The Hacker Crackdown
by Bruce Sterling
1992
ISBN/ASIN: 055356370X
Number of pages: 336
Description:
Bruce Sterling's classic work highlights the 1990 assault on hackers, when law-enforcement officials successfully arrested scores of suspected illicit hackers and other computer-based law-breakers. These raids became symbolic of the debate between fighting serious computer crime and protecting civil liberties.
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