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 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
