't otherwise be aware of without it seeming to actually revolve around times at all. Quite a feat for what is, essentially, a history book.

I read this online (it's freely distributable in electronic format under Stirling's contract with the publisher) and _then_ bought it, it was so good. In fact, I bought a couple of copies as gifts too.

Buy it.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating, good introduction, bit dated now, 15 Feb 2001
A well-paced piece of non-fiction journalistic writing. "Hacker Crackdown" is paced for non-technical readers with little knowledge of the internet, but it contains enough detail of the cases involved to interest anyone.

It is a little old now though and what's described is mainly of historical interest when considering the modern net.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A fine book. An interesting story well researched and told
In early 1990, the US national telephone system was struck by a fault that brought down large parts of the network for several hours. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Acurate book from a REAL history!
The book is great in describing all facts and happenings around operation sundevil. Sterling explains in great depth the origin of phrack and all the way up to the e911 document... Read more
Published on 26 Nov 1999

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