The Hacker Crackdown

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1. driverdanSep 2025
   No, it's not only Mitnick. He wasn't even a teen when he was arrested.

   If you want to read more a good place to start is The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling.

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2. fyverSep 2023
   I'll also recommend The Hacker Crackdown and Exploding the Phone.
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3. trilbyglensApr 2023
   Absolutely! I had the luck to meet him once in Prague at a conference thing and he was a super guy.

   Would also highly recommend "The Hacker Crackdown" for a great history of the early hacker scene.

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4. anthkMar 2023
   A must read. The Hacker Crackdown. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101

   In Spanish (PDF): https://underpost.net/ir/pdf/cyberpunk/la-caza-de-hackers.pd...

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5. CommunitivityFeb 2022
   You can admire his spirit, but not his judgement or actions.

   Attacking a foreign power, or serving a foreign power's military, are both crimes from what I know (am not a lawyer, but cybersecurity tangential).

   Specifically, taking out the power affects everyone who lost power, and could be construed as an attack that causes harm to foreign officials. As a result I'd think https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/112 applies. Again, not a lawyer, but the days of hacktivist actions without major retributions have been gone since the early 90s (hackers often get worse sentences than rapists or murderers). It's a different world now, more's the pity. For some background I recommend The Hacker Crackdown (https://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html)

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6. InhibitOct 2021
   If you'd like some good dawn-of-time history about the BBS era Phrack came out of (and the people who started it) The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling is available free on Archive.org (book 101!). Fun read, probably even more so if you weren't there.

   https://archive.org/details/thehackercrackdo00101gut

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