Contents

Preface to the Electronic Release of The Hacker Crackdown

Chronology of The Hacker Crackdown

Part 1: Crashing The System A Brief History of Telephony / Bell's Golden Vaporware / Universal Service / Wild Boys and Wire Women / The Electronic Communities / The Ungentle Giant / The Breakup / In Defense of the System / The Crash PostMortem / Landslides in Cyberspace

The Beginning
Section One
Section Two
Section Three
Section Four
Section Five

Part 2: The Digital Underground Steal This Phone / Phreaking and Hacking / The View From Under the Floorboards / Boards: Core of the Underground / Phile Phun / The Rake's Progress / Strongholds of the Elite / Sting Boards / Hot Potatoes / War on the Legion / Terminus / Phile 9-1-1 / War Games / Real Cyberpunk

The Beginning
Section One
Section Two
Section Three
Section Four
Section Five
Section Six
Section Seven
Section Eight

Part 3: Law and Order Crooked Boards / The World's Biggest Hacker Bust / Teach Them a Lesson / The U.S. Secret Service / The Secret Service Battles the Boodlers / A Walk Downtown / FCIC: The Cutting-Edge Mess / Cyberspace Rangers / FLETC: Training the Hacker-Trackers

The Beginning
Section One
Section Two
Section Three
Section Four
Section Five
Section Six
Section Seven
Section Eight

Part 4: The Civil Libertarians NuPrometheus + FBI = Grateful Dead / Whole Earth + Computer Revolution = WELL / Phiber RunsUnderground and Acid Spikes the Well / The Trial of Knight Lightning / Shadowhawk Plummets to Earth / Kyrie in the Confessional / $79,499 / A Scholar Investigates / Computers, Freedom, and Privacy

The Beginning
Section One
Section Two
Section Three
Section Four
Section Five
Section Six
Section Seven
Section Eight
Section Nine

Electronic Afterword to The Hacker Crackdown, New Years' Day 1994