-- crackdown/$Id: README,v 1.2 1994/02/04 10:41:56 joke Rel $ Welcome to the Texinfo edition of: THE HACKER CRACKDOWN Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling bruces@well.sf.ca.us Literary Freeware: Not for Commercial Use # This version of the book is reproduced by kind permisson of *Bruce Sterling* in the GNU Texinfo format, i.e., a TeX macro package developed at the *Free Software Foundation* that allows for easy "online manual" creation, while being convertible into a variety of different other formats. This "convertability scheme" has been extended in this project to the use of various PostScript typefaces. What does this mean for you? Well, you can print this book in any PS font you like, provided you have a certain set of freely available tools installed on your system. These tools are: TeX 3.14 and dvips(1) 5.516. That's all folks! (Hmmm, at least if you work on a unixoid system, that has a C-shell installed, in worst case you'll have to read the "configure" script, and follow the steps by hand :-( That's why this distribution comes with some pre-generated versions, that should suit most needs, and for the *hackers* there's the "print-it-yourself" kit: |-README this file |-CONTENTS contents of the Hacker Crackdown |-crackdown-1.2-us.dvi.gz TeX DVI, US letter size |-crackdown-1.2-us.ps.gz Computer Modern PostScript, US letter |-crackdown-1.2.dvi.gz TeX DVI, A4 metric paper |-crackdown-|-crackdown-1.2.ps.gz Computer Modern PostScript, A4 paper |-crackdown-1.2.info.gz GNU Info format |-crackdown-1.2.tar.gz the "print-it-yourself" kit |-crackdown-1.2.txt.gz formatted ASCII # Anyway, in the best case, you unpack the "print-it-yourself kit", type in something like: example% configure --a4 --font palatino example% make ps To get the book on A4 (metric) paper, in the Palatino typeface. And print out the resulting PostScript file on your PostScript printer. For Computer Modern type fonts, i.e., the standard TeX fonts just don't use the "--font" option: example% configure --a4 example% make This is especially useful, if you don't want (or can't) use the PostScript option, but want to get a TeX DVI file only, to print this. As for the PostScript option: included are "times" = Times Roman, "palatino" = Palatino, "bookman" = Bookman, and "newcentury" = New Centry Schoolbook font files. But from the files in the "fonts" dir it's really straight formward to add support for others.) # Hackers (or other curious folks) should look into the "fonts" directory and examine "texinfo.foo", in conjunction with a peek into "configure", to see what's going on here. But anayway, all this is IMHO very easy to grasp. It should also be easy to add *any* available PostScript font. # Special thanks to Thomas Gellekum courtesy of the Technical University of Aachen, Germany for patching edition 1.0 to 1.2 All changes are his. # The Texinfo Edition 1.2 is now available from the following sites: * USA: ftp.EFF.org pub/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/Hacker_Crackdown/ * Europe: ftp.Germany.EU.net pub/books/sterling/crackdown/ And includes a HTML/World-Wide Web version, without any additional hypertext links as per Bruce Sterling's request. # Enjoy! -joke Joerg Heitkoetter c/o Systems Analysis Research Group, LSXI //// Department of Computer Science UNI DO// University of Dortmund ___ //// D-44221 Dortmund \*\\/// Germany \\\\/ THE HACKER CRACKDOWN Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling CONTENTS Preface to the Electronic Release of *The Hacker Crackdown* Chronology of the Hacker Crackdown 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 PostMortem / Landslides in Cyberspace Part 2: THE DIGITAL UNDERGROUND Steal This Phone / Phreaking and Hacking / The View From Under the Floorboards / Boards: Core of the Underground / Phile Phun / 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 RunsUnderground 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