Books on the History of Hacking?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday November 27, 2001 @07:14AM from the knowing-our-roots dept.

heliocentric asks: "I have been asked to speak the upcoming SIGCSE conference of the ACM and I would like to give a presentation on the history of hacking. I'm thinking about security incidents that have altered either Computer Science as a whole or set precedence for legal actions. I have been following this subject for years and I have compiled several useful links, but I'm wondering why a book on this subject hasn't been written? Yes, it would go out of date the moment it hits the press, but wouldn't it stand up better than so-called hacker guides that show how to exploit 1980s telephone systems that are being printed today? I'm not looking for links about this subject (I guess they wouldn't be a bad thing at this point) but information about hold-in-your-hand books covering this subject. I'm looking at this presentation as a college researcher should, you want many and diverse resources - entirely relying on the Internet for sources does not make for good research."

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Book about hacking by Joohn · 2001-11-28 00:05 · Score: 2, Interesting

There's an excellent book about hacking and hackers by Linus Walleij, called Copyright Does Not Exist .
In the preface, he explains why this book is published on the Internet and not through a publisher. Basically, it's because he is a hacker and thus, making money on the book would be double standards. Maybe that is why so few books on the subject exist?