Category: Engineering & Technology

Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier

Dreyfus, Suelette; Assange, Julian, 1971- [Researcher]· 24 chapters· 150,030 words

Administrators and scientists in the world's most prestigious space agency had spent years trying to get the unmanned probe into space. Now, on Tuesday, 17 October, if all went well, the five astronauts in the Atlantis space shuttle would blast off from the Kennedy Space Cente...

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13. CHAPTER 11 -- The Prisoner's Dilemma.

Anthrax thought he would never get caught. But in some strange way, he also wanted to get caught. When he thought about being busted, he found himself filled with a strange emot...

6. CHAPTER 5 -- The Holy Grail.

The Australian connection is reported to have used a telephone in the foyer of Telecom's headquarters at 199 William Street in Melbourne to send a 2600-hertz signal giving them...

1. CHAPTER 1 -- 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Administrators and scientists in the world's most prestigious space agency had spent years trying to get the unmanned probe into space. Now, on Tuesday, 17 October, if all went...

8. CHAPTER 7 -- Judgement Day.

In another corner of the globe, the British hackers Pad and Gandalf learned with horror that the Australian authorities had busted the three Realm hackers. Electron had simply d...

5. CHAPTER 4 -- The Fugitive.

When Par failed to show up for his hearing on 10 July 1989 in the Monterey County Juvenile Court in Salinas, he officially became a fugitive. He had, in fact, already been on th...

4. CHAPTER 3 -- The American Connection.

Like most hackers, The Parmaster didn't just want the secret, he needed it. He was in that peculiar state attained by real hackers where they will do just about anything to obta...

12. CHAPTER 10 -- Anthrax -- The Outsider.

Although people were never to be trusted completely, he socialised with many hackers and phreakers and worked with a few of them now and again on particular projects. But he nev...

11. did. I reckon that looked pretty suspicious, even if we hadn't gotten

In the twelve months following the initial line trace in late 1990, the AFP continued to monitor the RMIT dial-up lines. The line traces kept failing again and again. But as new...

9. CHAPTER 8 -- The International Subversives.

Prime Suspect rang Mendax, offering an adventure. He had discovered a strange system called NMELH1 (pronounced N-Melly-H-1) and it was time to go exploring. He read off the dial...

7. CHAPTER 6 -- Page 1 The New York Times.

Pad had an important warning for the Australian hackers: the computer security community was closing in on them. It was the end of February 1990, not long after Phoenix and Elec...

3. did. Running a hacker's board carried some risk, even before the

federal computer crime laws came into force. Pirated software was illegal. Storing data copied from hacking adventures in foreign computers might also be considered illegal. In...

2. CHAPTER 2 -- The Corner Pub.

It is not surprising the SPAN security team would miss the mark. It is not surprising, for example, that these officials should to this day be pronouncing the `Oilz' version of...

24. Chapter 11

10. CHAPTER 9 -- Operation Weather.

The AFP was frustrated. A group of hackers were using the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) as a launchpad for hacking attacks on Australian companies, research ins...

14. Chapter 1

20. Chapter 7

18. Chapter 5

3. From Operation Iceberg; Investigations and Recommendations into Allegations of Leaked Confidential Police Information, included as Appendix 1 in the report of the Deputy Ombu...

15. Chapter 2

2. FIRST was initially called CERT System. It was an international version of CERT, the Computer Emergency Response Team, funded by the US Department of Defense and run out of C...

23. Chapter 10

21. Chapter 8

17. Chapter 4

19. Chapter 6

16. Chapter 3

22. Chapter 9