Anarchy Online

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ISBN: 9780061009907 | 0061009903
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/1/1997

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The U.S. Justice Department, the Christian Coalition, and the Guardian Angels want to clean up the Net. ACLU attorneys, college activists, and a raging band of rebels are trying to stop them. Who will win this epic battle, and at what price? Charles Platt, a contributing editor of WIRED magazine addresses both sides of the issue.

Introduction: Searching for middle ground among Net extremists	p. 1
Net Crime
A typical hacker bust	p. 7
Phone phreaks before the age of hacking	p. 9
Origins of the "fuck-you" hacker attitude	p. 11
Early hacker acts with the Apple II	p. 13
Kids open up the world of computer bulletin boards	p. 15
How copy-protected game software was pirated	p. 16
Hack and counter-hack among 1980s New York teens	p. 19
Law enforcement launches BBS sting operations	p. 25
Operation Sundevil terminates the first hacking era	p. 26
Some hackers go legal	p. 33
Software piracy on a BBS in the 1990s	p. 34
The Internet becomes a new hacker playground	p. 38
Hanging out at a hacker conference	p. 41
"Dark Fiber" describes the hacker ethic	p. 47
Darkside hackers who do it for the money	p. 50
Hackers spoof journalists; journalists fight back	p. 52
How hacker Kevin Mitnick acquired mythic status	p. 57
Markoff, Shimomura, and the ethics of hacker journalism	p. 59
The hacker witch hunt	p. 65
Katie Hafner defends Mitnick	p. 69
"Roscoe" spoofs journalists and hassles the FBI	p. 70
True darkside hackers are seldom profiled	p. 74
Satellite video: an opportunity for darkside hackers	p. 76
Background color in the Bahamas	p. 80
Meeting Fred and Ron, video pirates of the Caribbean	p. 83
A garage workshop where video codes are cracked	p. 84
The amazing history of satellite video piracy	p. 86
How pirate dealers sell their service	p. 90
Video piracy benefits hardware manufacturers	p. 94
A pirate is invited to a sting operation	p. 95
Hot gossip from the pirate underground	p. 98
Helpful hints for amateur pirates	p. 102
Two men who have put video pirates in jail	p. 104
One pirate who got busted - but still won't quit	p. 106
New encryption systems, and new ways to crack them	p. 110
Is satellite video piracy technically legal?	p. 112
Video piracy offers lessons for all computer users	p. 113
New satellite systems open a new hacking era	p. 116
Introducing Scott Charney of the Justice Department	p. 118
How the Justice Department controls law enforcement	p. 121
Scott Charney speaks out on netcrime	p. 124
Other perspectives on Scott Charney	p. 133
Robert Steele's plan for better Net security	p. 134
Dan Farmer's SATAN program tests the Net	p. 141
Case history of a virus attack	p. 143
Fighting viruses, now and in the future	p. 145
An overall assessment of the hacker threat	p. 153
Net Sex
Senator Exon somehow manages to discover netporn	p. 3
The Carnegie-Mellon crackdown on Usenet groups	p. 8
Martin Rimm's survey of BBS erotica	p. 11
Deceptive aspects of Rimm's study of Internet porn	p. 16
The misleading statistic on netporn	p. 18
Net users uncover Martin Rimm's colorful past	p. 19
Academics attack Rimm's study	p. 30
Rimm attempts to reply to his critics	p. 35
Rimm's motives and alleged links with rightwing groups	p. 37
Net vigilantes may never forgive and forget	p. 41
The netporn problem: access, content, and distribution	p. 43
Comparing the Net with an urban environment	p. 45
How Usenet evolved	p. 46
Samples of extreme speech on Usenet	p. 48
Two people who manage and monitor Usenet	p. 53
Unintentional absurdities of net censorship	p. 59
Who cares about hate speech online	p. 63
"Community standards" online	p. 66
Pedophilia online	p. 71
FBI busts AOL users for kiddieporn, with meager results	p. 89
Why pedophilia is uncontrollable on Usenet	p. 90
Looking for little girls on Internet Relay Chat	p. 96
Intractable problems filtering online content	p. 103
The Guardian Angels troll for porn	p. 107
How state laws have curtailed Net liberties	p. 111
Lorne Shantz's BBS is busted by a state prosecutor	p. 113
Local busts intimidate legal BBS owners	p. 115
Bob Emerson's Cincinnati BBS is shut down - temporarily	p. 117
Background history on smut-busting sheriff Simon Leis	p. 120
A Cincinnati law suit targets the sheriff	p. 122
Chilling effects on the Cincinnati BBS scene	p. 125
Ann Beeson crusades for net liberties at the ACLU	p. 129
Cornell students are punished for sending offensive e-mail	p. 133
Jake Baker's sadistic online stories	p. 141
Baker is baffled by outaged response	p. 144
Baker is held without bail - then released	p. 148
Legalities of threats vs. obscenity online	p. 150
Judge Avern Cohn finds Baker's stories unthreatening	p. 151
General lessons from the Jake Baker case	p. 156
How Phil Zimmermann gave encryption to the Net	p. 159
Law enforcement vs. encryption	p. 168
The promise of digital cash - and some dark implications	p. 170
Louis Rossetto's quiet radicalism at Wired magazine	p. 180
Imagining the consequences of a netspeech crackdown	p. 184
Epilogue: The ultimate fate of Exon's amendment - and beyond	p. 192
Survey and tabulation of state laws on computer crime	p. 199
List of useful web-site URLs	p. 207
The Senate chaplain prays for a world without porn	p. 211
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