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Hackers
- "Computer
Hacker's Sentence Spotlights High-Tech Crime Prosecutions" by
EPIC Senior Fellow David Banisar. Details the prosecution of Kevin
Mitnick as a case-study of the increasing crackdown on
cyber-crimes.
- The 2600
Case. The US Secret Service asked mall police at Pentagon City
Mall in Arlington, Virginia to break up an informal gathering
sponsored by 2600 magazine.
Legal Times article
on the court ruling in EPIC's FOIA case.
- Hackers Defense
Fund.
- 2600's page on the Bernie
S. case.
Books
- Sci-Fi author Bruce Sterling's book "The
Hacker Crackdown" on Operation Sun Devil.
- Takedown. Great
reading for those interested in the eating and sexual habits of
computer security expert Tsutomu Shimomura. Occasionally it
talks about noted hacker Kevin Mitnick.
- Phrack Magazine's Home
Page.
- Digicrime Inc.'s parody page.
Hacking Incidents
- Air Force Web Page Hacked. Hackers broke into the US Air
Force's web pages on December 29, 1996.
- UK Labor Party Hacked. Hackers broke into and
replaced the web pages of the UK
Labor Party on December 10, 1996.
- Singapore govt hacked. Hackers broke into the main
web page of the Singapore
government on December 9, 1996 and replaced it with a list
of government users.
- Hackers broke into the US Justice Department's web page and
replaced it with criticism of the Communications Decency Act.
C|Net story
on the incident. A month later, another group broke into the
CIA's
pages.
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