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Hacker book
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Taylor)
Thu Aug 19 11:31:00 1999
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In case it's of interest ...
My book "Hackers: Crime in the Digital Sublime" is coming out on August
20th published by Routledge.
If you have any questions - please don't hesitate to contact me.
Below is the table of contents and the press release that they've issued ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface: Hacking Culture - the gossamer network
Introduction: Fear, Ignorance & vulnerability - hyping hacking
Chapter 1: The Hawks and the Doves - the contested term
Chapter 2: Hacking Culture
Chapter 3: The motivations of hacking
Chapter 4: The State of the Industry
Chapter 5: Them & Us - the issue of co-operation
Chapter 6: The professionalisation process
Chapter 7: The construction of computer ethics
Conclusion: MIT to Alcatraz?
MARKETING DETAILS
If you're interested in obtaining a review copy for any journals/magazines
you're connected with could you please contact Routledge's marketing people.
In the UK its Sarah Carrington (Sarah.Carrington@tandf.co.uk)
In the US its Brian Hughes at the New York office
(bhughes@routledge-ny.com, Tel: 1-212-244-7840, Fax:
1-212-564-7854.)
PRESS RELEASE ...
Can we live with hackers?
More importantly, can we live without them?
....Los Angeles, August 8: Kevin Mitnick,
the FBI's ‘most wanted computer criminal’ is finally sentenced.
Paul A. Taylor’s new book Hackers suggests that this just might be a
mistake.....
Hackers puts forward the case that hackers are not necessarily the
‘cyberdemons’ they are portrayed as in the media and that rather than
punish them society may actually benefit from co-operation.
Hackers
Crime in the digital sublime
Paul A. Taylor
Price: £45.00 Hardback, £14.99 Paperback, Simultaneous Edition
Publication Date: 27th August 1999
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From War Games to Johnny Mnemonic, Hollywood loves the Hacker. At least he
[for it’s always a he] makes good box office, even if he doesn’t always get
the girl....
In Hackers: Crime and the Digitally Sublime, Paul A. Taylor looks at the
perennial battle between the computer underground, the security industry
and the ‘hacking’ as played out in the media. He interviews those on both
sides of the law – computer scientists, security experts and hackers
themselves – about the practicalities, objectives and wider implications of
what they do.
With an interview list looking like the Who’s Who of Hackers - from Mitnick
himself to ‘the Prestel Hacker’ {he’s the one who broke into the Duke of
Edinburgh’s email...}, Taylor offers the ultimate survey of hacking today.
Through a series of astonishingly frank interviews Hackers builds up a
revealing and richly sourced account of the debates which surround this
controversial practice, revealing the dangers inherent in the extremes of
unquestioning conciliation or antagonism with which our society reacts to
hacking. Taylor goes on to propose that a new middle way must be found if
we are to make the most of society’s high-tech meddlers.
For further information or to interview Paul Taylor, contact Áine Duffy on
0171 8422117
‘A must read for anyone who wants to understand the hacking phenomenon that
has swept the world.’- Dorothy E. Denning, Georgetown University, USA
‘Well written and fun to read.’- Jim Thomas, Editor, Computer Underground
Digest
Routledge an imprint of Taylor and Francis Books Ltd., 11 New Fetter Lane,
London, EC4P 4EE
Tel: 0171 583 9855 Fax: 0171 842 2298 e-mail: HYPERLINK
mailto:publicity.uk@routledge.com publicity.uk@routledge.com …..On-line:
www.routledge.com
Dr Paul A. Taylor
Lecturer in the Sociology of Technology.
University of Salford.
0161-295-3268
