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Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier is a 1997 book by Suelette Dreyfus, researched by Julian Assange. It describes the exploits of a group of Australian, American, and British black hat hackers during the late 1980s and early 1990s, among them Assange himself.
Crypt News reads so many bad books, reports and news pieces on hacking and the computing underground that it's a real pleasure to find a writer who brings genuine perception to the subject. Suelette Dreyfus is such a writer, and Underground, published by the Australian imprint, Mandarin, is such a book.
“Underground>” by Suelette Dreyfus is a great historical fiction narrative detailing the rise and fall of some crackers and phreakers and their opponents: phone company employees, system administrators, and Feds. It takes place between 1988 and 1994, when multi-user BBSes were starting to pop up and a telephone call was the ONLY way to access other computers. Itg’s about 99 times better than this review. In fact, I request that you stop reading this immediately and just read it yourself. Itp’s really that good.
The author, Suelette Dreyfus released the book as g“Literary Freeware,n” allowing anyone with an internet connection to download the book for free. The text of the book was released to Project Gutenberg, and the author herself wrote a special forward for the free version of the book, describing the reasons a booki’s author might decide NOT to get paid for the book:
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