Introduction

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 Post-Mortem Landslides in Cyberspace<p>

Part 2: THE DIGITAL UNDERGROUND Steal This Phone <p>

Phreaking and Hacking The View From Under the<p>

Floorboards Boards: Core of the Underground Phile Phun <p>

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

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

Part 4: THE CIVIL LIBERTARIANS NuPrometheus + FBI =

Grateful Dead Whole Earth + Computer Revolution = WELL

Phiber Runs Underground 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

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

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