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Books on the History of Hacking?

Posted by Cliff on 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 Yes, it would go out of date the moment it hits the press, but wouldn't it stand up better than so-called hacker guides that show how to exploit 1980s telephone systems that are being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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  1. All the Hacking I think of by delorean · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hacksaw

    hatchet

    cough (hack up a lung)

    --
    "You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas"
     Sen. Davy Crocket to US Congress, Nov. 1, 1835
  2. What a joke. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "I'm looking at this presentation as a college researcher should"

    Maybe you should go and pay a visit to your college library, Mr. Researcher. You can search the archives of thousands of college libraries and even do interlibrary loan unless you are going to DeVry or something.

  3. The history of hacking... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hacking goes way back, back to the days when man first discovered fire. When they found out they could burn things, they quickly found wood. Wood was a great fuel and the overabundance of trees made it the perfect fuel. The people of the time had to learn how to hack down the trees. From this work with wood came the ability to make furniture from the wood with an axe. This became known as hacking.

    And now you know, the rest of the story...