Bruce Sterling - The Hacker Crackdown

If you're a computer cop, a hacker, or an electronic civil liberties
activist, you are the target audience for this book. I wrote this book
because I wanted to help you, and help other people understand you and
your unique, uhm, problems. I wrote this book to aid your activities,
and to contribute to the public discussion of important political issues.
In giving the text away in this fashion, I am directly contributing to the
book's ultimate aim: to help civilize cyberspace.

Information *wants* to be free. And the information inside this book
longs for freedom with a peculiar intensity. I genuinely believe that the
natural habitat of this book is inside an electronic network. That may
not be the easiest direct method to generate revenue for the book's
author, but that doesn't matter; this is where this book belongs by its
nature. I've written other books — plenty of other books — and I'll
write more and I am writing more, but this one is special. I am making
*The Hacker Crackdown* available electronically as widely as I can
conveniently manage, and if you like the book, and think it is useful,
then I urge you to do the same with it.

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Bruce Sterling - The Hacker Crackdown