The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling (cyberpunk author) is awesome. It's the story of Captain Crunch and the rest of the phone phreaks in the late 80s and ear

The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling (cyberpunk author) is awesome. It's the story of Captain Crunch and the rest of the phone phreaks in the late 80s and early 90s, and some of the earliest prosecutions of hacking by the U.S. federal government. Apparently they still throw a 2600 magazine party at defcon.... http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html