Az előző forráshoz kapcsolódik Bruce Sterling ügyes kis könyve, ami ugyancsak az Operation Sundevilt mutatja be, kicsit részletesebben, összeszedettebben, nagyobb rálátással és pártatlanabbul, mint Barlow. Az egész könyvet azért nem másolom be ide, úgyis szabadon letölthető, alul a link.
We do not really understand how to live in cyberspace yet.
We are feeling our way into it, blundering about.
That is not surprising. Our lives in the physical world,
the „real” world, are also far from perfect, despite a lot more practice.
Human lives, real lives, are imperfect by their nature, and there are
human beings in cyberspace. The way we live in cyberspace is
a funhouse mirror of the way we live in the real world.
We take both our advantages and our troubles with us.
This book is about trouble in cyberspace.
Specifically, this book is about certain strange events in
the year 1990, an unprecedented and startling year for the
the growing world of computerized communications.
In 1990 there came a nationwide crackdown on illicit
computer hackers, with arrests, criminal charges,
one dramatic show-trial, several guilty pleas, and
huge confiscations of data and equipment all over the USA.
The Hacker Crackdown of 1990 was larger, better organized,
more deliberate, and more resolute than any previous effort
in the brave new world of computer crime. The U.S. Secret Service,
private telephone security, and state and local law enforcement groups
across the country all joined forces in a determined attempt to break
the back of America’s electronic underground. It was a fascinating
effort, with very mixed results.
The Hacker Crackdown had another unprecedented effect;
it spurred the creation, within „the computer community,”
of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a new and very odd
interest group, fiercely dedicated to the establishment
and preservation of electronic civil liberties. The crackdown,
remarkable in itself, has created a melee of debate over electronic crime,
punishment, freedom of the press, and issues of search and seizure.
Politics has entered cyberspace. Where people go, politics follow.
This is the story of the people of cyberspace.
