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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:44:47 -0800
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Michael Colin <mcolin@MERCK.DE>
Organization: Merck KGaA
Subject: Re: Press Villanizing computers
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Rich Pizor wrote:
>I know this isn't exactly computers, but certainly applies to computer culture...Who can forget the famous Martin Luther King Day phone crash? (Jan 15, 1990, for those who forogt ;) Significant portions of PacBell's long distance services went down. The fault, of course, was nothing more than aging technology badly in need of updating, but the company blamed hackers, and the press ate it up. (a more complete description can be found in Bruce Sterling's excellent non-fiction book "Hackers")
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>"If pictures are worth a thousand words, then speak in words worth a thousand pictures." -- Glitter
You mean Sterling's excellent non-fiction book "The Hacker Crackdown".
"Hackers" was written by Steven Levy and features real software and hardware hackers, not phrackers.
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Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Michael Colin <mcolin@MERCK.DE>
Organization: Merck KGaA
Subject: Re: Press Villanizing computers
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
Rich Pizor wrote:
>I know this isn't exactly computers, but certainly applies to computer culture...Who can forget the famous Martin Luther King Day phone crash? (Jan 15, 1990, for those who forogt ;) Significant portions of PacBell's long distance services went down. The fault, of course, was nothing more than aging technology badly in need of updating, but the company blamed hackers, and the press ate it up. (a more complete description can be found in Bruce Sterling's excellent non-fiction book "Hackers")
>
>"If pictures are worth a thousand words, then speak in words worth a thousand pictures." -- Glitter
You mean Sterling's excellent non-fiction book "The Hacker Crackdown".
"Hackers" was written by Steven Levy and features real software and hardware hackers, not phrackers.
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