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" The hacker crackdown : "
Bruce Sterling.
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BL
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979161
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b733531
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Sterling, Bruce.
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The hacker crackdown : : law and disorder on the electronic frontier /\ Bruce Sterling.
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New York :: Bantam,, 1993, ©1992.
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xiv, 316 pages ;; 18 cm
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055356370X
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: 9780553563702
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Includes index.
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Originally published : 1992.
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| Abstract
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The AT&T long-distance network crashes, and millions of calls go unanswered. A computer hacker reprograms a switching station, and calls to a Florida probation office are shunted to a New York phone-sex hotline. An underground computer bulletin board publishes a pilfered BellSouth document on the 911 emergency system, making it available to anyone who dials up. How did so much illicit power reach the hands of an undisciplined few - and what should be done about it? You are about to descend into a strange netherworld - one that sprang into existence when computers were first connected to telephones. Like any frontier, it is home to a wide range of personalities, from legitimate computer professionals to those known only by their noms de net; denizens like Knight Lightning, Leftist, Compu-Phreak, Major Havoc, and Silver Spy; groups like the Lords of Chaos, Phantom Access Associates, Shadow Brotherhood, and the Coalition of Hi-Tech Pirates. In the massive "hacker crackdowns" of 1990, law enforcement officers executed search warrants across the country against lawbreakers - and suspected lawbreakers - in the computer underground.
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Computer crimes-- United States.
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Computer programming-- Corrupt practices.
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Telephone-- Corrupt practices-- United States.
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Computer crimes.
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Computer programming-- Corrupt practices.
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Telephone-- Corrupt practices.
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United States.
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364.1/68
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HV6773.S74 1993
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