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The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling

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The Hacker Crackdown
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ISBN/ASIN: 055356370X
Number of pages: 336

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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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