Michelle Slatalla: The Masters of Deception. The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace (1996)
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The bestselling account of a band of kids from New York who fought an electronic turf war that ranged across some of the nation’s most powerful computer systems.
Publisher HarperPerennial, 1996
ISBN 0060926945, 9780060926946
225 pages
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Comment (0)Suelette Dreyfus: Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness, and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier (1997/2001)
Filed under book | Tags: · hacking, security
This book describes the exploits of a group of Australian, American, and British black hat hackers during the late 1980s and early 1990s. * Craig Bowen (nickname), administrator of two important Australian BBS (Pacific Island and Zen) * The Parmaster, an American hacker who avoided capture by the United States Secret Service from July 1989 to November 1991 * Phoenix, Electron and Nom, who were convicted in the first major Australian trial for computer crimes * Pad and Gandalf, the British founders of the notorious 8lgm group * the Australian Mendax and Prime Suspect, who managed to penetrate the DDN, NIC and the Nortel internal network, and the phreaker Trax * Anthrax, another Australian hacker and phreaker.
The book also mentions other hackers who had contacts with the protagonists, among them Erik Bloodaxe of the Legion of Doom and Corrupt of the Masters of Deception. The first chapter of Underground relates the diffusion and reactions of the computer security community to the WANK worm that attacked DEC VMS computers over the DECnet in 1989 and was purportedly coded by a Melbourne hacker. The author made the electronic edition of the book freely available in 2001 at www.underground-book.com. The 2002 documentary In the Realm of the Hackers, directed by Kevin Anderson and centered around Phoenix and Electron, was inspired by this book.
Research by Julian Assange
Publisher Mandarin, a part of Reed Books Australia, 1997
ISBN 1863305955, 9781863305952
Length 475 pages
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Culture Machine, 1-11 (1999-2010)
Filed under journal | Tags: · biopolitics, community, cultural studies, cultural theory, piracy, theory
Culture Machine is an international open-access journal of culture and theory, founded in 1999. Its aim is to be to cultural studies and cultural theory what ‘fundamental research’ is to the natural sciences: open-ended, non-goal orientated, exploratory and experimental. All contributions to the journal are peer-reviewed.
Vol 11 (2010): Creative Media
Vol 10 (2009): Pirate Philosophy
Vol 9 (2007): Recordings
Vol 8 (2006): Community
Vol 7 (2005): Biopolitics
Vol 6 (2004): Deconstruction is/in Cultural Studies
Vol 5 (2003): The E-Issue
Vol 4 (2002): The Ethico-Political Issue
Vol 3 (2001): Virologies: Culture and Contamination
Vol 2 (2000): The University Culture Machine
Vol 1 (1999): Taking Risks With The Future
Editors: Dave Boothroyd, Gary Hall, Joanna Zylinska
Publisher Open Humanities Press
Open Access
ISSN 1465-4121
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