Cory Doctorow has read aloud Bruce Sterling‘s book, The Hacker Crackdown.
He has created a podcast of the whole thing. Follow the link below:
Cory Doctorow’s announcement on Boing Boing of the podcast of The Hacker Crackdown.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the book, it is Bruce Sterling’s account of the government’s crackdown, under questionable pretenses, of computer hackers in the wake of a telephone system crash in 1990. The clandestine politics that informed the crackdown are intimately connected with the rise of the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), which is chronicled in this book. The stories in this book are fascinating, and should be required reading for anyone with an interest in cyberculture, hacker politics, information law, copyfight, etc.
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