The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On the Electronic Frontier - Softcover

Sterling, Bruce

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9780140177343: The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On the Electronic Frontier

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ISBN 10: 0140177345 ISBN 13: 9780140177343

Publisher: Penguin, 1994

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The American long-distance telephone network crashes, and millions of calls go unanswered. A computer hacker reprogrammes a switching station, and calls to a Florida probation office are shunted to a New York telephone-sex hotline. An underground computer bulletin board publishes a pilfered document on the 911 emergency system, making it available to anyone who dials. How did so much illicit power reach the hands of an undisciplined few - and what should be done about it? This book is about the electronic frontier of the 1990s. It concerns activities that take place inside computers and over telephone lines - "cyberspace". By the author of "Involution Ocean" and "The Artificial Kid" and the co-author of "The Difference Engine".

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